In America, the cows get ultrasounds. What a country!

I used to keep pigs, and supplemented their feed with week-old-bread from the food bank. My brother used to feed his cattle chicken litter (after composting it) during drought years. Farmers have been doing this sort of thing since there have been farmers.

I have. Bought some hamburger from the supermarket, and had some hamburger given to me by one of my parishioners (at the time I was a pastor.) Served them at a party, without telling anyone, and several people commented on how good the "plain" burgers were. Most said something like, "oh, this tastes like the beef I had as a child!"

Didn't say they weren't. Was just trying to be funny (perhaps unsuccsesfully.)

1. Build a free operating system.
2. Support it for years.
3. ... have Amazon "affiliate" ads ...
4. Profit!

We've finally found out what the '...' stood for. Look for a fork of Ubuntu in 5 ... 4... 3...

I think it's more likely just a lack of time. Speaking as someone who is 40, I just don't have much time to spend listening to music or looking for new music.

Speaking as a programmer (Python web apps mostly) I find that I am much more productive on Mac than Windows. This is partly due to the much better command shell, but also due to the fact that I host my apps on UNIX and Mac OS X is a form of UNIX. The bottom line is that I can spend hours and days trying to get some python module working properly on Windows, chasing down compilers, etc., and on Mac it's a matter of "pip install module". It also helps that Macs tend to be much more reliable.

Choose the best platform for the task.

I would seriously consider the Wikimedia Foundation, publishers of wikipedia. Particularly in the third world, this sort of freely available information is vital.

Back in 1999 or so, I was asked to do something similar for my church. (Believe it or not, people were really coming to church in the middle of the night and using church computers for porn. Actually, 'person'.) At that time, there were no good OSS filtering proxies, so I settled on a simple solution: accountability. We setup a squid proxy with a login requirement, and then we emailed the account holder a list of all the websites they had visited each day. Instantly, we had no porn problem.

Not sure I'd want to take this approach in an academic environment; a great deal would depend on the school, the age of the kids, and the values of parents, but I thought I'd mention it.

Nowadays, I'd just use a filter in the router forcing all DNS requests to go to OpenDNS, and use OpenDNS' content filtering. It's not as fine grained as you might want (it only works at the domain level) but it's still pretty effective. In this area, there's no such thing as 100% -- all you can do is try to keep it down to a dull roar.

Philosophically, I have a problem with any country that thinks so little of children as to allow them to be killed before they're even born.

A quick google reveals that a 1.5TB LTO tape costs $40. I saw brand new 3TB seagate hard drives at MicroCenter the other day for $99.99. So, you want to store 3TB.

You can either do it with tape, and all the problems that implies, and a rather expensive tape drive, or you can use cheap disks for $7.75 more per TB. I'd go with the disks any day of the week.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again -- managing identity is a quintessential government function, and should be handled by the government online as well. The basic problem here is that we should have a nationwide, and possibly global, single sign on system, with our rights protected by clear and unambiguous legislative features. Nobody thinks that the issuing of drivers' licenses should be done by private enterprise (or, if they do, they're idiots.) Why do we think online identity is less important?

And, in the 1950's, computers filled a room and cost millions. Now, my iPhone (actual cost around $500) can probably equal all the processing power and on-line memory in the world at that time. Costs will come down, steadily, as the technology matures. With PV, prices will continue to go down as the market continues to grow. That's the way technology works.

Seriously, building such things is not a "cost" but an investment. Just allocate the whole cost of the past several Middle-Eastern wars to your power bill and see how it goes for ya.

Yeah, but Apple has been known to engage in this sort of behavior before -- censoring fairly inoffensive content or code because it offends their corporate "sensibilities." Witness the publishing, then revoking, of the Exodus International app.

I don't want the people who make my MP3 player deciding what books I'm allowed to read, nor what websites I'm allowed to visit, nor what apps I'm allowed to run on it. The only reason Apple should ever censor content is because it violates some applicable law. If they're not willing to do that, then they can't be trusted with the keys to my digital kingdom.

And, btw, I'm not an Apple-hater. I own an iPad, and an iPhone, and several macs. But when I buy content, I tend to buy from Amazon whenever possible, because I find them to be more trustworthy.