We urgently need a deflector that will shield us from click-bait. And look as good as Uhura in a miniskirt!

am I missing something?

Yes. This is in Africa. Any AC supply they do have will be 240V.

And will probably only work for 3 hours a day - most likely the 3 hours you least need it, and quite definitely the 3 hours you least expect it. However, you still have to pay for it for the other 21 hours you did not get it.

This is a combined effect of the afterglow of the colonial era when all forms of organisation were the work of the occupying enemy, and to be resisted at all costs, and modern Islamic teaching that education is a Satanic American plot.

a computer that died of ebola

Surely the real news is that Android tablets are now susceptable to human viruses.

Signed:

iBollocks.

The Spanish inquisition call it heresy. We could argue all night.

If you are going to look directly into Wikipedia, the Academy of Science recommends you hold a piece of cardboard over your eyes to avoid brain damage.

What other laptop could possibly do all that!?

A Thinkpad T21 from 2002?

Eclipse on a Pentium 3 with only 1GB of memory may be slow, but you can spend the extra time racing tortoises, or doing the things students normally do.

Use a Cray for the serious lifting. Use the laptop as a dumb terminal.

Or get an iWatch, and be the dumb terminal yourself.

The real question is "Is using different frequencies for forward and reverse path such a problem?" to which the answer is, "No. In many ways it is an advantage".

This may be a solution, but it is not clear there is actually a problem it solves.

Does this enable more total data to be transmitted where there are multiple users in a band? When they are using spread spectrum and reception conditions are poor, and one or both ends are moving through buildings or spaces occupied by reflective surfaces?

I am sure someone will buy the patent, but much less sure it will turn out to be value for money.

I do not want this deal - my embroidery software requires XP, and the sewing machine will not work with newer software. There is no way I would replace my old "Made in Switzerland" machine, with a modern "made in Korea" one.

Maybe companies will start hiding the profit by selling paperclips to themselves...

The car industry has been doing this for almost 100 years (with engines). If they can't be stopped, It is a safe bet that shuffling bits around will be harder to tax.

This is what is known in the trade as "throwing a sop to the voters".

anyone working in the regulatory agency will be completely ignorant of how the industry they're regulating works

No change there, then.

The tax code is for funding the government, not for social engineering.

Maybe in America, but here in Europe, tax is seen as the wheel to steer the ship of state, and social engineering is seen as important to maintaining a state in which the police do not shoot (many) people, and they don't (often) shoot back.

Someone on $2 a day is outside the monetary economy. They do not pay for food and shelter with money. p. Do they need surface tablets? Hell, no - they need large format Android phones.

In the days of Fidonet, I had a BBS, and quite a few of the people I communicated with were Russian. Several complained that even one spelling mistake was a problem for them, because they had to look up every single word in the dicitonary. Mistakes like lose/loose are totally mystifying if you don't understand what you are translating.

It made me try much harder with spelling, and rely less on automatic spelling corrections, and also gave me a new insight into the Bible!

You might want to google github or sourceforge.

Why feed back when, you can fix it yourself.

Obviously your sarcasm filter needs upgrading to use systemd.