He's ignorant - but, as someone with a lower UID than you, I find you guilty of being a cockbag.

Just throwing this out there, I'm not available to go do this myself, but a TV-B-Gone or similar "universal TV turner-offer" device would be useful for this action. Even if you're not visibly obviously "doing protesting", you can help Sony reduce their carbon footprints by turning off all their store display TVs for them.

http://www.bitcoin.org/ and a recent episode of Security Now went into a bunch of detail about the theory of how it works.

(tl;dr hard crypto-guesswork puzzles are used to restrict the creation of their new digital currency. It is apparently anonymous and untraceable, and some sites already exist that will trade it for RL US$)

Please expand on how you set up virtual-hosting-by-name to support SSL properly - i.e. all the sites on the same IP being able to do SSL with their own domains.

An alternative would be an Eye-Fi card and a MiFi 3g-to-wifi pocket router.

I have that pairing, they work very well - although you might want to cut back on image resolution or JPG quality to get a smaller file so it uploads faster.

I fully expect, within 14 days of now (if that), for people to be using this in busy locations to send links out to victims friends telling them to "click here to browse my holiday photos with this cool FakePhotosRealMalware tool!".

Not that I'm going to do it, just that it's really obvious and I want to feel smug for totally calling it.

*Switched* network. Read smarter, not harder.

See the BBC's recent requests to OFCOM to be allowed to DRM the FreeviewHD EPG data and require Feature Breakification of receiver hardware in order to be given a license to unlock it.

That's pro-rightsholder and anti-consumer.

QED.

I don't *think* it's "the ability to connect to shoutcast media streams" that's going away - just the ShoutCAST-branded radio stream directory side of things. (I wouldn't mind know for sure, though.)

It would seem to be the same sort of thing that CDDB pulled once it got commercialized - "our servers are only for the use of Officially Blessed clients".

Create a variant install disc with the drivers slipstreamed in. In fact, the odds are pretty good you can get away with just slipstreaming Service Pack 3 (assuming you mean Windows XP).

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/xpsp3_slipstream.asp has full walkthrough.

If you hit a DUCK with an Echo, would it make a sound, surely?

In some parts of the world, PO Boxes are not particularly cheap and are absolutely not anonymous. In the UK they cost a bunch (I forget specifics, but it's waaay more than an extra $9 per year for each of the few domains I have set up with DBProxy), and ANYBODY can obtain the name and real-address of the owner simply by writing and asking the Royal Mail.

That's right - no court order, no lawyer intervention, just ask. (There are some specific cases where that doesn't apply, but the general "there are dickheads on the internet" isn't one of them.)

You ultimately run the risk of Valve shitcanning your entire Steam account. If you can't sign in to Steam, you can't play online - and even if you worked around that somehow, you couldn't get updates.

It won't work the same way. For win7 Upgrade versions (from what I've gathered) you'll have to install and activate your Old OS and then put 7 on over the top.

MS are basically doing us in Europe a huge favour - the preorder pricing for Win7 Home Premium E is VERY heavily discounted. Like, it's about £50.

We couldn't Upgrade if we wanted to (meh), don't have IE installed as default (yay!), and get the Full Version for the price they would've been charging for the inferior Upgrade Edition.

The Three 3g/hsdpa dongle (which is really a Huawei modem) does the same trick - plug it in, Windows sees a USB CDROM drive and (unless you've disabled it) will autorun the driver installer.

The same technique is used more generally by "U3" flashdisks (from Sandisk, primarily). There's a way to remove that behaviour from the device - and quite probably a way to make it launch your arbitary attack-code instead of the U3 Launcher.