Your iPhone can't lock up for 10-30 seconds, as that would activate the watchdog and kill the app. What's really happening?

After the bad blood generated with the Apple iPhone stuff, google realized that they can't just compete with companies that have google employees as board members.

I'm surprised Apple didn't sue Schmidt for breach of fiduciary duty, now that I think about it. At what point was he going to tell the Apple board about Android?

Will there be a bill to address the gender imbalance in the art and craft classes as well?

They have stronger magnets because they need to write that data more harder than normal drives.

Get a transporter and put it in a friend or family member's house.

http://www.filetransporter.com...

Supposedly it'll sync all your files automagically.

And you can host your transporter, too.

http://transporterhosting.com/...

don't know much about it except that it works.

Form letters have been a part of every advocacy campaign. This is news?

It's the same in other countries too. The foundation of the state is a monopoly on the legitimate use violence. Haven't you been paying attention for the last few thousand years?

"Betters" are the ones with the guns.

Nicotine is just like caffeine, except better. Why would you want a vaccine for it?

The only problem with nicotine is that the easiest way to get it is smoking. But now with vaping or gum it should be safer.

Drones can fly fast and fly low. If you can detect something flying fast and low from background noise and target it, that's great. If there are 30 of them flying fast right at you, that's a harder problem.

If there are 50 of them (they're cheap), then you're SOL.

If there are 100 of them (for redundancy) coming at you from all directions, then you're totally SOL.

Again, you only need a parrot-sized drone to do damage. Those can really go fast, especially if you don't care if they come back.

The problem with an EMP is you can't focus it. Focus an EMP and blast the electronics out of the sky. If anything you could disrupt the motors.

These things are going to become a major problem. If you have enough of them, you could outfit them with grapeshot and basically saturate an area. If they're cheap enough you could cover a really, really, really large area. Put lots of plastic explosive on them and you could do some serious damage to buildings and depots.

Today, a drone swarm would be basically unstoppable. Take a bunch of parrot AR drones and some plastic explosive and you'd be able to destroy or heavily damage any facility from afar. Good luck trying to stop them with anything.

It's amusing that academics complain about the salary differentials in the private sector, then do the same thing in their universities. Change yourself first, then agitate for change in the outside world.

If you aren't willing to eat your own dog food why are you trying to get someone else to eat it?

It's a labor camp where people are making money.

Go back to the day to app stores like getjar. Did you even know they existed? Did you know how people bought and sold software before app stores? Did you know how developers did?

I do, and it was expensive to sell. The app store led the way to what is almost a zero-cost way to sell your software. You didn't have to provide a few thousand copies of your software as "payment." You didn't have to print a box, manual, and make physical media.

Saying the app store and its execution weren't a great revolution shows that you are totally ignorant of how software was made and sold only a few years ago. Small developers for software really didn't exist. Nobody pays for shareware, and making a living as a small dev was basically impossible. The app store basically recreated the hobby developer market, period, and brought it to a level of mainstream that was never attained by normal PCs.

Better PR? Apple does have better PR. But Apple also does things that nobody else things will work, and makes it work well. Making something work well is substantially harder than you can imagine.

What the principal says can translate to practically the whole public school curriculum:

"learning gains don't necessarily transfer to the real world, or last much longer than the end of the school year"

Very little in public education in the US has actually been proven, vetted, or has any evidence of efficacy. In fact, the PS system as a whole has been condemned many times for poor performance, bad practices, lack of accountability, and is essentially a money pit designed to enrich union teachers.

Kids get "educated" despite the public schools, not because of them.

Hey, what about that hiatus that didn't exist, and then it existed. Does it not exist again?