When the Internet first became popular, I had to connect to it over a phone line which meant my data was protected by common carrier laws. Why should I be less protected now that I connect to it over cable wires rather that telephone wires?

Affirmative Action, in general, is a good concept. However, Affirmative Action based on race is not for these two important reasons:

1) Race is not well-defined casually or biologically.
2) While people of minority races are statistically more likely to get the short end of the stick, educationally, it is not race that causes it.

What we really need is Affirmative Action based on socio-economic status or household income. This will be "color-blind" while still generally helping African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans more often than Caucasian-Americans. Being Black doesn't make it harder to succeed in school, being poor and hungry does. Sure, there is a correlation to race, but the root cause is poverty. Moreover, this helps (the often forgotten minority of) rural Appalachian White people just as much as urban Detroit Black people.

I'm not saying that at all. I'm just saying that it's an overinflated claim to say that the ability to subitize is "doing math." Pigs can subitize better than humans, for example. Likewise, you haven't really understood addition just because you can tell that 3+1 is the same quantity as 4.

Let me know when one of them provides a novel proof that the square root of two is irrational.

I agree that I should not have to, but the nice thing about being a regular /. reader is that I will be able to do so. We've survived DRM, we can survive this. However, I do hope it goes down the drain without passing.

I wouldn't worry too much about it. The open source community will have a high incentive to resolve this problem. The next version of ClockworkMod will come standard with a kill-switch disabler or there will be a step by step soldering guide posted to Instructables.