If you have any examples of widespread deployments of [winter] weather-proofed road deployments - is love to hear about them. I live in New Hampshire. I've driven as far both as Canada, South as Florida, and west as California. Have never seen one.

"Engineers design around it" - this is why we never get things like frost heaves or potholes or road damage due to moisture seeping in cracks due to ground movement then freezing, etc...etc??????

AM is worse than FM - XM is even worse than AM! They say they use a "proprietary codec" to make it better - and I'm sure it's a *little* better than a standard MP3 compression (maybe) - but a "good quality" MP3 will be 320kbps - 10x the bitrate of XM - and there are many that even complain about that!

I only know this because I was so disturbed by the quality of the XM radio in my car that I had to look it up...

I can't even hear the letters "XM" without twinning. 32Kbps audio stream for music - comparable to AM quality. Stations they seem "talk" are even lower. I but a car with a nice "premium" sound system - XM makes it sound like a gramophone.

Sorry - Not for a $150 a month.

Spaceballs II - "The quest for more money"

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Use of this would (to my knowledge) require some sort of HAM licensing - and said regulations would have restrictions on things like frequencies (i.e. the whole "FM Pirate Radio" thing discussed on the README) or encrypted data.

So the NSA couldn't necessarily snoop your data - but the FCC could (and if you pissed the NSA or FBI off, probable WOULD) come after you for these types of violations. They couldn't get your by IP address - but if your were operating this from a fixed-base - they could find you.

I've been saying from Day 1 - that I don't think the iPad is that great. It may be good for games, videos and light web browsing - but the lack of keyboard make it a difficult to do any real "work" (including homework) on. For example, I am typing this message on a "real" keyboard (not an on-screen one). I know you *can* attach external keyboards - but then we're moving more into netbook/notebook space - and if we're gonna go there - we might as well throw in a mouse, larger screen, and "real" multitasking (i.e. I can see more than one window at a time - like I am doing right now at work).

So the iPad is a good trinket - and has some good vertical applications (I use it for navigation at the help of my boat, and Netflix in the cabin) - but I don't think it's will displace the functionality of "personal computers" for "productive" applications.

I could use them for my wife long dissertations about "how her day was"...

....and a poppy-seed-sized spherical lens made of borosilicate or corundum... ...and a light-emitting diode (LED), ...and a watch battery, ...and a switch ...and some copper tape)

Where do I sign the "opt-out" form for being a part of the "we" in your statement?

Personally, I follow Dr. McCarthy's advise due to her expertise and credentials, alone.

Time was - companies like this would give this sort of stuff away to get [younger] people hooked on these technologies. Would Microsoft want to get kids hooked into nice wholesome activities like MS-SQL, C#, .net or VB - or let them pick up stuff like LAMP an Python from their friends on the street.

Giving the stuff away is a way to groom the next up-and-coming generation into drinking your Kool-Aid. If they don't do this - they have only themselves to blame when the next generation grows up to be FOSS zellots...

Quick!!! A 3D printer can print something! This is newsworthy fodder for Slashdot!!