Target still foot.

www.askpatents.com seems to be your best shot at getting Prior Art visible to the shamefully incompetent USPTO. They pay their employees peanuts in comparison to this thievery and have them stamp away at anything really, creating IP worth millions in lawsuits and fees from almost nothing. And they expect the system to correct their mistakes instead of fool-proofing or advancing their own methods.

...we say hardware-enabled Instagram filter.

Nice trolling, don't know why you're at 2, as you reference the same article twice and when looking at its contents, it brings no meaningful facts to the table, only conjecture and opinion, ergo, they do not support your conclusion that these cars aren't safe.

You might be writing history, joining a certain individual who proclaimed: 'The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty—a fad.'

The fact that an AI doesn't fatigue, doesn't text, doesn't lean over to grab a water bottle and cause a head-on collision, doesn't fall asleep, doesn't drive drunk, doesn't run red lights on purpose, doesn't forget to signal, doesn't speed and has 360 degrees of vision and laser-radar object detection and processing all this information at once where a human has to rely on his eyes and brain and reaction speed, all of which are affected by his physical condition and which deteriorate when he gets older. The AI will sooner or later replace a human driver. If you will, you could consider the current form a very sophisticated version of cruise control, where a human supervisor is still required.

But I could see driverless taxis in Vegas taking you from your hotel to a casino (and back), by just stating your destination, confirming it and paying with your NFC enabled phone.

Isn't the 'low score' region of Ubuntu (graphics performance) being worked on by the Wayland compositor? While still a release or two down the road, would that be able to improve said tests? Or is the problem broader than that?

I've been out of the modding scene for quite some time, but the one project that made a long lasting impression on me was the Cold War Crisis, mod for C&C Generals Zero Hour. Aside from being a total conversion in the Cold War style (eg everything from game intro, the menus, the unit voices, ingame music, game mechanics were overhauled, they even added in a 'per map' AI which will whoop your ass quite some times before you can outsmart it, heck, they even introduced whole new SinglePlayer modes). That is my gold standard, and there's only a handful that can attain such a level.

Oh I know, there's probably a whole slew of objections against reinstating the tower with all its original functionality. Not being able to meter it would be one of the least worrisome IMO. While it would be uber-cool, it's probably not possible as the location itself is turning into a museum, not a 'bleeding-edge' lab and it therefore can't be doing dangerous experiments. Not to speak of building code violations, possible negative effects on nearby (modern) electric equipment, additional effects on local fauna/flora etc.

I'd be very happy already if they could rebuild the tower in looks only, as it looks so otherworldly and adds some uniqueness to the location. Furthermore it'd be visible from pretty far away, giving Tesla that visibility and validation that he had to miss out on for so long.

Tesla was a crazy genius, in that regard I think it would be more fitting to have (at least part) of the museum have live/interactive and interesting things to do and try, rather than just gazing at collectibles and ooh-and-aah-ing at antiquities (how very awesome those still might be). Perhaps a MAKER lab or something or making a bulb glow with wireless electricity, have a Tesla coil play a song on your $MP3_PLAYER. If you read The Oatmeal's Tesla cartoon, you'd already have quite some nice ideas.

While I'm aware that'll probably be the last of their worries, it would complete the location and make it more 'monumental'.

Because their algorithm misfired and put me under a shadowban for a while. It's hard to detect, but after a while I really felt as if I was talking into a void. So I loaded up a proxy server and connected to FARK through it, and surely enough, my posts weren't visible.

I give the admins a profanity-laden piece of my mind and they apologized, seems their spam detector was a bit over-eager. I still go there from time to time.

Explain to a John Doe in what regard Windows 8 RT differs from Windows 8.
What's a Surface now? The multitouch tabletop hardware + software? Not anymore, now it's the tablet-netbook hybrid.
Even if they come up with a new name after the sleek marketing speak emanating from "Windows 8-style UI", it'll still cause confusion and introduce clutter for people looking up "Metro". Easily avoidable if only they had done their homework.

To those claiming it was just a codename and was never meant to be used publicly: A certain S.B. disagrees.

The mobile markets are predominanty OpenGL based, while hw acceleration is not at the PC level yet, it won't take that long for a GPU to become a commonplace part in a smartphone. Add to that the fact that Steam will do positive things for OpenGL on Linux (and even on Windows) and we might get to see a turning point in game programming, at the very least a fighting chance for OpenGL. Go team OpenGL!

I think the Ouya (or any of its clones that recently sprung up) would actually offer what these people were after: a platform on which they can run their own software, and even distribute it. Sure, the fact that they no longer need to break into their intended platform through a vulnerability might not make it as "edgy" as it used to be, but one could state they now should "go legit" and not fear crippling firmware updates but rather applaud modifications that enable extra possibilities.

IMO homebrewers want to develop and share. As more open-minded hardware configurations become available and are somewhat standardized, to me it would seem to be the ideal growing ground for the homebrew community. Any actual homebrewer that wants to address this assessment?

It ameliorates the chicken-egg problem Linux suffers from:

#1 Missing out on users because there are no games
#2 No games are being made because there are no users
GOTO #1

So seeing Gabe trying to break this cycle by making sure Intel and NVIDIA are on board with his idea is a good first step, this could lead to more and better games, which then could attract more users, developers and publishers to the platform. These events could on their turn entice hardware vendors to upgrade their drivers even more etc. I hope Canonical is working very closely with them, as this surely is no easy feat to pull off

Mayhem abound when it is discovered someone ate through the whole Cheetos supply for the week. Meanwhile, Bob faces eviction after being caught on the toilet trying to install Open Source software. Luke and Igor get into an argument over Igor's B.O., Igor says it's a skin disease while Luke claims it's caused by avoiding contact with water and soap. Jim and Lucy get into a fight when Jim ragequits and stomps out of the room after she uttered a slur doubting his sexual preference in his direction. Problems escalate when Jim won't come out. Hours later, Jim's mom gets called over the PA system and she can finally persuade him to come out, promising to have his favorite Star Wars pillow delivered to the house. Shocking revelations by the nightcam: Bob gets caught with Lucy in an attempt to use SQL injection. The next morning, the contestants face off in a artisan challenge, they are handed polishers and copies of Windows 8. Ultimately, it's quite a photo-finish, as all contestants agree that these polishers have little effect on the product, except for making it shiny but still utterly unusable. Lucy wins the challenge and receives the Floating Chair token, allowing her to duck one future challenge. Check in for more next Tuesday!