eh? Cigarettes have hundreds of chemicals, not all of which are naturally occurring and many of which are carcinogenic. You can't compare completely natural pot smoke to cigarette smoke when talking about it's cancer causing ability.

If someone gets into your home network, maybe they can mess with your TV... I think maybe you would have bigger problems if someone was actually able to get on your network, since they could do many worse things.

It's built into the OS and it's Quicktime(scaled down). Apple won't make a competitor to VLC because VLC played many formats that Apple won't bother supporting due to no hardware acceleration. This is why Apple supports only a small set of codecs and bitrates. The A4 chip in the iPad and iPhone 4 has specific hardware for decoding this codec up to a certain bitrate.

Ever heard of OpenGL? IF the handset wants hardware acceleration then they can provide a driver(if it's not a standard GPU). If they don't then they don't. What is so hard about this? The UI gets composited through an OpenGL pipeline and the GPU renders it all. It's not that complicated.

I don't see why. OpenStep has been around for a long time. Obviously they don't have all the same APIs for the UIKit that Apple has but a lot of code could be shared since they implement a lot of the same classes.

Meh, you could make some home made mortars and fire it into the airport's secure area if you really wanted to. If the "terrorists" were really that determined, there're a lot of things they could do.

True, but don't they pay like $2000 USD/month for a 300 sq. foot apartment? Which is better?

IF they really wanted a way to stop a terrorist from taking over the cockpit(as if they'd get through the door anyways), they'd install a device to release airborne anesthetic into the cabin. The pilots have emergency oxygen masks and they could easily land the plane while subduing the cabin.

And what would happen if a suicide bomber strapped a bomb to a child and blew it up in a school, public library, blah blah blah. Why is it that airports are anything special? There are so many things you could do in a sufficiently crowded public place to cause terror, it's horse shit that so much effort is spent on airplanes. I can go rent a U-Haul truck and pack it with explosives, drive it into downtown Whateverville USA and blow it up. I don't see any screening for renting a U-Haul.

Good luck getting into the cockpit. Unless the terrorists have machine guns, they're not going to get in. So say they can kill 5-10 people(max depending on how many there are) before they get shot by the air marshal or beaten by the passengers. They're not going to get into the cockpit I can guarantee it.

Do you really think anyone is going to do serious multimedia authoring on the MB Air? Sounds to me more like you're complaining just to complain without any substantial argument.