It doesn't matter if chalk dust causes lung problems, it appears to be enough if the 'safety of this technology has not thoroughly been researched'. The health effects of WiFi signals has more likely been much more heavily researched than graphite dust from pencils, dry-erase marker dust or the liquid that evaporates from them. For that matter any additional un-tested off-brand pens and markers brought in from students.

I like the comments above from others. If the union is successful then also absolutely prohibit any teacher from bringing a mobile phone on to campus. Remove microwave ovens from the schools as well. If a 600mw WiFi radio on a ceiling is thought to be dangerous, then a powered up phone in a closed metal vehicle should be viewed as reckless. In keeping with standard school policies, a teacher with a powered on mobile phone anywhere on campus, including their cars, be subject to a zero-tolerance policy and result in immediate termination.

Some steals his über saber. But just his luck, his web site advertises ultra sabers. Sounds close enough to me.

You've got it all a bit twisted. There's no entity called "LTE". The company is LiqhtSquared ( name is in the article title ) LTE stands for "Long Term Evolution" and refers to one of the newer mobile phone/data schemes.

With Apple being early to add USB and drop the floppy I could see them dropping the tuner altogether. I haven't used a tuner in a TV since 1993 ( bought a monitor only then )
When there was the big switch in the US from analog to digital TV the numbers mentioned for people who get their television OTA was ~ 10%. That means that 90% of the TV buyers have no need for a tuner. Connecting to a cable or satellite box isn't using the ATSC tuner at all. Maybe Apple could leverage their iTunes deals for a streaming package that can compete with cable/satellite.

Considering they make money on the content the pricing could be no different than a conventional TV. Apple would be happy to have everyone overestimating the pricing only to announce it at half the price of the estimates.

The only tuner that might make sense would be for wireless HD of some sort. Then you can beam video, audio or other content to it w/o wiring.

Not too exact. House is not likely made of adobe, California has advanced in it's building construction just a little since the Spanish owned the place. The house doesn't show up in satellite photos from 2000, so it would be of modern construction.

The ball appears to have crashed through a side window of the minivan, not the windshield based on the picture here:
http://www.contracostatimes.com/portlet/article/html/render_gallery.jsp?articleId=19483521&siteId=571&startImage=4

The problem is that news stories are very often wrong. Then someone quotes it wrong. Then someone makes wrong comments on a website wrong and they get quoted wrong.

I've yet to see a significant news story where I had some direct knowledge get it all right. It's happened enough that I NEVER believe a story I read is all correct, and I really wouldn't ever expect someone's recounting of a story they read to be all correct.

The article was short on details.

I could see it not being that he was truly calling 911 to fix his phone, but rather the screen was locked. While I don't have an iPhone, my phone does allow 911 calls if the screen is locked, so I'm guessing the i-thing is similar. If he was too drunk to remember his unlock code he may have drunkenly hit the emergency call button multiple times.

Of course that's still pretty stupid sounding, but not as bad a confusing the police with a Genius Bar.

I thought it odd I saw this thread on Slashdot after I'd read this article:

http://www.zdnetasia.com/android-4-0-to-be-open-source-in-coming-weeks-62302580.htm

"Rubin said Ice Cream Sandwich will be open source "in a couple of weeks" when Samsung's Galaxy Nexus ships and manufacturers will be free to push the update to their current range of devices. Going open source means manufacturers will be able to put Android 4.0 into their own devices and cut their own ROMs for existing products."

Ahh, that was Lucas who broke into my house and scratched up my 1993 laserdisc copies

They're his movies and it's for Lucas to do with them what he wants. Anyone enamored with a particular iteration should snag a copy of that vintage ( and recording quality) and just live with it

If Lucas, the "owner" of Star Wars can't make tweaks then others shouldn't be performing Shakespeare except in Olde English and never anything in prose if it was written in poetry. (No women performers either ) Wagner should never be re-arranged and only performed acoustically, no mics, no amps. No stereo releases of Beatles songs that weren't recorded that way. Homer should only be printed in the original Greek. Disney shouldn't have made the version of Cinderella that didn't include a sister cutting off toes to fit in the shoe.
I would probably be amused if James Cameron made "Titanic: The Happy Ending Edition" where the boat steams into NY Harbor, scratched but not sunk, but not likely I'd pay to see it. The quickest way to get Lucas to stop tweaking things is not not buy any of the next variant, that would stop the process. But if people do purchase each new one, then I guess the fans have spoken. ( The paying fans, not the whiny ones )

I'll always know that Han shot first, new versions won't change that.