I, for one, propose that we form a start-up government contract company. Since the government will almost certainly demand that someone build a special botnet for this, we could build stripped down custom, cheap, computers to do the work. Slap a copy of linux on them, and we're set. Plus, we'll be the only one's that can maintain this special system, so we'll get all the maintenance work. I think we can build nodes that are nothing more than a 486, 64MB, 10MB ethernet, and PXE boot. We'll sell each node to the government for somewhere between $500-1000, and a special 'controller' node (same specs but with a harddrive) for $1500-2000. And we're rich!!!