It CAN screw up the instrumentation. It won't affect flight controls or engines, however, it can mess up with the radios.

You know sometimes you hear some noise in your speakers or headphones when you are about to receive a call. Pilot headsets are no different and will pickup cell phone radio noise exactly the same way. In another instance, a cell phone external battery pack leaked enough radio noise to open the squelch of a nearby portable air band radio. There are all personal experiences. And if you don't think it is a serious problem, radio interference was involved in the deadliest plane accident (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... ). Beside communication, ILS systems (required for low visibility landing) are very sensitive instruments and I don't know how robust they are to cell phone radiation.

Well, I hope that airliners are somehow less sensitive to radio interference that the small aircrafts I pilot but still, I once boarded a plane where the pilot made an announcement along the line of "someone is using a cell phone, I won't take off before it is switched off". Meaning that it did have a noticeable effect.

"Agile" is just a buzzword, like "synergy", it means absolutely nothing.
Good management is good, bad management is bad, whether or not they use the "agile" tag is irrelevant.

Without ads, the manufacturers will probably do pass the lower marketing costs to us. Not because they want to but because without ads, a lower a price will probably have a bigger influence on the buyer's choice. People will also have a little less money due to the "no-ads tax", meaning that if manufacturers will have to reduce their prices to match the customers purchasing power.
Manufacturers that publish ads are not the ones who are in power. You, the customer, are. If you had no choice but to buy their products at the price they fixed, they wouldn't need ads in the first place.

But the real reality is that this scenario will simply never happen.

Not at all, there are also many points where the Linux model is better : http://www.linuxfoundation.org...
I think that it is related to the monolithic vs microkernel debate. Each model has its pros and cons, and a lot of potential for flamewars too.

Won't we run into some kind of lithium shortage if the demand for li-ion batteries raises ?
Or at least a increase in raw material price offsetting the decrease in manufacturing costs.

Except that in this situation, we are not talking about surveillance, we are talking about bricking phones, which is quite the opposite.
Surveillance is about gathering as much data as possible. Bricked phones don't gather much data.
Plus, the kind of surveillance uncovered by Snowden is the of "spying" kind, where the goal is to make the targets unaware that they are being watched. In contrast, bricking phones is very obvious.

That's linux stance, which is consistent with both the monolithic design and open source philosophy.
However, this is not without problems.
First problem is that some drivers can't reasonably be opensourced as they offer a real competitive advantage to the companies writing them. Or they may use licensed code that prevent them to go opensource.
Second problem is that it relies on "kernel developers" or "the community". We shouldn't forget that these are made up of people with limited time and resources and chances are that they won't bother with your obscure long tail device* which mean that you'll have to constantly maintain your driver for every changing kernel version.
Third problem is that stable linux distros are commonly build around a specific kernel version. If, for some reason, you need use hardware that is too recent you can't easily add support without changing the whole kernel.

(*) : no, I'm not talking about a black cat

Well, where I live, it is already the case. I thought it was the same everywhere...

There is nothing special about positive and negative in formal proofs, in fact, using contraposition, they can be seen as equivalent (A->B !B->!A !A|B).

It only matters in law due to the presumption of innocence, and even then it isn't absolute, otherwise the judicial system would be pretty much powerless. The idea is that the accusation only has to prove that you are very likely to have committed the crime. After that it's up to you to prove that you didn't do it. Defense is a negative proof.

- Red light cameras are not at all red lights, only on random "profitable" red lights
- There may or may not be signs on red light cameras, same with speed cameras
- Rushing a red light is bad, but it is not always more dangerous than exceeding the speed limit. Crossing when the light just turned red or during traffic congestion is more of an annoyance than a real danger. And while you are clearly at fault if you get T-boned because you rushed a red light, it may not have been deadly it the other guy obeyed the speed limit. Excessive speed not only causes accidents, it also makes accidents worse even if you are not the one who caused it.

If you are a man and your have a women in your team, put her in front, whoever is the actual leader. Or maybe at least let your wife/GF/sister/whatever do the advertizing.
I believe it should better if she is hot (but not slutty) as it should work on both men and women.

This is assuming of course that the study is unbiased and that gender really matters (i.e. : causation, not simple correlation).

Fax was much more popular in Japan than it was in the west so it's no wonder that it is still in use today.
One of the reason for the popularity of fax, in addition to writing, are maps. Japanese addresses have no street names, they use a combination of district/block/house numbers which is very effective at losing people. As a result, it is common practice to send a map to mark a meeting place.

Wireless charging is not that good. It is energy inefficiant and you can't move your phone while you are charging. As for data transfer, wires are more secure and more reliable.
Mag-safe type connectors are excellent for frying pots (that's were they were first used) and good for laptops but mobile devices are too light for mag-safe to offer a meaningful advantage.

I think they can get away with it using better materials (thicker gold plating maybe) and electrical protection built in the cable electronics (lightning cables are active).
Remeber that apple doesn't have the same cost constraints as other manufacturers due to their ludicrous sale prices.

What you have to consider is that Apple devices are almost luxury items, which mean that they can get away using components that are too expensive for low-end devices.
USB is designed to be cheap and good enough, otherwise it couldn't be "universal".