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"I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone."
— Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup

ROFLMAO!

Bjarne is a Dane who is a chair at Texas A&M, he invented the C++ programming language.

If only it were a production plane

Burt Rutan's Boomerang, an asymmetrical twin engine that cruises at 250 MPH with an 1100 mile range. It would be so awesome to go to Phoenix in 2 hours! (not to mention not having to deal with the TSA) If either engine stalls during take-off, it doesn't make a difference to the flight profile. And you don't touch the rudders during take-off.

Sadly, it is a one-of-a-kind. I wonder what a poodle would think of flying? Probably have to crate it during take-off and landing.

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/07/burt-rutans-boomerang-safety-through-asymmetry/

Flying drone can intercept and snoop on GSM cell calls

Built by two security experts to demonstrate that it is not difficult to intercept phone calls and that the GSM technical body did a really bad job of implementing security. It contains a cellular system capable of spoofing an actual tower, so you can trick AT&T and T-Mobile phones to connect through it and it can listen in directly, plus it will route the call to the ground so the target(s) might never know they've been intercepted. It has a tiny linux computer onboard with 340,000,000 word dictionary for brute-forcing passwords. And 11 antennas. And it's electric, so it would be pretty much silent when operating.

It's going to be shown at the DefCon conference in Las Vegas next week, I really would like to go to that one of these years.

http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/07/28/flying-drone-can-crack-wifi-networks-snoop-on-cell-phones/

http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/29/1338253/Hackers-Flying-Drone-Now-Eavesdrops-On-GSM-Phones