Maps could be made much easier to read with 3D as you could focus on a "layer" much easier and see buildings/etc in relief to get a better view of landmarks.

Slide it of the edge of the table, much easier to pick up that way.

Yes, there is a fair bit of infrastructure to put in. Many places are putting in their own chargers, be it 1 or 2 designated spots (a couple of strip malls near me have them) or an entire parking lot of charging stations (like BCIT just installed). I live near Vancouver, so I am probably seeing a lot more progress than most of North America, but once its been proven to work in one city, others will follow. Where I live, almost all new structures are getting high-amperage cabling laid during construction to facilitate future charger installations (even private homes), so the infrastructure is already being built.

As for the cost of power, most estimates put it at around $3 for a full charge (from dead to 100%). For existing paid-parking garages, they already have the ability to charge for the parking spot by the hour/etc, so simply adding a flat percentage increase should take care of the cost of any power they consumed (just like the costs of maintenance and security are already included in the ticket fee). There are also chargers on the market that have built-in transaction systems for credit cards or coins similar to how a parking meter works.

I spot (without looking for them) at least 1 electric car almost every day during my daily commute (more if I drive instead of taking the train) compared to them being almost non-existent only a year or two ago.

We are very close to a large percentage of the population being able to do all of their day-to-day driving by simply recharging at their various destinations without any inconvenience. Instead of going down to the gas station ever week (or half-week) and sitting there waiting for it to fill up, just plug it in when you get home or to work and let it recharge until you get back.

I think you just answered your own question.

Many areas have roads whos conditions change with the weather or other scenerios. Mountain passes can be closed due to heavy snow, highways can have reduced traffic from a large accident, detours can be set up for long-term (but sporatic) construction, etc.

There's a highschool near where I grew up called "Tweedsmuir". Every year at the end of the school year, the grade 12 grads would steal the "T" off the sign. One year the principle, knowing about the tradition, made an announcement threatening the grads "if anyone took the "T" off the sign". He said he'd with-hold report cards, cancel some event, or something like that. The next day they discovered that someone had taken *all* the letters, leaving only the "T".

I'm fairly convinced that if the human race is extinguished, or at least heavily reduced, by robots or computers, it will be from a bug, not it becoming "evil". With so much infrastructure and technology being computer controlled (from water filtration to drones and aircraft carriers), a shorted out relay or buffer overflow is probably more likely to have catastrophic effects than some computer becoming smart enough, and evil enough to decide that the human race requires culling.

What I remember is 95% of all radio show, newspaper, etc contests having iPods as the prize. We used to joke that more people won iPods than actually bought them.

FreeBSD 9.0 uses OpenSSL 0.9.8q by default (though 1.0.1 is optionally available in the ports tree), which according the summary should be safe (from this attack at least).

That's not a warning. A warning is supposed to come before something bad happens.
- Leela

Yes, sellers usually do check the addresses (though this may not be required depending on their CC handler). The reason they do that is because they don't want the bank to go after them later if the purchase was fraudulent. Any merchant that gets a high quantity of fraudulent traffic is most likely going to have to the CC handling privileges revoked, so the chances of getting away with it for long are slim. The notable exception is places like E-Bay that have a fair bit of financial baking to them and enough presence to keep the banks at bay. I know very well (having caught a credit card thief in-the-act) that stolen credit cards are fairly easy to use on E-Bay to order expensive items to shady destinations for extended periods of time.

And none of that is prevented by AT&T telling your bank where your phone is.

The thought of a bit-torrent client written in Javascript makes my stomach hurt.

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