You haveta' wonder what these guys were thinking. When the first wave of the Code Red worm came out, all the experts immediately pronounced how sloppy it was. If the author only seeded the random number generator differently it would have been much more effective. If he/she would have done this or that, it would've probably brought down the internet. We know how the white house web site saved themselves with moments to spare because the program used an IP address and not a CNAME. Well, the worm author or authors read all of these reports and tips and (surprise) fixed it. Doh. I doubt that it will bring down civilization as we know it, but the net will probably hiccup later tonight or tomorrow. Gee, it's never done that before...

Then it suddenly dawns on me that the experts writing the instructions for improving the worm are employed by companies that provide security software. Hey, would you like a hard hat to protect you from the hammer my friend here is about to hit you over the head with? A thousand bucks please. Cash.

If Bush signs it, you will now be breaking the law for having a clone made of yourself. The Senate strikes me as dumb and dumber (and dumbest as well). Now they'll be spending years filling in the loopholes. I can see it now, offshore cloning centers in the Carribean. And a mutant by definition isn't a clone - so there will be no law against creating an improved copy of yourself. You just can't produce an exact copy.