The flaws in height-based segmentation of airspace are obvious: you've got to cross through the lower, unregulated height zones to get to the other zones! What zones to they recommend reserving for pistol-equipped drones?

They are already talking about running massive data servers entirely in flash: https://newsoffice.mit.edu/201... I'm thinking using this instead would be an obvious improvement. Of course, that assumes they actually deliver decent price-per-byte of memory. You'll probably see this first in massive NSA data farms... or rather, it will probably be used in them, and nobody will tell you about it, so you won't see it at all.

Hey! I've still got a half-dozen boxes with IDE-only disks! (Would you like one? I'm willing to part with them for cheap!)

Magnetic memory (the re-invention of core memory with much higher density) has already been done. I believe the advantage was non-volatility, just like magnetic core memory. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/...

Since it is trivial to convert Fahrenheit to Celcius or Kelvin (just type in into Google, duh!) I don't think it really matters what units are used, as long as they are clearly labeled.

Magnetic containment vessels, just like they use for fusion reactors? Not sure about the vacuum requirements, but I agree, manufacturing anything with this alloy would be ridiculously expensive, perhaps even more expensive than using diamond vapor deposition.

"Nowhere near an engineer"... so, you're riding in the caboose, then?

Is this kind of liking finding an acid that will dissolve any substance -- what do you store it in? Exactly what do you use as a cauldron for forging parts with the substance with the highest melting point ever? (Yeah, probably magnetic containment.) Regardless, it seems rather difficult to make anything out of this stuff; if it was easy, they have produced a working sample, instead of a theoretical substance based on a computer simulation.

You don't need a prosecutor or DA to file a civil suite for libel and restraint of trade. All you need is lawyers, and I'm pretty sure Google has a lot of those.

technical issues with 3d aside, to get any meaningful information about it fitting, you first have to have actually have meaningful information about the product! this means that you would need a full 3d model of each article of clothing for each size from every seller. furthermore, you need information about the material it's made of and most importantly, how it reacts to being washed which means information about how the clothing was constructed. with all that information, you might as well be the one making the clothing.

stores aren't going by the wayside just yet.

this is only an issue for spectators because all the competitors bring their own food for good reason.

competitors don't want...
* to become ill from food you aren't used to eating.
* to get disqualified because a jingoistic jerk spiked their food.

AMD engineers have contributed OpenCL code which is an open standard that can run on many different accelerators (some not even GPUs). this is distinctly different from CUDA which only works with Nvidia stuff.

TrueCrypt (now VeraCrypt) is still alive and kicking. better than that, it's been security audited. so why go from a multiplatform system known to be secure to a bunch of scripts that only work on linux?

stop trying to fix what isn't broken.

I'm pretty sure "hipsters" was exactly the target market Apple was aiming for with the Apple watch...

Hmm... if the watch could keep track of where you are and turn lights and climate control on and off as you enter and leave rooms, that might be a killer app. (Hue controls lights, right?)