What world do you live in sir? Clearly not the same one the rest of us do.

http://www.cato.org/raidmap
http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/cops-kill-dog-handcuff-kids-in-wrong-house-raid/
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/55875924-78/lake-salt-landvatter-police.html.csp
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/26/nyregion/raids-and-complaints-rise-as-city-draws-on-drug-tips.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
http://www.wave3.com/story/1495631/false-tip-leads-police-to-raid-house-of-sleeping-family?clienttype=printable

and just because you are wearing a badge and say you are the police doesn't mean that you are

http://www.khou.com/news/local/HPD-Police-impersonators-using-fake-raids-to-rob-illegal-game-rooms-135144963.html

And your suggestion that the police do not read online sources or respond to tips that might come from them is also quite absurd

http://reason.com/blog/2011/01/25/the-saga-of-travis-corcoran

The app lists 13 "Marking Categories" that the app user can select from, of those, depending on the jurisdiction, as many as 5 are items which should be reported directly to law enforcement as they are not "issues of concern" but "violations of law", these include;

“Possible unlocked/loaded/unsafe storage”
“Possible insufficient training”
“Documented/frequent unlawful discharge”
“Possible illegal weapons on premises”
“Possible prohibited persons”

So using the app to tag these locations rather than properly report them will decrease local safety not increase it. Of course how the tagger is supposed to know of some of the "possibles" without actually knowing one way or the other is another question entirely. Either you have seen guns left around the house unlocked/loaded or you haven't, or you are tagging based on not having direct information in which case you are very likely opening yourself up to a libel suit.

Its worse than Libel, its endangerment.

Someone tags as dangerous an address (incorrectly) where there is no registered gun owner, police raid house looking for illegal guns, shoot family dog in the process.

Someone tags as dangerous an address (maliciously) where there is a registered gun owner, police raid house. shoot gun owner who pulls gun on intruders breaking down their door at 3am.

Someone tags as dangerous a business (incorrectly), which loses business due to customers (incorrectly) avoiding it, people loose jobs.

Someone tags (correctly) the whole of the South side of the City of Chicago, city sues everyone who tagged any location for harming the reputation of such a fine city.

Solar powered chargers in the aftermath of a hurricane?
It'll be days after a hurricane before there's a clear day.
Solar panels work poorly on cloudy days ... those on my roof generate about 5 to 30 percent compared to full sunlight.

My first job was delivering telegrams (by bicycle) in downtown Buffalo during the 1960's.
My Western Union office had its hours posted on the door: "We Never Close". The building's been torn down, so, in a sense, the message turned out to be true.

Question: what'll happen to the American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation?

Here in Berkeley, one of the main drags is Telegraph Avenue and a cell-phone store is named "Telegraph Wireless"

I work in computing; a meter away is a mathematician.

He knows real math: group theory, complex analysis, Lie algebras, topology, and, yes, differential equations. To him, math isn't about numbers ... it's about rigor, elegance, and beauty.

No surprise that his code is rigorous, elegant, and beautiful. When he showed me how to use Cheetah to build templates in Python, he explained things with an clarity and parsimony. In his world, clumsy coding is as bad as a clunky math; a clear mathematical proof is as fascinating as a tightly written function.

This man is the go-to guy for the 100 person business. Soft spoken and never argumentative, his advice and opinions carry weight. I'm honored to work alongside him; not a week goes by that I don't learn from him.

Using someone else's login to access a computer...... so I am a felon each time I buy something with my wife's amazon account.

There needs to be a serious effort made to roll these laws back, or complaints about Google+ requiring real names on account will soon be the least of the concerns of anyone who ever tries to go on line for any reason.

Said the Earth.

are doomed to think they have (re)invented it.

This is so true I have quite a few patents and I see it every day while doing art searches the number of patents claiming things that anyone with even a half way decent understanding or education in the field would recognize as already having been done "way back in the good old days".

Yes, I am sending out Klein bottles, in plenty of time for Christmas. And, yes, my website also carries copies of my book.
http://www.kleinbottle.com/

Cheers,
-Cliff

The AC isn't on the generator, but the air movers are, and the refrigerators and the sump pumps, kitchen lines for a toaster over, and a line n the garage so my elderly relatives can start the snow blower if I'm not home, some other water pumps. I'm not lecturing, although since you can't be bothered to read what I wrote about having to design for the surge load or the generator stalls, because I not being the genius that you apparently are, can't tell in advance when the power is going to go out and have everything turned off before the generator tries to start up.

Given that the generator keeps my house from flooding in long heavy rains, my pipes from freeze because I don't have heat in the winter, or the food from going bad during a rolling summer blackout. I would say that most people can't afford *not* to have plans for backup power. If you live somewhere that the power goes out a lot in bad weather this isn't "luxury" for the rich, its called a cheap investment to avoid much higher weather related losses

All the replies complaining that I can't possible need 10KW should go and read some list like this
http://www.generatorsales.com/wattage-calculator.asp
and look at both what you would want to run not just for a short time, but in the case of a generator for say days at a time in a major outage, and also since my generator is auto start/auto switch over, look at the *peak* loads that might be generated by devices like sump pumps air conditioners, the various submersed pumps in the house to pump 'stuff' from the basement sink/bathroom/washing machine up to the level of the septic system, refrigerators, at the time the power fails. Also remember that when you bring the power back on many devices that weren't even running will still give you a turn on power surge. If that is higher than the generator's capacity it will stall and fail to start up.

So no it doesn't use that all the time, but when the power goes out an this single battery system for multiple houses kicks in, who is going to remember to turn off their AC? Who is going to say "well the other people will turn off their AC so I can leave mine own" Thinking "if I optimize I can make the power last X hours" isn't how it would work out in the real world for most people. And if it doesn't work for most people then it isn't as great an idea as people think.

Lets see, my 10kW generator doesn't even power my whole house, and a 10kWH battery set is supposed to provide electricity to 5 houses for 2 hours, that would be 1kW a house. Somehow this seems to be a new use of the word "provide" I was not previously aware of.

500 times faster and 1000 times smaller and this should have a title even mentioning NAND because why?

It would be like going "New SRAM just produced is much faster than DRAM!!!!" without bothering to mention those minor issues of size, cost, power, etc that make SRAM != DRAM.

When H.F.T. first came out the approach of "buy when its going up and sell as soon as it ticked down" made some people a lot of money, because the H.F.T was just piggybacking on some human that had decided to move the stock for some reason that made sense. Now that so many of the trades are from H.F.T. algorithms what you have are computers piggybacking on computers moving the stock price all by themselves, and thus we have a feedback system with less and less damping as the percent of the trades that don't involve a person gets larger and larger.

Which of the many suggestions to prevent H.F.T. should be implemented is a whole topic by itself, but at this point H.F.T is now actively harming the purpose of the stock markets, that of providing a way for companies to get liquidity and for people to be able to *invest* in companies. It was good while it lasted for some people but it is time for H.F.T. to be consigned to the history books.