That is a failure of the court system and the district attorney; who is elected in most US cities. I have had people I loved killed by drivers; one a drunk and another someone who just fell asleep at the wheel. In the former instance the driver did reform and never drank again (15+ years) and yet he will be haunted by a felony his whole life. The driver who fell asleep because he tried driving farther than his physical limit was not even charged and got into another accident a year later presumingly driving exhausted. Fortunately, for all the other drivers on the road his mistake was the last thing action he ever took. Poor judgement is inherit to some people and they will never learn; those should be punish harshly and for a long time. If a person shows they can learn and change their way of life then lets get them back to contributing to society.

As an Operations Director, I fully agree with you, The development team should be required to identify the underlying technology. Actually this should be laid out by the Infrastructure team (CTO) but each application might have parameter tweaks. Their documentation should identify the pre-requisities and non-default parameters. It is up to the Operations team to document how to provision operating system resources and deploy the underlying technology. The Operations documentation should also be used by the team giving Operational support to the development team. Circle of Life.

You think Apple let the buggy app get through so they could say "Hey, look at this crap. We know how to make a mail app for your iPhone"

Also at fault are the readers that will take reviews on these sites as the word of God himself. Any review not done by someone I know personally is taken with a very large grain of salt (salt lick size). If I know the person then I can make a judgement call based on my judgement of the person. Thus qualifying the review.

What the story does not explain is that the money used to build the school was bond money that could only be used for buildings. It could not be used for teachers, books or any other educational material. I guess the author doe snot believe in fact finding. If the bond money was not used it would have gone into the state's slush fund and the schools would have lost it. Having a facility like this will attract private organizations who want to rent the schools on the weekends for cultural academies. Other school districts used this money to build new football and baseball stadiums that are profit making enterprises. The profits are being used for educational material and teacher's salaries. The biggest chunk of the budget was the land use studies (earthquakes, floods, smog) and the building resources to make it earthquake proof. The same building with all the glitz would have cost 1/4 as much non disaster prone states; eg. Nevada or Utah.

Together they may cover all the functionality but they do not have the integration that Outlook has. In iCal, I can not select a location from my Address Book and then look it up for mapping. Nor can I select a person in my Address book and search for any or all appointments with that person or at that location. Nor can I cross search emails regarding those appointments like I could when I used Outlook. I have since moved everything into the Google world. Yes. I understand the implications of doing so.

After using Office on Windows for years, I found that trying to use Pages/Numbers/Keynote to be very difficult as was OpenOffice when I tried to convert over to that. But my kids who have only used Apple works and now Pages/Numbers find it very easy to use. I committed three weeks to using only the Apple products and was close to feeling comfortable. In the end, I went back to Office; though Office on the Mac sucks worse than Apple works ever did. That is compared to Office on Windows. Sometimes I think the guys in Redmond are laughing at those who bought Office on the Mac thinking we would have the best of both worlds.

The IRS is not allowed to openly share information with other agencies nor do they check if non-citizens have a valid visa to work in the US. If a law enforcement agency has an open investigation they can get a subpoena fairly easily (rubber stamped request form). The subpoena process is to help track law enforcement agencies from abusing the power to access your information. So if you got contacted by the FBI through your tax records, then you were under investigation or someone connected (partner, customer, vendor) was being investigated. Since these investigations tend to spider out a bit, it could have been even three connections away from you.

Thats why I wear a mask for my student ID card. Everyone thinks I am Richard Nixon's twin brother.

The lawmakers gave law enforcement officers an exemption because they are doing official business (like arranging a meeting with their mistress) on the phone while driving. Besides, officers are super humans who are highly trained and physically fit enough to not be distracted by talking on the phone or using their in car computers (equivalent to texting) while driving. Which I would agree with any of them 5 years or less out of the academy but there is no continued fitness test for officers. There is one SFPD motorcycle officer who has reportedly broken the backend suspension on his bike twice with his weight being a contributing piece. His driving habits of driving down curbs was the other.

Ok. I am married to a teacher. I have not seen a summer that she has taken off. Figuring that the state requires that school books get replaced every 7 years; she is rewriting daily lessons plans every other year for the three levels of math she teaches. On the other summers, she is working on school manuals or other material. She teaches match. Why would you need to buy all new math books every 7 years. Algebra has not changed in over 1000 years.

Having seen the educational system over the last 3 decades, the problem has been the tenured substandard teachers who the districts find easier to move out of the classroom into "resource" positions instead of alright firing. Or non PC employees they put into non-jobs hoping they will quit. If there was a way to evaulate teachers fairly and terminate the poor ones easier than there would be less overhead in the administration of the education system. This would put more money into the classroom.

Batteries!!! The excess power generated during the day is used to charge batteries which are used during the night time. Yes.... this does mean there will be an environmental issue in 20 years when the batteries die but within the next 10 years we will be able to recover close to 100% of battery refuse.

The judge had to allow the evidence to show the officers state of mind. It was the 12 people on the jury who should be ashamed of themselves to accept this as reasonable doubt. A devious officer could be pulling a prank on a fellow officer or planning a surprise romantic weekend for their spouse. If we expect celebrities and pro athletes to always be professional in their image than all of us should be aware of our public image and be prepared to answer to it.

It isn't just the old that do this. How about those whose music is too loud inside their car to hear the blinker and probably only look at their dashboard when the flashing cherries are behind them.