So, put the tinfoil away and prove it. Location data of some sort is "always on" for e911, but beyond that you will need to show some proof that applications can access it when you have GPS specifically disabled for them.

"Ever seen a remote desktop tool that's fast/efficient enough to play back video?"

Yeah, NX. Been using it for awhile.

Elop? Nokia was already in a nosedive when he started. If anything, he just guided them to a softer crash into a fluffy Microsoft pillow. Before that, the article says he ran MS's business software unit, which is one of the massively profitable divisions. Microsoft doesn't really need a "turnaround", just a focusing of efforts.

Do the elected officials realize this?

I don't have exact numbers for speeds and everything, but a A6 TDI can make it from Magdeburg to Dusseldorf with the accelerator to the firewall at every chance on 1 tank. That's 260 miles, and I'm pretty sure the tank was not empty by Dusseldorf. Top speed was a traffic limited 164 MPH. I think our average MPG was somewhere in the teens. I don't see a Tesla being able to come close to that, but it's also not what the Tesla was designed for and almost exactly what an A6 TDI is designed for.

Phone Losers of America? If that is the case, then this is perhaps their greatest prank to date!

...with the beyerdynamic earpads. Does an exceptional job and creating a cone of silence. My office is a half-height cube farm and it feels like a share a larger office-space with kindergarteners. The slightest bit of external stimulus creates a positive feeback loop of jack-assery, and in the worst cases there are two different threads of jack-assery to my right and left.

As a concrete example, the other day was a convo-argument about a guy selling monkeys out of a van which involved at least 8 of my co-workers and went on for a good 20 minutes. Sometimes the headphones with music cranked can barely dampen the chaotic swirls of idiocy floating through the air.

I find this comment more insightful than the original post. Did you ever find out what the square wheel was? I'm just browsing /. to occupy some spare cycles in my brain, so I don't want to dedicate the focus I would need in order to find out. I got as far as "proximity is the best solution 4 your and the other pilots plane" before realizing I was in over my head.

What's your phone number?
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/423292/taking-control-of-cars-from-afar/

Maybe I'm overlooking the obvious, but how could foo = foo++ in a loop ever not be undefined behaviour? I'm sure I've used used that before in a, and things worked as expected, so it wasn't optimized away. Was I just lucky? I wouldn't have conciously coded around undefined behaviour.

You obviously didn't pay much attention to Deliverance or Dukes of Hazzard. Both are set in northern Georgia.

Which isn't really the same as choosing to pay $100 more for a roundtrip ticket on Delta instead of USAir because you see that the coach seats on Delta have 33cm of legroom, while on USAir it is only 30cm. Not that that is the case with Delta and USAir, but I would certainly take that into account if I knew at time of searching instead of having to go and research the seat layouts of all the airlines.

The Cloud

Many people unfortunately.

That was a fairly interesting read, although the "Based on my training and experience, I know...." phrase got a little redundant. Federal agents must have that setup as a macro, or have a script that just replaces the beginning of every sentence. It sounds like the dude was generally pretty careful, but he basically slipped up by logging into gmail and leaving clues on social networking (linkedin).