I owned a Seiko MessageWatch (see http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/t...). It was functional for about 3 years. Off course, a modern-day variant can be connected to a laptop or desktop computer to upgrade the firmware, which the MessageWatch could not. So the idea is ancient, but maybe the time is ripe now.

On the other hand, My Nokia N900 was supported for about 3 years as well. Maybe people want to spend a lot of money on phones, but I doubt if they want to spend that much money on a watch that is already obsolete when you open the package.

Yes they can. Especially the bad ones. They made cross site scripting into an art form.

I really don't know. Maybe some sex line operator can inform you? Given their abundance, I think enough people like to be fooled.

What is more scary is that this can be used on people who just don't know any better and react to instincts. In other words: babies. Would a baby accept a robot nanny as its mum in the future?

Now I know for sure. The world has gone mad. Should I tell my neighbours that the seeds of my vegetable garden are subject to the General Plant Licence?

That "fracking" takes too long. Would you settle for a tropical cyclone? The more equal pigs are working on it as you speak.

It sure looks like someone is trying to explain a housing crisis without even looking at how money is put into existence.

You forget that the USA is a capitalist state. You have the cheapest government that money can buy, not the best.

I think a few brain cells just exploded. What can possibly be fair about an extortion permit?

Indeed. Guns are not unknown.

And the financial sector, please. Among with the lawyers.

Not that I am aware of. From the summary:

It appears that they tested it on a really slow computer. On my computer, the start menu appears just after I have clicked the button...

I think it will become an action series: the Six Million Dollar Yeast.

You can even get higher if you use staged balloons. At some point, the cable gets too heavy to support its own weight. If you use multiple stages in the cable, you can make it much longer and therefore catch more wind. I don't know what the optimum altitude for such a balloon is (at some point the reduced air density would make the efficiency decrease with altitude). This principle was already demonstrated with staged sailplanes.

So there's your attack vector. Note that you may heavily encrypt the output of all the input devices, but with your own device drivers or added hardware there is little you can do about replaying the input signals themselves. Or from "swallowing" the cards and transmitting all the PIN codes.

They don't survive the mail sorting machines. I tried. So when you use a wax seal, you will have to deliver the letter yourself. I admit, that is a good way to prevent the interception of mail as well.