Indeed--Everyone is naked.

...if they have reason to be concerned for their life...yes. Secure the situation and find out--quickly--what's going on.

I used to live in Miami and I got pulled over one night coming out of a bar at 4:00am. I left the bar, got about two blocks before seeing the bubble-gum machines. I pulled over into a parking lot and there were two police officers who commanded that I step out of the car. They had spotlights trained on me and guns up. They had me lie down on the pavement and they came over and handcuffed me.

They then looked in the back window and what they had heard about--someone had seen, in the back of my car, a machine gun. In fact, I had a replica Beretta M12 which was made of plastic and shot water. They asked, I told them, they checked it out, discovered I was telling the truth, uncuffed me, and suggested that I wait in the parking lot for 30 minutes or so, since I'd been drinking.

4.

I always find the "how many people will be killed" / "how many people have to die before" statements can be answered with this number.

Yeah, but Moscow girls made them sing and shout.

...or a customer who, say, buys a brand new PS3 from Sony's online store..

No, they're not suggesting that Sony upgrade everyone's WiFi for free. They are saying that if you buy a new PS3, it would be great if it came with support for more modern WiFi implementations.

And what does it do? Drive 500 meters and send back high-def video? Does it have a spectrometer like Spirit and Opportunity? How about a soil mechanics testing unit like Lunakhod 2?

That's the problem, see. Real scientists like to try to figure stuff out and they need complicated instruments to do that--more than a high-def camera at least.

True. But what if the object that they're connected to is moving? What's to say that ISS wasn't rotating in such a way as to create force?

Now ISS has various gyroscopes and thrusters to keep it oriented. However, it appears that many of the ISS systems were turned off and/or damaged, which means that those thrusters or gyroscopes may not have been working. So ISS may have also had some spin to it, considering that it and the Soyuz had been hit by debris.

So it's quite possible that ISS was rotating or spinning in some manner. While the ropes stopped their momentum, they were still taut afterwards so that implies that there was some force acting on them.

As I understand it, the answer is "Yes."

What they're going for is to make the device useless. They can already make the phone unable to use particular towers or the whole network--essentially turning your iPhone into an iPod touch. But as I understand it--and I may be wrong--the idea of bricking the phone is that it will essentially make everything on the phone inaccessible.

Again, they can do this now. Turn off the cell tower. Doink, problem solved. They can also generate a list of their IMEI devices so that only those devices will work.

Okay, fair enough, I'll play into your fantasy.

Now, what's stopping the eeeevil people from doing that now? All they'd have to do is have software that says IMEI 07 345927 087947 7 can't talk to this cell tower. They can do that now. Your phone's IMEI number is the same, even if you switch SIMs, so that's no help.

Or by shutting down the tower or by saying, "Phone number (whatever) cannot communicate with this tower."

And yet, somehow they haven't done this.

...which is why we put them in self-driving cars that communicate with each other to avoid accidents.

You...you...you birdist!

It might be a better idea to halt construction and design a way to lessen the impact on birds than to continue construction and then have to retro-fit some sort of bird-scaring device onto it.

This is a pilot project, after all.

The problem is that landing isn't that precise. You could end up miles away from Curiosity. Then the wheel fixing robot has to drive across the same surface that damaged Curiosity's wheels, which will break the wheel fixing robot's wheels. Who fixes that?