I think it's more appropriate to look at the security of qmail which was designed with security in mind vs sendmail. This software should be closer to qmail and over a few years will be patched and hardened. If the system is used for the next twenty or thirty years, that few years of hardening will have likely been worth it.

Which means it has the potential to be patched and hardened quickly over just a few years.

One tab of comments is using about 15% of one of my two cores which are running at 3 GHz. Two tabs uses another 15% and four tabs maxes out that core. Which sucks since I prefer to read the front page and open multiple tabs of stories and comments all at once.

The oceans are radioactive. So is the air and ground. In most places the radiation is so diluted that it isn't an issue.

Knowledgeable people don't blindly assume modern jets will have safety records as poor as older models. The same can be applied here.

and then the people are always just a few minutes away from their destination and never a half-hour walk in freezing or broiling temperatures...

It's not an all or nothing proposition. Pilots should be able to go through the metal detectors and that's it. Their belongings get x-rayed, and they get to bring a pocketknife or scissors through along with a gun if they have the permit.

If not one person, then two or three who take turns using an airport bathroom stall and remove the triple-saran-wrapped components. The third person assembles it and carries it aboard a plane.

In the aftermath, I expect bathrooms will have a screening station to re-enter the terminal, or removed from the secure area entirely.

Video backup systems don't store the feed forever. Waiting a month to use the activated cards should be enough time.

Perhaps the poster was confusing the size of the theorized Oort cloud? There may be specks and pebbles of matter orbiting the sun from as far away as a light year.

If Ford disabled the heated steering wheel function, but the heated seats, heat, AC, power windows, headlights, signals, engine and transmission and everything else in the car still worked... it wouldn't be the end-of-my-world-panties-in-a-bunch thing that some PS3 owners are making it out to be.

How about a pie chart/archery target? Groups of contacts are created through tags or algorithms, then displayed like slices of pie. The farther from the center, the more distant the contact. Users can touch using a finger, or click with a mouse to select what parts of the chart to share content with.

The system could remember common and uncommon chart configurations. So when a user begins selecting distant relatives, the system suggests a previous chart as an overlay.

The stations take the packs out of circulation, but they might not own the packs. Nissan and dedicated battery companies could own the packs and be responsible for recycling and disposal. The consumers ultimately pay for the packs.

I saw an article a bit ago doing the math about how many cars can move through a electric equivalent of a gas station, and something like 10x more gasoline powered cars are able to fuel up FULLY over the course of an hour.

That's why there's an alternative proposition to use replaceable battery packs. Pull the car in to the station and a mechanical device removes the tamper-resistant-and-registered bank of batteries from the car. Then it lifts a charged pack in. This also means the owners don't have to spend thousands of dollars after so many charges for a new set of batteries.

We should be able to transfer tickets with zero markup online. If I want to get rid of my tickets, I'll go to ticketmaster's tickettransfer site and register them as available. My info is kept hidden but the seats are shown. Buyers can select my seats and buy them like regular tickets. They pay what I paid, or that plus a BS $3.50 service fee. This way the venue and ticketmaster don't lose money on refunds. If the concert doesn't sell out that's tough luck for me.