Firechat uses Apple's Multipeer connectivity for IOS, and a similar protocol for Android, to achieve a mesh network. I do not believe that any of this is MANET (the IETF's favorite mesh networking protocol).

I can actually understand this - suppose I was an agent and I made up a random name, like 'Polly-O string cheese'. If I used it consistently, a spy for the other side could do traffic analysis - things like " 'Polly-O string cheese' always gets a coffee, except for 2 recent periods of about a week each. Suspected agent X was reported as being in country Y, an ally of ours, during those 2 periods, and at no other time. Next time 'Polly-O string cheese' doesn't get a coffee, if X is in country Y, get the Y state security to arrest him.

If I were agent X, I would be very nervous at having to give any name, even if I could make one up each time. Humans are not very good at making up random things...

I thought that was a Pike's Place in Seattle?

During a power failure I found that I can make much better toast in the fireplace than in a toaster. I prefer it now.

In business, whenever you have to ask, why?, the answer is generally, money.

Another hyperventilating article about things I have no desire or intention to possess.

The OP meant grade as in second or third, not as in B or C.

Oh, and probably most important - parents should make sure they have a copy of the ID's passwords needed to access "third party" resources, to avoid the inevitable loss of notebooks.

Tell them to put them in a notebook. Accept that they will get shared. If that bothers the school admins, too bad.

I have a feeling that this school is wasting a bunch of money on stuff "third party" salesmen have sold them, but that is another issue.

'We're going to debunk one of the biggest conspiracies in the world,'

Anyone who takes this seriously is too stupid to take seriously.

Generally, in the data centers guarantees really mean that you get a payment (or a reduction in fees) if the guarantee is violated. (You might get 1 day's service fee off if you lose power for X minutes, for example). So, if it doesn't work, expect a reduction in the bill, as specified in the contract.

So, if you bet your business on something like this, you had better have a plan B in case of outages.

EMP is not biologically dangerous, unless you are wearing something like a pacemaker. And, all you need for protection is a suitable Faraday cage and isolation from the grid, so the same shielding can protect against both EMPs and Solar Storms.

That's it? With a datacenter that small, I wonder they didn't put it deep underground (unless this is a typo).

Can I convert my basement into a data center and get it on slashdot too?

That's what that "non-interference" bit is about.

You may not care, but your investors are highly likely to. That is really what's driving this.