I can't wait for the day when my house is raided because of all of my unregistered, unlicensed hammers. Will there be a Brady Bill for hammers? I can have a sledge hammer, not more than 10 pounds, but there is a 3 day wait to buy a (concealed carry) 6 oz. tack hammer?

I have to agree, I generally like to buy my own new tech as I find things that peak my interest. I have gotten a lot of nice non-tech gifts that I use on a daily basis- wallets, (analog) watch, and my favorite are benchmade knives. They even have a custom shop to make your own Griptilian series with different steel, colors and blade styles: http://www.benchmade.com/customize/default.aspx [benchmade.com]. Maybe add engraving of a special occasion, service or milestone in life.

I DVR virtually everything I want to watch, or at least pause the show for 5 minutes at the beginning and fast forward through live shows. I don't know the last time I actually watched a commercial.

I wish I had mod points. This made my afternoon.

With the proliferation of MPLS networks, this would not be all that hard to do on an organizational level. Host your servers in [Generic Non-Extradition Country] and link all of your sites/users via MPLS or VPN to your MPLS network, as well as any other "trusted" entities.

I used to work for a small college, and we would buy ~100 each desktop and laptops direct from dell per fiscal year (barring special CS etc projects). My manager was quoted around $1000 for a decent machine (core2duo when it was the high end 2 gigs of ram 19" square monitor) and I thought we were being gouged. I literally did no more than go to dell.com and look at the deals, they had an optiplex with the same processor, 4gb of ram and a 22" widescreen for $539. When we called our dell rep and pitched a fit, they gave us a further discount, and we wound up saving tens of thousands of dollars. Why shouldnt education and government be able to take advantage of "jope sixpack" deals?

Create an image partiton, and set your bootloader to offer a "Factory Restore", set a good windows password, and hope for the best. I figure if every time they boot, and they dont have ERD or something similar, they see something to do a restore (most windows machines come with it anyway) they will go that route, and format off all your data.

Flash drives, lots of flash drives. Drag and Drop. Come on...

I can make netscape my browser, just like all the people who call me and ask for support...