Bit faster than the first, way faster than the second, for typical values of bit and way.

to lay off 100% of work force.

Yes it sucks for the 15,000 that are going to get laid off, it will also suck for the remaining 85,000 plus all of Dells partners if the company goes completely under. The past 20 years have seen numerous large and small PC companies go under. This is what Dell has to do to survive.

I'm probably considered left of center on quite a few fiscal issues but the slant in this article is pretty pathetic.

And an autonomous car will be much better than you at calculating all the variables. It can look both ways, behind and ahead, nearly instantly calculate multiple closing speeds and decide the best outcome. It may decide getting rear ended is better, it may decide traveling all the way through the intersection is better.

The point is, you have to invoke bugs or failure to come up with a scenario where a human will be better at avoiding an accident than an autonomous car. Most humans are nearly oblivious to what's going on around them while they drive.
 

An autonomous car will be even better than you in that situation, *if* it's programmed for it. Not only can it always be looking behind (and sideways, forward etc) it can gauge the oncoming car's closing speed, deceleration etc and figure out how far to move forward.

The lesson learned from the example is they need to add some rules that it's ok to enter an intersection through a red light or stop sign if it means avoiding getting rear ended.

Try plastering a wall for 8 hours a day or framing for 8 hours a day or any other physical labor, if you can't move your finger around for 10 minutes you need to get some exercise.

Presumably taking a dirt nap. It would have been on the news but some Brit had a baby and some guy who should have known better did something he probably shouldn't have so there really wasn't an opportunity to spread the word.

Which would take quite a few Mississippis to cross.

4NM at 140NM/hour takes about a hectomississipi to traverse.

I think this is just misdirection and cover up.

How do we know there was no zombie apocalypse. Maybe they're just claiming a vulnerability to pretend the apocalypse was a fake. When was the last time you talked to somebody in Montana, would you even know if it'd been overrun ?
 

If this mutt: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57591030/probe-irs-contractor-won-up-to-$500-million-in-questionable-bids/
can claim to be a disabled vet because he hurt his ankle in high school at a prep school then the sky is definitely the limit for you.

Seriously though as others have stated your resume itself isn't nearly as important as who you send it to. You have a rare combination of skills (engineering, military, jet aircraft etc) and there are small set of companies that would give you a serious look regardless. It doesn't have to be all drones and DoD type companies, NASA and commercial engineering firms would be as well.

If "likes to blow shit up" is the metric against which dangerous people are measured maybe a wall should be built around the US so they can't get out.

I direct your attention to the AC comment currently below yours:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3779175&cid=43804491

He has a much firmer grasp on reasonable in my opinion.

This is why we need research, even in the soft sciences like history. Without such research it's trivial for put forth ideas that sound self evident and they become 'truth'.

This series of articles suggests it was economic collapse and not religious dogma. http://www.history-science-technology.com/articles/articles%208.htm

I don't know which is true, they both sound plausible. The fact is science is good and it should not be retarded in the name of religion or short term economic relief.

That's a slightly different scenario though. In this case they don't have to weed out responders to save time. For most click here, enter data here type phishing attempts it's a one time interaction. If you're dumb enough to take the first step there's no second step to save you.

I guess I shouldn't have written 'I will never understand' but I certainly don't at the moment. I'll admit it's so pervasive there may be a reason but they're usually fairly subtle errors where as the Nigerian scammers are fairly blatant. It's like spoofed web sites that are a 95% match to the original. Why not go ahead and make it 100%.

It makes me wonder if it's a legal issue, i.e. they know that if they leave the credit cards and banks an out for claiming it was the users fault for not realizing it was a scam then the legal world will be more inclined to ignore them.

I will never understand why phishing and malware attempts always have some weird tell that they're not legit. Whether it's some bizarre choice of words in the midst of an otherwise fairly legit looking piece of email or Cyrillic text in the middle of an otherwise semi-legit looking app there's always a tell.

It's as if the authors are carefully trying to prey only on the truly stupid.

Singing anthems around the bonfire tonight, pitchforks 2 for $1.

I wouldn't sweat it too much, by next week we can all go back to watching honey booboo and free-basing corn syrup.