In the modern era we use this thing called a "remote access card" or an ip enabled pdu.

If you're at the datacenter and you're not:

A) Installing or Removing hardware
B) Physically rewiring something
C) Replacing a failed piece of hardware

You're doing it wrong.

Correlation does not imply causation. If it did you'd be an inbred racist hick who jumps to conclusions about statistics when they know nothing about how statistical analysis works.

oh wait.. never mind.

Actually having worked in the computer industry and having had extensive exposure to the types of things attorney's tend to write... I hope no law should ever be written by an attorney. A law should be readable and understandable by anyone who reads it. Attorneys will even tell you they can't practice outside their specialty because *THEY CAN'T UNDERSTAND* the nuances of the other specialties.

I wish i had some moderator points to mod this as insightful.

That is a tremendously wise attitude necessary to the proper function of a government for the people.

Unfortunately, the US federal government is no longer that body.

The simple reality is: most people who pirate aren't going to buy anyways. It's not a loss if someone downloads your content and tinkers with it 5m and then never touches it again and that is what happens with *a lot* of content. Nor is it a loss if someone downloads your content (because they can't afford it) and likes it and 5 of their friends go out and buy it even though the original person never does.

The iPhone or a smart phone of some sort is just the beginning of a wearable pc, it's a component in the mess. Bluetooth and other wireless technologies need to further develop and better batteries. No component except the central unit should be bigger than a bluetooth headset. Until they get that far its never going to catch on.

We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first reasonable wearable computer.

/me winces as he remembers all the web vulnerabilities on the PIX.

In reality I would wager less of the dd-wrt routers would get patched, but only because a lot of them were deployed by non-professionals who will likely not see the news.

What you're advocating, in a round about way, is security through obscurity.

Security through obscurity doesn't work.

All security through obscurity does is propagate a false sense of security that you're safe because you've not heard any major news headlines telling you that you're vulnerable... meanwhile, you've been rooted for 3 months.

PunkBuster works... sometimes.

Nothing is original it can all be floated back to 7 basic stories (or is it 9? shrug) using that theory. *rolls eyes*

WoW wasn't tremendously innovative, however it did implement some innovative ideas (at its release). What it really did was show a level of polish at release most game releases lacked. It had an interesting game world that a lot of people were familiar with and loved and easily recognisable class functions that weren't tremendously complex to play (unlike say eq1, uo, ac, or daoc by comparison) that increased its playability considerably.

WoW and EVE both innovated at least some degree, especially when compared to the MMOs that followed them.

If the beta was any indication, I'd move along. It was at best describable as "the worst of the barrens" most of the times with rampant kill stealing and other lovely fun behavior.

meh, my post forgot to login.

Why buy a 5 digit id when you can get an AWESOME 4 digit id with a long history of apathy and months of not posting at a time... rofl.