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They used the same image with the same default admin password on all the machines. How he was caught. He then used a remote desktop app to control the machines and wrote msgs in notpad to the admin. He says there were lots of people on at the same time as him. The machines contained nothing but low level logistic and stock records. Besides which Gary was smoking so much dope at the time that he forgot what he saw.

"The Americans have a secret spaceship?" I ask.

"That's what this trickle of evidence has led me to believe."

"Some kind of other Mir that nobody knows about?"

"I guess so," says Gary.

"What were the ship names?"

"I can't remember," says Gary. "I was smoking a lot of dope at the time. Not good for the intellect."

They should let him light up a spliff in the dock, that way his memory should return.

Portelligent estimates that the cost of the materials used in the iPhone add up to about $200 for the 4-gigabyte version, which sells for $499 and about $220 for the 8-gigabyte version, which sells for $599. Their estimate doesn't include costs of final assembly, but it does give some insight into the gross margin on the device. Historically Apple's gross margins have run ball park of 50% plus or minus a few points. "We had taken a speculative stab at what the costs would be back in January, when the phone was first announced and we were pretty close to the mark,"

Here is Novell's first response: http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/it-busin ess/supplier-relations/news/index.cfm?newsid=3029

'I make fifty cents just for showing up, and the other 50 cents is based on my performance.'

http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/it-busin ess/supplier-relations/news/index.cfm?newsid=2832

He probably used the world-wide workforce number and assumed it was US only. I can only assume he heard a rumor about 40% of some division, and since he didn't understand what that meant he decided to apply it to the global workforce number.