I fully sympathise with this viewpoint. Occasionally there will be someone playing a game on their laptop during lectures on my course (physics), and it is incredibly distracting. It's a challenge to concentrate on the quantum mechanics lecture being delivered when you have someone playing GTA in your eyeline, and these people should be shot. However, the number of people using their laptops for this is statistically insignificant when compared to the number of people using their computers for note taking or supplementary reading. Most of the computers I see turned on in lectures are either on a word processor or the relevant Wikipedia page. The lecturers know this, and will occasionally even ask for clarification of some insignificant yet interesting point (the date of an experiment or something along those lines). I see laptops, generally, as a positive addition to lecture halls.

Are you seriously trying to suggest that statistics from 2004 will be in any way relevant in 2010 when it comes numbers of computers? If so, I think you'll find you're a long, long way off the mark, my friend...

Technoviking's available, and they can surrender to him without looking too stupid.

Bushes give a 6+ cover save all the time.

That's what yo' momma said.

Agreed. You seem like a massive cock.

You just essentially described a T-Mobile G1.

We can have the email program have profiles too!

Pretty sure they already exist. They're called 'email addresses'.

My Mastercard ends in 49...

Using Tor gets around the filtering. Unfortunately I'm not in a position to change my ISP (living with my parents) so this is the best solution for now.

Modern Nokias (the N95 at least, as that's the only one I can check) have that feature too. It can be incredibly useful.