Cubesats are some multiple of a 100mm cube. I seem to remember seeing the prototype for this satellite and it was a 6x2x1 multiple of a 100mm cube. Not quite suitcase-sized.

Although the headline is sad, this was a total mission success, with the only disappointment being that it didn't stay around for even more years after the primary and secondary missions.

The Palo Alto location was a one-story building from another age, with a large parking lot, surrounded by multi-story headquarters of the most lucrative businesses. It's close to Stanford and the Sand Hill Road VCs. Fry's lost their lease. I would assume that the site will be bulldozed and rebuilt as multi-story with in-building parking.

That said, I can confirm that if you go to Fry's looking for a new laptop, you will mostly find refurbished units and old models they couldn't sell. And you will notice that there aren't many people shopping, and that the shelves are astonishingly bare.

I used to go there often, but online stores have become my main source for electronics and computer hardware. I doubt I'm alone in that. Even back when I was a frequent customer, I would find that the stuff I bought at Fry's was often old models rather than the manufacturer's current ones. Toward the end I was looking everything up on my phone before putting it in a cart. Sort of defeats the purpose of shopping in a brick-and-mortar.

Does anyone else see this as something rather unlikely to come from the administration? Scientists say that Open Publication is good for the world. There are deep-pockets publishers on the other side, with rent-seeking to protect. You tell me how this is likely to go.

Texting before/instead of calling isn't cumbersome. It's just good manners because me having to interrupt what I'm doing to take a phone call is insanely cumbersome. If you're calling out of the blue it had better be because somebody is dead. If not, send a text. And don't text to say "call me" - say what you want to talk about, so I can prioritize it.

A Sprinter is a tradesman's van. Outside the US, Mercedes aren't a luxury car maker, they are a general vehicle maker who also makes luxury cars. Aside from normal white vans, they also make buses, trucks, and cheaper cars that are popular as taxis.

The box is small and cheap, and is much easy to change when some new codec comes along making it obsolete, and you can keep the existing display.

If data can be charged (not something I've heard of) no one is actually charging for it. I can roam anywhere in the EU with no roaming charges on Vodafone.

How much does it cost for the user, though? Is it metered? If it is metered, you'll want a good proxy setup in front of it to block things like requests for ads, block the operating system's "phone home" and software updates while connected, block videos etc. as these can chew through gigabytes without the user really knowing.

The difference is that users in your country can self-support and continue local development of the software, even if they are cut off from US-based communities. If the native language is not English, of course in this case it's Spanish, there are likely to be language-specific discussion and self-support sites already in use by people in that country.

British cars from the 70s maybe. But there is no British mass-market car industry left - the last British manufacturer went out of business years ago, so you don't have anything to worry about.

Incidentally, Audi use Lucas electrical parts (that Lucas, as in Lucas prince of Darkness). So you better cross German cars off your list too.