The FM Receiver isn't enabled in most phones because the electronics required to use the headset shield as an FM antenna increase crosstalk on the 3.5mm jack. Phones without FM chose to emphasize 3.5mm audio quality over FM radio function.

This is trivially easy to confirm - just check the headset crosstalk numbers on any Android review site. You'll find a bi-modal distribution that correlates to presence of an FM receiver.

It's got to be the stupidest time to set up a gas delivery business. Just as gas powered cars are going to be obsoleted. OK, they're not obsolete yet - but it's hardly a new business model that has a future.

Actually, this business model makes a lot more sense in an environment without a gas station on every corner -- people are much likely to pay a delivery fee for something they can't pick up conveniently themselves. If anything, I'd say they're jumping the gun on gasoline being a niche product.

There are US states with higher weight limits than national standard..

https://www.michigan.gov/docum...

Got a citation for that? The only mention of a fee I could find was from a Car and Driver blog post

http://blog.caranddriver.com/elon-take-the-wheel-we-test-teslas-new-autopilot-feature/

Tesla charges a one-time fee of $2500 to activate the Autopilot capability, but the Side Collision Warning is free.

I would have thought there'd be some communication from Tesla if they were selling an OTA update?

Stagefright is one of the Android media libraries. It's sort of the Android analog of ffmpeg's libavcodec and libavformat

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/master/media/libstagefright

Come now. MiniUSB isn't that unusual.

hacked tools are no longer readily available.(Motorola PST, Qualcom's tool, etc...)

You only need PST if you want to update the software, and there hasn't been an update for V3xx in quite some time. And Qualcomm never had tools for the V3xx, since there's no Qualcomm hardware in it. The V3xx was one of the last Moto phones with a Moto (Freescale) chipset. The only Qualcomm RAZRs were the CDMA ones.

What fuel stabilizer do you use, how long do you keep the gas, and what do you do when it expires?

Every 6 months, dump the stored gas into your car and refill the can(s) at the station. Even better, get a manual transfer pump so you can refill your gas can from your car's tank in a pinch. My "emergency" generator fuel supply is ~16gals in each of two cars.

It's a good idea to fill up before a major storm anyway in case you need to evacuate.

Not true. Residential users can use broadband backhaul for relatively cheap (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtocell)

• Verizon
• AT&T
• Sprint

Bigger users can get bigger equipment. Last year, my office installed entire cell stations for major providers in our main equipment rooms and wired them with low-loss coax to little dome antennas scattered around the buildings. Helps coverage immensely :)

Author of TFA says he doesn't know if the material he observed has an impact on radio, just quoting the fact that it's "reflective" from a vendor brochure, but according to the same pdf the material is in fact metallic

Protect TF200 Thermo includes a tough non-woven PP core with a durable bright high purity permeable aluminium layer, bonded to the substrate.

Yep, sounds like a radio-eater all right. Interesting stuff, too.

Bonuses in the US are "incentive pay". They're an aware based on success, and most companies define success as meeting their goals, so it's perfectly logical for a company to say to have a baseline bonus policy in addition to salary, and modify that bonus up or down for exceeding or falling short of the stated goals. It's both the carrot and the stick.

Verizon has several phones with GSM (and even UMTS) for global roaming. Motorola Droid Pro and Droid2 Global come immediately to mind:

There are some HTC and Blackberry options too. Global roaming isn't as big a deal as it used to be for Verizon customers.

Sure, but how many phases did it have?

Man, why is this concept so difficult to grasp? It's. Not. A. Milling. Machine.

It's an FDM

Jobs for one are rarely jobs for the other