The summary mentions that funding is at $4.5 million and Seth will match $1 million above $4 million.

The project is at $4.66 million now with 41 hours left. Seth is going to be in for $1 million.

I like his shows, but he is showing some true character lately. Good guy all around.

Wish I had mod points, although I'd have to decide between Funny and Insightful, it is both.

Slashdot was mentioned prominently in the comments for the project once it hit the front page.

I followed the posts that day (Tuesday?) and comments were much more lively than before that point.

I RTFA and the company, SkyTran, is based in California, USA. In fact, the CEO is a former Navy Seal (he also has a lot of international experience, but none previously involving Israel, from what is listed).

They do have an attorney in Israel.

http://skytran.us/skytran-team...

This doesn't explain why Tel Aviv was chosen as the first build out.

A very apt question in this case.

And the next question, Who Prosecutes the Watchers?

Here's more info regarding the link that NormalVisual provided.

Spidey is an Android app that tracks the cell towers available at a location and can supposedly notify you when new towers show up (or at least identify them by comparing against prior scans).

I've been trying to use it, but I can't get it to pick up more than one tower at a time, in downtown St. Louis (I would expect several towers to be visible).

Here's a presentation about the application:
https://docs.google.com/presen...

Here's the download link for the app:
https://rink.hockeyapp.net/app...

Hear, hear! I'm 40 and just entering the most interesting part of my career (architecture and rapid prototyping).

Relevant to the article, I'm also a guy.

I loved those bible sized tomes, reading about all of the computers I couldn't afford because I was a poor college student. It was all about the advertising, and it was fantastic.

You are correct about 18 cents all at once never happening.

But the summary says it's 12 cents over 2 years.

I'd mod you up if I had points. Elon Musk is a true visionary of our times. I hope he continues to have success with his current endeavors, and even more with future projects.

I can't think of anyone who is changing the world in constructive ways like he is.

One word, use tax havens in the Caribbean. Who doesn't do that?

If a company says that what you do is public, there is no recourse. As long as what they are sharing is clearly stated (how it's used, I'm not so sure). If a company says blatantly that certain information is public, then it can be so.

For a while I worked for an US based international insurance company, with several years on an underwriting project (medical record images and data). The project didn't involve business in the US, there was already a system for that. We kept UK data in our UK servers. European data was stored in Canada (latency is a bitch). The Asian/Australian data was in Australia, Malaysia, and Hong Kong. South African and Indian data were in South Africa.

One day the Indian office was told that keeping the personal records (medical info) in South Africa wasn't good enough for Indian records. Data privacy. We had to move personal data to the UK.

The distributed service design I put together allowed us to move personally identifying data to the UK (database moves), and a simple endpoint update to the client configuration was all that was needed on the code side. The latency increase was substantial (> 1 second per request for personal info) but the regulatory requirements were met.

International data can be complicated, but if it is made clear that things are public the situation is much more simple.

Everyone is playing by the same rules. We may not like the rules, but they define how the game is played. At this time it is up to a company to identify patents they may be infringing.and avoid infringement or seek to license as required.

And if litigation starts, I'm sure the initiating party has to disclose the patents in question (probably along with a non-disclosure agreement).

Apple and Amazon play the same way, as do many companies.

Can you estimate how many hours you have spent playing Donkey Kong? Is it still fun to play?

That's the Cat Turing Test.

The full gas station concept makes sense even with free charging . Gas stations don't clear much on gas sales, most profit comes from ancillary sales of other products and services.

Private many stations charge for the electricity. I could see gas stations replacing a pump station with a super charger (in spots on the peripheries of his implemented and planned build out, and affluent - could probably have a nice gas station with a small upscale grocery - change the entire experience of the gas station).

As for Tesla/Elon Musk, it's incredible what he has done so far in his life. He is destroying boundaries and making markets.