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How can people say BSD is dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. Would you buy software from them? I don't think so! You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little minx. I mean are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you could have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin or a gay looking goat! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

But on the subject of sesame seeds... they're a very big crop - the sixth largest in the world production of edible oil seeds.

And yes, there is valuable intellectual property in sesame seed genetics.

Branding is what you do when you haven't got a better product than the other guy, but you want people to think you do.

The AT&T logo is a good example of branding. Show the globe part of the logo to people and most of them will know it's AT&T. The same goes for the Coca-Cola "wave" and the Nike check mark. Those are brands.

The most important part of branding is consistency. When I look at the linux penguin I think of Linux. That doesn't happen when I look at other penguins. It's not going to happen for the averge person either and that's the person you want to target. For people to associate Linux with that penguin, they have to see that pengiun image and hear about Linux at the same time, over and over and over again. The same thing needs to happen with Mozilla. There needs to be an official logo and it needs to be used on everything. The average joe needs to be able to look at that logo and think Mozilla.

How can people say BSD is dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. Would you buy software from them? I don't think so! You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little minx. I mean are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you could have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin or a gay looking goat! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

How can people say BSD is dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. Would you buy software from them? I don't think so!You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little minx. I mean are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

How can BSD be dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little cock teaser. I mean are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

How can BSD be dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she make you hard? I know this little hottie floats my boat! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little cock teaser. I mean are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

How can BSD be dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she make you hard? I know this little hottie floats my boat! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little cock teaser. I mean are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

How can BSD be dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she make you hard? I know this little hottie floats my boat! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little cock teaser. Even this old bearded Unix guru is apparently unable to take his eyes off her!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Look! This guy can't get in there fast enough with her in the doorway! Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

How can BSD be dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she make you hard? I know this little hottie floats my boat! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little cock teaser. Even this old bearded Unix guru is apparently unable to take his eyes off her!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Look! This guy can't get in there fast enough with her in the doorway! Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

How can BSD be dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she make you hard? I know this little hottie floats my boat! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little cock teaser. Even this old bearded Unix guru is apparently unable to take his eyes off her!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Look! This guy can't get in there fast enough with her in the doorway! Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

How can BSD be dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she make you hard? I know this little hottie floats my boat! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little cock teaser. Even this old bearded Unix guru is apparently unable to take his eyes off her!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Look! This guy can't get in there fast enough with her in the doorway! Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

How can BSD be dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she make you hard? I know this little hottie floats my boat! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little cock teaser. Even this old bearded Unix guru is apparently unable to take his eyes off her!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Look! This guy can't get in there fast enough with her in the doorway! Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

The Golden Globe was published in the last five years - just (1998) - but Steel Beach is not even close - 1992 according to the ISFDB.

current texas A&M Microsoft licensing agreement: no previous version needed. cost per department is based on Full Time Equivalents (FTEs) full time faculty and staff =1, part time faculty = 1/3, part time staff = 1/2. $44 per FTE

check out http://sellsoftware.tamu.edu/microsoft.php

I got these sites from:
http://door.library.uiuc.edu/edx/rank_biblio.html

A message from stanford to US News to stop publishing their shit:
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/pres-provost/presiden t/speeches/961206gcfallow.html http://www.stanford.edu/dept/pres-provost/presiden t/speeches/970418rankings.html

This an article from an education consultant:
http://www.washingtonparent.com/articles/9712/rank ings.htm

This article goes over the false assumptions about rankings:
http://www.sls.lib.il.us/reference/por/features/99 /collrank.html

A page from petersons declaring college rankings irresponsible:
http://www.petersons.com/about/ranking.html A page on the ucla server giving tips on choosing a university:
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/mm/cc/info/choosing/eval .html

Articles from the chronicle:
http://chronicle.com/free/v44/i02/02a06701.htm http://chronicle.com/free/v44/i11/11a00101.htm

Article from columbia:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-1.1/vying.h tm

Slate articles:
http://slate.msn.com/id/34027/ http://slate.msn.com/id/34278/

A law school's article on rankings:
http://www.fplc.edu/tfield/usnwr.htm

A law school association to ask to stop ranking:
http://www.aals.org/ranknews.html http://www.aals.org/validity.html

Law school admission counsel:
http://www.lsac.org/LSAC.asp?url=lsac/deans-speak- out-rankings.asp

AMU's response to their high ranking:
http://www.tamu.edu/new/vision/where.html

Unfortunately, while Hollywood loves his short stories, they can't stomach the dark endings, so they're spruced up a la "Minorty Report". Seriously, do you think PKD would ever have had his mutants living a normal life in the remote Canadian forests, eh?

One of his favorite dark endings was humanity being supplanted by something clearly unthinking and as nonhuman as possible. See The Golden Man and The Father-Thing. Or even better, The Hanging Stranger. Yeah.

Believe me, when we see an ending like what PKD would have actually intended, Hollywood will have frozen over.

Those spineless nebbishes couldn't stomach his insane vision while he was alive; they water it down after his death.

--grendel drago

Unfortunately, while Hollywood loves his short stories, they can't stomach the dark endings, so they're spruced up a la "Minorty Report". Seriously, do you think PKD would ever have had his mutants living a normal life in the remote Canadian forests, eh?

One of his favorite dark endings was humanity being supplanted by something clearly unthinking and as nonhuman as possible. See The Golden Man and The Father-Thing. Or even better, The Hanging Stranger. Yeah.

Believe me, when we see an ending like what PKD would have actually intended, Hollywood will have frozen over.

Those spineless nebbishes couldn't stomach his insane vision while he was alive; they water it down after his death.

--grendel drago

Unfortunately, while Hollywood loves his short stories, they can't stomach the dark endings, so they're spruced up a la "Minorty Report". Seriously, do you think PKD would ever have had his mutants living a normal life in the remote Canadian forests, eh?

One of his favorite dark endings was humanity being supplanted by something clearly unthinking and as nonhuman as possible. See The Golden Man and The Father-Thing. Or even better, The Hanging Stranger. Yeah.

Believe me, when we see an ending like what PKD would have actually intended, Hollywood will have frozen over.

Those spineless nebbishes couldn't stomach his insane vision while he was alive; they water it down after his death.

--grendel drago

How can BSD be dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she make you hard? I know this little hottie floats my boat! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little cock teaser. Even this old bearded Unix guru is apparently unable to take his eyes off her!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Look! This guy can't get in there fast enough with her in the doorway! Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

Here's the IMDB listing for the movie.

According to the Internet Speculative Fiction Database, the story originally came out in 1953. (It's one of the Dick stories I haven't read yet.) Dick always was waaaaay ahead of the curve. (Anyone else notice how dead-on the youth-culture extropilations of Time Out of Joint were?)

Maybe we can hope for John Woo to return to his previous form of Hard Boiled and The Killer.

If its WTAMU or one of the A&M schools, then RUN AWAY... They have a long history of blaming "innocent/whire hats" people that inform them of the security holes that they have when those holes are exploited by real black hats.....

How can BSD be dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she make you hard? I know this little hottie floats my boat! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little cock teaser. Even this old bearded Unix guru is apparently unable to take his eyes off her!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Look! This guy can't get in there fast enough with her in the doorway! Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

Apparently morse code at 20 wpm is not out of reach. At that rate, I don't know of a better input system for tiny computers like the fossil wristwatch pda. And you could enter the text without staring down at the watch.

http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/reid/book1/book/node 32.html

I think the penguin was adopted as a logo for Linux 2.0; it was probably drawn before then. Larry Ewing's page says it was based on 'discussions on the linux-kernel mailing list, and an initial suggestion by Alan Cox' but I don't know what this means.

(see how I can't change my mind from one comment to another?)

I misread another (unlinked) article. I believe Linus is the sole owner of the trademark and the Linux Mark Institute is the actual entity responsible for defending the name, something they seem to do eagerly (so again, yes, the Linux trademark is actively protected). The Penguin, on the other hand, can be used without a license...

That may be true, but that is the assembly plant, not the design lab.

Prolegomena to Any Future Artificial Moral Agent

Creating Friendly AI

Incidentally, these are both obvious prior art.

Houston has had a similar traffic website for years: TAMU

Yes, a dearth of pleasant obstacles and highways laid out by surveyors instead of geological and historical accident does make seeking alternate routes easier. It also means you can get more people living within the 30-mile circle if all of it's above water!

In Boston, whether you have alternate routes available or not depends on where you're coming from and going to ... and whether you know the "surface roads" well enough to zig-zag around blockages. A few decades back, a map of the roadnet connecting Rt.128 exits was sold as a detour map ... the folks living in those quiet commuter neighborhoods were horrified, and those of us who'd been exploiting the detours available only to locals and the map-literate were not entirely happy at sharing either.

- Bill

Honestly, I question the value of such information in the first place. Rarely are other routes unblocked, at least here in Boston. You're pretty much screwed no matter which way you go. If that wasn't enough, they randomly close/open exits due to the massive construction(the Big Dig), and in the last 6-12 months, lots of big changes have been going on as new tunnels and exchanges open(which is going to wreak havoc with people with old databases for their nav systems!)

The rather simple data available via the Houston Real-Time Traffic Map is incredibly useful here. Slow or dead traffic along a segment of a freeway means it's clearly pointless to even get on the freeway. I guess we're lucky that the region is flat and free of mountains, hills, and bodies of water for the most part(if you can call that lucky). It means you can always find an alternate route via the streets...

Sweet! Glenda is so much cooler than Tux

PS: We may be "smart" but we are not the most successful species on earth. Not even close, in fact. Next time you see an ant, just remember, its species has been here for tens of millions of years, and its species makes up nearly one fifth of the entire world biomass. You could step on said ant, but trillions of ants would still be there. In short, if you are not afraid of ants, you should be .

A wider highway simply makes a wider traffic jam. The problem is *not* the width of the roads, but the chaos the human drivers produce attempting to merge. Each year several new studies indicate that building more roadspace is totally useless.

Quoting GHASP:

In 1999, the Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP) analyzed data obtained from the Texas Transportation Institute and concluded, "building new and wider roads has had little long-term impact on road congestion." The highway building craze creates 'induced travel' - on average, half of new highway capacity is filled with driving that would not have occurred if the road space had not been added.

Take 30 seconds and search for "urban mobility" and you'll find countless studies like this A&M study that back up this concept.

Two things:

1) It would not be a bad thing for a few hundred square miles of sunlight to be prevented from hitting the earth. To anyone under it, it would seem like just another cloud, and they would probably live a few minutes longer because of it.

2) There would be little 'loss' in the mirror system described above. Even lightweight films can have a reflectivity of up to 95%. Converting the sunlight into electricity, then microwaves, and maintaining such a system in space, however, is sure to have much higher losses. This paper cites a 54% overall dc to dc efficiency for microwave conversion alone, neglecting collection and transmission losses.

The first 90+% was just the "rectenna" side of things (which was what the first comment asked) - overall system throughput would likely be at the 60% level or so. But that's not bad for a long distance power transmission system.

As far as published journal articles on this, here's a link to an HTML version of an article "BEAMED MICROWAVE POWER TRANSMISSION AND ITS APPLICATION TO SPACE" published in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES, VOL. 40, NO. 6, JUNE 1992, which covers the efficiency question in some detail, and a lot of other information besides. Worth reading...

ODP has been doing research into the area of gas hydrates for a while now. Not only can natural gas be turned into hydrate, but there are vast amounts of gas hydrate "stable" on the sea floor. Gas hydrates are also stable in certains areas of permafrost in the arctic. On an environmental note, it is not known exactly how hydrate. influences global climate change. Methane is 10 times the the global warmer that CO2 is. A large hydrate landslide off the northern coast of norway coincides nicely with an warm period. As sea level falls during an ice age, pressure on hydrates decreases, destabalizing them, and releasing methane into the atmosphere. This could serve as a natural buffer against ice ages. On an interesting side note, Gas hydrates have been proposed as the cause of the dissappearances in the bermuda. triangle. The theory is that a field of gas hydrates destabalizes right below a ship releasing a plume of methane gas. The water density will decrease. The ship sinks.

A cognitive approach to machine neuroses would create self-monitoring systems that scan for inconsistent or dangerous orders and would set corrective actions in motion. Suppose we design and install a "smart" system in the car that continuously monitors for such conflicting instructions that might damage its brake and engine systems. When it detects such a condition, it may first try flashing a warning signal to the driver.

This sounds to me like the author is referring to deadlock, a condition where a set of processes or threads request resources that are held by other processes or threads in that set forming a cycle of resource holds and requests, the resources are not peremptable, etc... see for more details. We already have methods of detecting deadlock but because it happens so rarely in properly programmed systems (e.g. proper use of semaphores) that it is reserved for mission critical systems. See the Mars Path Finder incident for more details on critical systems deadlocking. My point is that deadlock is typically the result of random events and has nothing to do with systems becoming more "intelligent."

I keep tripping over Ian Watson's books while looking for more by Ian Wallace. No AI's in his stuff, but some fascinating riffs on the nature of mind.

But not only did I get to see the finale episode tonight, I saw it in one of the better ways possible. Before it ran, there was a panel with Virginia Hey and Lani Tupu. And no, they have no idea what's going to happen with the series.

Virginia talked about the makeup: 3-5 hours, the only way she can handle it is to ignore it, and it has caused some health problems. She likes hugging people, and that blue got over everyone, to the point where they once made her wear a "NO HUGGING" sign. She did shave her head and eyebrows for the part. She also talked about when she got her work visa paperwork back from the INS, she was totally floored to see her job described as an "alien of extraordinary ability". Turns out that was just the standard INS lingo. (Just looked at her site... she was that girl in that Mad Max movie?!)

Anyhow, the cliffhanger ending wasn't exactly a nice thing to do to the viewers, what with the series being cancelled. But at least it seems to have tied up a lot of loose ends before leaving a few new ones.

But not only did I get to see the finale episode tonight, I saw it in one of the better ways possible. Before it ran, there was a panel with Virginia Hey and Lani Tupu. And no, they have no idea what's going to happen with the series.

Virginia talked about the makeup: 3-5 hours, the only way she can handle it is to ignore it, and it has caused some health problems. She likes hugging people, and that blue got over everyone, to the point where they once made her wear a "NO HUGGING" sign. She did shave her head and eyebrows for the part. She also talked about when she got her work visa paperwork back from the INS, she was totally floored to see her job described as an "alien of extraordinary ability". Turns out that was just the standard INS lingo. (Just looked at her site... she was that girl in that Mad Max movie?!)

Anyhow, the cliffhanger ending wasn't exactly a nice thing to do to the viewers, what with the series being cancelled. But at least it seems to have tied up a lot of loose ends before leaving a few new ones.

UT stat : c. 50,000 students + c. 20,000 faculty and staff

I can't find a link on TAMU's site, but I would guess it's around the same, maybe slightly less. My sister is a soon-to-be graduate student there, and I recall her saying that the student body was roughly the same as UT.

Williamson County probably has 300,000 or so. That's a guess off of 1997 census data + growth over 5 years. Travis County, which I think is where Austin calls home, probably has 500K+. Brazos County, College Station's home, I have no clue -- can't find any online data.

By reading his Congressional webpage, it seems that he has actual physical offices in College Station and Round Rock, Texas.

Now I don't know, but with Round Rock being just up the road from the Univ. of Texas in Austin and Texas A&M Univ. in College Station (Texas' two largest Universities), and with about 45,000 students EACH in those, do you suppose he would get re-elected to office if this news got out across those campuses?

Hmmmm... now here's a test to see if the Slashdot Effect CAN really make a difference in Politics! LOL!



-- I only post as A.C. because I'm more of a Procrastinating Anonymous Coward! LOL

Carter, now in his first term in the House, served as a state district judge for 20 years in Williamson County, known as the Lone Star State's toughest county for criminals. If rampant file sharing was going on back home, he said, people would likely be prosecuted.

Funny, I seem to be recall some irl mates, whom are some of the biggest p2p and dcc leeches Round Rock Texas has to offer. :)

Actually, those some students I know at Texas A & M College Station are the absurdly abusive with their resnet regarding traffic bottlenecks. Thanks #!!!!p0rn2goDCC on DALnet. ;)

You'd be able to backup 33Gb (128k/sec inbound limit), 66Gb (256k/sec inbound limit), etc... Definately not feasible for you but in the original posters defense, they never claimed it would work for everyone.

After mulling this over for a bit I'm sitting here thinking that ISPs should go into the backup market if they can work it to their advantage by keeping the backup traffic within their network and increasing subscriber speeds to the backup systems. Realistically everyone seems to still be on the outsource kick so it would be implemented in some inefficient and nonsensical manner.

In regards to your problem--shouldn't the school itself look at purchasing some large backup system and share the costs among other departments that will buy in? Or is administration screwed up enough to make such things not happen? Here is an interesting tape silo page at tamu.edu:
http://sc.tamu.edu/emass/EMASSFlier.html

I'm the acting engineer for a badass little college radio station (shameless plug). I'm also a DJ there.

So, I'm on the air doing a show, CD player going and all that. I decide that the mic cable needs more slack, so I give it a good tug. Unfortunately, the removable back panel of the desk was tugged along with the cable, causing the panel to fall away from the desk. Also unfortunately, the power cables for our two $350 CD players were behind the back panel.

The CD players flew to the floor, and slammed on the ground, making a hollow metallic noise. I was too afraid to look right away. Coincidentally, a friend had walked in just in time to see this happen, and we just stood in frozen amazement for a minute.

Amazingly, the CD player had been playing, slammed on the ground, paused for a second, and continued playing the CD without any problems.

I wish I could say they still work, but with Marantz's POS equipment, that is not the case. After fixing each of them upwards of 6 times (broken eject buttons, broken power switch, tray off-gear) one of them finally bit it with a broken tray, that, upon attempting to fix it again, started burning.

Texas A&M's on campus dorms require you to register your port. They know its you by your MAC address. Get a new nic... re-register... hehe

JOhn

Encryption isn't a magic bullet.

SafeWeb Vulnerability, Fingerprinting Websites Using Traffic Analysis

Netcamo

Houston Transtar does traffic monitoring, as well. They use the signals from EZTags (you know, those things you stick on your window that automatically pay a toll for you on toll roads) to measure aggregate traffic speed, and then display it all on a nifty, color-coded map. Accidents get notated with little "!" marks and you can see information on lane closures. They also have histograms available, so you can see what the average speed at any given time of day is supposed to be, and live views from the traffic-monitoring cameras all over the city. Check it out.