You can easily remove all of the cloud integration crap from Ubuntu Desktop. Presumably you would be able to do the same with Ubuntu Tablet.

I got an Android tablet last week. It is very frustrating. Half of the stuff does not work if you do not have a Google acount or are not willing to tie your device that closely to an advertising company. The one-app-at-a-time UI is constraining. I would much rather a system like APT to manage installed packages. An Ubuntu distribution on a tablet with a tiling window manager and the ability to run Android apps would be awesome.

Did they give you a 20% discount because you joined the army, or because you left?

If you are after highly productive and do not need the hand holding that things like Unity provide, why are you even using Ubuntu? Just use Debian.

End-to-end encryption. Problem solved.

A good solution would be to have the government-granted last-mile monopoly be as limited as possible - only handling the last mile. Allow one company to handle the last mile and terminate the connections in a central office. Then other companies can provide the internet connection from there. The company handling the last mile cannot also be an ISP.

I have chosen to avoid any trust in or allegiance to Google, Apple, Facebook, or Microsoft. I have to trust my hardware, but I can switch that easily enough. I chose to trust Debian, but could easily enough switch that too. Everybody is free to make these decisions. I can use end-to-end encryption to hide my data from anyone else.

I am at the mercy of my ISP. If they fail to route properly I have no recourse and no alternative faster than 56k dial-up. Network neutrality and fairness from recipients of government-granted monopolies is where the regulation is required.

Angry Birds.

Exchange is just what managers dick around with when they don't want to do any actual work, right?

What do you do when the mission was good when you joined, but went sour before your term is up? Going AWAL is frowned upon.

trust in the military that is essential to the mission

What if the mission is wrong?

I would be extremely surprised if he gets anything less than life. He, presumably, did what he thought was right, and the government is torturing him for it. They made sure he would be a liability if he ever got out.

I have a ThinkPad W520. If I set the BIOS to use either Optimus or Discreet, the system hangs on boot at "Waiting for dev to be fully populated." If I set it to use the integrated card, it works.

The Linux kernel doesn't come with ... graphics drivers?

Not if you have an nVidia Optimus card.

Does DOCSIS 3 require that the ISP actually route IPv6 packets? Because if it does not, they will not.

Also: Big Macs, 64 oz. sodas, and no exercise.