5.0.1 totally killed the battery in my Nexus 5, but I replaced it (thanks, Amazon for the battery and iFixit for the spudgers) and stuck with 4.4.4 until 5.1 came out. I'm running 5.1 now with no issues. I'm not saying that there are no problems, but this is probably a configuration-dependent issue, so a factory reset ought to fix it.

It's not clear to me that Americans are being offered these jobs. The problem is that Americans have legal rights, including minimum wage, so if you give an American a job you were paying an illegal alien (how can a person be illegal, anyway, but I digress) to do, and you try to pay them what you were paying the illegal person, they will be in a position of power over you, whereas the illegal person would have no power.

So if you want the kind of parity you are asking for, the cure is to get rid of the idea of "illegal" workers. If someone is present, they can work.

I think bl968 was chiming in in agreement, adding additional corroborating information.

"The lazy" sinking to the bottom is a commonly-held belief, but in fact being at the bottom is a lot more work than being at the top. It's not because people are "lazy" that they remain at the bottom. It's because most of the value their work produces is taken as profit by their employers, and they are paid the absolute minimum that their employers can get away with. If they were getting a decent cut of the value they create, they wouldn't be poor. That's not to say that there aren't lazy people at the bottom living corruptly, but the claim that if you are at the bottom, you are lazy, is a fallacy.

What's off-topic is that they advised the PTO to take specific action with respect to a specific applicant.

Yeah, I think what the EFF wants to say is something that needs to be said, and personally I don't care how they say it, but the PTO is part of the government, and they have processes that they follow. I'm not saying they are morally right, just that they are technically right.

I'm not a big fan of the USPTO, but I'm not convinced that they are out of line here. The EFF comment makes mention of a specific patent applicant who is known to be highly litigious, and specifically argues that the USPTO should be particularly skeptical of applications from that entity because of the enormous cost to others of patents being inappropriately granted to that specific entity.

This is an entirely reasonable thing to say, but the PTO's point is that it's not an appropriate thing to say in the context of a request for comments on something else. The request for comments was on a new set of guidelines the PTO had issued, not on a patent application from the entity to which the EFF referred.

So, you're going to sue the IRS?

Probably the best possible outcome.

A computer can break into a million houses in a few minutes. That's so what.

Request a transcript, like the author of the article did. However, bear in mind that if you register for an account, now all a fraudster needs to get into your irs.gov account is pwnership of your computer, which may be even easier to get than the personal information required to sign up.

The frustrating thing about this is that as soon as the method that the terrorists used to take over the planes in 9/11 was understood, the take-over-the-cockpit scenario became much harder, because now you have to defend yourself from all the passengers as well as the crew. There was no downside to adding the door security, but it was superfluous, and now we can see that it has a serious downside.

I think the problem here is thinking in terms of absolutes. What was needed to address the 9/11 scenario was a change to the balance of power, not a perfectly secure cockpit. Having a lockout that prevents crew from accessing the cockpit is too much security, because while it mitigates one risk, it creates another risk, and the second risk isn't particularly less likely than the first.

It's not a novelty.

As a general rule, it's preferable not to have continuous noise. I only ever spent a brief time in LA, but the helicopters were really disturbing. I wouldn't be surprised if the stress they cause increases violence and shortens lives. But the lives it shortens are civilian lives, so I guess it's okay.

Being able to flash the firmware is kind of cool, actually, particularly since it's open source, so you can hack it first.