I have never been to Mongolia, just made that assessment based on something I read and must have misinterpretted. Thanks for correcting me!

Countries here in Asia aren't as allied to China as you might think. Here's my personal opinion:
Strong USA Allies: Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea
Strong PRC Allies: Mongolia, Nepal, Cambodia, Vietnam, North Korea
Loose or tense relationship to both PRC and USA: India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Brunei, Bangladesh, Papau New Guinea
Instead of taking an anti-China strategy, we need to do everything we need to do to woo India and Indonesia - the second and fourth largest countries in the world.
India is easy - they're practically British already, and our mutual business ties provide an easy inroad to strategic partnerships.
Indonesia? We have a sitting President who speaks Bahasa. Indonesia is the next sleeping giant and we squandered our opportunity to win Jakarta.

No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for an automobile.

Yeah...no. I used a previous version of this application I found on DISA's website. It was a simple .NET application that apparently pulled information from the registry of a remote workstation using WMI. If you're slick on Windows and Visual Studio you could have it implemented in a day.
The older application wrongly assumed that a number that Windows assigns each unique USB device was your serial number. Maybe that number is a USB-particular serial number - don't know, don't care. The application reported these long, worthless numbers as device serial numbers that didn't match the number printed on the back of an iPod you personally confiscated minutes ago.
Scanning is good, scanning is fun - but it doesn't give the warm fuzzy of a NIDS/HIDS sending alerts to your pager when you're trying to sleep...

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Umm, 42?

Reminds me of that dude who broke his spacebar and then wrote to Maddox.

Less-lethal weapons can actually be more effective than real guns in some ways.
Many Soldiers and Policemen have found that many suspects will flee when a gun is pointed at them. They know that shooting an unarmed suspect is typically unlawful. Of course, not all Soldiers/Policemen follow their Rules of Engagement (ROE) perfectly, but nonetheless making a run for it just might pay off in the short term.
Tasers return the psychological advantage to the warfighter by giving the suspect/enemy assurance that lawful force will be used if the suspect/enemy does not comply with all lawful orders by said warfighter.
Not saying it's a perfect world, not pretending technology is a panacea, but in the gray area a non-lethal weapon can be the least of many evils.

That makes sense.

Cool story, but is it really necessary for people to /. everything Wired does? Aren't most /. readers also Wired readers?

Damn the media!

What you're saying about people paralyzed by fear of guns - I think LTC(R) Dave Grossman described it best as the human aggression is the universal human phobia.

Yeah! The US Constitution allows me to wear my KKK robes in public and exercise my freedom of speech, bitches!
Still doesn't make it a good idea...

ReiserFS really was a killer file system.

LOCAL AREA CONNECTION IS NOW CONNECTED.
Smashed the telephone line? No, that madman kicked the damn telephone pole over!