There will be in-court purchases to give you a leg up on the competition and a ladder board to rank your skill against other plaintiffs. There will also be badges for different case types to encourage you to file as many different types as you can.

I agree with you and have partially solved it by solving another first world problem. What do I do with my old smartphone since I just got this HOT new one? Why take the SIM card out and make it the remote control of course! I have B&N Nook Color running KitKat in the living room and a Galaxy S with KitKat running in the bedroom. Hell some of the cheap Chinese knockoffs are cheaper than some of the smart switches I have seen. You could replace the wall switch with a bunch of them and wire the charger for the device into the wall.

Not true! If you forget the supervisor password to your Ricoh MFP they will charge you $300 to replace the NVRAM on the BICU-Board because you can't master reset the password. Now THAT is some major security! ;)

You could have at least provided a link!

For many drinking MODERATE amounts of alcohol can ease tension and increase confidence (or conversely make you less self-conscience) which usually leads you to do things you wouldn't normally do. Whether this behavior is a blessing or a curse is dependent on the behavior and the circumstance but it will most likely lead to a different outcome than had you not been drinking. So your experiment would be more accurate if you clone yourself and have one of yourselves drinking and the other sober in the same situation.

I feel embarrassed. The only acronym I didn't know was TLA.

One of my first tech gigs was remanufacturing ECL's for AC/Delco. Our test console was a big box with nearly one hundred blinky lights! At least they were labeled so we knew what the blinky light was for. This was around 1989 and GM had transitioned a lot of their ECM's to SMT parts. So the ECM was a semi-flexible PCB with SMT IC's riding in a tin can (literally) coated in rubber cement. Vibrations from road conditions caused intermittent failures on a grand scale. By the time I left I was "diagnosing" over a thousand units a week. And by diagnosing I mean beating the ECM with the handle end of a screwdriver to make the blinky lights go off and spraying individual IC's with freeze spray to figure out which one had the cold solder joint.

This story has been up for an hour and and there hasn't been one reference to the obligatory.

Why were the first cars called horseless carriages? Because the carriage pulled by a horse was something that was familiar. and automobile sounded funny. We ended up dropping the horseless part and shortening carriage to car eventually though.

It isn't easy because society doesn't actually want to know the truth.Whenever we as a society want something to be true that isn't we ignore the truth and spend inordinate resources trying to prove what we want the truth to be.

The truth is there is indeed a biological component that drives humans that can be repressed but not eliminated. And there are dire consequences for repressing them as well. Scientific studies have proven this repeatedly but even many scientists ignore the facts because they are so unpopular. The reason so few girls pursue tech is they genuinely aren't interested. Intellect has very little to do with it. I've seen more women in tech that hated it but were pressured into it than women who actually chose tech and loved it. Anecdotal to be sure but that has been my experience.

I think they aren't even going to develop one. Many banks are still running Cobol applications written in the 60's and 70's.

You meant that as a joke but when Microsoft first attained government security (C2 IIRC) certification for Windows NT there was a little asterisk by the cert. For the OS to be considered C2 compliant it must not be connected to a network in any way.

If you look at this demo of the QNX Kia Soul at CES 2014 starting at about 1:20 they demonstrate the acoustic shaping properties of QNX Car 2.0. From dampening exterior noise to engine sound "enhancement". They demo the Soul revving but sounding like a Dodge Challenger.

That's good to hear. Perhaps they are improving. I'll admit I haven't even tried in over a year it had been so bad.

One thing Google has continuously failed miserably at is customer service. Unless they are going to invest some time/money/energy in improving their track record in this regard their wireless plans had better be dirt cheap/free. You already have Republic Wireless and FreedomPop sitting at that level. And I switched to Ting two years ago despite them being on the Sprint network because they have great rates for all but the most voracious data consumers and the best customer service of any company I have ever done business with. Next month they'll be adding the T-Mobile network to their offerings and they just started offering Internet in a couple of locations. I'll be watching to see if Google gets the customer service aspect down.