Pfft, my psychiatrist does that all the time.

Respectable mad scientists have known for years that supposed 'black holes' are really just wormholes to the goatee universe.

I know I give mine the finest cashmere tea towels to wear.

...wait, what were we talking about again?

sorry guys watched iron sky with vlad now hes raving about moon nazis gtg my bad

I'll assume option '3' for the moment:

Out of a sample size of ten million people, chances are very good that some of them will do very stupid things (and then claim they didn't).

Mind you, I'm perfectly willing to accept that the phone has a defect in design or construction, but I've had enough experience in troubleshooting and repair to lose all trust in humanity.

I hate it when my Schwartz gets all twisted.

But the US and Soviet Union were doing all this and more in the seventies with vastly inferior technology and far more unknowns. Lets face facts: If North Korea managed to produce an Apple II clone in 2014, you probably wouldn't be saying the west needs to get over their 'patriot peens' and accept Kim Jong-Un as a capable computer builder.

That said, this is a huge step for India's fledgeling space program and I hope that by 2030 or so they will indeed have caught up with the US and Russia.

Yes, you see, that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account!

So... get an iPhone, set a complex passcode, and use your fingerprint the rest of the time?

You can hold home+power for a few seconds to reboot the phone, and your passcode is required to unlock the phone after a reboot/shutdown.

Per XKCD, it's far more likely they'd forcibly put each of your fingers on the phone than do something elaborate with your printed fingerprints.

However— IIRC there's a lockout after a certain number of attempts, and IIRC from the first video it can take several tries to fool the sensor. So with ten fingerprints to choose from, not to mention different *parts* of each finger you could have used, it's less than probable they would succeed.

(And the look on the officer's face when he realizes you used your nose: Priceless.)

Is it, at least, magic dust?

Google Nexus products so far:

1 by HTC
3 by Samsung
2 by LG
2 by Asus

This is hardly a new thing.

No, if the two probes fell in love, a jibbering Roman god poked at them with a spear, the whole lot were then swallowed by a cross between a police constable and a space hopper, followed by dramatic music and a cut to a documentary about historical figures knitting, then it would be worthy of Monty Python.

Memory chips, NAND and DRAM, are usually quoted in Gb. Not GB. I WISH flash was at $0.125/GB.

Apple probably pays close to $50 for 128 gigs... Still a huge markup, but it's meant to offset the low (by Apple standards, at least) markups on their base models.

You can look up BOMs for more accurate estimates of product costs and margins... Just keep in mind that they don't include any company expenses (retail, transportation, support, R&D, sales & marketing, management, legal, and so on).

I know what you mean. I don't want to play games but am looking to carry sacks of grain through the Andes, and these cards lack the qualities of a trusty burro.