a picture of a single lonely dude. You know a slashdot reader.

Maybe in Apple's eyes there is no downside. To them, and their customers, poking the Judges in the eye is funny. If they have to do it again that's OK and they will do something else they think is funny.

So we can expect more posts to slashdot today?

I see that most of us have been talking about $1 billion damages, but since the jury say the infringement was "willful" Apple is asking for $3 billion. http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/27/3269534/apple-samsung-gear-triple-damages-injunctions-and-no-reasonable-jury-JNOV/in/3030480 That's enough to hurt! Well grab the popcorn, this isn't over yet.

As a follow up. For those who have read Tom Wolf'e's "The Right Stuff", and remember the end of the book, Neil Armstrong had the right stuff!. The comment, I believe was partially in regard to ejecting from his plane at just the right/last minute. It was later he joined the astronaut corp. Some more background some might have missed. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/space/armstrongfull.htm

One of my heroes. He will be missed.

I was little during the moon landing and thought it was pretty cool! It was only later when I came to appreciate the hazards and the guts to do the moon landing.

With the heath issues around using beryllium, that will be inconvenience. Preparing alloys of W and Be are likely to be expensive for the quantities need too. Melting W takes a lot of heat, fabricating it is hard, if you are machining it with Be you have the heath issue from the finds. Doing it all by PM leads back to the heath issue.Well maybe we can get it fabricated in China or India.

Let us see,

• Apple makes LOTS of money on iphone
• Google produces the Android
• Apple Steve Jobs says stop stealing Apple's ideas
• Google buys Motorola
• ...
• (Apple sues lots of people)
• Apple sues Google
• Apple releases their own mapping software for their iphones.
• Google announces voice recognition for Android
• Google sues Apple, no iphone , ipad, etc in United States

Looks like a shoving match to me. (How many steps did I leave out?

Well there was another engine bigger than the F-1, that is the Airjet M-1. There is a piece of one at the Evergreen Aviation Museum. http://www.evergreenmuseum.org/the-museum/aircraft-exhibits/space-flight/ Very big, very impressive. It was design for 1 1/2 million lb of thrust in the base configuration. It would make a interesting starting point for a updated engine.

A great quote usually attributed to Andrew Tanenbaum.

From what I have heard http://www.kgw.com/news/Naked-fliers-attorneys-ask-for-acquittal-162908166.html, Mr Brennan maybe fined up to $11,000 and be put on the no-fly list for interfered with the screening process. I don't know if this is a legal issue for the courts or if he can just be administratively found guilty, but I hope TSA knows when to walk away. It seems to me that he was helping the screening process by ensuring no contraband was on his person. I suspect that if I were on a jury I would find him innocent.

Thanks, I also have a steel business card case. I guess I can scrap that idea of easily blocking out the readers.

I checked your link, it does not say the US Government announced that it had used cyber tools to attack Iran. It was a report that said unnamed US Government officials said the US Government had used cyber tools to attack Iran. Sorry if you don't understand the difference.

After a while Iran gets to blame the US and Israel for every thing that goes wrong, whether they did it or not. Poor programmer, oh no not me, someone else caused that problem.

(On the other hand, in Iran's eyes, they may think the US has declared war.)