Did anyone actually RTFA?

I know it is nice to bash McAfee and Norton all day, but Firefox's rapid release/upgrade cycle appears to be at fault here as well.

The next question is what exactly are these people going to do for a job out there? While the population density may be similar to Manhattan, there is no easy way to go anywhere away from where you live/work. Especially when you consider what it would take to make a floating runway capable of supporting commercial airliners. So it may be really hard to find enough people who would be able to tolerate living on these floating communities for any length of time.

I'll take issue with that, at the college level at least. Go back and look at your college texts, how many of them were written by some professor at the school? If institutions didn't insist on using using the textbook from "their professor", you could have significantly larger printing runs of the textbooks which would greatly reduce costs.

Not saying the publishing companies aren't making a profit, but both sides are responsible for gouging the students.

Yes they do. They were paid quite well for them. Of course why take the risk of selling them to a terrorist organization when there are legitimate agencies ready to buy them as well.

Yes, the cost of nuclear power has gone down since the 1990's because those decommissioned nukes are much easier to de-enrich to civilian nuclear power plant levels than it is to enrich normal uranium ore.

Actually the current version of Websphere is 7.0 (about 4 months old) and it runs on a Java 6.0 JVM (which is IBM's for the Windows and AIX versions of Websphere).