GSM push-to-talk is an abbreviated call establishment sequence with preconfigured recipients. It still runs everything via the base station and hence via the carrier's network, so you'd be paying. If the network didn't advertise the feature as being available it would disable it, even if you bought an unlocked phone directly from Nokia.

"The FOSS community" is tiny. The vast majority of the time Linux is selected for practical or pragmatice reasons. Most people using Linux aren't using it for ideological reasons. There aren't enough people prepared to boycott NVIDIA over this to make a difference. Also, it's firmware that needs to be signed, not drivers.

You conflicted with their ideology and got a "-1 makes me uncomfortable" mod.

Care to substantiate that? I can make the opposite assertion just as easily.

Means that she probably did take some nudies at some point.

So? I've taken nudies of myself and others. It's a natural result of technology combined with curiosity. Nudies are more prolific than ever since with digital cameras you aren't implicitly sharing your pictures with the minilab operator. Why do people make such a big deal of it?

Samsung's packaging for the Galaxy S3 is very slick. Also, Dell's origami packaging for their 4k displays is absolutely brilliant.

Yeah, SVG renderers have more chance of being around in 50 years than WMF or PICT. But you still need to actively go through your data archives, find things in "endangered" formats, and migrate them to more future-proof formats. This requires substantial effort that increases as the collection grows. Then there's verifying that nothing was lost in the conversion to consider.

ImageMagick doesn't support PICT with vector information. I'm just trying to make a point that even if a format seems to be widespread now, it may become effectively useless in the future. Believe me PICT files were everywhere in the classic Mac days.

You're picking easy formats. What about Macintosh PICT, including vector information (not just a bitmap PICT)? What about WMF? I could see both those formats becoming effectively unusable within a decade, as they effectively depend on the drawing API/environment of ancient operating systems (classic MacOS and Windows 3).

But seriously, JPG is everywhere now but how long will it last? Could you read pre-JPEG image formats? Do you have software that will open PhotoCD, or PBM, or XBM or IFF in all their variants? I expect some formats like DNG will be around for a while, but the XMP processing instructions contain a "process version", and how long will software continue to support the process versions we use today? Data security really isn't straightforward when you don't know what the future holds.

JPEG wasn't standardised until 1992. THere are no 25-year-old JPEG files. Things have changed a lot since 1989.

Because you can see the doors being operated out the windows of the departure lounges as the ground crew load and unload baggage.

All fuel injectors for gasoline-powered road cars (mechanical injectors were used in racing for a while and were used for many years in diesel engines) are controlled by an ECU.

That's not quite true. There were mechanical fuel injection systems for petrol cars, e.g. the Lucas system in some of the Triumphs. They weren't known for being particularly reliable - EMP resistance would be the least of your worries.

Yes, S-beam is great. The phones exchange some information, set up a one-time WiFi Direct connection and transfer the file. No messing with Bluetooth pairing or any crap like that, authentication is provided by proximity.

US NFC payment system is apparently completely incompatible with the systems used in the rest of the world. The US system emulates swiping the magstrip while the European and Australian systems use some kind of PKI challenge/response.