Why?
In case you have not noticed the press is not what it used to be. Many sources like FOX and MSNBC have been willing to try truth for eyeballs. Even sources like NPR will spin news a bit. With NPR I am willing to say that is probably just human nature.

You do understand that only a tiny percentage of people believe the FEMA Camps type sites.
That is a real problem with the internet. It is impossible to find any idea so crazy that no one will embrace it as truth.

We have them also in my town. In big cities public restrooms have had issues vandalism. I am sure they have those issues in small towns as well but it seems to be a bigger issues in the larger cities vs my town of around 200,000 people.

I guess you did not hear about the VOIP phones they are going to put in those kiosks that offer free calling....

I hate the terms code monkey and wrench monkey.
You do not need a college degree to write a lot of apps. Many business run on what I call forms plus database apps. Those often where written in DBase, then VB, and now HTML+SQL. AKA the LAMP stack.

My educated guess is that you do not tap the fiber but instead would get the data out of the amplifiers on the cable.

It is as simple as programing as a vocation vs a profession.
Think car mechanic vs engineer. One can fix an engine or even put it together the other designs it. Of course the best is when you have an engineer that is also a mechanic.

I was thinking ultra caps would be good for Datacenter UPS systems. They really only need to work until the backup generators kicking.

The Pi was supposed to be a cheap educational computer and was supposed to do things like surf the net and allow people to develop software for them.
The funny thing is that I am sitting here with an Cortex M4 on and ST-Link JTAG right next to me. But others have Bones, RasPis, and even a few Arduinos that we use for prototyping stuff.

"We voted for this guy to roll back the surveillance state, get out of the torture business, and retract our forces from Iraq. He had one job - roll back what someone else initiated - and he utterly failed."
And don't forget the entire Russia is our friend and not a threat thing...
And how did that work out for you...

Possibly not because observation does not require warrant or a court order.
An example, someone is stealing stuff out of cars at a mall. An unmarked car cruises the mall looking for people breaking into cars.
This is not a search and is not taking anything. It is just observation which is completely legal.

"However, under the new leadership that seems to be taking the company towards an era of Glasnost and Perestroika"
There will always be Putin it not today then tomorrow.

" It's not a general purpose computer"
Yes it really is. HDMI, USB for keyboard and mouse, and boots Linux with a GUI.
I can see your point if you treat it as an embedded system but just as people can use an x86 itx in an embedded system you can use a Pi.
As to having too much ram? Well I would see the pi as more of prototyping tool than a cost optimized solution for a production product. On a prototyping tool you can never have too much ram because debug code always takes up more space than production.

Not exactly. I mean this http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dr...
Wing warping is more like twisting the airfoil while the MAW actually changes the airfoil.

It looks like it is flexible wing without hinges. I thought that they started testing that a while ago on the F-111.