Maybe because of the vast amount of charity work he has done in the past two decades. His work (not specifically himself but experts that work for him) on malaria, HIV, vaccines worldwide, and other huge issues here and in the third world.

Even if you hate Microsoft, why would you completely ignore his charity work?

Yes, but little wholes in the canopy are hardly enough to map the area and most likely not anywhere near enough to find more than a couple mines in areas that probably have at least hundreds of mines.

A LiDAR sensor returns the data from any solid object it hits. This will not work, especially in dense jungle areas like LAOS. Is this just bad information (using something other than LiDAR) or just a stupid idea?

One way that this can be reversed and not negatively affect consumers is if there is a ton more competition in internet access. Most places that I have lived have one or if I was lucky two internet carriers. I don't want satellite and I want a better connection than a DSL connection so my only option is to go with a cable company that provides internet services.

So until there is real competition around the country this needs to be classified as a utility.

I sure can't wait for 2010 for this to happen. I expect we will have flying cars by then as well.

Robot Hell only exists for those that believe in Robotology.

I believe he is trying to destroy the robots, because if they try to read and understand religious documents they will come across some contradictions that will most likely cause the robots to explode or shutdown.

And the good news is most of these nuts are in politics, a profession that doesn't have any repercussions for everyone else...

Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Or two years of an actual foreign language. There have been studies that show that learning a foreign language helps programmers program better and read code better.

Because the people who vote on this change are not technical people. And because most Americans would not understand a good technical name.

I would think that it would destroy most religions.

But my guess is that it would end up being like the episode of South Park where missionaries immediately try to convert these new beings (hopefully getting vaporized while doing so).

What the hell is this crap: "scare-mongering" and "government's overreach"?

Guess what, the weather is unpredictable sometimes.

Would you rather them say a dusting of snow and then get 2 feet of snow? When that happens it takes 3 times as long to dig out, because snow removal efforts are not properly prepared. Every weather report said that it was going to hit NYC hard. And in the mean time Boston has a foot of snow overnight, and more still falling.

If you are going to post something about the weather, at least make it somewhat of a technological story, not this stupid shit.

The first arrest that happens due to this, will result in appeals that will eventually get this rule overturned as unconstitutional.

This is no different than saying your neighbor committed a crime so we want to search your house as well due to proximity to him. A decent lawyer will be able to make the argument that just because you are on a TOR or a VPN does not mean you are doing something illegal.

TOR was created as a method to allow people in oppressed countries to speak freely, it is funny that the country that funded this is now going to be one of those oppressed countries.

Well they did fail to do a conversion from standard measurements to metric measurements on the 1999 Mars climate orbiter. But I do agree with your point, we have successfully landed on the moon which has a lot less of an atmosphere than Mars.

I guess the circuits controlling communications got screwed up, so it was assumed to be lost.