This is an unauthorized thought process.

Switching over to "guilty until proven innocent" would make their job easier.

I hate to break it to you, but it's been that way for over a decade now. Police are no longer required to show up at your trial if you contest a ticket so you lose your right to cross-examine the witness, contesting a ticket costs more than just paying the fine, public announcements are made about arrests including their names even before a trial has taken place, the list goes on and on. With these measures in place, you ARE guilty until you prove otherwise in court.

I received a ticket for speeding one night and it was for a section of road I hadn't even come close to. Apparently I turned right onto the highway just as a policement in "pursuit" came into sight. If they had traffic cameras I could have proved it.

I'm not sure I would be bragging about the fact that nobody even tries to make commercial software for Linux.

Um...there are TONS of them. Everything from network/system administration tools for corporate sized networks to back ends for transaction based software (IT trouble tickets, etc).

"Let them eat cake" was the first words that entered my mind when Obama told a nation of unemployed "It's time to get back to work".

Sorry, but government spending by EVERY administration over several decades, bad business practices by the major corporations, and the exodus of jobs overseas to sweat shops are the issues. Bailout money was the worst thing that could happen. When a major player goes out in a blaze of glory, it creates a vacuum and that vaccuum WILL be filled by someone with better business sense that is probably #2 in the industry. It'd be painful in the beginning with the rotation of jobs, but it's a hell of a lot better than just handing billions to the guys at the top who haven't figured out debits are supposed to outweigh credits on the ledger.

I remember a time when companies like Iomega, Nike and certain clothing manufacturers caught major heat for using "sweat shops" overseas and things like "stay in school or you'll end up on welfare" meant something.

Actually you can just use Chromium (the open source project for Chrome), as far as I can tell by using it for a few minutes there seem to be no unique user id's transmitted.

Why is everyone assuming the 2 yr old has to actually start the vehicle and drive it for this to be a problem? Mentioning clutch in your statement assumes stick shift. Stick shifts can be EASILY put into neutral by just pulling or pushing on the stick slightly.

Well lets do some MATH! 53% of P2P is BT BT is 35% of the Net... so.... P2P is about 66% of the net... now 98% of that is... illegal? :D I wonder if that includes encrypted networks or IRC DCC... :)

Could it be that Intel is keeping DDR2-667 support for yet another revision of their new chipsets even though the memory support is clearly here today?

sure why not? intel could be postponing on brining out their biggest guns for later on when it would be better to shoot them off, they might also want to see what the competition will do and bring out before they bring out their best, but on the same note, who knows what else Intel might be holding back? They might have some other amazing thing that they are waiting to spring on the public at an appropriate time...