Identifying the areas responsible for trauma and bad memories can be useful for treatment of patients who have experienced things like car crashes. It can help by reducing the effects associated with these memories.
The thing about research is that lots of times the applications are not immediately obvious. Academia does research all the time on subjects that people don't have uses for yet. You're right in pointing out the possible negative side effects of this knowledge though. It's something that is very often unavoidable in research. A good example of this would be nuclear fission and it's range of uses.

If you're planning on using this tablet as a teaching tool and nothing else, I suggest getting an used X61 tablet. They're well under $1000 now and they're portable enough to be brought from class to class easily. They're also extremely durable. I'm using a 5 year old T42 right now with no signs of breaking down.

Germany isn't some kind of arctic region. Their summer is pretty warm (25C). What happens to the efficiency numbers when you stop using the heat and you don't do your dishes?

And for added convenience, you could even have the dedicated appliance dispense cash on the spot! Of course, you'd need to add locks and harden the case with heavier steel.

Wait a sec....

Does it seem strange to anyone else that the Sheriff's office is conducting a raid on the Government offices and is disregarding orders from the justice department?

I always thought that law enforcement was supposed to be the arm of the government. It seems more like the arm is acting of its own accord in this case.

Does this patent cover things like OOXML and their the ISO junk?

I resent this comment. I'm well on track to entering a career in drug research, either with a university or a pharmaceutical company. I couldn't care less if I made less than 80k a year (very little for the amount of education required in this field), and I'm completely in it for the benefit to humanity stemming from my work.

However, my skills are better suited towards doing research and working with computers than they are with diagnosing people and memorizing lists of symptoms. I also think that I would have more benefit to humanity by designing medications for multiple patients than if I were diagnosing one patient at a time.

I'd be very surprised if I were among a minority in this respect. People aren't as evil as you think (most of the time).

Yes, openDNS does do this. There's a couple of ways to get around the NXDOMAIN hijacking. First, you could use another DNS server. For a list of good, free, DNS servers, I use the vivilProject. They have a bunch of scripts which can determine the fastest DNS servers for your location. http://80.247.230.136/dns.htm The other option is to run your own BIND server and configure it to cache only. For most of you Linux guys out there, major distros will provide a package to do this. This option not only gets around the NXDOMAIN garbage, but it also gives you faster DNS resolution on your local network.

For those of you who want to let Bell hear a bit of your mind, the comments form is here:

https://www.bell.ca/support/PrsCSrvInt_CtUs_Eform.page

Great post. In all seriousness though, why don't people raise a bigger stink about journalists ripping stuff from wikipedia?

Did you know that the text in wikipedia is licensed under the GFDL/CC-by-SA, which is are forms of copy-left? Shouldn't these news articles then also be licensed under the GFDL/CC-by-SA, or otherwise be a license violation? They are clearly derivative works.

And that's how the Cold War happened...