Why do people assume the teacher quit because he thought he'd get fired? If I had a boss come to me at the end of the day and say the IT department has spent all day stalking someone who anonymously used the word "p*ssy" as a joke about eating and now it's been discovered that I am the culprit with any kind of incriminating tone I would quit too.

Not if you're trying to pass a bill they aren't. Uses technology (including the wheel, the stick, or straw) in any way to carry out your daily activities: that's high tech jobs for the economy!

That's 75 new high tech jobs created just in surveillance using existing infrastructure. Vote for the big brother stimulus package today!

I think there's a very strange attitude towards FOSS with some business managers or small business owners. I have mentioned these alternatives to people (it's not my job, but you meet people in these situations) who complain about the cost of upgrading windows software and always encountered a weird resistance. They don't usually say flat out no, but they always hedge around it so you get the idea they aren't the slightest bit interested. I think it's about a fear for their image (at least that's the only way I can make sense of it). They're imagining having to call a client and ask for a word document saved in some weird format, basically outing them as too cheap for "professional" applications. Maybe that's not it, but it's certainly the impression I've gotten over the years whenever I try to broach the subject. IMO saving a couple grand (at least, the larger the company the larger the savings) annually on readily available free software without any concerns for piracy makes such incredible sense for so many small business, it's really a shame people aren't willing to do the hour or two of research finding out about the alternatives and getting rid of their own misperceptions.

Having a place for comments is good. If it's moderated effectively that's even better. Turning your comments into a significant portion of your on-air broadcasts for a news network is terrible. The only reason is if you're too lazy to generate content, or your trying to pump up your website's traffic. Either way it's not worthy of being on the air, CNN knows it, but does it anyway 'cause they're working on revenue generation, not news delivery. If there was a once a week, heavily edited and researched half-hour show finding the most insightful stuff posted on their comments, that might be an interesting show, but using the comments section in every news story for a "here's what you have to say" moment is beyond atrocious.

Totally on point. Obviously, a move like this leads /. to assume the worst of the police, and that's fine, but now it's on the Swedish police to present a case showing why they went after tpb for child porn. If it's being used for that and tpb is doing nothing to stop it, then by all means, byebye tpb and good riddance. However, they are innocent until proven guilty (I'm just assuming that's true in Sweden as well) and this does reek of a misuse of power. Hopefully, we'll get to find out in the end, but I'm guessing it'll all be rumors and some jokey tpb posted correspondence.