I'd go one further, entire industries have been created to tackle this very problem! There is a lot of money in mining logs properly, it's easily a billion dollar industry.
To me, the existing kindle is already quite a good tablet.
It might not have all the bells and whistles of an ipad, but there's an active app community, it's "tablet" sized, and is geared towards content consumption and not creation. For me, this is what signifies a tablet.
I get sick to my stomach each time I see a contest like this. All risk is born by the participants, and no matter the outcome, the only result for the contest runner is a demonstrably larger bottom line.
I believe that to have paid professionals perform a similar level of work, the price point would be well over the main prize of 25,000.
My workplace used to post all H1-B pay rates in the breakroom.
The day after my review, in which I brought up the pay discrepancy between me and the H1-B workers at a similiar grade, they all came down never to reappear.
This is a fairly large company, which made it even more shocking.
The only thing I could come up with is that, anyone implementing these at scale (fb's competitors) has already committed substantial dollar amounts to existing infrastructure.
To leverage the minor improvements in design that will come of this, they would have to start by rolling out new facebook style racks/data centers.
Whereas, for facebook any design improvements would be easier to implement on a larger scale.
Either that or they are just do-gooders, which I highly doubt.
Gmail accounts and capcha solving services are cheap compared to the profits you could make off of getting your site ranked #1 for a profitable search keyword.
I like to SSH in from all over the place, and so a default deny iptables policy would be a disaster for me. After some research, I went ahead and blocked all of China and Korea using iptables.
I wrote a quick django app that watches fail2ban logs and plots a heatmap of where in the world the attacks are coming from. After watching this for a bit I found that most of these attacks originate from Chinese and Korean IP space. So I set out to block all of China and Korea.
After some googling, I found that okean.com maintains a handy SMTP Chinese/Korean iptables ruleset at http://www.okean.com/antispam/iptables/rc.firewall.sinokorea. I took their rules and modified it to drop all traffic from these IPs instead of just port 25.
How does moving educational goal posts based on race raise the level of education in the US?
Furthermore, the educational system you describe already occurs throughout many parts of the US. Test prep and the private sector is not an answer to a societal/cultural problem.
Some times people need tobe told harshly they're being an idiot.