Clearly Forest, you have lived up to one of your favorite sayings!

I can't remember the last time I saw an online ad from my computer at home. Now if work would let me install Firefox I'd be able to say Ads? What ads?

If you are refering to the individuals who leaked those documents, then I agree. To me, this is nothing different than someone leaking to the newspapers or the television stations. Once its out, its out. If you are refering to the people who host the web sites, then we have a different story. While a web site does not have the protections that journalists do - I believe that in this case they are providing the public the same type of information, and should be protected. YMMV

I don't need my browser taking up valuable screen space to display a @#$%^&* stupid ribbon. Anyone have a suggestion for a browser that is more interested in displaying web pages properly without add #$%^& eye-candy?

This, and while were at it, start embracing the community that successful games have built. For example, Company of Heroes - the original game didn't have DRM, had a unique twist to the typical RTS format, supported LAN and TCP/IP play, and quickly developed a mod community. Relic/THQ promised additional mod tools which didn't come out until just before the THIRD expansion, they changed to a peer-to-peer patch system which sucked, and they pretty well ignored the mod community while releasing patches which constantly broke the mods.

All in all, great game, but poor decisions on the part of the company turned a great game into something not worth playing any more.

It's just a fact of defending the Constitution, you are bound by the regulations of the service you joined; very few service people realize that your rights are suspended when they join up. Given they are citing security concerns, I don't see the problem. If they were trying to ban total access to social networking sites on and off-duty, they can do it.

Just how in the hell is a syllabus a contract between teacher and student? At best, it is the standard by which the teacher announces the intended requirements and flow for the course - at worst, it's nothing more than a homework and study guide.

Thank god your wife doesn't teach where I go to school, most of us don't put up with that kind of crap and will drop the class before the first period is over.

What a crock! And if her class is a requirement for graduation and happens to be the only session being taught in a given semester, I'd be willing to wager you would get a lot of complaints. B.T.W. does she states this in her syllabus clearly, or do you wait until someone complains and then bring in the lawyers?

Personally, I haven't bought a new album in over three years. And no, I'm not using p2p or any other source to get them illegally. I haven't heard of anything worth listening (much less buying) in some time. If my daughter hadn't given me the last Rush album, I would have bought that, but there just isn't anything worth listening to anymore.

I don't even listen to the radio in the car, just play a CD. Sorry record execs, but your demise cannot come soon enough for me. The RIAA and the MPAA need to go the way of the dinosaurs. JFDA

You left out the option of being a student at a technical college which offers server 2008 through the MSDNA. I also use server 2008 as my desktop and prefer it over Vista for most of the same reasons. Most importantly, the file transfer rates over the network are great!

Unfortunately, the design of XP/2000 required admin privileges to install most programs - then, because of the coding decisions made by Microsoft, many of these same programs required admin privileges to run. Add in Windows popularity and the sheer number of programs that run this way and you have created the wonderful target of hackers, etc. I kind of miss the old dos days of popping in a floppy with the OS and program I wanted to run and rebooting the computer. Totally unfeasible now for most users, but I liked being able to customize the OS for that application. Imagine having to reboot today when changing programs, it would be a nightmare!

Well, seems it's not just the big ISP - my DSL provider (Cincinnati Bell) does the same. I tried the webmale.google.com FTA which sent me to the CB search page. Any suggestions on what tact to take in filing a complaint?