Humans may be the weak link in information security, but the information is only useful to humans so its not as if we can remove ourselves from the system. Well, we could, and then go back to invisible inks, hand ciphers and cars that actually stop, but these days people probably wouldn't want to do that.

It's great to know not to use IE if you're supporting yourself and your parents. It's a completely different world when you're supporting an entire organization.

I post opinions, rumors, announcements, and other "media-like" information right here on this very site in the form of comments. Unfortunately, because I don't submit stories, enter journals, or edit summaries (I don't think the /. editors do either) I am not considered a journalist.

Despite the time and effort I put into making sure my posts are factual, interesting, engaging, inciteful, and sometimes funny, my work (and I don't hesitate to call it work) here as a active contributor to the discussions surrounding each story is like dust in the wind, dude.

I would say if it is half as popular as the Zune, Microsoft has nothing to worry about.

Didn't the Federation already agree on the Prime Directive?

1. If they were smart it's easier to make money legally than illegally.

Microsoft issued a news release celebrating the accord, while Amazon declined to comment.

Microsoft says the agreement covers technologies in products such as Amazon's Kindle

A Microsoft representative declined to say which of its products are covered by the deal.