The correct solution for an "unusual event" is almost always either "stop or pull over". If there is something on the highway
that's not suppose to be there then you should avoid it and/or stop. A decent camera should be able to spot an accident,
weather, or road construction a long ways off and find a safe spot to pull over and disengage.
For sudden events like a tire blowout, the correct solution is almost always to immediately stop the vehicle and/or safely pull over.

Basically, you don't have to plan for 100% of unknown or unusual events if you have a decent failsafe that can detect
that something is out of place and can immediately bring the vehicle to a safe stopping place.

Although I mostly agree with this in theory and also, in theory, people should never be on the interstate if you go this direction then
you better make sure your "is this an animal or a person" algorithm is rock solid.

Great suggestion. How exactly would one do that? I'm the first to admit. I suck at driving. I'm pretty good on a racetrack
but everyday driving I am a hazard to myself and others. I live 5 miles outside of town. There is no public transportation.
A taxi might be willing to take me into town but it would cost a fortune and a taxi isn't really practical for running errands.
Luckily I work from home and I'm also a much better motorcycle driver than I am a car driver so I try to use my motorcycle
as often as I can but giving a suggestion of "don't drive" isn't a very valid suggestion if there are no reasonable alternatives.

I think this depends a lot on the location, the size of the dam, and what was there before. In many cases you are
creating a lake where nothing of significant value existed before. A community springs up around the lake and
many times a state park with protected wildlife areas surrounds the lake too. In many cases the area is not
only better for people but it's better for the wildlife too.

I would have to see some stats on that. The places I know that have dams have been a boom to fish populations.
There are more fish, more fisheries, alot more water for them to swim in and alot more shoreline for them to eat at.
It probably does affect certain migrating fish populations but where I live the fish population of things like bass and
catfish are larger and healthier because of the dams.

Multiple companies have started annoucing these "enhanced" cruise controls. I don't like them at all.
Regular cruise control is sedating enough. You don't need more reasons to not pay attention to the
road unless it's 100% completely autonomous. This is just an accident waiting to happen. Do they
want to erode people's confidence and get autonomous cars outlawed before they even really exists?
I realise this is supposably an "incremental improvement" towards automation but I don't think autonomous
cars work that way. An "incremental improvement" that won't get someone killed would be a car/truck/RV
that can safely drive on just interstates and/or safely pull over. This seems like a much lower bar than
the city driving that google is trying to do and would be a useful "incremental improvement". You could
map out which interstates it works on and only engage at speeds over 60 when the GPS says you are
on a designated safe highway. This would be a useful feature that is truly hands free and allows a
company to slowly start adding roads as the technology improves but the important part is that it would
be a cruise control that you didn't have to babysit and more important it would be a cruise control
where it was safe to take a nap not one where it's tempting to take a nap so people will do it and get
killed (and kill other people in the process).

Not saying I like it but I think his outfit is fine. Why is his logo black though if his outfit is red?
If his logo would have also been red he probably would have never attracted the disney police.

What???? So as Disney is the biggest, baddest mouse then noone should fight them?
What if disney decided they wanted to license mousetraps or pest control companies?

Trademark law generally allows entities in different areas to have similiar trademarks as long as they are non overlaping.
Fighting them (although because of their size will be difficult) should be encouraged.
Ignoring for a moment that Mickey Mouse should be public domain by now, allowing companies blanket use
of generic things like "the mouse", "windows", "the like button", "the buy it now button", etc... is a quick way to have
megacorporations eliminate what little remains of competition.

I do something similiar. I use openvpn and x11vnc. I have a cron on each client that runs a
small perl script that grabs the output of several programs like top, uptime, and sensors
and then saves the results in an easy to parse file that my server periodically grabs so that
I have stuff like cpu temperature, cpu usage, memory usage, etc...
I also grab a screenshot of x11vnc using vnccapture.
I also have a way to remotely activate reverse ssh if for some reason openvpn fails.
My only problem with openvpn is key management. Creating and distributing unique keys
to each client is kindof a pain.

It was never for protection. I did ocassionally use it for useful stuff but it was mostly for show.
For years a pocket knife has always been kindof a right of passage. It's I'm now old enough
and responsible enough to safely carry a knife. It's surprising how often a knife comes in
useful. I later switched to a leatherman which comes in useful even more often.

I wasn't an official admin, I was just a student who managed to grant himself admin.
It also wasn't that she was saying it was more reliable, she was saying that her grades were more secure there.
In her defense, this was back in the "one computer per classroom" days and students routinely used her classroom
computer so in some ways it was more secure to store them on the central server. I still remember finding it
kindof funny though.

Based on the subject, it's either a typo or he's from a country that uses a dot instead of a comma for delimiting thousands.

Kangaroos, fish, and crocodiles (which are commonly refered to as one of the closest living relative) never stop growing.
I'm sure there are some birds that do as well but if nothing else the shear size difference between the dinosaurs and the birds
means that at some point the mechanism that is in charge of growth probably changed.

It's not uncommon in many reptiles to just never stop growing. I wonder if some of these dinosaurs are
just exceptionally large specimens of already know dinosaurs instead of entirely new species.

That's one of the (many) problems with politics these days. We expect politicians to be perfect so we end up with robots
like Obama, Romney, and Clinton who still manage to have skeletons in their closets. I would much rather have someone real
who speaks off record once in a while, is allowed to admit mistakes, and is even allowed to change their opinion once in a while.
My opinion on things have changed many times sometimes back and forth not because I'm pursuing some political objective
but because I'm human and I base my opinion and my actions on my current best knowledge of what I should and shouldn't do
and what I did 20 years ago says very little to nothing about what my morals and values are today. I could have changed for
the better or for the worse.

Why would the pads need to be on a server at all?
A single 1 time pad written on a piece of paper would suffice.
Even 100 digits would be easy enough to type in if you needed to disable a device.
It might be a pain if you're unfortunate enough to have several thousand missiles stolen
but still fairly doable in a matter of hours.
Have 2 copies of the pad. One given to the purchaser of the device and one locked
in a safe somewhere away from the conflict.
If the purchaser is lucky enough to lose the gun and keep the code he can disable
it himself otherwise he needs to call the manufacturer to disable it.
Many devices like guns this wouldn't work for as you could disable it and it could still
be usable. The software on smart missiles on the otherhand would become useless.
The explosives could maybe still be salvaged but the intelligence should be able to be
permanently disabled making them far less useful.