Traffic signals are a different application. A few yeard ago I heard of a city somewhere up north that replaced all their incandescent traffic signals with LEDs. When winter came, the new signals, using 90% less power, didn't emit enough heat to melt the snow that accumulated in the signal housing. The snow can build up enough to completely block the light, resulting in confusion and accidents all over the city. They had to either go back to incandescents, install a heater element, or modify the housings. This shouldn't affect the street lighting.

All of our MTS busses have converted to LED headlights, which isn't hard to notice because they are exessively bright, even during the day.

Grown up: What do you want to be when you grow up?
Kid: An engineer!
Grown up: Oh yeah, what kind of engineer?
Kid: The kind that wears black and white striped overalls with a cap, and carries around an oil can, of course!

I had a WiFi hotspot named "NSA Surveillance Van" for a while, but it was pointed out to me that it could be an impersonation of the agency. I just call it Surveillance Van now, no NSA/FBI/Police. Maybe it really is the police.

My favorite Japanese restaurant is next to a beauty salon. It was closed for nearly 3 months because a piece of equipment in the salon was left on and caught the place on fire. The salon is more dangerous than the kitchen and no place for having servers nearby. We realized that a truck could be driven into our server room, so we had some very large rocks added to the landscape. A drunk driver would need to be launched off of some kind of ramp to crash through the building.

Nothing is going to happen if he is related to someone in upper management, or just really good friends with them. It's like the demotivator, "Neoptism - We promote family values here - almost as often as we promote family members." Or close friends of the family.

Can't you turn off in app purchases on the iPhone? I have it turned off almost all the time and let the kids use it because I know they can't make these kinds of purchases. I don't even want to make these kind of purchase myself. If it's a setting in the iPhone, then someone should tell the guy.

I think watching the "Tracer T" video from NextGenHacker101 will also set your mind at ease about the future of hackers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXmv8quf_xM

This is why I read the comments before the article.

It should be quiet in this surburban area, but as I read the poll Mr. Fast and Furious across the street with the Eclipse and over-sized muffler is revving as much as possible and taking about 10 minutes to squeeze his car into the garage. Might as well be a vaccuum cleaner. At least it's not booming bass from some other discourteous neighbor.