Seems like Android phones can outspec the iPhone in every way, including megapixels, but none that I've seen have the image quality of the iPhone camera. It's quite embarrassing how good of pictures my friends with iPhones can actually get. Mine are always noisy and blurry. Even with the LED flash. What's crazy is that even Sony, who makes the camera and camera chipset for Apple cannot even get a camera as good on their Android phones. What am I missing?

Package managers are essential, but the problem of distribution remains. Do you want to have to oneget install all your software through Microsoft? For OneGet to be useful it should at least allow the equivalent of Ubuntu's PPA system for adding third-party repositories, and maybe it does. Of course nothing prevents a malware-laden site like download.come from offering their own PPA.

No. What it says is that team performance increases as the number of women increase. So teams of all men do worst, teams with some women do better, and teams with all women do best. I doubt if this is actually true, but that is what the study says.

We see few Nobel prizes going to teams of women researchers, few successful corporations with all female executives, and few political systems run by women. If women are so much better at teamwork, why don't we see more successful teams of women? Why isn't there a private equity firm that specializes in acquiring companies, firing all the male executives, replacing them with women, and then cashing in as the profits soar? The results of this study don't mesh with reality.

In times of rapid technological change, being an "experienced player" is often an impediment, not a benefit. Just ask Borders and Barnes&Noble.

How is it an ad if they aren't selling anything yet?

Anyway, I wish Amazon the best of luck. The incumbent film studios don't release many films for home streaming because they think people will have to go to the theater or buy the DVD. Instead, they are getting some competition that is willing to give customers what they what.

It's not quite "punishing your pancreas", it's that you become insulin resistant. Your pancreas could be putting out MORE insulin and you could still have type 2 diabetes. If the pancreas was "getting worn out", then the mechanism of treating type 2 diabetes with excercise would not work.

(You can also have a pancreas that does not work well, but that is not the mechanism being discussed.)

And here I thought obese women couldn't be more sexy.

Ugg. xda-developers is a forum of very smart people, but it's a frustrating place to go to find information. Having to read through dozens of pages of posts trying to glean bits of information is rather fatiguing. Especially topics that stretch on for literally years with hundreds of posts. Sometimes the first posts are updated to provide latest information, sometimes you have to read through several pages of comments to find what you're looking for.

Really all web forums just suck, plain and simple.

Exactly. If the ISPs competed in a a free market, NN would not be necessary. NN is not a remedy for free markets, it is a remedy for de facto monopolies.

The police pressured, coerced, and lied to them. They deprived them of sleep. They told them they could go home if they confessed. Blaming these naive young kids for what happened is absurd.

Way, way more than that. The city of New York eventually settled a malicious prosecution lawsuit for $41 Million. Those kids deserved every penny of it for what the system did to them.

That is the way that military courts work. I have been on several court martial boards (juries), and we were allowed to ask questions directly to the attorneys, witnesses, and even the defendant (if he chose to waive his 5th amendment rights). It not only helped clarify issues, but it also sped up the trial, because the attorneys could tell from the questions what the jurors understood, and what the open issues were.

Warren Buffet has a reputation for being a nice guy. I have met Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and although neither was particularly "nice", they certainly weren't assholes.

It's not just a matter of people being idiots or people talking to police without a lawyer. There's a much deeper psychological thing going on here, and that's I think the point of the article. A famous case years ago in Iceland really illustrated this phenomenon. Six people admitted to their role in a murder in Iceland and this was thought to be an open and shut case. Several of the accused even showed police where they disposed of the body, and provided details on how they committed the murder. The problem was, none of them actually had anything to do with the murder, or any murder at all, and all the details they were remembering were not real at all. It's a very long but fascinating read. Yes they were manipulated and badgered (by well-meaning prosecutors who didn't see themselves as manipulative), but the crazy thing is that as a result they convinced themselves that they really did participate in this murder. Was this just a case of over-zealous police and prosecutors? Or was there something more to it?

http://www.bbc.com/news/specia...

Yes they are, and our justice system should take that into account. Confessions should not be admissible as evidence in court unless the jurors are given a full, uncut tape of the interrogation that led up to that confession. Way too many people have been tricked or pressured into confessing to something they didn't do. In the 1990 Central Park jogger case several falsely accused, and subsequently convicted, teenagers claim that they were told they could go home if they confessed.

This device appears to use a blacklist only, not a whitelist. According to the reviews, quite a few people are unhappy with it. Most junk calls seem to come from random numbers, so a blacklist is not an effective way to stop them. Blocking all non-caller-id is not effective either because many junk calls spoof CID, while many of my friends and relatives don't use CID out of privacy concerns.