Windows is still available and widely deployed.

Let google maintain it for you.

People were willing to fight and die to gain their rights as gay americans.

I'm sure some people still are.

Sure you can. You can fly with a gun on the plane. No ammo, and the gun has to be an approved situation (I forget if it's a locked box, or just a lock), and in the luggage you are checking, and you have to declare it. But you can certainly take a gun into an airport in CA.

at $3K, it's got 4 cores, but you an get 12 for an unannounced price.
Still, the box is probably 1000x more capable than the NeXT Cube I bought ages ago for $6500...

I can't imagine setting up something like Silk Road without a 'burn it all' setup like Mel Gibson had in Conspiracy Theory.

No, but all your base are belong to them anyway.

That assumes the fiber travels in a straight line. This is not the case, though people have been blowing holes thru mountains to straighten the routes to make trades faster...

Yeah, or turn the screen bright white... but the software would have to 'work harder' (and probably make it less secure) with wildly variable lighting.

Also, the phone could use the accelerometer to determine it's movement and compare it to the expected change in photos given the 3D model of your face stored in the phone.

No, not just a photo, but rather a video/series of photos from different angles, so you'd need a fairly realistic 3-D bust of the person's face.

I don't know why they don't let you use the camera. I should be able to unlock my phone by holding it up so the camera can see my face. Maybe from a couple of angles, or a swipe around from one side to the other...

Heh, I adopted a kid, so I'm already in the FBI database, all 10 fingers.

I recently went from a 4-digit PIN to a password that takes about 11 keystrokes to enter. I do notice that it's more of a pain when driving, but other than that, not so much... Now if my iPhone had NFC and I could unlock it with my Yubikey Neo, that'd be cool as I'm unlikely to lose my phone and keys at the same time, unless I also lose my pants. And if that's happened, I've got bigger problems...

And the FreeBSD that runs my BluRay player I use for Netflix...