I know. I wonder why there is even a galley on aircraft anymore. I usually just bring my own meals and snacks from home. Pretty much any food will get through security, even sandwiches.

Why even have batteries if it is so low power. You know, with all the tapping on a keyboard, why can't they put in a kinetic energy harvesting chip like the one's I have been seeing in tech journals lately. Or even a little solar panel like Logitech's solar keyboard.

I wonder if this could possibly be used for exoplanet detection. It sounds like it may have a distinctive radio signal. Any radio astronomers want to reply?

I have been noticing this a lot more myself. I tend to skim over reviews with broken English, and it seems to be a good identifier if a review is legit or not. I especially skip ones that use texting shortcuts.

The crazy boxes of lines look like they could be mock ups for streets in a city. It would be interesting if they corresponded with an actual street layout somewhere in the world. Probably used for training armored vehicles. I did notice that what is at 40.457985,93.369799 looks a lot like a scale model of a region. A lot of militarys have used scaled regional models to train tank commanders. The massive grid-lines look like Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah, where the US tested chemical weapon dispersion, the same could be true for the lonely island of foliage and the reservoir. The antenna structure looks a lot more like an electrical substation without any equipment installed. I have one that looks like this near my house. It was built with the expectation that there was going to be a huge growth in the area, then the housing market crashed and, well... Others are obviously targets for training pilots or artillery. There are also several mock runways in the area that have craters in them also. The circular target looks like it is to test the dispersion of some kind of cluster munition. Well, that is all for my armchair intelligence observations.

I think I saw a a Stargate address in the translated text. I definitely saw the home symbol...

Just remove the platters and let some kindergarteners play with them on the playground. Sure to be destroyed in no time. Also, give the magnets to your local high school science class. In seriousness, if you remove the platters and dispose of them separately from the drive cases, you are almost guaranteed no recovery. Anyone who comes across it and can read it without the associated heads and drive electronics is a serious three-letter agency and what the hell have you done to draw their attention?

I was just thinking about this the other day when I needed to log into a computer at work while I was holding a part I wanted to look up in our system. I heard about password systems using pattern logging a while ago and thought it would be ridiculous in the real world. On a similar note, I had an uncle that retired from a workplace that had fingerprint, voiceprint, and a weight scanner to get into work. He said if you had a cold or gained or lost more than 5 pounds you had to be escorted to the security office and have your identity verified before they would let you in. Some security measures are just too odd. (A scale? WTF?)

He should get bonus points for style with the name "Nets Hawk Katz"

No matter what, the picture still has to display something on the screen. No matter how good encryption gets, it will always be possible as long as you have to display something on screen. You can tap the signals coming from the LCD driver in the TV and recreate the image every time from the signals that tell it what pixel goes where and what color.

Ha ha!!! Now my plans for world domination will be complete! Of course, I will still have to figure out a way to keep them from frying on the sidewalks...

Oh look! View page source, Ctrl+U.

This happened at my workplace, and I was the one who had to fix it. I think it was a corrupted update for XP, because it happened right after one. I had to perform a repair using the install disk, fun. Not all were affected, just the ones that had auto update turned on, instead of just notification.

Spray a mixture of Tobasco and water on the trouble areas with a cheap mister bottle. That should prevent them from doing more than sniffing them.