iPhones are for people with more money than brains.

I would be more interested in a correlation with intelligence. Or with tech skills.

1. repulsor beams are more energy efficient, so they are likely to be used first;
2. this device repels, so is kind of like a repulsor beam;
3. a true repulsor beam or tractor beam is gravito-magnetic, not sonic;
4. a true repsor beam will generate an off axis tractor beam of equal power, but with that power dispersed over a wider arc (most likely a full 360 degree dispersal in the plane perpendicular to the beam, with additional dispersal above and below that plane), so there is a small possibility of using that tractor beam for a secondary purpose. That is the most likely way tractor beams will be used.

I completely agree. If they were motivated to learn, they would have done still so on their own. That's the thing with IT, self teaching (especially when you already know the management frameworks and principles) is not only easy, but the most effective way to learn.

You are wasting your time. If the work is not there, they are redundant. Act accordingly.

(IAAL, but not your lawyer. See your own lawyer to make sure you do this right and don't risk a claim. I was in IT for 20 years before becoming a lawyer, including at executive management level, so my evaluation of that part comes from direct experience)

His statement might be right (and probably is) but there is no need for him to express himself that way. He's not a teenager anymore, he's in his late 40s and ought to be able to better control his impulses (or even be centred enough not to have them in the first place). His words would carry far more weight of he expressed himself more maturely.

Exactly. The shortage was of employers who understood the technical difficulty of coding, and were willing to pay accordingly. I am now in law, which pays better, but coding at any reasonable level of quality (so, better than offshore minimal skill code monkey ships provide) is more intellectually demanding than law.

In Australia, women are now in the majority In the legal profession, an outstripping men at the entry level 2 to 1. However, they are still a minority among barristers (who specialise in court work), who are required to be self employed.

In tha past few weeks I have been In a court with a lot of high school legal studies classes coming into the gallery. There the girls seen to outnumber the boys 10 to 1.

Me too. If the site is a news site, and there is no RSS, I either construct my own RSS using wget, cron and shell scripts, or just don't read the site. If /. dropped RSS, well, it is not what it once was, I would just stop reading it.

Use keepass2 Android with an InputStick. It looks like a keyboard on both the device and the desktop.

Actually it's JVM. It can run more than just Java. I have ported GCC to it as a target (fully featured for at least C and C++, including pointers, trampolines and long jumps). I only lacked standard libraries to make it useful.

PGP and OpenPGP are obsolete. You should be using S/MIME - that is where all the work on getting the process right has been going on, and for that protocol the set up is accessible in anything modern.

The Note series is designed to be a serious workhorse. A lot of the people who own them need the battery to last, so they replace it when the battery life drops below an acceptable level (for them). This is likely well before the battery "dies".

The non user replaceable battery and the curved screen are keeping me off the Note 7, not the exploding battery. I need a replaceable battery for the reasons above, and flat screen so I can add a case that protects the screen adequately. Both of these are about device lifetime.

Samsung is opening up an opportunity for another supplier. Hopefully one takes up that opportunity.

One of the tricks in production of litigation documents is to produce them in the least convenient form that conforms to the rules. So if the opposing side requests a bunch of e-mails and Word documents, and they don't have the foresight to request them in native format with metadata intact (or the rules don't require you to send them that way), you send them a stack of CDs full of TIFFs. There are even programs that will load up all the documents for review by the baby attorneys* and then convert them all to TIFFs for production. And when the other side sends you a bunch of TIFFs on CDs, it will load those all up, OCR them, and tag them with keywords. This is in part why production is so ridiculously expensive. (The other reason is that the attorneys will spend half a million dollars filing motions and counter-motions fighting over the search terms to use on document and e-mail searches.) (This is why attorneys always win lawsuits, as long as the client is solvent. Occasionally, one of the clients wins too.)

*If you retain a big law firm, they will still bill you $300/hr. for the baby attorney to sit in front of his computer all day, flipping through documents looking for stuff that should be tagged as "hot" or "damaging" or whatever before they go out. Then when the opposing side sends their production, baby attorney sits and reviews all of those too. The whole time, baby attorney is thinking, "I got seven years of post-secondary education for THIS?" But he'll do it, because the partner told him to, and they're paying him a salary of $160,000 plus bonuses that depend on billable hours, and as mind-numbingly boring as it is, it is the easiest way on earth to rack up billable hours, and he still has $200,000 in student loans to pay off.