I was going to object to your outright dismissal of design and how important it is to good (or sometimes just popular) products. But then I remembered that this is slashdot.

Hint: The failure of Linux to make inroads on the desktop is due to the exact same reason: the elevation of engineering above everything else.

(And yes, I too am an engineer).

God DAMN I need me some mod points. +1 Fuck Yeah!

Oh, it's a lot easier than that. I anticipate that we'll see exploits right off the bat that are based solely on specific behaviors next to / in front of / around an autonomous vehicle. It probably won't be hard to force one off the road just by aggressively encroaching into their lane and matching their rate of deceleration.

Dangerous, sure. Irresponsible, absolutely. But inevitable just the same.

The AC was presenting his personal opinion -- that if he has to pay attention, he's not interested. Technically speaking, one cannot be "wrong" about whether he is interested in it or not. He's either interested, or he's not, and there's only one person on the entire planet that actually has a say in that.

I've lived in a Texas. Bunch of racist motherfuckers.

Sacramento isn't in Northern California. Well, okay, geographically speaking it is in the Northern half of the state. But I refuse to acknowledge Sac as part of NorCal in all the ways that actually matter.

And yet it's the most populous state in the nation.

Conversely, nobody has a right to take it from you, either. You have as much right to sit there -- within any relevant time limits -- as anyone else. Delaying your exit for a winning bidder may not be the most civic-minded action you can take, but it's certainly not illegal.

Assuming that you find a way to communicate these alerts without freaking everyone out (which is a tall order to start with) I think your goal -- of having people "take extra care until it is fixed" is so completely vague an inactionable as to be completely meaningless.

Another person that doesn't understand that Libertarians (or people claiming to be Libertarians) endlessly spout a bunch of insane rhetoric to anyone that will listen, up to and including the ideal that markets should be totally unregulated.

You may not believe markets should be totally unregulated, but my personal observation is that among people who claim to speak for the Libertarian cause, you're in a very very small minority.

And as a side note: if Libertarians ever want to be taken seriously, you're going to have to weed out the crackpots from among your ranks, or at least get them to stop posting their insane rhetoric on every crackpot-friendly forum (i.e. Slashdot) on the interwebs. Y'all sound pretty nuts to the rest of us standing in the middle of the political spectrum.

I use TaskPaper. It's just slightly more than plain text, offering some automatic (and fairly unobtrusive) organization. I keep one text file for one year, and then start a new one.

Considering that California is the most populous state in the nation, I think you might be exaggerating things just a bit. Clearly, lots of people live here, and not all of them are rich. Me, for instance.

A couple decades back, people were living in the exact same houses we're living in today.

Ethics has nothing whatsoever to do with the personal choice to boycott something that one disagrees with.

You are woefully confused.