Actually, the human eye can really only perceive images with 16ms at the very fastest. Most people's cognitive recognition is at about 50ms, and auditory recognition is about 70ms.

Because when these people graduate, they become our peers in society. They become the people on your jury, they become the people that vote in our elections, and they become the people who end up brainwashing the rest of society.

They had their most profitable year ever last year (the first full year since they made the change), so I guess good?

These types of devices have existed in the SCUBA community for quite a while -- they are known as rebreathers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebreather . Usual rebreathers add O2 from an external tank and replenish (as oppose to air/nitrox from a regular scuba tank). This device is supposed to extract o2 from the water using an osmosis type of approach. Should be doable, but I don't know how it could keep up based on the design.

I'm a first generation American, so my parents were not well educated. My dad was always gone at work (out of state) and my mom worked two jobs. While my mom wasn't able to help me with my homework the key was that she made sure I did it and got me the resources when I needed them. Those resourced didn't cost the family a dime -- they were a combination of after-school programs, but more often they were friends and co-workers who helped me out. She would take a shift for a co-worker while they would tutor me on things like Shakespeare.

It required a LOT of motivation and dedication on my parents part. It wasn't the school that helped me a long -- I came from a failing school, in a failing district that had no resources outside what it was legally required to provide. Hell, sports were "pay-to-play" which precluded about 3/4 of the school from participating. When you go to a school that had 61% of the kids on the hot-lunch-program and a graduation rate that was less than 50%, you know what you are dealing with. I was lucky to escape the environment, graduating HS and attending a University and getting an awesome job out the gate.

Let alone many schools won't accept AP credit if that is what your major is in. Why take an AP test if CS is your passion but it does absolutely no good? Unlike most other AP exams (language, math, etc) those credits are useful for people who are not in those majors.

Stupid shop owner and their bengal tiger... Always getting in the way of Ozzy's M&M's...

But they don't see a way to make money off the content online.... They are forcing us to subscribe to a cable service, or we will be punished and will have to wait the extra week to see that content..

It's a play to get more money out of the re-trans fees they are getting from the cable companies. If they help get more cable subs, then they can demand more in retrans fees from the cable providers...

If you use your card with a PIN (or PIN and Chip), then there are much fewer protections. If you use your debit card with a VISA or MC logo as a credit-card then you are generally protected (although you will need to fight for the money to come back in your account sooner than later, as opposed to not paying that amount when your statement comes).

It all depends on the bank. Last time my debit card got lifted they reported my card as stolen. They overnighted a new card for me (they called me at 6pm, I had the new card in my hands by 9am, four states away), and they setup a 90 day, interest-free loan to cover all the transactions that happened during the time the card was being used by somebody else. I got back a week later, filled out a form, the charges were reversed and I paid back the loan with the money that came in on the reversed charges.

Sure it was an extra headache, but they really didn't put me out for anything. In fact, they called back a few times to make sure everything was ok.

You don't have to have a fork up your ass all the time -- you choose it by association. If you let assholes handle your money then expected to be treated as such when things go wonky ;)

Every time you join their wireless network, there is a click-through stating you agree that your traffic will be stored, should you do something stupid. Not in those same words, but close enough (at least in a series of two sentences... of which any Harvard student should be able to understand..

Most of their traffic capturing was put in because of a mandate from the MPAA and RIAA back quite a few years ago. They were either going to be sued for aiding and abetting or they had to keep logs of which students were downloading which Metallica songs. They don't keep the traffic just the IP headers (actually trends, not every IP header). This was very well publicized a few years ago and shouldn't be a surprise to anybody.

Additionally, the upstream provider is required to conform to CALEA laws anyway, which would have been able to provide the same types of reports. It would have required Harvard's assistance to translate an IP to a person (I'm more than assuming they would have been willing to do this as well). CALEA does not require ISPs to notify that their traffic is being recorded, but guess what -- anything that leaves your network is out there in the open and may be open for inspection.

Most likely they had to put them in due to agreements with the MPAA and RIAA. Back about 6 or 7 years ago when music piracy was still at the tips of everyone's tongues, these organizations threatened to sue most of the major universities for aiding and abetting piracy if they didn't track what their users were doing. Most schools put in IDP systems on their outer-most gateways to the world to capture the data out of band for a short amount of time.

I don't think it's that simple.

It's easy to buy somebody a military-grade weapon to respond to a shooting. A few buck, one-time charge to a department that wants to spend it. Heck, just think of all the uses that one-time charge would provide!

It's not easy to reform our health system (look at how they tried, then completely failed because of the political battles and lobbyists), where there would be an ongoing charge that people would be reminded of each and every year when they pay their taxes. Regardless if they get better services (like mental health services) for the same if not lower prices -- it became a perceived burden that is subject to the political whims each and every year there is a new congress that wants to push their current agenda.

In my mind, the reason why the USA has all these problems with guns is not because of the guns. It's because of the people (guns don't kill people -- people kill people). All of the comparables that you can look at in Europe, Asia, etc. where firearms are available (or even in many places where it is not), if somebody has a mental illness there are actually resources available to help them. In the USA getting any help for mental illnesses is discouraged either due to lack of insurance, the incorrect insurance (service A is covered, but you need service B, which is not), or even the fear that they find something worse and you end up having to sell your house to get basic coverage. I have a few friends that are taking care of others who have severe mental issues -- and even though they have good jobs they have to live like paupers because of all the stuff that isn't covered by the insurance they can afford (and even them, the people they are helping get treatment are only getting the bare minimal treatment) . A fellow engineer who makes $100k/yr is living with his mother who has dementia barely has enough to pay for gas each week. Her medical bills alone after insurance is still $5k/month. If that doesn't discourage you to get treatment, I don't know what will.

Which is funny, as AT&T is starting petitions (and passing laws) in many states to no longer be considered a common carrier and be regulated as a utility.

Not to argue (I'm one who does everything on the desktop myself), but pretty much all the printers come with built-in WiFi, bluetooth and/or network connectivity. I think maybe the $25 printers on sale at Best Buy might be the only ones that are USB only. The last two ones I bought are WiFi enabled, and they surprisingly work well from my tablets.