Dick Cheney had the wireless connection to his defibrillator removed just so he couldn't be targeted wirelessly. Of course, there are supposed to be regulations to ensure privacy and security on all new wireless health devices, so the FDA is not completely napping.

Kitten videos. I want full transcripts of all cute animal and nonverbal children videos.

Hi, Personally, I want a much higher fraction of gun wielding, baton-toting, chokehold knowing police officers to be good people doing good things. 5-10% of the police force is a lot of bad apples, given their ability to cause mayhem. Teachers - they may not teach you, they may pick on you, but they won't kill you or beat you senseless. Probably.

As for fraternities, It is just incorrect to call fraternities wholesome things with adult oversight from local volunteers. Seriously? To solve the problem, though, instead of nail polish you could simply avoid going into fraternities or off-campus parties altogether. Especially freshman fall.

Seems much more likely to me that smart people get faster internet - either by moving to places with fast internet or implementing it - and they tend to have smart kids. So I don't think the fast internet is making the kids smarter, but rather that people with smarter kids demand faster internet. Of course, neither is likely causative of the other.

Now there's a justification for me to keep the air conditioning on in my house all summer long. Wouldn't want to corrode the lap tops . . . Thanks for the info.

It's Delaware. Give it a few years and there will probably be a form such as an electronic power of attorney, akin to a medical durable power of attorney, that will explain to the next of kin the rights and limitations of what can be passed on, and how to access the information. Probably other states will follow suit as soon as the wrinkles are worked out (and it is made clear what cloud-stored information is inheritable and what is not).

Beaverton, Oregon, is near Portland, and it can get very humid there, so adding the additional humidity inherent in evaporative cooling could cause a potential problem. Of course, since there is no air conditioning, you don't have a condensation problem. I looked at some other sites that use evaporative cooling to cool servers, and the systems only need to cycle on ten minutes in thirty, even in 100F weather, so you could use the fans to mitigate humidity to some extent.

However, that being said, I don't see this idea working in really hot and humid climates, such as Alabama.

No no no! It's a communal/national bias? belief? also held by Google , the NSF, and other organizations, that there is a value in increasing women's participation in STEM and therefore gives money to projects that preferentially train/enable women in the sciences.

I don't believe Google and the NSF are run by women, and yet they share the bias. Also, at least for NSF, you don't have to submit a photo, so it's not just hot chicks . . .

It's as easy to teach a dog to sniff money chemicals as cocaine - they are trying to make the system much cheaper by using solid phase microextraction to collect chemicals in the air or on clothing near the suspected subjects and then run gas chromatography/mass spec. Instruments are cheaper to maintain than dogs. Presumably while there may be trace amounts of cocaine in the bills, there will be lost of other chemicals in higher abundance so the Instruments will be able to find them with higher sensitivity.

I think if you wrap the cash in plastic and then take a shower and wash your clothes, you can outwit this - so if you know there is a cash-sniffing instrument, you just take a few extra steps and bypass this whole process. The only one happy is the engineers who got paid to develop the (soon to be out of date) cash-sniffing instruments.

Evidence is coming out that Hamas training manuals specifically use Palestinian civilians as human shields in order to force IDF to fire on civilians. Have you seen this or this report? The truth of the matter will be left to historians shifting through, and is hard to ascertain now.

Bunked up or debunked? You give 5 points and spew on. I pick apart one data point which I found was 99% false. Can I trust the rest of what you wrote? With respect to Point 5, Israel uses Palestinians as human shields: One time, in 2004, Israeli soldiers tied a boy, aged 13 who, along with others, had been throwing rocks at their jeep, to the jeep and drove through the area they had driven through previously. The boy was afraid people would throw rocks at him. A law was passed in Israel in 2002 stating Palestinians could not be used as shields, and the Israeli soldiers were disciplined for this breach of the law. There is no evidence this has happened since. There is no evidence this ever happened in Gaza. There is no evidence this has ever happened when the soldiers believed they would have anything other than rocks thrown at them (since 2002). I don't accept this claim.

Another shortcoming of the article is that this feature could be quite useful for more than parents; tour guides for small personalized tours could also use minivans with a microphone they don't have to separately install.