Yup. Happy to have my P.E. stamp when I read about stuff like this. Hopefully some of my output will lead to similar wins.

$1.4M is literally a drop in the bucket of the petrochemical industry - it's a shame they couldn't fund a prize like this (or perhaps their own R&D) instead of a rich civic-minded missus looking for a good cause. Kudos to Mrs. Google.

I think your statement is a little simplified:

At least he got the number right, unlike the original commentor.

Why not stop making condoms too. It would be much easier to just focus on preventing males from reaching climax.

CIA, FBI, etc don't care about your drunken night out or sightseeing with the kids. They have many many ways to collect data about you if you're on their radar. If you're dumb enough to post "Check out these cool masks I just got off Amazon for our bank robbery! I'm the next coming of Bodie!" and then actually go…

Although doubtful, NSA might try that approach - but local, county and state police have no such claim. And frankly, there's nothing being uploaded to the GPS satellites - all they do is beam an accurate clock and a location then the reciever uses those signals to triangulate its location. Most GPS units on your…

I should have said "potentially" accomplices. I'd disagree with your last statement since everyone getting on a plane isn't doing so in order to visit a terrorist, but everyone going through a prison gate is going to visit a criminal. In addition to visitors, screening technology and procedures should be used every…

The real reason Gordon Gecko didn't want to go back to prison.

Since inmates and their associates are known criminals or accomplices and the majority of people screened at airports aren't, I'd say it's warranted. Not to keep inmates from watching porn, but to reduce the quantity of criminal acts, violent and nonviolent, that the illegal use of cell phones is supporting - from…

Senate.

That would work except it's too difficult to change military doctrine to allow mullets. Give the $3B back.

Ooh ooh, don't forget Wall Street.

When you add a 3rd dimension it opens up a lot more avenues for safety as well, as long as the engine is reliable. I'd rather a drunk driver staying about 500' swerving all over and only coming near the ground when he tries to land - presumable crashing into his own property.

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Well said and matches my experience as a guest. I will say that at some places when I've had issues they've given me an actual tech support number and I could get someone that knows what's up. But being nice in general has gotten me a lot more free drinks, discounts and upgrades than any rewards program will ever…

The courtyard marriot there isn't so bad. It's focused on business travelers and not gamblers.

I would argue against that - how many of them have you stayed in? It's often something you can negotiate (they all have a code they can give out) but I'd bet the majority have a pay wifi default policy.

Actually you need to own a minimum of 4 Apple products that were manufactured within an 18 month period of each other in order for them to enable the synergized time travel mechanism. Go out and buy more while I go back a few months again and buy more stock.

For a long time free wi-fi was the norm, but I've started to see the trend back to pay services surprisingly in the high end hotels. The Westin in New Orleans (and subsequently presuming across the chain) is charging hourly, daily and weekly rates. I had to negotiate with the front desk to get Intercontinentals to…