If you've ever traveled to a foreign country on business, a lot of those riders about food and lodging start to make sense. Especially in the Asian Pacific rim (some of the stuff in high end restaurants is just...wrong *shudder*).

Yeah, I hadn't thought of that. Nice.

You could leave a charred paper bag filled with poop on your front doorstep, as if someone already pranked you. Might head off the TP treatment.

I worked with the Skunkworks team a long time ago on a stealth cruise missile. That was probably the most fun project I've ever worked on. And at least back in the 90's, stealth tech was no less observable on infrared than anything else.

These things have 1/10th the range of a cell tower, at a similar frequency range (2.4 vs 2.1 GHz), so these wifi boosters are probably transmitting around 1/100th of the power of a cell tower. Where you sit right now, there are at least three cell towers (Verizon, Sprint, AT&T) blasting away at you, each at 100x the…

This covers about 1/10th of the distance of a cell tower at a similar frequency (2.1 vs 2.4 GHz), so its power output is probably 1/100th that of a cell tower. So, where you sit right now, you've got at least 3 cell towers blasting at you (Verizon, Sprint, AT&T) each at 100x the power of this.

Awesome. That many more people trying to crack into your network.

No, what I'm saying is the A7's are too expensive to enable a sub-$100 phone. The A9's will be cheap enough to do it, though.

Since they were a secret capability at the time, it totally took Saddam off-guard. He was preparing for a completely different kind of invasion.

The A7's are already old news. It'll be the dual-A9 chips that are about to go into production now that will push the price point down below $100, probably sometime towards the middle to end of next year.

Really, what you want is reactive armor for your phone. Something that will sense the impact and explode outwards, destroying the incoming projectile.

I was referring to the molecular resonating frequency. Water still absorbs a pretty decent amount of energy at 1.9 GHz. Your cell phone isn't putting out enough power to visibly affect a glass of water, but they've done thermal scans of people's heads while making calls, and shown a temperature gradient occurring…

Thanks!! I feel like I should make an acceptance speech or something.

The lower frequencies also travel further with the same amount of transmitting power, and its a square function. So, a Verizon tower at 800MHz 3G has effectively 4 time the range as a Sprint 3G tower at 1900MHz. The lower frequencies also have better penetration into buildings.

I'm pretty sure if you are an existing customer and sign a new 2-year contract then you'll lose your unlimited plan. Be careful.

Calcium is a good additive, if you actually need it. Get a soil analysis done and you'll know exactly what you need to supplement.

If you get a cast iron piece secondhand, you probably want to intentionally get rid of the previous seasoning. I don't want to be cooking my food in someone else's food cooties!!

You know, it could be a lot creepier. They could have filmed it pronking. A whole herd of these pronking. *shudder*

Why not just use a regular (non-enameled) cast iron dutch oven for far cheaper? Le Crueset is unnecessarily expensive.

To me the biggest issue is my phone running out of batteries and stranding me somewhere without access to $$'s. No way do I depend on my phone's pathetic battery!!!