Some interesting news from the field

The FCC has ruled that Comcast cannot discriminate against P2P (Bit torrent) users:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080801-reactions-to-fccs-comcast-spanking-come-fast-and-furious.html

Also, the University of Washington has developed a free and handy way to track your laptop if it is stolen:

http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/index.html