@RenRen: With any luck, this is a new form of natural selection at work.

@diasdiem: Is there more than one of your job? If so, I might want to apply—what exactly is this dream job with no reports, no spreadsheets?

@TheFu: I've been happy with the stuff and service I've gotten from an HK operation called [www.cellphoneshop.net]

@PensoTroppo؟:

Kan haz wharf ratz wit deez pallets?

It's easy to recommend rooting, if you can easily deal (financially and in terms of work/life impact) with the potential for a bricked phone. I can't. That means I can't get rid of AmazonMP3, which I've never used, don't want, yet which I find running on my phone, along with various other bloatware. So I kill that…

This is a golden opportunity. The current versions of MSO are so bloated and over-engineered that they actually impede work, particularly in my field (law) where handling large amounts of text in various fairly strict formatting environments is required.

We had Computrace on my son's school tablet, when it was stolen along with his friends' car. Got the tablet back—no luck on the car, though. There was no issue with Computrace working, much as Prey appears to. The problem was getting the PoPo and ISP together to ID and get a warrant for the tablet's location. It…

Um, what about Springpad—I read about it here, installed it, but haven't had a chance to really check it out. Would be interested in any user views/experiences. Astrid, evernote, those I got and get.

The point of the article is to encourage cat owners to use collars to provide ID. The neighbor a block over doesn't have a RFID reader. They probably will look at a collar tag and call the number on it, before sending the cat off to the tender mercies of the pound.

@chripuck1: You obviously don't live in and probably have never visited New Orleans. Food is far more than mere sustenance and our "love" and "needs" of certain foods can be complex, physically and mentally, healthy or not. What good is it to be marvelously healthy and slim, but miserable? Or even terminally dull? …

Looks like the roof can be opened with cable pulls—great for ventilation. Drainage in the event of heavy rains would be a concern (never work in NOLA).

@Unionhawk: didn't say students (though students over 21 with the proper training could quickly render a code, secret or otherwise, moot, as happened at a aVirginia law school about a year prior to the VTech massacre, when the matter was left to the po-po).

@PinballFan: 9th Circuit is essentially the wacked out disney world judicial enclave of the USSR in the USA. They are more often reversed by the SCOTUS than any of the other Courts of Appeal, maybe more than all of them put together.

@RustyNeedle: Though I can't quote you the Texas statutes, I'd be willing to bet that a person ID'd as a LEO, local, state, or federal gets a pass on the castle doctrine—you have to obey them until it becomes clear that they're acting illegally. You don't get to make that call on the fly. Louisiana is one of the…

@Unionhawk: How very, sadly silly. It is, of course, most likely that a school shooter will be a current or former student and it is as obvious as any clock on the wall that the students and teachers will be cowering in their rooms, if they have no defensive capacity, of which nanny government has deprived them.

@alanlamers: fring

Get cheap regular notebook or looseleaf in ring binder. At start of class/meeting/etc. draw line a coupla inches in from the left edge, then another across the bottom (straight edge optional). Use Cornell method. Spend money and time saved making stuff that needs to be better better, rather than endlessly tweaking…

Strongly recommend a shelf-stable acidophilus/lacto-bacillus product. There are a few out there. The old school stuff has to be kept refrigerated. When evil attacks your tummy, it's great to have an army of good bacterial cultures to send into the breach.

Mosquito dunks are great and non-toxic to just about all organisms, except mosquito and a few types of fly larvae. I've put chunks of them (encased in hardware cloth so they stay on the bottom) in my dog's water bowl—no wigglers, no probs for the dog. I also "bait" my yard with containers of water with dunks in…