The mobile site behaves a little odd in one browser or another. Open /. in Naked Browser (the only sane browser on Android), click a story. Now hit the back button. (Not the one on the top. The device back button.) Site is now broken. Also, I'd GLADLY pay subscription fees if you kept content to the upper echelon of intellect. The dumb stories might attract more eyeballs, but you lose the brighter minds that make this site what it was. /. isn't about the stories. It's about the conversation. PS, I don't mind off topic stories (read: not *exactly* tech), long as they're about smart shit. PPS On that note, Markdown is a handy markup language for comments. I know it's not assembly or fortran, but it's good stuff, especially for mobile readers... PPPS Please don't suck. You got this! I believe in you!

Pretty sure the NYSE and airlines don't use AWS for any of their critical infrastructure.

It's certainly some point near the South Pole, since the North Pole hasn't got any earth. I'm not good enough with math to figure it out, but it's some point greater than one mile North of the South Pole such that when you do the one mile walk West, you cross all the longitudes and end up where you started. Then when you walk North again, you're back where you were in the beginning. Why is this more correct than starting at the North Pole? The same reason why Musk thought it better to rely on thrusters broom-balancing a landing rather than a simple parachute: he likes to do things the hard way!

Sounds like you want an iPhone. It does everything you asked for, with the exception of no highpass filtering (it's a limitation of current cell protocol--use Skype if you want greater resolution) and the phone book is sorta built in, but it only functions as a lookup when you receive a call from an unknown number. I use Android, though, so I can't tell you the current state of the iPhone's antenna, but I understand reception is just fine these days.

Definitely. It's not the screen that needs protecting these days it's the rest of the casing I'm usually worried about!

Somebody dismantled us the bomb :(

Personally I prefer to play on original hardware rather than emulation (it's a bit like the old CD vs vinyl debate!) That's not to say emulation isn't great in a lot of circumstances, but I tend to prefer the real hardware. Timing is one thing I often notice is inaccurate or erratic in emulated games, my favourite example being Samus' wall kick in Super Metroid, which I often use as a quick acid test of a SNES emulator.

I've put together a collection of various JAMMA games that are favourites of mine and use a Supergun to play them. While it's a bit of a pain swapping delicate boards (the encased boards of the CPS1 Q-sound era onwards are a godsend), it's great to be able to play the original hardware. Obviously certain early non-JAMMA games need extra wiring to work, but it can be worth the effort if you're into this sort of hobby. :)