Mitch I'm sure realizes the greatest feat man has accomplished--sending men to the moon--was a military exercise, right? We sent a clear message to the USSR--if we can land men on the moon, we can certainly drop a nuke in the middle of Red Square. And there are all the other major breakthroughs: The Manhattan Project may have been evil--but from that research we have a cleaner source of energy and lots of medical breakthroughs.

But Mitch doesn't want to work with Darpa? Forget that without the internet and VOIP, Mitch wouldn't even have a company. The push now is in robotics and who in this country is doing more than any other organization to inspire our youth than Darpa? Now he tweets that he is heading to China to organize a hacker space? So instead of working with the youths of this country to educate and stimulate, Mitch would rather take his talents to China?

How can I guy that is as smart as he is not see the big picture. Rather than help his country succeed, he would rather give comfort and aid to Communist China? There has got to be something at play that folks aren't seeing--typically that would be money. Something tells me Darpa was willing to sponsor the event, but not pad Mitch's pockets. China on the other is more than happy to pay Mitch what ever he wants to help the Chinese military/industrial complex. Makes much more sense.

Say it ain't so, but there has to be some cash driving Mitch's decision.

Anyone read Trillions by Nicholas Fisk from back in 1971? Sounds like MIT is making science fact..

If buying your own laptop isn't feasible--i.e. your traveling all the time, or some such. Why not get a 2nd hard drive and simply swap your work and personal hard drives. So use your work drive during the day, when you get back to your hotel--swap out the drive for your personal drive and watch some porn before going to sleep. Just remember to swap the drives again in the morning... (or you could do it after the porn--just wash your hands 1st!)

Sounds like you are projecting.... The "repellent self-righteous zealots who are utterly obnoxious" part in case you have a hard time figuring it out...

Here is a link to the story about the data mining with a screen shot of the blurb: http://www.gamesradar.com/ea-backtracks-slightly-over-disturbing-data-mining-origin-eula/

Now if only EA would change their EULA for Origin and eliminate the portion where they grant themselves the right to datamine your hard drive.

Wouldn't you be better off with a little program that went through each of your mp3's and flipped a bit or two? If the RIAA is using MD5's/some type of hash to identify pirated tracks, just make sure none of your files will match the hash....

Osama Bin Wankin' ??

Now we are talking cloud computing I can understand!