That is so awesome, I am currently backing up my system to reinstall Windows, so it will be great to get this on there to start with... thanks Hairyfeet!

Not necessarily. I believed the same thing until I married my (non-tech savvy) wife three months ago. After we got married and she started using my computer I found it started to slow down... because of malware. I never used AV protection before because it seemed to slow down my PC more than the malware would. But I didn't realize just how clueless she was until I saw her clicking on the images of the "Close X" to close a pop-up (that somehow got past Firefox... because she disabled the pop-up blocking and no-script), and the click-through took her to a site that supposedly sped up computers, but I'm pretty sure would only slow them down. Now I'm faced with trying to figure out a way to keep my computer fast and I'm not sure which way to go...

Many Bothans died to bring you this information...

I see your point, and you make a good one. But I think you are missing the crux of the grandparent's argument. Yes, it is difficult modify a new car due to the way they are typically manufactured, but it is not as if the manufacturers went out of their way to make it difficult to prevent modifications. They just build it the efficient way possible. Contrast that with many of today's devices such as "the iPod and it's ilk" which go out of their way to prevent modifications.

Yes, there are devices out there which are built to be easily modified (see Android and it's ilk), but it feels wrong for the manufacturers to intentionally make their devices hard to modify, which they do.

Any suggestions on a decent transmitter? All the ones I have tried can barely get across a room, let alone through a wall.

Is it possible that the real point of the book is not to really suggest that we eat our pets, but rather to raise awareness and get people talking about the environment? If so, perhaps they have succeeded.

Perelandra is good, but my personal favorite of Lewis' SciFi/Fantasy work is "That Hideous Strength". It just sucked me in and never let me go when I read it in high school.

Mine cross references Google's street view database with homes in areas that make the news with key words "Affluent" and "Burglaries".

But there still has to be someone that finds it first and reports it. This cannot come from traditional media sites if they self-censor, but instead must come from true internet journalists.