To my knowledge the only word banned from television in Japan is "manko" (can't use hiragana on Slashdot) which is similar to our "cunt". Manko also carries with it the connotation of a "fish like" smell.

Could somebody explain why this is a bad thing? If people take words less seriously, perhaps we'll stop making wars out of them.

One problem I have with regarding opinion poll results with any level of confidence is that no researcher has ever approached me to ask MY opinion about anything. 2100 is a fairly small number, and can be easily skewed.

Some of you may recall the story about school administrators using laptop cameras to spy on its students ( link to article ). In that case, no charges were could be brought against the school administrators. How is it that students doing the same to their administrators are treated as criminals, then? This world is so confusing.

Does anybody else notice the irony here?

Maybe this will give them an idea of how it feels to have your privacy invaded.

General rule of thumb: Never send anything in E-Mail that you don't want to appear on the front page of a newspaper the next day.

E-Mail is stored unencrypted on several servers along its path, and due to some weird legislation is required to be stored that way for several years ( in case authorities "need to know" what you said ). Also, any one of those server's administrators could be bored and have bad ethical standards.

If you are sending unencrypted personal E-Mail from work, there is no doubt that your employers can and probably do read some of your mail.

Don't buy an expensive security system. Just buy the sticker.

To illustrate my own point... in one of my "web development" university classes I had to teach my professor what PHP was. The next semester she was teaching PHP... I did not take that class.

The problem for me was that teachers knew absolutely nothing about technology and were expected to teach it. True pupils were not interested in using a word processor or Power Point... we were already writing programs and creating new technology. High school and university were only review. The slow pace of most computer "classes" merely hinders and creates frustration.

It's called Limited Liability. Risk is outsourced to tax payers.

Unfortunately, employers use the "bad economy" argument to try and justify the rampant abuse. A perceived bad economy is an employer's best friend.

$10B for open source software? They do know they can download it for free... right?

If these work the same way that stereoscopic gaming glasses worked in the past, expect to see a 50% dimming effect in your games since half of the time light will be filtered from your field of vision.