I respectfully submit a request to change the tag on this story from "education" to "indoctrination".

Quite frankly, I would not object to this, provided we have a choice of purchasing it. (There would be privacy issues I'd like to see addressed prior to buying, and if I don't like what I see, I'd prefer to not be forced into it.)

If I could hand over the driving to the computer when I'm doing a long-distance drive, ESPECIALLY when driving on a major highway that goes through a metropolitan area like Washington DC, I would be all over that. If for no other reason that a computer will not succumb to "Brake Light Accordion Games", where the idiot ahead of me rides with their left foot on the brake.

I hate drivers that do that. They cause all the drivers behind them to step on their brakes, which causes a ripple-effect all they way back, resulting in a 3-mile stretch of highway where traffic is moving at a snail's pace, but there are no obstructions of any kind.

That reason alone is more than sufficient reason to turn driving over to a computer. I could hop on to the I-95 auto-drive lane and say, "Self-drive off. Destination Boston, Massachusetts." And just go to sleep for the duration of most of the drive.

Heck, if it's a Tesla, I could set it up to automatically drive into a SwapStation to change out the battery without even waking me up!

Storytime!

My friend was at his friend's house back in 1990, when their dad came home. My friend noticed something on his tie, and it was a microchip. My friend was-and still is-really into computers, so he asked about it. The gentleman explained that it was a 250 megabyte memory chip.

Once again, a 250 megabyte chip, back in 1990.

He explained that they had a failure rate of 90%, and that most of them were simply blowing up the moment they were powered up. And indeed, the one on his tie had a small burn hole in the back, hence it's retasking as a tie clip.

The question you all need to be worried about, is: "What happened to the 10% that survived????"

What project did they end up in? How long did they have chips with a 100% success rate before they were released to the public? I mean, look at TEMPEST? It wasn't until 1985 that the non-military scientific sector was even made aware of it.

Did you think that the 1960 Monty Python sketch, "Fish License" mentioning the "Cat Detector Van" came out of the blue? They were poking fun at the TV Detector Vans, which everyone thought was ludicrous. But what we were not told, is that those vans are driving around, with their equipment tuned to the same oscillation frequency of the electron gun in the cathode ray tubes.

TV detectors in 1960.

So. Here we have a nice, public show with all kinds of clunky, ker-bonky, teeter-totter, weeble-wobble toys that look like they came out of a K'nex kit at Toys-r-Us.

Meanwhile, in some nondescript building in Reston Virginia, a group of researchers are laughing about this video/story while they wait for US Navy nukes with TS-SCI clearances to replace the Plutonium power core in the android that looks like something out of a Battlestar Galactica / Terminator cross-over.

I think the point they were trying to make, is that an electronic switch is a lot more fragile than a hardware switch. Electronics are particularly susceptible to damage from radiation, which is why you can't just send in robots to do all the cleanup work in a reactor accident. Chips get fried just like we do, sometimes even faster.

So technically, once you drag the irradiated corpses out of an analog control room, you'll be able to use the same switches that are already there. With electronic switches, they'll all need to be replaced.

It's about time we start to see PRACTICAL vehicles in this contest!

I hope they do well!

It's a great idea, so long as you don't turn day-to-day operations over to an AI.

It's the one-way mirror in the room where the test is being administered.

I've been through a polygraph for something *very* serious. Some of our crypto just went "*poof*", and everyone was quite concerned. Understandably, so, too! Crypto is *not* supposed to just go "*poof*".

We were all asked if we wanted to take a polygraph, and I gladly volunteered, since it really did just vanish. (We later determined that the tape in question had been included in the daily destruction by mistake.) But even volunteering for it, a polygraph is a scary thing if you know nothing about it.

So I did my research. And yes, those websites were all visited and read, in detail. During the test, I tried some of the techniques that were taught, and sure enough, they work! You can make that machine sing "Bad Romance" as good as Lady Gaga. I thought it was kinda fun, actually?

But see, the machine was just to butter you up. If you were up to no good, the machine would make you nervous, even if you DO know how to manipulate it. And in the end, it doesn't matter.

There's a one-way mirror, and behind that mirror is a team of 3-4 people who are all very good at reading human beings. And they have thermographic cameras that measure your facial temperature to help them in reading those who are good at controlling their body language.

At the end of the day, a polygraph is just a tool that makes someone's job that much easier. It's just one tool in a chest of many, because no single tool alone is enough to get to the truth of the matter.

My own investigation was with NIS, who are very good at what they do, and very professional. They were after the truth, not a conviction. So I have no complaints about how *I* was treated. But if someone is looking for a victim, then having this information just might save your life.

We already have HOV lanes, so why not just make those "AOV" lanes, for Autonomously Operated Vehicles?

1. Access would be strictly controlled. You can't get in unless our vehicle is AOV capable.

2. You pull into an entry lane and wait for the system to negotiate with your vehicle. Once the a connection is established, it takes control.

3. The system calculates when to start accelerating, and adjusts the existing traffic flow to create a gap for your vehicle. The vehicle starts moving and travels down the entry lane to merge with flowing traffic, which never stops, and only slows down a little bit.

4. Your vehicle stays in the flow until you reach destination proximity, and you get a choice between a rest area parking lot, or resuming manual control to drive on normal roads. If you're asleep or not paying attention, it simply parks your car in the rest area.

"i prefer the prieces of nuclear power..."

Ask the people of Fukushima how they feel about those low-low prices.

But Germany gets so much more sun than the US! We can't compete with that?!

(I wish I were kidding...)

...that investment bankers and stockbrokers are a form of infectious disease?

Hmmm. Then perhaps I should ammend my observations to...

"Government contractors are not subject to FOIA requests, unless they come from another contractor with sufficient financial resources and existing contracts, who can cause significant financial pain to the government, should the government ignore the request out of hand."

Regarding the massive shift of systems and services, including surveillance, to private contractors? A friend of mine with inside knowledge of the intelligence services pointed out something very important...

Government agencies are subject to the Freedom of Information Act and congressional oversight committees.

Private companies are not.

They also pointed out that even if a certain bit of information is in the possession of a government agency, if it was collected and/or held by a private contractor, that is often used as an excuse to not fulfill a FIFA request.

It probably wasn't MRSA.

1. You're still alive.
2. You still have your leg.
3. The infection didn't advance past the Sharpie.

MRSA, also known as the "flesh-eating bacteria" doesn't give up so easily.

I've had several infections in my shins, and they're a bitch to get rid of, because I have Compartment Syndrome, and poor circulation in that area. The doc has to nuke the bugs with high doses for a full two weeks, which means my guts get wiped out too.

Ugh!

Check out the Mail Online article at the end.

Full-head coverage sunblock masks seem to be a very big thing in China, getting more and more popular every year.

I can't wait until they figure out how much more awesome those masks will be when they start decorating them like a Luchador.

Going to the beach will become quite an adventure!