If secrecy and security are important then they should damn well act like it. A USB interface is about as secure as a mesh condom.

I've had a pre-paid plan from Alltel for the last year and love it! $.75 a day, free nights and weekends, free texting, $.10/min all other calls, no internet access though... Doing the math: $.75 x 30=$22.50 base cost $.10 x 150 (i don't talk much, texting mainly)=$15 Total=$37.50 Pretty good deal i think.

I set up a Point of Sale system for the restaurant I work for this winter. A few months ago we get some letters from our credit card processor saying we have to secure our customers CC info to be "PCI compliant". This consisted of filling out a form online where if i told the truth about our network (not firewalled, LANed through an unsecured wireless router, constantly writing down info to enter later for off-site orders) we would not be in compliance. Like a good employee I notified the boss about what it would cost to make the system secure. He determined it would cost too much. Nice to know that i could be prosecuted because my employer won't cough up $80 for an appropriate network switch.

um, didn't those guys get shot without seeing the fruits of their labor?

...you just shit your pants!

What else has this highly sophisticated language called math done *except* represent and correspond to physical reality? Unobserved mathematical models are how we got to this point in our understanding of the universe. They might not ALL be right but they give the you a direction to look for new clues to the mystery. True it has not been observed yet, but if the math is sound I'd be inclined to trust the model before dismissing it unduly.

And what, you don't like the "nice maths" in string theory? What'd they ever do to you, take away your grant money?

I see from the numbers that the majority of /.rs do not seed. I thought OSS and anti-**AA proponents such as yourselves and your readers would be more inclined to be active in the bittorrent community. I am wondering why this is? What are the reasons behind this trend besides **AA retaliation fears and being a huge waste of bandwidth? Or are you all just very financially responsible people who actually buy all the media you consume?

So we can no longer use wiki to let the whole world know their favorite celebrity is gay?

The photon is it's own anti-particle, and negative is also relative to the coordinate axis, so your theory is fundamentally flawed.

But many kudos for the satire.