Curious as to how this applies to custom ROMs and rooted Android devices. More specifically, since this is a known capability now when will we seem ROMs that specifically disable these features?

Postponing the death of an industry with a huge influx of cash is not just illogical, it's such a stupid idea that only Washington could come up with it. For one, it does not fix the problem. People will still choose electronic media over paper. There is also something to be said for making the country's print media dependant upon the federal government. Print an article blasting the current administration? There goes your funding...

It is a security problem with Ubuntu and should be fixed by their dev team before they are sued for hacking. Afterall, the iPhone was not meant to be connected to anything other than Apple software.

The published top speed is Mach 3.2, but the theoretical (not sure if it's been proven) top speed of a ramjet engine is around Mach 5. The SR-71 used a hybird turbojet/ramjet engine, so assuming the airframe could support it, Mach 5-ish may have been possible.

The SR-17 had a combo turbojet/ramjet engine, it's forseeable that an updated engine could make the ramjet-scramjet leap.

We're safe now.

Or... you know, maybe not.

This statement alone is enough to disregard the entire article.

Troll? Seriously? It's was a joke... /. needs more coffee this morning.

How do I get in on this? My PS3's BR drive stopped reading disks, I feel perpetrated by that as well and deserve my money back. Plus $10,000 in damages, of course.

Who needs viruses and chinese hackers to take down blog sites when you can just use slashdot?

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Video games and porn. Steve has undermined half of the reason the internet exists. Not a good move there buddy.