The problem is the accusation of illegal content instead of proving to a court first that it is illegal.
Like pjt33 said, it should be a civil matter.

Hulu has sometimes live streams. For example, the Presidential Inauguration was live on hulu. Technically it is already possible for them but cable companies wouldn't like it and probably force them not to offer it like they did with cutting of Boxee since it made Internet TV on the television too easy.

1. They don't have the right to take away the property of the student.
2. I would just never go to detention and taking property away would cause a fast law-suit if it happens more than once.

By the way, how can you ban a student from the school property for a week? Don't students have the right of a public education in the USA? (I know in Germany they have the right of education)

I had my own problems as student when I was around middle school age in Germany because I didn't participate in a Ethics class where the grade didn't count for anything in Berlin (but I was quiet in the back of class) and my sister had her problems in middle school and high school in the USA.

Schools should never be allowed to take your rights away even if most try to do it.

I looked at my Internet bill and there is no tax.
Could it be that the tax you see is for cable TV or home phone?

Don't private trackers already use different infohash for each user to track the stats of the users?
This would mean that looking at the infohash will only work for public trackers (which are slow most of the time anyways) and to get around that you would only need to use Tor for communication to the public tracker which is already supported by a few bittorrent clients.

You might be surprised how little power you need to run multiple applications. RAM is probably the bigger requirement than CPU or GPU power.
For example, I run Hamachi, Pidgin, Mozy, Steam, Firefox (5 tabs), OO.org Writer and some other smaller stuff without problems on my Atom based laptop with only 1GB of RAM while using only ~10% of the CPU.
Even my mother on her 512MB RAM and AMD Geode CPU PC runs sometimes 4 applications.

Just think about how many applications you were running 5 years ago or even 10 years ago.

No, you pay once for the service to view the content on your TV and another time to view the content on your PC.
It's like when you buy a movie on DVD, you will have to buy the movie again to watch in HD using blu-ray, than you pay again to watch the movie on your Ipod. You get different content even if it looks the same.

Btw, you should sent at least an email to Comcast so they can explain to you why should pay twice for content that looks the same. I just sent an email too AT&T since they are also paying for this BS.

Aren't those according to Apple only upgrades?

Apple doesn't "sell" OS X separately. You have to buy the computer with the software directly from them. You can probably compare an Apple PC to the Xbox 360. They both include a browser and other software but you can't buy the software without the console.

I don't know about your mother but mine started with a $150 Linux computer. I did set up Thunderbird and Firefox for her and she didn't have too many problems with it.
After a year a telephone system was connected to her computer that only ran under Windows and I switched her over to Windows XP. She noticed that it looked different but it also worked the same way since she still used Firefox and Thunderbird. She had more Problems with XP because some of the things installed on Linux like a PDF viewer wasn't installed by default but that can easily installed.
The next PC for her will probably be again a Linux PC since the telephone system died a year ago and I'm sure that she will be able to use it like she was able to use it a few years ago.

I'm a German living in the USA and I had to renew my passport just a few months ago. The last time I could just do the passport renewing by mail but now with the biometric fingerprints you have to drive to one of 5 locations in the USA of which most are in the southern parts. Luckily I was only 5 hours away from the place but there is a high chance that people will have to travel through a few states to get their passport renewed now. At least I only have to do that again in 7 years.

Plant some fast growing trees and you will see savings within a few years. You might be able to paint the roof with a white ceramic paint made for roofs (depends on the roof type) to save a good amount of money. Those solutions are cheaper than adding more insulation and replacing windows.

Big homes and bad insulation causes so high electric costs. My mother just moved out of an old mobile home into a small stone house (two children moved out and house prices were finally lower). The electric cost of around $250-450 is now at around $100 for her in a stone house instead of a bad insulated mobile home. It will be interesting to see how much she will have to pay in the summer when the a/c has to run more but I bet it won't be more than $200 which would still be lower than the best time of the year in the mobile home.

Sounds pretty normal such a high failure rate. I went to a community college and every semester the classes got smaller and fewer of the higher classes got tough than the intro classes. After that at a University it was the same way. At the beginning multiple full classes but at the end maybe 15 people left and those higher classes were offered only every second semester instead of every semester.
I believe that people just find out that they studied something that they didn't really have interest in and changed majors to other programs. I guess Computer Networking sounds cool first but boring when people take the classes and I know a lot of people that think that it is boring.

I believe that the AM2+ socket motherboards will last for a long time. If I remember right will the AM3 CPUs be compatible with the AM2 and AM2+ motherboard as the AM2+ CPUs were compatible with AM2 motherboards while only small features were missing when using an older socket with a newer CPU.