You don't live in NYC, but don't feel left out! Copy-cat policies are on their way to a city near you!

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/SF-mayor-considering-police-stop-and-frisk-policy-3669799.php

aren't what many of us want in our devices.

Never mind the fact the iPhone has sold over 100 million units...

Even if people just walked around with the most current and popular content being automatically synced across portable devices it could be the endgame for content providers.

And, one might argue, an endgame for content, too. The counter-argument to which is usually something along the lines of smaller, independent content creators rising up to fill the void. Just remember, those guys aren't always what's "most current and popular..."

That takes a spectacular level of incompetence.

Interesetingly, this is also another typical anti-LE karma-grabbing post.

You weren't there. The only information you have is what was in the article, which states that contact was made at several homes in an attempt to locate the phone. You have no clue as to the contents of those contacts or any way of accurately quantifying the competence of the officers involved.

Now, 10 cops for a missing cell phone... you could call that obnoxious -- at the very least! Competence is not an issue here, though.

No.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony

Not sure if my sarcasm detector is broken, but when you go popping a bunch of holes in your body, pay close attention to your marrow's inability to manufacture enough new blood to keep up with gravity's demand of placing your blood all over the floor.

I think my sarcasm detector is busted, though I'm gonna post the above anyway since I put a fair amount of thought into it...

They don't tell you what the qualifications are.

Just a guess, but they're probably not entirely different than the requirements for a TWIC Card, also issued by the TSA to gain access to secure areas such as maritime ports, refineries, and other "sensitive" locations.

I do have a TWIC card. It's always interesting (scary?) when I present the federal credential to a TSA agent at an airport. Although the TWIC card provides no access to airport facilities, it is a valid form of government ID issued by the TSA, Most agents are familiar with it, but one agent, after checking my boarding pass and waving me on asked me "what is this TWIC thing, anyway?"

Security theater!

I wouldn't friend them

I don't use any social networks, but I detected a serious problem when "friend" became a verb...

That's interesting. My OCD requires that I locate the phrase "orders of magnitude" in each thread.

A car analogy is orders of magnitude better than any other kind of analogy. By and large, I don't think the phrase means what people think it means (there's another one).

Potatoes are a lot cheaper and easier to raise than cattle

Excuse me, but have we determined, to any degree of certainty whatsoever, that actual cattle are involved in the production of McDonald's hamburgers?