Wake us up when you have a remote exploit.
There's a nap for that.
You'd essentially have to ship the top 500 feet of soil and rock of the entire areas to China or India, but even that's just moving the problem away from the USA.
I'm all for it. Evidence predicts that it will be handled no worse, with a drop in accent comprehension, but a huge benefit in hourly wage expenditures.
I don't think the environment would be terribly friendly to my sensitive skin.
Blame it on the rain that was falling, falling
Blame it on the stars that shine at night
It is possible to create a system which is actually impossible to crack, short of social engineering or unprecedented changes in technology.
If you have to include caveats, then the system is only theoretically, not actually, impossible to crack. Social engineering is still just too effective, especially in this case, where the computers will be used by students (not IT professionals). Trying to pass it off as a minor issue by lumping it with a phrase like "unprecedented changes in technology" doesn't make it any less so.
I think $59.99 may be a cap price for a while.
The left-digit effect: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090223221526.htm
Although arbitrary, I'd say it's common for consumers to think of "round" price points like $50 and $100 when it comes to entertainment (games, a night at the movies, dinner out, etc). The left-digit effect would make $59.99 the highest price to still "feel" like it belongs to $50, whereas the left-digit change of $60.00 would remind consumers they're "approaching" what they might consider an off-putting number.
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.