Only if you're the last vestiges of the Holy Roman Empire, that's not holy, not Roman, and certainly not an empire...

Isn't burnt reserved for use as an adjective, as in, "burnt offering", while burned would be the verb form?

Out on the motorway it gave ample warning of a police car approaching on the opposite carriageway. The LEDs slowly went from green to yellow to red. In theory this gave plenty of time to check the speedometer or stash any mobile phones that shouldn’t be in use.

Last time I was pulled over, the speed limit dropped from 65 MPH to 45 MPH in a couple-hundred feet, and the officer was parked 100 feet past the 45MPH sign. Relying on an approximate range to the officer wouldn't have helped in those circumstances.

Because Canada is apparently filled with horny adolescent fantasies.

La Femme Nikita
LEXX
Andromeda

Can confirm.

Fact of the matter is, we can't really draw an analogy to predict how an AI, especially a learning AI with the ability to self-edit, would behave.

I think that AIs that can self-edit need to be limited to no network connectivity outside of the building which they work, and that they need to be limited to research. Either special-field research, or AI research.

That's daemons. And it's still pronounced "demon", as Caesar is pronounced "cesar"

This isn't the sort of thing that "the market" can decide. I expect that it'll end up in court.

I wouldn't be surprised if patents come into it too, and since retailers aren't technology companies, they probably won't have the patents to even develop what they want without licensing, and tech companies with those patents are under no obligation to license them.

"First they came for the Tea Party, but I did not speak out because I wasn't a fiscal conservative."

Hint, neither are they.

Flynn, an ardent libertarian, thought that as early as the turn of the millennium, private industry would be ready to offer all kinds of spaceflight services that the general public would rush to buy, such as FedEx delivery anywhere on Earth in 90 minutes.

Right now, there's simply no market for that kind of delivery, and launches are not able to be set-up and made in that short of a duration either.

There's literally almost nothing on this world that is both so unique as to exist singularly and so instantly-needed potentially anywhere to justify the expense of launching that one thing into a suborbital flight on a rocket for delivery. Between warehousing of goods and relatively rapid transport of things by-air, just about anything the size and mass of a car can be transported to anywhere in the world in about a day.

If there were a market for delivery faster than that, I would expect surplus military supersonic jets would take up that market. Get something the size of a human being anywhere in the world in under twelve hours.

Unfortunately we can see how supersonic really isn't in demand; the Concorde never saw its fleet expand beyond its initial, tiny order, and when it was retired from age and design flaws rearing their ugly heads there was nothing to replace it. If anything would justify instant transportation it would be passengers, not cargo, and if there simply aren't enough passengers to keep a fleet of fourteen flying, then I don't see how Flynn's dreams were in any way close to reality.

He also stresses that Microsoft will continue to invest in and value "fundamental research".

That's a load of bull. Just about every company that's had significant research institutions and has closed them down has suffered long-term from that choice. Xerox, Bell, IBM, and several others in telecom/computing alone have done this and suffered the consequences.

Fundamental research is what drives long-term profit. Sure, it costs money. But it also produces patentable products that can revolutionize the market and allow the company to profit from patent licensing even when they aren't interested in the market that the patent would apply to. Get rid of the research and the company's products go stale over time, no new ideas, rehashing of existing ones to the point that someone with new innovation comes along and steals away all of the customers. Short-term it might make more profit, but long term it's like selling one's investments for cash.

This is a terrible mistake for Microsoft.

I'm trying to wrap my brain around how these news outlets thought it was bad for Google to send traffic their way. Seems like any news agency would want to be a high-placed hit on Google's, or anyone else's, news listing.

Depends on how the network is VLANned. I agree, it's not optimal for certain, but in cases where the management team for the devices have one VLAN for just themselves trunked to them, and where they use a common set of credentials to manage (ie, no TACACS/Radius) then it's not really any less secure.

Admittedly if someone makes a mistake and puts the wrong user on that VLAN, or if they need to get to the devices from elsewhere then they may have to traverse the network before getting to that VLAN, so there are issues. I wouldn't use Telnet anymore either if it can be avoided.

Sorry, forgot to add, I hate the looks of the Leaf. I'd be fine with an electric car that looks like a normal car, but I don't want a Prius or a Leaf or a Volt, I want something that looks normal.

I've considered converting an old pickup with batteries under the bed, but lead-acid would be the most likely battery, and the truck still runs too well to do that to it right now.

I want 150 miles based on the size of the (sub)urban area in which I live. My commute is 20 miles round-trip. My wife's is 40 miles round-trip. I want to be able to at least reach downtown after work and back home again. It's also not uncommon to do things on the weekends that are much further away than work.

I don't think that 150 miles is unreasonable. That's half of the range of a gasoline powered car on a single tank of fuel. I'd love it if a car could get a 300-mile range for $30,000, but I know we're not there yet.

Unfortunately any large collection of people destroys the ability of a modern cell network to communicate with handsets. When I go to conventions I bring my 2m HT. Granted that means I'm limited to talking with other hams, but still better than absolutely nothing.