In the case of iOS, it's Apple's fault. In the case of Android, it's usually Verizon's fault.

Many of the Android phones from Samsung, HTC, and Sony have a working FM transmitter as long as they are not purchased from Verizon. However, I'm not sure that makes a difference with most consumers. The FM transmitter needs the wired headset to act as an antenna. And who carries one of those around all the time? Personally, I keep my wired headset unused at home (and I usually use bluetooth instead). And if you're at home, or at your office, it probably means you have access to a standalone emergency FM/AM radio anyway.

From a bluetooth headset, the FM transmitter from the phone doesn't really work, but there is one headset model for instance from Sony that has a FM transmitter and an mp3 built into the headset. I have that model and it works, but I can't really recommend it because it's too easy to lose because of its dangling headphones and because the clip of the base often gets unclipped when I slide in or out of a car.

When I open your search engine, I want the focus of my cursor to default your search form.

After I found out that you didn't even have this, which requires no more than one single attribute in html, I didn't have the confidence to go to any further. Usability testing is cheap. The idea that you would forgo any kind of basic usability testing, before asking for feedback from Slashdot users, tells me you don't have the experience, nor the real desire, to make a decent halfway usable search engine.

I understand the publicity angle, but it will be difficult for him to be the featured speaker at many conferences if he ever gets on the no-fly list.

The firewall-like software (the one that the school district is complaining about because it was bypassed by students) seems to be sold through Apple (here is the pricing sheet, but it's a pdf). Also, Pearson is a formal ConnectED educational partner of Apple (I'm not sure if that means Apple gets a cut of that contract, but I would think it does).

On an unrelated note: I actually don't know how Sphero actually made that list of Educational Partners. I suppose that by Apple's definition, any toy that can connect to iOS automatically makes it worthy enough to be considered educational.

What parts of explicitly subscribing to notifications from a particular web app on the chrome store violate Canadian rights?

When has user "free will" been revoked in Canada?

I doubt it will be a simple popup, most likely it will go through some kind of notification manager and the notification will appear in a very restricted type of user interface (like they did on Android).

And yes, the push notifications on Android were abused initially (especially by advertisers), until Google made an update to its notification manager (and also back-ported it).

That update allowed the user to long press on a notification, immediately see who sent the notification, and from that screen allowed the user to uninstall the responsible app (or disable all future notifications permanently from that particular app without uninstalling the app and without letting the app developer know that you disabled all those future notifications).

As a Yammerhead myself (whatever that means, by the way thanks a lot Dice for calling me names)

I'm more upset at you guys for turning Slashdot into a Slashvertisement for Dice.

Before the purchase from Dice Holdings, Slashdot wasn't really a place for recruitment advice or recruitment news. I know that as owners of Slashdot, you can do whatever you want with the editorial content, but just know that you've been steadily losing most of your readers here.

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.