Im sure they were trying to be family friendly with their questions, but realistically, there has to be (more than none at all), and it would be interesting to see if it was above or below the gambling use.

When they no longer are able to transform the commercial audio track to be noticeably "louder", won't they then just start having annoying stroke inducing strobelight-like video effects?

Don't a lot of Oracle products just have Oracle stickers on top of some other product line they acquired anyway.

like a plastic stand for the boxee box, that completes the missing corner, so it at least sits up like a regular cube looking thing..
or is that their plan to finish the box with the the eventual external USB or e-SATA drive attachment to store more content like a PVR.?

I agree, IMAP is the way to go. the dbmail.org project has an implementation of an imap service that uses a database as the back end. This allows you to, in theory, create a custom application to do full text search over the mail contents (that are stored into database tables). the default schema already does a good job to normalize mail headers and recipient email addreses on the mail, so as to help to filter searches using those. This kind of searching and indexing is of course a custom thing to have to build. I currently have not gotten around to doing this yet (after several years of running dbmail now), but I found that having the mail contents stored in a database does provide slightly better perfomance over time than having the many many individual files when a mailbox is backed by MailDir or Mailbox file system based storages. The only hitch is yes, you need to have to interoperate with windows, such as if you use windows only, its inconvenient compared to using PST files I guess. I have envisioned creating a virtual machine that runs a linux operating system loaded just with the dbmail and database stack, effectively creating a macro PST file type of thing, a service / appliance / single virtual machine image file I boot up to be my easy to search through mail storage repository.

Reminds me of that children's story book. As long as you believe something is better because someone said it was better, and you have payed more for it.

such as any telco company, VOIP termination provider, or even gasoline?

They are likely how many dozens of thousands of light years away ?
I guess we can now spend more attention observing spectra coming from these planets. But I am skeptical of chances of first contact from one of them (within our lifetimes).

in addition to a commonly accepted practice of doing a reverse domain name lookup on who is sending you email, where by rejecting email from bogus domains, no domain, to now also have the mail server also do a whois lookup, and arbitrarily reject email from a domain that has been registered less than a few days ago?

Those companies that offer mobile device insurance to subscribers on a multi-year contract, would all of a sudden be dealing with a rash of reports where iPhone 3 customers 'accidentally' 'lost' their devices.

how about a cluster file system like http://www.moosefs.com/ , where it works well on commodity or even end of life by current standards of hardware. Redundancy is achieved through several chunk server nodes in the system. Performance and size can be dynamically scaled over time by adding more nodes or disks to the system.
Their project is GPL licensed, requires very little effort to set up, and likely much less effort over time to maintain and administer than a RAID or Tape system likely would, with the benefit of being able to choose what data is online or offline (by its presence on chunk servers being connected at the time).

Where is the 'like' button...

There is money to be made being part of the problem.

*Raises a glass*
Proudly contributing to losses due to IT failure since 1997.

Great, now in the future when robots and machines rule the earth, they can use this to harvest energy from all of us, just like the Matrix.