I have heard of widespread deployment of the base technology in IHC hospitals in Salt Lake City already. The glasses part is just a new adaptation.

Has she ever posted about your upcoming vacation? And has she posted pictures of her garden exploits? Between the two of those, I am guessing that miscreants can find you when you least want them to.

Chances are that there are no providers that offer a true 99.999% uptime. If you demand that, you need to be building your code to run in a HA cluster with nationwide dispersion. (For reference, you get 5.25 minutes of downtime across a whole year).

99.999% uptime is also completely unnecessary, but sounds really good to management until you talk cost.

What are some of the examples of the businesses in the town centers? As most of those not already killed by Walmart may be mostly immune. Clothing stores are going to survive until we all join our Robot Overlords and everybody is the same size. Most other places exist because of a social reason.

I must also say that it isn't like Amazon will manage to do this in anything other than huge metropolitan areas, and I think the biggest losers will be the big box stores that killed the interesting shops already.

Sure, it might manage to do what only a union managed: kill a Walmart. This is a good thing.

Have you never noticed that the top CEOs are not "good" people? Those who take the most do the best.

If I were using the technology for non-personal use? I would probably have to chat with a lawyer, as this is the kind of thing with teeth.

Apple and Samsung do actually make things, and they import, and they sell. Your analogy is quite off-base in asserting that a person would be hit under this for the same reason that the Apple vs. Samsung judgement didn't include 10million John Does who had purchased the device.

It is also significantly more expensive, and (like mainframes) suffers from gray-hair syndrome: there are very few opportunities for someone fresh out of college to have any experience with the platform and a lot of the people who currently support the systems are starting to look at retirement. I wish I had firm numbers, as this anacdotal as it is just personal experience and reports from the mainframe guys I work with, but everywhere I have worked is actively getting rid of Solaris in part because it isn't part of their standard build due to cost.

It isn't the end of the platform, but it will get increasingly expensive and esoteric.

Ironically, the military does spend money on the development of alternative energy, as it reduces their dependence on supply lines or sources that can easily be cut. I don't think the military has a doubt about what would happen if OPEC shut down production in protest over something. While we would eventually take over their countries (to help the rebels fighting against a tryannical rule), it could come at a very painful time.

Technically a international airport is considered part of the border. So yes, almost all out the continental US is a "Border".

I dare you to find a sewing machine without nuts somewhere, sir. Otherwise they end up being a screwed up mess.

The only healthcare system that is that affordable is what happens in Africa: you let people die. Oh, you got appendicitus? Do you have ten-thousand dollars on you? Oh, sorry I guess you will have to use our dying room out front by the grate.

Someone has to be able to pick up for when something unexpected occurs. The hospitals can't magically start charging the same for a flu-shot and a 10 hour operation to save a car-accident victim. Almost anyone can afford the latter, while less than ten percent of the population could afford the latter (real costs, you have 3 nurses, 2 doctors, the support staff, the person who cleans the OR, and all the supplies needed). The only way this works out for society is that someone has to calculate the risk, calculate the bet, and be there when something unexpected happens.

I would put a giant bowl of allegedly in front of that %0.1. Given that all the studies I have seen couldn't even agree on duration and intensity, nor are there ANY inspections of the machines.

Find a study of the actual machines in use before quoting those numbers.

The difference in this case is the use of stem cells to replace known bad cells. The Atala group used differentiated cells, which is of more limited use when dealing with potentially cancerous organ tissues.

I will admit that I have not tried it on Linux, but zfs is the best of the next gen filesystems. It does cryptographically assured reads and writes (remember that transitory undetected disk malfunctions occur at a rate of ~1/TB of data), it can snapshot changes, it fricken slices bread. If it had a gender, I would probably marry it (well, I guess I can date it for a while and see how things work out). http://zfs-fuse.net/

That actually flies in the face of two centuries of constitutional law. Just because Bush decided to scribble with crayon on a fine historical document doesn't mean that what was written in ink and blood was changed.