Just wait until you get your first "full-time" IT job and realize those people you are tutoring are your boss.

Hello California:

Please stop making laws that ruin our cars.

Thank you,

The rest of the US

From the file of Capt. Obvious....

Bourbon Street, New Orleans. During Mardi Gras.

So does Wal-Mart count as a 3rd world country? Because if it does I get to answer 10+ if it doesn't I am stuck at 6-10...

Websense is not a good product. Squid+Dan's Guardian is OK but lacks many key features, but ANYTHING is better than Websense.

You name it "Statewide Salaries 2009"

They'll suspend you for bringing a butter knife to school. http://www.ketv.com/education/5027982/detail.html

They might even expel you for a butter knife. http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Story?id=3758286

Apparently a plastic butter knife is now a weapon of mass destruction, hide the women and children.

No way on Earth I would work hard writing or creating something to have it passed around the Internet for free. I create for my own profit, not your entertainment. Once the Internet community stops (I know it isn't everyone but it is enough to be a major problem) stealing content created by artists for profit, we will finally be able to embrace the open standards we all truly want. Until then DRM will live one in some for or other.

I have found this phenomenon localized in my community. It's called Wal-Mart.

The guys keeps bringing up the same studies he did 10 years ago as of they have any relevancy now. This issue needs a better face than Bennett, he lacks credibility.

I get what TW is trying to do here. With hulu, youtube, netflix, p2p, bittorrent and the plethora of other options for downloading entertaining content users are going to slowly start canceling their cable services. Especially the premium content that TW get's so much revenue from (HBO, Sports packages etc.)

Now you can pretty much stream any sporting event live, so even that isn't going to keep viewers subscribed.

But they are missing one critical piece. Most users don't know anything about how the software on their computers work. They automatically assume that their A/V product will protect them from every botnet and worm out there. Is some 66 year-old woman who is infected with a botnet and sending out gigs of SPAM per day really using the bandwidth she would pay for. She has been diligent in trying to protect he computer by installing A/V software, but she is by no means and expert and shouldn't be expected to know that a botnet has infected her computer. The botnet software is designed to hide itself from her knowledge.

So who is TW going to charge for that bandwidth usage. Because as far as she is concerned all she did was download a few pics of the grandkids, send a few emails, and do some genealogy research. Then she gets hit with a Tier1 usage bill. She won't be able to sufficiently explain the extra usage, and I'm pretty certain the person answering phones at TW won't be able to explain it either.

My wife is a science teacher. She left a job recovering organs and tissues etc. for transplant to become a science teacher because it afforded her more time with the kids.

In her years of teaching she has noticed a few prevalent problems that cause problems with science education, her and I have discussed these at great length.

1. There is a shortage of science teachers. It is always hardest for the the schools to recruit science and math teachers.

2. Due to the fact that the science and math teachers are generally smarter, more logical, and better organized than their 'Bachelor of Arts' counter-parts they are usually the first to be promoted into quasi-management positions (Asst. Principal, Principal etc.)

3. Most of these promotees quickly become disenfranchised with the bureaucracy and idiocy that runs rampant through American schools. They end up getting very frustrated, and instead of resigning from the quasi-management job and going back to being a teacher, their frustration with the 'whole system' causes them to quit outright and seek their fortunes elsewhere.

The future of science education in America is bleak my friends (and foes.)

All American Idol, all the time.