Grant is going to be pissed when the Russian one works better. His setup was a mess to operate and not particularly stable. Frankly, a lot of the robotics on Mythbusters are overblown for show and function poorly as a result.

Arguably, the NSA has hurt 5-7 orders of magnitude fewer innocents than Hitler.

I would even venture to say that like proposed large scale E85 adoption in L.A., Snowden has likely caused more unwarranted innocent deaths (via stress; i.e. heart attacks and blood pressure, arguments, fear, paranoia) than the NSA has previously per any equal time period.

Peeping toms (in the traditional sense) don't result in another person feeling genuinely raped. The Snowden/NSA is just public voyeurism about institutional voyeurism. One big circle jerk of the ignorant, where everyone gets off, but they all feel let down because that was the only way they could get off when they rather have a partner.

UPS still has a huge backlog of undelivered packages, that are by their own records late. These are items which for multiple days are listed as out for delivery at 7 AM, then around 3 PM listed as accidentally left at the distribution facility.

The turn is this: some of those same hubs are already being taken off weekend/late hours.... while listing the same package as now scheduled for Saturday delivery.

So the reason people are mad is ultimately dishonesty on UPS' part. Stop lying multiple days or weeks in a row with "I'll get it done tomorrow." Everyone hates that guy, just give an honest range of delivery dates with an honest guarantee.

It was meant to show off Blender. Like Blender, the movie is a mess. The difference in completeness, and usability between Blender and any of the big 3 animation packages is a greater disparity than Windows vs Linux for desktop usage.

This is stupid. Moving a physical token is easier, faster, and more intuitive than digging around for credentials to some website or worse yet, dealing with your mobile provider to transfer an account. It's nice to know if my phone breaks, I can grab my previous model on the spot and shove the sim in and have a working phone without trying to deal with the provider. Even more so if I am playing with ROMs and hacking away at a couple pieces of hardware.

Doing things online to physical devices is usually slower, less efficient, and less intuitive.

Too bad so many of those providers have insufficient backhaul. For every small town with reportedly good line of sight wireless, there are 5 with ISDN like peak daytime speeds due to congestion and crap equipment.

Umm, no, the issue is how the air flows over the windshield. The air that strikes your windshield when traveling 40 MPH is only going 20-30 MPH at some obtuse angle. Understand that the air already pushed by the windshield slows relative velocity of the air ahead of the car. An air nozzle would be designed to remove laminar flow characteristics via pressure, velocity and spray geometry, effectively scooping under the water. Most of the velocity of air striking a windshield actual helps hold the water against the glass, but you don't see this until you break the velocity into parallel and perpendicular components to the windshield.

The ultrasonic approach the article speaks of operates because it bubbles the water off the surface of the windshield, breaking the Van der Waals bond and friction that is keeping the water from being pulled into the flow of air passing over the car.

Lastly, I was just throwing out an idea that has likely been tried using existing technology, possibly as far back as 40-50 years ago.

Too bad it generally works poorly below 40-50 MPH for most windscreen angles. It's really the poorest quality hydrophobic treatment available. Regular carnuba wax works equally well.

Surely someone at the automotive companies has already tested a tiny, high pressure air nozzle that sweeps across from just below the windscreen. It's nice that McLaren is driving new technology, but face it, our cars could be much better. The issue is always budgets, and the $1 here, $4 there for better components supposedly adds up to automobiles costing 2-4x what they currently do. At least that is what the accountants that turn down the engineers ideas say. Sometimes that is true, sometimes I want to yell bullshit as I whack someone upside the head with a baseball bat.

What exactly is the 10x commentary about? Makes it sound like Windows is relatively efficiently coded.

He forgot to include the parts of the installation where a series of cameras and mics watch your eye movement, page number, and breathing to compile a short list of password roots from which to compromise your other accounts.

Valve forked the graphics subsystem. Keep forking and letting everyone be their own little fiefdom of incompatibility Linux... That's the way to the desktop (set top?)

No resource management and no interrupt system. Screw that, your average 9 year old is going to be bored with such an oversimplified model.

I think you clearly validated their hyperbole regarding U.S. work culture. As someone who is also pressured by work to a degree of questionable ethical limits, I'm a bit disappoint to see another person standing up for the work place culture that is demonstrably wrong (not entirely about the coffee thing, but with regards to hustle and bustle).

No cup of coffee should need to sit around more than 30 minutes. If you're doing hours of reading or socializing, you should be having more than one cup, sized appropriately to your preferences and tolerance.

Hell, part of the social ritual is the host refilling the beverage, a demonstration of their ability to provide an abundance to a guest.