Don't forget the ex-employees too... including the ones that were fired with cause.

That was my point. I wasn't talking about the LEDs themselves but the overall construction of the consumer LED "bulbs". The LEDs pretty much never fail before the cheap capacitors on the mainboard or just bad circuit layout causes a failure. This was not the case in the earlier LED bulbs due to the fact that when you're creating a premium product and setting a reputation, you don't skimp on the design or components. Same was true for incandescent bulbs, and Edison & Co. figured out how to do it faster and cheaper (and brighter) with an acceptable failure rate that was measured in months instead of decades. But in his case, it was the filament that went, not the supporting circuitry.

Only if they're currently having accountability issues.

That's because you've changed the admin password only. Above the admin password is a support password that has more privileges, and then the root password that rules them all. Your ISP holds these other two accounts that aren't visible from the Admin settings.

No, by his suggestion, Nicola Tesla didn't generate AC power, Edison didn't invent the light bulb, and J. C. R. Licklider didn't start the internet. Instead, those people were the driving forces that had the ideas and shepherded/browbeat the people who made it happen. Well, except in the case of Edison, where all he did was lead the group that invented the *commodity* light bulb.*

* If you ever wonder why that firehall in Livermore, CA has a bulb that has burned for 106 years when a store-bought incandescent bulb burns out after around 1.5 years, that's because Edison's team also invented the disposable bulb -- a bulb that has a thin enough filament that it eventually burns out and needs to be replaced. This is the kind used today, and we're seeing the same progression in LED bulbs; the newer ones are cheaper to manufacture, but don't last anywhere near as long as the original LED bulbs will.

Boys would still come for the same reason they always did. And some girls would drop out later, but this is an after-school program, and you only get to show off if you make it to the end.

As for "it's no theater," well, neither is theater. A much higher percentage of people who go into robotics get high paying rewarding jobs that make a difference than people who go into theater. This message however, isn't really promoted at the school level in anything but words (and rarely even with words).

You'd be surprised at how many people bring their smartphone into the voting booth with them for some quick wikipedia lookups.

Perhaps you meant to reply to the parent? It's ALL about the prestige.

Exactly, although your country choices are bad: India has Bollywood, and China has a system where only the "perfect" people get the acting/TV jobs. The positions have the same prestige as in the US. However, going to pretty much any country in Africa and setting up this experiment could have very interesting results...

They don't tend to block acceleration, nor do they block data exfiltration when you remove your phone from them to make/receive calls.

Oh Wow! So the hacker has installed something like MotionX -- commercial software for iOS that's been around forever and does pretty much this (although I don't think it contains subway lines in its accelerometer fingerprint list).

FB image link appears to be down, or just not accessible for people not on FB.

The real takeaway from their research seemed to be the bit about promoting CS as a vehicle for social change / making a difference / getting noticed.

Out of curiosity, what is the goal of the after school program? Is it just to build neat things, or are their goals or competitions associated with it?

In your case, it's competing with the school play, which enables the girls to be the focus of an entire audience with much applause. It has weeks/months of buildup with ads in the school and community. It has a number of accessible topics that people who aren't in the play can take part in, and it has a hierarchy (their girls don't like hierarchy thing is pure hogwash) where different people can get "better" and "worse" parts in the play, as well as default exclusivity (not everyone can play the leading roles). It also enables them to communicate under the guise of a fictional character. Beyond this, it likely involves a bit of fundraising and some costume building/time sunk in by parents where they're forced to spend time with their daughters helping them prepare.

I bet if you set up the after school program to check off all those qualities, you'd get girls flocking to it and the play would become a distant second. Maybe have an end-of-year project that encorporates what they've been doing all year, and the resulting "performance" goes up on youtube? Have some "milestones" throughout the year that they can share with friends in the same way? Create some sort of plot arc that can grab their imaginations?

You may already be doing all this, but it's what has always made school plays popular with the girls.

I recall all the people who used to head to Canada for summer holidays with their fish canning set-ups. I wonder if that stuff would make it through the border these days...?

And if you're using GoogleDNS or OpenDNS, you're back on the tracking bandwagon.

And maybe this is the way it should be... have the DNS providers be the tracking clearinghouse, and serve only relevant ads in a way that doesn't get in the way of the actual site content.

The fact that Apple sticks "Safari Reader" in the Safari browser says something about how bad things have got... not only do you end up loading a bunch of stuff you don't actually want that takes time/bandwidth, the end result is often bad enough that your browser needs to reformat it for you to be able to read it comfortably.