Anyone knows how to configure a USB port to accept only mass storage devices? (no autorun of course) Linux solution is enough for me (lol)

Let's hope no aliens came here thinking this way.

The public buy lies and there's a lot of competition selling it.

First, no matter how good your is your bicycling/smooth road, I don't think you can experience so little acceleration as standing in your chair. Also you have another natural signs of motion like wind pressure. And the 3D movie "movements" usually are not acceleration free (straight line, constant speed).

Just for this to be in question shows how little the public knows about theirs own rights. Yes, it's tough to own and enforce copyrights in the digital age, but the burden must not be on the consumer.

Hacking systems very rarely involves breaking cryptography. It's bad reputation for their sys admins but not so for their cryptography experts.

I doubt a respectable source would attempt to do such list. No surprises here.

If you replace the screws with Torx because it resist cam-out better than Phillips head, fair enough, I'll by a Torx tool set. Now if you replace them with yet another obscure head just to make life harder for everyone, WTF!!! If you think the device should not be open, place a seal and write to it "warranty void if removed".

I have tapes from my ZX Spextrum (1984) and wonder if I'll ever (still?) be able to read them. Also programs from HP41CV, but these are written in paper.

This will be as reliable as when you ask your e-mail to be removed from some advertising mailing list. Even some "presumed" respectable business periodically loses their opt-out lists. For instance, I see this with some airliners and telcos.

I know because of network effect all you people don't care about Google's Orkut. But here in Brazil Orkut is quite popular, and evil or not evil aside, Google is well above average in trustworthiness. Sure the final solution must be some standard open social network.

so other people can be referred here to know the opinions of the tech crowd about it.

Nope, for an invisibility suit you'll need different images for different points of view (observers).

... as if the bank computer as counting the bills (or coins) being transferred from one account to the other.

Town Clerk: "The results until now are 137 for, 68 against."
Last man in the room: "Well... I'm 1/3 inclined to vote for, 2/3 against..."
Town Clerk: "Vote passed!"