However, I don't know offhand if you can get a MI tag on a car titled in another state.

Not when registered (getting a plate) but when you transfer the title between owners.

And for the irony, aren't the Republicans usually all for the free market and against restrictions? But here they're pushing for the opposite: restrict the market to block out competition and support the entrenched.

This article talks about Intel's design, which is based on two inverters in a ring. Both inverters are forced to the same state and then left to settle into one state or the other based on thermal noise. There's a bit more to it, but that is the basis.

Boston Dynamics has been working on varieties of this concept since the late 1990s or early 2000s. In 2005 they came out with a lighter version called BigDog. (The LS3 is apparently the next phase of the BigDog project). Here is a video from 2006: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpBG-nSRcrQ

How about just doing a boot-time truecrypt volume? They can't boot the system from the hard drive, and booting from a live CD/USB is also useless, as the data on the hard drive is encrypted. (unless they want to take the time to image the whole hard drive so they can work on cracking it elsewhere)

You might want to check to see if Archive Team was able to save any of that person's MobileMe data. Here is a form you can use to find a user's data: http://www.archive.org/download/archiveteam-mobileme-index/mobileme-20120817.html

Note: that search page requires javascript in order to function.

And then, when the ship's computer is damaged, they open several time windows into 18th century France for a replacement?

Where, exactly, did I say that it was alright?

Even in a no-knock raid, if you fire on the police, and especially if you kill one of them, you are going to be in for a world of hurt from the brotherhood of blue.

Now try again, without requiring flashing a custom OS version or root. The average user is not going to do any of that.