Ok. But either way, it's not like they are getting "windows for free anyways" they still need a site license.

Yes there is. You use multiple key-pairs. You have main keypair (Foo) whose public key is well known and trusted (or signed by a CA of some kind). Then for each connection you generate a temporaray keypair (Bar). You then sign BarPublic with Foo and use Bar for the actual encryption.

Now if they ever rubber-hose you, all you would literally* be able give them is Foo. Foo was only used for signed Bar (which did the encryption/decryption) and Bar was only ever kept in memory and is long since gone.

Note: this only works for live-only encryption (sms, voip, etc) and wouldn't work very well for e-mail since there is no two-way communication involving your public key. But you can (and should) still use that system for your smtp/imap/pop3 connections (not end-to-end mind you).

* see folks, THAT is the proper use of the word "literally"

1,000 other sites on a single IP address? What kind of budget hosting plan are you using, $2/year?!? Every hosting company i've seen has at least 1 static IP per account and you can buy additional ones for like $2/month.

And absolutely nothing of value was lost^h^h^h^hcreated.

$2000 can either get you a desktop-replacement laptop which will die in a year or 2 (like you said), or you can get the business class machines that are built to run for 4 years with maybe just a battery replacement.

I got an x220 a few months ago and can confirm that the optical drive is an option (one I declined).

1) That $10/hour kid will support *maybe* 20 machine. The $50/hour admin will administer 1000. Take your pick
2) 90% of banking software on the front-end (tellers, etc) is accessed via a web browser. 90% of the backend stuff is already java or linux powered.
3) When you buy 1000 machines for a large business, you get a few for testing ahead of time no matter WHAT operating system you plan to run.
4) When a large business buys computers, they don't come with windows licenses. They buy blank machines and get a site license.

Free-to-air is actually a government mandate. Trust me, if the government didn't force them to transmit them, none of the stations would.

So apparently it's easier to pull over Sam Roberts than it is to find an iPhone transmitting its location.

Rather close? There's an entire key and half between them and they are hit by different HANDS! I figured it out myself, but still, that's a rediculously unforgivable typo. Even Dvorak and Colemak have the same amount of room between them (though Dvorak uses the same hand, but different fingers).