If your sole goal was to break the meter why not just put super glue on a card you don't mind losing, shove it in the machine and leave it?
Your essentially defacing the meter regardless of which way you do it, but with the latter you need neither a specific type of card, nor the specific vulnerability in the OS for it to work.

Fixed that for ya.

1.) Monopolize human history by putting the maximum amount of human thoughts and writings allowable by law on Google servers and give everyone access to it
2.) Write scripts that determine what everyone is researching to figure out exactly what they are trying to develop, in the hopes that Google could then patent their ideas before they can
3.) ???
4.) Profit

Quick, someone patent this business model and beat them at their own game... wait... oh.. right, you can't patent a business model.

/Shakes fist

Turns out the strong EMF fields created by the technology also have the bonus side effect of microwaving tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists skulls.

Yes, because in case you didn't already know... aliens having all the technological capability of being able to travel the mind bogglingly vast distances between stars, AND the ability to do so in short enough order to get here before we blow ourselves up, actually haven't yet invented mirrors. It's almost ironic that simply shining a glorified flashlight at them and yelling "get off our lawn" is all thats needed to scare them off.

The correct grammar is there, it's just too faint to see.

So basically your saying I'm not going to be able to get a patent for my newly invented people powered nightlight due to prior art (or more specifically; prior anime)? /rimshot

The important thing here is we just discovered the solution to the energy crisis, all we need are MORE people.
Think about it; if 1 person emits light 1000 times too faint to see, that means 1000 people emit exactly enough light to see. All I need are 1000+ Chinese people willing to stand around in my hallway for a couple pennies a month and I don't need a nightlight to find my way to the pisser at 4am anymore!!!

I can outdo the scientists, I can build multiple real world functioning human brains, and I can do it in less than a year.

I just need:
an Aston Martin DBR9 (Gumpert Apollo, Ferrari FXX, or Bugatti Veyron are all acceptable alternatives),
a pallet of Franzia wine in a box (Fruity Red Sangria ideally, though the Sunset Blush works in a pinch too),
and a few dozen volunteer Caucasian women between the ages of 21 and 27; for best results, no uggos or fatties.
Also I get to keep the car when we are done.

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/mice/devices/130&cl=US,EN does everything you could ask it, tons of buttons, takes a bit of time to set up but you don't HAVE to customize all the buttons to do what you want. Little on the pricey side but the battery lasts for days and it comes with its own charger. The only drawback is not all of the buttons can be programmed to be used as generic buttons.
I don't remember who made it but one of the guys I went to college with had himself a mouse where a simple usb cord acted as the charger cord and the mouse could be used while it was charging. In essence the mouse was wireless unless the battery ran out, then it was just wired until it was charged up again. Thing still had a scroll/tilt wheel and 7 buttons.

To be honest though you might just take a look at trackballs, I know they aren't as popular as they used to be but I like using them when I code mainly because my desk becomes covered with paper trash, empty chips bags, and cans of beer in short order and I run out of room for the mouse to move around in.

If your talking about that Vestas tower that spun itself apart in Denmark thats not what happened. There are two methods of stopping the hub on Vestas towers; you can rotate (pitch) the blades out of the wind, or you can prevent the hub from spinning using a brake on the main shaft connected to the gearbox. The pitch motor controllers failed and the hub was spinning too fast to use the brake.
They knew the tower had failed in an uncontrolled and dangerous manner so they backed off a couple hundred meters and let it free spin hopeing the wind would die down so they could lock the hub in place and replace the blown parts.
No amount of wind tunnel testing is going to tell you when a manufacturing defect shows up in a few of your towers that wasn't in the test bed design.
It doesn't matter how fast the winds are ALL large scale towers either gimbals out of the wind or pitch their blades out of the wind if its blowing too fast. Remember, these things have to survive hurricanes and tornadoes, a little wind is only bad if their broke to begin with.

The problem is you can't build towers out in the middle of nowhere. You need a place close to transmission lines,with easy to access for heavy equipment (not just the 300-400 ton cranes, but the trucks hauling in the tower sections and blades are all tens of thousands of pounds too), and a place you can still access regardless of the weather (snow, heavy rain, etc..). What this generally means is wind sites are built along highways or freeways that high voltage lines parallel. Unfortunately, that means towers are generally placed near the outskirts of cities and since tower failure is nothing new and not limited to any one tower manufacturer that means accidents are going to be fairly common.

Your argument implies that every song thats ever been shared through the internet has been retained by their respective downloaders in perpetuity, which is patently false. The terms of the borrowing may be longer, but if speaking with regards to nothing more than my own personal experience; eventually a person buys a new computer/hard drive, or wipes their current hard drive, and doesn't bother to retain the files which they downloaded.

I'll be sure to inform my local county library that their cross library lending system which allows me to borrow a book from a different library through my local one, means their all civilly liable for multi-millions of dollars worth of "damages."

You seem to be confusing copyright, trademark, and patents. Patents are perfectly reasonable, an inventor adds appreciable value to our society by furthering the sum of our knowledge, and they should be allowed to collect their investment back for a set amount of time.
Trademarks protect anyone manufacturing something from anyone else that would try to make a forgery for which the original manufacturer would be responsible, it ensures liability extends only to those responsible, again perfectly reasonable.
Copyright is an artificial monopoly that removes rights from everyone else we would normally have. If a painter sells a portrait does he get to choose after the sale to whom and in what manner it may be resold, replicated, repaired, altered, or treated? Of course not, why then should musicians and film makers receive preferential treatment? The real issue most people take with the RIAA/MPAA is that they recognize all the laws were established to ensure if someone made money off artistic work, a share of that money should go back to the artist. If someone makes a copy of a song and gives it to someone else for free, then the artist is still owed a share of that, its just his share of zero is still zero.
Your average person has a bullshit meter built into their head and this topic tends to set it off in most people that understand the issues. The problem is not everyone is capable of actually articulating that they feel that when these laws were established, they never would have passed had the law specifically read; "anyone found sharing, copying, or altering any copyrighted material in any way for any reason should be fined whatever arbitrary obscenely large amount of money the copyright holder wants."

I'm kind of lazy, and I always get tired and sweaty trying to read all the options. Usually I just choose whatever is at the top and then go eat some nachos.