I'd like to see some guidelines come out of this that will help get the best from any team with any composition. Perhaps some practical ways to help people construct a more effective "Theory of mind".

I imagine they are using visible light to make the demo look better.

My charger delivers about an amp at 5V, are these goons really suggesting that they deploy a ~5W laser to charge phones around unprotected humans. Now do it in IR so they have absolutely no warning, just suddenly go blind from either a direct hit or a reflection. Really, what could possibly go wrong ?

now what on earth was it I wanted to write again ? Oh, there are my car keys.

29% of the workforce by weight is female.

This is why I run deep freeze on my family's PC. We can install stuff with impunity and, if it behaves well, I may even re-install it on the unfrozen machine when I get around to applying the windows updates. I wish my Dad would do the same. It's not as if the installation of these packages is usually time consuming. The only issues are with taking the time to save backups of game progress data for my kid so he doesn't lose his "progress".

Yes, what we need is 10 laws, inscribed into stone. That way there could be no argument over their meaning.

You can get replacement parts for iphones, I just replaced the charging connector on my wife's phone 4s, I had to buy a special toolkit (fancy security screws) but the instructions were straightforward and easy to follow and the actual part (an integrated assembly in itself) was large enough to handle.

To be fair, grandpa is unlikely to have faced these issues since it's advances in manufacturing that have made these highly integrated devices affordable and put them into so many hands. If he had been faced with the task of repairing, say, a Rolex watch then he would have been woefully under skilled too, but he wasn't because Rolexs are the preserve of the wealthy few.

maybe these infernal new-fangled gadgets are close to impossible to fix, requiring special tools and facilities that papa's john deere did not.

How many of the 10% shot with their own gun were shot by themselves or another police officer ?

The handgun part is what has to change. We need to stop promoting them as a must-have item to walk the streets by playing on machismo or exaggerating threats, and/or we need to make them harder to get, or we need to render them obsolete with some better technology. I think we worship them too much for there to be hope of anything but the latter, though it seems a long way off.

so they tied last year's record at zero terrorists caught, and you are pissed at this expensive, invasive, delay-causing theater, so am I, so what ? The frequent-travelers who have to put up with this crap are such a small part of the electorate that we simply don't matter. The vast majority see this as valuable insurance against people they have been told to fear.

Which means that GCHQ need to make a lot of noise about it now, to secure funding. In 10 years time these guys and people like them working for governments around the world will have driven up the level of security in criminal (and foreign gov.) communications so high that they are unable to figure out what messages are passing back and forth, so governments will have to rely on actual police/spy work instead of electronic eavesdropping and that makes GCHQ practically obsolete, or at least subject to being scaled back if all they have to do is listen to the radio and note bearing, frequency and time of day.

no self respecting robot will put up with the shit that the average worker does, they'll go straight into management instead. The're already running wall street, so the cocaine intake capability is there, all we need to do now is teach them golf.

But does it run Linux ?

so this would solve the limitations of the IPv4 address range too - what's not to love ?