Preemption is and always will be a potentially useful tool, but it's not something you want to trot out and throw in everybody's face. To have a strategy on preemption and make it central is a huge error.

You have this simultaneous effect, rather like the nuclear weapons at Hiroshima, not taking days or weeks but in minutes. You're sitting in Baghdad and all of a sudden you're the general and 30 of your division headquarters have been wiped out. You also take the city down. By that I mean you get rid of their power, water. In two, three, four, five days they are physically, emotionally and psychologically exhausted.

For example, we are dependent on India for much of our software. So is that a vulnerability? Is that something we should worry about?

Bigfoot Networks products will infuse online gaming with blazing speed, making them a ton more fun. We are to online games what 3-D video cards are to graphics: essential.

I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes such cupidity will send you scampering to your dictionary: I will call such behavior 'public service'.

A targets and timetables approach will not work for us.