I use GoogleApps with my domain. It's pretty nice to have an near infinite number of email addresses to play with.

Another thing that annoys me is when I use a generated random password and it fails a website's password validation algorithm. Oh no, you used a particular special character thrice. So, I then have to modify the password to fit its standards and make it weaker. Very annoying. Also, sometimes password generators will utilize reserved characters which break the website software.

I create a randomized password for every website, stored as a plain text file -- one per website -- in an encrypted directory. When I login to the website, I copy/paste the password from the file. The encrypted directory is not mounted unless I am actively using it. The problem I run into is that many websites only store an unknown few characters (maybe 8) and truncate the password without informing the user of the new password. This means that it will let you login the first time, but when you try to login later, you can't get in because the password isn't what they stored. This is very frustrating.

And we used Autopatch if we needed to make a phone call. People thought we were silly to carry around our little hand-held transceivers all the time. Now, look around, everyone's doing it, they're just using prettier and smaller radios.

They often have cell phones and shared pay phones. They feel that it's OK to use a phone for business or emergencies. A lot of their policies differ by the opinion of their local bishop.

See UWTV (University of Washinton Television, http://www.uwtv.org/) They have a cable channel, but I usually watch their content on the Internet.

Paint it bright pink with daisies all over it?

We've had "bullet proof" clipboards on patrol for quite some time now. This is certainly nothing new.

I love watching Star Trek legally on Netflix.I hope Netflix will make arrangements to be allowed to distribute it as soon as it is released.

Can we assign each officer a tag, and have them spray their cuffs with the marker, to prove in court that a particular person was restrained with a particular pair of handcuffs at a particular time? This would be useful for identifying escaped prisoners, especially in cases where a police officer is murdered. If this spray is inexpensive and discrete, it would also be useful for identifying vehicles and similar objects.

Not quite, as another option was a staff member override.

I'm sensing a certain disconnect from reality present in this article. They do realize that ankle monitors are already routinely used, but yet are often useless? And fat chance with getting severe penalties put in place in our modern American society. We didn't even have the testicular fortitude to kill Charles Manson and others!

Not anymore. It used to be that we could got the game store and pick up a game for half price or less (estimated) a year after release. We'd also see a ready supply of used games available for purchase.

With server-assisted DRM schemes, publishers continue to sell games on their websites at full price for a couple of years after release. Only then do they start dropping the price a bit. I just payed $40 for Crysis: Maximum Edition, which was released in 2007.

The problem with modular power supplies is that they aren't completely modular. Usually, the main cable contains a bunch of connectors, some of which will not be used. Modular power supplies would be much more useful if each cable contained only one plug. I think I had all of about one cable not used when I reconfigured my desktop recently. The case is just as messy as it would have been with a standard power supply.