Motorola says eFuse doesn't permanently brick their phone

Gee, it seems like it was only two days ago that this bit of ugliness reared its head.

Oh, wait. It was two days ago.

Motorola claims that the post was, indeed, FUD. They say "If a device attempts to boot with unapproved software, it will go into recovery mode, and can re-boot once approved software is re-installed. ."

This seems reasonable to me. It will make it almost impossible to install custom chips into the phone, which isn't a problem for most users. But according to Big M, it won't permanently brick the phone.

I'm sure we'll see a lot of hacker reports as soon as this phone is in broad distribution trying to independently prove these assertions one way or another.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/16/motorola-responds-to-droid-x-bootloader-controversy-says-efuse/

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/07/17/037259/Motorola-Says-eFuse-Doesnt-Permanently-Brick-Phones

Unmanned drones in commercial aviation space? I hope not!

Customs & Border Protection fly unmanned drones along the border regularly. A report released to the FAA "shows a total of 5,688 flight hours from Fiscal Year 2006 to July 13, 2010. The CBP accident rate is 52.7 accidents per 100,000 flight hours. This accident rate is more than seven times the general aviation accident rate (7.11 accidents/100,000 flight hours) and 353 times the commercial aviation accident rate (0.149 accidents/100,000 flight hours)."

YIKES! Keep those buggers away from the commercial corridors, please!

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/63777

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/07/16/2041255/Can-Drones-Really-Get-National-Airspace-Access