Grace who? She must have been extremely famous, since I have never heard of her...

These things are toys. They are useless for anything except for a few minutes of amusement. Anyone with a catapult and a marble can shoot them down. Yes, I know, cause I have one.

It won't work. Some students will use cell phone modems and others will set up VPN connections to the outside and absolutely nobody would access any of the paid for content directly. For some enlightenment, introduce your board members to the TOR Browser Bundle: https://www.torproject.org/pro... Even airports, which have the ultimate captive audience, are now going free and open - for example the Vienna airport. So, you will have a whole shitload of schlepp and no hope in hell of making any money.

It is easy to get office workers to exercise. Just put the coffee machine and the toilets at opposing ends of the building.

They got me with that one.

I'm pretty sure he won't get it.

Oh, ethics have been done to death by an age old professor by the name of Aristotle, roundabout 2300 years ago already, in his book called, wait for it, drum roll... Ethics.

If you clean out the system, then when it is started up again, everything that was patented before will be patented again and these patents will again be valid for goodness knows how many years. So, maybe think again, since it is not so simple.

A good grounding in C? It is all Algol to me. Nothing new was invented in comp sci since about 1970. Changing the name of a concept, doesn't make it a new concept.

Uhuh. All language are Algol to me. I haven't seen anything really new in decades. Mostly, it is the same old stuff warmed over with new names for old concepts.

Good grief. OK, I'll provide some basic geological education to you. Coal is mainly made from fern spores. Yes, those tiny little black dots on the underside of fern leaves. Ferns get their carbon from the air. Coal seams were produced during extended periods when the earth was tropical. A typical coal seam consists of one to two hundred million years of fern spore deposits. This happened several times, until there wasn't enough CO2 in the air anymore, to sustain coal production. If you don't believe me, get a lump of coal and look at it with a microscope.

I've been wondering whether Samsung could file counter suits in these ten states against Apple, to fight fire with fire.

Well, 'threaten someone by claiming you will sue them' is probably covered by various laws against fraud and blackmail already. A big problem in the USA is that there are too many incompetent lawyers that don't know law.

That is the whole idea. They want the trolls to avoid their states. Even unenforceable laws have a deterring effect, since the troll can still be dragged to court and incur sky high legal fees despite having the case dismissed eventually, ten years later.

It is AFRICA for god's sake. Unreliable electricity, bad water, bad food, few can read/write...

Make the database on paper cards. Large corporations worked like that for hundreds of years. It works.

OK, it is AFRICA, use clay tablets and write in Sanskrit...