Team Nerdfighter found 9/10 balloons

http://twitter.com/hankgreen/status/6392128271

None of the auctions have any bids, and all of the vendors have 0 sales. Sounds like a web2.0 winner!

The ponderous population of smart people in the US is an untold bane on our society.

I just assumed they were seizing liquids so that you are forced to overpay for the same thing on the other side of the gate.

The traveling public pays for it, as that is where the airlines get their money. You'd think then that the TSA would not be able to take action without concern of the traveling public, but they seem to be able to do so.

Not sure if your assumption is right. First of all the Android VM is an entirely different beast than the standard JDK, it is not a stack based vm anymore but a register based, also the tie in between the vm and the processor is way deeper with the included arms having java accelerating command sets included. Thirdly the bytecode itself is not java anymore either it is post processed and some specific optimization is applied upfront. Third, the class lib provided is huge and a load of methods root directly into native functions instead of trying to implement as much as possible in java.
So so far java as language of choice in the android world works out pretty well, I dont hear complaints that the android development is hard or that you have a speed problem by using java.

BluRay players will become more common, regardless of how PS3s do. BluRay won the HD war. Stores are stocking BluRay discs, right down to the Walmart and Costco level. Disney is selling kits containing both BluRays and normal DVDs. And they are being advertised heavily.
A PS3 is just a convenient way to get a BluRay player, especially if you already have a game you want to play as well. (The game controller makes an awkward BluRay remote, though.)

its not just that they would not be on, its that you couldn't have them at all. Banned from carry on, banned from checked. Business travel that involves computers of any kind would be impossible. Plus, what about those that get motion sick when reading. I think you'd take clickety click over a nice pile of chow in your lap

But you just named things that don't affect the flight itself. Nor do they affect the reporter/congressmen/businessman's work if they are not allowed to have toothpaste in their carryon. Comparing the backlash of not being able to clip your fingernails to that of not being able to use a laptop is silly.

Really? You think that would work?

Well, it seemed to work fine during the first 60-70 years of commercial aviation...

The entire point and purpose of this launch is to receive telemetry from the large number of instruments on the vehicle. Being able to compare the data to the models is the single most valuable thing that will come from this launch, since otherwise its mostly a publicity stunt (everything that is not a shuttle SRB is a dummy component) and theres a good chance that Ares 1 will be canceled.

With clouds and the potential to build up an electrical charge on the surface, there's a risk of losing data along the way. The cost of postponing the launch is far less than the cost of wasting this $450M launch.

Exactly. Anonymity has its advantages but it's nice to break out of it on rare exception. I'll probably be sending you an e-mail from my Gmail Labs address, to which the one I posted is a forwarding address, but don't worry... I think you'll recognise it. :)

...Then right before April 1st.