FCC will not license your radio communications if your satellite does not have a de-orbit strategy. For low-orbit satellites, like your typical cubesat, the orbit decays by itself and they burn up. For higher orbit ones, you need a method to de-orbit them.

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.

You sound really good but you are completely wrong here. QC froze Apple out because Apple was sending QC secrets to Intel to help them out, then refused to let QC audit them as required in their contract. See here:

https://www.semiaccurate.com/2... (Note: Self link)

            -Charlie

So you are saying that Qualcomm making better products cheaper and pricing them lower is a problem because... ? I thought that was capitalism.

Bullshit. Intel bought *4* fully functional modem teams, botched literally every modem they made, and now are trying to blame others. By botched every design, I mean there was literally never a single design that met the promised pre-silicon spec, the highlight of this was the Apple iPhone with both modems. The Qualcomm modem in the iPhone ran at 1Gbps in other phones that used it, 600Mbps, same as the Intel modem, in the iPhone. Coincidence?

Then there was the fact that they 'showed' multiple 5G chips and demos, all photoshopped fakes, but never once to my knowledge showed 5G silicon, functional or not.
https://www.semiaccurate.com/2... (Note: Self link)
I could go on but after a decade of literally never delivering on the lowest level promises, it is laughable that Intel is trying to blame others. If you want real humor, Intel's official tweeting of this travesty use A FAKE CHIP to promote it. You can't make this stuff up.

                  -Charlie

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.

And nobody vandalizes them, because it's Japan.

They had great iced coffee in cans, with brands like "Georgia", long before Starbucks and other US companies ever had canned and bottled coffee products.

That would be difficult. In general, reporting about a mark doesn't require acknowledgement of the mark.

In the USA, you have a constitutional right to state your opinion even if it's wrong.