How can you use VHDL to model a microcontroller such as an Atmel AVR, Microchip PIC, TI MSP430, Freescale S12, etc.?

Even if you can model the rest of a mixed analog and digital circuit the microcontroller becomes a black box that you have to assume works correctly with all the other components.

The hard part is if you use something like a microcontroller. The code being run can be very difficult or impossible to simulate properly if you are doing anything non-trivial with I/O. Yes, you can test each section of hardware separately but in the end you still need to ensure it functions together as a whole.

They do enforce the limits. The issue is that a thousand cars going 75-85 mph will pass the unlucky motorist and police car before the officer is back in position to tag another driver. Police cars looking to tag speeding motorists is also one of the leading causes of traffic jams. Drivers see a cop manning his radar gun during high traffic and the next thing you know there is a traffic jam from people slamming on their brakes to shed 5-15 mph.

With a cosmic event horizon limiting the edge of the visible universe would it be possible to warp space to a position that is causally disconnected from us due to the speed of light? I am not sure how practical that would be but it would prevent casualty violations.

The iPod Touch is an iOS device. http://www.apple.com/ipod-touch/ios/

Similarly, NI LabVIEW has the ability to embed program code in PNG screenshots. http://www.ni.com/white-paper/9330/en

But insurance companies would probably choose to do just the opposite. Large trucks would receive less damage in an accident so would be less costly to insure. Insurance companies would use weight/3000lb and divide the insurance cost by the number instead of multiplying.

Even an "eco friendly low power" drive is between 1-2 orders of magnitude faster than 1MB/s.

How much fuel does it take to mobilize an M61 Vulcan (by sea or air)?

Another problem with "privacy policies" is that they disappear when the company does. Barnes and Noble was able to buy the intellectual property of Borders when they went bankrupt. This included all the customer information regardless of the original Borders privacy policy.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/container/stores.asp?pid=39742
So even if you trust a company if it goes out of business your information can go to the highest bidder.

Exactly. With systems like Blackboard, electronic libraries, and online classes students shouldn't have to be on the university intranet to get their work done.

If it was that much of an issue the university should connect their dorms to a separated dedicated internet line rather than the vital feed of their university network.

When I was moving I went through some old college books. I found a 5 year old project management book detailing Kodak's success at adapting to business changes. I threw it out with the rest of the trash.

Firmware updates are normally applied to a car via secure communication on the CAN-BUS (via direct connection or cd player). If an update prevents a module from accessing the CAN-BUS it would be easier to swap out the module than to reprogram the module using a different method.

Perhaps the car as a whole wasn't bricked but computer systems on it may have been.

Mostly because every Windows machine has a remote desktop client but almost none have a VNC client installed. I actually do have a UltraVNC server running but since remote desktop is easier to access I have never really used it. Honestly I forgot I even had it.