Oh they care alright. That data is gold to marketing folks.

Schools heavily discourage parents from dropping kids off because it jams up the traffic in front of the school. Worse, the school busses will end up in those traffic jams at the end of their routes.

This is about interchangeable lens cameras (DSLR), not the consumer POS market that has been all but killed by the rapidly improving cameras on smartphones.

Also, TowelRoot, I believe, works for KitKat.

Confirming that. TowelRoot is what I used when the KitKat upgrade came out for my S3.

The batteries on the probe are almost certainly frozen and useless by now. Plus, the mission control for that project packed up their equipment and moved on years ago.

I think the problem is that it's written in .NET and has to fire up the whole .NET environment, just like how a Java app has to fire up the JVM to start, which puts a (rather large) lower bound on the amount of resources an application needs.

Yeah, that's some straight up sloppy coding. Then again, this comes from the company who's simple storefront and game launcher app still manages to require 100MB of heap and takes several seconds to start on a fast and powerful modern machine with a SSD.

Yes, but I guarantee that it is expected that the parent will escort their children to school and back. They aren't expected to make the walk alone.

We didn't replace it, we augmented it. Basically Helicopter parents were annoyed that other parents weren't like them, so they started calling the cops.

Even if you don't want to be a helicopter parent, you're kind of screwed in that regard because helicopter parents make the rules. Oh no, a kid fell off the swing and broke his arm. I guess no swings for anybody now, our precious special snowflakes might get injured.

Or you get this exchange.
"I saw your kid climbing a tree! Don't you know how dangerous that is?!?"
Of course because Mrs. Busybody go so freaked out about it and yelled at him, now my kid is scared of trees. Kids pick up on adult anxieties.

Two children were kidnapped off of the street 3 years ago "by strangers" and suddenly I'm living in a warzone. IIRC it turned out to be a divorce dispute once the facts came out. Now parents have to be at the bus stop with their kids or they call CPS on you. You can't have just one parent watching all of the kids either, each kid has to have their own parent there.

Ain't gonna happen. There's no money in selling individual $0.05 parts to a niche audience from a brick and mortar storefront these days. Radio Shack only lasted as long as they did on inertia. They're going to be replaced by shoe stores or something.

I know this is meant to be a joke, but closing Radio Shack means there is no longer any place you can just run out and grab a specific capacitor or DB9 connector or whatever. It will be online only. This isn't the end of the world, but it is a little sad.

Their assets are basically their storefronts. That's a lot of retail space that is certainly not going to be transformed into something I would ever want to visit.

It looks like the options are for 1, 2, or 4 Gig-E ports. I'm most interested in the 4 port version, but I need to see the price on it first. It's not a good sign that they only announced the price on the bare bones starter model.

Fitlet-B and Fitlet-X — 1x gigabit Ethernet port
Fitlet-i — 2x gigabit Ethernet ports

Looks like it has you covered. I'm actually interested in turning the thing into a router. It's cheaper than a lot of commercial home router solutions, and can do a lot more.