Would this affect legality of "normal" drinks like coffee porters/stouts? How about Irish coffee?

Maybe now that Thawte is making email certification less useful (and more expensive), clients like Thunderbird and Mail.app will start to prefer GPG/PGP. That's all I can hope for anyway, since GPGMail for Mail.app is now broken under Snow Leopard for the foreseeable future.

Only if you purchased a new computer from Apple after June 8th.

Are we so sure that intelligent life on distant planets will follow the same path as us? Especially after reading Daniel Quinn's books, it seems far more likely that intelligent beings are living in a similar way that ancient humans did. Complex monocultures like ours seem to be the exception, not the rule, and they are relatively very short-lived (ours was started about 10k years ago, according to Quinn, while the modern human species has been around for much longer).

I don't think there's any reason to assume that other beings will wipe themselves out so quickly (why shouldn't they survive and adapt for millions of years?), but since great technological achievements seem to require an unsustainable lifestyle of conquest and over-use of resources, we might not have much luck contacting or being contacted by them.

(As I'm posting this, I realized that this post is similar to mine, and is probably better written...)

Competition isn't the reason -- it's that we have far too many people on the planet at the expense of other species and our own well-being. I don't see the reason for specifying more than three, though, when the average is already below that, and it still results in population growth. Two should be the maximum.

However, according to people like Daniel Quinn, laws such as this would not do much good. Instead, the food supply must stabilize and slowly shrink.

You must have never tried using /dev/random to wipe a drive. You could easily run it through many passes of /dev/urandom in the same amount of time.

Additionally, I'm not an expert at this, but I think the quality of the random number isn't really important anyway, since you aren't encrypting the existing data. There is no problem in having someone guess the next bit of random data, since that random data is right there on the disk, no matter how it was generated.

MacOS X: TextMate -- The Swiss Army knife of text editors with a nice GUI.

Windows: Komodo Edit -- Open source, works well with PHP.

Linux: gedit -- Haven't used it much, but looks like something I'd use if I went back to developing websites in Linux.