Of course I'm not an expert, but a plane already has tens of mission-critical computers in the cockpit. Why not use them?

Piu' lo mandi giu'...

I entended my phone's battery life, and its speed and responsiveness, by uninstalling or disabling all (almost) the apps that have background processes always in execution. See under Settings -> Applications -> Running. You should really invest some time for finding alternative apps that don't rely on background processes for ads and the like, or recognize you don't need them installed all the time.

By trial and errors, you may find that it's only one or two apps that occupy the most resources. I suspect some programmers don't really know what "background" means. For me it totally was a weather app, shipping with the phone.

Is like the change I have in my pocket. They payed to keep doing whatever they want.

And what about the locked door? May be the action of a semi-conscious man, but... too many coincidences.

I'm afraid if one of the pilots wants to crash the plane, no policy, no matter how strict, can prevent it. He could simply strike the other one in the head, for example.

Anyway the certainity of what happened is still not definitive, let's not depict him as a murderer or a terrorist until then.

Wasn't Intel announcing ga.as. as their new technology some weeks ago, for their sub-10 nano chips? I guess they must have solved the cost problem, too.

Do professionals in that field use something more than "traditional" PCs? Like clusters, or the like? Or today's PCs have filled the gap, like they replaced the workstations of the past?

Just curious, what are the minimum hardware specs to use those programs decently? I suspect for professional video 90% of cost is the hardware, not the software.

I don't understand how those things work, how come documents are still leaking after years of Snowden's escape? Can't the world know everything at once? Does he sip them for better suspense? Or did they forget to revoke his password?

Uri Geller?

I'd really want a guy named like that in charge of my experimental lab :-)

Energy conservation is paramount when you run on batteries, not for a charger connected to the power socket. Anyway I found it dumb too.

Sweden has a population of less than 10 million, like many other northern European countries, and those countries have strong economies and optimal wellfare, including universities and everything related, arguably because less pepole means more per capita resources.

Exactly for me.

These are some topics I've always been curious about, just for the sake of knowledge, and not to endorse them in any way, and that I never looked up, not even on wikipedia, for fear of being "flagged" or whatever:

- pipe bomb construction. Is really that easy to build one as they do in movies? Should I be worried that any psychopath could build one?

- mein kampf. What was going on in that man's mind?

I could think of many other ones... And consider that I don't even live in America.