Let's just rename it Atlantis and call it done.

It appears that Officer Patrick Pogan has a bigger problem explaining his perjury in his police report to internal affairs and to the judge.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0729081bike1.html
(Patrick's police report reproduced here.)

Time for an Intellectual Property Tax..

This could be a wonderful revenue opportunity for cash-strapped state and local governments.

When such a court claim is made on infringement of this intellectual property by a business located within the tax jurisdiction, just take the claimed infringement value and multiply it by the prevailing property tax rate and invoice said property holder. (Be sure to tack on interest and penalties for back taxes.)

If property holder doesn't pay in 90 days, start lien and foreclosure proceedings.

To recover the costs of this collection, auction off this IP. If there is no starting bid (1% of value), property becomes public domain.

The above would be based upon "fair market value" as declared by the infringement claims brought to court and not on "intrinsic value." This has the effect of making open source software tax exempt provided it is made available at no cost.

Disclosure (and shameless self-promotion):
I started a similar thread over on Slashdot at
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=548504&cid=23354448

@SiliconSunset

That is the easy part (getting a copy of the COFFEE jump drive.)

Just write a script that auto-copies any USB drive upon mounting. (Best if laptop is running Linux but shows "wallpaper" like it is running WinXP. Bonus points if this script can display a real looking Windows BSOD after the dirty deed is done.)

Imagine the fun CBP would have if they encountered a maxed out laptop "entire lab on a laptop" (16GB RAM, 0.5 TB RAID 5 array on 2.5" SATA drives) running 80 different OSes under VMWare ESXi. Final icing on the cake is this traveler is a presenter going to a security conference.

Too late now.

One option would have been to remove/obliterate the VIN from all locations and replace the VIN label with "PUBLIC ROAD USE PROHIBITED/PUBLIC SAFETY TESTS ONLY" That way it would be impossible for these vehicles to be registered for road use.

But as the representative stated, "short of destroying the vehicles, it would have been impossible to prevent these vehicles from being used on the road...." by uninsured/unregistered drivers.

Tip on the airline seating which precludes sleeping across due to armrest placement:

When terminal is nearly empty (overnight layover) most are not anchored to the ground and by turning over the row (so that the tops and armrests are on the ground) it is possible to sleep long wise across the bottoms of the seats.

Tip 2:
Sometimes sleeping under the row of seats will suffice, with a pillow on top of the chair bench leg. (Added benefit is that the seat bottoms will filter the light.)