While not the right fit for everyone Harvard Extension School.

http://www.extension.harvard.edu/

At the bachelor's level they on offer a Bachelors of Liberal Arts (ALB), but they offer a great deal of flexibility in selecting courses including many interesting computer science courses. A considerable number of courses can be taken on-line, but there is a residency requirement. Although it is fairly common for people to commute from quite a distance to attend courses to meet the residency requirement, personally commuted from Virginia to complete my ALM degree.

How about the negative impact caused by hundred of thousand (perhaps a million?) passengers each day being feed an obvious line of BS?

On the off chance that some flight somewhere in the US has an message of actual importance and/or value, it is more likely to be believed and properly acted upon if the recipients have not come to expect nothing but a constant flow of mistruths from the FAA/air crews.

A throwaway device as part of a magazine, finally we have an android device where the complete failure of generally available updates will not disappoint their users.

If companies that went about gathering and/or storing sensitive information for others, then screw it up and allow that information into the wrong hands faced real liability for their failures perhaps more companies would do a better job of protecting their information. Or even better, some may opt to not gather/store the data in the first place.

Fortunately for them, their business partners have established such a low level of success that they can do nothing and show that they have exceeded the industry standard.

......as bad as the handset makers/carriers for Android phones are at getting updates out, most of these handsets will be obsolete by the time this 'update' gets pushed out.

Who cares?

If the only way these things will sell is at firesale prices, then you can guarantee that there will be no long term supply, hence not worth the ongoing efforts of a developer. Just bury them in the desert next to the unused Atari cartridges and move on with your life.

... among the remaining executives at RIM anyway. Elsewhere, nobody cares what they are doing.

That would be 15% of the tablets owned by members of RIM's executive team.

I do not know what Fantasy world you come from in which the world is teaming with highly educated and rational older people and somehow the youth managed to get stupid.

I see an endless sea of older people who supposedly were the students of this formally great education system and I am not impressed.

is that it makes me feel even better about no longer working for General Dynamics.

Having a chalk board in a rrom does not cause education to take place, but if it is well used it can be helpful to the process.

Giving a kid a computer is only slightly better than giving them a chalk board. If you provide tools and guidence and use the tool well then you have a chance an real learning.

You make an interesting observational point, that mant piss-poor drivers are indeed using cell phones. But in every state in the country we have a varaity of laws on the books to deal with this behavior. Many (most?) states have distracted driving laws as a catch all, but outside of this the driver can be charged with tailgating, failure to maintain their lane, changing lanes w/o signaling, failure to obey a highway sign, the hits just keep on coming.

Wrap up three or four of these in a stop and the need for an additonal law seems rather anticlimactic.

If you feel the need to use the term so many times in a paragraph, perhaps you should spend the time to learn what the word means.