Your understanding of what happened is deeply incorrect. Mine is not because I was there.

Al Gore's contribution was the High Performance Computing Act of 1991.
The result of this bill was investiture in projects to make the already long-since-privatized and independent legs of ARPANET have something "useful" on them.
Particularly- it led to the creation of Mosaic, and forward from there- the World Wide Web.
The US Government did not have "control" of "The Internet" after the first Private networks came online.
ARPANET was decommissioned because it only a small part of the already privatized Internet.

You have it entirely backwards.
The legislative mandate for control of the airwaves was not based upon "scarcity". The allowance of the abridgement of the first amendment based on the Government's legal right to control the airwaves, was based on scarcity.

I won't watch it happen, because it won't.

Not at 100% utilization it sure as fuck can't.
The Mac can do that at 100% utilization.
During the normal workday, my fans do not turn on once, period. 0rpm. Right now? 0rpm.

Your Asus and the MBP aren't even in comparable power regimes.

You made an ignorant mistake- I wouldn't make yourself look any dumber with it ;)

Hah- yes, it is. Brain autopilot typo- but thanks :P

Ya- I used it on a jailbroken iPhone ages ago.
The linux project seems to be highly mature at this stage (in so much that I can't remember the last time it had trouble talking to my iPhone)
Through thunderbolt, there's an additional easy method of communications- it supports a native EoTB (i.e., fake network adapter)
if you plug your Mac into another machine, Windows, Linux, or Mac, it'll create a Thunderbolt Ethernet Interface.

To be fair those were like the cranks who are saying "CO2 is just plant food" right now. Cigarettes were well-known to be harmful by mainstream medicine well before WW2.

... eating vegan diets. Nice to see DeSantis doesn't object either.

Oh, correction, not too far behind this lady ;-) Hey girl, you up for some tab hoarding and chill? :-P

Ooof, I'm not too far behind this guy...and yeah Tab Session Manager is the glue holding this shitshow together...

It's entropy, plain and simple. Sooner or later, no matter how secure an organization may be at any given point, skip ahead a few cycles, and attention to detail wanes. Managers stop asking questions, project leaders reprioritize thinking the problem is solved, staff do a "monkey see, monkey do", and then new gaps open up, get taken advantage of, management go into a state of denial, project leaders can't get their teams to give a damn, and then the inevitable breach or audit reveals the extent of the vulnerabilities, and management sends out the big press release that's always "We're reprioritizing security because we take security SERIOUSLY!"

Rinse, repeat, endlessly until the heat death of the universe shows entropy is always king.

Google Books search for "Elementary Linear Algebra" -Shields returns many results.

Are you really claiming that studying intelligence is a waste of time?

Are there phones with AM? Mine have only had FM and used the headphones for an antenna. You do need a large antenna, even if it is wrapped around a small ferrite stick, for AM.

I'll stop the thread of ever expanding replies and answer with this-

If I said it using the iPad as a node over a slow bus couldn't do useful work, I overplayed my hand.
However, in today's programming paradigms, which have abandoned the older paradigms that favored that kind of thinking- the usefulness of it is very questionable.
Very few software suites support distributed computing anymore. Except for a couple very specific workloads, and some hobbyist workloads, it's simply more practical to get a machine with more CPUs than to use 2 machines talking over a slow bus.
As mentioned, that's why Xeon Phi and IBM Cell coprocessor boards died. It's a pain in the ass to write software that works well that way.
OpenMP is not a fun suite to use, and distributed programming without it isn't any better.
SMP on the other hand, is very easy.
Serialized workloads will always be able to be dished out to other nodes for crunching and return processing, but that's simply a tiny fraction of computing that happens.
That is a fact.

It just won't happen. I will however concede, that if they were to ever open up the iPad as a general Mac device, it would be minutes before someone did use it as a distributed processing node.
But it would be a hobbyist such as yourself, or me at 20 when I was trying to get every 486DX in my house to produce a deep Mandelbrot dive.

Not quite.
It's because the airwaves are a federally controlled resource- by a long chain of law reaching back to common law, which essentially says, "nothing above your home is owned by you"
Any random limited resource is not subject to such regulation.

Absolutely not.
That's absurd.
Those transit points are privately owned, running over privately owned lines, with non-federal easements or ownerships.

No, you most certainly would not. The US Government cannot just nationalize whatever resource they like.

This is entirely fictional. There is no grounding of this viewpoint in reality, because the US Government never could, and never did control "The Internet"

I certainly hope so, since it's not real.

The USG did not ever control the internet.
They controlled their nodes of the big network that became the internet. Then they decided to share the DARPA IP protocol suite with non-government entities.
Once the first private AS (Autonomous System as they're called in network peering parlance) came online, the internet was born, and it was born free. They were no longer in control, and they had no way to be.

The portions of "The Internet" under US private or public control are not fundamental parts of it. There is no central control to the transmission of IP packets, period. It's 100% ad-hoc between private entities using BGP, with hundreds of thousands of peer-to-peer route exchanges. I know because I operate one of them.

IANA was established because it was useful to have it. There is nothing that requires following it.
Non-IANA-allocated addresses float around the internet routing tables all the time (we call them bogons and martians), and non-IANA-controlled DNS protocols exist (though not with wide adoption)

The reason everyone accepts control of certain internet resources by US entities, is because it's useful to have a central control of those resources. That doesn't mean it's required, and anyone, at any time, can "fork" the internet- if they can get other people to go along with them. You don't have to ask IANA for permission to announce a prefix. You just have to convince your peers to accept it and route that traffic to you.
You don't have to ask IANA permission to use a particular name- you just need to convince other people to trust your DNS server.

Again, though- it makes the utility essentially a waste of a second computer for 99.9% of all people.
I don't disagree that it would be "wouldn't it be cool if I could use my iPad as a computer in general, and do this particular thing with it also if I wanted?" but you'll never see a product built around that.

What you're really arguing for is the freedom of the iPad from the bullshit software restrictions imposed upon it- and there, I couldn't agree with you more.
Your iPad can already function as an external display via SideCar. If you could also use it as a tablet-form MacBook, then ya, people like you could use it as a poor man's second node in your distributed computing project- and you should be able to, because goddamnit, it IS a computer, and it IS yours.

But as for Apple making that a product? Na. There's simply no money (in Apple terms, anyway) to be made in making a cool "second computer doohickey" for your Mac.