Hadrian's Firewall

CS teargas looses effectiveness after repeated exposures, such as the training the U.S. Army puts every soldier through at least once per year (if not significantly more often). The shooter was a former soldier (I refrain from calling him a "veteran", as he deserves to be struck from the rolls and his name forgotten), so teargas immunity is a required tactical assumption.

Yeah, they used it, but it killed a bunch (but not all) of the hostages, too. The stuff falls in the "less-lethal" category, rather than "non-lethal".

At the time of King David, Hebrew was still using Phoenician-based script http://www.omniglot.com/writin... (which used a triangle for daleth), rather than the modern Aramaic-based script http://www.omniglot.com/writin... (Aramaic) http://www.omniglot.com/writin... (Hebrew), so the doubled-daleth could be a valid explanation for the Star of David symbol.

Did anyone else picture "The Bus" from Agents of Shield after reading the summary?

I think the parent's title is a valid question. More often than not, the poles are carrying power and are owned by the electrical utility. Occasionally, you see shorter poles with only communications cable, but not that often in most places.

The backdoor doesn't directly unlock the iPhone. The backdoor allows Apple to alter the firmware without unlocking the phone itself. The authentication mechanism is baked into the ROM, but the "10 strikes and auto-wipe" is not. The FBI wants Apple to disable the 10 strikes so they can guess as many times as they want, as fast as they want (through a cable interface). However, once that altered firmware gets on that particular iPhone, the FBI has that firmware permanently and can re-use it at a later date on some other iPhone. (At least that's the gist I get from the various articles I've read.)

I never said my buddy was correct in his judgment, but if he was convinced he was correct, that means plenty of other people follow that same line of reasoning (he's a fairly analytical sort of guy).

Use of the parking brake seems to vary with the terrain and climate conditions of where you grew up and where your current residence is. I grew up on the U.S. west coast, where there are plenty of hills, and the whether is usually above freezing. On the other hand, I once visited my buddy in Illinois at the tail end of winter, and he practically yelled at me for setting the parking brake afterwards stating "You've never had your brake pads freeze to your rotors, overnight, have you?" (Illinois is also very, very flat)

If they just build the first line from Los Angeles to Las Vegas they should make their money back rather quickly (and probably get plenty of casino-based investors to help pay for it). The next legs could be Phoenix to Vegas or a San Diego to Vegas (perhaps with an L.A. connector).

Rewiring it might be a little far-fetched to teach an eagle, but you probably could teach one to fly underneath a drone, flip over, snatch the drone by the camera, then flip the drone over to plummet to it's death... I've seen an eagle do something similar to an overly annoying seagull.

Pascal used to be in high use, heck the classic versions of MacOS (a.k.a. "System", pre-OS X) were built in it, with the C libraries really just being interfaces to the Pascal libraries. The language syntax is different, but not immensely so, from C, but it does take a few more keypresses to do the same thing (my theory as to why C/C++ overtook Pascal). The program flow is also nearly identical, the main difference being that Pascal has pass-by-reference (missing from C, included in C++) in addition to pass-by-value and pass-by-pointer, but doesn't have all the additional baggage/capability of templates and STL.

There are two things that tend to trip people up when going from Pascal to C (or C to Pascal): 1. Pascal's array indices start at 1, while C's start at 0, 2. Pascal's strings are fixed length by default with the length as a separate data member, with C's being variable length but null-terminated. Pascal's string approach is inherently safer, but is also a pain in the ass if you need a string that keeps changing size or you need one longer than 255 characters. C's approach, while more flexible, has led to the all-too-common buffer overflow vulnerabilities.

I'd have to re-read it (it's been awhile), but, IIRC, in the book version of Return of the Jedi, Luke feels "dirty" when he force-chokes the Gamorrean guards. He also strays a bit in the extended universe and has confidence issues with staying true to the light side thereafter. (Yes, I know JJ Abrams shot down the previous Extended Universe canon, but that's how things were explained previously.)

Flash would have been fine if it just stuck with the vector animation and left out the video encapsulation.

Let's see, they say that "Knowledge is Power", so knowledge = power, and we know from physics that power = work / time. And finally, they say that "Time is money", so time = money.

So, making the substitutions: knowledge = work / money, and solving for money, money = work / knowledge.

So, now we can see that the dumber you are, the more money you can make!