Similar sort of thing here in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. I sit on the board that run the Smart Communities Society which administers a fiber network called NTNet. We're going to be increasing our fibre network as soon as a bridge is built across a river to connect fiber from the south.

It is really only effective for businesses who resell our network. Cable users gain infrastructure, I guess because our internet service provider makes money off what they (over)charge for bandwidth.

Makes sense because many scientists are from foreign countries were religion is perhaps more sacred, like India, for example.

Although an atheist I appreciate some religion. Science can learn from it. I went to a CBC Massey lecture and listened to a great anthropologist, Wade Davis speak, and this was very well explained. If anyone else is interested in science, language, religion, anthropology and how they all come together they should read "The Wayfinders" by Wade Davis.

"Water flows uphill towards money." -Unknown

Although I believe in captialism, this is just wrong. Intel has the money that they can afford to delsalinate water. Many of their employees are based in India and China, and this is incredibly unfair that they have to make their own employees and those who can't afford water, suffer. If they were efficient, they could probably incorporate a desalination plant and keep a server farm there cooled by water from a salt ocean and then desalinate it.

Capitalism has taken a lot of water in the largest aquifer in Peru. The Bush family actually own a large section of land on their aquifer and may consider selling it if oil doesn't work out. (Source: Blue Gold, documentary).

There is going to be more people with degrees per square mile where there are many artsy people, San Fransisco for example. Arts grads get paid less and therefore will probably be more confined, perhaps to coffee shops. ;)

Computer engineering and programmers get very good pay and large offices, like at Google. They are going to more spread out, like in Silicon Valley.

I work for a small northern Canada tech company with people with engineering, math, commerce and science degrees, in a small office of about 10 people. Around the office in my city (Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada) has a lot of high school graduate diamond mine workers, oil workers, and engineering companies working for all of our industries and many arts grads without jobs (no surprise). I think measuring people with degrees per square mile is a good idea because our industry workers without degrees are barely in town and few are often living here for long. I think that it makes for innacurate findings.

BTW, sorry for any rambling, bad spelling or grammar, little sleep, apartment burnt down, etc.

"But although the department's site has the extra step of asking for a mother's maiden name and guarantor's name (presumably, the person who signed the passport photo and application), some implementations of Edentiti used by financial institutions simply check that the passport is valid and details are correct based on date of birth, full name and place of birth."

Sounds a lot like how Sarah Palin's email got hacked to me. Asking security questions has proven to fail when someone wants someone's information.