So, Apple is developing a product that will only work for stoners who grow pot in their parent's basement?

Especially since people today are very rarely outdoors, in sunlight. Solar panels generate much less power from artifical light.

Didn't there used to be a strip bar named Silicone Heaven?

And yeah, there were a lot of accountants there.

Copied from the Citroën DS - it had the regular horn for in-town use, and a wake-the-dead horn for highway use.

And yes, if you accidentally hit the highway mega-horn when a little old lady was crossing the street in front of you, it was embarrasing.... not that I'd know that myself, of course, just heard rumours.

It is a tad surprising how many swear words a 90 year old lady actually knows.

Go to any parking lot; wait for someone to lock or unlock their car. Honk.

Driverless cars will still need to be locked, so they will presumably still honk on a regular basis.

So that you can hear noise from your kids bedrooms, but they can't hear the (ahem) noises from yours? Although, seriously, soundproof your walls and get a baby monitor.

This sounds more to me like "let's invent this and see what we can do with it", than an invention with a current application.

How many copies does the government buy per year? And how many do they really need?

£200 million over 4 years, at the single-unit MSRP of £199, is about 250,000 new copies per year. If we factor in a reasonable discount, say 50%, that is 500,000 copies. According to the government, total headcount is about 450,000. Does every single government employee need a brand new copy of Office every single year??

A $35 Chromecast has all the hardware needed to do exactly the same thing.

Actually, a Chromecast, an Amazon AWS virtual instance, and some software to tie it together would make a fair game console, *if* they could get the latency low enough. (You'd need to add a low-latency back channel to send local controller inputs back to the server; so make it a $50 Chromcast2). Might not be possible *yet*, but you can bet they are thinking about it.

Then why do people build houses? Why were things like the furnace and the air conditioner invented? Heck, why was clothing invented?

Most of Earth's surface is an unsustainable environment for humans, for at least part of the year. We only live on this planet because we have developed many ways of altering the environment.

The "437 days in space" is a lie - humans cannot survive at all in space. The 437 days was in a capsule, a local modification of the true environment of outer space.

In this case, the web site "quoted a brief excerpt and a short summary". So they not only linked to the material - they had a (partial) copy of it as well.

Fair use - as in a movie review - does not apply here, since it is not a published work. So, link or not, Defamer/Gawker are guilty of copyright infringement.

Since the battery was charged by burning gasoline in the engine, how does that make it "absolutely zero emissions"?

The rubber that comes off a tyre in one lap at speed should also qualify as pollution.