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?

Give me a break! This was only one incident.

Treating pilots like little kids who need someone to help every time they go to the bathroom is not a solution.

The extremely rare occurence of such an event doesn't justify the regular inconvenience and demeaning aspect of such a halfway measure.

To be fair, it's the French language from France that is becoming a mongrel of a language.

I've never been to Québec, but aside from their annoying accent, the French-speaking people from Québec I've met seem to be using really old French.

Silly me, I thought wifi was invented in 1942 by an Austrian-American woman and an American guy.

Austria and Australia do sound the same, I admit.

Actually, there are private companies that already do this. They drive around streets and parking lots scanning people's license plates. Then they aggregate that information on a national level to resell to other companies. This data is really handy for car/truck repos, private detectives, and stalker exes.

And the information they have dwarves any information the police department has themselves. It's such a new area, it's not regulated yet.

This portapotty-like shelter seems to have been optimized for government use. As far I can tell, it will tip over in extreme winds and it will suffocate its occupants in extreme heat. The last thing they want is the extremely bad reviews that might come from actual consumer adoption/experimentation before the government/Halliburton money comes in.

Don't worry, it doesn't seem like those devices were modified at all.

My Xperia Z Ultra is already waterproof and both has capacitive touch and resistive touch, so I can write on it with a standard pen or pencil. The only thing they seem to have added is an extra case, which is probably unnecessary as well, my Z Ultra doesn't look like it, but it's basically indestructible.

A pen and paper is nice, but you still need someone to enter that data into a database of some kind. Especially with Ebola, you don't want the notes to be left in a drawer somewhere in a foreign hospital waiting for someone to type up. Also with a tablet, you can annotate your notes with pictures and videos.

That being said, all of this is most likely a PR move from Sony. Undoubtedly, they gave those tablets to MSF for free. In exchange, MSF can say they're using it, which will be true initially, but in fact, most of those devices will be stolen, or will have disappeared, after a week or two. After all, it's not like these doctors from Medecins Sans Frontieres will be staying in five star hotels in Africa, they will have to go where the poor people are. And to a poor person in Africa, the value of an Xperia device is the equivalent of a couple years of wages.

I don't think anyone can accuse iOS's shrinking marketshare of being a monopoly. They're currently second and they will stay second for a long time.

How did you not know??? Seriously? It's a given that their own sites take precedence in the results.

This is a far cry from what Yahoo was doing ten years ago when they were ranking search results that were only tangentially related to your search because 3rd parties paid them to.

Hopefully, all your music is legal and your ebook titles don't sound suspicious.

This can be fully automated. In the UK, I recall they recorded the entire hard drive of your laptop. They said this was a measure against pedophiles, although this policy seems to only have affected a couple of reporters as far as I can tell. They never did this to me when I entered the UK.

This is in contrast with France.

At least, the French make a copy of your hard drive when you don't know they're doing it. Waiting until you've left your hotel room, or waiting until you've fallen asleep, is much less obtrusive.

Your calculation implies that everyone replaces their car within a 5 year period.

That may be true in Beverly Hills, but it's certainly not true in the rest of the US.

In any case, I find your optimism unjustified.

In the Bay Area for instance, we could already make BART trains fully automated, and it's been studied they would become safer to boot, but attempting to change that system to get rid of the operators would be absolute political suicide.

Does it really matter in this case?

Non-competes in other states are enforced by the government, and therefore are much more widespread and effective than a criminal conspiracy of some of the big players.

Youtube doesn't have ads when you watch Khan videos.

I suppose Youtube could still track you, but the same could be said of any video you watch on the internet.

If governments and institutions really wanted to slow down the fragmentation of the English language, then they would just standardize on American Los Angeles Hollywood English.

As it stands, most people are selfish and most people are the center of their own little worlds. They're perfectly willing to make their own dialect the new standard that everybody else has to abide to, especially to get jobs and government benefits, they're perfectly willing to make their language a marker of group identity and group pride, but they're unwilling to change their own language when it is found that another dialect is becoming the new standard.

A perfect manifestation of this kind selfishness is the British queen. Why can't she just learn proper Hollywood english like everybody else? She's just holding her own people back if she continues on this path.