Currently this tech can only measure horizontal eye movements, which makes it limited for replacing a mouse. However, if they can approach the speed and accuracy of even a laptop's touchpad, then it may usher in a new era of interaction with a computer. We wont even have to touch our tablets to interact with them.

Considering that the commercial eye-tracking devices my quick search found were all several thousands of dollars, this could be a huge step forward. I'm mightily impressed!

"pay a kid for every A and B he gets in class" No, not this. Don't pay for results, pay for the behaviour that brings the results.

I recall a study a few year back where schools in several areas did pay students for achievements. One school paid 3rd graders money if they got A's and B's on their tests. Another school paid their 1st graders for every book that they read. The result: The 3rd graders showed no improvement in their scores, but the 1st graders did. Why? Because the 3rd graders didn't know how to get the A's and B's. However, the 1st graders had their education improved by reading the extra books, so they got better grades.

So the key is to reward the behavior that leads to success, not merely the success itself.

Who, aside from businesses, pays retail prices for their equipment?

Note to self: Always read the title of the thread first. Now I am off to clear this terrible mental image.

Being able to remove every last trace of an unused part of windows would be a great boon. I am currently rocking a 64GB SSD drive with windows 7. 18GB of that is taken up by the Windows directory.

If I could cut that down by half, that'd be enough room for 2-3 extra games. As it is, I am constantly uninstalling and reinstalling to make use of my SSD for fast loading.

Since I make use of, well, basically none of the features like tablet support, speech recognition, gadgets, or.. IE, it'd be nice if I could free up some extra space by completely wiping them off the drive. Or, at least put those install files on to my data hard disk.

Laws like what you describe are very common. Most counties have enacted similar ones. Unfortunately, by pushing people further and further away from normal society, they're making rehabilitation and reintegration more difficult than normal.

This is especially troubling, given the useless nature of the sex offender list in most states. Public urination? Sex offender. Take a photo of your own teenage body? Sex offender. Now the NIMBYs in villages like yours are pushing these people out of society.

It is getting to the point in America where a sex offense should just result in deportation or execution. Life on the list is brutal.

That is a terrible way to deal with the problem.

Clearly, we should develop robots to do the consumption for us!