Some stabbing weapon that is a bit closer to heart of us geeks than spoons: screwdrivers. Soon, a honest computer serviceman will not be able to walk on the street with common tools in his pockets without a risk of arrest. The streets will be turned into airport-grade secure area, with spot checks instead of full screening, and with comparable penalties for violation. What if somebody would want to hijack the Big Ben and crash it into the Thames Bridge? Do you understand that risk, citizen? Or are you a terrorist sympathizant?
I only hope that the prices of a cup of coffee on the street won't rise up to the extortionary airport levels.
Also, it's illegal to buy or sell organs in most countries, so it's contributing to the black market problem.
However there's a little problem. Too many people on the demand side choose to become criminals if their other option is to become dead. So until the anti-stem-cell religious nuts stop being a roadblock and the research goes forward a sufficiently long step in creating of replacement complex organs, the organ black market will stay thriving.
Why support this? If nothing else, then a bunch of attractive side effects; look at the LHC facility, its requirements for many superconductive magnets already affected the relevant market as the demand spurred development of technology for their better production, which may affect you personally after you get crushed in the traffic and your skull will be checked by nuclear magnetic resonance, with stronger and cheaper magnets, if there is something left inside. The side effects of the space elevator project, even if it would be only new technologies in materials sustaining extreme tensile strengths, are worth the effort. I bet there were many people who laughed at Project Apollo, and then gladly accepted the technological fallout bringing them New and Improved Stuff - often without even being aware of the pedigree of their shiny new things.
Social problems are fairly unsolvable. They would require political will, together with political competence, and if we compare the job-relevant skills/motivation of an average technician with an average politician, we get results saying loud and clear that technical problems, even of this magnitude, have far better chance to success. Even if we include MCSEs into the technicians set.
So feel free to deride, but remember your words two decades from now and then refuse to use nanotube filament materials and other goodies born from the undeserving dream of Kalidasa's Tower.
Java client for Jabber, running on a handset. SSL-enhanced connection to a server run by yourself or a coop of friends, maybe offshore. Then the whole EU can take their insanely high SMS tax and stuff it where it belongs.
This could be actually a good thing as people could finally understand that VPNs and encrypting of transport layer really are worth of the little added effort.
That way, if they can not distinguish types of traffic, we can force the adversary to resort to taxing per byte, which will pit them against the video-over-IP content lobbyists with deep pockets, which will buy us additional cost that is bearable for high-bandwidth video and virtually zilch per one-line message.
...that governments need the power to exert their authority, because without authority, government is useless?
What's better: useless government, or outright dangerous government?
What brand of diplomacy do you consume that you can propose not only to make all Americans happy, but the entire world happy.. all the while relieving yourself of any authority or force..
What about leadership by example? Or is it an obsoleted concept, and the modus operandi today is to shove the megacorporations-hijacked "democracy" down peoples' throats, with lies and tanks and laser-guided bombs if required?
What you want is people worldwide respecting USA. What you are getting now is people worldwide fearing USA. See the subtle difference?
If your industry practiced more prudent approach to natural resources, you won't have to conquer and plunder other countries. Why can't Detroit make a truly fuel-efficient car, which in combination with Fischer-Tropsch biomass-to-liquid process (Monsanto and Exxon could star here) may have prevented you from being shot at in sand now?
Don't get me wrong here, I want Americans to be happy; I got too many friends there to not care. But that won't happen while your government will use the planet as their property; that will only bring resentment against anything American in the rest of the world and will get you shot at.
First people are all concerned tht the government will take notice that they are cheating on their wives over the phone,...
Which the govt people can nicely exploit in recruiting new agents ("rat on your friends, or else..."), such kind of pressure was commonly used by various State Security forces in the communist bloc.
...then fear grips them as they realize the government has records of all those calls to their drug dealer...
Which aims the limelight at the insanities of the Drug War. What's wrong on an occassional joint once per a while, when even presidents did it, inhaling or not - and why another enjoyable and similarly dangerous substance, eg. whiskey, remains legal? Why the cowboyish belief that if the problem can not be pushed away with force, the only thing required is more force?
However, as you may be a teetotaller, other concerns may be closer to home for you. Investigative journalists, working on causes unfriendly to the govt people or their cronies. Offshore corporations with trade secrets that would benefit other corporations, this time within the US (cue ECHELON, and the two publicized affairs involving Boeing and Raytheon as beneficiaries). All sorts of critics of the status quo who would be better silenced. Figuring out who was a whistleblower in just-another-highprofile-affair and unleashing revenge upon his head - with suitable publicity, so his would-be followers won't succumb to the temptation. Finding out how to discredit that little old lady who valiantly fights the attempts to oust her from her house (which so inconveniently stands in the approximate location of the cheeses section of a WalMart-to-be), and gains unhealthy popularity with her neighbors. Or finding in the future that you called that shady dealer and bought a HDCP stripper so you could watch new movies on your old plasma TV. Or that you cheated on your taxes by conveniently omitting listing those barters with your neighbors as taxable income.
It's by far not only about drugs.
Or do you believe your government will never abuse these resources? That J. Edgar Hoover, or Richard Nixon, or Joe McCarthy and the droves of their ilk were just a historical fiction?
...the final straw however, is the US Government spying on.. Europe!
Which is absolutely none of their business. If the US wants to meddle into affairs of European citizens, then I, a European, demand to have at least a partial vote in the next US elections, and the right to issue FOIA requests. Either don't meddle in my affairs, or let me vote there. Why should there be any middle ground?
That whole terrorism thing tho? Just a jewish conspiracy! Ignore it!
That whole terrorism thing is overblown by both the politicians, whom it gives scared population that is easier to manipulate to allow being more easily controlled and/or sent to unnecessary wars, and the media, whom it gives scared population that is easier to manipulate to consume more junk news and enjoy the ultimate reality show known as "war".
Besides, who paid the Contras in Nicaragua, supported the death squads in El Salvador, and armed UNITA in Angola? If these organizations aren't terrorists, why it is not a double standard?
Terrorism is pretty much at the rock bottom of the list of death causes. The level of resources spent on fighting it already went over the point of diminishing returns, and the money wasted there would be better spent on setting up and maintaining more robust and redundant infrastructure, especially in the current age of angry weather, and better health care. Because my family, despite of the unremitting drumming of the Mass Media, enjoys a significantly higher risk of a flood, car crash, or a cardiovascular issue than of coming within visual contact with anything remotely resembling terrorism. Tell me, please, why should I be scared?
For further elaboration of the issue I suggest the book "Beyond Fear", by Bruce Schneier.
Will then Cuba be returned back under Spanish influence, where it belonged before the Spanish-American war? The war that was launched under questionable pretenses, blamed on blowing up of USS Maine when there was no proof of the cause of the explosion (and the same maneuver with a slightly different flavor used some time later in the Gulf of Tonkin)? Double standard, anyone?
I hope you wouldn't think a federal ban on tobacco, drugs, or alcohol is 'unconstituional' as well.
I hereby dare to remind you of the 18th Amendment, its ignoble life, side-effects, and its death by the 21st Amendment. Then fastforward a bit, and look at the War On Selected Drugs, and its effects.
You can easily DDoS the system by shipping a blank DVD in every FedEx package.
Even better, while giving the adversary some additional workout, by using tamper-evident packaging you can easily discern if the given package was opened or not. By statistical processing of a large number of such shipment, and cross-correlating with the age (important for outgassing of the volatile components in the plastics), type, and packaging style of the disc, we may be able to find points of low efficiency in their system. Essentially a reapplication of the Carnival Booth algorithm.
He he he...I could make flashlights that used Cell Phone batteries.
You still can. Just sell over eBay, maybe using somebody in a difficult-to-sue-in country as a proxy merchant. Or make a generic casing which will take more kinds of batteries, and let the mentioned third party sell the adapters. Or use the same tactics other people use for selling counterfeit stuff and avoiding getting busted.
The thing that most annoys me is throwing away a wonderful laptop because of a project $3 part that Sony refuses to sell. I lost a perfectly good Vaio because the proprietary connector on the AC adapter died. A new AC adapter would have cost well over $300, so I still have it on a shelf, 3 years later. Can we please standardize on DC adapters with coaxial power connectors that are rated in volts and amps? We could have about 5 different connectors for different voltage ranges. (e.g., all 12V connectors are the same dang size.)
Sony is a scum gang (Nokia too, though somewhat less). Don't ask them. You have couple choices; you can take the contact springs from other connectors, and cast the body from an epoxy (will take time, but probably much less than trying to buy the connector; then please publish a howto/instructable, to piss them off as they deserve); or you can disassemble the laptop, and replace the connector with something more standard. If the connector won't fit the case, you can let it dangle on a length of cable from its hole, and use a cable-mounted one. Looks ugly but works well, maybe even better than the standard. I had this on one of my ancient laptops, and on a couple of other devices as well.
Other power-related mods I did with success were along the lines of eg. mounting a battery holder for standard AA NiMH cells on the back of a cellphone when its own battery died; it was big and ugly but it did the job "until I'll get around to upgrade", which in that case was about 2 more years.
Use nanotechnology. Go neuron after neuron; first enter the host cell, then measure its relevant characteristics, then take over, shut down its cellular mechanisms, and replace them with a functionally identical assembly of nanoparticles. Use the existing cellular membranes and structures as a scaffolding to build on. Then follow up on the nearby neurons. Continue until all neurons are replaced. Then repeat the sequence, this time upgrading the now-artificial structures to an enhanced version, taking full advantage of the technological differences as at that moment we don't have to care about biocompatibility anymore and can use faster mechanisms than biomimetic synapses.
You can sneak the file through the ADC in multiple ways. Scramble the audio in an analog way, then apply a reverse transformation using DSP. You can repurpose an ADC chip from other application. You can pair two chips and feed them synchronously with a mangling signal and a mangled input signal, then again use DSP software to restore the original. Either they will have to use ADCs on chips larger and denser-integrated than Pentium IV, or it will be ridiculously easy to work around.
You have some GSM operators there as well, on 1900 MHz band. Eg, T-Mobile. At least in some large cities.
The language problem is not as bad. You have the entire UK/Ireland area, which is only couple milliseconds roundtrip away from you. Also, many people speak English in other areas. You can also write the code in a way that makes it easy to translate to other languages.
I am not familiar with the payment issues, but as downloads are commonly paid via the recipient's phone bill, you should be able to make a deal with the operators. There's also PayPal, and other payment gateways. And in the worst case you can team with somebody who'll act as a middleman for you.
Unfortunately, too many phones in North America are locked to run only midlets that have been signed by the cellphone carrier. CDMA phones are even worse, generally using the BREW system that charges the developer every time he runs the linker. Even otherwise, how does a developer who happened to have been born in North America target people who don't want to pay $720 for a cellphone and its 24-month contract just to play a game?
More civilized areas use the GSM system. As the subscriber identity is located on a removable SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) smartcard, the number is decoupled from the handset, and you can use any handset that is not locked to a different operator (even that can be unlocked, typically cheaply in a suitable small store off the main street). In some areas the operators were even forced to honor number portability, so when changing an operator you keep your phone number. You can also download any J2ME midlet your heart pleases, and with the Java Wireless Toolkit SDK you can write your own. The toolkit is available as a free download from sun.com, but better get it from P2P because downloading from Sun has tendency to be a painful procedure.
The general public. The only system sold by its manufacturer with a modchip installed is GP2X, and that one isn't sold in retail chains in North America.
I probably know only a selected segment of the general public. I did not see many gaming consoles, but almost all of them were chipped. Of course all mods were aftermarket.
Everything can be hacked. If it is a Turing-complete machine, it can be hacked. It may take time, it may be tedious, it may be illegal, but it can be done, and given sufficient number of properly motivated (eg. pissed) people, it also will be done.
You mean we should give up the dreams about flexible hardware, about PCI-X cards built around a huge FPGA with a simple bootloader, cards with software-defined functionality? You mean we should give up homemade hardware, we should forget about open-source PCI cards with opencore.org firmware inside, we should hand over the remains of hardware designing into the hands of megacorps with projected sales of hundreds of thousands, neglecting the single-of-a-kind makezine.com grade projects? You mean special cards for data acquisition or signal processing custom-designed for university research projects should be the past? Do you talk also about drivers for USB devices? If so, are you willing to accept you are affecting a large number of microcontroller developers, as more and more off-the-shelf chips contain built-in USB? Do you want to say that growing up means giving up, that makers should shut up and become consumers, that R&D does not belong to garages but only to megacorporate labs? Are you aware there are things beyond market and sales?
The specs talked about flat-panel radar antennas. That's a common active phased array. Just find a way how to deposit a blob of conductive paint over it, and it will attenuate the signal, perhaps enough to make the radar blind. If it is opaque, it can also blind the exposed optical sensors. A grenade that explodes mid-air (or after being hit by the intercept device) and creates a cloud of aluminium chaff can do interesting things with the targeting computer's idea of what's around as well - only for a brief moment, before the flying metal foil settles or is scattered in the wind, but that may be enough time for your other interests.
Using microwaves you may at most cook the target's radar and comm gear, the hull is more or less a Faraday cage. (But then, once they are blind and mute, you may use conventional weaponry.) However if you'll be spotted lugging around this gear, which you will be as your EM emissions betray you to the nearest AWACS at the moment you switch it on, you'll get a missile from the nearest UAV right into the trunk of your car. Therefore I would suggest to stay lowtech.
Tinfoil-wrapped stones launched from a suitable sling-shot could work as good decoys, as they will give excellent radar signature. Normal stones are not as reflective.
Hightech toys are pretty and sexy, but sometimes they are more a liability than a help.
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I only hope that the prices of a cup of coffee on the street won't rise up to the extortionary airport levels.
Most people effectively do it already. But they call it "paying by a creditcard".
I remember doing chelatometric titration of calcium and magnesium in well water, years ago. But maybe we have different neighbourhoods.
Correct. They are not even allowed to have fun while learning. According to other today's news, chemistry sets are an endangered species as well.
Why is this system still called "freedom"?
However there's a little problem. Too many people on the demand side choose to become criminals if their other option is to become dead. So until the anti-stem-cell religious nuts stop being a roadblock and the research goes forward a sufficiently long step in creating of replacement complex organs, the organ black market will stay thriving.
Social problems are fairly unsolvable. They would require political will, together with political competence, and if we compare the job-relevant skills/motivation of an average technician with an average politician, we get results saying loud and clear that technical problems, even of this magnitude, have far better chance to success. Even if we include MCSEs into the technicians set.
So feel free to deride, but remember your words two decades from now and then refuse to use nanotube filament materials and other goodies born from the undeserving dream of Kalidasa's Tower.
This could be actually a good thing as people could finally understand that VPNs and encrypting of transport layer really are worth of the little added effort.
That way, if they can not distinguish types of traffic, we can force the adversary to resort to taxing per byte, which will pit them against the video-over-IP content lobbyists with deep pockets, which will buy us additional cost that is bearable for high-bandwidth video and virtually zilch per one-line message.
What's better: useless government, or outright dangerous government?
What brand of diplomacy do you consume that you can propose not only to make all Americans happy, but the entire world happy.. all the while relieving yourself of any authority or force..
What about leadership by example? Or is it an obsoleted concept, and the modus operandi today is to shove the megacorporations-hijacked "democracy" down peoples' throats, with lies and tanks and laser-guided bombs if required?
What you want is people worldwide respecting USA. What you are getting now is people worldwide fearing USA. See the subtle difference?
If your industry practiced more prudent approach to natural resources, you won't have to conquer and plunder other countries. Why can't Detroit make a truly fuel-efficient car, which in combination with Fischer-Tropsch biomass-to-liquid process (Monsanto and Exxon could star here) may have prevented you from being shot at in sand now?
Don't get me wrong here, I want Americans to be happy; I got too many friends there to not care. But that won't happen while your government will use the planet as their property; that will only bring resentment against anything American in the rest of the world and will get you shot at.
And no, more wiretaps won't make it any better.
Which the govt people can nicely exploit in recruiting new agents ("rat on your friends, or else..."), such kind of pressure was commonly used by various State Security forces in the communist bloc.
Which aims the limelight at the insanities of the Drug War. What's wrong on an occassional joint once per a while, when even presidents did it, inhaling or not - and why another enjoyable and similarly dangerous substance, eg. whiskey, remains legal? Why the cowboyish belief that if the problem can not be pushed away with force, the only thing required is more force?
However, as you may be a teetotaller, other concerns may be closer to home for you. Investigative journalists, working on causes unfriendly to the govt people or their cronies. Offshore corporations with trade secrets that would benefit other corporations, this time within the US (cue ECHELON, and the two publicized affairs involving Boeing and Raytheon as beneficiaries). All sorts of critics of the status quo who would be better silenced. Figuring out who was a whistleblower in just-another-highprofile-affair and unleashing revenge upon his head - with suitable publicity, so his would-be followers won't succumb to the temptation. Finding out how to discredit that little old lady who valiantly fights the attempts to oust her from her house (which so inconveniently stands in the approximate location of the cheeses section of a WalMart-to-be), and gains unhealthy popularity with her neighbors. Or finding in the future that you called that shady dealer and bought a HDCP stripper so you could watch new movies on your old plasma TV. Or that you cheated on your taxes by conveniently omitting listing those barters with your neighbors as taxable income.
It's by far not only about drugs.
Or do you believe your government will never abuse these resources? That J. Edgar Hoover, or Richard Nixon, or Joe McCarthy and the droves of their ilk were just a historical fiction?
Which is absolutely none of their business. If the US wants to meddle into affairs of European citizens, then I, a European, demand to have at least a partial vote in the next US elections, and the right to issue FOIA requests. Either don't meddle in my affairs, or let me vote there. Why should there be any middle ground?
That whole terrorism thing tho? Just a jewish conspiracy! Ignore it!
That whole terrorism thing is overblown by both the politicians, whom it gives scared population that is easier to manipulate to allow being more easily controlled and/or sent to unnecessary wars, and the media, whom it gives scared population that is easier to manipulate to consume more junk news and enjoy the ultimate reality show known as "war".
Besides, who paid the Contras in Nicaragua, supported the death squads in El Salvador, and armed UNITA in Angola? If these organizations aren't terrorists, why it is not a double standard?
Terrorism is pretty much at the rock bottom of the list of death causes. The level of resources spent on fighting it already went over the point of diminishing returns, and the money wasted there would be better spent on setting up and maintaining more robust and redundant infrastructure, especially in the current age of angry weather, and better health care. Because my family, despite of the unremitting drumming of the Mass Media, enjoys a significantly higher risk of a flood, car crash, or a cardiovascular issue than of coming within visual contact with anything remotely resembling terrorism. Tell me, please, why should I be scared?
For further elaboration of the issue I suggest the book "Beyond Fear", by Bruce Schneier.
Will then Cuba be returned back under Spanish influence, where it belonged before the Spanish-American war? The war that was launched under questionable pretenses, blamed on blowing up of USS Maine when there was no proof of the cause of the explosion (and the same maneuver with a slightly different flavor used some time later in the Gulf of Tonkin)? Double standard, anyone?
I hereby dare to remind you of the 18th Amendment, its ignoble life, side-effects, and its death by the 21st Amendment. Then fastforward a bit, and look at the War On Selected Drugs, and its effects.
Prohibitions of any kind won't work.
Even better, while giving the adversary some additional workout, by using tamper-evident packaging you can easily discern if the given package was opened or not. By statistical processing of a large number of such shipment, and cross-correlating with the age (important for outgassing of the volatile components in the plastics), type, and packaging style of the disc, we may be able to find points of low efficiency in their system. Essentially a reapplication of the Carnival Booth algorithm.
Sony Prison: face the music.
You still can. Just sell over eBay, maybe using somebody in a difficult-to-sue-in country as a proxy merchant. Or make a generic casing which will take more kinds of batteries, and let the mentioned third party sell the adapters. Or use the same tactics other people use for selling counterfeit stuff and avoiding getting busted.
The thing that most annoys me is throwing away a wonderful laptop because of a project $3 part that Sony refuses to sell. I lost a perfectly good Vaio because the proprietary connector on the AC adapter died. A new AC adapter would have cost well over $300, so I still have it on a shelf, 3 years later. Can we please standardize on DC adapters with coaxial power connectors that are rated in volts and amps? We could have about 5 different connectors for different voltage ranges. (e.g., all 12V connectors are the same dang size.)
Sony is a scum gang (Nokia too, though somewhat less). Don't ask them. You have couple choices; you can take the contact springs from other connectors, and cast the body from an epoxy (will take time, but probably much less than trying to buy the connector; then please publish a howto/instructable, to piss them off as they deserve); or you can disassemble the laptop, and replace the connector with something more standard. If the connector won't fit the case, you can let it dangle on a length of cable from its hole, and use a cable-mounted one. Looks ugly but works well, maybe even better than the standard. I had this on one of my ancient laptops, and on a couple of other devices as well.
Other power-related mods I did with success were along the lines of eg. mounting a battery holder for standard AA NiMH cells on the back of a cellphone when its own battery died; it was big and ugly but it did the job "until I'll get around to upgrade", which in that case was about 2 more years.
Use nanotechnology. Go neuron after neuron; first enter the host cell, then measure its relevant characteristics, then take over, shut down its cellular mechanisms, and replace them with a functionally identical assembly of nanoparticles. Use the existing cellular membranes and structures as a scaffolding to build on. Then follow up on the nearby neurons. Continue until all neurons are replaced. Then repeat the sequence, this time upgrading the now-artificial structures to an enhanced version, taking full advantage of the technological differences as at that moment we don't have to care about biocompatibility anymore and can use faster mechanisms than biomimetic synapses.
You can sneak the file through the ADC in multiple ways. Scramble the audio in an analog way, then apply a reverse transformation using DSP. You can repurpose an ADC chip from other application. You can pair two chips and feed them synchronously with a mangling signal and a mangled input signal, then again use DSP software to restore the original. Either they will have to use ADCs on chips larger and denser-integrated than Pentium IV, or it will be ridiculously easy to work around.
The language problem is not as bad. You have the entire UK/Ireland area, which is only couple milliseconds roundtrip away from you. Also, many people speak English in other areas. You can also write the code in a way that makes it easy to translate to other languages.
I am not familiar with the payment issues, but as downloads are commonly paid via the recipient's phone bill, you should be able to make a deal with the operators. There's also PayPal, and other payment gateways. And in the worst case you can team with somebody who'll act as a middleman for you.
More civilized areas use the GSM system. As the subscriber identity is located on a removable SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) smartcard, the number is decoupled from the handset, and you can use any handset that is not locked to a different operator (even that can be unlocked, typically cheaply in a suitable small store off the main street). In some areas the operators were even forced to honor number portability, so when changing an operator you keep your phone number. You can also download any J2ME midlet your heart pleases, and with the Java Wireless Toolkit SDK you can write your own. The toolkit is available as a free download from sun.com, but better get it from P2P because downloading from Sun has tendency to be a painful procedure.
The general public. The only system sold by its manufacturer with a modchip installed is GP2X, and that one isn't sold in retail chains in North America.
I probably know only a selected segment of the general public. I did not see many gaming consoles, but almost all of them were chipped. Of course all mods were aftermarket.
Write it in J2ME and distribute it for cellphones.
If you mean gaming consoles, who does NOT have them chipped yet?
Everything can be hacked. If it is a Turing-complete machine, it can be hacked. It may take time, it may be tedious, it may be illegal, but it can be done, and given sufficient number of properly motivated (eg. pissed) people, it also will be done.
You mean we should give up the dreams about flexible hardware, about PCI-X cards built around a huge FPGA with a simple bootloader, cards with software-defined functionality? You mean we should give up homemade hardware, we should forget about open-source PCI cards with opencore.org firmware inside, we should hand over the remains of hardware designing into the hands of megacorps with projected sales of hundreds of thousands, neglecting the single-of-a-kind makezine.com grade projects? You mean special cards for data acquisition or signal processing custom-designed for university research projects should be the past? Do you talk also about drivers for USB devices? If so, are you willing to accept you are affecting a large number of microcontroller developers, as more and more off-the-shelf chips contain built-in USB? Do you want to say that growing up means giving up, that makers should shut up and become consumers, that R&D does not belong to garages but only to megacorporate labs? Are you aware there are things beyond market and sales?
Just enable booting from LAN in the machine BIOS, and sell it as a remote-boot terminal with local data storage.
You misspelled money.
Using microwaves you may at most cook the target's radar and comm gear, the hull is more or less a Faraday cage. (But then, once they are blind and mute, you may use conventional weaponry.) However if you'll be spotted lugging around this gear, which you will be as your EM emissions betray you to the nearest AWACS at the moment you switch it on, you'll get a missile from the nearest UAV right into the trunk of your car. Therefore I would suggest to stay lowtech.
Tinfoil-wrapped stones launched from a suitable sling-shot could work as good decoys, as they will give excellent radar signature. Normal stones are not as reflective.
Hightech toys are pretty and sexy, but sometimes they are more a liability than a help.
Elinks screwed up and auto-filled the form with obsolete data from an older submission. Sigh.