Just paint a black frame around some rectangular mirrors and put a big reversed brochure printout on the ceiling. Nobody will know the diff and you can keep the real tablets for yourself. (My experience at AOL is paying off.)

DOS 1.1 - one app at a time, done!

Ssshhhhh, wacky ideas like this keep us techies employed. Nix the sober reality talk, dude.

Is there a reason your organization wants...easy-to-steal-and-expensive tablets?....Why not just a cheap laptop. Or a pamphlet and TV?

Pamphlets are easy to steal also. I have 800 at home. Just for the hell of it.
     

If those services charge a removal fee that covers removal cost plus a small profit margin (for commercial vendors), then it shouldn't matter to them. It's more revenue.

Canada doesn't have freedom of speech

US doesn't either when it comes to IP laws: guilty until proven corporate-approved.
   

I bought an ipad 1 right when it came out...The question is, how is apple going to get me to upgrade it?

One possibility is Apple's intentionally blocking of certain apps that mirror the newest features. For example, iPhone 4Gs comes with a speech interpreter. But, there is no speech interpreter app for the 4G with the same capabilities, only reduced-functionality ones (that have nothing to do with chip power). Therefor to get full speech, you gotta buy the damned new one. @#&% Apple!

Viruses and other "parasites" are not necessarily self-reproducing. They con the host into doing some or all of it for them. Males are usually not self-reproducing also.

The vast majority of new software ideas are created to solve a specific issue for a specific project or product being worked on. There are very few productive software "invention labs" of the kind Thomas Edison ran. Thus, if software patents disappeared, at the very worse it wouldn't change the invention rate much since the per-product effort will still be made; and at the best smaller co's could better use mix-and-match for new products without fear of "submarine" patent lawsuits. Thus, the benefits weigh toward doing away with "process patents".

I don't want to know how you found that out