So it could also mean that stupid people are more likely to drink pond/lake water than non-stupid people. Or that people living in rural areas are more likely to drink pond/lake water than city folks. Etc.

Alibaba is mostly for business to business sourcing. Personally, I don't know any other reputable place where I can source custom electronics equipment from China.

Amazon doesn't do that. Ebay doesn't that. And I guess I could go on a Chinese manufacturer's web site to get something done, but without Alibaba, I have no idea where I could get started and how reliable a supplier is going to be. Alibaba has just grown to be the default place where people go for that kind of thing. It's definitely not for everybody.

David Allen Van Vleet died in 2006, a good 8 years before he made his FOIA request.

Zombies don't usually worry about retaliation. They keep coming after their target, slowly but surely, filing out FOIA requests after FOIA requests, submitting court documents after court documents. They're relentless. Outside of updating their facebook page, playing the occasional farmville game, and voting in elections, they really have nothing else to do but pursue full-bosomed women.

Computer hygiene should be taught like personal hygiene, at the school level for the kids and through other public programs to try to reach the adults and the elderly.

In case you're the one who usually buys her a computer, she's the perfect use case for a cheap Chromebook. That's what I did for my mom. I didn't really force it on her. I just bought it for her to keep next to her Windows XP laptop. Eventually, as her machine became much slower and slower, she just switched to using the Chromebook on her own.

They're not trying something new. They're just trying to keep up with the free competing alternatives.

This strategy isn't going to win them any new marketshare. At best, it may prevent them from losing more marketshare.

In either case, people will still think of Microsoft Office 365 as a paid-only service. Similar things happened with Hotmail and Bing. Eventually, Hotmail and Bing matched Gmail and Google in terms of quality of their features, but this change took so long to happen, it didn't improve their marketshare despite all the money they spent in marketing and advertising.

That's essentially how their web site works, except they're asking every roommate to divide up and assign a value to each space, before asking them which space they might prefer. In a way, I like their site better, because it seems to work more like a blind auction. By keeping the bids of other roommates initially secret, then they're essentially preventing them from changing their mind halfway before the process is finished. It makes the process much cleaner that way and much more haggle-free.

Make sure to cover up those air vents, infrared cameras could pick them up.

Except for the floods they bring.

Those particular tribes were found by the fields they cultivated.

We technically haven't found their homes yet.

Wikipedia already has that. You can download a copy of it offline and modify your own local copy to anything you like.

For all you know, millions of people have already been editing their own private Wikipedia encyclopedia, and you would be none of the wiser, because you would never see the changes merged back into the main branch on the server.

At least, it does offer "some" legitimacy.

Judge Judy threw a case out once because both parties had colluded to try to avoid paying taxes, by marking the value of a car as $1 on the title of ownership, despite contrary proof that the transaction had been for several thousand dollars.

Then she said something like:

Just imagine if a judge who doesn't like bitcoins, or just doesn't understand them, had said something similar about bitcoins. That would have set a precedent and that would have been a PR-nightmare for bitcoins. In a way, I also think it helped that the Federal US Marshalls repossessed bitcoins from the Silk Road a while back and resold them for 89 million dollars. By reselling bitcoins for its own benefit, the government made it an asset that you could more legitimately purchase and sell. After all, if you can legally buy this asset from the government at an auction, this means legitimate corporations can also buy and sell such assets, not just shady startups or shady people or potential terrorists.

On a side-note: It's not really true that taxes pay Judge Judy's salary, since she's making 47 millions this year for only 52 days of work. All that money comes from TV ads, not taxes. She's mostly an entertainer, not a normal judge, but her main point still remains regarding non-TV judges, most of those other judges get paid through taxes.

Multi-story buildings do have capacity requirements. If you have a fire, or a small explosion, you could easily have the crowd stampeding itself at the exit points, or on the stairs.

The place wasn't placed on lockdown. A lockdown would imply that people were not allowed to leave. Also, all buildings and all rooms in a building are "designed" with capacity in mind and fire safety in mind. That's why it takes architects, structural engineers, building inspectors, and fire safety inspectors to sign off on every little thing before a building actually gets built or becomes operational.

Also controlling who gets in is actually quite common for conference hosts and organizers. After all, that's how they make their money, by making sure that only paid attendees are the ones to get in the conference, and that no one else does.

Personally, I have no idea if the fire marshal was right or not. I wasn't there.

But your logic escapes me. Not everyone stays at a conference all the time!

The two small divots on the very edge of the bezels is what I'm talking about. Like I said, the drop of mine "made a small chip to the glass bezel". It didn't affect the screen itself. I only thought it was worth mentioning, because now they're making the bezel even thinner. And putting a cover on it is kind of a bummer, because I really love the feel of the phone without the cover.

Despite what I said, it's a phone I really love. A couple more things about the phone:

The pull down menu looks horribly cluttered the first time you use it, but if you take the time to remove the things you don't need from it, it's actually very nice. The 13 MegaPixel camera + led flash should be a big plus, but the software of my Sony Experia Z Ultra without a flash and lower resolution takes better pictures in low light conditions than my G2 with a flash. And last but not least, the unorthodox placement of the power button and volume rocker is considered a negative by some reviewers, but now that I'm used to it, I wouldn't have it any other way, it feels the most natural usability-wise.

Let's agree to disagree then.

As a proud owner of an LG G2 (their last flagship device before the G3), I can attest that the G2 feels like a precious jewel and is super fragile. I dropped it only once (before getting a cover for it, and that made a small chip to the glass bezel). And I actually know a few people with G2s and all those people I know have gotten covers for their G2s for the same reason I did, because the device chipped so easily.

Compare that to the Sony Experia Z Ultra, I let my nephews play with that one, and it must have been dropped 30 times without even as much as a scratch on it (which is really surprising, that device looks super fragile too).

That being said, the last time I had to replace a screen digitizer on an LG, a model before the G2, it cost me $30 to buy a replacement digitizer and change the digitizer myself (following a detailed youtube video). Try to do the same on a Samsung Note, and the replacement digitizer will cost you more than $150 because it uses Wacom technology. Or try to do the same with an iPhone, and I suspect that it will cost a lot as well since most people I know who have iPhones with broken screens don't bother to replace the screen at all (if they don't have the extra insurance to begin with).

Or use your eleventh finger to unlock your phone.

Wow! a 9.0 earthquake followed by a 30 ft tsunami! That must have been a big ass drone.

Also, don't forget the thrill of flying a drone in a place that is usually not accessible to the public, and then uploading the footage to Youtube to get as many upvotes as you can, which the AR Drone app makes it very easy to do. I'm sure that Youtube is getting national security take down requests from the French government as we speak.