Yes. 3.5 standard deviations on the normal curve (gaussian distribution, I assume).

Ask the apartment management if the apartments have firewalls.

I figure they'd just cut off a patch of skin and grow it in a petri dish. They do this now for burn victims. Then, when they've grown enough, they convert it to blood?

Taiwan. The Chinese Government wants enough capabilities to hold us back over anything they do against Taiwan.

Only in direct line-of-sight, but technically...yes. One cell phone WILL cast a "shadow" for any directly behind it, just by the fact that this first phone's antenna is intercepting the signal. The cell tower is still putting out the same amount of signal power, however.

One small correction: The cell tower transmits the same signal power level, no matter where it goes or how it's used. So if a cell tower out in the Mojave desert puts out, say, 5 kilowatts and there's no cell phone around to receive its signal, then....the cell tower put out 5 kilowatt. Phones that recharge from the cell towers' transmission won't effect anyone else's phone reception.

Better make sure your computer rounds that (way way down) to 13.7 billion. According to current cosmological thinking, that's when time began.

The instant the NFL tries this schtick with Joe Sixpack, the howling from living rooms across America will shake the franchise to its roots.

Nothing says you can't use Truecrypt or what have you on top of the hardware-based encryption built into the hard drive.

This way you'll have AT LEAST as much protection as you would've with just your software-based encryption.

Is it just me, or would this stuff work VERY well as a RADAR cloaking device?

1-18 GHz is solidly in the microwave (millimeter-wave RADAR anyone?) range...

Mod parent up please. This is an interesting point, and little understood or reported.

Yes, you are correct: the cat is well and truly out of the bag. There is practically no way to regain our privacy from the prying eyes of the government. And many corporations.