Not very intelligent in my opinion unless you live somewhere with guaranteed sunlight each day like phoenix,arizona, and even then must have backup source. We need to try to live off the grid first, till we can actually run our homes, fridges, stoves, computers off a generator off the grid without paying 20k+ for wind+solar components, we will not trust night drivers to any less reliability ie: death of a loved one on christmas driving to see us in the dark.

In recent lobbiest activity BELL has somehow convinced CRTC in canada to charge usage of bandwidth, meaning it will hit providers with this cost, which will then hit the consumer. CRTC has become evil, instead of telling BELL to increase amount of bandwidth, install new high speed lines, its more profitable to charge more for what is already there. WHen this happens there are only 2 solutions, need of competition on internet lines, and new compression formats for HD content. I see some very big problems with charging usage fees that even BELL are overlooking, like tons of lawsuits against them for instance for people getting hacked and being charged tons of fees. Shouldn't take that long for a hacker to hack a neighbors wireless router key, and download lots of movies for instance. COrrect title for this should be, companies destroying internet with usage fees.

It will only work against them in long run, gamers want to play games off their hard drives, not have a million cd's taking up space. They also want to be able to load older games like nintendo roms and such and modify it way they want. If 360 is NOT cracked soon, ps3 will win the war since we can now jailbreak that system, code custom apps for it, and play downloaded games. Only thing MS has going for it is their xbox live, and that is only because the community has not yet converted to playing free on ps3, but with their recent announcement of raising prices on xbox live to compensate people slowly switching, they are only making it faster.

This is assuming they are DOS'ing whitehats. I can see it now companies to DOS pirate sites, sites retaliate with thousands of botnets to take down the companies. Internet becomes utterly unusable because everyone just retaliates on everyone. Kind of reminds me of 911, US goes in and steals iraqs oil then acts all dumbfounded when they retaliated a few downed planes. 2 wrongs definately don't make a right, I agree with that, and if this company pisses off the wrong blackhat, they'll never have an internet presence again, its a catch22.

Waste more money on war wonderful, thought we learned from BUSH administration to stop this and create jobs for americans instead.