we'll start reading articles every week or two on /. about how things HAVE changed rather than the weekly speculation of how they will change.

They've been making self destructing phones for quite some time now.

But the addition of a feature that allows you to control when and why it self destructs will be a huge improvement.

A decent wide screen monitor has large work place for main activity and a band on the side perfect for windows containing reference material, or make it more 50/50 split if references are heavy.

That's nothing Los Angeles Sherifs have them beat with 1600 parkas.

1600 Snow Parkas

was this just a 'HAHA beat you to it Alaska"

To be fair that's not 'gaming' eve is essentially a second career but without any of the real life rewards for your efforts.

water baloon

No it's actually not.

and its not like your mac address isn't seen by the access points and likely logged anyway simply organizing the information they alerady have to provide other useful insights

The thing that really bugs me the most about this is, they don't have to make counterfeit chips to sell them, if they simply made another chip that used an ssop-24 or whatever standard case the FTDI ones use, and made it pin compatible, but released it under their own name, people would still buy them, most people buying cheap chips from china know they're not getting an ftdi chip, they don't really care they want something so they can build to a price and include X functionality.

If the silicon itself is a unique design (and i'm not saying it is) then they would be totally above board..

3 insane people it appears but your point is still valid

But i doubt many would get this much fame for it

developing the complex work of fiction they want to portray as news, it takes some time to make an elaborate and convincing lie