A Sith wants to take over a small country, it doesn't seem to be an issue in my head.

It isn't like there is a power-hungry "politician" nearby who controls vast areas like an emperor.

Wait a second... Putin is the Sith Lord, Vader is his apprentice.

We need this Vader to destroy the emperor! He is the only one who can restore balance force!!!

TLDNR you passed the 140 character limit. :-P

I embrace change when it makes sense to do that. I will embrace a driver-less car, as it comes out (probably in the next 10 years). But many things that are new and the "wave of the future", end up dying out within a few years, because they don't solve real problems or they cause more issues than they end up solving. I haven't heard one thing here that would be so much more convenient by controlling it through the internet, that I absolutely need and am willing to risk the device being hacked to get it.

Then you get a programmable thermostat that does not connect to the internet and you set it to go cooler at certain hours of the day and you setup a bunch of different modes (normal weekday, weekend, vacation, ...).

Turn on your dishwasher and laundry as you go to work or go to bed.

Tell your kids lock the door.

All of this stuff can be done without an internet connection and should be done without an internet connection. But as soon as someone can hack all of a specific oven, heater, dryer or other appliance people are going to realize they don't want these things connected to the internet. Especially because huge sections of commercial companies don't worry about securing internet devices at the moment, and I doubt they are going to change that anytime soon. It may be naive to ask why someone would want this ability, but when you look at the most popular passwords used and other security indicators like that, it may be more important to ask should people have this ability?

I would argue against being a cyborg, but my insulin pump and my constant blood sugar monitor tend to tell me that I am a cyborg.

And they also tell me not to eat cookies, but I mostly ignore that part of it.

In the rest of the article he explains his reluctance to put the dog on carprofen because it had the possible side effect of causing kidney and liver damage to the dog.

Then he later found out that wasn't proven by clinical trials, but it was still something that his vet warned him about originally. So he was listening to his vet.

While I don't mindlessly grind out code all the time, there are times when I work on a problem and I have to mindlessly grind out parts of it. I am pretty sure this is the same with most projects.

I love writing code and working on hard problems, but do I feel like working on them for 80 hours a week, every week? No, I enjoy having a life outside of work and a separation of work and home life is necessary.

I watched a TED talk about someone who did something similar.

http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_w...

That would violate the rules of softball, because non-alcoholic beer is not a drink

"You can't leave first until you chug a beer.
Any man scoring has to chug a beer.
You have to chug a beer at the end of all odd numbered innings.
And the fourth inning is the beer inning."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfPwb6wudV0

I recall an episode on TV about this very type of issue. In it the city of Springfield established an expensive Bear Patrol to stop an outrageous bear problem (one bear wandered into the town).

Homer: Well there's not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol is sure doing its job.
Lisa: That's specious reasoning, Dad.
Homer: Thank you, sweetie.
Lisa: Dad what if I were to tell you that this rock keeps away tigers.
Homer: Uh-huh and how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn't work. It's just a stupid rock.
Homer: I see.
Lisa: But you don't see any tigers around, do you?
Homer: Lisa I'd like to buy your rock.

The drone then landed at a site. It seems like they didn't throw away the drone here, the buoy could have been pulled back in (I am guessing it was tethered).

I have other questions about the usefulness of this:
1. What is the range of the drone? Could it fly halfway across an ocean to find a landing spot?
2. Are these drones going to be able to do attacks? If so this could be a dangerous first strike vehicle controlled from halfway around the world, where folks have limited or no knowledge of what is happening on the ground.
3. How many drones can subs hold? If it is only a few then it can only do a limited number of surveillance (or attack) operations before it needs to dock or surface to get another drone, which would most likely take it out of the areas that need to be monitored.

If evolution can't be proved, how do you explain this: http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/38325/title/Ever-Evolving-E--coli/ ? Basically at Michigan State they have been letting E.Coli bacteria reproduce in constant conditions over 58,000 generations. And amazingly, the bacteria reproduce more quickly now than they did in the original 1988 version.

As someone who used to play WoW. I can say that WoW, as most MMORPG's, has many difficult problems to solve in the game. Bots do simple mindless farming, they do not play every aspect of the game or compete against other players in PvP. I ran across a few bots while playing and I can say that they were easy to screw with. You could kill them or you could just kill what they were going to kill, and confuse the software a quite bit.