They still carry a paper copy of their emergency handbook, the one with all the emergency procedures in it. The iPads failing in the air wouldn't be a safety issue so long as the radio didn't fail, since I don't think there's any information in the iPad that the controller can't talk the aircraft through.

Return to gate to get on wifi to fix it vs return to gate to get backup paper documents. Either way they'd have been in the same boat.

And how many of those phones have been sold? Making sapphire screens is not impossible, it's just very hard to do in large quantities. When you sell as many phones as Apple does, you can't afford to let one component bottleneck production.

For varying values of "easy", sure. It's still not easy enough to be practical for use as a mass market smartphone screen. Possible, but not practical.

Just like how AT&T eventually succeeded in buying T-Mobile, right?

Wheeler is 69 years old. I would imagine his next post will be retirement. That may play a factor in his willingness to rock the boat.

Sort of, but I'm pretty sure you can't switch between networks mid-call. Certainly not in Canada, because none of the carriers here support call handoffs while roaming. Calls drop when you switch networks.

Google's phone seems to be very much a data-only cloud solution where everything runs through Google Hangouts. I believe the idea is to be completely network-independent by doing everything over IP, such that they can do stuff like seamless handoffs without needing support from the carrier.

Scratch Wireless, which is the one the link talks about, isn't quite the same thing. Google Fi is about combining multiple cellular networks, while Scratch Wireless only uses a single cellular network. Both let you seamlessly roam between cellular and wifi.

But you can also get on a larger rocket (like the Falcon 9 you mentioned) as a secondary payload pretty cheaply, so there's no cost advantage in the "I only want to launch a small payload" category. There's also, for that matter, no guarantees that these guys would be able to get your payload into orbit any faster than established players, especially by the time some of the new launch infrastructure under construction comes online.

I'm not a "US people", so your entire premise falls apart. The US considers felonies to be more serious crimes, and in some states there are three-strikes law that result in an automatic life sentence if convicted of three felonies. Committing one is a big deal, if only because there are big consequences... It illustrates, if nothing else, how stupid it is to intentionally commit one for some really dumb protest idea.

Or more like let's lock up a federal employee for a variety of crimes (one of them a felony), including flying an unregistered aircraft without a pilots license, and violating protected airspace.

Tesla is charging what they expect batteries to cost by the time replacements are needed, but if memory serves, lithium ion batteries in bulk quantities are still available for $250-300ish, which is still far lower than the $1000 that the site is basing their math on.

Because the tapes are held off-site.

There's plenty of room in their Beauharnois datacenter just outside of Montreal here in Canada, we'd be happy to have more of OVH's business here :)

It's a Netflix series, but in a TV format, and it'll likely air on TV in the few territories where Netflix doesn't yet operate. Netflix's original content is a lot more similar to cable (like AMC or HBO) than it is to network television, but it's still hour-long episodic content.