There is one, it's called University of the People. You can get a complete BSCS and $4k. The school is accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC) Accrediting Commission. They also offer an associate's in computer science for $2k, and the credits will transfer to most institutions.

Someone already posted this, but for some reason it was modded it down. I speculate that the educational industry does want people to know they can get an entire bachelor's degree for just a fraction of the price.

http://uopeople.edu/
http://www.detc.org/

Just run the connection through a sacrificial network switch that can be grounded. Personally I would have a the telco line earth grounded on the outside, connected to a surge suppressor on the inside telco wires, and another surge suppressor on the network side, which is then connected to a sacrificial switch. You can't be too careful with telco lines that are attached to the network, last thing you ever want is for lighting to decide to use your master network switch as it's path to ground, because this will probably blow out every device on the network... I've had it happen, issuance forked out a few hundred thousand to fix everything that got zapped.

Exactly. Full range power supplies should be able to handle a surge if you have it properly connected to a point of use surge suppressor. I have a whole building surge suppressor on the main panel that clamps at 360 volts. Additionally I have point of use surge suppressors that are properly grounded. Typically I'll also run a separate ground, from the breaker panel and connect it to the server rack, then I'll ground the server chassis to the rack, this will let everything float at the same reference voltage. Furthermore, telecommunications lines running into or out of a building should be earth grounded on the outside and also connected to a surge suppressor on the inside of the building that is grounded to the main service panel.

If you build your environment to withstand a lighting strike then you will also be able to withstand a CME.

Nuclear power plants melting down will not be a problem. All of them have generators that can run all of the equipment for over a week. Most plants are design in such a way that the control rods will fall into place in the event of a power loss. However, if the grid got fried they would have to take the plant offline, they would damage the equipment if they ran it without a load attached to discharge the power.

Since a gas station would have gas, all they would need is a generator to keep the station running. Tanker trucks shouldn't be affected by CMEs, so with generators being readily available I don't foresee this as being a significant problem.

What I do foresee is an economic melt down since electronic transactions would grind to a halt. There would be a run on the banks since there is not enough cash reserves on hand, only $1.22 trillion dollars in Federal Reserve notes are in circulation. Businesses would not be able to use their credit accounts or pay employees. We would have to resort to bartering, the economy would collapse, no one would have money to buy gas.

Another problem I see is with the water supply. If a CME fried all the water pumps we would be totally fucked, becuse people begin to die in as little as three days without water. Furthermore, without refrigerators to store food, stoves to cook food, or water to grow crops there would be a massive food shortage.

I think this would make for a good movie, that should raise awareness of the issue.

The developer stole nothing, one element necessary for theft is intentionally depriving the owner of their property and the owner was never deprived of their property. This is conversion

This is ridiculous. He did not deprive the owner of their property, the elements of theft have not been met. This should have been handled as a conversion claim in civil court. What I think is criminal is the corporation using their power to influence the criminal justice system.

Would the flight crew, or even a passenger on the plane, know that the engine has a radio in it? Is it within the realm of possibilities that they took the batteries out of the plane and connected them to the engine's radio to use as a beacon? If the plane crash landed on solid ground, could the emergency radio beacon been destroyed, perhaps due to blast damage? Were any individuals on the plane that had a background in electronics that could MacGyver something up?

Not exactly. They guarantee the safety of a depositor's accounts in member banks up to $250,000 for each deposit ownership category in each insured bank. So if you dump $500k into a CD and the bank goes bust you only get $250k. Credit unions fall under a different program, the NCUA, and are insured up to $250,000. If you have a million dollars, you would be smart to not put all your money in one place.

Can most animals also see infrared light? This may not be commonly known, but we, warm blooded animals, glow. Our body heat cause the emission of photons in the infrared spectrum, this is how forward looking infrared (FLIR) cameras work. Anyways, I was just wondering if animals can see other animals glowing at night.

"Who is being irresponsible here? The parent? Or Google?"

The child, and Google for facilitating the child. The parent can lawfully, and in good faith, dispute the charges with their credit card company.

It doesn't matter what is in the contract with apple or bank. The charge put onto the credit card was an act of fraud perpetrated by the child. The card holder did not contractually consent to the transaction. The only recourse for Apple or the bank is to have the child criminally prosecuted or commence a civil suit to try and hold the parent(s) responsible for the child's actions. Good luck with ether one of those, as Apple facilitated the child. Furthermore, because the card holder did not consent to the charges, they can lawfully, and in good faith, dispute the charges with their credit card company. The parent has a clear path of recourse against Apple, which is to dispute the charges with the credit card company.

No. Strictly speaking, the only person authorized to transact purchases on your credit card is you. This is why you need to sign for purchases with a credit card in real life; it's a contract, and at the end of the day the card holder did not consent (contractually) to the purchases and can lawfully dispute the charges. In this instance the child was the one who defrauded the bank. However, because they're not likely to even comprehend the crime they perpetrated the child wound not be prosecuted criminally. Technically there is nothing stopping the bank from coming after the parent of the child for civil damages, the bank would have start a civil suit at law to hold the parents responsible for the child's actions. The bank doesn't have the resources to do that in every case so they simply accept it as a cost of doing business.

This was already tried with the Tassimo, T Disc, system. Each T disc has a bar code on the label that controls brewing parameters. The new Keurig VUE system is the same, and will fail miserably, simply because it's not compatible with K-cups. What happened was the K-cup patents expired, so Keurig developed a new, patented, cup design. However, K-cups are now patent unencumbered, ubiquitous in the market, and very cheap to produce. With time, you'll see the price of K-cups come down drastically, in response to competition, and this action will cement K-cups as the de facto standard for single serving coffee.

It will parallel that of Microsoft's Surface RT tablets. Think of K-cups as Windows/x86 programs, with the new system being a Windows/arm platform.

Umm, Robocop?