My sister works at Madigan Hospital (which is part of JBLM), and is in the same situation - working with the promise of retroactive pay. If the shutdown is short, it's not a huge deal... but if it drags on, I wonder if her bank will defer her mortgage payments? Likely not...

The son of a friend is a civilian helicopter mechanic attached to the base. He isn't "essential", so he's currently not working and not bringing in income.

Long story short - it doesn't affect me directly, but it is having significant negative impact on people I care about.

I don't think most consumers care about "proprietary" at all. But they do care about big and clunky, they do care about a sluggish interface, and they really don't want to charge their watch every night.

Now, speaking only for myself... if it has to be tethered to my phone in order to function, that's a non-starter all by itself. It's not particularly onerous to pull my phone out of my pocket - there's not a whole lot more to that motion than to looking at something on my wrist.

Jesse Owens had a good time, in any case.

IOU one "insightful" mod.

HTC has had trouble getting traction against Samsung despite offering compelling hardware. Offering a dual-boot phone might give them a competitive advantage with some subset of buyers... although I'm guessing it'd be a fairly small number.

Without a paper-tape reader, the idea is a non-starter.

So a guy with the monicker "Dr. Evil" is giving credit to "unusual studies" involving the brain? Natch.

What mission is it the company thinks employees believe in, exactly? It's hard to believe the employees find it meaningful and rewarding to sell people's personal information or push advertisements into people's news feeds...

I take it you're unfamiliar with how journals such as Science decide whether or not a paper should be published?

I enjoyed reading a number of his books, but they sure felt like they were basically the same book, over and over, with just some different plot twists thrown in.

And he kind of jumped the shark when his main character became POTUS (to use the shorthand he is largely responsible for bringing into popular culture).

Incidentally, this case shows exactly why all this invasive, unconstitutional NSA monitoring is actually unnecessary. By all accounts this guy was nabbed using good old-fashioned investigative work by the various authorities.

It can be done. Sure, it's just harder that way - but our personal liberties are worth that cost.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130805

We already know the NSA is sharing information about illicit drug trafficing with the DEA, and asking the DEA to obfuscate where the information is coming from.

Clicked on the link, was taken to the beta front page. There was a pop--up bubble that I'm guessing was explanatory text about one of the page headers, but 1/3 of it was out of viewport and the whole thing was undragable.

Fortunately not many people are using tablets anymore, so I'm sure no one will notice.

Fixed that for you.

I wouldn't want people to unfairly categorize you as a racist moron.

You needn't worry - these are Surface tablets.

The flight crews have no interest in using them for anything personal.