Haha. Until a year ago the underground stations outside of SF didn't have cell service at all. The SF stations only got service a few years ago. Thank goodness texting has supplanted talking, because lots of people were dreading hearing yakkers and yellers on their phones in the tunnels.

Why'd you leave out the part where he threw a knife and was allegedly winding up to throw a second one?

Those stations have had cell service for about three years. Before that people used the intercoms, or went up to the agents at the entrance level.

In this situation, BART was well aware of the protests and had officers at the platform level. Medical emergencies would have been called in even more quickly and calmly than a civilian with a cell phone.

The guy was shot as he wound up to throw a knife at the police. No surprise he was mentally ill. The protestors need a far better case than this to fuck with 100,000+ people trying to use BART and the bridges to get places. Some of those people are going to catch flights, or see sick family members, or get home and sleep for a few hours before returning to work an early shift.

I think it's more appropriate to look at the security of qmail which was designed with security in mind vs sendmail. This software should be closer to qmail and over a few years will be patched and hardened. If the system is used for the next twenty or thirty years, that few years of hardening will have likely been worth it.

Which means it has the potential to be patched and hardened quickly over just a few years.

One tab of comments is using about 15% of one of my two cores which are running at 3 GHz. Two tabs uses another 15% and four tabs maxes out that core. Which sucks since I prefer to read the front page and open multiple tabs of stories and comments all at once.

The oceans are radioactive. So is the air and ground. In most places the radiation is so diluted that it isn't an issue.

Knowledgeable people don't blindly assume modern jets will have safety records as poor as older models. The same can be applied here.

and then the people are always just a few minutes away from their destination and never a half-hour walk in freezing or broiling temperatures...

It's not an all or nothing proposition. Pilots should be able to go through the metal detectors and that's it. Their belongings get x-rayed, and they get to bring a pocketknife or scissors through along with a gun if they have the permit.

If not one person, then two or three who take turns using an airport bathroom stall and remove the triple-saran-wrapped components. The third person assembles it and carries it aboard a plane.

In the aftermath, I expect bathrooms will have a screening station to re-enter the terminal, or removed from the secure area entirely.

Video backup systems don't store the feed forever. Waiting a month to use the activated cards should be enough time.

Perhaps the poster was confusing the size of the theorized Oort cloud? There may be specks and pebbles of matter orbiting the sun from as far away as a light year.

If Ford disabled the heated steering wheel function, but the heated seats, heat, AC, power windows, headlights, signals, engine and transmission and everything else in the car still worked... it wouldn't be the end-of-my-world-panties-in-a-bunch thing that some PS3 owners are making it out to be.