If you want to immerse yourself in the world of Hooke, Pepys, Newton et al., you should read "The Baroque Cycle".

Unless they plan to use microwave beams for power.

I think you can find all that (or reasonably priced alternatives) at http://www.villainsource.com/

Nothing was taken away (well, manybe if they used the office copier they stole paper, toner etc.) I'm sure I've read that copying != stealing somewhere around here.
Actually that might make it an even worse crime than trespassing, burglary or theft: copyright infringement!

Finally! All those hours wasted on cracked.com pay off now:
http://www.cracked.com/article_18385_7-bullshit-police-myths-everyone-believes-thanks-to-movies.html
the Insanity Defense is attempted in less than one percent of all legal cases, which essentially means that more people have tried to pin their crimes on aliens or their evil twin rather than their own basket case, shoelace-eating lunacy.
Of that tiny fraction where the lawyer was even willing to try it, the defense is successful less than 25 percent of the time. Three states in the US don't even allow insanity as a defense.
Then, in that tiny, tiny fraction of cases where the guy "got off" because he convinced the court he was insane, he doesn't get to just go home. You get sent to a mental institution where you don't have a set sentence at all--they keep you as long as they see fit, which may be forever. You're there until "deemed safe to return to society", which according to the American Psychiatric Association is usually twice as long as the jail sentence would have been.

It's fun to dream of comparable actions against "insane" corporations though. I'm sure a lot of slashdoters can draw parallels between their workplace and a lunatic asylum anyway.

Umpteen years ago, I read that during the middle ages animals and even the weather were sometimes brought to court to answer for their crimes. I think, I understand now the motivation behind charging a pig with, say, heresy. In a word: Bacon.

Some things don't change.

Chip: *consults scanner's public key against list of approved scanners*
You would have to update all chips quite often then.

So, you'd like to see his death certificate?

Seriously, what would you consider evidence? Would a document be enough, or would you settle for OBL's head on a pike on the White House lawn?

See, that's what I meant with "common group of events". Tsunamis are often triggered by earthquakes, so it would make sense to expect that both can happen together.

Redundant systems are a good idea, but you should ask yourself if one event (or a common group of events, like an earthquake and a tsunami) can knock out all of your systems at once.

IT at my workplace actuall recomends Platntronics USB headsets for VoIP communications, though I never could quite fathom why. For a recording that I had to do one, I did a quick comparison between a simple analogue headset and Plantronics USB device. I'm not exactly an audiophile, but the analogue headset provided a much clearer recording.
Is there actually a technical advantage in using a USB audio device, if your computer has an internal sound card anyway?

IIRC, (sadly I can't rmember where I read that) fit people do not actually live longer, but they die healthier. That may not sound like much, but if you ever saw the the difference between old and sick and old and healthy people, you might think it worth it.

Source?
I certainly see enough malware on W7, though it is usually limited to the user's profile nowadays.
Much easier to install without triggering alerts, but also easier to remove.

That would require a kind of gentlemen's agreement similar to a "fight of the two champions" in lieu of a a battle between two armies. That sort of civilized behavior never really caught on when the stakes are high enough. IIRC Saddam Hussein offered the same to George W. Bush in 2003, but somehow the US didn't accept this offer.
While you celebrate your victory in your bunker, the "defeated" side may have just cut off the antenna and sealed the entrance to your bunker. Who's a winner then?

Then you might have stopped 20 years ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/01/world/vatican-science-panel-told-by-pope-galileo-was-right.html