The first use of this might be for cargo ship convoys, instead of letting drones loose by themselves. I'm thinking that one or more new drone ships would tag along with a regular manned cargo ship, effectively increasing the capacity of the crew of the manned ship. The crew would be nearby for maintenance and emergencies. Remember that as with any new technology it would be phased in- the thousands of current cargo ships are not going to disappear overnight. If this technology is ever implemented, there will have to be a transitional phase where it coexists with current technology.

Not a worry- seems like many cops would just shoot Lassie first and then try to ask questions (probably "bark if you don't want us to search").

That actually sounds really awesome... Um, maybe I've had too much WoT...

Lucky they don't need a gigacrazy amount of battery packs, they'd have to build a super-duper-gigafactory.

Maybe that will be the first thing he does on them.

I wouldn't be surprised if that is the first action take by most people when first using their new Google Glasses.

I think the reasoning goes like this:
Step 1: Have contractor establish a searchable database of license plates, with the times and locations where they were spotted by traffic cameras and other sources.
Step 2: ?
Step 3: Contractor profit (and kickbacks)!

I'm gong to get a new bumper sticker which will read:

4TH AMD"); DROP TABLE PlateScans;

oblig ref

A non-vegetarian veterinarian is a job where you can still eat when your customers don't pay you.

I find this only slightly less depressing.

I think they could put this new super large particle collider in the whitespace left by Beta.

Only after a contractor converted the dimensions to metric.

I have mixed case menus in Visual Studio 2012. Download VSCommands for Visual Studio 2012 or 2013 from the MSDN Visual Studio Gallery to fix the all caps problem. Somebody at MS was listening about this problem (or their own developers got sick of all caps).

I took this to mean they want to keep the design of the optics secret.

Yes. How else will the little man in there know when to do my bidding?

And I was hoping I could use this to reduce fan noise in my computer.