and by "encrypted" do they mean "we're idiots and stored something other than a salt + hash of the passwords"?

> Science as a system proves and then verifies proofs.

eh, science doesn't have the ability to prove anything. all scientists can do is produce plausible sounding theories that match current observations.

lenny's too old to have decent ath5k support (not sure that'll even really work)

ath5k works great under 2.6.29, with wpa2 (on the 8.9" Aspire One).