It's just a mater of time before the desert swallows the place...

Yes, but per your very own article the only reason IIIc isn't used is because taxiing blind is impossible. There is only one situation that a plane would land IIIc without a windshield and that's if its cameras failed. If all of its cameras failed then it's an emergency landing situation anyway and they could clear a runway and tow the aircraft into the terminal like they often do with an emergency landing due to mechanical failure.

In every other situation you would have at least visual and probably FLIR video.

Except for all of the copies in the iCloud.

Google allows it, which is wrong. Google can easily say, "if you do not provide a clean pure android on your phone you can NOT call it android in any way and you can not even say that it is "compatible" Also it's not just AT&T. HTC bakes in all kinds of complete crap that ruins the phone.

That would stop it instantly.

Not if you buy a phone from AT&T or Verizon. They pile so much crap into the locked storage it's not funny.

"Users do not have control because we're experiencing what Oligarchy feels like."

no Users do not have control because they refuse to learn. Cyanogenmod is your path to bliss and control for Android. If you "cant be bothered" with learning how to install it, then privacy and control are really not that important to you.

He has a special edition otterbox case that is filled with C4 explosives. if the phone gets more than 6 feet from him it detonates. sadly he goes through about 40 phones a year.

It does if you enable security and turn on locking. Betting all those phones never had a lock pin so the data was held in flash without any encryption.

Damnit Microsoft, when are you going to finally include a Plutonium macro in Excel!

Jobs family, while not poor, certainly was nowhere near as wealthy as Gates'.

There is evidence that China's one child policy is what enabled it to grow far faster than India did(though there are people that argue that India's younger population will eventually be an economic asset rather than a drag on the economy). In 1980 China and India's economies were at about the same size, but China has grown far faster than India, and many argue that the one child policy was what allowed this to happen. By limiting the # of children people could have they could invest more capital per student, and measures like the literacy rate show that this effort paid off.

Only because of taxiing. You would only perform an ILS IIIc (blind) landing if all of your cameras somehow simultaneously failed.

But hiring competent employees means paying them a fair wage... and we cant have that.

You are assuming that TSA agents can read. I will bet there are some barney fifes wearing that badge that will try and push it on domestic flights.

> * This guy is dead.

I get the distinct feeling that there are quite a few in the US govt and elsewhere that would like to help Snowden achive the same status.