"whose idea of the sun being the center of the solar system was deemed quite absurd by the orthodoxy of his time - yet turned out to be true."

It should also be noted that he didn't invent this concept; it was known amongst learned people. It's just that he said it out loud and demonstrated why it fit the data best.

"There wouldn't be any liability on you, because you're just like a passenger in a taxi," says Santa Clara University law professor Robert Peterson."

Somebody better tell the good professor the owner would be the first on hook.

"And that is why Honda has the reputation that they have."

As one of the most reliable cars on the market?

Tesla is not considered a reliable car as shown Consumer Reports owner surveys.

"Building an app, for example, can't be done in a couple of hours, it "requires multi-dimensional learning contexts, pathways and projects."

While this is complete gobbledygook, apparently nobody knows the difference between Computer Science and Software Engineering.

You can study computer science and not be able to write a line of code.

Conversely, you can be a software engineer, and know almost nothing of computer science.

They are separate discipline. And it's not clear of the value of learning either for most student.

H1-B is bringing in guest workers to the United States, but keeping the work in house.

Offshoring is simply moving the work to a foreign country.

The article and summary seem to have confused the two.

The headline:

"U.S. Goverment Shames Texting Drivers on Twitter "

Is what should be shamed. Stare at it for a while, boys.

âoeThe core business of the plaintiff [Axel Springer] is to deliver ads to its visitors. Journalistic content is just a vehicle to get readers to view the ads.â

You have to admire this kind of honesty. They admit their business is to serve ads. So complaints about "journalistic integrity" can't really be made of this site (or indeed any other).

Is this some sort of lyric to a Thomas Dolby Song?

One of the great albums of the 80's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"He believes technology companies should work with the government on encryption rather than leaving the issue for Congress to decide."

If Obama said that, what is he really saying?

"What Apple *should* do (and should have already done), is to create a security system that they would not have the ability to help the FBI hack into. They have already indicated they are working on this."

Precisely. I can think of at least two ways to do this that would make the "skeleton key" scenario moot. One of those ways would make brute forcing impossible, but would require significantly greater processor power and memory.

I like uBlock, but it doesn't play well with Ghostery. I haven't decided which is better, and so I run both and let them battle it out.

The "White List" thing sounds like a cool idea in theory, but in practice, I find a "black list" thing is more desirable, particularly when you block javascript.

Most sites require javascript. But some sites do obnoxious stuff like preventing printing or stop you from trying to copy text. That's where I want to block Javascript.

Javascript blocking should at this point be a blacklist option.

It's only $1/year after you spend $200 replacing every power supply in your house.

The ROI on that is.... interesting.

" then a reduction in running costs will eventually offset the initial purchase cost"

Almost impossible.

The single biggest cost in running a car is depreciation. And heavy use actually makes that worse.

"citing a flood of requests for electricity to power bitcoin mining operations. "

Tell the electric company you have to power an iron lung, and an electric kidney. What were you thinking?

"Firehose itself is pretty new"

At least 10 years old, perhaps longer.