They don't have tanks for that yet, but could easily replace existing gas tanks, or add new tanks, since all existing gas stations are built to accommodate large underground storage tanks.

Obviously as more companies build Hydrogen cars, more refueling stations will be built. With a real 300 mile range you don't need them ofter to make long cross country trips possible.

If you think about it it's easier to convert existing stations to hydrogen refueling than it is to convert them to something like a supercharger station, so buildout of hydrogen stations will happen more rapidly as the percentage of hydrogen vehicles increases.

You're relying an awful lot on the service to do the vetting and the work of ensuring passenger (your) safety.

No more than I am with a "real" cab company, which you seem awfully comfortable trusting. Inherently you are going to be trusting one company to do the vetting, cab companies are no better and indeed often worse because there is no financial penalty for bad vetting.

A lot of regulations are preventative in nature

Yes - as in, preventing competition to the current monopoly. If you think they are usually "preventative" for customer harm, you are more delusional than I thought.

If you read the rest of the article, you find that you can simply disable the driver loading security to have it working again.

The article paints this as a huge security issue, but why? Anyone putting in a custom SSD is also probably technically astute enough not to download a KEXT that ostensibly puts a cat following your cursor or what have you.

Cn anyone reasonably argue that having a system highly secure for non-technical users with easy workarounds for actually technical users is a bad compromise? The people who are not technical need all the help they can get.

Also - couldn't you actually just sign the drivers that are needed for trim? What prevents that?

Their working theory is that cockpit itself was completely burned out,... Fly by wire computers however are spread across the aircraft AND FULLY REDUNDANT.

Are you retarded? A fire that traverses from the cargo area to the cockpit takes out enough "FULLY REDUNDANT" systems AND SENSORS THAT THE SYSTEMS RELY ON much less of course utterly messing with structural integrity is not going to leave a plane flying for hours and hours, changing course and altitude along the way.

If that's the "working theory" then what they are "working" on is selling you something that you apparently want to buy very badly. Very badly...

So they decided on sanctions. Apparently the sanctions are pretty effective, because there's no good economic news out of Russia.

The Russian military seems to have lots of money, for things like sending gear along the Ukrainian border. So I guess we are punishing the Russian people only for the military shooting down a civilian plane?

Yeah those sanctions are working GREAT.

Gone to the website, clicked on "ABOUT" and got a 404. Not very convincing about these engineers.

Well then it seems like they need him even more than they thought!

it's discontinuing a service that nobody uses

That strikes me as an incredibly poor choice just as Apple is starting to allow users to do exactly that same thing via ApplePay... you can already see how well it works with app store purchases. My online buying will now lean heavily to using ApplePay where possible primarily because I don't have to give the merchant a CC number.

I have been in plenty of places where mass transit made a ton of sense to a specific place in a city, but then a car made a lot of sense to get 10-20 blocks to your final destination that had either very infrequent or no buses.

You also should not underestimate the vast service Uber serves in getting people home safe after public transport shuts down for the night. I've been caught off-gaurd a few times by public transport coming times, and it was great to have that safety net.

things like displaying a hack lic,

This makes no sense. Remember they are not sitting there waiting for you to get in - you summon them via app which automatically means they have been vetted by the service, and you have info about them beforehand before you even selected them.

Perhaps taxi drivers should start with regulations requiring you to be able to see reviews from past customers?

certification of insurance or bonding

Again - all taken care of or else they would not be on the service.

penalties for systematic race discrimination

They come and pick you up. It's funny you bring this up with zero evidence of this being a problem, while we know cabs do this from time to time. If you've not solved it for cabs forget about solving it for Uber.

Undercutting these is not a good idea.

None of that is undercut. Only price, convenience, shiftiness of drivers, and car quality are undercut (or enhanced).

Certain classes do not warrant an iPad, eg PE

There are a number of sport performance monitor apps that exist for the iPad, some that make use of the camera to record and monitor form... a tablet can actually be very helpful for sports being a computer and camera integrated.

I've seen studies that have shown that they interfere with learning, but none (that weren't sponsored by someone trying to sell stuff) that showed they improved learning.

It all comes down to what software is used on them, not the mere factor of having them, and with the right software it seems silly to think they cannot improve learning.

They improve learning for me as an adult, why can the same be impossible for a child? Even if it's just for learning still assisted by an adult, why can it not be better?

The most important job they have is spectrum management.

And that role could not be taken over by another organization why again? The existing rules in place would hold for a while.

Just because the FCC is defunded doesn't mean another temporary org to manage truly important things could not be formed... It would be a great way to eliminate the vast overreach that many federal agencies are involved in. Personally, if I were doing this I would mandate that the new organizations not be headquartered in DC to help reduce the influence of politics on operations...

I don't think Congress could zero out the FCC's budget without severe repercussions.

The Republicans held steadfast against a massive budget overrun attempt by shutting down the government for a few weeks and had record wins in the recent elections.

Shutting down the FCC? Who in the real world cares about the FCC? The only ones I could possibly think of would be religious fundamentalists that still agree with the obscenity regulations the FCC mandates.

"Many politicians seem to be of the opinion "we will oppose the other party's efforts even if it means destroying the government"

See: Democrats denying any votes on bills the House passes, refusing to create a budget for years, voting 98-100% of the time time along party lines...

The Republicans are not MUCH better. But they are better about some things, and not worse at the others.

And private semi-monopolies such as AT&T would never cooperate with government wiretapping,

Of course they do - and they can get my SSL traffic, which they may or may not be able to unravel.

What will happen after regulation, is that AT&T will no longer need to cooperate as such because cooperation will be mandated and technically inserted into telco equipment. Then later on all consumer encryption must use the ClipperChipMarkVIIX, which lets government agencies with any possible interest in you decrypt anything you've ever sent (thanks to the mandated infinite logging of traffic).

If you don't think any of that is possible, much less likely, you don't know technology or governments.