I somewhat agree and somewhat disagree. If your students haven’t completely disabled GoGuardian, they are only working within the system. At least when I was a student working on this problem, I spent some time writing some software that would selectively disable and enable GoGuardian features, but my peers were not. I’d imagine similar exists today, a “good enough” approach beats out a technically sound one. “Unblocked” games or websites rely on a brute-force “what are they going to do about it” ideology that doesn’t work when the person you are disagreeing with isn’t a 50 year old man that lacks motivation. If it can’t be explained in a minute, it’s probably unlikely any more than one in one hundred actually do it. As hopeful as I’d like to be about this, I’d doubt the next generation gets adept at anything more than lying about their age online.
Unrelated to security, modern chips are designed with JavaScript in mind. ARM’s FJCVTZS is the most famous example. Broadly speaking, a custom chip for JavaScript would likely not be to improve security, only performance. ARM did try out something similar (in the broadest sense of the word) for Jazelle and later ThumbEE, which haven’t been around for decade(s) now.
Delay is frustrating, but not a violation. Just because you reverse engineered GPLv2 code doesn’t make that in violation of GPLv2, many people have done that for reasons that rhyme with yours over the decades. GPLv2 also doesn’t have any clause about security patches or if you have a requirement for a certain timeline. GPLv2 isn’t a “you agree to not be an asshole” license.
Tarballs certainly aren’t in violation of the GPL, via gnu.org own source distribution methodology. It would also be a very interesting legal claim that git metadata is required, and likely something already hashed out when the government decided that metadata isn’t the same as the underlying data.
That’s an ambitious interpretation. The preferred form for making modifications to the Linux kernel also involves having a build cache, but that’s clearly not required to remain GPL compliant.
Starlink is going to be a cellular company, except instead of maintaining cheap metal frames, they have to physically launch the antennas to space every 5 years.
You can reason it out (in a way that might make Fermi proud) pretty easily: a very large AC unit can be powered by a very small (relative) solar panel, where the solar panel is maybe 20% efficient. Thus, solar irradiation is substantially higher than AC power usage.
That's only accounting for the energy the airco unit consumes. What the airco unit does is remove heat from the inside of the house, and dump it outside. That effect is about 4 times larger.
