There are plenty of security concerns with an unencrypted network.>While FON looks like it may be interesting to some people, I need all my bandwidth for my porn.

On a more serious note, many providers in the US will cancel or severely cripple your service if you use so much bandwidth in a month or other predefined timespan. There are other factors to consider.

While some malware/botnet clients may escape anti-virus detection, the common trait is that they all have to connect to a command and control server. Many IDS products have signatures to detect this type of traffic.

For example, many "botnet-kits" will connect using IRC on a random high port. IRC usage audit signatures are good for detecting the more common botnet c&c traffic.

Prevention is key, but it's still not easy - trying to keep Joe User from playing that Michael Jackson video he got in his email from an unknown sender is quite a challenge.

It was also recently announced the Shadowbane is being shut down soon as well.

Aside from the point of thinking that there will be more people playing games because of game availability for set-top boxes, The rest of what was said seemed a bit silly. I guess I'll look forward (not really) to getting a wiimote for my DVR.

My university was transitioning their mail back end to google shortly after I left. Good to know that they are considering it good enough to not be beta anymore.

Although parent is modded Troll, just a quick whois reveals that the domain was registered by some guy with a hotmail address using godaddy as a registrar (and likely the host as well.. It also uses godaddy DNS. I would also question the authenticity of this website. A whois to the IP shows that it's hosted by hopone.net. Also, there is nothing on ASUS's website to indicate that they had anything to do with this.

...does anyone use tablet PCs anymore ? I've never owned one, but I always thought the idea was pretty cool. Forc- I mean encouraging students into a single choice seems somewhat silly.