You aren't fooling us. Every one of us with kids has seen the documentary Lilo and Stitch. There are already aliens on Hawaii.

If you work in a place where you have the time/resources for access to the ideal tools to solve every problem that pops up, I'd like to know where to send my resume.

I think the bigger issue in there is a parental culture shock when they can't help the kids with their homework. Getting help at home is really key to a child's early academic growth and many implementations of CC are making it hard. There really should be some resources that help the parents with the transition. I'm loving seeing the stuff my kindergartener was exposed to this year, but there were times when we got a sheet with some numbers and maybe some boxes and instructions with words that had no contextual meaning to us.

Oh for some mod points. The only problem I've found with the CC math examples is parents don't get the method well enough to help their kids.

From the Head mounted displays that I've worked with, the optics portion tends to be the limiting factor for dimensionality and weight. It isn't like going with just a GPU on the thing is going to make it into a set of eyeglasses. You've also got a lot of overlap in passing/processing video and general information passing/processing. You probably aren't going to save a lot by making it just a phone accessory. You definitely aren't going to see a lot of difference from an aesthetic perspective.

Does the law mandate someone being in the driver's seat? What happens if me and two of my friends get in and avoid the driver's seat? What happens if I send my car out for my kid or groceries by itself? That last one may not be a now question, but it is a question that will need to be answered sometime.

My browser lost my original lengthy response. Short answer is my exposure to Japanese culture is through martial arts. What I'm drawing from is first hand accounts that after WWII there was pressure in the Japanese martial arts to expel martial traditions and training that weren't sport, exercise, or religious in nature. It is possible that I've over generalized those accounts. If you have information to expand my knowledge then I'd welcome it.

However, we have no clue how much those problems are going to effect the percentage of those firearm murders being converted to murders with another weapon beyond difference in lethality stats. We also know that solving the major problems that contribute to all violence have other clear social benefits that are probably even more significant than the drop in murder rate. While we are bickering over whether you can trust me with a firearm or not, the social factors that lead to violence are only getting worse.

Or perhaps it is because they have an entirely different culture? One where violence had a severe cost just two generations ago, just about the same time had all cultural celebration of violence stomped out by foreign influence, and at the same time their national defense was overseen by an entirely different country so there was no nationalistic need to push any type of propoganda for desiring a career relating to violence on its young men. Assuming you could snap your fingers and make all the guns go away in America, you still haven't solved the underlying problems of undertreatment of the mentally ill, mistreatment of the poor, and the prevailing attitude that I'm not responsible for my own actions.

3D printing and a hotbutton political topic.

The tricky part is: if I make the wrong decision and plow into some innocents then they may get a few hundred thousand out of me and my insurance company, if Toyota's car decides to plow into some innocents there are a lot more dollar signs up for grabs.

To do what you suggest then you've got to bring everyone to the table. You have to hold everyone to the standards. That means you are going to starve growth in the third world. That means you have to get China to play ball. If you don't do that you will push first world businesses to operate in third world countries because it is cheaper to not be clean than to be clean. And who knows how you get China to play by the same rules as everyone else.

While SuperPACs are a problem, I don't think they are the fundamental problem. Lessig is promoting another patch to fix a piece of a broken system. The removal of SuperPACs would still leave us with a two party system. The people with money will continue to find ways to get around campaign finance reform and buy their power. I'll have wasted my money on a temporary solution and I'll still be practically disenfranchised by the wealthy.

My use of humanities courses has grown as much as my advanced math courses. Over my career I've used foreign language studies and psychology extensively in addition to the communication related courses. I've known of a few people who've had to some intesive historical research for technical projects and some computer science research requires a solid foundation in philosophical studies. Every education will have some stuff that you never use even in your own field, but a good education will expose you to the types of learning that you will need to grow your knowledge to complete any task.

Experience gives detailed in depth knowledge, education gives general broad knowledge. Being too far on either end of the spectrum can cause some difficulties. I've had several cases in my career where very good senior engineers were baffled by a problem too far afield of their experience and education, when the answer is basic 2nd year CS material.