Many unemployed still have stuff to steal: identity, credit line, bank account, unemployment checks,..
what they do not have is money to tempt the dark side... (legal types) to defend and advocate for them.

There have been many analysis of the reason it is low risk and profitable to steel bicycles but
not $10,000.00 from a bank.

If the police end up in the presence of cash at the home of a thief they impound it
and the home and more and slip it ALL into the coffers of the municipality/ controlling agency.

So crook "A" has stolen $500,000.00 and they smash the door down for
one theft of $10,000.00 now $490,000.00 goes into the pockets of one group
of crooks armed by your tax dollars and sure $10,000.00 goes back to the
one "known victim". Bicycles... what is the value of having 1000 more of them to the cops?

And with the right interconnect the ground floor could have a ten square inch camera easement
on the ridge poll of a multi family home. And yes a view of a tropical beach from Chicago
without crazy long telephoto lenses and mirrors on the moon or other orbiting mass.

If the LCD is 100 watts we are close today:

Found on the web: CHSM 6610P module 250-watt Module
Single Panel 250watts 8.27amp 30.30volts 65.04" x 39.13"x 1.77"

And yes this is partly why hyper insulating aero gel is interesting
as it can pass light.

Shutters may prove more cost effective today and in many
locations would not require a building permit for existing structures.

New construction needs to be addressed in building code ASAP.

homeopathic products today are bogus.
They are unregulated because they are diluted to such a degree
that there is nothing to regulate.

On the positive side older homeopathic methods were
not so dilute and did have medical consequences.

Some were problematic and some are now used
by mainstream medicine for things like allergy
treatment and yes immunizations.

Hearken back to cowpox as a prophylaxis for smallpox.

Unregulated homeopathic products are a modern scam.

OH PLEASE insulate me from this madness.

Yes insulation... we need more of it.
Lots more of it.

Dense living + acoustic insulation lets you sleep in quiet while your neighbors party
yet be able to walk to most markets. Dense living can save on many energy fronts
and not impact the environment by a sprawl out on farm land.

Hot or cold thermal thermal insulation is undersold for locations that need heating and cooling.

Windows are so bad thermally that it makes sense to replace most with insulated
wall and with a small camera invite view of the outside in. LED TV with an aero-gel
backlight for some locations.

Review your local building codes. Remove penalties for improvement and
demand better total insulation packages for homes and businesses.

Sigh... the problem is real. And there are additional problems with the solutions the fat cats associated
with Al Gore are promoting.

We have many many starving people in large regions of the earth now.
Upsetting the status quo could make the problem worse. I cannot see
how global warming is a good thing. Worse the climate models cannot
tell us what will happen (when, what , where). A serious problem is some
changes involve trees. Trees take decades to get established and become
productive. Then there are issues with ripping out the homes and buildings
and rescuing the land to make room for things that grow.
   

This is the interesting part:
"LinX was created in 2003 and put under NCIS, which has counterterrorism and intelligence-gathering missions in addition to responsibility for criminal investigations. LinX was originally supposed to help NCIS protect naval bases from terrorism."

Who gave them this mission?
Yes I am a fan of Mark Harmon and even more so Cote de Pablo
and the entanglement of bringing in Mossad to the fiction.

OK I am confused is this https or http or the decorative baggage on
the URI or CGI input.

I suspect that anyone that can see their own numeric ID in the URI or
more interestingly in CSS JavaScript and in cookies including Adobe poo has seen a public
interface that is broken.
    https://mail.go0ogle.com/mail/....

Most API (interfaces) are in fact very public and visible in the URI you see when you hover
over a link. Further all firewalls in schools and most companies inspect the URI as well
as most data that is sent and returned.

I would assert(tm) that interfaces like this are astoundingly public
and used by firewall service companies to protect corporate america
an the squinty little yes of children that might see something they
see all the time at home and in school (their own locker rooms).

There are problems with the law here that need to be fixed.
That is not to say that his actions were legal or not but that the law
is terrible and because he died on the dunking chair proves
he is a witch/warlock.

Given the abysmal date set we have to work with here it is clear
that long range (and even local) aircraft need to talk to each other.

At 20-40,000 feet the line of sight high frequency options are clearly untapped.

While satellite communications are expensive a p2p (aircraft2aircraft)
store and forward messaging system is an obvious opportunity.

There are wide open very high frequency lightly regulated bands that
seem to me to be an obvious thing to use.

The number of aircraft flying in any half hemisphere is a lot less
than the early days of uucico prune the map with GPS data and
some interesting transmission patterns are very possible.

One enhancement is clearly an option and that is store/ cache/ forward.
The value of this is that there is no dependency on the politics of a single
aircraft.

And yes I would be happy to be a co-inventor should someone run with this.

The interesting subtext of this the astounding line of sight and astounding
bandwidth of point to point data links. Air2air radio traffic could profit from
old school and classic satellite pointing technology.

Should air2air traffic be unavailable satellite traffic is still an option.

Isolating air2air traffic from other avionics bands is also possible
and adds some isolation and thus safety to this. There is also
cash to be made. Air2air like car2car mesh traffic technology is
at hand and all highways could supplement internet backbones.

I should also note that China has some astoundingly fine submarines.
They are mostly diesel electric and run silent and deep enough to be able to
search for the transponder. As good as they are they could find the
"black box acoustic ping" with "gosh darn luck" and not divulge their
capability. I do hope they have been dispatched. Further I would like
to believe that the naval traffic folk have established regions and depths
for subs to operate in the way air traffic control has established simple traffic
management with altitude (vs. depth) limits. And yes keep clear please
regions....

True China is not the only one with fine quiet submarines more than a couple
boats should be moving toward this region.

But what is the growing season and temperature requirements
for sugar beets. We are talking about California and WP
reminds me: "In warmer climates, such as in California's Imperial Valley,
sugar beets are a winter crop, planted in the autumn and harvested in the spring."

Is there a typo..... I think the answer
is "With pot of course".

Exporting herb is water friendly compared to other stuff.
The stems and stalks can be used as fuel too.

Geography lesson please....

The big agricultural belts of California involve big long valleys with
very limited outflow to the ocean. While not as extreme as Death Valley
and Panamint Valley they would be dry empty and almost non-productive
arid expanses most of the year without irrigation.

One nasty side effect of irrigation and the draw down of the water table
is the build up of toxic salts that are not diluted and do not dribble away
as they once did. Birds migrating through the area visit these
toxic marshes and die from selenium poisoning and more.

An aside is that broccoli grown in the Calif Central valley is special
because it is high in selenium. Like many things in moderation
a little can be necessary and good but a lot is nasty.

Not just alfalfa....
California imports water via lettuce from Mexico
apples from South America.

It is important to know that there is two way water commerce
going on.

Beef is interesting because in much of the world beef eat grass
where grass is the most productive crop. Cows can digest grass
but not so much people. Grass fed beef is often finished in
feedlots to add fat and marble the meat. In addition the yellowish
grass fed fat changes color and flavor to a more marketable white.

Corn and corn stalk silage permit local production but the corn has
a terrible pH impact on the animal and antibiotics are often used to
keep them healthy.

A lot of food and feedstock does not ship well and we demand much
of it year round in contrast to seasonal local production.

The pH impact of corn on the gut of a cow is a lesson for humans.
We eat a lot of things but not the variety or seasonal diet of our
ancestors. Our health might improve by moving to a local seasonal
diet and only supplement that daily diet with modest imports.

We also need to eat more than just the "choice" cuts of meat.
Many organs and even the skin of some animals contain vitamins
and minerals in abundance but are shunned for marketing, silly or
cultural reasons.

I recommend reading the book "Gulp" by Mary Roach.
She touches on this topic in an eye opening easy going
style. Support and check your local library or just buy it.

This reminds me that some early AT&T/Samstung phones did not
ever take advantage of the GPU. Some phones do not use
multi core hardware well if at all.... there are many places
where the hardware capabilities far exceed software development
and battery life.

The dumbest choice I see hardware vendors of smart devices
is battery life. A device with a dead battery is not even a
good paperweight.

Those that care about user experience need to control this stuff.
It seems that Google is making it clear at many levels that graphics
API and ABI design is important....

At one obvious level the need to use and manage the GPU is
glaringly important and under appreciated.

I think this is important and valuable work... .but the proof is
in the doing. Many good ideas fall flat.... some have legs.
Some more importantly kick the stubborn in the back end
and stuck projects move again.

Time will tell.
The sad point is this will not be soup in time for my
next hardware selections... One can hope that vendors
will have honest bake offs and good will win out and software
refreshes will bring improvements to my devices.