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The always interesting LastKnight's blog (written - in italian - by Matteo G.P.Flora) raised the silly question you, as a nerd, heard so many times:

"I can't trust online-shopping: I don't want to use my credit card over the Net! What do you think 'bout that?" [normally the question is raised by elderly relatives or non-tech-savy friends]

This is the good answer by Bruce Schneier, quoted by LastKnight.

"What you’re really asking me is about the security. No one steals credit card numbers one-by-one, by eavesdropping on the Internet connection. They’re all stolen in blocks of a million by hacking the back-end database. It doesn’t matter if you bought something over the Internet, by phone, by mail, or in person — you’re equally vulnerable."

Before trying to resolve a gnome-power-manager issue with custom-made BASH scripts, could be quite smart to read the /usr/share/doc/gnome-power-manager/README.Debian.

["RTFM", CC-licensed picture by cdozo]

PS If you're not able to suspend your laptop via gnome-power-manager (and pm-utils) but you can do it from the console, add your user to the 'powerdev' group.
PPS Debian developers: could be quite good to add the normal user in this group, automatically during the installation.
PPPS gnome-power-manager developers: Instead of just prints out a warning with "the system was not able to suspend", could be more verbose (better, clear) to use a "you don't have the permissions to suspend the system: Read the Fucking README.Debian"

I'd like to suggest you this video on Current TV Italia (the video is in italian audio with english subtitles).

In viaggio per il Tourist Trophy dell'Isola di Man (On the road to Isle of Man's Tourist Trophy)

The Tourist Trophy (aka TT, wikipedia in english and italian) is a street race competition that last year turned its 100th anniversary.

Guerrilla in Florence for markedspam.com !

[more pics after the jump; the whole markedspam's gallery here]

Enjoy the effort!