@Fronzbot: The *DMAs are confusing. AT&T uses the GSM family of protocols, including GSM itself. GSM is a 2G protocol and is an FDMA protocol. Verizon's equivalent 2G protocol is cdmaOne, which is a CDMA protocol (obviously). Their 3G protocol is CDMA2000, which is also CDMA based. But the 3G extensions to GSM are…

@walkingagh: Do you mean next winter? If they're only just hiring the engineers now, don't expect to see a working phone before 2012.

@spectralveil: Microwave circuits have to be designed and tuned for specific wavelengths, so depending on the bandwidth of the design, each frequency the chipset is designed for may require an entirely separate amplifier. And as far as circuits go, they're also very large; I've built microwave circuits with a PCB,…

@Mukmu: Woz.

@hellskitchen: Stolen from who? This was pretty well established the last time this came up: FoxConn may have violated its contract with Apple in making these parts, but they aren't stolen.

@Red_Flag: Heart click.

@The Pr1nce: Promoted for Churchill goodness.

@nova3930: Many people think they can outsmart me. Maybe. I have yet to meet man who can outsmart bullet.

@zeroprime: That's what you get when you join a voluntary DDOS network with IRC as its C&C infrastructure. The cops just grab your IP addresses from the C&C server.

@bowei437: Yeah, I laughed when I read that line. It's full of stupid.

@QLAB: I think you've forgotten how short their attention spans are.

@djshack: Sock puppet fail.

@Ruthless if you let me: Ignore this, I'm an idiot apparently

And it's QNX under the hood, so it'll multitask ridiculously well.

@Graviton1066: No, NASA isn't. That's why SpaceX is considered 'privately funded.' NASA is a customer, not an investor.

Get your ass to Mahssss

@heroineworshipper: Uh, they've got one more test launch, and then they're going to be doing their first ISS docking mid next year. They're scheduled to do two full ISS supply runs next year too.

@tomsomething: Not to be a debbie downer, but by the time that becomes feasible, actual actors and filming real-life action will be obsolete.

@Graviton1066: Like, seriously man. And Boeing and EADS do the same thing for only like... 5 times the cost and only a few billions of government funding and subsidies.

@Jed: It's too early to see the fallout from this leak, but here's the response from their Afghanistan batch: