I don't know what the inert grenades look like today, but the one I had when I was a kid had a huge hole bored out of the bottom of the grenade and you could fully see inside that it was empty. There is no way anyone handling one of these would think it was live... oh wait, we're talking TSA agents here, most of which are about as smart as a brick. And that's an insult to bricks.

Yeah, I'm no fan of the TSA, but I've got close to 2 million miles under my belt over the past 23 years and I've seen them repeatedly do very stupid things for very stupid reasons. If anything, a typical TSA agent is ignorant and under-trained.

Shuttling a couple hard disks back and forth every day of the week using overnight shipping would be a fairly expensive option. You would have to have at minimum 2 sets of disks, sending them both ways every day, the shipping costs alone would be high if you do this on a daily basis. We are talking 2x the daily overnight shipping costs for a 2 pound package, multiplied by an average 21 working days/month. I don't know what the typical costs for overnight shipping in the US these days, but let's say $25 per shipment and $50/day. The monthly shipping costs work out to be $1050. And that does not include all the "manual" labor of copying data to/from the disks, packing, shipping paperwork, etc. The cost of the disks would be fairly trivial in comparison to the shipping costs.

Also, you would likely want a larger pool of disks to spread the failure rate, as all the bumps and shocks they receive every day being shipped back and forth is very likely to result in damage and short lifespan.

I totally agree on this method for one-time or infrequent large transfers, but I think you are creating more problems by trying to use this method for daily transfer of data.

The problem with that is, EU data protection/privacy laws won't let Google just hand over user data stored in the EU to the US. As a US citizen living in the EU, with a Google datacenter in my current home country, I find this ironic.

Please do your research and read up on the tech behind the 41mp PureView. It's not hype. The camera essentially oversamples the scene to improve image quality.

Exactly. Has anyone actually thought about what might happen if you are actually able to shoot one from the sky? A drone is a small aircraft. Do you really want that falling in your neighborhood? If people start actually shooting them from the skies, it won't be long before some innocent people on the ground are killed by falling parts or the whole aircraft itself. Shooting them is about the most stupid thing you can do, ever. How about voting the idiots out of office who are supporting them in the first place? That would be a good start.

I hate to counter a possible AC troll, but Linus has always followed the "do one thing and do it well" mantra. In a sense, we are likely better off that he didn't "look at the big picture" and lose focus on the core.

I believe the issue the AC brings up lies more with Linux desktop environments, rather than with Linus himself. If Linux had more or less standardized on a single desktop* for corporate use, we would likely see more Linux on the desktop today. But it didn't and the rest is history.

* I am not trying to imply there should be one and only one desktop for Linux. I am simply saying that to address the corporate desktop market, a standardized desktop** is more or less essential. Of course there are also special needs outside the corporate desktop, and this is where different desktop environments can exist and fill a particular niche.

** Win8 is a good example where MS changed the standard desktop environment and is being shunned by the corporate crowd as a result. It's just too different from what had become the "standard" since Win95.

Not to mention, that if the SDP and Communist parties had agreed to cooperate and stand together as one against the Nazi party, it's highly likely the Nazis would have never made it to power in the first place. Unfortunately, it was politics as usual and the threat was not neutralized before it was too late.

And yet, the Dell still has a mobile GPU.

This. This is overblown BS written by someone who doesn't understand TPM and what it can and can't do.

The story also fails to mention that the TPM module is usually an option and typically only available on corporate PC's. Not to mention the fact that it can be disabled in BIOS/EFI if you are admin over that system.

TPM is not even required by Windows 8. RT... well that's another issue but this article is mainly about PC's, not RT tablets.

Here in the Nordics you can get heat pumps that work down to at least -20C, I believe some even go a few degrees C colder than that...

Heat pumps are actually fairly popular here, as they are more energy efficient than A/C and can provide both heat and cooling. We don't need much cooling though.

Just because they are not available in the US does not mean they are not available elsewhere...

So...? You put the containers in a convenient place. Like someplace you visit frequently, like the grocery store. Here in Finland, there are recycling stations at most medium and large grocery stores, in the parking areas. You have to buy groceries on a regular basis, so you take your recyclables with you when you go.

There are typically bins for glass (colored and clear), cardboard, paper, metal, batteries and sometimes even problem waste or electrical items. It takes less than 30 seconds. Stop creating false excuses just because there is no curbside collection... there are many other ways to handle recycling.

This is why you have regulations. Regulate the minimum size of the recycling symbols on packaging. Here in Europe, I never recall having a problem finding or reading the recycling symbol on packaging...

Oh wait... that's right... US... regulations = bad.

A nice side benefit of the Finnish system, you rarely see empties thrown all over the place, out of car windows on the roadside, etc. There is actually a pretty significant "deposit" cost and this is what encourages recycling and not simply throwing it away or tossing it out the window. On cans it's 0.15 euro cents and on 1.5 liter soft drink bottles it's 0.40 euro cents. In USD that converts to roughly 0.20 cents/can and 0.50 cents/bottle. We collect all cans/bottles at home, then take them to the store and feed them into the automated machines before shopping. At the checkout, you hand over the printed ticket from the machine and the amount is credited towards your purchase. I believe you can also ask for the cash refund without buying anything, but what's really the point of that... (if you are at the store, you are probably buying groceries anyway).

As someone else already mentioned, the recycle rate for cans/bottles, including glass, easily exceeds 95% as a result.

Bullshit. Check current market statistics, WP has been steadily gaining market share, especially in Europe. I've even noticed that a lot of young people here in Helsinki are using new Windows phones, especially Nokia Lumias. In fact, most of the time when I see someone with an iPhone, once the darling of all those "hip", it's someone middle-aged or older.

I've been using WP8 for about half a year, and it's a great platform. I'm also a heavy iOS (iPad) user, and I definitely prefer WP8 to iOS. Oh wait, you're probably one of those dolts who can't use a platform that doesn't have an official Instagram app.

There IS point-to-point encryption between powerline adapters, and at least on the ones I have (Zyxel) you can set your own encryption key. It's not air gap security, but it should be sufficient in most cases. The connection won't propagate that far from the house via your power lines anyway, at least in my neighborhood where the lines are quite old and even within my house, the connection between the adapters is not that strong.