1. With HIPPA etc, CAN they release medical information about someone that has not been convicted (I don't even think they can release medical information once convicted?) of a crime?

2. When he says "known to law enforcement" does that mean literally known only to them? or does that mean, LE and the immediate family?

3. These books were written a while ago. There was mention I thought in one of the news stories of a recent memo, now I can't find that.

4. If he is in a location known to LE and unable to travel, why are they circulating his photo to neighboring jurisdictions?

5. A K9 sweep of the school is actually pretty normal. They did those even way back when I was in high school and middle school. Even let me find out that the previous owner of the truck I just bought my junior year must have been a stoner as the dogs went nuts.

6. If this really was a case of LE going jack booted thugs, locking someone away, forcing meds, and destroying his career because of published fiction works? Well..... I feel bad for us as tax payers because this one is going to hurt. I can only hope that there is direct penalties to the DA, judge and Sheriff that approved this

So which bench is it?
The one picture clearly has a giant solar panel lump, and plug, taking up a seat on the bench.
The other picture is just a bench, with a square underneath it?
Why wouldn't they have put a roof height solar panel? The big goofy thing on the bench is just asking to be used for a soda and food to get spilled on..
AS well as takes away from it being a bench..
Once it's had a few lunches and soda's spilled on it, I doubt the panel will be very efficient...

I mean, if you lost 64,564 bitcoins from a known and easy to research flaw....

then I'm VERY sure that you had a LOT of other security flaws unpatched on your servers.

I know that even on my home servers I try and do "enough" diligence to ensure all know flaws are patched.. And on work related boxes, we ALL verify constantly all known vectors are closed...
The fact that they found 10% of the "lost" coins with publicly available information and widely known bugs, lets me know that there are SURE to be a LOT more hidden flaws bleeding bitcoins like crazy...

  (and I'm sure some employees stole some coins to buy private islands)

The rebuttal loses me with this line:
"Nuclear power plants (large or small) and renewables are not compatible technologies. A distributed grid design with high penetrations of variable renewables requires flexible technologies for balancing the system. Both nuclear and coal plants are inflexible. "
Maybe they don't get what people mean by "flexible" in regards to the grid?
When people say coal and nuclear are flexible, they don't mean you can move the plant, or install and remove plants at will. What they mean is that the energy production can ramp up quickly when 15,000 people all get home from work and cut their AC on at the same moment...
yes renewable sources are improving how they can scale and ramp up.

Nukes are already there. I'm also annoyed at how articles claim normal tax items (vehicle fleet depreciation, etc) as subsidies for one industry, but then say industry X doesn't get subsidies. EVERYONE gets some form of tax breaks when you fill out your taxes. If you don't claim them, well, then that's on you.

The original article is right. We SHOULD push for more nukes as well as more renewable sources. Getting off of coal / diesel should be the first priority. Eventually if we can wean from nuclear? cool...

No, you missed the latest fun with target...

They lied..
The cards stolen weren't by someone intercepting CC numbers when used, They kept EVERYTHING in a linked database that was stolen. Name, address, phone number, multiple CC numbers etc. (they haven't said a db, but they said a source containing historic information. Maybe it was a flat file, but I'd hope not)
The fact they lied repeatedly and that they kept this info makes it a LOT worse than the Sony breach in my mind.

They should be very liable.

I think they are missing the main reason that router sold so well..

At least the reason I bought them, and recommended them for others....
IT WAS CHEAP AND good.
It was a moderate priced option, that I KNEW would work for people. The fact that it had all the hackable benefits was gravy for me to have my own versions.
I didn't trust a lot of the other low end units to not constantly have problems. I could also talk someone into spending 50-75$ instead of 40$.
There is no way I could get someone to spend 300$ instead of 20-50$ now days..

IF EVER office productivity needed a kick...
Why is the google doodle today NOT a playable version of Doom?
Make note. For the 21st bday, it should be a link to local liquor stores and a playable version... You have one year to get on that...

Sincerely

Everyone that does not feel like working today...

We prefer the terms,
"Big boned"
"fluffy"
"horizontally blessed"

Saying we're fat can lessen our mental well being which causes global warming.

" to a cartridge designed to release smells"

Seriously?

WTF "realistic" smell would EVER come from a game I'd want to play? For every "stroll through the garden" in fable (Oh wait, Fable is "mid evil" times, so open sewage, scratch that) there are mainly sports games, yea, no thanks to the sweaty locker room, killing "everything" yea, i'm SURE the Covenant's entrails smell great after I blow them open. Forza? While I love the smell of race fuel, I'm VERY certain my wife/kid would murder me if the whole house smelled of race fuel and gear oil... (Race fuel spills do cover the smell of differential gear oil I've found)

So thank you for making sure my video games don't smell... (Now if it was a deodorant cartridge, that might have been a better idea...)

Period.

Try riding a motorcycle through a city, or along a highway. That's when you tend to not be on a phone. (I've definitely used hands free, and texted from stop lights or pulled over on the bike) That's the ONLY people that are on our roads that I'd put better than 50% on not being on their phone. Either blatantly, both hands texting away, or talking on it, or just holding it for easy access.

There is NO WAY that only 1 in 4 people are using their phones on a daily commute. I'd say 3 out of 4 or even 4 out of 5 use their phone daily during their commute.

You'd tie... Wouldn't you rather switch from scissors over to paper? Since if it "thinks" you'll have scissors, you'd want paper cause the robot would choose rock to beat you...

Ermm, no. He had a "lead" spotter to get him out of the NE corridor of traffic hell, where construction can easily add 4-6 hours to your trip.

Then he had a spotter in the car, and a co-driver that was also spotting/sleeping.
As to the parent,
  There are definitely places out west, where with a proper car (and proper driver) a "safe and reasonable speed" could easily be well into the triple digits.
Is that true in my lifted Jeep Wrangler? Nope. Is that true in a nice sports sedan with active suspension? yep.
Was he breaking the law? Yeppers... Do I think he was pushing it? less than you'd think..
Do I know people that have done similar/worse things on motorcycles? Yeppers...
I've ridden on interstate trips and averaged 90-100 on the bike including quick fuel stops... and felt perfectly safe.

So while he was "breaking the law" I doubt he was as wreckless as Sally the realtor hurtling along in her Infinity SUV on her cell phone, explaining stuff to clients, and looking up things on her laptop....

I know I'm a lot more scared of the texting idiot than someone actively trying to drive...

So his main issue with gmail....

"It doesn't work with Exchange Active Sync"

And that's google's fault? My guess is that MS stopped allowing it easy access HOPING people would move over to outlook.com (as he did, because he was "getting scroogled" cause we ALL know MS has NEVER used target advertising. etc etc)

he complains that you should be able to easily access it from a browser, or a native app... Ermmmm... Works just fine for me from a browser and from apps on iOS and Android devices for me... (I don't believe in WinMo.. they sucked, they annoyed me, i'll never trust them again...)
Even works fine on Blackberry....

Soooo... "MOVE TO OUTLOOK.COM Don't get Scroogled...." thanks for the look MS... oh yea, use bing.com, it's AWESOME..

". But it also raises the question of whether targeting anonymity services to hunt out fraudsters could have chilling effects for harmless Tor users trying to protect their privacy online—particularly this year in light of the NSA-spying scandal."

Seriously?

Why would you ever need to "protect your privacy" via Tor etc, from an ONLINE SHOPPING SITE that you are GIVING YOUR CREDIT CARD AND SHIPPING INFORMATION TO?

I mean, I'm as much anti NSA crap as the next guy. but come on. That said, cool tech. It would make sense that retailers would do this. I see this is a good thing, not a reason to slam the lizards running our government.

I agree, the calendar thing, seems overly stupid.

the screen shot thing was in all the google commercials etc.
I'm really surprised no one from VZW or on the forums suggested trying that.

As for the turning off when you move it away, I'll borrow the line from Jobs, "you're holding it wrong" :) I have a feeling the mounted the light sensor somewhere that when you go to type on it, it thnks you are putting it back against your cheek.
My Epic, (galaxy 1, very similar to the stratosphere 1) was like this. DROVE me nuts, then I watched a left handed friend use it, worked perfect... I was annoyed.
My s3 works great for me, but that same leftie friend hates hers for the light sensor. So she has to actually THINK about it to not turn the screen off.
So maybe it's cause Koreans made it and they all have tiny hands.... Us Americans with huge claws just cover too much of the screen.

As for Canada, my mom (yes, old people do text. poorly sometimes, but oh well) sent me a text from up near Montreal to say they were there. I got the text 3 weeks after they were back in the states..... Blame Canada....