Until reasonably recently, phreaking and phishing weren't real words either, and even now, probably only in somewhat limited circles. I wonder if phogey will join that club? I don't phear it, it doesn't phrighten me, I look phorward to seeing it used more phrequently :-)

Check your local air regs, you may not be allowed to launch a 30-footer without special permission. You probably CAN launch below some specified weight-limit though, which is usually enough for a GPS, APRS board, small 2m transmitter, camera, and batteries.

Nick VA3NNW, part of the http://haven-1.elven.ca/ team

Can't help wondering if the "?????" is NOT a bad decode, but a bad GPS fix. The rest of the frame is quite well-formatted including the / and O. It looks like it still has Altitude (the A=) but the value looks dodgy compared with when it DOES have a fix.

Nick VA3NNW ... recently been studying APRS101.pdf and oh, my, what a mess, not so much a standard, looks more like a dumping ground of every new format anyone felt like inventing :-(

Ah! The huffpo, that famously accurate beacon of science journalism! http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4283

It IS served by a stock email app. It's called BIS. You just use the incredibly easy "email setup" wizard on any device (except perhaps enterprise-only ones?). You don't need any app.

Given how autism is diagnosed, what's the difference?

After coming in contact with one, they would swell up, and suffer hours of pain?

My (HFA) autistic kids can SOMETIMES concentrate on one thing for hours on end, and SOMETIMES be distracted by EVERY DAMNED THING imaginable. It entirely depends what the task is, and how much they wanted to do it.

... or more likely, miscarried when their mother ate a snickers bar, possibly before she even realised she was pregnant.

No, no! "Your plastic pal who's fun to be with!" :-)

Psion series 5, had a (stylus) touchscreen and lovely cut+paste, 1997.
... or were you counting the Apple Newton, similar timeframe?

The term "spectrum" is a bit misleading and gives the impression of being one-dimensional, like an "autism score from 0-100". The very page you've linked to shows it's a bit more multi-dimensional than that. Essentially, there's a collection of different symptoms (say, ABCDE), and if you've got some of them, you have a Pervasive Development Disorder (PDD). If you've got ALL of them (ABCDE) you've got a really bad case of utterly low-functioning autism, but that's fantastically rare. If you've got ABC but no problem with D or E you might have Asperger's syndrome, if you've got ADE you might have "HFA", if you've got some other combination they'll just call it "PDD-NOS", which is a kinda catch-all for "other"... Never mind even more complicated things like "A and B and a bit of occasional D and E" which you might find in typical testing.

Back to the "autism score from 0-100", one sufferer's 50% might be precisely the opposite 50% to someone else's 50%, showing a totally different set of symptoms out of the "whole set", they'd be good at different things, bad at different things, and need to accommodated in fairly different ways

"It's complicated" :-(

You're definitely not making it up.
Our physical hardware deployment time, from ordering? probably measured in months. A VM? Minutes.
Virtualisation these days robs you of less than 1% CPU and not much RAM, 50 VMs take a lot less hardware/space/power/cooling than 50 physical hosts, and in fact caching advantages mean they'll usually perform a lot better than 50 physical hosts too.

Exim MTA - http://exim.org/ - may still be the default sendmail-replacement in quite a few ditros.

OpenNebula (cloud management software). Puppet (stuff for managing loads of machines).