I had Google Play Music for 5 years and was annoyed by the forced switch to YouTube Music so I left Google for Spotify. I understand your branding point, and in all honesty, if they would have just changed the name (like they did for Google Play Movies & TV to Google TV) without messing with everything in the app I would have stuck with Google.

I do want to point out that YouTuble Music has been available for several years and as far as I have seen has had lower subscription rates than Google Play Music. Not sure how Google made the choice to force that app on everyone vs just changing the name of the Google Play Music to YouTube Music. They could have their branding and the consumers could keep the app they liked and were use to using...

>That's a lot of stuff to drop off at a third graders home for their parents to figure out.

Agreed that the school districts would have to assemble everything before giving it to the student. But, this about having something affordable vs nothing, so I would hope they could get some parents from the PTO to volunteer to help.

> And where will they place this collection of parts? Not every student has their own desk in their bedroom.
Should not be too unwieldy since the Pi would be secured to the monitor. The keyboard would be the only extra piece of equipment so they would have to move two things from the table they are using. Agreed that this is an inconvenience, but not the end of the world...

>And you can buy a chrome box for special-needs students that works exactly the same as a Chromebook with a bigger monitor or other required technology.
Agreed, and this setup could be done with chrome boxes instead of Pi, all the same thing really. More about availability of parts. If there are a bunch of cheap Chromeboxes available, then I would think that would be a viable options as well. Do not know about the supply of Chromeboxes (kind of forgot they exist to tell you the truth...)

Agreed that this would have more wires, require the school district to assemble (so more work for them), and would not be as seamless as a Chromebook. However, the issue is that school districts can not purchase Chromebooks right now according to the article. This would be a low cost way for school districts to provide a functional computer to students when they can not purchase a Chromebook.

Also, I am sure if one was doing a large order, for a school district, they could have the monitor shell replaced so that the power for the Pi and the casing for the Pi is part of the monitor casing. That way there is only one cord to plug in, just like a Chromebook. The only extra hardware would be the keyboard, but most people should be able to handle plugging a usb keyboard into a computer.

Again, agreeing that a Chromebook is simpler, was just trying to point cost effective alternatives since the Chromebook shortage is more than likely to last through the 2020/2021 school year in the USA.

Or if you want the Pi 4:
$99.99 Pi 4 Kit
    https://www.amazon.com/CanaKit...
24.99 Keyboard & Mouse
    https://www.bestbuy.com/site/l...
115.99 Monitor
    https://www.amazon.com/Elecrow...
Total: $240.97

It seems like the school districts just need to be a little more imaginative

Take a Raspberry Pi, secure it with 2 sided tape to the back of a monitor, and give the students a keyboard with a trackpad. If buying in bulk, you could probably get a manufacturer to include the power supply for the Pi on the monitor.

Install ChromeOS so it is easy for the schools to manage and then give them to the students

Just a quick search was about $205 USD, but I am sure you can do it for cheaper in bulk or if really searching

24.99 Keyboard & Mouse
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/l...
115.99 Monitor
https://www.amazon.com/Elecrow...
  11.99 Case
https://www.amazon.com/Raspber...
  37.50 pi 3 b+
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07P...
    9.95 power cable
https://www.amazon.com/CanaKit...
    4.85 16 GB
https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk...

Total: $205.27

Plus you do not have to worry about the manufacturer deciding not to support your Chromebook any more

Additional Plus, for students with special needs they can include a larger monitor.

But, USA law also says you can charged for any USA law that you break while outside of the USA as soon as you return to the USA (either under your own will or through extradition). Since Microsoft USA, the Justice Department can still bring a lawsuit against the USA based company. What the fight is in the courts is that Microsoft USA, while a separate company from the Ireland based Microsoft, is actually the same company since Ireland Microsoft has to follow the direction and policies of Microsoft USA.

One of the biggest uses of this is to fight and charge money launderers. Otherwise they could wash the money in a country they can effectively control through bribery and then bring the money back into the USA.

On StraightTalk's website they have everything asterisked where they say you will drop to 2G. In the footnotes it then says 2G speeds. No legal issues there...

Linux is the peasant behind the scene on everything, including "Desktop Linux"!

Linux has always been a basic OS. While bootable without any additional applications or libraries it is not very functional. At the very least you will add a libc implementation and from there many other libraries, applications and possibly window managers to have a usable user interface. I agree that Android is not GNU/Linux (probably the most common form of CLI/GUI "Desktop Linux"), but in GNU/Linux, Linux is still the peasant behind the scene.

Linux is not *BSD/Windows/etc where the development team creates a whole package from the kernel up to the user interface, it is just the core, the "peasant" doing the hard work of managing system memory, networking and disc io, etc. Unless you are doing system development, or very low level application development, as a programmer you probably would almost never interact directly with Linux.

Yes, the media has turned Linux into a complete OS, but that has nothing to do with the actual Linux software and what it does. The media just did not like saying GNU/Linux which is generally what they were referring with when they would say Linux...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Legally no, he is no longer an alleged rapist. As such a newspaper would never print that he is an alleged rapist since they know that they would lose a libel case.

Same reason why OJ was not called an alleged murder in the press after being a quite.

They couldn't prove statutory rape, since they could not prove he had sex with her. Part of the he said she said, but since she wanted so long to come forward there was no physical evidence they had sex. This is why there was no statutory rape charge.

Non-Compete Clauses are illegal/void in California:
http://californianoncompete.co...

The Boeing 787 received the ETOPS 330 ratings in May 2014:
http://airwaysnews.com/blog/20...

The Boeing 777 received ETOPS 330 ratings in 2011 (limited to certain Engines):
http://aviationweek.com/awin/f...

Both of the above are FAA ETOPS 330 ratings. I am not sure if there is a hold up in the South Pacific nations not certifying the aircraft for their national carriers.

I know from personal experience that the Chicago to Shanghai / Beijing Flights are being done by 777, but these go over the North Pole so are not subject to the political politics of the South Pacific.

I'm not a particularly big fan of Obama, but he is definitely not the biggest user of executive orders:

The list*, as an average by number of executive orders per year:
1) Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) - 290.6
2) Herbert Hoover (R) - 242
3) Woodrow Wilson (D) - 225.4
4) Warren G Harding (R) - 216.6
5) Calvin Coolidge (R) - 215.2
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20) George W. Bush (R) - 36.4
20) Benjamin Harrison (R) - 35.8
21) Grover Cleveland (D) - 35
22) Barack Obama (D) - 33.6

(Source: http://fivethirtyeight.com/dat...)

*The numbers for Barack Obama are probably skewed a bit since during the first few years for his presidency his party controlled the house and senate limiting the need for him to issue executive orders.

One could possibly argue that Barack Obama has used executive orders more aggressively/pushing the boundary of the power, but that would be a completely separate issue.

Not everyone has doors that are easy to breakdown:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

There are a lot of steel or rebar reinforced doors. Just because you choose not to reinforce the doors of your home does not mean it is illegal for others to reinforce their doors and windows.

Same thing can be said for encryption - it does not make it impossible for them to get the information (such as breaking down a reinforced door), but they have to be willing to try a lot harder (either finding a flaw in the encryption or brute forcing).

There have multiple cases of warrantless domestic spying by both the NSA and the FBI:

FBI:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articl...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01...

NSA:
https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying...
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

Apple, Google and other tech/communications companies also believe that the USA Federal Government is abusing the FISA warrants for both domestic and international cases:
https://www.google.com/search?...

The USA Government has long used evidence that is gathered without a warrant to direct their case so that they know where to look with a warrant. If they get caught they have to prove that they could have obtained the information a different way. After you know what you are looking for that is a pretty low barrier to overcome.

Not saying this is write or wrong, but it is definitely documented.