There is also the fact that the US government defines the "border" as including 100 mile in from the physical border and can pretty well do what it likes in that zone. This "border" conveniently includes where the majority of the population lives. Are You Living in the Government's "Border" Zone?

If your are carrying your unlocked phone, and you get mugged and hand over your phone, then the mugger now doesn't have to enter a passcode until he/she puts it down.

Q. If your Android phone is unlocked, how easy is it to change the passcode?

Gee, that sounds familiar, sort of like what the US currently does with its border checkpoints that are in the interior of the country, and not on the border.

The jokes on you as the US already does this. The Bath County Pumped Storage Station at a capacity of 3GW is the largest pumped storage station in the world.

I was at the dentist the other day, and the tech taking X-rays of my teeth was in the room while the x-rays were taken - and she said to her friend "If I wore a (dosimeter) badge, I'd probably get in trouble for what I do". So she knew the risks, yet still did the work in a manner that exposed her to x-rays. That was a great example of how you can't fix stupid.

  Now apply that to workers mixing chemicals who are probably far less educated in what the risks of what they are coin are.

The only place where sloth and gluttony are seen as a preferred way of life.

There you go, ruining a cheap joke with facts.

Actually I was thinking about general mechanics and the demise of the manufacturing sector in the US. So yes, in one sense mechanics have been outsourced.

Hey .. I have Mr. Bunny's Guide to ActiveX and it actually was an informative book. I seriously learnt a lot about Active X and the Windows Registry when I first read it.

You just don't get it do you? This is something that they have to do. They'd be the laughing stock of the country if they don't progress their unemployed masses to the modern economy!

How can Arkansas hold its head up high when all the popular states have bucket loads of unemployed programmers and they only have unemployed mechanics?

And that was the issue pointed out in the second FA - that the error terms are so badly defined that it affects "correctness" of operation.

While I can't argue the merits of timekeeping one way or another, I'm wondering if the reporting of this report has actually gotten the way of the what the report is actually about, because I would want my safety systems running on a hard real-time OS and this quote implies that they aren't.

I think it's more that people are worried how the collected biometric data may be used in places other than the border or for "official" purposes.

What it does have is mandatory attendance . What you do in the voting booth is your own business. And all of which is done on a Saturday.

If anything I think the USA would be better off with moving the election day from Tuesday. See Why Tuesday? for info about the slow push to make this change.

Well I didn't know about the race, and if I could go I would be interested. But FanBoost?!?!? That is indescribable.

OK .. looks interesting, but then I looked into the regulations:

Seeing that made me cringe big time. What ever happened to man and machine simply doing battle head to head?