If it is lighter than air per cm^3 then make it in a vacuum and lets build a flying saucer

All calls will be routed thru the Great Firewall Of China for inspection but bypass our own unamed version that the NSA uses to listen for "terrorist" activity

Actually nothing could be further from the truth. From experience within the IT world of the Military from pre network days with standalone Z-100 dual floppy to full blown modern data centers. Innovation on the part of the IT workers is continuously encouraged and greatly rewarded. In my experience, IT professionals at least in the Air Force that are not passionate about keeping up with technology and finding better ways to do things and learn as many different aspects of IT are not in the IT world for long. There are really 3 types of IT people in the military. Those who get as many certs as possible so they can fill their resume and get out Those who are passionate about what they do and what they can learn Those on their way out of the field or the military. If someone has IT experience in the military from early in their career then they ended up with a less technical job or if they were in the military for a short time after getting into the IT field without collecting certs or an IT degree, then maybe you are right. But someone like me who spent 22 years from token ring, Banyon Vines and AUI transceivers to the latest modern data centers had to continuously improve or find work elsewhere.

In order to keep the spam out of my in box I would be willing to have to pay for each email I send and also have the spammers do the same; say 4 or 5 cents each to: address. It seems to me that spam would no longer be as profitable and would be greatly reduced by stopping those that are getting one hit per million. The problem is who should get the money? Not the ISPs, definitely not governments. Maybe set up some sort of corporation that would fund the set up of mail relays that check for some sort of prepaid encrypted "reciept" attached to every email and just drop any without it, Have the corporation go after the few spammers left that were willing to pay by refusing to sell them any more email. Then maybe the corporation could use the money to give grants for open source project development or maybe inovation awards kind of like a techie nobel prize. Whatever we can come up with that would contribute to the common good within the computing / networking world.

My power was out 7 days untill late Saturday night so I set my clocks to my cell phone. Then I wondered why the parking lot was so empty this morning.