Where do you think Samsung and LG stick all the junior devs and QAs? And then pull them off the moment they start making better design choices, to go work on more lucrative projects? Yep, the shitphones. The only choice with the bottom of the barrel phones is to go directly to stock android (which is pretty easy if you have an hour or so to kill and can follow basic instructions) so for Bennett to spend so much time wondering out loud why cheap phones are cheap is the weird part. How about an article on the cheapest phone you can turn into an AOSP/Cyanogen handset with good results? Nah, why bother; that would't start a flamewar!

FWIW the last flighttrack data showed a speed of 490 kts (564mph), altitude of 33,000 feet (a common cruising alt if there is turbulence at 35k+) Lat 48.088 Lon 38.6359.

Its actually more nuanced, only 2/3rd (65%) of all murder cases nationally see a single *arrest* which is to say that they have a decent suspect in mind. Not every arrest turns into a conviction, naturally, so the actual "solved" rate is much lower, below 50% for a lot of places. Here's a recent stat to help you plan your next murder: "In 2008, police solved 35 percent of the homicides in Chicago, 22 percent in New Orleans and 21 percent in Detroit. Yet authorities solved 75 percent of the killings in Philadelphia, 92 percent in Denver and 94 percent in San Diego." As you might expect, areas with lower murder rates overall saw a higher solve rate.

You hit on the solution to the very problem. To operate in passenger-less mode simply require that the car be reciving destination instructions from an approved souce (such as some big, audit-able company) who would be a fair bit less likely to greenlight rolling-bomb commands on their cars.

Clearly, it's the part about the dome... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...

Don't forget that the solar panels only over-produce for the household at times when they *don't need lights*. This impacts your environmental summarization because in order to shift that electricity from solar hours (when the sun is up) to non-solar hours (when the sun is down and you need more indoor lighting) you need to use additional expensive (economic and environmental) techniques like battery storage or borrowing electricity from a nearby coal fired plant.

I just tested the two and had the exact opposite experience (with a pretty nice leviton digital dimmer, too). The 9.5w/60w equiv Cree bulbs worked fantastic, no flicker at any light level. The Philips bulbs (10.5w/60w equiv dimmable, according to the package) flickered like crazy and wouldnt even turn off all the way, they just slowed to a 1Hz flicker.

Statistics aside there are two more pressing questions: 1, are patients with MCI more likely to convert (10% or greater) in subsequent years? 2, is there a preventative process that can be used by those that test positive, that is safe for the general population? In other words, do we get to narrow our treatment focus with these results, even a little bit? We can piss and moan about statistics but at the end of the day, who really gives a fuck if you were right about the onset of someone's dementia, unless you can do something about it?

In the US the poles are installed at/past the sidewalk line opposite the roadway, in other words when you are standing to cross you cannot see the pole on your side because it is behind you. So, either you would have to get people to stand behind the pole, or have them turn around and look at the number before crossing (taking attention away from watching turning traffic, which a pedestrian must be very careful for).

Why can't you distribute it via a CDN, exactly? I mean someone like Microsoft has either direct control over, or actually runs their own CDN servers: firing up a SMTP service (to route mail based on proximity to destination MX) should be the easy part.

If the cost license doesn't get you, then the compute cycles, ram allocations, and administrators' salaries will... /troll

Hmm let's see if you can pick out the spot where he would be versed only in armored warfare expertise or looking at secret documents all day (this is his CV for the past 15 years):
Director of the National Security Agency (DIRNSA)
Chief of the Central Security Service (CHCSS)
Commander of the United States Cyber Command
Commanding General of the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command
Director of Intelligence (J-2), United States Central Command
Deputy Director for Intelligence (J-2) for the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Head of the Army Intelligence and Security Command

Do you think it's possible, after working (ostensibly successfully) as the head of so many organizations, that he knows nothing about management, leadership, best practices, and nonclassified security methodologies (of which there are many)? Do you honestly think he spent 10 years, as the head of these orgs, pushing top secret papers across his desk instead of having his underlings take care of all of that? Come on. Furthermore, I think a lot of commentators on this thread have a complete misunderstanding of what a high-level consulting firm does. Hint, it has nothing to do with configuring firewalls and antivirus apps. Big multinationals will gladly pay $1M for advice as simple as "choose off the shelf security package A, instead of B" as long as it comes from someone whose credentials are beyond repute. He doesn't have to say anything about top secret operations, techniques, or sources, he just has to put his name behind something.

It's hard to imagine that the banking industry is seen as competing with the NSA (in the sense that a non-compete would be enforceable)... Or is it?

What's more hilarious is that, apparently, the only thing to General Alexander's credit as head of the NSA was his ability to keep secrets. He was literally "the most powerful cyber-lord in the world" (for lack of a better term) and his only qualification was keeping secrets? He didn't bring anything to the table in terms of management skills, best practices, or good judgement via foresight? Because that's what you have to read into a statement like "..Without the classified information he acquired in his former position, he literally would have nothing to offer to you." Kind of sad, mostly for the US military apparatus that apparently promotes from within, those that have no real skills to offer except keeping their mouth shut about what they did/saw/heard.

It's not that the SWAT officers, their commanders, or anyone else is necessarily contriving a system where they get all the power and none of the oversight. SWAT teams are very expensive to hire, train, equip, and maintain. Hence, they need to be shared by many police districts. When the state cannot organize them any better than at the county and muni level, the solution is left up to the counties and munis to work out. And this is what they chose because it was the only thing that fit, a shared cost for shared resources.

That being said, the state really needs to intervene, now that it is painfully obvious the county/muni system doesnt work, and give them a structure (joint departments) that makes it possible. There is already too much overhead from the hundreds of different law enforcement orgs that dot each state, figuring this out is a step in the direction toward making the entire system more organized, and more accountable.