It's actually all a bit irrelevant for EU citizens - the USG is busy pressuring EU members (starting with the UK) to turn over (sorry, "share") all the biometric data collected on their citizens. In Britain's case, that means all the biometric data to be used for ID cards. So the FBI, CIA and whatever unofficial/black ops organisations are being run out of the White House will have this info whether or not you go anywhere near a US border. This is per articles in the Guardian, amongst other places.

Of course US agencies will be completely accountable for their use of this data, which will not be compromised by third parties or used for purposes that are illegal or not approved of by the citizens concerned. Hold on...sorry! That should have read "will be". I've been having problems ever since I started reading that new Bill Kristol column.

Glad my e-mail to my MEPs wasn't wasted!

Nice idea for all the reasons Cory gives. The big problem for me in using any linux distribution, and Ubuntu specifically, is that I don't have a cable connection to my home router and my wireless card (extremely common Broadcom chipset, if I recall rightly) basically isn't supported. You would think it would be easy to figure out what cards are supported and just buy one, but that isn't really the case due to the number of chipsets and versions thereof and the fact that the required info isn't easily available. That's the main reason I went back to my Windows installation, and I bet I'm not the only person to have had this experience.