Which would have cost him around $52/day for unlimited internet. (assuming a 12 month contract, not a 24 month one)

I do what the OP does when I goto the US as well, I'm starting to get quite a collection of t-mobile sims though. It's a pity you cant just reactivate them.

You do realise that this site (youhavedownloaded.com) doesn't record your private IP address if you are hidden behind a NAT device right ? and that DHCP leases will expire (and renew) and that your modem doesn't have to 'reboot' or 'crash' in order to get a new public IP address, and that, depending on the access technology and the time it happens, you may not even notice a new public IP address change ?

Also, if you fire back with 'but I have a static public IP address' then none of your arguments make sense anyway ?

Oh, and you may want to do some research into how worms work, I'll give you a starter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_worm

Won't work. Apple will sue as they own the colour white as well.

They've already tried that two or three times and failed miserably at it.

Least we forget..

http://www.textfiles.com/100/anonymit

Sadly, thats incorrect, there are cases where people have been tortured and kidnapped for messing with these criminals

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/08/hacker-reported/ is one such case, another i dont have the link for right now involved a reporters daughter being kidnapped, put on drugs and sent to work in a brothel for 5 years. The hacker con ruxcon in Australia had a talk on it last year, no country is safe when dealing with real criminals. They will find and kill you for disrupting their business.

I had a long drawn out reply to this that got eaten. You'll have to live with the short form, sorry.

Your 1300 quoted is only half the text, you should read and consider the rest in the context it was said. People are trying to claim that the cables reveal names of possible informants who's lives subsequently become in danger. Can you please point to where the Kenya cables listed these 1300 people ? or was it possibly that the data highlighted corruption in the government that subsequently lead to an uprising in which 1300 people were killed ? Hopefully I really don't need to point out the difference to you in finer detail.

Added to this, I am puzzled by the focus on Assange as a figure to hate. In all the releases up until recently (and there is a reason that changed - Thanks Guardian, not Assange) the media were handling the releases, not Assange, if there were names not redacted, then the Media outlets that posted the cables are responsible for any harmful outcome, not Assange. If you want to hold Assange responsible then you could also equally hold the original leaker responsible, as well as the people that improperly secured the data, and while you are at it, the embassy for not obsficating things a little better, or maybe the original government that perpetrated these crimes (or individuals in many cases).

Why the hate on Assange ? it almost seems irrational.

Can we also blame the Guardian and anyone that downloaded the files ?

Also, has anyone actually been hurt from this as yet ? or is this more posturing on the side of the ignorant masses ? (that's actually a serious question)

Bolivia is one such incident. It was put in place by the world bank who demanded as part of a loan to get them back on their feet they privatise the water system and used to charge people up to 1/4 of their income on water. It was illegal to collect rainwater.

Not the first time the world bank has royally screwed up a country. Just ask Jamaica how that's working out for them..

Sorry for the wikipedia links, I'm sure people can find other examples, consider these starters.

Sorry, I don't normally post, and not getting into the 'hate America' thing as I don't particularly believe that, but you may want to check your facts on who was involved in helping Haiti.

Haiti Aid Donations can be found here