How about sense-and-avoid in combination with ADS-B? This article suggests that people are working in that direction.

In the past, people who write software that runs under Windows have told me that buying another copy to use the support is the cheapest way to get someone to answer questions about "black box" aspects of the operating system that are making it difficult for their software to run properly.

Isn't the product key for those generally embedded in BIOS?

Constitution
Mandatory proportional representation in the electoral college would also be nice. It would help people feel more like their vote makes a difference.

I agree with "make it easy" and with this plan for doing so, but Australians with whom I have spoken have told me that "make it easy" is the first thing that people there voted for after it became mandatory. So, making it mandatory might be the best way to end up with making it easy.

When I recently dropped my mail-in vote off in the free ballot-only box in Washington state, I learned the hard way that this box is only available during the last week before election day. Employees at the school on whose property the temporary box was located looked at me funny on Monday after I had walked all around the building on the previous Friday afternoon trying to find the box that wasn't there.

While lots of other parties are allowed, it's difficult for them to succeed. Here's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_party_(United_States)#Barriers_to_third_party_success

Self driving cars operated by the owner are a different situation from that of self driving taxis. The owner and rider interests diverge when those are different people. A self driving taxi has to protect itself from theft & abuse and protect its owner from lawsuits. That mean the person riding in the taxi won't be allowed to arbitrarily stop it, assume manual control, or exit in locations considered by the taxi owner to be unsafe. Putting my car in self driving mode with my average speed 10 mph in gridlock sounds attractive. Getting into a little vehicle capable of traveling to arbitrary locations and trusting it like I would a train takes the early adopter impulse right out of me. Maybe self driving buses would make the transition better.

Use nylon.

App store?
Or, because smartphones running Windows 10 will interact more conveniently with desktops and laptops running Windows 10 than will other phones?

Since police departments have cited at trial that the NDA prohibits them from revealing information that would be beneficial to the defendants, and the device that the NDA covers is specifically designed to put the defendants in that position where they need the information it prevents, then clearly this NDA is evidence that it itself is a contract whose engagement explicitly leads directly to perverting the course of justice. It should be possible to sue Harris for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and use their NDA as evidence that this is what they're conspiring to do.

I think you're correct, but I also think that any such rule needs to specifically lay out restrictions and narrowly define what is permitted. It needs to say that if the description of the location is only logical, then the warrant does not permit physical search. It also needs to say that the logical description of the place to be searched is as logically specific as the description of a physical place to be searched would have to be physically specific. However, I reckon that the wording of the rule change will not include specific restrictions and will be written in such a manner as to permit a broad range of interpretation because the odds that the FBI has taken their request to a panel having concerns about FBI overreach are pretty slim.

I don't think the suggestion was relating to what the US government can compel from users of Yahoo's service, but rather that they could compel Yahoo to provide the government access to that user's emails while simultaneously compelling Yahoo to deceive the user about having done so. The notion is that Yahoo could show the world source code and intend to use it, but when it came time to actually put it into use, the government could come and force Yahoo to use different code, written by the government, while also forcing Yahoo to lie to the world, claiming that it's using the code it had originally intended to use. Five years ago this might sound like a bizarre conspiracy theory, but now it seems much less like a question of whether the government would try than a question of how successful the government might be at forcing all the Yahoo employees who would have to know about the lie to keep it secret.

I'd like to see a Sailfish OS Brigadier. Perhaps they could also work with the Blackphone people and make a phone that's resistant to both an adverse digital and physical environment.

I think it's doubly sad that any court allows a patent infringement suit to be filed where the party claiming infringement doesn't have to show exactly what patents are infringed upon and specifically how as part of the filing. Any court that permits such a thing has to be seen as irredeemably corrupt forever after and should be replaced with someone honest.

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Mightn't you rather say "Just because I'm able to take pictures of my hot neighbor in the shower doesn't mean I should be taking pictures of my hot neighbor in the shower." Or, are you suggesting that your camera should recognize the zoom, camera location and direction and make it so you're not able to take those photos? Or, were you trying to say "doesn't mean I should be permitted to take pictures of my hot neighbor in the shower."