@vodkanaut: Extra boobs? On the back, of course.

Core2Duo + discrete Nvidia 320M graphics far, far outclasses any Atom or Atom+Ion/Ion2 combination.

Spend $3000 on hard drives and put them in a rig like this?

Wow, Steve might have be right. This is probably DOA.

@DH: Yup, just like they're doing with their Android phones now.

"...[Zynga] has a strict policy of not passing personally identifiable information to any third parties."

"...was so frustrated at rising studio hire prices in New York, that he built his own portable studio for sidewalk-working"

@ctthoqqua: This.

This guy reeks of being old and not getting how things work now.

@squealingrat: The opposite of cheap...

@minjChE: Hard drive has little to do with it as you're not cracking the data on the hard drive, just the encryption key. This is done in ram, big heaping piles of ram.

@minjChE: "is it possible to attempt simultaneous password attempts?"

@minjChE: Not necessary. Modern brute force methods work in many parallel threads, essentially doing what you describe without physical drives.

To further kill this buzz - even if we could travel at near the speed of light and get there in 20 years, it would be another 20 before we'd hear back from the probe as radio waves don't travel faster than light.

@talkingstove: See the problem with your, and their, logic is the market sets the value, not NBC.

@tbOwnage: Maybe, but there's enough amps in that rail to push a train so...

Comcast must be shitting themselves right now.

@johnwait: No, plans are never illegal.

I think everybody is overlooking this -

"Some people (a k a men) may have considered breasts to be simple things, not requiring such high-tech attention..."