Possible Computer Idea? and some social engineering on the side

First, I jsut wanna toss this out there...it's my idea for a nice little computer. First you start off with the pc itself which would be from gumstix. Gumstix is a company that specialized in making working computers that are about the size of a pack of gum. Granted, they aren't fast, or big on space, but they're small so I can deal. Plus they have really cheap adapters for them. The pc I'd get would be the 400MHz with bluetooth ($214). Then I'd buy one of their extremely cheap extentions so that I could hook up a seperate hard drive to it. Thus raising the memory from like 4 mb to 120gb. This would be very helpful. Finally I'd head over to MP3Car.com for my monitor. I know what you're saying, why would I get a monitor from there? Well, cause they have cheap, small touchscreens. Now, some of these are really nice, but I'm cheap so I'd go for the liliput 7". This thing is a beauty. It can be detached from it's holding rack and carried about. From here you have the full pc and monitor, and since the monitor is a touchscreen, it has an added keyboard program built in. But thats not good enough, I'm gonna spring for the psp keyboard. It's small, pretty, and easy to use. It won't fit on the monitor, but with a few minor adjustments you can make it happen. It would also need a decent power supply and I was thinking you could take some random battery cell and convert it to use in this case. In the end I envision my portable pc to have the full pc, keyboard, and power supply on the back of the monitor and almost completely concealed. Using spare pieces of plastic you can make a custom back to hold all of it and cut holes for the power supply to rechard, an area for the keyboard to come out, and a place to get to turn the pc on and off. All in all I figure you could have about $600-700 and have a good little pc.

Just a little input, Litestep, it's a wonderful shell for your os. I think it only works for windows based systems but not sure. I say it's wonderful because you can modify it if you know how to code even in the slightest, good stuff.

Now for the social engineering:
Ok, I've looked around the net for a lot of random social engineering information and I gotta tell ya, if these people who claim to be "hackers" and put things like that out, we're in trouble people. They talk about all kinds of random crap. They say that dumpster diving is part of social engineering. No, it's not part of social engineering, it's part of hacking, and HACKING ISN'T A BAD THING!!! Cracking is when it's used violently/maliciously. Hacking is simply using reverse engineering or a series of attempts to check the security of something. If the company is throwing out passwords or the people are stupid enough to make their password something relateable to themselves and not just a random string, then the person dumpster diving is HACKING, not social engineering. Social engineering involves wit. A moron can jump into a trash bin, However, a moron cannot talk his way past security at an AT&T. Upon looking for a definition from an actual definition based website I found this

Social Engineering
Term used among crackers and samurai for cracking
techniques that rely on weaknesses in wetware rather than
software; the aim is to trick people into revealing passwords
or other information that compromises a target system's
security. Classic scams include phoning up a mark who has the
required information and posing as a field service tech or a
fellow employee with an urgent access problem. See also the
tiger team story in the patch entry.
Taken for www.dictionary.com

Wow, thats the stupidest crap I've ever seen. The hell does samurai have to do with the field we here at the firewall reside in?
I will now try to give the most accurate definition of Social Engineering EVER GIVEN!!!

Social Engineering - An attack, relying on the weaknesses of human based security and the attacker's use of the art of deception, which uses wit as a form of intrusion in an attempt to gain knowledge or service(s) from another that is/are not normally allowed to the attacker.

AK