been around the world several times. found braindead everywhere. especially so in english-speaking countries. but maybe that's just because i understood what they were saying more than most.

Colleges still have LOTS of exits. It's high schools and grade schools that are much more controlled.

You're obviously very young. Go a little further back, to the 60's and the Texas Massacre.

If I had an iPhone, I'd seriously consider not accepting further upgrades.

Exactly wrong. You need to learn more about the situation. Work for hire rules do not apply in all situations, and especially when contracts exist. Teachers are paid to teach, and little more. Public school contracts stipulate ownership of developed material, and the norm is for the teachers to own their work. Otherwise, they'd get paid more. It's one way that schools avoid paying higher salaries.

Yes, the dam can form at any point where the roof is not warm enough. Intuitively obvious?

Ice dams form, as in the link you provided, at the point where there is no heat, where the roof extends past the house exterior walls. This dome would be a very good example of a poorly insulated roof. The ice dam would thus form at ground level along the edge of the dome. Hence, my original comment about water runoff management (to prevent ice dams).

This would be a good deal larger dome than a sporting event dome, with active households and vehicles under it. There could be more heat trapped within it than a sports dome would trap. A sports dome has occasional occupation, versus the continuous occupation a city dome would have.

Plus, cities have politicians. This is a wonderful source of hot air.

keep in mind that the heat of the warm air rising in the dome would be sufficient to maintain it well above freezing. therefore, snow would not collect. there would have to be some allowances made in the design for water runoff during winter, which would cause some ice buildup around it from even light snows.

Exactly. The author must be a role player by choice. Not every game needs a story line. He probably never played poker or rummy as a kid, either.

Worse than just a breach of privacy of email, students use their college-provided accounts to communicate with their faculty. If other students are able to see their emails, that constitutes a potential FERPA breach. As a college IT administrator, I would be screaming at Google for not sharing info and reacting immediately. Waiting a day to shut the accounts down temporarily is inexcusable.

that this might be intelligent design after all.

1. A longer neural path between brain and vocal cords might force more time between thought and speech, although it's quite clear that many humans barely think before speaking.

2. Rerouting the nerve keeps it out of the way of the penis during fellatio.

3 years ago, Spamhaus was fined by a US federal court in Illinois. Of course, jurisdiction was the issue, and the US lost in the appeal. It was reported on here in slashdot. Makes the US no different from Belgium, except Belgian beer is better than ours. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/05/1359232

You must be new here. You will never get rated insightful if you conflict with a geek's opinion, regardless of the accuracy of your post. Also, you will always get a low score of 1 or 2. Conversely, geek whines are always rated insightful, 4 or 5 score.

In most of the country (at least in the US) you are rather limited on broadband access. There is typically a cable provider in the area, and many of them do not offer Internet access. There is typically a telephone provider that can provide you service, but even the big ones don't offer Internet access everywhere. [I live in a city-burb of Chicago, in a high-end neighborhood, and though I get dozens of leaflets from AT&T every year about cheaper, faster access, they don't offer it at my house. Go figure.] So most people in the US don't necessarily have a lot of choice.

The second piece of this is that if you want to always pay the cheapest rate, you're going to get shared, multiplexed service. If you want dedicated bandwidth, it's probably available to you. Just ask for business class service, which will give you a guaranteed rate. Of course, you're going to pay significantly different costs for guaranteed rates.

Finally, you have the option to complain as a customer to your provider, and to rally support with other consumers. Do it. Meanwhile, *everyone* knows that home Internet service is a multiplexed service, even if they don't know the term. It's like your subdivision street. Your provider will gradually increase bandwidth as the "street" gets busier. However, it makes little sense to invest $100,000 in a vault upgrade or add a $200/mo charge to their operation when 98% of a 100-home subdivision is barely using the bandwidth, and 1 or 2 users are constantly consuming all available bandwidth. They should pay for the upgrade. But they'd rather complain. The provider's obvious option is to shape them. Most of the time, that just means lowering priority for certain classes of traffic such as file sharing protocols (Gnutella, eDonkey, etc.) compared to interactive protocols such as http. Few bother to do rate limiting. Mostly, they just shape so that when the network is operating near capacity, the interactive stuff gets priority.

Meanwhile, no one else wants to bear the cost burden of increasing bandwidth just so Joey-down-the-block can share files with his buds across the planet. If my provider told me that they have to increase the costs in our area because Joey's complaining, I'd laugh and tell them to charge Joey.

Absolutely agreed. I'm 50, been CIO in two organizations, and an independent consultant. I keep my technical knowledge and my management skills polished all the time. I don't care about syntactic discussions in specific languages, but I do keep up to speed on infrastructure, convergence, systems hardening, security tools and techniques, risk management, and other areas. The political jungle is often the most challenging part. My age means nothing to the people I work for, except that it implies seasoned experience. My skill sets are everything. Just the way I want it.