Sounds like episode 23 of Cowboy Bebop "Brain Scratch"

For those interested in where this is actually happening, here's a forum thread which has locations (with map) and descriptions for a tournament this weekend
Barcraft Thread
Barcraft Location Map

Some locations: Seattle WA, Toronto, San Diego CA, Washington DC, New York City, Portland OR, Tampa FL, Gainesville FL, Edmonton (Canada), Honolulu, Waterloo (Canada), Chicago, Boston, Dallas TX

Am I the only that can't get the thought out of his head that the new spider-man was bitten by a radioactive spider-man?

Otherwise he'd turn into a spider after all.

While I'm sure not that many people could go onto each tower, this could still be useful for getting broadband to areas where homes are very spread out.

Wasn't there a Law & Order episode with an autistic kid that had a tracking bracelet but took it off?

While the idea of putting it on those willing with autism or alzheimer's, if it can be taken off the problem still exists

The method they *could* use to tell would be to take a hash of the file. When you rip the cd, you will get a different hash each time. With file sharing services most likely there are only 3 or 4 rips that are shared among thousands of people. Consequently, if you see someone with a copy of a particular song that has a hash of one of these commonly shared files, chances are miniscule that it isn't a pirated copy.

It could be part of the agreement signed to get the music companies to agree to put their stuff up on it

Who else thought this would be more along the lines of about land-mines or claymores? It would at least be a more interesting story...

Also much like old-fashioned gold mining, once others start doing it he can't make as much money doing it anymore

While I don't doubt that this story is worth mentioning if Google didn't have the certification and claimed it did, is it worth mentioning yet?

While this may be what happened, even the author is vague about it. This seems like a Glenn Beck style story of "I'm not absolutely sure, but I heard "

I think it's more probable that sitting there for 3 minutes and thinking about how you are wasting your life depresses people.

After all, he only asks that you donate 30% of your income.

This tithe is now mandatory however, and rather than costing your soul for refusal, it will only cost you your market presence.

Personally, as long as the teacher didn't give specific names I don't think it's a big deal.

My mother used to be a teacher and one of my cousins is a teacher, and they will openly talk about how bad or stupid their students act. There shouldn't be anything wrong with publicly saying bad things about your students in general.

And although I'm in my late 20s, I can clearly remember how me and my classmates would act in our classes. There was little respect for the teacher, and seeing some of the things written for homework or tests by students who simply didn't care about that subject, it could be scary for a teacher.

Plus, I'm sure most of you can remember talking equally bad about some of your teachers. Now as long as this was a personal blog, and not like a blog put on the schools website, I find nothing wrong with this.

Being a teacher in the US these days, you have little you can actually do about your students. To say that a teacher can't even talk negatively about their students in general in public is laughable.

Isn't this more like the opposite of that?

Apple is squeezing itself in as yet another middleman in this instance

He should be suing Fox. I'm sure it was Fox News that inspired this fear of Wikileaks within him. Plus, they did all this after they convince him that if he steps outside of his trailer animals are going to attack him from all directions.