They say that the breakthrough could lead to more practical and easier-to-use portable devices.

ICANN has proposed an application cost of US$185,000, not including yearly upkeep fees.

Now I don't know about you, but most "people" don't have that kind of money to throw at a domain name. The real thing to think about: How will this affect online shopping? Those big companies with money to blow will get their fancy gTLDs whereas small businesses and freshly started ones who don't have that kind of money will be stuck with what may eventually become the 'less appealing' .com/.org/etc that we already have. Will these small companies be pushed aside because they lack the appeal of having a fancy gTLD? Will people be more suspicious of them because it is easier for malicious people to set up a spoofed site with a .com than a .insert-big-corp-here?

Wtf is wrong with our children.

Fixed it for ya. Seriously, they are in school to pay attention and learn, not sit there an text people.

A handful of network-monitoring tools can identify specific BitTorrent files, but the process is generally slow, since the contents of each file have to be examined. The time that this takes also increases exponentially as the number of files that need to be scanned grows. "Our system differs in that it is completely passive, meaning that it does not change any information entering or leaving a network,"

The $264,000 has already been spent on the camera surveillance project in Cambridge, Fire Chief Gerald Reardon said. It is unclear if Cambridge will have to pay back this money.

(I should write a shell script to correct my comments.)

You're in luck! I have recently heard of a book that could help with your scripting...