Promise hot blue alien sex. You'll have more demand than you can handle.

Hence the 'many (though not all)' statement. If you are pay-per-bit plan, sharing means their usage hits your pocket. My point is *if* you've got a buffet, why not treat it as such?

OMG, Please tell me there's an API for this! Like my blog? >Buy me a soda!

I would venture to say that many (though not all) of you pay the same amount regardless of how much you use. Instead of the 'electricity', 'heating', and 'borrowed car' analogies, think of it this way instead: A Buffet. You pay $10 regardless of how much you eat. If someone had a legitimate need for an egg, would you really give them the stiff, unwavering middle finger? It doesn't cost you anything more than a very temporary inconvenience... Some people have (arguably) legitimate needs (http://xkcd.com/466/). If they don't, and it impacts me enough for me to do something about it, I have the upper hand. When you transmit data over *my* network, *I* can do whatever I want with it. You downloading CP on my wireless? I'll post the news on *your* Facebook.

Did he hit a bunch of honeypots? If China is better defended than he though, he'll dead by morning.

Except for when the background is a wall in my room. I'd rather not have my location (accurate to three meters) tacked onto it. Not everyone can *look* at a picture and know exactly where you sleep at night.

My G2 hasn't been geotagging my photos. Unfortunately for the gal I've been chatting with from Craigslist, hers does :D

Sounds about right.

I am 21, and I had an interest in programming from the age of 12. I tried starting with C, VB, and JS. C felt un-intuitive, VB was pretty easy (and I made a fully functional program from it) but it took a large amount of code and an understanding of the IDE to get anything done, and I couldn't get things to work the way I wanted in JS.

So I resorted to an extremely simple, quick, and immediately gratifying alternative - Programming my TI-83+ Graphing Calculator.

The manual is very informative, and the language is incredibly simple. Variables could not be any simpler (they are hard-coded, with the only options being letters A-Z), the commands are chosen from lists of menus (effectively removing misspellings from the list of screw-ups), and the syntax is incredibly simple. You can start with a program that runs Pythagorean Theorem (remember, the kid is 15 and the son/daughter of someone on Slashdot), work up to string manipulation, and eventually make games with moving 'sprites'. The other MAJOR benefit being that if the kid creates something useful, he can give it to his friends (TI Graphing Calculators can transfer programs using a very simple data cable).

So the kid learns the basics of coding, gets the immediate gratification from creating a program, has an all-encompassing manual detailing every command for when they want to try something new, and gets the excitement of having other people use something they created. Not to mention having something productive to do when they are bored in History class.

If I had to teach a 15 year old to code, I would definitely start with a TI-83+.

Doom 2 (Dunno if it's free yet) & Starseige Tribes.

That's all you need to make any needy kid's Christmas 'super specail'.