Not much more to be said about it. The staff will know how to react when there's real problems rather than searching for passwords and documentation for some system they haven't touched in 6 months..

I have some, had some sales last year too. Doesn't need to be much, there's only a few thousand dollars in it.

That's what changed in 4.4. In 4.3 it was part of the OS is my understanding and required a new OS install.

For cell phones that have an average life of 2-3 years?

Google wants market share. And they have it.

Google doesn't need to fix it. There's Android developers at Samsung, LG, etc. that can fix it as well. There's no interest at any level to fix an old bug like that.

Google doesn't make the version of Android that goes out on e.g. Samsung phones. Google can patch 4.3 ll they want, but it's up to Samsung to take the patch, implement it, test it on all their devices, then get blessing from the various carriers to send it out. Given there's still people out there with S3s (and probably S2s) there's no chance they're going to put the effort into it and instead tell people to get the shiny new S5.

I moderated your comment incorrectly, so I'm going to fix that now. You're completely correct.

There's whole shipping stores that FedEX and UPS run that would do that for you. Staples has a lot of shipping material too. USPS has it because it's convenient, but that's not their goal.

We had to go to the post office to get our daughter her passport. While there was a line behind us the person helping us did a real good job at it, even retaking the picture for free since she thought the one we got at CVS wasn't cropped properly. She must have been right because the passport showed up a few weeks later.

The Dems haven't had a majority in the House for the past 4 years. This wasn't a bit enough deal for others to rise to the level of legislation until the past..maybe 18 months.

As for the Senate, well, requiring 60 votes to get anything done put a damper on that.

At least Mythbusters hasn't devolved to "God did it! Confirmed!"

Can you hammer a nail with it, or is it just for show?

Evacuated tubes have much better economic dynamics than sub-orbital flight. It's high-speed rail without air friction with potentially incredibly fast speeds. You could work in New York and have a lunch at midnight in Tokyo and be back to NY for dinner. It would be amazingly expensive to build, but it could be incredibly cheap to run.

Maybe they should talk to their friends in Sony Music about the Loudness War first before going on about music purity.

Try and find the web site that has the tagline "News for managers of nerds".