So when do allergies develop? I'm all for building immunity but if the kid DOES have a reaction at infancy it could be pretty deadly...

I do agree that whomever gave the kid a "toy" gun without the red tip shares blame in this... it's there for a reason (also wondering if there are laws in regards to this, but I haven't heard whether the toy was altered or came without the red tip).

However, having watched the video, the reaction is pretty crazy. Basically the police car zips into the park, the cop jumps out and almost immediately opens fire. It was EXTREMELY aggressive. No time to assess the scene, or for the kid to drop the weapon, stand down, whatever. They might as well have just planted a sniper on the roof and shot the kid from there, for all the warning he had.

You mean the call that said "I think it might be a toy gun"?

Yeah, just looking at the "real" vs "generated" photos.
Noses don't really match up on most of them, nor do eyebrows. The chin is sorta close but without any of the other defining facial characteristics (age lines etc) it's pretty ambiguous. Also, the generated photos have cut out most of the upper-jawbone area so one can't even compare that.

IMHO they seem to be able to give you a decent approximation of the skin tone - minus blemishes - but not much other than that. I'd think that these might actually be counter-productive as you're going to get lots of people that match in a generic way, but the actual match is going to be different enough that people would say "nah, the nose and eyebrows don't match up" or whatever.

You'd be limited where you can plant it. To really grow, I believe bamboo requires a fair bit of water (although it seems to stay alive for a long time without much, it doesn't grow much), and it does NOT like the cold.

So you'd need someplace that's hot all year with plenty of fresh water. Not the easiest thing to come by these days.

Ironically, the one thing that I've toaster ovens don't do quite very well is make toast. The only one I saw that did toast half decently was my grandmother's toaster oven that actually had a toast slot that popped open in the top (and the burners tilted when it was in "toast mode").

I was thinking more of consumer equipment, where the warranty papers are oft-times only useful if you've run out of toilet paper.

Their favourite strategy seems to be "in case of defective design, replace the same part that broke continuously until the warranty runs out"

"the only one which is as popular is Sony"

Never bought an HP product, have you?
MO sounds quite similar.

"Your honor, the plaintiff's files are now complete safe. They're in no danger. Unless the new Jaguar that is parked just outside your office in the no park zone. The one for which the keys have been put .... right ... here"

There really seems to be no logical/moral ideas behind these decisions.

Want your employees to stay, give them working conditions and wages that encourage them to do so. (that said, it may be hard to compete against Apple pay-wise).

Apple et al already got crucified recently for agreeing not to "poach" employees (i.e. offer them a better pay/benefits to work elsewhere), and it was rules anti-competitive and illegal. Non-competes are similarly stupid and evil.

HOWEVER, if those employees are sharing corporate secrets or confidential data gleaned from their work with A123 with Apple... that would seem a reasonable grounds for a lawsuit.

Some of the mid-range and many upper-range Dell laptops do 1920x1080. It's more common on 17" screens so you do end up with a larger laptop as well. Some HP laptops also have 1080P displays, and 1600x900 used to be common on various models.

I remember seeing a dell laptop in the past that did 2200x1200 or something like that. I was very tempted to buy but unfortunately it was one of those affected by the flakey GPU's that tended to desolder themselves over time.

Except that BB STILL has one of the best permissions models...

And my toaster DOES have the best permissions. Toast goes in, it toasts. No internet access :-)

There's no reason other smartdevices couldn't have used a similar permissions model to BB.

The sad part is that Blackberry, which preceeds both iOS and Android devices, did the permissions/request model best. Unfortunately they underestimated the power of "apps" and a touchscreen, and for whatever reason the other vendors went with a more lax permissions model (that said, Android is decent when rooted with some 3rd party stuff, but it's hardly an option for the average person).

Yes, and considering that all somebody needs to do to check your pin is read the heat signature on a pad after you've used it that's a pretty low bar.

Payment cards, as in train passes etc perhaps, but my experience has been that overall Japan has a comparatively low credit-card penetration compared to North America, and in many areas is still very cash-centric. It's a bit of a shock to find that even many major chains (McDonalds, etc) don't necessarily take Visa in Japan.