The correct response, if you care enough, is to follow up by pointing out where their interpretation falls short.

So they follow up in academic journals which noone reads about the shortcomings of a NYT bestseller which misused their research. Somehow I'm seeing that the "whiny letter" approach is a lot more effective at getting the message out to the people who are actually reading this book and taking for granted the claims of academic research quoted within.

Most car thefts are of non-descript cars for use in committing crimes.

This is a bit like that guy who opened your garage door through the neighbor's insecure WiFi last week. Oh wait, no that doesn't happen in practice either.

he could have also gone with Perl

Thank you for your contribution, but if you'd been paying attention, you would have realized that we are looking for ways it could have been done better here.

Worse, it looks like C/Java/whatever, and even references Java in its name. But it is nothing like those languages unless you restrict yourself to a very limited subset.

Does voting in EU parliamentary elections disqualify you from British Parliamentary elections? Why should having a vote in Epping Forest elections disqualify you from being appointed by your employer to vote in City of London elections?

City of London is a "democracy project" of what your fascist "democracy" will look like.

Right, because having the 7000 odd 1%ers who actually live in the City dictate to the 330,000 who work there during the day would be so much more democratic.

AT&T uses 850MHz for LTE. Telstra uses 850MHz for WCDMA. The frequency band happens to coincide in this case, but the technology doesn't. The frequency bands in use around the world very much do vary.

As opposed to Microsoft's astroturfing against Linux (or OpenDocument, or whatever open technology they're trying to block this week).

Where ties means that your credit card showed up when they ran a check of who bought stuff from a particular ebay merchant in the month of May 2003, and one of the other cards that came up in that same search was a stolen card that might have been used by terrorists to buy unknown stuff without being detected.

That phone you bought in Australia is preferring Australian frequencies when searching for networks. In Australia it can find your network on one of those fairly quickly. In US it has to search through all of those and probably some others before reaching the frequencies where AT&T towers are. Since it is on a non preferred frequency, it may also be checking periodically for a signal on its preferred frequencies. If its a long term trip, it might be worth flashing an AT&T radio if one is available.

If it is receiving regular beacons it only needs to listen on the frequency those beacons are coming on. If it stops receiving beacons it needs to start switching frequencies trying to look for a signal. Phones these days typically support 4 or 5 GSM bands, 3 or 4 3G and half a dozen LTE bands. You can improve battery life considerably by limiting the bands it searches on. If you don't have LTE in your area, turn it off in Settings. Most phones have dropped the regional band settings, so to disable searching in foreign bands, you need to either use a secret dialer code to access a service menu, or flash a different radio ROM.

Interoperability is why we still write to anonymous@slashdot.org!mail.comcast.net!mail.myisp.com!gateway.local instead of just having globally resolvable addresses. Upgrading the infrastructure is just too hard and will never happen.

As always, it was a combination of factors. No one of the factors by itself was the cause of the crash. The absence of any one of the factors would have saved the plane. If the pitot tube was not frozen, then the control systems would not have detected conflicting inputs and reverted to "direct law" (manual override), and the infamous Airbus fly-by-wire autopilot would not have allowed the copilot to stall the plane. If the controls had positive feedback, the pilot would have noticed that the co-pilot was doing the opposite of what he was being instructed to do. If the training for managing such a situation had been better, the co-pilot may have handled the situation calmly and been able to think through what he was doing better.

It would just be another sponsorship opportunity for them. McAfee "sport" wireless security on Microsoft Surface tablets while you converse on your Bose headsets. IT is the new tobacco.