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... which has had all female CEOs since 2001.

Xerox is not as exciting as HP, but its CEOs have not done large, showy reorganizations that destroyed once-proud solid engineering traditions, so there's that.

Um, what? You really don't know what you're talking about do you... Ursula Burns took over Xerox and then took a wreaking ball straight to engineering.

Ursula Burns sold off large portions of engineering based in the USA to HCL, an Indian outsourcing company, then proceeded to dismantle or outsource everything related to product engineering.

But hey, at least she's hiring call center employees to replace the engineering positions that have been moved to India.

Ursula Burns is the number one most hated CEO in the tech industry. I wonder why?

Lots of cops wear a personal radio on them... nice, small, and portable, you just need to incapacitate a cop to get one. Either that, or buy it off one of your other criminal friends that has done so. You might even be able to bribe a cop to borrow it.

Then there are the radios in their cars. A local sheriff (the top guy mind you, not some rookie deputy) took his daughter and granddaughters to the mall in his official vehicle, where a couple broke into it and stole two .45s, a GPS unit and a camera. Just add radio to the list.

in addition to the cops, other emergency responders often have the equipment to talk to them. Fire chiefs/officers (if not all trucks), medics (if not all ambulances), etc. Back when my dad used to work for the town highway department, even all of the highway trucks were set up to be able to communicate on the police bands too.

Last month, a reporter here in Rochester NY filed a story about a convicted rapist who, due to a legal technicality was not listed on the state's sex offender registry despite raping over 100 women. He was dumped in a town a short bike ride away from a boatload of his typical victim (young college girls) and the police couldn't notify ANYONE in the area, including the school about him. I've personally seen him riding his bike near the college. After the report brought the problem with the sex offender registry to light, he had a hearing and ended up on the registry. If it wasn't for the reporter breaking the story, he could have started victimizing people at any time without the community knowing. Not all rapes are reported and should the cops be the only ones who know someone who's raped over 100 people is nearby?

Bad, bad reporter trying to protect the community by telling them what the police couldn't.

It may sound like a joke, but this basically happened just this week to a kindergartener.

When you start getting in street fights with protective mothers, people like you a lot less and they will shoot you! Come on, bears! It's common sense!

And, Lord knows, this was a slashdot-specific story, and you certainly couldn't have gotten details anywhere else before you opened your mouth.