What a terrible loss that would be. The Sky at Night is a very unique show that is a geared to the amateur astronomer. Seriously BBC, what does it actually cost to have a program like this on late at night, once a month?

Except for when they change this ToS and if you don't agree to something you're locked out of all the games you had purchased previously...

Your analogy is wrong. Morse code is the communication protocol, WiFi (802.11a/b/g/n) is a specification.

802.11 is roughly equivalent to FCC Part 97
Morse code is roughly equivalent to TCP/IP

Wifi uses radio, just like CB, Amatuer Radio, FRS

I second that. What's interesting is that Sprint's data rates are pretty bad, but their voice quality is pretty good. I can still hold conversations with very weak signal. Ting's customer service is located in the USA and is the best I've ever had to deal with. Someone picks up almost immediately...no menu systems to deal with EVER. The reps are have all been extremely nice, will and able to help out with almost any issue (within their power to handle, anyway. I bought an HTC One used and didn't realize Sprint wouldn't let them activate it. My fault, not theirs). I have a couple of phones I use for different reasons and it's nice to have 2-3 active phones all sharing a single usage pool but only charging a small amount every month ($6/mo per phone to have it active).

Using a crowd-funded campaign like this gives Canonical a very good idea about just how much interest there is in the phone essentially for free...and if they met that goal they'd be all the better.

What coolant hoses are you talking about?!? The only cooling an electric car needs is for the battery. In automation, electric motors are rated for YEARS of continuous operation. The oldest hybrids on the road today, with hundreds of thousands of miles, don't need electric motor work. It's the gas engine and battery where the issues come from.

Also, unsprung mass only matters to race cars. Otherwise you'd see aluminum everything in the suspension instead of steel. Most people don't care about "handling", see: SUV's and pickup trucks.

So...Steve Ballmer got part of it right? I mean, throwing chair's is his specialty right?

"When a kid gets diarrhea, no, there's no website that relieves that."

Not directly, but a website can give you information on what to do in the case of getting diarrhea and how to avoid it in the future.
Teach a man to fish, Gates. Teach a man to fish.

We (as a community) need to develop to fix the problem, not hack around it. Keeping the screen resolution low is a hack. Using the correct DPI for the screen size and resolution is the correct fix. We are not 100% there yet, but it's coming around.

Please don't encourage hardware manufacturers to develop for the lowest common denominator, otherwise you'll end up with the grandpa-phone with 2" square buttons.

Which is why Sprint offers service through MNVO's.

You can fly a plane entirely staring at a screen (See: IFR). Touching a virtual button on the screen you're already looking at isn't really the issue. You can't drive a car by instrumentation only.

No, it is illegal to send encrypted content via packet. That makes any kind of web browsing pretty much impossible (Google, for example, does https for everything now...and I wouldn't want my plain-text passwords going all over the place).

I second that. My Motorola Photon Q runs circles around my Galaxy Nexus signal quality wise.

Sad news for such a promising mission.

I agree. Brian Cox's Wonders of the Solar System/Universe reminded me very much of an updated Cosmos.