Canon digital camera with CHDK (Canon Hack Development kit for adding new features to Canon cameras) should be able to do this if someone was to write the code for it.

So it has a camera, its programmable and it (at least the Canon PowerShot SX130IS sitting next to me anyway) has no network connectivity.

And its probably easier to find a camera that is supposed by CHDK than to get hold of an ancient PDA AND a camera dongle for it.

The whole point of this new deal is that A.The US and its partners aren't trusting the Iranians to keep their side of the bargain, they are verifying that they will via inspections and enforcement and B.If the Iranians do anything to break the deal (build facilities they aren't allowed to build, start producing uranium enriched beyond the level allowed by the deal, kick the inspectors out or whatever else) the sanctions and other things will be re-imposed even harder than before.

Unlike what the opponents to this deal (Israel, some in Congress, others) would have you believe the options are not "this deal" vs "a deal that gets Iran to give up their nuclear program completly", its "this deal" vs "do nothing and let Iran continue to move towards a nuclear weapons program"

Here in Australia (and probably in many other countries too) you have to undergo a complete identity check before you are allowed to open a prepaid phone account.

I am surprised the USA still allows you to obtain a phone number that has absolutely zero records indicating who obtained it. But I suspect companies like TracFone and AT&T that sell a lot of these prepaid phones don't want to have to deal with the ID checks and have been able to lobby the government against them.

As long as your work on that oven didn't require messing with the gas system without an appropriate license (from the sounds of it since you didn't mess with the gas lines though)

Until ad networks can ensure that EVERY ad they run is 100% free of malware, I will continue to block their ads.

There are JavaScript (and other client-side-but-in-the-browser) implementations of all kinds of encryption algorithms out there. The mega.co.nz site does client-side encryption before uploading to the server (so they never get the plaintext)

I see no real reason why you couldn't have a client side/browser extention/JavaScript/whatever implementation of something like PGP/GPG where the private keys never get seen by the web mail provider (it would mean each device you want to send email from has to have its own copy of the private key stored somewhere though)

Google and Yahoo already have in-browser addons in development that are designed to do client-side end-to-end encryption in the browser for their email platforms.

It may survive a court challenge but it wont survive the new legislation Comcast, Verizon, AT&T etc are getting ready to submit to Congress via their bought congressmen and senators.

Considering how many successful launches SpaceX has had to date (including launches where the launch was successful but the land-and-reuse part of the mission failed) I recon SpaceX will be just as good at launching stuff into space as ULA is. And they (per the figures I have seen quoted) are cheaper than ULA too.

Or better yet, dont use an internet cafe or other public computer to do anything sensitive and just read websites on your phone if you really have to.

When I moved into a rental property I specifically researched to make sure that I was able to get the broadband option I wanted and actually rejected whole suburbs because they didn't have the right broadband options.

If ever there was a time for the Americans here to write to their congressman and ask that they support a particular bill, this is the time. I may not be American or know a whole lot about American politics but even I know that this is probably one of the most important bills proposed in Congress in at least a decade.

Cruise control already controls the speed of the car. Adaptive cruise control will drive at whatever speed it needs to drive at based on the distance to the cars in front and behind. Why not extend the adaptive cruise control system so that it will drive no faster than the speed limit (as determined by whatever this system uses) unless it has to drive faster due to the speed of the car behind (i.e. the car behind is going faster than the speed limit and therefore this car has to in order to not get rear-ended).

It could then, like existing cruise control systems, be overridden by the driver if need be (via pressing on the accelerator pedal) but by default it would keep the driver at the speed limit unless it needed to go slower due to the car in front or faster due to the car behind.

If you were a cop and you were sent to an address in response to a 911 call claiming that there was someone at that address with a dangerous weapon, would you walk up to the door and knock politely? I dont think so, you would want to stop the person inside from using any weapons they have on you before they have the chance to react.

Yeah there is a big difference between someone driving, say, a Mitsubishi ASX (basically a lancer on stilts) and someone driving, say, a Holden Colorado 7 (an SUV version of the Australian-market Holden Colorado truck)

Many older Japanese cars like Corollas, Pulsars, Civics etc are VERY reliable and still good choices even today (in terms of the likelihood of things going wrong and needing to be fixed) as long as they haven't been written off (crashed and rebuilt and re-registered) and have been properly maintained.