It is tempting to put that nasty stuff to a civilian use, but such a program could also be an pretext to keep up the production of weapons-grade fissile material. When conservative politicians in the 1970ies were pushing to arm West Germany with its own nuclear weapons, one of the things they did was having a breeder reactor built (thankfully it never was completed). Such a thing should definitely be avoided.

You couldn't make this up.

mathematical laws from? If the most reasonable explanation for ours would be that someone put them there, what kind of über-laws would his world have? And how would they come to be? By that logic, he would himself most likely be part of a larger simulation! And how much resources of his universe would it take to model ours? Surely electrons or quantum states or whatever he would be using don't come free. Much less does an potentially infinite hierarchy of model universes within model universes. I don't think the idea is even new, didn't some french dudes explore this idea?

... to hire a bricklayer to finish his project.

Yeah, relax, that law is just to forbid the economy class hoi polloi from communicating. Go plutocracy!

... to use drones for something dangerous. Drones are for the military, to kill people safely!

... Human Ressources types are paid for to think of. Make sure the employees do not sell only their times, but make sure they sell their souls. I hate this shit. I never got a job were a HR guy was on my job interview, and I don't think I missed much there.

Says who? Or is that just your guess?

... using it as a computer monitor, try it out, and if the shop won't let you do it, leave it. I bought a Philips tv with that intention, and it has several kinks that make it less suitable than I hoped for. Not only does it take longer to start up than my computer to boot, but also the menus are terribly cumbersome, and the tuning options for color, resolution etc. are not well suited for computer use.

... our solar neigbourhood turned out to be, so that all we need to get all excited is an unsual rock. With all of the endevaours to reach those places, starting with the Sputnik, I find them very exciting, just as I find the results very depressing.

Indoors stereo vision is so hard that if the DelFly actually navigated by stereo vision, this alone would be truly groundbreaking. Especially given the limited processing power on this thing. However, judging by the papers publicly available, the actual collision avoidance on the DelFly seems to rely on optical flow, and complementary, a new model of texture analysis called "appearance variation cue". Both of which do not inherently rely on stereo vision. I might be missing something from the more current papers though.

I never quite understood why many hardware producers do not provide linux drivers, or at least the means for third parties to write them. They simply have to conceal the fact that they are stealing from the open source community!

It also depends on your definition of "porn". For me, "porn" is visual material produced and distributed with the intent of getting people aroused. The stuff in an encyclopedia is documentation, not porn. If Sanger held his ridiculous definition to printed encyclopedia, he would probably have to denounce them to the FBI, too, on the grounds that there may be some material in them some people could probably wank off to. He did not, of course, because his intent is not to protect anyone from "porn", but his intent is to harm Wikipedia by running a gross propaganda campaign and by abusing the legal system to damage the project. Just to keep in line with Sanger's train of thought, one could also wonder about this man's own sexual preferences, considering all the hours he obviously spent digging out the last peace of "porn" from Wikimedia sites, with a determination to find "gross" material probably surpassing that of 99% of all Wikipedia users. The more I think about it, the more I am beginning to suspect that he might get some kind of kick out of this meticulous research. Now normally I do not care what gets random people aroused, it is definitely none of my business. However, with a public conduct like Sanger, throwing around accusations and denouncing honest people as criminal perverts, his personal motivations should not be beyond scrutiny.

Wikipedia does not "host an enormous amount of extremely gross porn". Sanger is a liar and a tool for censorship and comservative hysteria.

it has been mentioned that solar power is bought with state intervention - however, without state intervention there obviously would be no nuclear power, either, and I didn't hear many conservatives complaining then.