Energy density of the fuel alone means nothing, energy density of the entire powertrain, end to end, does. Check the numbers and you'll find that they are pretty damn close due to inherent inefficiencies of internal combustion engines.

Actually, I'm pretty sure the correct answer will be calculated and given to programmers by insurance companies.
They have a very well defined and characterized value of human life - at different stages of life, too. And for situations like these the formulas will drive them. Hitting a Mercedes with a real estate agent in it will likely be more costlier than bumping a Yaris off the road.

Uhm .. Since when is star wars "science fiction" ? Its like calling tampon commercials porn..

There are hardly any ARM CPUs or MCUs around that will ever get inserted in a socket. They are all mostly SMD chips.

>> And much of is in still in use - embedded devices that last for 15+ years, for example.

Nobody in their right mind uses OpenSSL in embedded projects. There are much better suited alternatives out there.

The line between "embedded" or non-embedded systems is somewhere where you have an MMU to use or not.

Lame reply to self but, yeah, according to the most basic static analysis tools, it was broken in 2012
http://www.viva64.com/en/b/018...
and still broken in 2013
http://www.viva64.com/en/b/025...

In all this hoopla i havent bothered to look at the code in question yet, but im always slightly dismayed when i throw some popular open source stacks at commonly available but expensive static analysis tools like Coverity or Klocwork.
There are plenty of companies running full open source stack servers with the licenses available - i wonder how often things like OpenSSL and other critical infrastructure pieces go through the best static analysis tools available ? And how much of it gets addressed.

If my calculations are correct, there is a 50/50 chance of a twit being a twat.

There are dozens of ways of obtaining indirect climate data, and they are already compiled into comprehensive databases. You would have to show more than one of them being substantially wrong to disprove the full reconstructions.
These data sets are continuously reviewed, amended and further improved by thousands of people around the world.
You want to call all of it "questionable data" - please publish your papers.

>> the proxies can not be independently verified

The proxies are VERIFIED against each other, and over the time span that we DO have accurate instrumental records. Guess what, they match up, minus normal statistical uncertainty which is continuously further and further reduced by incorporating as many independent observations as possible. There are literally many dozens of methods of recovering climate data from human records and paleoclimate records.
There is this whole field of science called statistics and data analysis, try looking into it some time.

>> with a proposed burden of proof that claims to immunize it against questioning or any part

wtf are you on about ? Every historical data record is carefully examined and questioned, and compared to other data sources. Every discrepancy is investigated.
Go ahead, and go question the things like CLIWOC, RECLAIM and ICOADS database, ships and farmers logs, alpine peatland records, ice cores, tree rings, pollen calibration, coral growth, sediments etc etc. Its being done by climate scientists and climate historians every single day.
Maybe you ought to publish a paper or two about how its all wrong and not questioned ?

Thats not how it works, the reconstructed records are not simply and aggregate of all the proxy methods averaged or summed up, this is not 3rd grade math or Spreadsheets 101.

Its called data reconstruction, and the existing large scale records factor use multiple proxy methods of records of reconstructing the temperature records.
There are multiple indirect ( or proxy ) ways of obtaining temperature history, and all of these would have to be invalidated to prove the existing reconstructions wrong.
The reconstruction models match with accurate instrument measurements that we have for a past hundred years or so.

Educate yourself
https://www.skepticalscience.c...

There are dozens and dozens, multi-proxy reconstructions of temperature records.

https://www.skepticalscience.c...
https://www.skepticalscience.c...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

Its called science.

You realize COM is about the only solid thing about Windows ? It pretty much holds everything together, and there is no other code componentization approach out in there that is even slightly as capable or robust, that would be widely deployed.
They thought .NET and managed stuff will replace COM - well it didn't, backtracking is happening rather quickly.

Yes, COM is long in the tooth and would benefit from a major revision that is not backwards compatible over the binary interfaces, but the fundamental ideas of COM are solid. One binary component talking to other binary component through stable binary interfaces, regardless of the languages used, threading models on either sides etc.