If the computer had been in control, it might have been able to avoid the accident that the human was unable to avoid. But in the rush to find fault with the computers, nobody is considering that angle.

I think that would be just to hillary your hard drive, not rehillary it. It may take on a life like Robert Bork (i.e. to be borked).

You can't just do this without insider help. And by insiders, I mean government officials.

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As a bonus, these drones will cost more per unit than the threshold for a felony in practically every state. Getting caught will pretty much get you a felony rap sheet and time in the big house - either for theft of destruction of property or both. And there's a very high likelihood you will, given the monitoring which will be required to fly under FAA guidelines.

It will be a non-issue I suspect.

Plus, Amazon will know immediately if there's a loss of a drone and can dispatch a replacement to keep the end users happy.

I might have bitten, except for this. A year in this product space is pretty large. And I'm sure DX will have a clone in their shop by July or August 2016 that's $5-6.

Works poorly because of operator limitations?

There's a band of error to all operations; I would expect a suitable band could be chosen for automated flight. For non-automated flight, a list of requirements to provide an experienced pilot a reasonable chance of success. And fail safes for problems - such as automatic recovery deployment in the event of an critical flight sustainability error. There are no perfect methods, but there are acceptable risks.

I should add - it's not illegal to decrypt your own media for personal uses which are allowed under fair use and other laws, but it's not legal for anyone else to help you do so. It's like locking you in a cell and saying that you may leave any time, which is your right, if you choose to unlock the door. But you can't hire anyone to unlock it for you, give you a key, or even teach you locksmithing. It's a fucked up world.

Code can be a weapon (stuxnet, et al.). It isn't, in this case, of course - but it can be.

There are several tacks to take on this particular file. From the point of view of the State Dept, it looks like they are regulating this similar to encryption and weaponizable technologies which are regularly embargoed. For example, it's not unusual to be restricted from selling a project which contains encryption technology the NSA can't break. It's also illegal to sell - or even give away - a program which removes encryption from encrypted media (DVDs, BluRay discs).

Of course, he still has to show he has been harmed in order to have standing. It will be interesting to see this play out.

If it were all about money, they'd hire all women and only have to pay them 78c on the dollar. Amiright?

Wouldn't these be considered trade secrets and under the responsibility of the sorority to guard against disclosure? If the physical pieces are not trademarked, nor the written contents or acts copyrighted as a performance. Note that a quick Google shows they were founded in 1913, which would make all of their original text public domain.

(Oh, and Streisand Effect, of course)

If they do (and it's unlikely as there's a *lot* of legacy that stays in the tax code regardless of changes for future options), having a Roth is no worse than having a regular savings account. Actually, its better because all of the gains and dividends are tax free while they're in the account. Worst case is you roll it into a non-retirement account and pay taxes on the gains, probably on an extended time frame for capture.

Yeah, but it always happened when they were gone...it was like those god damned aliens *waited* until lunch time to pull their stunt, and no matter how fast the scientists rushed to get back - sometimes not even waiting until the food was done - it always happened right before they got back. ;-)

(btw - I naturally didn't rtfa, but if they worked odd shifts from time to time it would have show up occasionally during non-work hours, throwing them off.)

"One would need to start with a giant wrecking ball and remove everything ever built there and then set a population cap on an entirely new city to be built in its place.

Your proposal is acceptable.

I asked about a procedure with my ENT a while back. He actually didn't know the total cost (though it was fairly common). He thought his fees would be in the 2k range, but he didn't know what the hospital would charge for a few hours of a room, operating theater, and support. So I called the hospital - and they didn't know either.

MSAs (medical savings accounts) already exist, but are limited to people who choose HDHPs (high deductable health plans, with special limits) and to about $3k/yr for singles and $6k/yr for families. It's your money, going pre-tax into your savings/investment account and able to be withdrawn for medical uses tax free. It's not federal government.

What we need is a way to ensure that services are not billed to private clients (individuals) for more than large corporate clients (insurers). If I pay cash for a procedure, I shouldn't be charged 5-10X what I would be charged if I were insured.