Our Supreme Court is fascist. I fully expect them to uphold the "we got an anonymous tip" and provide a hole a truck can drive through with all this "NSA metafile information that won't ever be used against you..."

And off the record, we see here you visited a certain bunny ranch in Vegas, we'd like to see a larger number on next years budget in the appropriations committee.

The threat posed by the Silk Road is orders of magnitude less than "anonymous" evidence in FBI court cases. This is the morning before we wake up to a boot on our neck --- and I don't that's hyperbole.

Is that like Plausible BS -- or am I using a too technical word here?

I always figured that the "illegally gained intelligence" whether it be to get rid of a politician or someone affecting the status quo, would be an "anonymous tip" or "via great sleuthing."

This great sleuthing never occurs if it's a bank or someone politically connected -- strange.

... are about Frankenstein's monster. They can be really awesome stores, but they are can be summed up with changing the name of the Doctor.

So it's really all anti-science, science fiction. Why isn't he anti Fossil Fuel studies? Not sure. But if you are looking for a villain we all have our "go to" groups. And I think you can almost describe the shift in attitudes of any age by saying if most of the villains in the movies are corporate, state, scientist, religious institution, third world,.. and the like. We define ourselves by who we most often blame.

I blame Michael Crichton , mostly.

Whoosh the humor went over my head, or "Whoosh!" the sound of a hundred NASA rocket scientists groaning at bad science in movies?

No, the T-1000 was a liquid metal. Due to it's heat conduction (we can assume from the metal) it would conduct heat and thus not create a protective gas layer.

Now if you want to start talking about Armageddon's bad physics, we could be here all day.

If you knew anything about SlashDot, you'd know that someone is researching that right now and will statically prove that you are WRONG!

Typing in Google right now...

so THAT is the reason they have completely different names?

This is Propane!

Now if we add this to cows and pigs, we will have to fire proof all the farms. Any industrial accident and we will see pigs fly, albeit with rocket propulsion and not the typical way one might think pigs would fly.

They'll have to slow down the regular payments to give in that extra feeling of "special."

I wonder if this will be like the "consumer loyalty cards" at the grocery store;
1) Lower price with loyalty card.
2) Raise Prices such that those with loyalty card are paying the same old price and others are penalized.
3) Establish in customer's minds that giving up data about their habits SAVES them money.

The "you can have a discount if" policies from Insurance companies will likely be followed by subtle increase in rates.If you want privacy, you can pay ridiculous amounts of money.

And in this case, they will likely use evidence to withhold payouts and support for people in a legal disclaimer somewhere, which they can now better prove because they've tracked you. AAA can tell you were here when you called, and now your care is on the road because you rolled it away from the gas station; no tow truck for you!

I think Google is being a bit smarter than that on the "last mile" --- they are winning this in the Airliner fashion; build routes where there is the most profit. Like being the only direct flight to some location that no other airline services or in a high traffic area where there is the most profit.

If they can lower costs and have high margins in every area, they squeeze the profit from the last mile extortionists and have leverage to negotiate. I'm sure as Google goes along, they will speed up deployment, but it's likely more a lobbying effort right now as groups are working to make it illegal for the Government to get involved to create infrastructure, or upstarts a way into a market.

For some reason, we protect monopoly practices now -- go figure.

I've seen those detectors for over 20 years. Are you sure you aren't talking about the system being used to see how dense traffic is? A lot of roads get service based on the number of cars.

Doesn't sound like something NEW here. Nobody talks about it because there have been no real issues about it.

Now if you want conspiracies, you will start taking note of RFIDs on cars and tires and buried detectors... SSHHH!

We should definitely tag our comments with;
SOLUTION FOR: "Optimist, Realist, Progressive, Libertarian, Tee-Hugger, Authoritarian, Goth, Unmitigated-As$hole"

That's a really bad idea.

You start sending out clones to live on other planets, and what happens 200 years later when they come back and try and blow up our planet?
"You suck dad! Fricken' planet never had a dry day, there's no beach, and our Froyo' cloning vat broke down so we can't grow any hot chicks."

I do believe this research may actually yield some surprises, but it doesn't necessarily mean that "location fluctuations" would mean we are living in a 2D holographic projection. I believe it is the opposite of that; we are living in a 12 dimensional universe that we experience as 4 Dimensional (time is the 4th property). The Higgs Boson and Dark matter are artifacts of space/time itself existing in a 4 Dimensional space we don't directly interact with.

Location can be manipulated and is influenced by a higher dimension -- so there will be measurable uncertainty, but it can prove the INVERSE of this hypothesis; we are the result of a higher dimension experienced as 4.