This entire situation reminds me of the Steve Jackson Games versus US Secret Service case of 22 years ago. The key aspects of the case include; a company providing collaborative services for a community like email and a place to centrally store files, a type of content that government did not understand because technology was moving outside of what was culturally known and accepted, and of course a flagrant abuse of power by the federal government. Today we see the US government usurping sovereignty to suppress a technology that they view as having gotten out of hand. In this new case they seek to clarify their vision of international law (ACTA) and will make sur they are victorious. The eventual victory of Steve Jackson Games over the US Secret Service should be viewed as Pyrrhic in that it took many years of litigation to win, but the authorities held all of their equipment in an unknown location, tampered with by zealous but unskilled forensic 'experts,' and returned. The original case did teach the US government many lessons; always have an inside informer, create instances of violation (entrapment through juicy uploads), and get political backing.

ref: http://www.sjgames.com/SS/

Have you, or anyone you know, ever bought a device with components made by Samsung? I assume you will answer yes. there, you just answered the question of why it would be important if all of Samsung were to become radioactive slag.

to stop the horror that is "Twilight." A literary adaptation in the sense that teenage Facebook postings are learned discourse.

A simple prediction is that the Chinese government will make google.cn redirect to baidu.com. If the rabid slashdot speculation about l33t Chinese hackers, let us call them Chackers, stealing Google's code is correct, they can create a Google.cn golem datacenter and carry on google.cn.

The UNH-IOL is a neutral, third-party laboratory dedicated to testing data networking technologies through industry collaboration.

http://www.iol.unh.edu/

any career involving science or computers.

It appears that the plot of "Office Space" was actually a thinly veiled expose on government contractor larceny.

integer function f_isleap(year)
            IMPLICIT NONE
c
c Purpose :: Return 0 if a year is NOT leap year and a 1 otherwise.
c
c Description: Every fourth year is a leap year. c But NOT when divisible
c by 100, except if the year is divisible by 400.
c
            integer Year
            if((MOD(Year,400).eq.0) .or.
          % ((MOD(Year,4).eq.0) .and.
                    (MOD(Year,100).ne.0))) then
                  f_isleap=1
            else
                  f_isleap=0
            endif
            return
            end

But of course FORTRAN is not fancy enough for super cool C# coders.

In the olden days a university would hopefully provide a good education for a reasonable price. The newly minted alumnus would go on to fame and fortune. The university would then suck up to you and ask for donations. A generous alum would then spring for a new building, new lab, scholarships, because they had fond memories of partying and meeting their mate. The new university grabs all of your money and your future earning potential up front because they know your fond memories will be of parking tickets, car towing, crackdowns on partying, and forced re-education seminars in your dorm.

As someone who has to hire undergrad CS majors, I would prefer that K-12 concentrate on getting kids to read at grade level, and outperform at math and science. Before any idiot says "But computer science is a science" I point to chemistry, biology, and physics and ask what Nobel Prize was awarded for "Best do-loop discovery." CS is a tool, nothing more. Computers will certainly be used in the classroom, but time should not be set aside specifically to teach M$ product usage (as my nephews had in high school).

A point to ponder; the most elite high schools in the US barely use computers. The emphasis is on learning to learn, not mechanical rote work.