So I report you to DHS as a terrorist. No evidence to support my claim, just an anonymous tip. For the rest of your life, you're subjected to additional screening and harassment every time you fly. You have no recourse to clear your name. You have no idea how your name got on the watch list. For the rest of your life you learn to show up at the airport an hour earlier than everyone else does and see everyone in the security line looking at you, getting your extra pat-down, wondering, "I wonder that that guy did." And your civil liberties are not at stake?

If you were an author, songwriter, or other artist who produced copyrighted works to feed your family, maybe you'd understand that for some people, this *is* an issue to fight over like it's a matter of life and death.

Antitrust lawsuits start flying.

I came here to say this. Me: "Don't track me." Them: "Thanks for visiting our website! In order to know whether or not we should track you, please tell us who you are." In order for this to work, the web would have to abandon any pretense of anonymity. Which do you think is the lesser of two evils? I know where my vote goes.

Price has nothing to do with cost. It's all about supply and demand. Verizon, like any other company, will price their products at what they believe the market will bear.

...my ISP starts punishing me for using the Internet to do legal things that the Internet was designed for?

Still, the company could accept the subpoena on his behalf. Not doing so is just going to piss off the court.

Insurance companies don't care about causation. Correlation is all that really matters to them. If people with names beginning with 'A' have more accidents, insurance companies are going to give them higher premiums. The causation doesn't matter.

Came here to say this. Actually read TFA.

This is exactly what I thought of when the announcement of the key was first made. I imagine this could be done with ~$30 worth of commodity hardware.

The copilot is *not* a redundant system for the pilot. The two are a team, sharing a workload. While it may be possible in many cases for one person to handle this workload, it's a lot safer sharing responsibilities between two people.

And that's when things are going well.

When things don't go well, the workload can easily escalate beyond the capabilities of a single person.

I personally wouldn't board a plane if I knew only one pilot was up front.

See if the information at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2010/08/04/10045651.aspx changes your mind.

Microsoft doesn't look at application crashes for applications they didn't develop. If the vendor is a member of OCA, they pass the crash on to the vendor.

Microsoft *will* look at a crash if Windows crashed.

Actually, Microsoft does fix bugs based on these reports. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2010/08/04/10045651.aspx

My understanding is that Heisenberg pretty much said "this will not be possible, ever." But I'm not a Heisenberg nor an Einstein so I'll have to read TFA to find out what's going on.