"The more you tighten your grip, Putin, the more Tweets will slip through your fingers."

I did a test drive at the local dealership recently in Colorado. While the technology was quite cool on the highway, I would not rely on it to get me anywhere for at least another 2-3 years, even in light traffic, normal daylight driving conditions with no unusual behaviors from nearby drivers. It makes some very questionable choices, and actively put me in dangerous situations. I was curious to see how it would behave in certain circumstances and kept hand hovering on the wheel ready to jump in at any second, and it proved necessary quite continuously. When an on-ramp was merging and the white line in the rightmost lane disappeared as the new lane tapered inward, the car would veer to the right to follow the new white line, potentially cutting off anyone merging, and also alarming me as the driver that it was leaving the current lane to join the other one. With the FSD navigation turned on, the car missed its highway exit several times and didn't alert me as the user that it had done anything wrong. When I got it to take an exit ramp that ended in a double left (of which the second left also had an option to go straight ahead to merge back onto the highway), the car attempted to turn left, and then froze in the middle of the intersection and panicked and asked me to take over. This was a pretty rudimentary navigation and it failed miserably, leaving me in the middle of the intersection. That being said, it does have some fantastic tech in it and I'm quite excited to see it continue to evolve, but if I were to plug in a long stretch of boring Wyoming driving, I wouldn't trust it to get me there in one piece.

As someone not familiar enough with the political process, could someone weigh in on what this kind of legislation would look like, or how it would be implemented? Would this be compelling companies to do things certain ways to enable back doors, or just to share access to government agencies? Is it something that the government has any grounds to actually require, outside of specific law enforcement cases?

MIT REALLY want to make sure we don't overlook this near term solution.

I'd actually love to hear more about that dynamic. Got any helpful insight on how you all work together?

To the average consumer, "new" stipulates that it hasn't had a previous owner use it and that it's still shrink-wrapped. If you search through sites like eBay, you'll find this to be the case as well. In the eyes of the law, it might hold a different definition, but it doesn't necessarily fall in the category of second-hand, which might include a degradation of value. It's still a new, sealed item, and when your selling platform is open to the average consumer, then the tendency is probably going to be for the seller to post it as "new", as that's what their own personal understanding on what "new" is. This seems a highly aggressive stance for Bethesda to be taking, but they're commonly known to be more litigious than many of their other counterparts in the industry.

I'm on site for this launch, and got to meet and interview some of the people working on it. It's essentially a front-end device for Watson, helping it to navigate around the space station and try to be useful for the scientists on board. Right this second, it seems more of a novelty, but the impellers driving it mean that it should be able to self navigate, and collect some good data from the interactions. They said the latency for connecting to the Watson infrastructure on the ground is around two seconds. This is also the first test of this technology in space, so they have a long way to go, and a lot of basic things to work out, but it's something that the platform can only grow stronger from, if they proceed with future testing, so as to be more useful for the astronauts. It struck me as a floating iPad with voice activation and natural speech recognition, but might prove to be more as time goes on and they start assigning value to it.

#theranosdemandsyourinvestment

Nice try, zombies. We're on to your business model.

Jevon's Paradox fits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Orson Scott Card actually dug into this a bit in the later part of the Ender's series with the philotic twining and aiuas as the fundamental core of the universe, that particles essentially willed themselves into existence in an increasingly hierarchical way, and that they could be called into existence by others. Base matter was a certain kind of aiua possessed of a will that could bond and bind energy into a material form, while consciousness was an aiua that could govern and rule over other aiuas. That theory always seemed to resonate a bit well as a universal kind of spirituality intertwined with physics. In any case, it made for great reading.

"We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient."

Maybe someone in the know can answer all of this, but what's responsibility like if a country or now private entity damages the ISS with a botched docking? Are there policies governing these kinds of incidents - a you break it, you buy it kind of thing?

Fans made an awesome movie trailer tackling the grittier side of the Pokemon world. https://youtu.be/VKul3UwR9JU

Another fine product from the Nucleus family. Fsckin' Gavin Belson.