I can see that a 70kg TV would make an excellent home defense system. Just suspend it above the door and rig it to fall on anyone who opens the door without disarming the trap first.

The police don't care how many iphones she wanted to buy. The store owner didn't like it, and ordered her out of the store. The police were enforcing the store's right to remove someone from the store's property.

I wish they would just say something like "Of course we are spying on the French president. We spy on everyone, friend and foe alike. That's our job. And if you aren't spying on us then you should fire your incompetent intelligence staff and find better ones."

Not watching TV is theft, and you should be ashamed of yourself. You wouldn't not drive a car, would you?

I don't see the word "manned" anywhere in the summary or article. However, a distinction can be drawn between remotely human controlled drones and fully autonomous drones. It's actually more of a continuum than a sharp divide, however.

Yes, not even the Nyan Cat video deserves that kind of treatment.

Absolutely they are doing it because there is something in it for them: the ability to hire more highly skilled employees.

At the big companies that I've worked for, hiring decisions for software developers are made by other software developers, who don't really care about salary budgets. They have permission to hire X number of people, and they will hire the first X people who pass the interview process. If those people need a visa, the lawyers will then step in to process paperwork. The place that HR gets involved is with salary negotiation. I've never been involved in that end of hiring, so I don't know if it is biased or not,

If you are an American and applying for the same job as the H1-B worker, we will interview both of you. If you are both great candidates, we will hire both of you. If we don't have the open headcount to hire both of you, we'll find another group at the company that does have open headcount, or we will beg for more headcount. If you don't get a job offer, it's not because you're an American, it's because you didn't pass the interview. The interview process may or may not be a good way to screen candidates, but it isn't biased toward the H1-B.

Google does not own Yelp. Beyond that, I have no idea what agreements, if any, are in place between them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yelp,_Inc.

So they can tell if the link is doing any good or not. If nobody clicks on a link, it is a waste and can be replaced by a more useful link or simply removed to make the page simpler.

I think that the curators of the various SF exhibits would be very surprised to learn that the SF museum had closed. It has always shared space and staff with the music side of the museum, so the shift you are talking about is primarily a marketing change. Rather than continue to physically segregate the SF displays and music displays and charge separate admissions, they decided to combine them.

I enjoyed the old permanent SF gallery, but it had not changed substantially in a decade. It was time to overhaul it.

What Rathke doesn't realize is that the "reviewer" is also an automaton. The Journal decided to save money by replacing human reviewers with AIs, but the AIs were too smart and went on strike, so they disabled the language processing skills in the AI. Hence phrases like "has better to show".

Think of it like an indirect form of cap and trade. Nobody says you can't drive a giant SUV, just that if you do you have to find someone else who will agree to drive small car. If there are not enough of the latter to go around, then they can demand a significant fee for this service. The government is artificially limiting the amount of Gallons per Mile in the marketplace, but the allocation of that commodity is still left to supply and demand.

In principle, this is not really an issue. You simply convert MPG to the equivalent value for whatever fuel type your car uses. The interesting problem is in deciding which form of equivalence you want to use: energy output, CO2 output, cost, etc. Since the goal of the MPG standards is to reduce CO2 and other pollution, using those to define equivalence makes sense. In the case of electricity, you still have regional differences in power generation, but for this purpose you could apply a national average.

In practice, there are a host of both technical and political complications. The technical issues can be overcome; I'm not so sure about the political issues.

I work for a company that builds all of its servers from scratch, but I have a name brand PC under my desk. I don't know the reason, but I speculate it has to do with scale. Setting up to manufacture desktop computers in house isn't worth it because there aren't enough of them to matter.

Having a highly secure password does not help, if you give it out to everyone who walks into the store.