If you don't want your ideas to be stolen then just don't talk about your ideas. Keep your technological ideas a secret, and only use well-known and cliche ideas in your university assignments. You will still get good marks, since after all the university as it is now is not promoting independent and original thought, and after you get the degree you will be able to do whatever you want with your ideas.
The citizens of NZ should ask for a constitutional amendment to include internet rights as a basic human right, just as Greece did in its 2001 constitution:
1. All persons have the right to information [...] 2. All persons have the right to participate in the Information Society. Facilitation of access to electronically transmitted information, as well as of the production, exchange and diffusion thereof, constitutes an obligation of the State [...]
Of course even if something is codified into the constitution it could be limited by law (as it does in the case above if you read the PDF) or not implemented at all, but it is in general a good idea even just for the sake of the symbolism itself to have internet rights codified into the constitution.
Nice study that confirms what we all knew: that the downtown is the worst place to live and full of smog. Downtowns developed for safety and economic reasons, but now we have the Internet, so I expect people to start abandoning the downtown to live in suburbs and the countryside close to nature, communicating and working through the Internet (as I do). We really don't need a smog-infected and crime-prone downtown anymore.
I wonder if he would put his MBA in good use by founding his own startup and what products we could expect from such a startup.
Just ask yourself what destruction is going to happen to your life if you lose the data. If the answer is "no problem", then hit Delete or just let the data to rot in an old RAID-1 setup until both disks crash and then just stop worrying.
If, however, you have some data that you think are particularly important, you can rent a safe deposit box in a bank for about 30 EUR per year (for an A4-sized box) and put copies of your data in there, paying attention to choose a bank that is too big to let fail
With your bare hands?!?