This might as well be how Blackberry, Nokia, and Palm blew it. And I'm probably leaving off a few companies.

IMO it all comes down to arrogance about your own platform. In Nokia's case that was Symbian.

This has to be done.

Finally, the team point out that since the technique makes few assumptions about the languages themselves, it can be used on argots that are entirely unrelated.

Once again, Star Trek is ahead of the curve.

Yes, when I saw this I thought that this was a reason to make motherboard IOMMUs a security feature. Also, the DMA destination memory pages should not have the executable bit turned on. Recent generations of Intel/AMD CPUs have provided the ability to turn that bit off.

Third pic down: http://www.ev1.org/

How odd. I remember Chernobyl (and Challenger) and no one panicked. A lot of Welsh sheep farmers were pissed off, but that was about it.

Was that so difficult?

http://www.law.com/jsp/ca/PubArticleCA.jsp?id=1202617111781&rss=rss_ca_civil

There should be an alternate source for this sort of thing. Too bad Groklaw had to close up shop because of the government being an idiot.

It's supposed to be in the Presidio, but the movie shot put it in the Marin headlands.

I was there last week and there was really bad smoke from the American fire, which is still burning. You might be getting both that and the Rim fire.

-1, wrong.

Yes Google does have the ability. If I get an app from the Play Store and it is removed by Google, they have the ability to remove it from my phone. Its happened a couple times with emulators. Now if I decide to circumvent the Play Store that is a different story.

However, that is what Android gives... choice. With the App Store you don't have that choice; you only use what Apple lets you use. If you want to be a moron and run any old app, you can't.

A lot of the time, by the time you hear that ABC place is the really cool place to be, the people who made it a really cool place to be have moved on to other locations, having been replaced by other people who have all these other ideas as to how a shop should run (which do not involve being cool), and now that really cool place to be is now "meh, not so much" similar to investing is stocks, by the time the mass market gets in on it you may be on the wrong side of the curve.

To heck with that. I would have liked to see Project Orion. That is, from a distance :-)