97 million pounds is a pittance in a 731 billion budget. An Eurofighter Typhoon costs 110 million (marginal cost, not factoring R&D in).

(That was easy)

* A rugged box shouldn't be hard to find - look at weatherized enclosures for radio equipment or, failing that, an AC mains box made for outdoors.

* A modern CPU and a high end GPU in an airtight box won't be easy to cool. Since your only means of heat dissipation is the surface of said enclosure, it'd better be all-metal.

* Your next challenge is to convey heat from the CPU + GPU to the box - sounds like a job for watercooling, with regular blocks for the CPU and GPU and a third, possibly custom block attached to the enclosure wall instead of the usual radiator (which requires moving air). Overclocking forums may offer some ideas; also the "silent PC" forums since some are into fan-less designs.

Telling me the composition by career of the top earners is as useful as telling me their composition by handedness - you're telling the story backwards.

Career-wise, it would be useful to tell us the likelihood of making each earning bracket *by career*.

Wreckless is how I like my flights! (you insensitive clod!)

Umm, did you skip the last paragraph? I suggested that users *should not* think of the random words but blind-pick them from a dictionary (or /usr/share/dict/words, if you will). It'd be part of the whole method and if the user disregards it then [s]he may as well choose "facebook123".

Inagine, as another user posited, that they only pick words from the middle third. That's roughly half an order of magnitude less search-space per word - 81x for 4-word passwords. Makes a difference but nothing to cause a commotion about.

Then there's another argument for actual-word passwords: complicated, non-memorable passwords are more prone to be trusted to a Post-It, which is the Ultimate Vulnerability (TM). I for one take a middle road and use oddly-abbreviated passphrases.

So, it's like picking from a dictionary 1/3 the size of the one they picked up - half an order of magnitude less possibilities per word.

It's no wonder that several airlines are struggling, then.

Umm, how would they "think" of random words? I think "random" means something like: you pick a dictionary, close your eyes, open it on a random page and put your finger; repeat as needed.

I mostly agree with that - my big issue with today's Lego (and I think yours) is rather the single-purpose pieces. I liked Legoland's antenna dishes that you could mate in several different ways, and the minifig's hands which had another "standard" dimension that also included stick antennae, etc etc. (don't get me started with Technic). Many of today's sets are just toys that you can disassemble and put back together.

Back on topic, I meant the theme on the box, which is even more visible than Shell's tiny logo on a brick so I wouldn't be surprised if they go after gas-station kits (though I suspect anti-corporatism played a significant part here).

• * No little plastic cows, because global warming.
• * No jet airplanes, because they pollute so much.
• * Nothing related to Japan, because whaling.
• * No circus sets because poor animals.

I could go on, but I think you get the idea.

My first thought upon reading the Ars piece was "why not get a Symbian Nokia? I have one in my pocket right now and with Opera Mini it does the job better than this thing"; the Ars readership seems to concur. There's also mention of a $48 (maybe $60 if the import duties are huge) Lumia 520 and a dozen other workable devices.

The bottom line: shoehorn your pet OS with HTML5 framework in ultracheap hardware, and everybody loses.

Fair enough, considering that the smart~ part is practically unusable. My immediate thought upon reading the Ars piece was "why not get a Symbian Nokia? I have one in my pocket right now and with Opera Mini it does the job better than this thing"; the Ars readership seems to concur.