that of the massive drone industry, which, more than just producing a symbol, actually is creating flying death?"

There is a clear and distinct difference between using a dead animal as a work of art (which is pushing the limit of what art really is) and using man-made tools to go after people who have expressed in both word and deed they want to kill us.

Post the article, leave out the commentary. Or would you prefer when articles are posted about government science research, commentary regarding how this only feeds the beast be included?

Thank HTML5 for the death of caching as much as the advertising.

It is all apps now. And in schools they KNOW they are all incompetent boobs so they want nothing that requires skilled labor to maintain. So outsourcing is the word. Everything. Gradebooks, attendance, cafeteria manegement, email of course, Courseware, scheduling and calendaring, yearbooks. If it isn't being delivered from the cloud now it is because they are still fighting over which vendor they want to write a check to. (read as the bidding is still fierce over who will kick back more.. ok, I'm a cynic) That pattern means they need LOTS of bandwidth now and will need an ever growing amount going forward into an HD Video for everything future.

And the vendors love it. It will of course drive lots of sales to schools themselves but when the kids can't do their homework without a constant high bandwidth connection it drives the 'Internet is a 'Right'' meme that leads to even more billions and billions of sweet sweet government money that will only be available to the politically connected.

I fix the problems created by programmers, management and end users. Anything and everything that comes down the pipe I will eventually see or be asked to correct.

I also continually harp on the zero communication that takes place where I work. When I say zero, I mean zero. "We have someone starting today, we need an account and a PC by 2" says the management hack at 1.

"We have new equipment arriving in 30 minutes. Do you need any information to help the delivery person when they get here?" I get in an email when I'm off work and which no one bothers to look at the call until I get back almost a week later.

So as I've said elsewhere, solving the world's problems is easy. Getting people to follow your directions is hard.

Anyone looking for a problem solver?

Most universities have more than 1000 students. Let's assume they have 10,000 students. Now we are at 1gbps or 10x100mbps. I'm having a hard time figuring out, even assuming that 50% were using it all at once (so 1mbps per 5 students), how they need that for educational purposes. Plus, assuming that 50% of the student body all suddenly download a *ahem* textbook at the same time? Hum. And, seriously... because of online courses or online books, that's why it needs that sort of broadband? That's kinda ridiculous.

I understand wanting it for certain sections of the school, perhaps - like the CS department (downloading Linux, or Microsoft stuff through MSDN, etc.) or multimedia department (video is pretty big. :) ). But that has little to do with online textbooks or online collaboration tools...

It appears that you've gone off your meds again, number 980855.

Please return to the reeducation cell immediately.

Stop that! Stop that!

You're not going to talk about Scientology while I'm here.....

Agree with the coward: I have Wii and PS3 hooked up to a 42 inch HDTV. It may help that it's plasma instead of LCD, but we have no problems - and while I'm old school, my kids aren't - and they like it just fine.

When continental drift was explained to me, all the teacher had to do was show us a map of the world and it became obvious how most large land masses easily fit together... it didn't seem like much of a stretch. But then I hadn't thought about it before then and didn't have some impression of fixed continents deeply rooted in my brain.

And it (iPad) doesn't run Linux.

Oh really?

I don't see why people continue to think that a device that is physically in hand can have any lasting restrictions whatsoever for the technically inclined. So it is, so shall it always be. That's why complaints that any given device is "locked down" is so laughable.

He'll go into obscurity for a few years. Then, out of the blue, he'll show up to help the real-life Harold and Kumar and then become a womanizer in NY on a real-life "How I Met Your Mother".