That's great if it works for you... my openbsd box is a firewall, asterisk pbx, squid proxy and ntp endpoint. I'm sure that would all work dandy on your macbook pro, but it seems like a waste when my friends throw away athlon machine does it just fine and doesn't dedicate an expensive laptop to the tasks.

I wish this joke was original with me... Slashdot: News for turds, Stuff that splatters. Saw it when we were last fascinated with Japanese toilets.

You guys are talking about a sliding scale for the booze, but you're missing the biggest opportunity here which is for people to pay for score inflation. And of course for other people to pay even more for transparency through the score inflation scheme. Bronze level is free and you get what you get. Silver level you get to shave 5 years and add a market adjusted 1 sigma to your income. Gold level is ten years and 2 sigmas, etc. Of course Gold level "peeper" subscriptions get to see the truth about all Silver level data hiders, and so on. Freeking goldmine. I'm calling the patent office, brb.

As long as you use key-only authentication you should be fine. I wouldn't leave password-only access open to the internet. Having said that, your best bet is to slowly stall connections in order to waste the other guy's resources. Any system with pf and probably ipf have allowances for that, along with logging and blocking the most abusive IPs altogether.

I carried a blackberry for years, both personally and corporate issued ones, and loved what they could do for me. The e-mail client and their address book are still untouched by Android. By contrast my corporate-issued ipad with Good stinks. Seriously it has the worst interface for searching e-mail I've ever seen! Not even on the level of 80's text only e-mail clients like ELM and PINE. Ugh. Blackberry needs to switch to their own Android hardware - they can make it as secure as they like and bring their own apps to the platform, while hopefully integrating the "Android way" of doing things. I loved my BB, but my first Android device which ran 1.5 (ancient by today's standards) made me realize what I was missing on the BB. Android's multitasking and automated app integration was an epiphany in user design. On my old BB if I took a picture, that was it. I took a picture. Then I switched to whatever app I wanted to use the photo with - the facebook app, the twitter app and then typically had to navigate that app's interface to share the photo. Contrast that with Android's approach of extending the camera app's "share" button with a new icon for any new application that can share photos. Blackberry's hardware security and their apps melded with Android would be an unbeatable combination. And let's face it - they could sell insecure versions in the Android app store and clean up.

If this is a Android 4.1 or newer tablet w/o the screen I'm game. There's plenty of compelling content available now, although a great deal of it is touch-screen oriented one controller is all it takes to fix that. Otherwise this will also (presumably) have a netflix client, pandora client, etc, etc. In other words it'll be a open-source google TV. Sign me up.

Oh yeah - one of those *totally* annoying things about the iPad is network based collaborative games don't work well or at all in network as an island situations. I should be able to sit on an airplane with my Google tablet and play anyone on the plane because one person's a IPV4 hub handing out local addresses, or we're taking advantage of IPv6's link local addresses. So simple, yet so much fun if we could make it happen.

I'm right there with you dude and own the developer G1 as well as the Nexus One. Technological obsolescence is annoying, but so is Google's erratic support for essential features. I want a *Google* reference phone (not carrier locked) that has a) a removable battery, b) NFC, c) removable SIM card, d) latest multicore processor, e) plenty of internal memory (2GB+) , f) forward (3MP) and rearward (8MP+) facing cameras, and g) either the processor or a second chip to handle 3d acceleration. The interesting phones all have some combination not all of those things combined, and we aren't even in to the nice to have options like an IPV6 capable stack, a chip to help with VPN encryption/decryption so heavy tunneling use doesn't burn the battery and a wifi/airplane mode combination that lets me use the handset as a SIP phone. Stop playing google phone footise with us Google - I need a mode to turn off the cell network, leave on wireless and use (if available) the carrier's internet-based call origination features, and if not at least the same for my Grandcentral/Google-voice number I've been carrying around for years.

That should read defender of *deregulation*, by the way. I'm ok with it if the striations are prevented from ownership or co-ownership by cooperative parties. I'm all for it if each layer is forced to compete and the market is efficient. I'm all against if it the competitors are simply allowed to by each other and integrate until choice is back to two or three bad choices instead of several good ones.

You have it completely wrong if you think California was any sort of example of "proper" deregulation. Power companies were required to sell their power at the same cost they always had, but were "free" to purchase power at market prices. Unfortunately for them, Enron's traders simply traded power back and forth across the California border with neighboring states until they'd soaked up capacity and created an "emergency", allowing an explosion in power prices. When I say explosion I mean up to 10x prior costs. PG & E was not allowed to pass that cost onto consumers. I'm not actually a defender of regulation but it's clear what happens when you let the interested parties write the rules. They write in loopholes and profit, too.

I certainly understand and appreciate your straw man (bad blood transfused) is so important to you that chipping everyone seems justified. Crime is an unfortunate reality which no technology can solve; not everyone can or will subscribe to John Locke's social contract. Solve that problem without technology first, because otherwise the technology is a tool like any other - most will use it for good, but not all.

Hi, paranoid science lady. Thank you for putting a friend or foe chip in every enemy soldier fighting against my glorious and righteous cause. I have adapted all my improvised incindiery devices to trigger from their presence. My soldiers can now quickly and safely sweep an area for enemy combatants with nothing more than an RFID gun. Encryption, you say? We destroy all the chips in our equipment so any response at all whether we understand it or not is enough to attack or retreat as we see fit. Of course the secret back door installed by your government was easily reverse engineered and decoded with a few million dollars invested with the right Chinese lab and their scanning-tunneling microscope. I understand your government is enjoying similar benefits now that there are no more anonymous protests, or really anonymity of any kind. You were so right! "something could happen", you said. And now that everyone is chipped it has! We've always been at war with Eurasia.

With the down economy it's unfortunate that states can't afford to call that particular bluff.

Just as a single data point counterpoint, Forth is used in openboot proms so if you were to admin any Sun gear, you'd be using Forth whether you knew it or not even today. Having said that, it's a nice skill to have, but you probably won't get a job programming in that language.

My standard developer desktop is an HP 8540W with 16GB of memory. Laptops aren't known for speedy disk i/o so it would probably take 50-100% longer, but still, these sized machines in a corp environment aren't hard to find.