To brew the ultimate "ice" beer.

It's aimed at government.

Also initially I read the name as SuckuTablet.

The military might.

Currently, the Air Force uses iPads, but not for classified, due to the requirement to connect to Apple servers to upgrade the OS (they will not supply a disc, as Microsoft does for our classified Windows boxes).

All of our pilots carry and use them for non-classified publications, but it would be nice to have something that Secret could be loaded onto for missions.

I don't even read Slashdot "stories" about Microsoft anymore, because most are just obvious "troll" or click-bait aimed at the anti-microsofties that prevail at Slashdot.

Soylentnews.com is a great site.

When I was stationed in Korea, the mysterious Mama-Sons made my dirties disappear from my room weekly, and reappear ironed and starched the next day. I don't know how the machine worked, but I do know it only cost me $20 a week.

Phone numbers are passed around like pocket change. Who has control today is not who has control tommorow.

But beyond that, if I buy a MagickJack today and send out 1,000,000 spams and 100,000 robo dials tomorow, how can the "owner" of that number be held responsible? Of course common sense says they cam't.

Unless, of course, you are willing to accept an invasive personal background check whenever you want to get a phone or chnge your phone number.

Is that what you want? Background checks to get phone numbers?

First, phone numbers can and are often "spoffed".

Second, just like with Intertube Spam, I can bust out 100,000's of robo-calls in one day from a disposable phone number (MagicJack and the like), and than move on untraced.

Robo-calls come from ever-changing numbers that eventually make it back into the pool. The result of a system like this will be that, like SPAM IP addresses, large swaths of numbers will forever be blacklisted even long after the robo-caller has moved on, forever useless to any other user.

Blacklisting in this way has been shown not to have any effect at all on SPAM / robo-callers, and only inconveniences everyone else.

Perhaps NASA battery tech from 20 - 25 years ago was more advanced than the cheap laptop batteries of the day? Maybe? Quite often military / space applications are the source of consumer tech down the line...

Ensuring that drivers have a valid license, fairly clean driving record, and insurance is "meaningless drivel"?

What is this âoeStar Warsâ you speak of? The Six Million Dollar Man perfected this technology in 1973.

Yet you have not idea where the shift key is on your keyboard. A "phd"? Really?

Your uncle might be correct. Do you have a doctorate from Cornell? No? Well then...

He lived here in Seattle for many years before he became a Super Star, and many people here (including his ex-girlfriend) agree with your assesment.

You put me in my place, Guy Five.