You won't need a case for that one, that phone is basically indestructible. But that phone is actually too thin and too rectangular. It looks cool, but it definitely doesn't feel good when you're holding it.

It's basically the complete opposite of LG phones. While LG phones seem to focus on how good they feel in your hands, which is actually pretty awesome, they're super fragile and they definitely need a case for sure (which completely defeats the sensory experience they were going for).

The truth is that everyone negotiates, even women.

Need a relocation package to minimize the risk you're taking? Now a woman or a man can't even ask for one because the CEO has tunnel vision and doesn't want hear your needs. Need special hours, either much earlier or much later, to avoid being stuck in traffic for one hour and a half on the 101 (instead of breezing by in 42 minutes)? Now you're out of luck, because the CEO is demanding that HR sticks their fingers in their ears and says "Take it or leave it! This is a fair offer. Take it or leave it! This is a fair offer. Take it or leave it! This is a fair offer." ad infinitum.

Not that I expect the people lower in the ranks to actually listen to their CEO. Management from on high, whether it being lead by a man or led by a woman, usually has a poor understanding of what's really happening in the trenches. And a good HR person (despite the cynical thoughts of many of you), who really wants to hire someone, will give the illusion of listening to management's commands while still trying to be reasonable at the same time.

The returned devices could just be used as loaners for developer testing and device lab testing.

Or they may just do like Intel and require that you sign a piece of paper saying that you'll destroy the device yourself after the time is up. If the device gets supposedly "destroyed", or even purchased after the fact, then LG Electronics can avoid paying the full retail gift tax rate that some governments may require them to pay.

I would vote for Klingon for boys. Thanks to Star Trek and mainstream television, Klingon already beat Esperanto by a wide margin. Then if we want to capture the teenage girls demographics, we would need to invent a special language for vampires (the good looking vampires and the gay vampires especially).

These two languages don't even need to intersect, it's not like those two demographics will ever talk to each other.

That's correct. Barring one or two exceptions, crime drama on TV also seems to portray cops as wanting to get to the bottom of murders.

When in fact, it's quite the opposite in real life. Cops who get promoted, classify murders, as suicides, or as death by natural cause. That's the most politically expedient solution. That's the cold hard truth of our society. In San Francisco for instance, it took international pressure from the French government to reopen a case where the death of a French man was ruled as suicide despite the fact that he was stabbed repeatedly and that the knife was never found.

Also, I know someone who works as a CSI in Florida. She said to me that CSIs are not criminal investigators, they're more like social workers. They're there to process dead bodies, not to try to inflate the official rate of murders in their jurisdiction. So forget that notion of super detectives, they're not super detectives (as most of us already know of course), but take it even a step further, they're not even allowed to be detectives since the entire bureaucracy is only incentivized to ignore murders (instead of investigating them).

So if these TV shows inspire any young people to get into these professions, those young people are in for a very rude awakening one day.

This is exactly right. This what the Bart police did to protesters in 2011.

Obviously, the problem was not that the Bart police shot a protester in the back while he was handcuffed and lying face down (see video at 1:25). It was that too many people filmed the incident with their cell phone cameras and that not all the cell phones could be confiscated in time before the content could be uploaded to the internet.

By shutting down cell networks, you no longer have to worry about people streaming your actions on to the internet and you can just confiscate their device claiming that they contain evidence, and that they're just obstructing justice if they refuse to give their device to you.

As the article originally posted points out.

Also, these other votes could of his have had an impact on their decision.

After all, if you're a CEO, which one is more important to you? net neutrality, or tax loopholes and your overall executive compensation package?

Swiss watches are fashion accessories. The Apple watch is a fashion accessory.

There is an overlap in market there.

If you were reading books, that's completely different.

However, if you had been going to the library to stare at the same page of your year book day after day pining over a classmate you had a crush on, or going to the library only to hide behind a bookshelf staring at your crush while she's studying with her boyfriend, that would be a closer analogue to what people do on the internet nowadays.

At the very least, it seems to be considered identity theft.

But if blackmail, or hacking, is involved, then other charges can follow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge_porn#Criminal_prosecutions

You Google Foo must not be very strong then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge_porn#Criminal_prosecutions

You must be from the future, because if there is a silver-bullet book reader solution for blind people, I certainly couldn't find one for my half-blind mother.

Currently, there is the audiobook reader provided for free by the Library of Congress. That reader is great in terms of physical interface design, but it's limited only to books that have had professional voice actors read them.

And then in terms of text-to-speech technology, the best technological solution out there is currently Ivona (now owned by Amazon), but despite all the awesome progress this technology has made over the years, it still isn't good enough for most blind users who want a book read to them for leisure.

I'm not sure what you mean by "the largest national organizations" out there, and why you would even need their seal of approval in the first place, but if your venture was looking to get cash from them, or get some kind of exclusive endorsement from them, for what seemed like a commercial venture, it doesn't really matter the reason they gave you for that denial.

There is currently no perfect usable book reader for the blind. It doesn't really matter if the blind person is deaf, or not. For instance, my mother certainly wasn't deaf, and she certainly loved books, but there really wasn't a book reader solution that was satisfactory to her.

No, we're still on April 1st in California. They're just messing around with the date.

I know not everyone is in California, but this is the first time I'm seeing a date and time on Slashdot that's not using the local time of my browser.

Who said they were using violence? Trespassing doesn't imply violence. And they were the ones who got shot. They themselves didn't shoot anyone.

They could just have been a couple of well known protesters with no history of violence, but with an history of trying to do publicity stunts for their cause.

If anyone should know, it's the NSA. For about an hour, I bet every NSA analyst dropped what they were doing to investigate and go through the life records of these two individuals.

You mean like preventing a plane from landing on the Hudson river?