Question: If our borders were "thoroughly opened" do you think there would be anybody living south of Texas anymore? A few in Brazil, perhaps?

Spoken like the stereotypical stupid gringo....

I know I wouldn't live in the US if they threw their borders open, and lost of friends of mine think the same way. You are completely deluded in matters related to your country, thinking it is the greatest country in the world while it goes down the drain.

Instead of posting comments like that, you might try to figure why tourists try to avoid the US, scientific conferences and business meetings occur in Europe if possible and cruise ships sail from Panama, instead. You might find the answer enlightening.

(then again, you should have gotten the gist of it reading this same forum)

Green ham won't be any guarantee...better choose another colour.

Get in touch with the security community as some other poster said.

Then concentrate in releasing a paper about your software. If your techniques are good, they might be an interesting read. Even more important is that if your software does not escalate privileges (as I understand), cleaning your software should be a straightforward job from the superuser account. Those cleaning techniques will probably be even more interesting.

I'd use a rather obvious payload that reveals itself when interrogated (instead of BOINC) in order to be useful for evaluating system security.

I don't think your malware is as nasty as you think, as you said you relied on executing downloaded software on a world with signed repositories and with MD5 hashes/pgp signatures as a normal custom. I also think you're underestimating the difference between administrator-all-the-time windows way and the only-escalate-when-needed model of the unix world. It would be interesting to see what happens, though.

Remember that Machiavelli recommended not hiring mercenaries because their lack of loyalty and their tendency to turn against you when you need them most.

While it's true that they won't be rampaging and plundering US cities (because of the rather large conventional army, as stated by another poster), it wouldn't be surprising if they did that in some other places like a few african countries or war-torn Iraq. Prolonging a conflict wouldn't be a surprise, too, if it were economically beneficial to them.

I remember reading somewhere that one of the major complaints about blackwater in Iraq was that they would make a mess and then leave things to the US armed forces for them to fix.

In certain ways, Blackwater is equivalent to rennaissance mercenaries, and the sections about mercenaries are still valid today.

I bet your reception is going to be rather lousy when scuba diving.

So does it or doesn't it include prostitution?

That would be unfair. With multiple positions in one job, their statistics would go sky high.

Remember MSN (the thing that was suppose to kill the internet.. So much better than TCP/IP that Win 95 didn't have a TCP/IP stack to start with) ?

Yes it did. It was not enabled nor installed by default, but it had one.

The parent poster never said anything about that protocol being funded by DARPA.

While it might seem like the same, this new protocol is being developed behind closed doors by a few companies, known for their budget overruns and their buggy code. This is unlike TCP/IP, designed at universities, using a hands on approach by people not willing to give up nor caring about most bureaucracy.

Not if those miles are nautical miles.....

We have no problems telling the temperature in celsius. 30 is hot, 5 is cold (I just checked and 30C is 88F and 5C is 41F, pretty close, considering I used temperatures in the tolerable range). And you're ignoring the lower part of the scale: 5F and 20F are both fucking cold (and fortunately don't happen where I live).

Basically, I say that they are both roughly as useful (but celsius in far more used).

About a more precise measurements, we have decimals for that. Anyway, it's not like anybody wants that much precision for everyday activities. I bet you just use multiples of five for weather forecasts and such (for the regular joe, not high precision stuff). Just like we do with heights in metric.

The ISP seems to realize that the pirate bay will be worthless to everyone a couple days before they block access to it, which no one will care about since the pirate bays new owners will have basically already blocked access by taking the site as-is down.

Not only that, but the TPB index itself is for download. In a few days, not only they will be blocking a worthless (and probably aligned with the media industry) site, but they won't be blocking tens of copycat sites.

Definitely a bullet-foot interaction by the RIAA/MPAA.

Unfortunately, the Argentinian authority decided to reverse the polarity of the plug, making it electrical incompatible with the others (but mechanically compatible).

The plug is really sturdy, though.

I find it amazing that you're asking for a solution that requires no effort to set up, lets you answer the phone everywhere and does not require any investment. It looks like you're asking for the impossible. However the solution is very simple:

CARRY THE DAMN PHONE WITH YOU AT ALL TIMES

If you don't want to carry it, that's what extensions are for. You're asking how to convert your PC in an extension. Also, you'll need to rush to the extension (or your PC, and let me tell you that buying an extension is cheaper than buying a PC) every time it rings.

You're asking for the ultimate solution in telecommunications. It doesn't exist yet.

Yes, I know I should have written "We've known".
I just missed the "n" key.

Nobody said you shoud enter your passwords in a normal text field, just to make the password fields not masked, without changing the other properties.