This isn't about making English prose that humans are expected to read and make sense of. Rather, it's about making English prose that anti-spam and anti-virus filters won't automatically flag and delete. If somebody has a web page or an email that exploits a vulnerablity, a good anti-spam or anti-virus filter could prevent it from loading based on the payload alone, without even having to know about the vulnerability itself (While vulnerabilities constantly change, the rules governing what is valid x86 code do not). Now, however, this is no longer the case.

You are welcome to make your private key the product of two large Mersenne primes.

Since all Mersenne primes are of the form 2^p-1, one only need to search p possibilities. Since the largest currently known Mersenne prime is 2^43112609, this is equivalent to 26-bit encryption. Also, since only 47 Mersenne primes are actually known, one could use a simple table search, reducing this to 6-bit encryption. Breaking 6-bit encryption is left as an exercise for the reader.

Just make the button detect authorized fingerprints only and require a heartbeat in the finger and also scan the operator's retina and alter lighting to make sure that the iris responds "correctly" to random changes in light level.

Bet you can't circumvent that with just duct tape. Now, with an Arduino, some peripheral hardware and a few spare evenings....

Require a retinal scan to operate the safety button, and somebody's going to lose an eye...

Kind of like vampires, doesn't matter what the holy symbol is as long as it does the job. I guess you've never seen Love at First Bite.

I have. And unlike drugs, you can replace a game with pretty much any other form of entertainment. That's the difference.

Who NEEDS 16+ hours of entertainment a day? There's not that much difference between replacing one game with another, or one entertainment time-sink for another - and replacing one drug with another. If (say) someone plays WoW 16 hours a day until his internet connection goes down - and then switches to 16 hours of Wii a day, that would indicate an addiction.

Except that MMO is not an 'addiction' . . . it is a 'habit.' His friend will go through no withdrawal if his account expired tomorrow.

I see that you've obviously never been really into a game...

If I buy a computer from Dell instead of IBM, is it a PC? Is an artificial gem with the same chemical properties and structure as diamond a diamond? If the thing's identical in all meaningful ways to an Apple branded Mac, shouldn't it also be considered a Mac?

Because intellectual property laws don't correspond to the laws of physics. A Mac clone might be physically identical to a Mac, but legally, it's not identical to a Mac(TM), since nobody but Apple (and possibly their licencees) are legally allowed to use Apple's trademark names.