Please mod parent up, this is the most relevant information: Chinese manufacturing represents 2% of the cost of an Ipad. i.e 10$ for the $500 Ipad, whereas Apple profits represent 30% !

It would be fairly trivial for Apple to improve working conditions in China.

Yes but perhaps not enough crazy money to warrant an IPO price of 75 billions.

In some countries, authors retain their authors or moral rights regardless of who has copyright. This means they can publish a draft of their work for instance, which is what they can put on arXiv, without even asking anyone.

So if the cloud provider dies, you lose your cloud backup and all the warm fuzzy feeling that goes with it. What if you do not have a backup of this backup? Tough I guess. I hope your data was encrypted !

Do you have a reference for a serious study of this ?

To "support" your argument, my mother-in-law was a university professor in biology. She was for a while giving genetics tutorials where students would determine their blood group and comparing it to their parents. Sure enough she had to stop doing this because several students found out that way that their blood group was not compatible with being an actual offspring of their parents, which led to some trouble. However I do not have any statistics regarding how many students were involved.

From memory early IP adopters like many Ivy League universities have a A domain. E.g MIT owns the 18.x.x.x domain. I doubt MIT requires 16 millions of IP addresses.

On the other hand, they probably would have to reengineer their network architecture if they had to free a good chunk of their 18.x subnets. Which would be cheaper? Converting to ipv6 or hang on to part of their old A domain ?

Also there is work to do in the DNS servers code so that A block can be cut up. This is not a simple as it seems.

How is that enforced ? How do you know the dealer did not pay in cash, since cash is basically untraceable ?

I find it likely that David Hilbert on his deathbed wished he had more time to look into the Riemann Hypothesis a bit more seriously.

I do. I love my job. I actually work as much as I can. It doesn't pay well though, but that's my choice. I'm a researcher.

You need to decelerate halfway. 20 years to the core is if you go full throttle all the way and don't brake.