Having a built-in recovery routine in the bootloader can at least avoid a nasty trip for repair

The recovery environment doesn't have to be built into the bootloader. You just have to be able to bootstrap it via the bootloader. This is, after all, how Android phones work. (At least, on my HTC EVO)

If you go to the company's website and actually look at the board and the better photos on the starter kit entry, you'll note that the cables are all standard 10-pin ribbons. In other words, the same kind of cables that are used for connecting serial ports to motherboards, but without removing one of the wires from the ribbon.

If something more Arduino-like is what you want, look at their Fez Panda-II. It's $39.95 and has Arduino-compatible headers.

Both boards are built around a 72 MHz ARM7 that just happens to have Microsoft's .Net runtime preinstalled. Don't want to use .Net? Rather develop for the bare metal? That's what the JTAG port is for.

It was the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, previously known as S.E.A.L. Team 6. That said, even if they had been Marines, you could still call them Navy and be (technically) correct. The Marines are under the Department of the Navy.

An "Elective" is, by definition, not "Compulsory".

"You must take N credits worth of courses from X department/dicipline" qualifies as "Elective". You can pick and choose which specific courses you take.

"You must take the 'Race and Ethnicity' course" leaves you with no choice in the matter.

I just read the request you linked. What they're asking for is:

1. A temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction that prohibits the Defendants (a) from using Coreflood to engage in wire fraud, bank fraud, or unauthorized interception of electronic communications, and (b) from running Coreflood on any computers not owned by the Defendants, by authorizing the operation of a substitute command and control server to give effect to the Court's orders;

2. A permanent injunction that requires the Defendants to uninstall Coreflood on any computers not owned by the Defendants and authorizes the operation of a substitute command and control server to give effect to the Court's orders; and

3. Such other relief as the Court deems just and proper.

So, what they asked for was:

• an order telling the people running the botnet to STOP THAT and to uninstall Coreflood from any computer it's on that they don't personally own,
• AND permission to take control of the botnet, OSTENSIBLY TO
• remove the Coreflood software from any infected computers it finds.

Maybe I'm just waving a tinfoil hat, but would you be surprised if, sometime in the future, it comes out that either

1. The FBI took the opportunity to search the hard drives of any infected computer they find before removing Coreflood.
2. The FBI never got around to actually removing the Coreflood software from people's computers and maintained control of their C&C server. or
3. In a separate operation, the FBI actively went out to try to infect MORE systems with Coreflood to expand the impact of (a) and/or (b) above.

All of those people who died were killed by the tsunami or the quake. Okay, technically, there have been a VERY SMALL (like on the order of a few dozen) number of injuries and a few fatalities directly related to the reactors. But those were all among people who were actually *working in* the power plants.

Microsoft pushes "Critical" security updates for their software so frequently it isn't funny. And that's not even taking into account vulnerabilities they go out of their way to actively keep quiet. Do you REALLY want to trust *THEM* to provide you with the software that's supposed to keep the *rest* of their library secure?

How does last year sound? http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/11/23/0642238/Intel-Launches-Atom-CPU-With-Integrated-FPGA?from=rss Granted, it might be a while before they are commonly found on commercially available boards. And as others have pointed out, If you do it in *real* hardwdare, it will be faster than if you did it in an FPGA. This is more like a customizable coprocessor to the Atom. You could even use it to replace the motherboard chipset, conceivably.

As was pointed out in the comment I originally replied to, if you allow your phone to interact with an Exchange server, you end up giving the Exchange admins the ability to do a LOT of things to your phone without your knowledge.

Including, erasing everything saved on the phone.

I am not willing to give up that level of control.

If I'm on call, or if my employer wants to replace my desk phone with a cellular one to make it easier to reach me, or they want me to be able to read and respond to email from my phone, I'm perfectly happy carrying two phones.

But if I'm on my own time and I'm not on call, the work phone goes on a shelf, and it may or may not get turned off in the process.

Thankfully I do not have to read my company mail on my phone for a living. If I had to, I would have paid for one of those HTCs without giving it a second thought.

If the company you work for requires that you be able to read your email on your cellphone, they damn well be providing you a cellphone to do it with.

Since you didn't include a link to the text of the act in question, here is the text of the Espionage Act of 1917.

Section 1, paragraph (e) pretty clearly applies to the person who leaked all of the documents in question.

Section 1, paragraph (d) MIGHT have applied to Wikileaks... EXCEPT for the fact that they provided the State Department with copies of all of the documents that had been leaked, prior to publication.

What's more, not only are they redacting the documents prior to publication, they're redacting the documents EVEN MORE HEAVILY than the declassified versions being published by the Department of Defense.

So, yeah. Granted, IANAL, but I'd say that doesn't apply.

Hey. At least then, the bomb goes off in the airport instead of on the plane, right? I mean, that way, you don't have tons and tons of debris possbily raining down onto a heavily populated area.

ATMs can be had for ~$2k on ebay

Hell, there are even ebay listings for companies that'll ship you an ATM for free, have somebody come out and fill it with money, and give you a percentage of the surcharges they collect from cardholders.

It's called a "Prepaid Card".

Several are listed here. but you should be able to walk into walmart, kmart, target, and many grocery store chains and buy a prepaid MasterCard or Visa card.

And if you can buy the card there, you can walk back in there with the card and a handful of cash and say "Put this money on here." and have them do it for you.

I would imagine that there are two distinct major camps of people that work for Raytheon and similar companies. People that feel that they are doing the right work, and people who just don't think about it at all.

You might argue that they're a subset of the second group, but there are people who have thought about it but can honestly say they really don't care.

To quote Tom Lehrer on Werner Von Braun, "Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department."