I normally set my monitor higher than the picture because I have the tendency to hunch if the monitor is lower than me. Once I have hunched over I have to tip my head up to look at the screen. These days I elevate my monitor so it is level with my eye-line.

I did not intend to imply that modern mining practice uses nitro anymore. I was just using it as an example of how unstable nitro is. My fear is that the guy was making his own and had it in storage in the house. That would convert the house into a death trap very quickly.

If he had home made nitroglycerin (the article only said "home made explosives") I can understand why the cops want nothing to do with it. Nitro can be manufactured at home with a minimum of difficulty. Nitro also has the property where physical shocks can detonate it. This property is great in small quantities like flash power and bang snaps. This is also a good property for remote mining: You plant your explosive charge and then bury a string of explosives 10 feet apart apart to the staging area. When the first charge in the string is detonated the rest of the string detonates because of the vibration, which in turn detonates the main charge at the mine.

Having a house with this kind of sensitivity to vibration is asking for someone to drop/knock over a bottle of something sensitive and have it detonate. And then have that explosion trigger a sympathetic explosion, etc etc etc.

Unfortunately the Hirsch report (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsch_report) has been out for 5 years and people still ignore it.

It was not my intent to imply that the Left or the Right (and their related Whacko squads) are more or less guilty than the other.

The complaint I have is that the burying groups leave a very stilted set of articles remaining to read. It's like a book with two editors. I'm surprised that there is anything left to read.

The Bury Brigade is effectively bumping anything they don't bury. As a result the entire site appears to lean in the direction that they desire. It is much more insidious than bumping because after the Bury brigade has been through, new viewers don't know that there were alternate choices/view points available.

With a wireless network I do not necessarily know which house the transmitter is in. somehow I am guessing that the investigators are going to be a little disappointed when they find out the payload data is tied to a latitude and longitude and not an address. It is hard to determine if someone's privacy has been violated when any given transmitter could be within 100 yards of the receiver's location. I realize with enough time and triangulation the approximate location of each transmitter could be determined. My understanding is that Google has not done this.

I am assuming the sensor package on the missile will be pointed toward the ship it is supposed to attack. So painting a mirrored surface on the missile may not help the missile's sensor package.
In addition the laser doesn't need to destroy the missile. It only needs to destroy enough of the missile so that it falls out of the sky.

I'm well aware that building plans need to be debugged :) It just takes an RFI, approval of the RFI, a Change Order, Approval of the Change Order and a Big Bucket of Money. Frank Gehry buildings made of aluminum and leak like a sieve come to mind.

The article you site discussed the drop rate for the AT&T fleet. The drop rate for the fleet is 1%, my error is stating that the drop rate is 1.4%. We do not know what the drop rate for the 3GS phone is. It could be higher or lower than the drop rate for the fleet average. Without knowing what the drop rate for the 3GS phone is it is impossible to determine if the antenna for the iphone4 has a higher drop rate than average. I think we can agree that the antenna in the iphone4 is significantly more sensitive to how the user holds the phone in comparison to previous iphones and some Nokia and Rim phones. This makes the iphone4 prone to different levels of reception depending upon how one holds the phone. I believe the following has been shown: The iphone4 has a higher gain (than the 3GS phopne) when someone is not touching the gap on the lower left, it also has a lower gain when someone is touching the gap on the lower left. You have not stated what criteria you use to determine if an antenna sucks. Please state your criteria.

50% to 100% more dropped calls than what? What is the baseline being used to determine the increased drop rate?

The issue I am trying to state is this: AT&T drop rate is 1.4%. Is that for the entire fleet of phones currently in service? Is that for just the iPhone 3Gs? Is that for the iPhone4? These are significantly different populations to be looking at. We have two statements: "AT&T drop rate is 1.4% " and "Iphone 4 drops more calls than iphone 3Gs at a rate less than 1 per 100" Unfortunately we do not have a way of determining how these two pieces of information correlate. Without knowing the total fleet drop drop rate and the drop rate of the specific phones we cannot have any clear analysis of the numbers.

The issue is not the phone antenna and not the GPS antenna. The issue is when your hand (or a strip of metal for that matter) bridges between the two antennas. The effective length of the antenna is changed so the ability of the antenna to receive and transmit signals is significantly affected.

Just because issue A has a 1% incidence rate and issue B rate a 1.4% incidence rate does not necessarily mean that A+B = 2.4% incidence rate. How many of those incidence overlap or not?

Because there are less people reading the Times, fewer publicists are directing people to be interviewed at the Times. If you know people are reading the Guardian and not the Times and you want to get your message out, you go to the Guardian because more eyes are going to see your message. That is going to set up a feedback loop where people say "hey, the guardian has more content than the Times does, why am I reading the times." Then fewer people produce content for the Times, fewer people read the Times, etc etc etc.

It is hard to develop a user base when you seem to be actively driving away readers and by extension the people who develop your content.