Pencils rock! A good solid pencil will out preform a pen every time!

I personally went to a non-accredited technical collage and it lead me to my current job ( decent pay )

The hands on skills and networking with teachers and other students was the big draw for me.

Worth noting is that a lot of companies like to hire for these places for the specific reason that you don't have a degree. Yes it means less pay, but it also means for my ~$3500 one year course I was hired within 3 months of completion, and am making 2.5x minimum wage in my area. Is it great, no. Does it mean I am free to explore other interests? Definitely. Better to do this then take a 3-4 year course costing tens of thousands of dollars to maybe end up in a job I don't like.

These cards are only as good as the people using them. They do not give live feedback on where someone is, they simply are used to swipe into rooms. If I swipe in to the school in the morning then skip all day, return to swipe out at the last bell, the system thinks I was in school all day. There is no alarm that sounds when the cards are out of range or any nonsense like that. This type of system is used literally everywhere from private to government companies for access control.

The MMO EVE online is all about space combat and other than sound in space it does pretty well.

The reason for a carrier type ship with a complement of small fighters is because a large ship cannot combat may small ones, they are too small and too fast for the larger weapons systems to have any effect. EVE has drones for this purpose and it makes a significant impact on game play..

I second this with as much gusto as I can!!!!

Underground is a HUGE idea that is already used for data centers on our little rock.

Before we get an online voting system we need a political party worth voting for!

I would love to see a preference based voting system and mandatory voting.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_voting

So when there are no viable options we can say so instead of not showing up.

Because being filthy stinking rich and not having to struggle to make a name for yourself is NOT the goal of many up and coming -insert art form here-.

I think George is OK with where he is, rolling around in all that money.

Why not maintain the IPv4 for the home scale devices (5 port routers) with a IPv6 WAN side connection?

It seems very overkill to push IPv6 to the home level even with "network light bulbs" how many can one house have? 20 - 30 would be a lot of lights and even if everything in your house came with built in WiFi I don't think you could fill up 255 addresses on 99% of homes out there.

Also for a tech perspective can you imagine the support calls with customers rattling of IPv6 addresses all the time?

  my $0.02 anyways.

My vote is on Sony!!!

          They made some system update with poor/broken security measures and then hit the big red OMGWTFBBQ button to kill the PSN. Why else would it be a world wide problem not localized to region?

I thing these guys nailed it...

I am not the best at linking things but here it goes:

http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/

At my work we routinely supply panel PC's for industrial conditions, water, dust etc.

http://www.aispro.com/TabletPC/TabletPCQuery_Tab.asp?Type=1310

They are well rated and have options for docking stations as well.

You can run the server software ( Free ) on any older machine and the phones are nearly open source with the options they have.

The Phone can be expensive but any unit ( phone, cell, PC etc) that can run SIP based telephone calls will interface fine.

For example I have a HTC Dream with android and the SIPDroid app works very well.

Links:
http://www.trixbox.org/

http://www.polycom.com/

http://www.sipdroid.com/

It could work if all your projcts were episodic in nature. If you never had to revisit old code or have more that one person work on a project at a time. Think your favorite fast food place, they change managment constatly but because the problems they face never last more that a shift at a time it works out