@bobba: Please don't start an OS war by slagging linux like that. There are distributions of linux that you have to pay for. A couple that come to mind are Xandros, Mandriva, and linspire.

@JRae: please see the above comment

@Craig: My beef is not with the article, it is with the marketers who are spinning an unproven claim about a product as being true

@waffles: That is very true. When we encode (learn) information, we are not only learning the information we are reading, but also everything going on around us, including sound and our surroundings. This leads to contextual effects. I.e., we recall information best in the environment that we learned said information…

These kinds of claims really burn me. There are only a handful of studies done in this area of cognitive research that can at best claim mixed results. I wish companies and marketers would not jump the gun on this and rip off consumers.

me smells a cover up....

I use the password manager included with my thinkpad. It uses a fingerprint scanner to secure my passwords

Airhorns are a legitimate safety tool. infact, I believe it is mandatory on boats of a certain size

Narsil,