But it also depends what you have on the encrypted volumes. If it's evidence of tax avoidance then it might be worth giving it up. If you have the plans to the sequel of 9/11 then it's better to do the time for withholding the key.

A Phenom X6 is around £100 in the UK so I would guess with your cheaper taxes and the exchange rate it will be around that in dollars.

My uncle got arrested in the UK for receiving government data over Amateur radio in the late 80s/early 90s. He was receiving text via some program on an old BBC computer although it wasn't old at the time. I'm sure someone with more Ham knowledge than me can say how long they have used computers over the airwaves.

Maybe this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-yy2URAYqU

How much would a diamond the size of Jupiter be worth? Obviously if you could get it to earth somehow then diamond would be the most abundant material we have so it would be worthless but at todays prices I wonder how much it would be worth.

Surely a few billion years is the time it takes to try all the possible passwords. Although the chances are slim is it not entirely possible that a file could be cracked in seconds if you got lucky?

I wonder if there's a way they could tie in Bing search to the search feature in the start menu of Windows 7 without being pulled up for antitrust. Even just a sneaky "Powered by Bing Search" might be enough to get people to go and try it.

If Google runs into problems surely they could set up a European company and sell them Android for $1. That way they could at least continue with Android everywhere except the US. Maybe if all the large software companies started moving out of the US then the government would do something about software patents.

You might actually be on to something. Imagine if by playing the game you could eventually play an actual guitar. I would pay for that. Might seem too much like hard work for most people though.

Although it can have security issues itself HomePlug is a good option. I live in an old granite 3 storey house so I can't get a decent wireless signal throughout my house so HomePlug works great for me. I doubt many hackers check to see if they can access homeplug in their neighbours house via the electrical sockets in their own house.

Didn't some company stop Microsoft from selling Word in the US for a few weeks recently?

It was once in season 4 episode 8.

It's never Lupus.