The police can restrict access to the embassy.

Yeah in engineers salaries, solar panels, machining work, testing, etc. The cost of the computer is only a part of that.

The hardware in a phone doesn't cost anywhere near $25k. In fact buying the parts separately is probably cheaper than most phones (because you can miss out the screen, 3G, GPS, wifi, etc. on a satellite). Plus if you build it yourself you will save weight and have more flexibility. Something like gumstix combined with and one of invensense's new IMU chips would be much better than an Android phone. If you're spending $40k on the launch, why pinch pennies on the hardware?

The area where android phones really *are* great is UAVs! You basically just take a cheap android phone. Add an IMU, and PWM output board and you're done, and have 3G, GPS, wifi, cameras, for very cheap (£50 or less).

I was wondering what this is. Turns out slashdot/the submitter didn't understand "one wire, and wifi".

Just to be clear (maybe you knew this), but you make it sound like there is a huge sheet of "screen" and they cut different sized rectangles out of it to get the different displays. That isn't the case at all. They screen sizes have to be chosen before they start doing anything.

Haha if you think blender can do CAD, you've obviously never used real CAD software. I wish it weren't the case, but currently nothing (including FreeCAD) comes even close to Solidworks. Trust me, I have used all of the following programs:

* FreeCAD - Yeah, not useful.
* HeeksCAD - Sadly also not useful.
* Solidworks - Amazingly amazing. But Windows only, and there is no way to get it for a sane amount of money other than piracy.
* Pro/Engineer - Very good, but a shit interface (Motif!). It used to have Linux support but recently they stopped that and I think updated the interface. And it's called something else now. But if you're going to use something on Windows I don't see why you wouldn't use Solidworks.
* QCad - This is worse than a pencil and paper. I am not joking.
* Sketchup - Yeah, not very useful because it isn't parametric. Once you have set the length of something you can't alter it precisely. Seriously if you've ever used Solidworks or Pro/E you'll be tearing your hair out.
* Creo Co/Create Modelling Personal Edition Lite Free... Ah fuck it. I can never remember the (retarded) name, but this is the only decent free CAD software in existence. Unfortunately it is Windows only (doesn't run in wine), and also non-parametric, so not very useful in practice. (But it is still miles better than Sketchup.) Actually I think they sued sketch-up (or vice versa) because they use the same extrusion interface.

By the way, don't be fooled by fancy screenshots of models like this one: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/free-cad/index.php?title=File:Screenshot-gcad.jpg
  - those are just imported from other programs.

Ha, that site says "Offline Fast Attack Scenario: (Assuming one hundred billion guesses per second)". One hundred billion hashes per second?! That's a little optimistic! Hashcat gets around 1-10 billion characters per second using high end GPUs! That's like 2 or 3 orders of magnitude off!

Errr, yes... they are very useful! Are you aware how many games are based on Id game engines?

It's possible that your CPU probably doesn't support hardware virtualisation. Many don't. Here is a list:

http://ark.intel.com/Products/VirtualizationTechnology

What gift cards? I'm pretty sure Google has the same complete billing information as Apple; the only difference is the price ($100/year vs $25 once).

This is so obvious I'm surprised it has to be stated. It is no different from the situation in iOS either. Everyone always knew there were dozens of methods one can use to bypass these gatekeepers.

Well indeed. VNC is a hassle. But so is remote X! Have you ever tried to connect to an existing X session remotely (VNC-style)? I'm fairly sure it is not possible.

That is one of the many reasons why a replacement for X11 is needed.

Haha, seriously? That's the most ridiculous thing I've heard all week!

Ok, so basically there's three Gods, and they're all God. And each one is also God. Jesus is God, Jesus's Father, God, is also God. Oh and there's the Holy Spirit - that's God too.

At least that's what it says in the bible. It makes no sense, but the bible is Truth (tm) so Christians spend an inordinate amount of trying to understand how Jesus went back in time and became his own father.

Did they have really high quality phones in the 1940s or something? Because anyone who isn't completely deaf could distinguish current phone call quality from "HD audio".

No he means how short it can be and still be a viable religion (as in it can reproduce in the minds of followers).

You'd *at least* have to include all the stuff about heaven, hell, God-still-likes-you-even-if-you-have-no-real-friends, etc.
You could exclude all of Numbers, Deuteronomy, Revelations, probably most of the traditional Bible stories (Noah's ark, etc).

It's an interesting question, and your answer is idiotic (I thought you were against that?).