Actually it's the government that the threat. At the rate they're spending and promising to spend more they'll bankrupt the country in no time. The threat level should be set to the darkest red there is.

The ruling in Hiibel vs Sixth Judicial Court of Nevada was even discussed here on Slashdot as well as the original story about his arrest for not showing ID on demand.

And yet Perl is written in C so you are still effectively using C to do your serious text processing. Then again, why write your own C code for text processing when you can just reuse what someone else already wrote to do the job, i.e. Perl....

"This week I received calls from four different customers saying that they were warned that they are dangerously insecure because they run open source operating systems or software, because 'anyone can read the code and hack you with ease.'"

Wow. PGP can be hacked with ease? I'd like to see an example of that one.

What's that?

Isn't that a sign of impending failure? My hard drives have always been unnoticeable audibly except when there was an impending head crash. Me thinks hard drive noise is likely a reason to shop for a new drive.