Security Through Arrogance.

"Will a bill such as this endanger publishing companies in the same way Internet journalism endangers traditional journalism?" God I hope so. I remember being in classes where we had to buy brand new text books because they just released a new edition, and by the end of the semester we couldn't sell them back because- you guessed it- they had released another edition. And I was a history major, I pity the poor fools in subjects that actually change substantially year to year. These publishing companies have far too comfortable relationships with universities, especially public universities.

Assuming that we're still using electricity in 16 years. . .

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda

Strange, seeing as California can't seem to pay its own bills.

Maybe we can return Texas to nature? Or to the Mexicans?

Our network prevents anyone connected to the VPN from sending or receiving traffic through the firewall, and forces users to send all traffic out the VPN connection. It's the most secure way we've found. Granted, it means that you can't get on the internet when on VPN, but that's kinda the point, isn't it?