But, as a Queenslander, welcome to the state. I hope you see some of it that isn't the Gold Coast. Cavill Avenue on any given night isn't exactly representative <shudder>.

Solar-furnace powered steampunk racing car

I think el Reg might be on to something there.

how does that workwith lesbian porn?

You can never be sure who came first.

Chuck Norris can't time travel

He just kicks the Earth into the future.

Save your breath

That sort of horror story only works on an audience which is ignorant on the subject which we here are not.

BTW, you do know that the stories at Not Always Right are ,shall we say, not always true.

Would it be infringment

if I wore just one rubber glove?

No

they mean Simplified Chinese as in the modification of the traditional Chinese writing system developed for use in the PRC. (That last bit being, I suspect, significant).

No

they gave up on Crysis comparability when they decided to go for a tablet form factor.

@@Nerdo

I'm also sure that the Earth would recover from humans breaking the climate - after it eliminated the cause that is.

Yes, because

everything that goes into space automatically becomes radioactive and as a bonus if it's living it acquires super-powers.

"If the sun isn't overhead, I should probably be sleeping."

You just lost your geek licence.

Once you have the technology

there's nothing stopping you putting the power station in orbit (theoretically).

On the other hand

I like the fact that you're not forced to buy two when you only need one.

Or just use a sacrificial camera glued to the top plate. It's not like decent quality webcams are expensive these days.

If you really believe that surgery is a requirement you need to to some research on what I believe are correctly described here as specialist websites.

Executive summary: gender is about a lot more than whether you have a vagina or penis or what clothes you choose to wear.

And

it:'s not like we didn't already know physics simulations.work well on massively parallel co-processors.

Yes

It's a Transformer but without the convenience of something that actually transforms.

You might be right

about the Powermat. If so that means it isn't doing induction charging right. The touchstone on the other hand is induction charging done right. It answers all four of your points.

1. It needs a PSU ,yes. but what charger doesn't and this one's the size of a C cell.

2. It's slightly less portable but there's nothing stopping you taking just the plugpack and USB cable.

3. It takes up less desk space than the phone itself.

4. The plugpack plugs into the mains socket. The USB cable connects it to the charging stand. No mains cable needed.

You can call me lazy but tracking down the end of a USB cable (especially when the whole thing has decided to disappear behind the table) is a daily ritual I can do without. Plus when my phone is sitting on the charger it turns into a very nice bedside clock.

Yes, I'm enthusiastic about the technology. But since it's turned keeping my phone charged from one of those constant annoyances of modern life to something I just don't think about, I think I have good reason to be.

To paraphrase Star Trek IV

How do you know they haven't just invented them.

Flash in a pan - hardly

She's around 30, been a model for over half her life and been Australia's best known model for maybe half that. The thing is - she's a professional - she doesn't do phone slinging tantrums or coke-fueled binges which is probably why you've never heard of her. And why El Reg will never name a special project after her. At least I hope not.

Defacing a web site

is no more terrorism than teaching children that they'll burn in hell if they think "bad" thoughts.

Oh wait. I think I'll need to adjust my analogy.

I've said it before

But obviously someone who has just piloted a spacecraft across 300000 km of space and put it down safely at the designated landing site wouldn't have the technical ability to take an in-focus and properly-framed photograph.

As I understand it

that the problem with quantum computers - you get the right answer(s) along with the all the wrong ones, hence the need for a secondary non-quantum computer to sort it all out.

No joke.

Only if you're turning Japanese

Mine's the one with the early eighties compilation CD in the pocket.

Every Smartphone

is a colour Palm Pilot. We're just arguing about size.

Don't worry

Everyone else forgets about Windows Mobile as well.

Bright Sunshine will be no problem

I'm sure they'll come with a large black blanket like a nineteenth century view camera.

re:RE "Who would want to target Iranians?

So you're suggesting that the Iranian Government uses Gmail and Google Docs to do it's secret business. Seriously, even if they did, the CIA, NSA, whatever must have a dozen more effective and less clumsy (meaning you will never find out about them) methods to snatch the information.

And yes, the Iranian Government certainly does monitor it's own networks. But here's the thing: the Iranian opposition movement contains some very smart people and there are a lot of them. The Ayatollahs' boys aren't fully in control and they know it. This is just the sort of stunt they are likley to try.

Correction

That'll be 20 thousand cubic kilometers (ATW). Not that any of the cleanup workers cared after they'd got through the first few litres. Most successful disaster cover-up in Soviet history that was.

Who would want to target Iranians?

The Iranian Government, perhaps.

Yep,

Can't have a repeat of the time that brewer's yeast escaped and turned Lake Baikal into 20 million cubic kilometers of alcohol.

Shit,

I think you've you forgotten something.

The answer as others have indicated

is Slatedroid. Porting Debian to tablets is an official sport over there.

It's compulsory

It saves confusion.