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Beating the College Bubble 616

Posted by samzenpus on Monday November 10, 2008 @04:24PM from the read-all-about-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The real estate bubble is long gone. Oil prices are sliding down. Are we in an education bubble? The author of Beating the College Bubble says so. He's written a short, simple guide to avoiding the crushing college debt that he thinks is about to bankrupt all of us. Just as easy loans encouraged people to dream big and buy a McMansion, big college loans are tempting students with too much Comp Lit and Frat Parties. When they graduate, the debt is so hefty that the students are stuck living in their parents' basement for 10 years until they've paid it all off. I can tell you from personal experience that there's some real truth to the hangover. The beer headache is gone after a week, but the monthly payments just keep going." Read below for the rest of cdog40's review

Comment Re:Yay! (Score 1) 315

by Luke the Obscure on Friday August 29, 2008 @11:51AM (#24795825) Attached to: Will W3C Accept DRM For Webfonts?

A point of clarification:

"The arguments against web fonts are mostly legal. Fonts are intellectual property and therefore, the argument goes, cannot be published on the web. Although the legal status of font shapes is uncertain, font names are probably covered by copyright law. As such, fonts are similar to copyrighted images and text."

From here.

Lockheed Martin Awarded GPS III 154

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday May 16, 2008 @05:21PM from the turn-off-gp3-get-a-galileo dept.

D Ninja writes "Yesterday, Lockheed Martin was awarded the $1.4 billion Air Force contract to build the next-generation global positioning satellite system. This occurred after a series of delays as the Air Force decided between Lockheed and the competing bidding contractor, Boeing Co. 'GPS III, will give new navigation warfare (NAVWAR) capabilities to shut off GPS service to a limited geographical location while providing GPS to US and allied forces. GPS III will offer significant improvements in navigation capabilities by improving interoperability and jam resistance. The procurement of the GPS III system is planned for multiple blocks, with the GPS IIIA portion currently underway. GPS IIIA includes all of the GPS IIF capability plus up to a ten-fold increase in signal power, a new civil signal compatible with the European Union's Galileo system, and a new spacecraft bus that will allow a growth path to future blocks.'"

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