Ebola is not a very subtle disease, and is quite obvious before you are infections.
'If you get symptom x/y/z, report urgently to this number'.

But only at specific resonant frequencies.
LIGO is in principle sensitive to very different frequencies of gravity waves.

For solar concentrated collectors.
These are panels that reflect the magnified image of the sun onto a tiny few centimeter square panel.
These produce absolutely no (well, ~.1% or so) power when there is no direct light, just bright, diffuse light.
Simply because the reflector is reflecting a comparatively dull slice of cloud onto the panel - rather than the bright sun.

Ordinary non-concentrated panels work just fine on diffuse light. (though of course with rather less output due to the lower light level)

Rather depends where you are.
That's about double (on average) the total solar panel output here (UK). (5h/day = 1800kWh/kWp, UK average is around 1K)
An important caveat is that this is entirely useless for places that get a lot of diffuse light.
Concentrated panels work only when you can see the bright disk of the sun - a cloudy bright day produces no power.

Ebola is young in humans. There is no immunity to it like we have some immunity to Flu and various other diseases.
It being young is scary in other ways.
Before now, the virus had about 500 hosts in which to evolve a more spreadable version, and did not.

Even if it mutates to a version that 'only' kills 10% of the population, the truly scary thing is not global Ebola.
In western countries, Ebola in its current form would be a few cases per 'patient zero' coming from outside.

The scary thing is if it evolves, and becomes arielly transmissable.

That way lie hundreds of millions of deaths.

Exactly the same experience.

I do hope they don't drop the 7.
A 9" screen is not nearly as portable, or as convenient.

I don't think playing games with burros is on-topic on slashdot.

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3g/LTE is very, very far from universally available.
An Ipad?
On dialup?
Certainly, you can as a competent user probably use it that way.
Good luck training people in the OPs relatives position to use it.

As others have raised, dialup often costs per-minute.
Webmail may be a terribly expensive option.

I'd argue that the propulsive landing of dragon 2 makes it considerably more capable than apollo era capsules.

Is it legally possible... Not everywhere certainly.
http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/in...
Is he required to lie about this?

Err...
Yes - and if you actually read the article you linked, it's saying that if you edit the sound to be different than video, then you get effects that differ from the sound when listened to.
In real life - when the sight and video are not intentionally disturbed - it helps.

Moores law is hitting a wall - and sharply limits the possibility of simply improving the speed of increasing the performance of single-core processors.

Interestingly however, one alternative - in addition to magical as-yet-unthought of technology is single purpose cores that remain switched off most of the time, and are only powered up to do a specific task very efficiently.

That's not required under my reading.
The full text of the original law referred to is 'use by communication or making available, for the purpose of research or private study, to individual members of the public by dedicated terminals on the premises of establishments referred to in paragraph 2(c) of works and other subject-matter not subject to purchase or licensing terms which are contained in their collections; '

It is quite arguable that VPNing into a virtual screen of a terminal is in fact compliant with the law - as long as it does not allow >1 person to view it at once.

It specifically refers in the body of the judgement to not putting libraries that had digitised books at an advantage' - so you can't digitise a book, and show it to more than one person at once.
(unless you have more than one physical copy).
If the physical copy goes away, so does your right to show it.
It's not clear you have the right in that case to keep the digital copy.

Reading lightly the judgement at http://curia.europa.eu/juris/d... - a number of issues are raised.

It is several times noted that it's a 1:1 based on physical books.
One of the most important reasons for digitisation would be to protect physical books from being lost.
Digital books, of course, can be backed up.

The judgement does not quite help with that - if a paper book is disposed of, destroyed, or catches fire - you lose the right to at the least display it - it is not clear to me that you have any right to retain the digital copy.

"use by communication or making available, for the purpose of research or private study, to individual members of the public by dedicated terminals on the premises of establishments referred to in paragraph 2(c) of works and other subject-matter not subject to purchase or licensing terms which are contained in their collections; "

This has some problems.
If you digitise your collection, can you only provide access at the site you digitised it at?
At any building in the same complex?
At any building managed by the same entity as the original digiser?
At any library with inter-library loan arrangements with the first library?

The judgement diddn't address this, they just said the fundamental right existed.

Another major hole in the judgement is 'by communication' - unless this is separately defined - one could imagine it being OK to connect (with DRM) to some dedicated terminal which provided copies of books via your phone or tablet.

The judgement also notes that it's free for national lawmakers to permit libraries to print or give digital copies - if the original publisher is properly compensated - even if the original publisher declines this.
This could vastly free up access to some books where the publisher is unidentifiable.