Posts by Anonymous John 2374 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Oct 2007
criminals and terrorists don't have false passports and ID.
And even if it was workable, it's many months away. Ample time for anyone who wants an untraceable Pay as you Go phone to stock up.
I was thinking of getting one for scambaiting use, so there are legitimate reasons for having one without wanting your details being on a lost or stolen hard disk.
Mine's the one with the slit in the lining where the RFID chip used to be.
It's a portable gadget, and who wants to have to change a fiddly little memory card out of doors every time you want to listen to another album?
A typical album is about 50MB, leaving the card 95% empty. Filling one up with your own music with no display to show the contents doesn't seem practical. The sleeve is surely too small for the names of 1GB of tracks, even if you felt like writing them all down.
All three smartphones I've had had easily replaceable batteries, none of which have every failed. Handy as you can keep a spare charged battery with you and double the time you can use the phone when unable to charge it.
less important with eInk devices as the battery lasts much longer, but it could still be useful.
No new technology as far as I know. It's news as it's the first privately funded orbital vehicle. And also because Falcon 1 costs $7.9 million per flight, less than a third of the cost of any comparable US launch vehicle. And if as hoped, the first stage can be made reusable, the cost will fall even further .
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is that the Shuttle isn't suitable for manning the ISS. It can only stay in space for 2 weeks, If an emergency evacuaotion is meeded, Soyuz capsules that can stay docked for the ISS for six months are the only answer.
The ISS will be able to support a crew of six in mid 2009. I don't see this happening now if this agreement for NASA to pay for Soyuzs isn't renewed.
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