aaahhahahaha. +1

my friend uses an ipad for her job and its critical. she is an insurance assessor. goes all over the city and uses the tablet to record things. in this situation:
phone size = too small
laptop = too clumsy.
thats just one example of a tablet computer in its element. another is for students. i'd much rather have a device that doesnt take up screw all room in my back pack than a netbook. you need something with an ARM cpu that can suspend/resume instantly, weighs next to nothing, and is wide enough to be like a sheet of paper. hell, if used with a stylus it would be perfect.

good point. bluetooth sends out RF signals and is close range. and doesnt suffer any interference from audible stuff. although to be honest i would prefer contact payment.
whats hard about touching ya phone on something? like a spot that you touch onto the store owner's box.
and before ya say 'hacking through the i/o port' you're still sending data with RF so its no different. Just cant be eavesdropped.

hey man you're totally right. what about night clubs? theres no way on earth it would work in a night club aye. hey not to mention all of those rooted iphones out there.. whatever private key/access the phone has a hacker would have too.

haha! +5 i met that guy. michael winslow. he's a top guy. he wouldnt tell me how he does jimi hendrix's guitar tho :P i did see him perform it live however. most amazing thing youve ever seen. he also did an entire 5min scene of starwars with the video on a projector while he did all the sounds himself.

It will be cool hearing a little 'DoodleyBIP!' sound when ya buy things!!!!

But seriously. For this to be an advantage it would have to run as an application requiring no hardware changes, and would be subject to the same restrictions.
Like say - a limited range of frequencies (about 50Hz up to 18Khz to be conservative). Humans can hear all of that, and its even dangerous to be too loud at high frequencies.

..or just download the pdf and copy paste into notepad.

Whats wrong with you lot? You can download a PDF version and its OCR'd already. I have the plaintext version of this 'ebook' already in my text editor.

except there's only a button on the outside and the wire is going through a door to the 3G circuit on the other side of the house, underneath an angry guard dog.

They already have these! My doorbell just happens to be down on the ground floor along with everyone elses. When someone pushes my door bell it dials a telephone number. It can dial my cellphone, I just don't pay for the service.

thats actually pretty awesome. go unix

not to mention commas or exclamation marks. sentences really are the way to go dudes

I use sentences for all of my passwords. I have in effect a 20+ character password which is just as easy to remember as a word. I throw in a number in replace of a word or letter and bam - i have an alphanumeric 20+ character password which is extremely easy to remember.

except every finger printer scanner known to man-kind can be fooled using everyday kitchen objects. wear a glove and shake someone's hand. put superglue vapour onto the glove. peel off. you have a print. not warm or moist? easy. lick it and put it over your finger. even the smartest ones which read your pulse, moisture and geometry will be fooled by that. fingerprints == next to useless.

yeah exactly. the idea here isn't that we go 'yay we've got a whole lot of science books for free'... the idea here is that we go 'yay' because we can see the ins & outs of how science has been performed when influencing government decisions.