From TFA: Tesla's next big thing: Tesla's roadster production is coming to halt as the maker of battery-powered cars switches its focus to the upcoming Model S electric sedan. The first sales of the Model S sedan are expected to begin around the middle of 2012. At a starting price of about $58,000, the base model will have a driving range of 160 miles.

It looks like the Voith Schneider Propeller as used on tugboats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voith_Schneider_Propeller -- but spinning faster, displacing air instead of water, and rotated so it can generate up/downward thrust.

The wikipedia page also has an animation showing how it works.

Or, you could name them Control, Alt and Del.

Sure. If they're truly additive free -- as practically none are [citation needed].

Sold 10000 copies in it's first hour of publication! Just keep those presses running, if every copy sells he's got a nice little money maker there.

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Don't be naive. Every single telecommunications vendor has tapping capability built into their equipment. Every western government *mandates* that this functionality is built in. It is not the equipment manufacturer who is morally wrong here. If you think it's wrong in Iran, it's wrong in the US or Europe too.

This product: http://www.quarantainenet.nl/?language=en;page=main-home has been in commercial use for several years at educational institutions in the Netherlands. It basically does just that -- infected computers get isolated and get referred to a self-help page. Interesting stuff. (disclaimer: I know people who work there)

The thing is, I can request *your* birthcertificate in writing if I know your birthplace. I can get a passport photograph signed by a "person of standing" -- I doubt this is actually checked -- fill out the paperwork, and presto, theres my new UK passport with my photo and your identity.

Of course this will leave in place the quaint system thats currently there -- theres no national register of who lives where. So opening a bank account requires you to bring in a random assortment of water bills, phone bills, as proof of address, getting a passport requires you to get the reverse of your passport photograph signed by "a person of standing" i.e. your doctor or a certified engineer or a company director. Hardly waterproof, really.

To travel to Europe you need to fork out the full fee for a "real passport" rather than the cut-price national-ID card -- most other Europeans can just make do with a national ID card. Or wait -- that might be because Britain is one of the few countries that still does border controls for travel within Europe. Travel north-south from Germany to Holland to Belgium to France to Spain to Portugal and the only thing you notice is the language on the road signs changing, the borders are notionally still there but no checks are done. Im not sure the current system really is that much better.

Anything moderately current will do anything you want. It doesn't really matter what you choose. So set yourself a budget and buy something that fits within that. It will probably do fine.

Given all the hassle that the US gives foreigners over passports, visa, workpermits and what have you, why not try a hop over the border in Europe?

From your e-mail address I am guessing you are German, you speak/write English -- so you could probably take your pick from at least Austria, Holland, Germany, Swiss, Norway, Sweden, Finland, UK, Ireland or Belgium without running into great language difficulties.

A good university would have a placement officer that can help you out and would already have some contacts in place. Start early, ask around, keep asking.

If you are looking for the sexy internet companies like Google or the like -- most of them have european offices that also do interesting things down here.

Good luck!