This isn't the first. Syria, Iran, and even during Iraq, the Russians have been undermining US efforts. This one is just catching the news because of its absurdity. Plus, IMHO, the US was poking Russia in the eye by supporting the removal of the Pro-Russian Ukrainian leadership - which apparently has backfired.

Just and FYI concerning Iraq: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...

Why "Father of all bombs"? Because it @#$@ your mother - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

If only there was a motive for the US to build up or increase the defense budget - or not reduce the defense budget. If there were only something happening which would make some people in the US want to validate their existence.... http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02...

Samsung could just say, "Fine, have the US market and their patent laws. We'll drop the price, take market share in the rest of the world, and the citizens will cry monopoly to get Apply out or buy unlocked phones from overseas."

The US (327,577,529) is such a small market compared to China (1,206,553,000) and India (867,800,000). Unless Apple has such a markup to US customers in comparison to the rest of the world (where it sells), it would make little sense to block competition from the US market.

HA! You only say that because you have a Mac! Wait... did I just post that not as an Anonymous Coward?

I want to be a Dominant Force on slashdot.

Ah, I get it.. it's 7.3V of electrical energy but USB has 5V of ENERGY!

The winners write the history books. We would be saying that he was a genius and saved us from our pending, self inflicted DOOM... or was that Wolfenstein.

Very good point, comrade!

... going to write FORTRAN 77 code in OpenVMS? No seriously, what's OpenVMS going to do?

"I... have... to... go... to... the... bbbbbathro...." "ahhh... nevermind"

Please tell him that the Machus Red Fox Restaurant wants him to finally pay his bill!

I'm glad they didn't use Cyrix CPUs.

... Can you play Doom on it?

"it's presumably to be used in situations where it doesn't matter that you give your position away." And presumably against an enemy without a mirror. Now if we can mount this in a satellite and beam down on it and use the sun as the energy source. Maybe Reagan's Star Wars wasn't so off after all.