Technicians are going to be needed to service the machines. Anyone who grew up in an area influenced by the car industry will tell you that. We all started training to be technicians and millwrights years ago.

I grew up near a national park that had lost most of its large animal populations except for deer. The deer, having no natural predators, would routinely breed out of control and cause all sorts of problems for the forest. To fix this issue, about once a decade the government would hand out extra deer tags and let the local hunters sort things out for them.

As a child I remember recognizing the parallels of this to the global human population. I remember trying to explain to people that the world was of a fixed size for us, just like the forest was for the deer. It amazed me then, just as much as it does now, that nobody wanted to talk about it.

You're being obtuse just for the sake of arguing. Anyone who knows even 1 traffic cop can tell you that they have, what they call, "honey holes" or "fishing holes". These are areas usually at the bottom of a hill, coming onto or off of a highway, or in places where its unclear if you've transitioned to or from a highway or normal city street.

There is no magical perfect science figuring out speed limits. They are always either 30, 50, 80, 100, or 110km/h in my area. There are many areas of my city where 50 is too slow, but 80 is probably too fast... so the limit defaults to 50. And traffic police will routinely sit at these "fishing holes" and pull over anyone missing that mark by a mere 10km/h (the lowest deviation they can write a ticket for). They also always seem to be set up at the end of the month too. What a coincidence.

You could probably only buy them on Google Play through your GMail account. And the car would only work if you kept Google Play Services installed.

16gb? One round of Windows updates should take care of that pretty quick.

I've used many x86 tablets and every one leaves something to be desired. They're usually slow, don't have enough storage, or have too small of a display. The metro interface is a dead idea so I end up primarily trying to fumble around in Desktop mode with a touch screen wishing I could just easily plug in a mouse and keyboard to the stupid thing. Microsoft has tried to solve this problem by creating the Surface 3. It has high end specs, and is probably plenty fast, but the thing costs $1500. When you can get similar power in a laptop for less than half the price, why buy that thing?

Tablets are stupid. They have both phone and laptop envy. If we're looking for the future, I would guess that it's with consolidating devices into something that can still fit in your pocket. An x86 phone that could dock into a workstation setup, or a tablet shell would be very useful. Microsoft is poised to do this but they need to get over the idea of unifying a touch interface with the mouse and keyboard first. People are smart enough that they can handle two different interfaces.

I always wondered this about other things like "Christmas spirit". Why do you need it to be December to do nice things for people? Why can't we just do nice things for eachother all the time? If you're being nice to someone just because it's December then you're actually kind of a tool.

These marketing types are all chicken little's. Any engineer/technician could have told you this was going to happen. Tablets are not the new laptops. They are consumption devices used for a specific purpose. Everyone who wanted a tablet, now has one, so expect sales to slow. Expect content creators to keep buying laptops and desktops. And expect anyone with half a brain to keep rejecting touch unified interfaces, the "cloud", and software as a service.

I agree with you. I'm not religious, and I don't care one way or another about this "tweet". But it's obvious to anyone not trying to be purposefully obtuse, that the substance of his statement was in what he didn't say, rather than what he said. I can see how it would upset some over-sensitive people. All of you pretending like you didn't see that, and don't know where this is coming from,are either socially retarded, or just wasting your own time pretending.

To further expand:

The tradition of celebrating Jesus' birthday on December 25th most likely came during the Roman Empire's transition to Christianity. It likely served as a stand-in replacement for one of the most popular pagan celebrations of the time: Saturnalia. The birthday of the figure known as Jesus is never explicitly defined in the Bible, although clues such as the sheppards tending their fields at night, and jesus being born outside, point to a date perhaps sometime in the spring. The date of December 25th was defined outside of the scriptures by the Roman Catholic establishment.

I wanted to murder these kids on Christmas just as much as anyone else, but allow me to play devil's advocate.

Considering this was mostly likely done with a botnet, and was probably something like a NTP applification DDoS, it's a bit more complicated than your generic script kiddie DDoS carried out by 4chan. Just because a DDoS is relatively easy to do with the right tools, doesn't make it any less of a hack. You could easily argue the best hacking method available is social engineering. Which of course is a method that requires very little technical knowledge and tools.

I wouldn't be giving these cowards my money even if I was able to (I'm Canadian). This entire story has been shameful. When did the USA stop being the land of the brave? Everyone knows your weakness now. Scare you a little bit and you'll do whatever anyone wants, the least of which being handing over all your freedoms to the government.

Why all members of the tor network aren't forced to be exit nodes. Your traffic could then be sent to the public internet through a random exit node for every single tcp connection you make.

back to the apprentice/mentor relationship. I'm not sure why we all buy into the falsehood that specifically targeted for-profit post secondary school is required for any position above minimum wage. Regardless, a system like this will at least help prospects in a new field learn real skills based on real experience while also not starting off their lives smothered in debt.

Is there an app for that?

I would say it partly is apple's model. Perhaps not in software services, but certainly in electronic distribution of software. The amount of money they make in their "app store" and iTunes has to be monumental. What they lack in data-mining software services they certainly make up for in convincing everyone that their products are "cool", "just work", and are worth spending an extra 30% on.