I wonder though if you use plugins like HTTPS everywhere (encrypting your traffic) in conjunction with Tor (giving you the anonymity) then you should be OK? Assuming obviously that no one can break your SSL encryption!

it's a good thing, overall this will change the teacher's role: before the main teacher's functionality was to carry around the knowledge and transmit it to the students. this is no more necessary in Internet age, the knowledge the students can find it online or through google, tens/hundreds of books/tutorials/etc available. then the prof's role is to interact with the students to make them think, to nourish their sense of curiosity and know how. mainly to build their character instead of their knowing things. i'm not surprised that unions are against. mainly, unions largely failed to evolve with time, instead of considering the evolution of their members and their adaptation in the new reality, they stick to old teaching schema.

I believe that it's necessary even the duty of the government to protect sensitive infrastructure. Though, as this is the case with many other governmental institutions, there is need for close monitoring and supervision of these organizations by external committees/organization controlled by legislative or at least an elected parliament! The lack of this can end up to what was revealed to the public couple of years ago: NSA monitoring millions of US citizens without any warrant or justifications! See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_call_database "The existence of this database and the NSA program that compiled it was unknown to the general public until USA Today broke the story on May 10, 2006.[1] It is estimated that the database contains over 1.9 trillion call-detail records.[2] According to Bloomberg News, the effort began approximately seven months before the September 11, 2001 attacks.[3]"

By analogy to viruses and human beings, in any human society sick people (infected by viruses) go around the city without being bothered, nobody will ask the public transport system to scan the users and bar sick people from taking the bus in order not to infect other people in the bus. this should be the same for ISPs! Just in case of very malicious behavior the ISP should intervene to bar access to its network!

Perhaps a way to go is to permit only using slate machines, ex iPad or Table PCs. This way, you have the power of digital media and at the same time, it's much harder to play games or social networking in the class? Just an idea!

I don't blame students, I believe this is mainly a system's structural problem. Our value system is built around monetary compensation but when it comes to scientific research, we (specially our leaders) are not ready to compensate the Ph.D. students with high salaries. I don't believe it's our students' fault but this is value system problem which doesn't consider long term efforts and is obsessed by short term. We should pay our Pd.D. students more and we'll see many more students doing brilliant Ph.Ds on science etc. But instead, we are obsessed by short term: it's much cheaper to hire students from third world than increasing Ph.D. scholarships etc The US government spends billions in useless wars, but when it comes to paying our students for them to have better lives, create highly qualified jobs for the future and be a long term investment in our societies they simply forfeit!

the problem is that it takes so much CPU load and time for training and in addition what to do with the false positives?

During Iran June elections unrest, Youtube, and Twitter were integral part of the democratic movement in Iran. By disseminating the info and relying the opposition they helped fight Iranian totalitarian regime, and the repeated efforts of Iranian government to cut even the Internet and censor the access to the Internet says much about how afraid they are from the free Internet. Denying people in these countries access to the open software they can use to spread the Internet and related technology, therefore indirectly spreading democracy in their countries, and fight against their totalitarian regimes seems to be completely counter productive? I wonder how this could help anybody? How this can specially help freedom in the world? Specially, that the governments in these countries controling the Internet access can work around this control spending a couple of hundreds of dollars buying access in any place else in the world, be it China or elsewhere in the middle east! For Twitter, US administration even asked Twitter to help, can anybody in US administration understands the issue and make some amendments?

Be in research in North America for more than 15 years now. In reality, the important number of Chinese researchers in north American universities is due rather to the lack of interest from North American students for long term studies: 80% of Masters and PhD students in computer science in North American universities are from the third world, e.g. China and India. this is not simply a matter of conjecture, it's a deep trend which takes root in North American value system which everything is evaluated in dollars. In these terms, how to motivate the students to pursue higher studies, paid a misery for 4-5 years to have their Ph.Ds in order to have a job underpaid compared to their colleagues who went to the industry?

IMO, the main issue is that ISPs throttle encrypted data and "try to" monitor it as an indication of botnet activity etc, e.g. all commands from command and control centers to bots are encrypted that said, the main CPU challenge is on the server side and not on the client side: when google servers receive each thousands of encrypted packets the sum of decryption load on CPU is the problem. On client side, I don't believe that with modern CPUs the extra load is significant,

I guess the main target of VMWare are corporates and enterprises. These corporates are ready to spend some extra dollars to be sure that their data is secure. Not to mention, the government and banking institutions which are ready to pay big bucks to be sure that there is no breach in their security.

Read the article! This is not any material, this is material to censor people asking for their freedom! If yet you don't see anything wrong, I'm sorry for you! Don't be blinded by misplaced national pride or material interest! This is freedom we talk about! Who knows whose turn would be tomorrow?

Don't forget social networking! This is one of greatest tools to trace people, to see who knows who! And who says what!

sad to say, but many often the job is just a curtain in front of your reality: it covers the unbearable emptiness of your life, once it's gone, you don't have any choice to see the reality!