Make possessing a 'burn-phone' a class III felony. Then make possession of a fake ID a class III as well. Pile on as many charges as you possibly can. They might not be able to make the drugs, murder, terrorism, etc charges stick but you can probably throw them in jail for 60 years by the time they're done. Finally, make the sentence up to the judges discretion so he isn't forced to give some poor kid 10 years for buying beer with a fake ID.

How is that useful in a biological or chemical attack? 11:05pm attack occurs, 11:06pm you've received lethal exposure to the biological attack, 11:05pm the next day...yep you're going to die to weaponized small pox alright. Or they could just use a chemical agent. After 24 hours they detect neither virus nor bacteria. Even if they could detect a chemical attack generally kills in a lot less than 24 hours. How is this device even remarkable at all? If I bought 388,000 cable subscriptions I could totally DVR 776,000 shows at once is that any more significant?

Popcorn? Popcorn? It's cracker jacks damn it!

A veritable font of information.

For war, this is why a medical vehicle cannot be armed, it makes them a target, or more of one. From their advert I assume the idea is for an inferior force to have some sort of recourse versus a superior one. Well guess what this superior force has this thing called intelligence. They know you have shipping containers loaded with cruise missiles. They have one problem how can they tell a shipping container loaded with benign goods from one loaded with your lethal missiles? They can't. The solution is simple shipping containers now become priority targets, all of them. What the heck I am at war with you so either I blow up goods and hurt your economy or I blow up military assets sounds like win-win. On the other hand a terrorist would probably think these are a great idea. Nobody is truly at war with them and intelligence against such groups is spotty it is probably a coin flip to get one of these containers through so simply send two or more of them and one should get through.

I am assuming that this prototype has some sort of serial number. I am also assuming that a person with permission of have a/the prototype have to sign it out. So whether they have one prototype of fifty they know who has what. An elementary investigation would quickly show which prototype was missing and who lost it. Gizmodo did nothing to harm his career. If Apple punishes the engineer, the engineer has one person to blame, himself.

Pro light?

In 1981 the population in the US was 229,465,714. In 2009 it was 305,529,237. With 437,500 Ham Operators in 1981 that meant 0.191% of the population were licensed operators. In 2009 700,000 meant 0.229% of the population were licensed. It would be more accurate to say that the gain is closer to 20% than 60%. But in the iStuff age for something that been around 100+ years a gain of 20% isn't bad at all.

You're right, I suppose the better question would be is the catalyst "inhibited, deactivated or destroyed by secondary processes".

The system itself is expensive on top of that you need a catalyst. They fail to mention how much the catalyst costs, or how it is added to the gas. Do I have to carry around bottles of the catalyst and add it each time I fill the tank or is there a secondary tank? How long does the catalyst last? If it is a secondary tank then that's just one more thing to break down. It all sounds counter-productive since if you can afford the upfront costs and whatever the additional ongoing costs are you can afford to spend 50% more on gas.

How much does a fry cook at McDonald's make in India? Cost of living a huge factor even within the United States so they are just throwing around meaningless numbers.

No more Sushi, no more Chocolate, no more Carrabba's Cozze in bianco. Now if it were something you could switch on and off I would be all for it. No more military chow hall food. I could list more things you wouldn't have to eat but that alone is enough.

Or just when it is turn on?

Make your significant other always look like their youthful self or someone else entirely. The next step being everyone always looking 'beautiful'.

Anyone who calls someone a troll and suggests they should be ignored all while not ignoring them should be modded as a troll. I was expressing my opinion that's what a message board is for. It isn't for agreeing with everyone. I realized that posting on /. about ./ might ruffle some feathers. But, you can't complain when someone makes the 'true cost of Linux' point when the article is about how much money it saves you. I am a programmer. I have worked in both Windows environments and Linux. I couldn't get away without using the command line to do my job when using Linux. Was it because I had never bothered with Linux before? Probably, but if you know what you are doing in Windows you don't spend enough time with malware and I have never needed to do a registry hack.