From the NPR article:

"In the absence of more targeted grant or scholarship programs, more people are taking out student loans, and they are borrowing more. All that borrowing adds up to a total of $1.3 trillion, nearly triple what it was a decade ago."

DSL is unfortuantely the best internet connection in the small town I live in. The upload rate of these connections is really slow, and for large uploads, can saturate the connection. What this translates to in the real world is constant complaints from people about how their internet connection has just died for no good reason. What's happening in 99% of these cases is that some iPad in their house is backing up to iCloud, and bufferbloat from this upload is temporarily wiping out download speeds.

What I did was install the OpenWRT firmware on my TP-Link router, and install the SQM (Smart Queue Management) QoS application on it. This shapes uploads so that bufferbloat is greatly reduced. I tested all of this on DSLReport's Bufferbloat page, and it works great.

FWIW, Mythbusters tested it.
Episode 33: Killer Brace Position and Cellphones vs Drunk Driving

The brace position on airlines increases chance of death: mythbusted

Talking on a cellphone while driving is as dangerous as drunk driving: confirmed

http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2005/06/mythbusters_killer_brace_posit.html

From the same:

"On July 15 2010, Apple released iOS 3.2.1 (build 7B405) for iPad (first generation). We verified that iOS 3.2.1 does not exhibit this bug."