RFID: Not expensive. No writer required. RFID come pre-programmed. http://www.phidgets.com/products.php?category=14&product_id=1023

I only program when I'm relaxed. Programming for me is a creative process that needs the right combination of inspiration and energy. To prepare, I wash dishes putting myself into a Zen state, then, after the right amount of green tea and staring at the trees, I begin. I enter a time-less dimension where I sit until the code has finished writing itself and, in these times, I become a mere observer watching my fingers fly across the keyboard. The rest of the time, I fill the void with online Bridge and Poker. One teaches problem solving & communications and the other patience. I recently disconnected the cable because it was not conducive to clear thinking. Keeping current also takes up much spare time. I am only stressed when I as NOT writing code. I call this my "design" phase, where, I have to wait for inspiration to hit. At these times, I will walk along the nearby bike path taking pictures of the local plants. I think I'm what young people call "old". -- Will.

b) does not require that you first prove the existence of God, the Strong Anthropic Principle gives you that for free.

Your assertions presume that "The laws of physics" includes a complete description of the entire how the universe world. By Godel's incompleteness theorem, this is not possible. QED. Cheer, Will.

> UAC is a must. Yes. But! Why can't UAC remember which applications have been previously allowed (saving their signatures to detect alterations)? I personally turned off UAC as quickly as I could find the little check box. I'm not totally out to lunch however, I do run NAV. I would like to rely on UAC since it can, in theory, stop most virus infections. However, the design of UAC does not take social engineering into account and Microsoft has indeed shot itself in the foot by making UAC so annoying.