Don't crash into anything while moving from point A to point B is a fairly unambiguous goal which computers should be able to handle, even if the details in reality are fairly complicated. Only kill bad people is not the same thing at all.

It's a bright shade of very pale peach/yellow. If I were any more pale, I would be almost like an albino but without the pink eyes.

Except when I get out in the sun, then it's a bright shade of red, almost like an albino with sunburn.

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For the sarcasm impaired: We all have colored skin.

We have some limited recycling in San Diego, but it doesn't create potable water. Most of our waste water is treated and discharged into the ocean.

There has been discussion about building water recycling plants but there is a lot of FUD created about it by the reactionary opposition. I think their successful labeling of it as "toilet to tap" has been especially damaging to attempts to move forward with the idea.

We need water recycling plants. Why are we wasting money on desalination when we can recycle our water for a fraction of the cost?

In what manner was the US government concerned with privacy?

After 9-11, we were supposed to just stop being Americans and give up the whole idea of what our founding fathers wanted.
Be a coward, and given them all the power they want, and see where that will get you.

I disagree. Bitcoin has major value in sending money worldwide without fees. Also, it can be used with only a cellphone and an account. Bitcoin could revolutionize 3rd world involvement in the world economy without the blockades that banks have traditionally put in their way.

Right now, Bitcoin is the only way to send money to Wikileaks or mega.co.nz. If you believe in free speech without the government bankrupting foreigners even before a trial just because the banking industry or the MAFIAA doesn't like them, then you should be pro-bitcoin.

... as long as you need it to minus one second.

Sadly, when they get to the "have you ever been convicted of a felony" question, a lot of employers are forced to say "sorry, we aren't allowed to hire you for this position due to legal/contractual/insurance-carrier requirements". But that's a discussion for another time.

1) How much of the available frequency does this chew up, and 2) if it is directional, how tight is the beam?

These are important considerations for things like mobile-service, which is typically not "narrow-beam."

If the weather issue can be worked out, I see this as being useful for "fixed-wireless" applications, such as broadcast-television (think "cable TV without the cable and without the dish") and point-to-point communications (think "wireless U-Verse").

Subject to downtime due to weather-related interference, a point-to-point/narrow-beam version of this could be used to bring very-high-bandwidth, reasonable-latency Internet- and "cable TV" to rural areas that are currently not wired and which it's not economical to put in traditional non-directional cell towers. It could also be used for wireless point-to-point backhaul connection for events that are in remote areas such as Burning Man (actually, that's a bad example as they already have their Internet connectivity solved, but if there were a "new" Burning-man-like festival out in the middle of nowhere...).

A few hundred dollars is not reasonable. Reasonable is at most the cost of a generic, not-in-demand domain name (i.e. under $5/year) and even that is high. The cost of the block should be high enough to cover the cost to the registrar for the paperwork involved plus a token profit (no more than, $1).

Anything more is tanamount to extortion: "Pay us $HUNDREDS or some other company will buy the domain and do who knows what with it. It will cost you $THOUSANDS in legal fees to get a court to enjoin that company from using the name, so pay us $HUNDREDS now or pay someone else $THOUSANDS later."

Or, "Jury nullification should be rare because the circumstances that would justify it should be rare."

First they pressed you. Then they re-pressed you. Now you are flat.

If you want to control this kind of thing, require that users turn over something that can be tied to their real-life identity, like a cell phone #. Then verify that what they give you is real.

Then make them swear that they have not received or been offered any compensation.

If you later discover that they probably lied, you can sue them.

As for people logging in from countries where suing the person individually is not an option, one thing you can do is limit the visibility of their comments, perhaps by limiting them to others who are from the same country.

Yes, there are ways to get around this (proxies, VPNs, disposable phones, etc.) but it will raise the cost of doing business for those companies who do "shill reviews."