Very much this. Early Chrome wasn't without it's flaws, but it WORKED and it was fast. I'm fuzzy on the details and can't be arsed to look up the timeline, but IIRC IE7 was being pushed out and the flaming heap that was IE8 was being forced upon us enterprise Windows users. Both browsers had matured to the Hot Garbage phase of early 2000's software.

Despite the whining of the rest of my IT department, who would only support IE, I switched to Chrome about a week after public release and haven't looked back. It's both better and worse than it used to be, but Chrome is still my daily driver browser. I've tried most of the alternatives, but I keep coming back to Chrome.

Civil cases (like this one) and criminal cases have far different standards.

You can bury AC transmission and distribution lines. What would make you think that they can't be?

Yes, but it's a lot more fun to make fun of them as if they were, misinformation be damned.

Austin is a bright baby blue smear in the otherwise predominately red state of Texas. Having worked with Austin Energy, and knowing who has been elected to their city council, it surprises me not one bit that even residential modifications require multiple layers of governmental approval.

Of course, this is the same city who is a full week into a massive outage due to NIMBY homeowners fighting the utility's vegetation management efforts for years, and the 20-month backlog of tree trimming that AE's VP of Field Ops says is going to take three years to catch up with.

Why not....just buy a toner cartridge? Or was this some sort of "printers are disposable" joke that I'm too old to understand?

Came to the comments for this. Was not disappointed.

Oh, I agree...I should have put some more positive spin on that assessment. I have nothing against vehicle owners installing GPS in said vehicles being used by others. It's paid the bills for me in the past.

Hell, I even let them Big Brother on my car. Progressive Insurance customer here: I gladly signed up for Snapshot when it was available (and drove like a little old lady) for 45 days. Saved a permanent 14% on my annual premium without permanent monitoring.

Is this news because it's LoJack, a household name dating back to my childhood, rather than Wireless Matrix/GPS Insight/Trimble/the 47 other players in this space?

Why is this news? Is it just the consumer commoditization of what businesses have been doing for years? Vehicles + GPS + Web Interface = Big Brother? Whoopee.

I've been supporting deployments of vehicle GPS, geofences, and automatic alerts for years. Maybe that why this article is so underwhelming.

Also, it reads like an advertisement.

This! Thisthisthisthisthis. Oh man, you just made a friend in me. I was recently told by an industrial engineer here where I work that it was "more important to be a team player and get the general concepts of the integration working before we worry about the details". This is the guy who also has a Master's of Business Administration, but is unable to correctly spell "MBA". Of course, this strategic-level million-dollar project is 14 months late and has had over 22,000 defects logged.

I wonder why.

While I violently disagreed with your earlier post about the dangers of the chlorine in table salt, this post redeems you. Well said, well written, and accurate. +1

Thank God you all beat me to it. I logged in for the first time in two years just to deliver the cluestick on the basic chemical differences between gaseous Cl(2) and aqueous Cl- ions, as well as ethyl/methylmercury. I wish I had mod points.

At first I was relieved that this was a bacteria infecting silicon. Now I'm concerned: When will Avast release an Antibacterial beta? I'm still running Windows, folks! I know I'm vulnerable to this!!!

OK, I have to know: Is the misuse and misspelling of "intents and purposes" in your sigfile ironically intentional, or did you just crack a linguistics joke while unwittingly butchering the English language?