Air Raid Sirens? Not in the midwest. They've always been for storm and tornado alerts. In Illinois municipalities test them at 10am every first Tues of the month.

Please listen to those of us who know how engineering works and stop trying to decrease our intelligence by listening to your uninformed whining.

Well, that wouldn't be you.

No matter *which* stage a test is performed, if it doesn't perform as expected, THEN THAT IS A FAILURE. Period. Full Stop. I don't care if it's in Development, UA, QA, or Pre Prod. If you don't pass that's called a FAIL. You then regroup, analyze the data you collected and determine why the failure occurred. Which is what happened here. The EAS did NOT perform as expected and as such was a FAILURE.

So... you compare one company against the collective sales of *all* PC companies? How about at least making it a fair fight. I think you'd be surprised.

Facts are pesky things if they interfere in your world view. Just look at creationists or 9/11 "truthers" for an example.

He did in fact "lawyer up". His lawyer is currently in talks with Apple, and from a legal standpoint pushing the head of security out the door is going to look pretty bad for Apple.

I'd even be willing to entertain the notion that they have a concurrent build of Lion that's able to run on ARM. That's what they did for the Intel version OS X version long before they released the hardware. It may never see the light, but I can't believe they aren't exploring it as an option.

We don't have a typographical function to denote sarcasm.

Maybe *you* don't, but almost every site with comments (forums, blogs, etc...) /s is pretty recognized as "the preceding is sarcasm and I wrote that so as not to invoke Poe's Law".

I'm serious. /s <---- Ooo, I'm being META!

Wah! The child-raper is a victim.

Fuck that. Child-rapers, while *perhaps* having been victimized as children, still had a choice as adults. They chose wrong.

It's not the Meissner effect. That is for Type I superconductors. This is Flux Pinning and is a different effect for Type II superconductors. You can't change orientation and "lock" it (the Pinning part of the phenomenon) with the Meissner effect. There are some very informative links above regarding this.

I think the fact that most of us are not qualified to understand the raw data let alone the analysis, lends to believe this summary (and associated article) are vastly oversimplified.

That it's taken a relatively decent amount of time for this to come out leads me to believe that the answer is non obvious and non trivial to obtain.

Actually in CA I believe it is considered being an accessory if you know it was not obtained legitimately.

Your relationship with Logic makes me think you met it once at a party, shook its hand to be polite, and then moved on to talk to all the interesting people never giving it a second thought.

Actually (to be a buzz kill and totally ruin the joke... sorry), that means you're psychotic, not psychopathic.

Nice slippery slope you're sliding down there. And way to dodge my argument. I talking demand as in supply and demand, as you were most likely aware.

What is so hard to understand? Consumption *creates* demand. Demand is fulfilled BY CREATING MORE CHILD PORN. How in the world do you reach the conclusion that possession does not make the owner of said "product" culpable?

This isn't stuff you can find on USENET anymore. These... creatures... have to seek out distributors of this vile muck. They either supply their own in exchange in a tit-for-tat system, or they pay for it.