i disassembled my old drives and saved the platters and the superstrong magnets. The platters look like steel so I thought maybe I'll just bend them in half and make it not worth anybody's time to try reading them. Platters don't bend - they shatter into a million slivers of something that initially just embed themselves in your hands. For weeks you'll be finding fragments in the carpet 20 feet from the original impact zone.

So wear protection (esp. eyes) and do it somewhere you can cleanup easily. Sound advice for many activities.

Pre-med isn't really a major. You do pick a "real" major that is basically throw away for your b.a/b.s.

See http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-medical

You're comparing retired Gates & Allen to still at the helm Jobs. Maybe when Jobs gets tired of sitting around the house and counting his big ol' pile of money he'll start giving some away.

I'm thinking the biggest implementation problem with doing the same in the US would be finding good chess teachers, especially for the low level students. Overall, I think it's a great idea.

Manufacturers will be forced to add an additional slow visible pulse and an audible pew sound. Just like they have to add some engine noise because the Prius is too quiet.

This sounds like another law that will be too specific to cellphones. Do they have separate laws covering cakes, hacksaws, knives, guns, explosives, drugs, cigarettes, .... ?

How about one law that covers generic smuggling, which already sounds illegal?

Your car isn't really touching the ground. It's on 4 big black insulators.

You can add a grounding strap to your car, but most people don't bother.

Not be to too naive, but how do you think they were previously blocking iranian access?

Most likely the government 4th graders were already using foriegn proxies for whatever ultra secret things the "Axis of Evil" is working on these days. Now they can steal wifi from the coffe shop across the street or the private DSL line installed in their bunker.

If you felt more safe before reading this you're the naive one.

Can't the courts subpoena the payment info for the fraudulent request?

Maybe you as an individual can contact them as well. Without some social engineereing they should only be willing to tell you it doesn't match info you provide.

Chances are, whoever did it wasn't that bright and used their own paypal or credit card info.