I started bringing my personal laptop to my programming classes for a simple reason. About 20% (seemed like 65%, but that's probably just a trick of memory)of the class computers had their compilers borked by another student and any particular time. You had no idea that somebody had put in a weird setting in the compiler, or had just outright broke something, until after you'd done way too much troubleshooting. I found I got a whole lot more done on my personal box that nobody else could mess up. :)

It shouldn't have gotten to that point because the machine shouldn't have triggered on that, and the contractor should have caught the error, but besides all that, there is a lot more than 'human error' involved, it's human indifference, and most likely intentional.

Remember, "The department has said that a single officer can review up to 1,200 citations in a given day.". So if you have an awesomely diligent cop reviewing these things, who's working on it non-stop for a full 80 hours, that means he's devoting about 24 SECONDS to each one. So loading the data, reviewing the pictures and the video, making a decision, and clicking on whatever buttons and possibly filling out supplementary information required of him (whatever that may or may not be) all in 24 seconds. Yeah, the donut eating coffee swiller is just rubber stamping them. Hell, he probably doesn't even notice what color the car is, nor does he care.

This system isn't designed to improve safety or help anyone, it only does one thing, and that's to make money for the local government and the contractor.

The only ones I've heard of that succeeded involved islands of limited size and land-born species. (No flyers or strong swimmers.)

If it were really because of electronic interference potentially causing the plane to crash, I'd be terrified if there was lightning within 2 miles, or an active radar station at the airport.

Their tech was never groundbreaking, but their marketing was. Supply schools with buttloads of machines for super low or even free was a move of Genius! All those new computer literate users now knew how to use an Apple computer, but nothing else. It would have been a clean sweep if they could have gotten the stodgy old business world to switch over.
Other than that, their engineering may have looked pretty, but it wasn't that hot. Though their software used to be pretty good, but I can't say that now, too much bloated you know what...
Suddenly I feel like bashing Microsoft, but that's getting way too off subject, so this thread should end. :)

In 5 years, there have been 6 iphones... There seems to be a pattern here.

More like 'Exploit'. The phone systems then used specific tones to control it. Those 'blue boxes' just repeated the tone used to activate an authorization for a no charge long distance call. Those boxes weren't even doing anything new, as the specific tone was well know to the phreak community and hackers in general. One gained the handle of "Captain Crunch" because he found out that the whistles that came in Captain Crunch cereal at that time produced that specific tone and could be used to activate free calls. Steve Jobs merely tread upon a road well worn by those that came before, and he charged as much money as he could to those who weren't in the know.

Especially since they've just proven they have no problem with publicly screwing over their user-base without any notice what-so-ever.
Hey, I bet if they'd have just come out and said, "We're going to shutdown that service in 2 weeks, you might want to post your sever ips for your users." they'd still get yelled at by users, but at least it wouldn't harm them professionally.

In their continuing quest to impose their marketing scum on every aspect and moment of your life, they are now taking yet another step in their bid to become omnipresent and unavoidable.

It's getting to the point where these marketing invasions need to have serious and painful repercussions to those creating or employing them.

Ever hear of Squab?

It's more of a maze-like randomized pattern as there may or may not be a path through, though it is definitely labyrinthine.

There are a lot of 'false positives' in the DNA testing industry. Human error, stupidity, desire to please the authorities, or for whatever reason it might be, it happens.
A few years back in the USA someone (I think it was a reporter) decided to test the accuracy of the DNA testing companies. They sent in samples as if from a criminal investigation that would NOT match. Almost all the companies returned 'matches'. That really throws into question the results of the companies, even though the science is solid.

The accused should get a 'second opinion' from a reputable testing facility that has been independently verified for accuracy. And by the way, it's many many times for likely that a false result will be a positive than a negative. (An inconclusive is yet another and different result from positive or negative.)

Fastest extinction ever

Of course, you don't want to sabotage a trial you think you'll win, if you think you'll lose, you can bet you'll probably loose on appeal. The only way you try to sabotage a trial (if you are the unethical scum that does that kind of illegal thing) is if it's iffy and a you think a change of judge or venue will clinch it for you. But even in that case, you don't sabotage it before it's clear which way the chips are falling, unless you are only stalling for time since something is coming up that will invalidate the whole mess in the first place.
It's not intentional sabotage by Samsung, unless you assume they are dumber than the Three Stooges.

Naw, they still have weight in space, it's just that our scales don't work so well out there :)