Everyone immediately disables SELinux, and people need to reinvent how they manage the system, all for no real return, unless you're one of the .1% who those technologies are targeted at. Make your system normal Unix, not weird Unix, and people will stay interested. Companies don't like moving targets.

For once, a form of government surveillance I can support!

C'mon, to a Yuropeen, Ohio and California are exactly the same thing, but Scotland and England are totally different.

Now this is better commentary than that which you've been putting out of late.

Unfortunately, isn't this laziness vs. strongman similar to the ignorance vs. evil-genius dichotomy pushed forth under Bush II by his opponents?

The 'impossible' is just something that hasn't been done yet.

Quoting a work of fiction doesn't make your point unless your point applies only within that world.

Unless, of course, you think we can solve global warming by reversing the polarity of the neutron flow (or perhaps Gandalf can just not let any IR photons pass, if you prefer fantasy solutions over scifi ones).

Climate has always changed, the concept of "Damage" is only relevant to those affected by it. But lets pretend that they're the same thing, because it will gather more clicks.

We've been paying for roads by the mile for decades, via gas taxes -- an effective way of making people who drive more, pay more.

That might be true if gas taxes were more than double what they are now.

Funds from gas taxes go to a fund accessible to the federal highway administration -- which is to say that they don't pay for city streets at all, which are covered purely by property taxes. Even then, the FHWA only covers about 49% of highway costs, meaning that the majority of the costs of highways remain borne by the states, and are paid out of different taxes.

(This is a sore point because so many folks wrongly consider cyclists freeloaders on account of not paying gas taxes -- when the amount of wear put on roads is proportional to cubed vehicle weight, making the road wear caused by cyclists negligible, whereas the property taxes and state sales taxes paid are not).

This mechanism makes me wonder whether another mechanism, involving the solar wind / magnetic field and a planetary magnetic field or ionosphere, might also produce a detectable radio signature.

I think that sooner or later they'd be restricted to the track for their self-driving desires(and I don't think motorsports will go away that soon) due to insurance costs.

If self driving cars are shown to reduce accidents by 90%, that's roughly a 90% reduction in insurance expenses, which can amount to a couple thousand a year pretty quick. In short, even if a self driving car is $10k more expensive, if it saves you $1500 or more a year in insurance costs, discounting any savings from improved fuel economy or time recovered, it's worth it.

Now consider who has the highest insurance costs - people with DUIs - I can see drunk drivers being forced into self-driving vehicles very quickly, without manual overrides. People with bad driving records. Young/New Drivers.

Then you get the exact same thing as you did with automatic transmissions. Once you start putting those that would be driving in automated cars rather than making them actually do the driving, they'll tend to stick with self driving cars. Then it'll expand to the point that finding a vehicle with manual controls is about as easy as finding a vehicle in the USA with a manual transmission.

You're thinking about flying drones, not driverless cars. Depending on the drone it pretty much varies between the remote operator actually flying it all the way down to simply programming a flight path that the drone then uses to take off, fly, and land without further intervention. Most military drones do have plenty of intervention, but again, that can range from taking over and 'flying' to simply adjusting waypoints.

Perhaps sad, but my first thought was 'What about all the DUI revenue?' If you remove the steering wheel and associated equipment and simply put a big emergency stop button around where the hazard switch is now, you can get into expensive court battles about 'actual control' and all that. Going by various court cases, people have gotten out of DUIs when they proved they were sleeping in or around a vehicle that was, in fact, disabled and unable to move without repair.

I'll note that the case I remember there was no proof that the guy drove. He drove to the convenience store, bought his alcohol, then was unable to get the vehicle restarted(reason unstated in the article). He then pretty much said 'screw it' and started drinking. Offers responded and they were also unable to start the vehicle, but charged him with dui anyways. He won.

So what stops me from just picking up one of these "burner" phones and (presumably prepaid) credit cards to actually use for legitimate purposes?

Hell, even if they just send me a bottom-of-the-barrel tracphone, hey, free $30 flip-phone to keep in the car for emergencies (911 will work on any activated US cell phone, regardless of its in-service status)!

I mentioned that... 'less so for short term dwellings'. Also, low level exit signs are good no matter what - even residents can get turned around in thick smoke.

Mandating fire codes that are less stringent for permanent lodging, where people are more often cooking than hotel/motel rooms, seems counterproductive.

When you participate in a pyramid scheme

Funny how you dumb fucks never get tired of showing off your ignorance regarding that term every time Bitcoin comes up.

You'd think after having your betters correct you a few hundred times over the past three years, you might have learned a bit.

Then again, that presumes an AC actually means to stand behind their post rather than just see who bites. Oh well.

/ Pull the hook out of his mouth.