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I am fortunate in that my school has county vocational and technical schools that I attend [the technical school]. Called Bergen County Academies, we are recognized and specialize in certain technology areas such as science, medical, telecomm, visual arts, etc. I know for a fact many groups have tried to model this image and it is very open to ideas on classes offered and student ideas [as does not seem in your earlier situation]. What we are offered throughout various technology classes, electives, and projects are Science Fair type competitions for electronics and futuristic inventions that we develop throughout the year and display at places like Rutgers. Also are web design competitions [World of Webmasters, Tech xPlore] and other robotic and concepual projects [Panasonic Robitic Compeition, BattleBotsIQ, Chrysler Vehicle Design]. Not many other schools offer opportunities such as these but they may be ideas to consider teaching. I would particularly like to develop more of an advanced technical program related to Database Management, Network Security [I see why they may NOT offer this], and web-programming. For example, I also helped design the backend of our school's online magazine FreshAngles.com after the techs converted everything from UNIX to Windows and somehow fried our data in the process. It would be excellent to learn how to secure this in a real world situation as it is in and optimize it.

The real problem is home access - as Hugh Daniel puts it, If you're a NAT on the Net, you're NOT on the Net." In particular, you're dependent on your ISP's firewalls for email, web, and general IP access to the real world, and greatly restricted in your ability to provide information services, especially anything your ISP isn't technically competent at, and you're subject to any filtering or censorship your ISP might do. The canonical example is the "Great Firewall Of China", which
tries to prevent Chinese residents from seeing anything about Falun Gong or other forms of thoughtcrime.

It's true that Asia's APNIC got a lot less of the address space than the US did, and they may need some more before the Great IPv6 Renumbering happens. According to IANA's List of IPv4 Address Space Assignments, more than half the Class A space is unused (either never assigned or returned by public-spirited organizations that are using newer technology such as CIDR.) Class B is probably the tightest, though supernets of Class C space took off lots of the pressure. IANA is hoarding the Class A space, and maybe this will push us toward IPv6 a bit faster.

ICANN was actively discouraging IPv6 use a couple of years ago (I haven't checked up on their evil plans lately...) Their method was to declare that they were going to charge $2500 for a /48, which is the smallest generally-allocated block of IPv6 space available - so if you wanted to own your own space, it was going to cost you. I suspect part of the reason was because they wanted the money, of course, and part of it was because they didn't want to lose control over a major chokepoint of the net, but also there's the more legitimate issue that deciding the right way to restructure routing for the future shape of the internet is going to be pretty difficult, and they'd rather delay the existence of working code in order to get rough consensus first.

this reminds me of something else currently in development - edible foodwrap (made from fruit) instead of plastic.

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You'd think so, but, amazement of all amazements, Fox ordered up a new sci-fi series from Joss Whedon (Buffy/Angel/Ripper) called "Firefly". Sure, it looks like it might be Buffy In Space, but as Joss put it (and I wish like hell I could find the quote, so this is a paraphrase), it will be humans doing evil things to humans; no aliens need apply.

YMMV, but I'm looking forward to at least giving it a try, hoping that he has enough clout to keep the fingers of money-hungry network execs from making it the kind of pablum you'd expect from Fox. (Mind you, I won't scream if the show has a little soft-core porn.)

And if it flies, Joss would have his shows on four major TV networks. (Fox, BBC, WB, UPN.) Go rah.

PS2: everything Squaresoft

Not necessarily. Squaresoft and Nintendo have made up. Specifically, Final Fantasy Tactics is coming to Game Boy Advance.

Some McDonald's in the area accept EZPass, but I don't think they do Speedpass around here.

EZPass is tied to your credit card, too, but it's 'mounted' in your car and so precautions against getting your car broken into prevent your EZPass from getting stolen, too.

As far as recovering a stolen EZPass tag, if someone uses it (or goes through a toll without covering it with the anti-RF mylar), you'll know where they are and when. And there's surveillance at toll points.

Question: EZPass has recently asked me to send in my tags for an 'upgrade:' Anyone know what they're upgrading?

Well, they've been on a roll lately.
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