I don't think he's with them anymore.

Yes but when you buy the DVD you are locked into seeing the warning from the FBI and if you are really lucky you aren't able to forward past the previews for movies that came out five years ago!

Maybe the first thing autonomous cars will do is take over the taxi service and then the whole parking issue won't be an issue, or at least it becomes one of finding a spot to drop passengers off.

I like how when mentioning unlicensed people it automatically assumes children. There are adults that don't have a drivers license whether through choice or not. If the car is fully autonomous then I would hope that unlicensed people could use them.

I can't remember the exact name of the HP blades but they were probably the P-class and the IBM blades were the ones out at the same time. With the HP blades we had many memory modules fail, the heat coming off of the blades was horrible, I didn't like the management software, and when it came time to change something like a power supply you had to power down the whole rack of blades. None of that applied to the IBM blades we had. The only issue we had with the IBM blades was with the SCSI drives failing after about three years. Not that it wasn't expected since drives fail. Plus we were migrating everything over to a SAN at the time so we had plenty of spares for replacements. And since we were using RAID fixing the broken drive was easy as replacing it with a spare and letting the blade copy the data over from the good drive.

A few years ago I had a job where I had to look after blades from IBM and HP. There was no contest. The IBM blades were so much better that I tried to move all of my stuff over to the IBM computers because the HP blades were junk.

Unfortunately as long as the CEO is keeping the share price going up then they are doing a good job.

I think when you are killing over 4% of people who are innocent then you need to be talking about whether you should be using the death penalty in the first place.

I've seen a couple of shows about the death penalty and you always see a couple of people against using things such as Nitrogen or Carbon Monoxide because the death is too good for the offender. Capital punishment is about revenge for them and the messier the better.

According to this study the rate is about 4.1%. The rate of people currently being found innocent after being sentenced to death is 1.6%.

Well, in the North East part of the US and the Eastern part of Canada storms can easily cover multiple states and provinces. Happens every year in that season we call winter.

Yes but then what is the point of having the panels if you require coal/oil powered electrical production plants on standby to melt snow and to keep the road surface above freezing when the road isn't generating? You would be way better off salting/plowing the road and using the electricity elsewhere in a more efficient manner or not generating it in the first place.

And they sue you when it tramples your house.

In all of your examples where people are happy with technology we understand the science and have had time to come to grips with the consequences of our actions. However that is not the case when we blindly throw genes from one species into another. Just because we have the ability to do something doesn't mean that we have the knowledge to use it appropriately.

I would also include the politicians changing the direction that NASA is supposed to take every two to four years. They just get started on their priorities and their masters in Washington change bringing new orders that makes all of their previous work obsolete. It also doesn't help when NASA is also trying to be used as a jobs program so politicians try to create/keep positions in their ridings.