Or maybe they should have put up a payment screen on their site, "We're sorry, your antivirus subscription has expired. To prevent your computer from being exposed to malware and virii, we have taken the proactive step of disabling your computer until you have made payment. For the low renewal fee plus a small reactivation fee of $199, we will be happy to walk you through the re-enablement process. Have a nice secure day!"

Its a new security paradigm. The newly locked down computer will not run anything, and therefore no virii, malware, bots, or solitaire, will run. Truly they've created the "most secure antivirus ever".

And why should they release their headcount unless other companies do the same? All releasing that info does is make them a lightning rod for criticism by politicians who need someone to bash, especially while the anti-business party is in power. IBM needs to do whatever they have to to survive and compete. If the US has made it difficult, the natural response is to shift resources elsewhere. If the govt. seriously wanted to get businesses to come back here instead of fleeing, they'd get rid of corporate taxes. All of a sudden the US would be a tax haven for business, jobs would come here as businesses relocated to the US, and we the consumers would not get stuck subsidizing corporate taxes. After all, if the govt makes it more expensive to do business here, a corporation must either 1) move to a better tax climate, or 2) pass along the costs in their pricing. All the additional jobs would raise lots of money in payroll taxes, social security and medicare would be better funded due to the increase in jobs, and the US would be much more competitive in the world.

After all you know, Arthur C Clarke predicted this in 2001: A Space Odyssey, then in 2010

The asian manager of the reserve experienced massive penile growth over the past three years, and when asked about the secret of his "LONGevity", he credited "eating tiger pen^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hchinese herbs".

Up until they did this, I was still paying a legacy $2.50/mth fee for Compuserve and my old account could still log in to the service at gateway.compuserve.com via telnet. You could not do much in there of course anymore, but I was also once a sysop, and I still knew how to get into the PRO area, do directory listings of their hard drives (and see files with dates dating back to the 70â(TM)s), and with that knowledge run some of the old apps from the command line (like biorythms, and some adventure games), and even things like TE2TRN.EXE (the program that allowed the TI-99/4A TE2 cartridge to transfer files from Compuserve. And of course who could forget the Filge editor? I used to log in every few months for a little nostalgia, as well as amazement that the old systems were still up this long

This was of course needed for the first build of Skynet. Learning compilers will then create "learning software". I for one welcome our new terminator-like overlords.

I personally prefer Coders Against Verifiable Integration Tools In Excellent Sourcecode, or CAVITIES

What they neglected to mention is that it has 1500 hrs of battery life as long as it is switched off. My phone is much better and has almost limitless battery life, so long as I have it plugged up to the wall charger.

Why on earth if you're NVIDIA do you make it harder to find mainboards to leverage your tech? I'd have expected this move by AMD first, you'd think NVIDIA would be wanting to have their tech available everyplace possible.

The victim was (I think his name was Chris) the agent that came over from California. Of course the supervisor was Dave M. You're not Herb W. are you?