One more for the G5. Completely awesome for more or less everything. It actually has up to 5 configurable sensitivity settings, so yeah, sniper mode :) Also quite handy with Photoshop etc when you want to do some detailed work. No matter what people say, a cord for your gaming mouse is always a good play. The G7 which I also liked while the batteries were in happy working order has a great battery eject system - swap batteries in about 2-3 seconds, if you really do want wireless. Unfortunately I think I abused the charger too much on that one so maybe not the most durable.

Just going by what's been described, wouldn't it be easier (and safer) to configure the file security to disallow modifications instead? Use any text editor you want at that point and save is disabled. It also means that people that decide not to use your text editor (because some people are sneaky that way :P) still can't edit.

Hey... some people relax thinking in byte code... others binary... *shrug* But to put out an answer to the general question, byte code is still pretty low level stuff similar to machine code except that it's optimized for a virtual machine instead of an actual physical processor family. It's still a binary file, so don't expect to go in and read it like a C program or anything but byte codes are generally easier to decompile as well but not necessarily back to the original code but something functionally equivalent. Byte codes require an appropriate interpreter to run the code though. Now back to dreaming in zeros, ones and the occasional two...