Leaks is the quantifiable noun.* While leak is normally a verb, leaks can be used as a noun just like runs. For example, I have a case of the runs. The verb in the quoted sentence is detected!

According to the link you provided the theoretical max is ~73% . The 35% you cite is the average we are doing now.

The best thing to do right now is to ACE the course and continue acing your courses. Then once you are close to your final year, go have a chat with the dept chair/ dean. You will be amazed at how receptive the admin will be to your suggestions, since you have 30 yrs of experience and you will have all A's in your course work. (Unless you are attending one of the for profit universities then they want to do what is easy/ most profitable). The trick is to offer suggestions on what will make the course better for the entire class. Some students come in not knowing how to log onto a computers, others believe that internet explorer is the internet. Thus the course is required. You could also talk to your prof now and see if there is a way to get exempted from the course through a petition to chairperson for curriculum. In my dept that would be the undergrad curriculum director or the grad director. Usually if you can demonstrate you have mastered the objectives of the course (usually through a written or oral exam) then they will exempt you from the course and ask you to take a more challenging course and count those credit hours towards your degree, or just give you the credit hours. While most of us at Slashdot get to use our computers for more than word processors/ spreadsheets, this is hardly the experience of most users. Not only that, "intro to computing" is likely to be one of those "core curriculum" courses that every one is required to take. That way when you are a senior and required to write up your capstone/ design project the prof does not have to waste time teaching the students how to insert equations/citations or how to set up a spreadsheet to run some simple calculations. Yes it sucks but push through and you never know you may learn some useful feature in word, highly doubtful as we are talking about MS.

$300 for 10Mbps for 10 years is $2.5/mo. That's less than a penny a day. Please deposit 12,000,000 of those pennies into my bank account, I will gladly pay you $120,000 USD upon verification from my bank ;-).

In all seriousness, google is charging their "customer" $300 for this service for 10Yrs, and they are then charging their true customer for the ability to know all the online activity of the "customer." It is like Google is reading right from the cable companies play book.

TL:DR the patent. However, Dell (a leader in innovation) has had facial recognition to log on to a user account for at least 2 years now, as my studio XPS 16 has the ability to do so.

I would imagine there there was more than enough particles/ sub particles present, even if there was only a zepto-mole of particles that Heisenberg would have said that two digits of precision is allowable.

I was thinking the same thing, in a limitless universe you are likely to find at least one instance of a "flat" solar system. However, in a limitless universe, there is likely a large number of "flat" solar systems.

Your paper shredder is no longer sufficient. I am here to market to you a paper burner!

The cost to launch DOD satellites is usually a small percentage of the over budget for the build of the satellite.
I am having a hard time with how we get things that were not meant to be interchangeable to link up in orbit to take on a new mission. Now if we could build a WALL-E (SPACE-E) that is capable of catching, manipulating, disassembling and construction of a new satellite that would be pretty impressive. However by the time we develop that technology we will have spent a considerable amount of money.
Perhaps the path forward is to develop satellites that can either connect (dock if you will) to the ones currently in orbit and use some of the preexisting equipment on board to perform a new mission, or build new satellites with a "SPACE-Port" that allows future satellites to dock with it and use the host's equipment. Right now I see the problem on the order of trying to connect a CDC 6060 with a K Computer.

I wonder if that includes telephone?

If a commercial vendor can manage to write the required code in the time given, the budget given, and meet all interface demands from the various perspective users. There is still no way that certain TLA (three letter agencies) will let all their documents be indexed. Thus, the project is DOA.

NASA's strategic goal was to force the Russian's to spend more money on their space program, while they maintained a healthy defense budget to protect itself from potential US threats. Now the USA has an obese defense/ security budget protecting itself from... ???? and it has managed to "bail out" several large companies with large PAC's to protect the USA and "global" economy from.... ??? If there is any question as to why the USA is falling behind, just read a little history about the cold war, or if you prefer the short version look at the National Budget ~20% GPD v. Taxes ~15% GDP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget I suspect that while Neil used the context of NASA, he was talking about a much larger problem than the insignificant budget of NASA, forget man space flight.

• 1) Invent chemical free chemistry set
• 2) Market said set to Morons
• 3)....
• 4)profit

and I though selling 16oz bottles full of water was never going to catch

I do not expect to use any electronics that transmit or receive radio data on a flight. However, as an engineer I do expect that someone will forget to turn off the radio on their device. Thus if I was designing flight control hardware, I would want to ensure that my equipment would not be adversely affected by someone who forgot to turn off their device(s).

How in the world are new devices developed and approved for production that ignore the possibility of EMI from portable devices? There are no excuses for such negligence.