That and competence. So far, google has demonstrated competence. If it is an arm of the government (let's just postulate here) then sooner or later it will become the government; google has always demonstrated an ability to promote efficient alternatives. The question has always been, if I might paraphrase Pippin, is whether the fornicating we're getting is worth the fornicating we're getting. I would argue that in order to successfully pull off an orchestrated yet personalized misinformation campaign on a national scale, the government would have to reinvent itself into an entity that would at least function efficiently as a government, which is about all you can ask for. The powers that be will always find a way to place themselves above the rest.

I liked when Shepard went golfing.

Ever hear of the Roadkill Cafe? Their motto is "From Your Grill to Ours"

My guess is the carcinogens in the bacon finally got him.

FOCLMAO - Thankyou for the morning laugh. The reality is the fact that the United States isn't backed by Gold or anything other then wishful thinking. That's why in hell the credit crunch has been waiting to smack us upside the head with a clue stick. Only problem is, we need a clue truck to run congress over before they get the message.

While that may be true, I think it is more of a case of: what good is reproduction (which requires a lot of resources from the mother before birth) when there is not enough food to go around even without extra mouths to feed. Better save the expense of pregnancy for times when there is better chance for the baby to actually have enough to eat.

Works fine. Compiz doesn't enjoy multicard terribly well, since it only does one GLX context, but yeah, it works.

The magic incantation to get your cards detected is Xorg -configure, and you should be aware that both fglrx and nvidia are broken rather hard on multicard, so use open drivers.

Even assuming the security services don't lynch the dark lord before this goes to the vote, i have to wonder how effective such a law would be. For 20 quid i can get a 3g pay and go modem. No contract, no names, just cash.

Then we have TOR and i2p, which if the papers are to be believed have the aformentioned services bricking it.

Still, so long as he keeps getting his back handers, I'm sure everything will work out fine.

It's hunter2

He sometimes writes articles for theRegister. His style can best be summed up as "Collected a Rory for most gratuitous use of the word 'f**k' in an online rag."