I can attest to the 'very specific amnesia' problem. I had a stroke a couple of years ago (fortunately, I got to the emergency room, at a hospital set up to care for stroke patients, in time to get the tPA treatment). My memory suffered the loss of the street names in my neighborhood, many friends' names, and several passwords. Fortunately, I have physical access to virtually all of the servers I use and was able, with the help of a friend, to get in to all of them...... keepassx (http://www.keepassx.org/) makes it easy to manage passwords, etc. Of course, you still have to manage your master password, but it's a lot easier to keep a backup of a single password with a trusted friend (or pieces of a pass phrase shared with different geographically isolated friends if you're a little more paranoid) or safe deposit box....

Heath never actually went out of business. For the past several years, though, they've been doing educational stuff exclusively. They're getting back into the kit business again, now.

There's no reporting requirement for individuals --- Payment processors like Paypal will have to report on their customers who have more than 200 sales transactions that account for more than $20k in a year. The assumption is that anybody clocking those sorts of numbers is probably running a business and should be reporting the income and expenses already. The only people adversely affected will be those who are not reporting their sales on their 1040 or Schedule C forms because the IRS will be able to cross check their reporting with that of their credit card processors.

He also spammed everybody who's ever been dumb enough to let him get anywhere near their e-mail address with the same self-serving, hypocritical screed...

...for the research into splicing zebra genes into produce to automatically grow barcodes into fruit and vegetables?

Hark! Do I smell an episode of 'Myth Busters'????

I had a run in with their warranty department/policy over a defective ilink (firewire/ieee 1394 to the rest of the world) port on a Sony camcorder. By the time I'd tested the camera with multiple interface cards on several computers and determined that the problem was actually with the camera, I'd used the full 90 days of SONY's advertised 12 month warranty so it would have cost me nearly as much to replace the defective POS as to repair it. When it comes time to replace the TV, lcd monitor, dvd player and other SONY products here in the house, there is one brand that will not even be considered....