Why would the glitch pay drivers more? Are you trying to say Uber needs their glitches to pay drivers more? Do you realize that the charges were refunded? You should think this through some more.

What backdoors do the NSA have into hardware? Reference please?

Ok, so they're going to force everyone to have a smart phone or laptop to bring to the store or other locations as proof of purchase?

Do they think everyone has one or can afford to have one?

Is that better than a small piece of paper, both recyclable and convenient?

Is receipt waste a big issue in California?

Are they really thinking this through?

I have to say, restoring cell service is probably more important than copper service. Hardly anyone has landlines. Notice how they hardly mention that it is copper wires they are talking about ...

Most people won't realize their transactions are public. Hence the privacy issue.

A reference would be appreciated rather than an assumption that everyone in this study was drinking sugary processed coffee.

I agree. The price seems to be going up because people are speculating that it will continue to go up and more, causing the price to further rise. Few people are buying it as a tool for exchanging goods and services. As a result, there's not much backing the current value other than rarity, which probably isn't enough. It will drop drastically in value eventually once the speculating stops.

Machinery, robots, and automation have been taking over jobs for hundreds of years. Humans have been resisting those automation takeovers for just as long. The earliest of these are Luddites. they smashed up weaving machinery because it was taking over their jobs. Below is the link, very interesting read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

However, despite all the automation and machinery over the centuries, the number of jobs available have continued to increase. Rather than completely replacing jobs, automation shifted jobs to new positions or industries that may require more thinking that automation is not capable of doing. As a result, productivity has skyrocketed, giving us the amazing quality of life compared to quality of life centuries ago.

For example, in 1880 50% of Americans worked on farms. Today, 1% of Americans work on farms. That's a 49% job loss. However, we don't see a 49% unemployment. Those jobs have shifted to other industries, while we still get amazing food production.

There's no indication that this automation increase, productivity increase, and job type shift will change. There's also no indication that Luddites will stop resisting the change. However, there no reason to start taxing robots. People still have jobs, jobs availability is still increasing, still paying income tax, and it's an incredible complication to the tax code. There already exists job training federal aid for those put out of work by outsourcing. A possible solution to automation job shifting is to expand that for job loss caused by automation to help people learn to new job types.

$515,000 is not much for a large business (same as 5 telemarketing employees for a year approximately). Even if they do pay, it's unlikely to make a difference to their behavior.

Companies have been selling your information for all of recorded history. Many companies make money from this. The only difference is now your ISP can join in. You won't notice a difference.

Climate change is not doomsday nor does it in any way compare to nuclear holocaust. It is a different climate, one in which humans and life can continue to prosper. Comparing that to total destruction of half of the world while the half would have to live in nuclear fallout for thousands of year is just a joke.

The government can subsidize the costs and offer service for well below the actual costs, which is unfair competition.

The issue in high costs with broadband come from partial or complete monopolies of ISPs. ISPs like Comcast can charge whatever they want in many areas because they are the only viable option.

In order to reduce costs, the government can help introduce competition. When many companies offer similar service, they compete for customers in price and customers win. I really like this idea in Virginia of providing a means for municipalities to introduce competition rather than become competitors themselves. It provides a means to offer lots of competition to companies like Comcast. This is something Comcast fights with a passion since they won't make as much money.

It does not make sense to disregard evidence of stealth based on program cost overruns. Stealth is one aspect of the F-35 that has gone well. Keep an open mind and make decision based on data, not hype or preconceived biases.

The F-35 does not support external stores and opening the bay doors or lowering gear degrade the aerodynamics, making evasion maneuvers that they were practicing very difficult. Turning on the transponder makes a lot of sense in this case.

Google it, you'll get that it has to do with number of transistors, not complexity.

"The observation made in 1965 by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since the integrated circuit was invented. Moore predicted that this trend would continue for the foreseeable future."