We need this church desperately. There are already so many Churches of Natural Stupidity.

You are depressingly right.

I better go back and study the differential equations before I loose my degree. The changes must be tremendous if new expensive books are necessary to teach the subject.

Who needs fish if corn has better yield. Those stupid oceans are not acidic enough. It is like touting fluorocarbons and insisting that removal hurts poor people because refrigeration becomes marginally more expensive, and never mind the skin cancer. Maybe he really needs his own sphere by now.

So now we know: Russia is responsible for crap that MS passes as "secure software". Bomb the Evil Empire (you select which one).

Unfortunately it is the law. I don't like it, you seem not to like it, but the first thing you notice is an "Obama link". The executives of fraudulent companies have ties to both parties and our friends there are mostly "staunch republicans", you can look it up.

Did you even bother to read it? Did you miss the point that it was Bush administration that approved them for no bid contracts? Did your knee hit your chin? Do you need a dentist?

NSA could get to do something nice. They already know how to deal with mountains of useless data. Scanning for cancer and potential terrorists? Mutations of genes and behaviour? Possibilities are endless.

There is stupid, then there is "Army stupid". Now, "DoD stupid needs to be even better.

In the Linux world we call it scripting the iptables. What you want to do is rather easy.

I tend to use OpenVPN for the encryption / privacy and rdesktop to connect to Windows. I don't have to play with Macs anymore, but I used the sshd and the standard X session. It worked well enough.

A good explanation of the FUD is contained in the very name of the "researcher" - Skorobogatov. He really, really wants to be rich, and soon!

"Hoss" could do something right away - scuttle the "upgrade" to Vista and go straight to Win7. I know, I know, the whole business of using MS in the government is insane, but it would be nice to get to spend less by avoinding some of the criminal insanity,

So King claims jurisdiction outside of USA. Audacious, if stupid. Would he be OK with Ruritania legislating against morons being elected to US Congress on the basis that this constitutes a clear and present danger to the world? Would the USA comply with demands to extradite King and others of his ilk to be incarcerated until such time they are deemed fully functional and literate?