4K? What a luxury. My KIM-1 only has 1152 bytes of RAM of which 256 bytes are the stack, plus another 2K of ROM. But then again, it was

intended to provide you with a capable microcomputer for use in your "real-world" application.

Who needs graphics and sound? I've got a 20 mA current loop interface for an ASR-33 (which does make lots of sound, now that I think about it).

Get off my lawn.

The N pole is only the simple answer. Fact is, there are infinite points which meet the condition. Anywhere on the latitude 1+1/pi (add just a tiny bit more because of spherical geometry) miles north of the S pole also works. When you walk a mile W, you're making a full circle back to your original longitude. There are similar others, where you circle twice, etc.

Using the AC power outlet conveniently located next to the pump? Or that the pumps provide PoE? And, you'll need dongles which retain their configuration and an AP which is configured with a different SSID for each. After that, you still need the switch/NAT stuff which makes it even possible.

Better to simply buy 8 $100 used laptops off eBay, and use one for each pump.

Since he's pushing software, and it takes 20-30 minutes each, it's safe to assume that there's a continuous flow happening during much of that time, like tftp'ing new code. He wants to do that in parallel to save time, not to save the 30 seconds it takes to move from one pump to the next.

A Smart car weighs about 1800 lbs. A Dodge Durango weighs about 6500 lbs. The accepted rule-of-thumb is that road damage increases as the 4th power of weight. So, the Durango causes ~170 times more road wear. Even if you don't accept that full number, it's still a very significant difference.

Weight-based fees for passenger vehicles really, really make a lot of sense.

"Weight-based fees also unfairly nail electric vehicle drivers, because the batteries tend to weigh more than an equivalent internal-combustion drivetrain."

The more a vehicle weighs, the more road wear it causes. How does the road not wear as much because the weight is from batteries? Do you think a semi-trailer loaded with car parts causes more wear than one of the same weight loaded with batteries?

So, he created a simulator by adding a second subnet to his DD-WRT router. Sorry, but it's bullshit, or he or you could easily point to these publicly available documents which perfectly describe the security hole. No need to build a simulator or sniff a real network, because it's already documented.

"all Roberts is NOT claiming is that he didn't cause an actual plane to move in any direction, send commands to the plane etc."

Let's see. Parsing double negative, so "Roberts claiming he did cause an actual plane to move" is allowed to be true.

Well, unless you're testing sensors, where interference from a large object full of electronics, vibrations and heat generating devices might be a problem or you need a different orbit or you don't want your military stuff exposed to international crews.

By your logic, why have a Hubble telescope, or a Chandra X-Ray Observatory, when they could simply be attached to the ISS?

Well then, I'll just assume you're wrong.

They rolled snake eyes twice in a row.

Please tell, where can one find one of these things which accurately simulates in flight entertainment systems, flight control systems and the interconnection between them? I mean, apart from being an airline or aircraft manufacturer employee.

Why don't you simply read the search warrant? The aircraft he was on for the Denver-Chicago leg flew one more leg, to Philadelphia, where it was searched.

You apparently don't understand how this works. They built a case for "probable cause" to get a search warrant, and the damaged/tampered box was only one part of that. He had previously claimed to have tampered and accessed the plane's network on flights, had made a tweet which implied that he was connected during this flight, and had the necessary equipment in his possession. They believe that the results of the search may be able to prove that he did in fact access the SEB. The burden is much less to obtain a warrant than to convict.

"it wasn't Windows, that sparked the Clone market, it was Good old DOS."

No, it was the availability of a clean room reverse-engineered BIOS (and that there were no limiting hardware patents on the IBM PC). First in-house by PC companies such as Columbia Data Products and Compaq, but later made available to all comers by companies like Award.

Clones did not depend on MS-DOS, since PC-DOS was readily available for use, along with CPM/86 and others. MS-DOS became popular because it was much cheaper for clone manufacturers to license it from Microsoft than to purchase PC-DOS from IBM at retail, but it was not required to make a clone.

First, you argue a point which depends on the FBI following their policy. When you're informed that the policy is exactly the opposite, you change to arguing that the FBI isn't following their policy.

Come back when you have some hard facts.

Makes no difference. The policy to record interviews was in effect when he was interviewed. You claimed they had a policy against recording interviews, when the fact is that their policy was exactly the opposite. Now you're trying to argue a red herring.