I think OP means the trash chutes that used to be present in some old buildings. These chutes had openings every other floor so that people living on higher floors didn't need to take their garbage down some 8 floors or more (no elevators in these old buildings). People could just throw their trash bags down the chutes and they would collect in a bin at the bottom. It was believed that the accelerated spread of the virus was caused by contaminated garbage that stuck to the side walls of these chutes (since they were not cleaned). During and after the SARS breakout, most of these chutes were permanently sealed. So just to clarify, these were not INSIDE rooms, more like there might have been contaminated trash chute openings at most on every other floor and in the corridors not rooms themselves.

I'd recommend this. Small, Laptop with tablet module (pressure sensitive stylus). Flip the screen around and it works just like paper. Take notes with a vector pen stroke software like Windows Journal. You won't waste time operating the device (just write on the screen) and the notes are automatically digitized (maybe OCR later?) Also the WACOM Inkling is a wonderful enhancement to a notepad + pen.

Seems to differ cross ISPs and only the HTTPS version works where I am (no video as well).

Simple, just invent a sandbox to prevent mind writing from doing damage to your private thoughts.

Well, the car won't let you drive it away. So it keeps car hijackers in check but not thieves.

As a CSDN user, I'd say : No.

Still, it doesn't prevent millions of users, who are too 'busy' to even bother use a dummy password, from actually using their main passwords (web banking, email etc.) on the AD riddled forum.

Actually, doing MD5 on a client side script is severe no-no if it were the only form of authentication. A hacker could simply run a script running through all 16^32 possiblities of the MD5 hash instead of the almost infinite possiblities of the original password. Doing a client side MD5 actually weakens many passwords instead of strenthening them. You're left with something around an 18 character alpha-numeric-symbol password - no matter how long or difficult your original password was.

Cable boxes already do this. I don't get the difference between a cable box which can view web pages and a TV which can do that. What we *do* need is a better remote control. Presumably not voice. R&D should focus on this first.

A big +1 to this, Flash player should have been open sourced a long time ago. Opening it up allows HTML5 to adapt to possibly better technology and with sources platform manufactures can create optimized code and probably solve the power issue in mobile devices. It's a win-win solution and flash already doesn't earn money from the plugin. It won't hurt their profits. On the problems, I can only think of possible problems with rights management as they might be implemented differently if the plugin were open-sourced and possibly unreliably or even compromise content. Maybe they should do it like Chrome and Chromium with DRM protection only avaliable in non-open source versions.