By Jove you've got it old man! Looking objectively at Black Friday as I do from up here in Canada (our Thanksgiving is spent in mid October mostly eating Turkey -- no shopping). However your point is well taken, as I see that almost all of our goods, as yours are all from foreign manufacturers. But services are always homegrown. Well done!

Agreed. And how about taking it one step further: Have Apache coders write the module that refuses to start the server if root password(s) are default. Period. There, that should help.

Informative??? Funny maybe...but mod modder of parent -1 wtf

Till we hear otherwise Slashdot still might have been slashdotted. Might be a while though...

Good for Steve! The world needs more minds like his in the game.

My bank has the random 3 questions plus password authentication scheme (Royal Bank Securities - Canada). I'm always wondering about the lax security, and when my account might be compromised. I bet if the bank calculated their total loses due to online fraud; then assumed RSA style token based authentication would reduce that by a significant amount, then wouldn't it make financial sense for them...?