Guess you never worked with Banyan Vines... you couldn't do anything without a hardware dongle attached to the parallel port on the back. If you wanted to enable multiple features, you daisy chained multiple dongles off each other. I recall seeing servers with 5-6 dongles hanging off the same parallel port like some sort of unicorn horn.

The R3 is just an "instance". Sure it's a memory optimized instance, but it's not even their relational instances or mapreduce databases.

Don't feed the trolls.
Don't feed the trolls.

I used AWS for a few projects for my research. I would upload a data set to AWS run the MapReduce jobs and then analyze the output in AWS. Once complete, I'd download the results and shutdown the whole environment. I could programatically spin up the whole environment in about an hour or so.

Whole thing cost me about $350.

Now if this device could tell me what my wife is saying....

...It's Blizzard and their lack of willingness to properly balance the game.

Protoss has no repercussions for doing any of a dozen types of proxy or "all-in" openings.

So would this require every Police/Emergency Vehicle to be equipped with such a car to car communications system.

Also, often when there's an accident on the highway, and cars are stopped, people will get out of the way for a tow truck to get through to move the disabled vehicle.

No Siren and tow truck lights aren't red/white/blue. Typically they are orange.

Would it pull over if it sees the blinking lights / siren behind it?

Could you spoof it with a bunch of blinking xmas lights on the side of the road?

is the Right to be Tracked.

If I want to call up $company and tell them "delete everything you know about me from your index." This implies that without asking them, I've granted them the ability to track me.

This also puts quite a burden on me to call them up and say, "Hey, I just joined BowlingLeague.com as user StrikesAPlenty, please delete me from your index.

Also, how do you prove that a given user really is you? Your name probably isn't that unique. Which "Bob Smith" are you?

So for 9months:

Pay for your prenatal supplies with cash.
Don't surf the web for anything related to pregnancy or children.
Surf the web for chainsaws and snowblowers.
Read books.
Read Newspapers made from paper.
Read Magazines made from paper.
Buy them at the local store in cash.
Don't give them your "Frequent Shopper Card"
Stay offline.

Not so tough.

I was an avid RC Helicopter hobbyist as a high school kid and I'm wondering what's the difference between a drone and a remote controlled helicopter/plane?

Is the drone 100% autonomous vs. the RC line of sight? Though you could fly an RC with a nose mounted camera..

Does the FAA define what a drone is?

Irony: Where you have the skill to completely understand that a major software program is "crufty and badly-written" but don't do anything other than complain about it "for years".

I've heard this argument since the beginning of time with regards to open source, but is there anybody on earth that could "review the source code" for an entire platform?

At some point you have to trust someone, like the folks that wrote the driver for your USB mouse...

Unless you happen to also understand the USB mouse source code at which point I stand corrected, until you can do USB mouse support and video driver and filesystem and etc etc...

I've tried dozens of different types of veggie-burgers or meatless burgers. And the problem is that no matter what type of spices/sauces you put in them, you just don't get the meat flavor. The oils and fats that are added to them don't sear/brown/caramelize etc..

With a piece of meat (beef/chicken/fish), I can cook it rare, medium or well done depending on the dish (tuna: sear only, hamburger: well done) or the consumer.

With meat substitutes it's "Cook it until warm/hot". The product itself doesn't change between temperatures. I'd say it's like making toast but atleast with bread a slightly toasted piece of bread tastes differently from one that is dark brown.

Toaster Oven... a 25yr old Hamilton Beach Standmixer. Though there's probably a few people out there with ones older than this.

I still use the same lawnmower I bought in '79. Had to replace the blade, but it still cuts the grass without problems.