Wouldn't you say having rovers and observers on Mars and beyond for years at a time is going to help us get off this rock and possibly save our planet at some point?

Are any TSA screenings necessary?

But this is the opposite direction as your light bulb example, very few people write 3.2 TB of data every day for 5 years straight, so for most users something else will break before cell writes becomes a real issue.

My company in Los Angeles seems woefully under-prepared for earthquakes. We have an annual fire drill, but when I asked about earthquake drills, the response was basically "get under the desk while it's shaking, then we'll wing it and someone will announce evacuation if needed."

I think the general attitude is that new building codes will handle most earthquakes, and if the big one hits then everyone is screwed anyway. For reference my office is only 4 stories though, curious what other companies do.

Amazon already did this back in 2009, not sure if they changed their policy like they claimed they would:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07...

Make the ice caps melt faster, flood San Diego to put the fires out!

If a cop has a uniform on (wired up) and is driving around in a cruiser interacting with the public, then every interaction is an "official interaction". My small talk at work can get me in trouble if I say the wrong things, why would an officers small talk while on the job be protected?

That's not automation though. Self checkout is just making the customer do the cashiers job for free before realizing that customers suck at doing these things correctly because it's not their job.

Yes it should be legal. You are the one broadcasting your information out to the public, why would it be illegal for someone to listen?

Where I live, not sure how common this is though, the police themselves have to announce, in advance, when and where a DUI checkpoint will be taking place.

Surprised I haven't seen more of this here: http://www.xoxide.com/acoustip...

Between that stuff and the Noctua super quiet fans and humongous CPU heatsink, I don't think I ever hear my desktop even when gaming all day, but I can easily hear when the server drives spin up in the closet...makes the whole damn cabinet vibrate.

Oops, commenting to remove accidental mod. Hit overrated, meant funny!

I am playing a little bit of devil's advocate so I am purposefully being a little obtuse hehe, but I do think that this is a perfect example of a process that doesn't need to be applied anymore, at least in it's current form. Winning elections without winning popular vote just doesn't make sense in my mind. I guess I am generally leaning more toward Democracy than Democratic Republic...

But that isn't why they are battleground states. They are just battleground states because half the state disagrees with the other half, it's not necessarily urban vs rural, so we are arbitrarily setting our electorate cross section to be roughly half democrat half republican, even though the general population is not. And yes, winning more votes from citizens should be the only key to victory, not winning states based on winner take all electoral college rules. I don't see why population, density, or who your neighbors vote for should affect your voting power.

I do see the need for this balance in the Senate for legislation and daily representation in D.C., but not for Presidential elections. Voting once every 4 years for the leader of your country should be required of every citizen by law IMO.

Yup, one of the many things to add to the list...how sad :(

I don't see the problem you are describing. Currently, people in hard blue or red states are disenfranchised and have no voice because candidates generally focus on campaigning in the battleground states, and their vote does nothing if their state is guaranteed to go to who they aren't voting for. If there were no electoral college and it was all done by popular vote, that would even out the voting power by taking it away from battleground states and putting it equally into the hands of all US citizens. Campaigning in dense metro areas would just be the most efficient way of connecting to voters, why is that a bad thing?

This is just a browser extension that isn't using any Facebook APIs though, so it is not bound by the Facebook TOS and dev EULA.