[I am the submitter.]
It is a long article, but worth reading. The suspicion of Chinese involvement in two major U.S. power outages is extremely worrying. Following are quotes on related aspects.

The Central Intelligence Agency's chief cyber-security officer, Tom Donahue, said that hackers had breached the computer systems of utility companies outside the United States and that they had even demanded ransom.

... many of the systems that [U.S.] utility operators use were designed by others. Intelligence officials now worry that software developed overseas poses another layer of risk because malicious codes or backdoors can be embedded in the software at its creation. U.S. officials have singled out software manufacturers in emerging markets such as, not surprisingly, China.

"Numerous computer networks around the world, including those owned by the U.S. government, were subject to intrusions [in 2007] that appear to have originated within" the People's Republic of China. ... the [Chinese] Army is "building capabilities for information warfare" for possible use in "pre-emptive attacks."

I have no love for Microsoft, but I'm failing to understand how a company must leave built-in loopholes and deficiencies in its product purely so that its competitors have a fair shot at competing. Pretty sure that whether or not Google Desktop will play nicely with Vista was never something on the design tables in Redmond...seeing as how it would in fact be Google's, not Microsoft's, problem. I'd love for some of my linux applications to run on my MacBook too, but you don't see me suing Apple because of it.

There we go!
Rent-a-Pet.com! Need to seem sensitive for awhile? Just don't have time to actually grow attached to another living being?

Rent-a-Pet.com! ...what's scary is that this probably already existed