One of the security measures should be an electric shock.

@That Guy: No, education really doesn't. And there are a lot of idiots with PhDs (although proportionally less than in the general population).

@Suicide Teddy: If you put a radiator in a room, you'll get a convection effect which causes the air to circulate, due to the thermal expansion of air. Likewise, if you heat one end of a piece of metal, the electrons in it will circulate.

@That Guy: Well, it's easy to blame people for being idiots... and they are being idiots. But the human brain is wired to jump to conclusions like these. Over the years we've developed protocols and methods to prevent such flawed reasoning, but really the reason we can all sit back and laugh (or grind our teeth) is…

@trendspotter: Yes.... some sort of "Voice Message" or perhaps "Voice Mail" would do the trick :P.

@12345: The second law of thermodynamics almost guarantees that weapons will advance faster than defences.

If only there was some way that you could just send a voice message directly to someone, without having to transcribe it into text form first. But I'm afraid that's just beyond our modern technology.

@madisomi: man of ren: Well, no, they don't share any fundamental characteristics. They seem superficially similar because of chance of error, but that's actually quite superficial.

Usually just whatever reading I need to do at home (or return), a pen, pad of paper, comb and umbrella.

@madisomi: man of ren: Well, this is probabilistic computing, not quantum computing. Probabilistic computing shares some superficial similarities to quantum computing, but they're not really the same.

@Steven Callas: The Soviets experimented with ternary computers back in the 60s. There's nothing really stopping anybody from building a ternary computer, but I don't think that anybody ever demonstrated that ternary is particularly practical.

@Pininfarina: That's a load of crap, to be blunt. You should learn more about the theory before making such grossly misinformed comments.

@madisomi: man of ren: I feel obliged to point out that the lowly semiconductor transistor is an application of quantum mechanics. Its behavior cannot be understood with classical physics. And chip fabrication is d-block chemistry, which is all quantum mechanics.

@moonshadowkati: The US military tries to spread goodwill and basically bribe the locals with this kind of activity. The insurgents beat, torture and kill.

@talkingstove: I wish I could promote this.

@hawkeye18: Indeed. You can't amplify a signal with passive elements.

@hawkeye18: It's actually a horn, not a parabolic antenna.

It'd be interesting to know what the geology of the area is, but the cave must be a natural horn: [en.wikipedia.org]

@Louis Andrew: The Windows XBox 360 connection isn't proprietary, it's standard UPnP/DNLA. That's how third party servers such as TVersity work.