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Source that or shut your fucking mouth.

And if your idiot ass plans to link here

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/06/the-new -boeing-.html

Which is where you got your incorrect information, you need to shoot yourself in the face for using a fucking post by some unknown fucking idiot (like you as a matter of fact) to base your post on.

Play in traffic please fuckwad.

From comments at http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/06/the-new -boeing-.html

"Boeing's reason for not testing is that fine carbon powder released by a tension breakage would contaminate and destroy expensive equipment and require hazmat cleaning procedures afterwards. Imagine if a B787 crashes real-life, what pollution would be there! Carbon fibre shards and powder are known dangerous to lungs, carbon brake discs are about to be banned from Formula-1 car races because many drivers are already ill. I think Boeing is doing an ugly thing purely for profit and fate will punih them."

There is just such an e-voting system is Australia. It's called eVACS, is open source, and runs on Linux with off the shelf hardware:

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2003/11/61 045

this fiasco is going to make one kick ass episode of law and order, you've got the husband suspected of murder; the wife's friend/lover who is serial killer but swears up and down he would never hurt her; and the douche bag reporter putting words into people's mouthes.

According to the article, Reiser thought the Russian mafia or spy agency was tracking him. It was actually the local police, but because they used many unmarked cars and airplanes, he thought the tracking was beyond the scope of a local police force.

If you thought that the Russian mafia or spy agency was after you, would you be driving around in your personal vehicle that they know is yours? Or would you drive someone else's car? I don't think that I would have the courage to drive my own car if I believed some "serious people" were after me.

Also, I'm told that removing the passenger seat is common in the "ricer" community.

There's a scanner which can monitor brain activity realtime, depending on which areas light up, police can tell if you're lying or not. They don't even have to ask any questions, simply present evidence to you and watch what your brain does.

e.g.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.01/lying.htm l

As a geek who's been falsely accused, I'm sure he'd be happy to submit to such a scan. Additional evidence for his defence lawyer.

Yeah but you can see why people get the wrong idea about Hans

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-07 /ff_hansreiser?currentPage=5
Reiser delves into this "culture of manhood" in a 32-page filing he submits to the court after Nina accuses him of hurting her. In it, he explains the difference between appropriate and inappropriate violence. Grand Theft Auto, for instance, demonstrates inappropriate violence because players can get away with killing innocent people. "Many other computer games heavily penalize shooting the wrong person, and I prefer those," Reiser says.

1. Typing in all caps doesn't make people more receptive to your message. It makes you look like a fucking idiot. (I don't know if you are, but I suspect you are, because...)
2. Many respected engineers believe in the concept of the space elevator.

In fact, you could read this wired article which contains citations from people who you could consider listening to - because they are themselves intelligent, and in turn also have engineers giving them their opinions... "Technically it's feasible," said Robert Cassanova, director of the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts. "There's nothing wrong with the physics." Or David Raitt, senior technology transfer officer for the European Space Agency, believes the question is not whether to build a space elevator, but only how long it will take. Or of course Bill Rever, senior manager of business development for BP Solar, has been in contact with Edwards and said the space-elevator concept is "very promising." "I was very impressed with the level of detail in their analysis of potential engineering problems, and their proposed solutions," Rever said. "They've done a lot of homework, and it really shows. It's far beyond the level of a bunch of guys with an idea. It's definitely at the level of actual engineering to make it happen."

People a lot more influential than you are have gone to their teams of engineers who have told them it is feasible. Some of those people are almost certainly smarter than you are.

Perhaps you could provide a link to a study that says a space elevator is not viable from a physics standpoint?

The simple answer: Money. According to this article in last months Wired magazine, the Space Shuttle costs close to $1 Billion every time it flies. In theory, a space elevator could operate at a fracton of that cost.

The more detailed answer: Trying to beat Earth's gravity with rocket propelled aircraft is wholly inefficient compared to a space-elevator alternative. Picture an elevator in an 80-story skyscraper. Now replace the simple cable-motor pulley system with rocket propulsion, and replace the guide-rails with fins and an onboard stabilization system. Finally, from another perspective, replace the smooth, safe easy ride with an explosive, unstable high-G, high-risk one.

This isn't meant to be an accurate point-for-point argument for the need for a space elevator, but more of an argument for the replacement of the status-quo. Challenger and Columbia have shown us that our current methods for breaking Earth's atmosphere are not safe.

Before anyone brings up Burt Rutan and the X-prize, please remember that they acheived around 13 Miles altitude (SpaceshipOne's max is 70 Miles) vs. the International Space Station's 199 Miles


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According to James M. Atkinson, a Massachusetts-based expert in counterintelligence who has advised the U.S. Congress on security issues, its not that hard to take remote control of a wireless phone. You do not have to have a strong technical background for someone to do this, he said Tuesday. They probably have a technically gifted kid who probably is in their neighborhood.

According to James M. Atkinson, a Massachusetts-based expert in counterintelligence who has advised the U.S. Congress on security issues, its not that hard to take remote control of a wireless phone. You do not have to have a strong technical background for someone to do this, he said Tuesday. They probably have a technically gifted kid who probably is in their neighborhood.

The Chairman and CEO of Affinity Media is actually Brock Pierce, a major shareholder of IGE (though the source is possibly not updated) [1]. In the past (at the age of 18) he has been closely linked with the trafficking of minors for use in child pornography [1 and 2], though has been excused from these charges for undisclosed reasons.

My opinion still stands about the company Affinity Media and that they're actually trying to make a good name for themselves, but so long as the CEO and Chairman remains to be Brock Pierce, I don't think I'm comfortable with the recent Wowhead transaction.

SOURCES:
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brock_Pierce (Possibly Outdated and/or Biased)
2. http://www.itweek.co.uk/vnunet/news/2120349/dotcom -founders-spanish-jail
3. http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/1999/11/32 267

As happened with labor with the wondrous invention of Eli Whitney's cotton gin, technological advancements almost always lead to a future with fewer jobs. Another fact is that global population continues to rise. So we have more people, and fewer jobs to go around thanks to increases in productivity from better software & hardware design, streamlined assembly production lines, and even fruit pickers are facing competition from robotic picking machines in California.

For one thing, nebulous arguments about "government" like this are always weak. "Government" is rarely a single person or institution operating executively (and when it is, that's usually an abuse of the intended system of representation that needs to be fixed for a whole host of other reasons anyway).

Rarely? A single FBI agent can demand records with one of these, with no judicial oversight.

If this is still too nebulous, here are some numbers: "An internal FBI audit found that the bureau violated the rules more than 1000 times in an audit of 10% of its national investigations between 2002 and 2007. Over 20 of these involved requests by agents for information that US law did not permit them to have." Assuming the audit examined a random sampling of reuqests, that means there were ten thousand rule violations and two hundred illegal requests over that five-year period.

As long as we have a culture where both businesses and governments follow this basic principle (because they are required to by law and that law is effectively enforced), ...

Business culture? AT&T volunteered to help the NSA spy on their customers. They even have a secret routing center of some sort just for this task. eBay goes out of their way to help law enforcement. Verizon hands over customer data to the NSA and outrageously tries to claim free speech protection to do so.

The government and its laws? Go read about the National Security Letters linked above, learn about the USA PATRIOT Act, read about the 2,176 secret warrants were issued in 2006, ...just for starters. The law itself authorizes most of these abuses.

I actually have no problem with my ISP and the hosts at Slashdot keeping sufficient records to identify me in combination as the author of this post, as long as there are sufficient safeguards such as not releasing it without proper legal requirement to do so and only keeping it for a reasonable period of time.

As I hope you can see now, there aren't. One FBI agent can demand data from Slashdot under the authority of an NSL and can get your IP, then he can go over to your ISP and demand your name and address under another NSL. A third request under CALEA to your ISP or their upstream, and your every online move is being monitored for whatever he's looking for. And who knows how long businesses keep IP data around? There are currently no data retention laws in the US -- and if the government ever passes any, I assure you that they won't be to protect you by demanding businesses delete data after n months, they'll be to surveille you by demanding businesses keep data for at least n months. And if a businesses has it, and the government demands it, they have to yield it up.

In other words, the above means of identifying someone only works if all the parties involved are in countries where the law is compatible on these concerns.

Oh, you think being in Canada or the Netherlands or something is going to protect you from all this? That hole has been plugged, too.

"The Great Cyberwar of 2002": http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.02/cyberwar.h tml

Always a good read.

Compared to normal lens, apo plan lenses have a long working distance. They are used in inspection microscopy because around the focus distance, you won't crash into the sample you are looking at. If I'm not mistaken, the red colour coding of the lens used here indicates it's a near infrared lens.

Microscope lenses are often used with lasers to focus light into a tiny spot (say, into a fiber). The lens threading on the apo plan lens is also compatible with Thorlabs SM1 threadings, which make those ideal for... burning things at a distance using off-the-shelf bits and bobs!

'Nuff said.....

Manned space flight is an entertainment issue, and as such gets the public attention and money.

A point trenchantly made on the Simpsons -- what? 15 years ago? -- when Homer went into space. In rod we trust.

The failings of NASA are curmudgeonly summarized by Gregg Easterbrook in this Wired article:

How NASA Screwed Up (And Four Ways to Fix It)

Or if you'd rather have a break from reading, listen to his NPR radio interview (and the NASA's chiefs response, if you want to end up even more pissed off than Easterbrook.)

Easterbrook is more concerned with the crappy Motel 6 we're committed to building on the moon. But members of the Society for the Preservation of Legislative Language Protecting Missions to Mars just see that as a halfway house to Mars anyway.

I'm on Easterbrook's side here. Leave Mars for Duck Dodgers in the 24th-and-a-half century and get to the real science.

AT&T is the same company that cooperates with the government, installing multiple secret rooms used to filter (and store?) your Internet communications. Unfortunately, this isn't some kind of big-brother schizophrenic paranoia.. it's real.

I'm an Apple fanboy myself, but for this reason I canceled my AT&T service and will not purchase an iPhone until they can be unlocked or subscribed with another provider.

More here and here. If you want to watch a Frontline about the domestic survellience program, check it out here.

AT&T is the same company that cooperates with the government, installing multiple secret rooms used to filter (and store?) your Internet communications. Unfortunately, this isn't some kind of big-brother schizophrenic paranoia.. it's real.

I'm an Apple fanboy myself, but for this reason I canceled my AT&T service and will not purchase an iPhone until they can be unlocked or subscribed with another provider.

More here and here. If you want to watch a Frontline about the domestic survellience program, check it out here.

Here's how I submitted the story a few days ago:

At Volokh, Professor Orin Kerr notes a 6th circuit decision (pdf) about whether the 4th Amendment's expectation of privacy applied to Yahoo emails. Yes. Wired has more. EFF's friend of the court brief may have helped.
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Meanwhile Dr. Kerr has more on the case, here.

Wired.com had a very good article on this last year. It's an interesting concept. You treat lettuce growing the same way you do chip fabrication -- high density cleanrooms in optimal conditions. So, you get perfect organic produce, no pesticides, no fungicides, no herbicides, grown as fast as physically possible -- natural light supplimented with LEDs of optimal frequencies, water and mineral recapture (so only a tiny fraction of what is normally used gets used).

The downside is obviously the cost. However, the numbers still work out nicely. 85% of our lettuce is grown on the west coast at about 18 cents per head. This lettuce is more expensive (albeit near perfect, organic, and uberfresh), at 27 cents per head to produce. However, the cost to ship a head of lettuce from the west coast is as much as 50 cents. So you end up saving an awful lot.

As for energy usage: a semi gets 120-200 gross ton miles per gallon. Let's go with the middle, 160 ton miles/gallon. This means 320000 heads of lettuce per mile/gallon, or ~118 heads of lettuce per gallon from LA to NYC, i.e. ~0.0085 gallons per head of lettuce. That's 1.25 MJ of energy. The lettuce needs 2-3 months -- let's say 75 days. Let's say that half the light (compared to a sunny farm in SoCal) is supplimented -- perhaps 3 kWh/day. Let's say that they use diode lamps, so it's really 4 kWh/day consumed: 300 kWh total. That's 1.1 MJ. So, growing locally wins. But it gets better because you use 1/5th the fertilizer, no pesticides, and so on.

They would if "Adults Only" meant simply that, but it doesn't. From the GamePolitics article, "It means that major retailers like Wal-mart, which by itself accounts for about 25% of retail games sales, will not carry Manhunt 2." Last I checked, Wal-mart's customers, even for video games, included a lot of adults, but AO means they won't sell the game at all. Even though they already refuse to sell M-rated games to minors and have since 2000.

The problem is that the ESRB ratings are only vague recommendations, without the specific, consistent meanings to the retailer or purchasing decision maker that, for example, MPAA ratings have. That leaves a big question mark in the public mind as to how to react to these ratings, and the job of answering it ends up on the shoulders of the retailers. Wal-mart chose to react to AO with "not on my shelves" because they're conservative and cultivate a family-oriented image. Other retailers likely follow suit because it worked for Wal-mart. (Disclaimer: pure speculation.)

And that's their right. But that doesn't make it any less frustrating for Take Two when they build up for their release, arrange their distribution deals, put together numbers for initial orders so their manufacturing will be ready, etc., only to have an arbitrary decision cause their biggest retailer to pull out three weeks before release.

But they'll be okay. All they have to do is change the cover.

So its all ok that Sony bailed out Square when they got in over there heads with the final fantasy movie, but if MS does the same to help Rockstar (who has had financial problems for over a year) they are evil? It was a smart move for Sony back in 2001 and its a smart move for MS now. Just as Sony saved Square from the possibility of bankrupcy Microsoft has helped assure Take Two and Rockstar of making it through the coming fiscal year so that GTA IV can actually get published.

http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/news/200 7/03/FF_160_rockstar?currentPage=1

That gives some insight into what has happened over the past couple years at Take-Two, its an interesting read, and most will agree after reading whats been going on that if anything the Sony fanboys complaining should be thanking MS since its likely that their favorite franchise may not have even made it to the shelf otherwise.

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What about the guys who wanted to convert dead people to fuel?

Particularly this comment on the Wired blog

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/06/net_neutr ality_.html#comment-72777768
The Government and the FCC[Federal Communication Commission], Should stop the Tele-Communications, from selling bundles.

It Is the worst thing that could ever Happen. Especially since the consumers; Ability to complaint about service has been Thrown Out.
{ By the I agree / or Do not agree} Button that have to be clicked for Internet service.(ALSO: THIS IS ILLEGAL CONTRACT)!.

Currently The Tele-Com's Have Given themselves the "ABILITY" to "RATION"! out The First Amendment:
++Mainly Freedom Of Speech and Freedom Of Press.( By Their Agree or Do not Agree). Before the provide service!.
**THEY HAVE NO RIGHT TO DENY SPEECH OR PRESS TO ANYONE!!

The Telephone Lines and Cables are not Just for Large Corporations,They are for Public and Private use.

This is what they are Trying to achieve: Total Control and Dominance in: What you can see, hear, or speak and write!. By Offing the Consuming public: Apparently Low Prices on Many Peripherals. That The Consumer Believes that they are getting a good DEAL, "WHICH THEY ARE NOT!.

Regulatory, INTERVENTION IS NEEDED!.

Being pushed off a or "TERMINATED at the "DISCRETION OF SOME EMPLOYEE HAVING A BAD DAY, OR AN ATTITUDE ABOUT WHAT SOMEONE WRITES, THAT IS NOT TO HIS OR HER LIKING.

IS THE GOVERNMENT AND THE FCC GIVING TOTALITARIAN AND FASCIST AUTHORITY , TO A PACK OF GREEDY MONGRELS, {THE TELE-COM} INDUSTRY!.

THERE IS NO WAY TO GET SERVICE!.
THERE IS NO WAY TO GET MAINTENANCE!.
THERE IS NO ONE TO CALL ABOUT SERVICE DROP-OUT (OFF)!.

WHEN THERE IS A PROBLEM, THEY SAY IT'S YOUR COMPUTER OR EQUIPMENT,AND IN MANY CASES THIS IS AN OUT RIGHT LIE AND FRAUD(AGAINST CONSUMERS)

WHERE THERE IS NO PROTECTION BY THE GOVERNMENT ![Why FCC does not have a complaint for such activity is incomprehensible.]

AND THERE SHOULD BE PROTECTION OF BASIC SPEECH AND PRESS!.

AND NOT AT THE DISCRETION OF SOME LAME BRAIN OVER PAID OVER RATE(THEMSELVES) COMPANY AND EMPLOYEES'. {AND WAY OVER PRICED].

IN GENERAL THERE IS NO VENUE FOR THE CONSUMER, OR AVENUE FOR THEM TO PURSUE, IF THE DAMN THING STOPS WORKING!.(or If They are Denied ACCESS).

THAN THERE IS THE BOLD BLATANT CONSUMER FRAUD THAT THE TELE-COM'S PERPETRATED AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT BUSINESS AND CONSUMER:!

BY SAYING THAT THEY HAVE A MAIL SYSTEM THAT; IS YOURS(LEADING THE CONSUMER) TO BELIEVE, THAT THEY CAN WRITE AND CORRESPOND PERSONAL MESSAGES: WHEN THEY ARE NOT.

THEY ARE VENUES FOR THE TELE-COMS TO ADD [ADVERTISEMENTS] TOO. THIS IS NOT PERSONAL MAIL!}.[This is corporate selling] and I Want To know WHEN I AM GETTING PAID???.

THAN MOST OF ALL, AFTER A TELECOM COMPANY TELLS YOU THAT YOU {STATED} OR WROTE SOMETHING THEY DO NOT LIKE.

GO AND TAKE A GOOD LONG LOOK AT THE TRASH, OBSCENITY,PORNOGRAPHY THEY PUT AT THE : TOP BOTTOM, SIDES OF YOUR MAIL!.IF YOU COMPLAIN THEY SAY TO LEAVE.( The Telephone and Cable Line Are For the Use Of The Public and Private Use)!. These company have no legal ground to ask any consumer to agree or not to the use of Public access and they have no right to deny[access] , but they keep trying

THEY: {THE TELECOM] INDUSTRY WOULD, GIVEN HALF A CHANCE ; TURN THE PUBLIC AND CONSUMER INTO THEIR OWN PRIVATE WHORES!.

**YES: Intervention is very needed!.
+++HARMFUL BEHAVIOR.
YES IF TRYING TO DOMINATE AND CONTROL SPEECH AND PRESS IS NOT HARMFUL, WITH NO AVENUE OR VENUE FOR THE CONSUMER TO COMPLAIN AND NO CONSUMER PROTECTIONS;
***YES THIS IS A VERY HARMFUL THING!.

**WHAT IS EVEN MORE HARMFUL,, I AM SITTING IN MY HOUSE ,WITH A PACK OF MORONS FOR SOME BIG TELECOM WITH BILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND VERY LARGE LEGAL STAFFS :; TELLING ME AND EVERY OTHER CONSUMER HOW TO READ, WRITE and SPEAK!
IS THIS FASCISM? OR TOTALITARIAN

You are close but still not right. The judge understood the company wasn't saving server logs, but argued the info in RAM was the equivalent of server logs and should be saved as part of discovery. HOWEVER, the judge explicitly said NOT to log IP addresses, since Torrentspy had promised users it would not.

She wrote: "To the extent defendants' privacy policy may prohibit the disclosure of IP addresses, compliance with this order does not violate such policy because IP addresses are to be masked."

Learn more here: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/06/torrentsp y_case.html

It's a fact. I work at that company.

Don't worry though, most of us here aren't evil.

And by the way, the mechanisms for DNA replication and gene expression/regulation are very different between bacteria and eukaryota; you're better off not mixing the two things together in your mind.

Exactly right. "Gun control" is not crime control.

Spree killers in Japan use knives.

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007 /06/junk_dna
http://www.ideacenter.org/contentmgr/showdetails.p hp/id/1155

Have you seen the google van? A quick stop in Italy to make some modifications to the van, and you'll get that explicit consent, right boss?

Hey Tony, get out of the van, this guy doesn't wanna sign the consent...

Wired News, with help from some readers, attempted to get real answers
from the largest United States-based ISPs about what information they
gather on their customers' use of the internet, and how long they
retain records like IP addresses, e-mail and real-time browsing
activity. Most importantly, we asked what they require from
law-enforcement agencies before coughing up the data, and whether they
sell your data to marketers.

http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/20 07/05/isp_privacy

But after negotiations with AT&T, EFF has filed newly unredacted documents describing a secret, secure room in AT&T's facilities that gave the National Security Agency (NSA) direct access to customers' emails and other Internet communications. These include several internal AT&T documents that have long been available on media websites, EFF's legal arguments to the 9th Circuit, and the full declarations of whistleblower Mark Klein and of J. Scott Marcus, the former Senior Advisor for Internet Technology to the Federal Communications Commission, who bolsters and explains EFF's evidence.

"This is critical evidence supporting our claim that AT&T is cooperating with the NSA in the illegal dragnet surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans," said EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn. "This surveillance is under debate in Congress and across the nation, as well as in the courts. The public has a right to see these important documents, the declarations from our witnesses, and our legal arguments, and we are very pleased to release them."

http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2007_06.php

Open Source needs to find some way to infiltrate corporate America, because these bastards are really giving it to us in the ass. Then again, that's just good business, and 99% of the people seem to like it.

I guess I should just admit I think democracy and capitalism are as insane as communism and autocracy.

That that just mean landing on Earth? How about they throw in a landing zone in Texas so that people can get an intercontinental flight out of it?

That's exactly what I thought when I read the headline ...

Take a look at this article which tells us how the US porn webmasters have to hide from the public ...

You might also be interested in this article on Wired. Free the Spam King! says that Robert Alan Soloway is facing 65 years and a $250,000 fine for spamming (a lot). It compares this to a rape conviction, which nets a maximum of 8 years in jail in California.

"I don't know anybody who's made a record that sounds decent in the past 20 years, really," the 65-year-old rocker said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine.

Too late.

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006 /05/70914

"The equipment that technician Mark Klein learned was installed in the National Security Agency's "secret room" inside AT&T's San Francisco switching office isn't some sinister Big Brother box designed solely to help governments eavesdrop on citizens' internet communications.

Rather, it's a powerful commercial network-analysis product with all sorts of valuable uses for network operators. It just happens to be capable of doing things that make it one of the best internet spy tools around.

"Anything that comes through (an internet protocol network), we can record," says Steve Bannerman, marketing vice president of Narus, a Mountain View, California, company. "We can reconstruct all of their e-mails along with attachments, see what web pages they clicked on, we can reconstruct their (voice over internet protocol) calls."
Inside the Secret Room

Nobody has yet mentioned Kent.

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2001/08/4 6154

Kent wouldn't exist as a real American hero, if it wasn't for the villian, Venter, and his company Celera.

If not for Kent, the human genome would be patented right now by Celera, which would be one of the highest valued companies in the world due to the royalties that you and I would be paying right now and for the next fifteen years.

Make no mistake, this company is a real-life villian, and giving them this patent only means more economic hardship for you and I, even though I acknowledge that under current law they should be given the patent.

Please provide documentation that shows that iPhone ringtones must be purchased from iTunes. The phone's not out, so you have no idea what it requires.

Wow! I cannot imagine that Apple, the creators of ITMS would possible let you use your own mp3s for ring tones without having to pay for it. Either you'll pay for special software to allow you to use an mp3 as a ring tone (which is what the Treo does) or you'll have to buy the ringtones from ITMS, or MAYBE they'll let you use a song you bought through ITMS as a ringtone. In 2004 the ringtone market was worth $3.5 Billion. I don't see Apple giving that away for free. Apple is creating the IPhone to make money -- and I certainly don't blame them for that -- but they are going to monetize EVERYTHING they can. You are correct however that the phone is not out yet, so it's ALL speculation. Thinking the IPhone is good or bad is all speculation -- the cellphone side of it could completely suck, or it could really be the revolutionary device that we're all hoping for. I'll tell you what though -- I'll contact you through artefaqs (love the name btw) when the phone is out, or you can post at fishdan and we'll see who is a better predictor of Apples intentions.

We've all seen Jobs and others demoing Google Maps on the iPhone and it's slick

Yeah -- and as you point

Hmmm. Well, it probably still beats the hell out of Windows for Warships

I think if I was going to move to a hurricane prone area, I'd want to build one of those urethane and concrete domes http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006 /02/70105

Steganography is the key to success, even Osama bin Laden uses it http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2001/02/416 58

You mean the war that wasn't and was just a ... a hoax. Oh yeah, I forgot, we accept everything Slashdot feeds us as gospel. Good thing Bush doesn't read Slashdot, he might have decided to get his preemptive strike 'on'..

Don't forget this http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.07/solar.htm l
That combined with 3m vikuiti instead of glass and we are looking at some serious concentration with two motors and no glass. That's a recipe for cheepness.

As Wired has been reporting for years, synthetic diamonds are becoming more and more readily available, and they are not less perfect or more expensive than their dug-up counterparts. Frankly, after watching Blood Diamond, if the truth of things is at all close to that-- my penchant for quantum computing projects aside-- I'm glad to see more reasons for cheap mass diamonds.

As Wired has been reporting for years, synthetic diamonds are becoming more and more readily available, and they are not less perfect or more expensive than their dug-up counterparts. Frankly, after watching Blood Diamond, if the truth of things is at all close to that-- my penchant for quantum computing projects aside-- I'm glad to see more reasons for cheap mass diamonds.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/05/request_f or_urb.html