If I were able to rewire an iPod to work as a teleportation device, I certainly would count that as an invention.

If it's not okay for a private citizen to do, why should it ever be okay for the government to do? I haven't read the article, so unless they mean getting a court order in order to break into someone's computer (call it what it is), then I don't see it as being okay. (I'm not Austrlian.)

Yes it does. We should strive to have proper grammar no matter how unimportant our written work may be. We don't need a slippery slope into a degradation of our grammar. Okay, so maybe I'm a bit of a grammar snob. And I am far from perfect in terms of my grammar. But if you have time to think about what you're going to write, as opposed to having a live conversation, what's the harm in taking a few minutes to make sure it's better than "okay"? Oh, there's also a need to read what you type before hitting submit. It's easier to catch typos that way.

are they factoring in that the online students may have much, much, much... much more free time than a "brick and mortar" student?

Seriously consider the possibility that an in-person student may be taking many classes all at once, with attention diversified versus someone online who may only be taking one class.

As I said, I haven't read the article.

How would this affect Tetrinet?

Should we just let the problem get worse until we reach the breaking point?

All mobile devices with the intent of being a phone intended to be sold in America, but manufactured perhaps 18 months after the bill passes, would be required to be IPv6 enabled by default with or without the option for IPv4. Waivers available for companies that would feel an undue hardship.

I haven't read all of your post, but I caught the part about mobile phones. I strongly agree. I agree so much I feel Congress should enact a law mandating all cell phones to be IPv6 enabled by default. That's not to say they can't switch to IPv4, but the less phones that rely on IPv4, the more IPv4 numbers we have freed up for those who cannot transition.

Some legacy devices don't work with IPv6.

In other news, I found out about IPv6 when www.google.com wouldn't regularly load, and doing a ping in cmd.exe resolved to a weird number. Looks like I'm stuck with IPv4 at least with my browser, and hence my whole machine. Although, I don't know if it's really my computer, or some hardware, or my ISP, down the line.

I think the holy grail would be to get /. resolve to the website. I'd say modify the hosts file, but I don't think it likes the forward slash. Then there is the browser interpretation of /., such as "http:///." without the quotes.

Ahhh, yes. Waiting for hot water. Have to do this with the sink where I live. What a waste of cold water while waiting for the hot water to arrive. Seriously.

By the way, anyone know if there has been real-life examples of people living in Wal-Marts?

How is this any different than having my calculator teach me about sex ed?

I'm going to disagree. Try Tesla âEdison. By the way, how do I type that? I had to find a site to copy â and supposedly the UTF-8 or whatever is 8811. I've tried alt+8811; no luck.

And previewing my post makes it look like a-hat. Oh well, I'm still going to post. I'm not going to potentially spend hours trying to get it to post correctly. Maybe someone can get it to work for me.

Well, looks like people have a list of 55,000 strong passwords to choose from now.

People who have memorization issues should start with perhaps a weaker password, then make it longer over time. I don't think password aging is a good idea as people will just choose weak passwords slightly modifying them each time.

A six digit, easy-to-read captcha seems like it should be easy for spammers to crack. Maybe twitter should require account verification using a mobile phone number? With no more than one account created per phone number per week.

That seems hard to believe. Didn't you have your actual diploma as proof? Oh wait, I don't think it mentions major, does it? Just the specific college you graduated from.

If a university is withholding transcripts based on past-due student loans, they should have some sort of policy where something can be worked out to get you back in good standing. With Direct loans, there's that 25 year repayment plan where I believe if you have under $20k income/year, it's effectively $0. With Perkins loans, there are deferrals that can be done. And as I've heard on TV, private loans are "poison".

Here are some ideas...
1. 0% interest on Direct loans if all payments in the 10 year plan are on-time.
2. Triple the aggregate amount that can be borrowed from Direct subsidized loans and Direct unsubsidized loans. This should result in less need to do private borrowing.
3. First two years of tuition at accredited not-for-profit colleges paid for by the federal government. Limited to the average tuition rate in the region/state.
4. A new loan option to pay like 6% of your taxable income over 20 years with no opt-out option if opted in. Can only be opted in within the first two years after graduation. Once opted in, the 20 year countdown begins.
5. Federal block grants to public universities in order to help lower tuition rates.

I'd prefer we seek the creative path opposed to the war/neo-imperialism path. So if we could cut "defense" spending, enough said.

That's only part of the problem. The other part of the problem lies with k-12 schooling. Not just the lack of funding, but the type of schooling. Another commenter in this article mentioned something I'm essentially going to repeat. We need to teach the "why" and "how" rather than "rote memorization". Some history teachers teach history, while others teach us the lessons of history. Some math teachers teach us how to do math, while other teach us why it works.

a laser with a shark attached.

we can't do something like this with our gaming consoles, when they are idle.