If only there were some way to look this up:

• http://aws.amazon.com/compliance/#hipaa
• https://support.google.com/a/answer/3407054?hl=en

Apparently the NSA agreed with you.

And you can program them on the phone. Not as easy to build that into apps, though: https://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/

And I'm sure at the time they didn't realize that there would be a global patent war, either.

The moral of the story is to never license your patents as FRAND. Or, you know, fix the patent system.

OLPC, now a generic Android tablet brand. Who didn't see this coming?

Somethingawful beat them to it: http://www.somethingawful.com/flash-tub/laff-bot-beta/

Good god, how did this get modded up? The way to deal with a globalization and the myriad cultures on this planet is to stick you fingers in your ears and avoid anything that doesn't interest you directly? How many expats, or 3rd or even 4th generation folks do want access to that? How many "academics," which apaprently to you means "anyone with an interest in a culture I don't care about?" Probably more than you think.

"Along with not having drones we definitely do not have any drones that would fire any type of weaponry."

I'd take PINE over either. And I don't even like PINE.

Grasshoppers do not taste even slightly like shrimp, sorry.

One byte at a time?

It's ROT13 so there's any number of websites that will instantly "decrypt" it for you, but really, it's a gag article that's not worth the effort.

It IS, in fact, news for nerds. You will notice it is posted in the "games" category, which you are welcome to ignore if it takes up too much of your important time.

Which is all well and good until you face another power with modern manned airplanes which have instant response time. I'm not supporting these projects, but comparing a manned fighter to a drone is pretty apples to oranges. Drones tend to occupy fairly different roles like observation and hitting motionless or slow ground targets and children.