No matter what the roads are like? It would be 3 seconds for both of these:

a 30mph (~50kph) road with 7 lanes (3 each direction of travel plus 1 for cross-road turning), intersecting a very similar road.
(and)
a 60mph (~100mph) road with 2 lanes (1 each direction of travel), intersecting a very similar road.

You would have to have nearly perfect reaction time to even stop a vehicle from 60mph in three seconds ... and, yes, both of these intersections are real examples from around my home town ...

In other words, if the law enforcement had a reasonable suspicion you have incriminating data of a particular kind (perhaps a list of the prostitutes you pimp for, whatever) and a reasonable person would assume that data is on the encrypted media, they could go through channels (subpoena, search warrant, some form of judicial writ) that would require you to decrypt the media for a search for that specific data.

If law enforcement merely thinks you are a criminal (because you are living "above your means") and wants to go searching through all of your data just looking for "something illegal" ... that would fall afoul of the fifth amendment.

At least, that is my interpretation.

Simpler answer: Economics.

I think you are discriminated against in this case (and in politics as well) because you are honest.

Thermal Design Point - When the device is in it's worst possible power use case (maxed out CPU, GPU, drive usage, etc) ... the device should be able to dissipate all of the heat it is generating without going above the safe operating temperature of any of its components. That is notoriously difficult in small form factor devices unless you use components that are all designed for minimal power use ... which this is not using.

So either this has some incredibly amazing method of heat dissipation*, or it will overheat when in use, leading to reliability issues and shortened component life.

Elon Musk is a visionary. He isn't looking to just do what others do, or limiting himself to what can be done next year, he's looking several years ahead. One of his goals is manned travel to Mars and return. That means being able to land a rocket in a non-destructive fashion and more efficiently than was done for Apollo. He's taking logical steps toward that goal.

I'm guessing you work on one of the coasts, probably the east coast of the US. Those are the only places in the US where a working day is commonly 9-5. In the central and much of the mountain time zone, the working day is 8am-5pm (break time isn't counted as part of "work time" so that amounts to an 8-hour work day).

Once you leave the US, I'd hazard a guess that 9-5 is even less common ...

... but we have to protect their business model! How will we know that this year's model of the Gluttonous Seats 9 Suburban Assault Vehicle has automatic rain-sensing windshield wipers if we don't watch Some Stupid People on TV and view the advertisements?

Obviously the answer is to tape everyone's eyeballs open and put a TV-glasses on them so that people will be properly indoctrinated^W educated on these issues.

So, it seems that live sex shows advertised locally would be just fine.

If you live nowhere close to a coast, most of your table salt is almost pure NaCl ... trace amounts of iodine are added to it, as it is next to impossible to get that iodine from "natural sources" (almost exclusively fresh seafood - which residents of, say, Kansas don't have).

I don't think that is what the GP is talking about, though, I think (s)he's just spouting nonsense. It would take fairly a fairly sophisticated set of tests to find anything other than NaCl in a typical store bought container of Morton Salt (even Morton Salt Iodized).

People offer what they think you might take ... always feel free to counter-offer.

The bandwidth of my effing Time Warner Cable "broadband Internet" connection ... When my neighbors are home, KB is the only way to effectively measure it without using negative exponents.

Two points:

1) Cost? Not an object, tablets are virtually free. Less than half a day's wages if you are in an office job, a full days wages for Joe-middle-class. Granted, I work in IT, but for me a MacBook (either) would be barely above the price point of "impulse buy", any tablet is priced below that point.

2) "With an Android device ... and keep most of your data "in the cloud" ..." - why did you specify with an Android device? My documents are in the cloud and accessible on whatever device I happen to use (iMac at home, iPhone wherever, MBA or iPad in meetings). Work documents I keep on my employer's "cloud", personal documents of one type on my Apple account iCloud, personal documents that I share with my ex are on my Google account. Multiple accounts are easy.

A tablet is a smartphone in an easier to view and manipulate form factor, a smartphone is a tablet in an easier to carry form factor. OS is next to meaningless, except in my experience, Apple does a better job of making the same documents also perfectly functional on a laptop/desktop computer ... So the integration between home, workplace, and on the road is seamless. I'm guessing others will be getting there soon, probably the next group to get there will be Microsoft with the abomination that is Windows 8, provided they can get the awkwardly unwieldy UI and hardware trimmed down to usable.

Every year the licensing for enterprises gets more complicated. If you have a few hundred users on Windows computers, all of whom need licenses for OS, Office Suite, access to corporate SQL servers, and varying levels of access to Dynamics CRM, some users need access to Dynamics GP, ...

Talking with one MS rep you get one answer for the licensing you need.
Talking with a different one and you get a completely different answer. ... for the same people with the same usage profile, for the same period of time.

If Microsoft's VAR's can't figure it out deterministically, and Microsoft's own employed reps can't figure it out, it is too effin' complicated.