At 5000mph, a projectile 100 miles out will have 66 seconds to respond. Closer in, far less. Still, for an enemy craft width of, say, 300 feet would need to move 150' to avoid collision. At 0.1g lateral acceleration, fairly trivial, you could move an H-4 Hercules out of the line of fire in just over 3 seconds. That's a 5 mile range for the largest (wingspan) plane in the world. And from 6 miles out, the EM signature from a rail gun would be pretty obvious. That's very practical if the target is equipped with an automatic avoidance system.

Now if the projectile is active it does make things more interesting.

I'm kind of sorry I commented elsewhere as I would mod you up if I could.

There are exclusions and exemptions for existing structures where accessibility is not feasible.

Paying a single lawyer for a single case is not going to do any good if you look like a money machine to other lawyers. Now, if the structure was built after the law was enacted and you did the work yourself (or you designer and contractor are outside of the statue of repose for their services), then it could be fantastically expensive to fix. It's still probably cheaper than multiple lawsuits, though, and the building would be worthless to a new buyer unless upgraded.

I disagree with the premise of the article, as there are quite a few things about automobiles which are independent of the OS the in-vehicle entertainment and nav console - much more than a beige box pc.

However, it's worth noting that people over 25 are dying. Old people (over 25) as a market segment will change dramatically over then next 30 years as nearly everyone over 50 will no longer be in the market for an automobile. The "money" demographic will shift to those who are just now getting their driver's licenses.

I do find it depressing that, in an age where interactivity with personal devices can be done in an agnostic way, more and more interfaces are becoming OS specific.

Oh, I though he was talking about something where you put a cat in an lowered a handle to create two large punctures so you could drink the liquid that came out the bottom.

Probably for the best, as I didn't expect that would turn out to be a terribly popular product.

Amateur. Everyone knows you can only get the real flavor your after by collecting the fresh scat from wild animals in their native forest. I've bought half a small country and employ most of two villages to gather the beans prior to roasting them in the heat well adjacent to turbine in my private jet in the near vacuum of my 45k transpacific flights.

And I'm not even half as particular as most of the regulars at CoffeeGeek.

An espresso maker doesn't just make espresso, though. It's an entire hot-drink station. At least, that's the way I use mine.

So, if we just add wifi we can have the Internet of Keurigs?

"parents feel they can't help their kids with homework."

That's true, but also a bit by design from what I've seen. The cc methods tend to take multiple approaches, realizing that not every child learns the same way and, in a way, shotgunning the approach in hopes of finding a method for everyone. Some of the math - the stuff which has be severely ridiculed by (mostly) politically conservative groups - happens to be exactly the way I do math very quickly in my head. It's not any method that's typically taught to students, but is more physical rather than theoretical in nature. If you learned (and still only know how) to do the theoretical versions, the practical ones will throw you. And that *should* be okay, but only if the teachers understand it. And many of the teachers are old and set in their ways, too, which results in teachers who can't teach it and parents who aren't in the loop. And that will always lead to friction.

If the computer had been in control, it might have been able to avoid the accident that the human was unable to avoid. But in the rush to find fault with the computers, nobody is considering that angle.

I think that would be just to hillary your hard drive, not rehillary it. It may take on a life like Robert Bork (i.e. to be borked).

You can't just do this without insider help. And by insiders, I mean government officials.

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As a bonus, these drones will cost more per unit than the threshold for a felony in practically every state. Getting caught will pretty much get you a felony rap sheet and time in the big house - either for theft of destruction of property or both. And there's a very high likelihood you will, given the monitoring which will be required to fly under FAA guidelines.

It will be a non-issue I suspect.

Plus, Amazon will know immediately if there's a loss of a drone and can dispatch a replacement to keep the end users happy.

I might have bitten, except for this. A year in this product space is pretty large. And I'm sure DX will have a clone in their shop by July or August 2016 that's $5-6.

Works poorly because of operator limitations?

There's a band of error to all operations; I would expect a suitable band could be chosen for automated flight. For non-automated flight, a list of requirements to provide an experienced pilot a reasonable chance of success. And fail safes for problems - such as automatic recovery deployment in the event of an critical flight sustainability error. There are no perfect methods, but there are acceptable risks.