Your RPI medal will get you a half price discount at a great school and a degree that will easily unlock many doors just on the name alone.

RPI is where so many key technologies have originated (including Ethernet!) and that will continue to be true going forward. It's also a school that encourages undergraduate participation in such projects. You'll never regret the opportunity.

Please consider reading the book "2030" by Albert Brooks.
It's one view of it all.

And the State of CT has no open container law (passengers can freely drink on moving vehicles) in exchange for sacrificing highway funds.

I don't know if it's true for all states, but in CT, the funds are still received from the Feds, but must be used on anti-DUI advertising.

Shows how poor our educational system has become if you think that 100 years ago was one room school houses. Around here, 100 years ago was about 1911, you know, large brick schools. Look at the corner stone of the 'old' high school in your town.

That quote is not from the Sandvine paper.
It doesn't say anything about the same content using more bandwidth. It only implies that users are likely to watch more hours of content when they are using a device connected to their TV, rather than a standalone PC.

But it does allow C# development, cross compiling an existing Windows program and easily porting to XBox 360.

Perhaps this will lead to a Live Mesh client for iPhone. It would be nice to sync files to the device over-the-air through a tool I already use.