The ability to deny service to a blacklisted device already is part of the GSM standard and the central registry needed to get this working:

http://www.gsma.com/technicalprojects/fraud-security/imei-database

Now it is only a matter of getting the carriers to actually use this list to deny service. In most SGSN, all it takes is changing a config flag.

Yes, that hard!

Check out Crashplan. It can do exactly that for free and no hassle.

Well, it really depends on the kind of usage you give them. As a CEO I am always on the move, and there are a lot of surfaces and situations in which a laptop really isn't practical. Try the inconvenience of having to show a presentation on a lunch table with a laptop and you will understand why. Nothing beats the ease of passing an unobstrusive device over the table for the other person to check out what you are trying to show. This may sound frivolous, but when you are trying to sell an idea, every bit of positive feeling on the other side really counts. One of the best purchases I ever made.

Mod parent up! Terrorism is all about... Creating terror! And disrupting societies by leading them to change significantly due to that terror. If societies refuse to change, terrorism will fail and the funding will stop coming. Look at IRA and ETA, they were not defeated by expensive equipment or civil rights limitations, they were defeated by societies refusal to become terrified.

Very well put!

You are a software guy, aren't you? If you can watch it or hear it, you can copy it. And, with the right tools, with great quality. Digitize and distribute.

I am disgusted by this. The worst part is that our politicians probably did it out of ignorance.

What got you here won't necessarily get you there :)

Same mouse footage than Resveratrol?

Completely agree on the importance of self-confidence but... statistics show that bald salespeople sell less than the ones with hair. Don't ignore the evolutionary hardwiring that tells us "good fur = healthy".

Errrr... Aren't helicopters covered for that event by design? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorotation_(helicopter)

I can't even tell on which part of the night I lost mine!

The thing about sending teenagers to war that strikes me the most is that they are considered underage to buy alcohol or enter a casino yet old enough to carry around heavy weapons, kill and die for their country.

Mod parent up! Terrorism only works if well... it creates terror. If it doesn't, it won't get any financing.