Not just a US problem; I've been seeing the same trends in the UK for the last twenty years. Still, on the bright side it means I'll probably have a job for as long as I want one, so....

Remember kiddies, math is hard! Go off and do something more fun and easier instead with plenty of time for parties and shopping. Everyone knows the world needs more people with media studies and art appreciation diplomas. That's the ticket.

...then please include an option that would cover a sizeable chunk of the likely respondents. I'm guessing the a lot of people would have ticked something along the lines of "in-house using software developed or adapted by people other than me."

I work for one of the smaller ISPs in the UK serving mainly business customers. From time to time we've had emails from various sources purporting to represent the rights of copyright holders. These have all appeared to originate in the US and quote US legislation, an allegedly offending IP and the time at which they state the incident occurred. A few of the IP addresses have even fallen within our address ranges. Where this is the case I've always replied back asking for more information and pointing out that the legislation they are quoting is not relevant to UK law and asking for the UK equivalent under which they propose to press their claims. I've never heard back from any of them.

Alright that would give you close enough to a 50/50 male / female split. Now to solve the difficult problem. How to stop the male agents saving their 50% female quota for use on young, attractive females?

It's 6016 years (give or take a year), and I agree this so called "scientific discovery" offends religious beliefs and so all articles about it on the interwebs should be removed immediately!

I'd write more about it, except I've got to get back to drawing my cartoons of Muhammad and writing rude limericks about the Thai royal family.

And the answer from me is "Thanks, but no thanks". I'll spend my tourist dollars somewhere else that doesn't pull stunts like this.

On the subject of "unlimited" deals, I've taken to asking people trying to sell me broadband what their "unlimit" is.

One of the best introductions to good programming practice that I know and it instilled in me some good habits I've managed to hang on to.

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The advantage of using something like EncFS is that changing a file only causes the (encrypted) data for that file to be transferred. Using a TrueCrypt volume causes a potentially large amount of data to have to be transferred for every minor change.

My solution to the problem (not exactly DIY, just using tools available to privacy fix Dropbox's otherwise good solution), was to use EncFS to map a virtual file system onto the directory hierarchy synced using Dropbox. Essentially I have a clear text view that I work in, with every change being automatically reflected as a change in an encrypted file which Dropbox client software sees and syncs in the usual way. Since encryption is done on a per file basis rather than a volume basis, Dropbox still works efficiently. I use this to keep a directory tree synced on four OS X and Linux boxes.

... but use something like EncFS to keep all your files encrypted. You still get the advantages of on the fly synchronization over your various computers, but Dropbox loses the ability to do de-duplication to keep their storage costs down. That's what happens when you start playing silly legal games, users work around them and usually to your detriment.

...and set it to "there is no password"

So what's the password? I keep telling you "there is no password" but you won't listen. Should be interesting when it comes to court.

Oh, and of course use a proper password on your second and third level Truecrypt volumes, you know the ones where you hide your "Hello Kitty" club membership details.