...can anyone who works as a cop or in a police department, think about this possibility? Or extend to any public servant for the matter?

...they are the product. Need more repeating?

Would you buy a product in US while you get exactly the same product for half price from China? I am not advocating one way or the other but this is how the system is suppose to operate. Or I go one step further, this is all based on people's fundamental drive for greed (or you call it productivity?) - don't blame the "system".

http://www.introversion.co.uk/...

...allow protection to UI design? Put legislation around it, negotiate them into free trades agreement and try to enforce them?

PC definitely was as parent said. I recall those desktop with a 'turbo' button where u press will double the speed (show in 7-segment LED) from 16 to 32MHz....

What's their number?

If they add up the females and non-whites then it'll be more than 125%.

I am not an expert but, trials expected to begin in humans soon - sounds like it just started phase 2 approval. Typically that implies many years away from general use still..... Phase 1 == safety; Phase 2 == efficacy in small group; Phase 3 == efficacy with statistical significance. And typically phase 3 takes most time and resources. If this is the first time on human, it implies just starting phase 2.

Greenland is more of a problem - isolated and no people!

Maybe not the users, but ask the 'corporate' or the 'CIO' level see what they think of Android, iOS and Windows.

Right on the money. +++++

It's 45 years of age with teenage kids giving him trouble, bad spousal relationship, mid-life crisis...etc.

Well you should have published a paper about it :)

Plenty of non-Apple users still hold the believe that Apple's success (up to now) is because they spend on marketing.