I'm a bit rusty in my maths - but I'm fairly certain mega-volkswagons are the currently used scale

I'm sure it must be pretty damn good since it has "HyperX" and "Predator" in the name, which is always an indication of high quality and reliability. But I can't be absolutely sure it's the absolute best unless it has flames on the logo.

I'm actually working on Apple Watch integration for App that allows you to do exactly that

Ohh FFS -- that was at the initial launch and not done as a fuck you but simply because they were more interested in just getting the new product and OS out the door. Initially, Apps were JS based and highly sandboxed. But they realized that Devs wanted something better and Apple set themselves to creating an entire Development Platform and App Store to support that. So any claims that Apple is somehow hostile to developers is utter BS. If anything, Apple stands to make millions off 3rd party Apple Watch Apps in regards to App Store and In-App Purchases.

Why do people believe in an Invisible Sky Wizard? Why do people play the lottery? It's called Hope and as irrational and non-sensical as it may be it's an essential part of the Human condition.

I was not implying that they should start from scratch. Just that "close" here is not "close" in terms of a workable solution as the summary had indicated they were close to having the problem solved. And in respect to the summary, I meant only that they are still a long ways off from having a reliable vehicle. While I get your point -- I find it disingenuous in this case as it takes a very simple statement to a very radical conclusion and out of context. And because of that, I have had to waste more time explaining something I should not have had to explain in the first place.

With Horseshoes and Hand Grenades. We've seen what "close" gets us with rocketry, and it's not pretty.

So in other words, they arrested a Federal Employee on Federal Property for doing his job.

After that shitfest you can't pay me to read anything by Stephenson ever again.

Well, forcing it to trade-in it's Hummer for a tax credit to buy a new Tesla, Prius or Leaf would be a start -- also, banning sodas, severely taxing and restricting smoking and requiring fast food franchises to offer healthy alternatives can't hurt.

Though they may make claims that piracy is a great compliment and testament to the show's popularity, it's clear that they would like to curtail piracy by offering legal avenues of watching the show as evidenced by their recent launch of HBO Now and scheduling the release of new episodes to happen simultaneously world wide.

Personally, I was a hater of HBO for the last few years due to their open hostility to Netflix, their taking of sides AGAINST Net Neutrality and their tying of their streaming service to Comcast et al -- but I've come to forgive them a bit because of their work with Amazon in bringing their back catalog of originals for internet streaming free to Amazon Prime users and their launch of HBO Now, which I have signed up for.

So it pains me a bit to see HBO change tact and offer a compelling streaming service only to suffer a massive leak by a trusted party so soon after it's debut. While I'm sure HBO will take it in stride, I've long said that if these bad actors like HBO could offer legal channels to get their content without a wait, I would sign-up and not pirate. But, with this action and the amount of seeders and leachers, it seems the use case claimed by many -- that they only pirate due to not having a clear legal means to watch without having to wait several months for the DVD release -- is the exception and not the rule.

They most certainly had pagers and carphones were the ultimate status symbol in the early to mid-80s

Due to my own empirical observations, I would have to disagree. In my late teens and early twenties when studying liberal arts, philosophy and making my living as an illustrator and animator, I rarely drank but would smoke weed pretty frequently and maintained a 3.6 to 4.0 GPA without even trying.

However, when I decided to teach myself to code a few years later, I found the weed really got in the way, so bought some beer and found I could drink a fair amount of beer and still grok the info I needed and retain it. As such, I stopped smoking weed and started drinking for my recreational pleasure.

The Universe is not an iGadget -- we don't need the new shiny to replace the old just to get new features. So get past your short sighted grasp of existence and learn to realize that by fully understanding something, we can set ourselves to better exploiting it instead of wasting energy looking for things that don't exist. And it's not like we are anywhere near having a complete understanding of the universe or it's composition. So anything we can lock down is a major step forward regardless of how "revolutionary" it may be on a superficial level.

I like John Oliver, but his attempts at humor early in the interview just came off as awkward at best. However, he did finally hit his stride when he started in with his survey results, which showed Americans have no clue and even less concern with educating themselves on todays issues much less wanting to do anything about it. Hopefully Snowden got the message -- that coming here to "Face Trial" as he has supposedly been mulling over would not serve any sort of public debate or discourse that could create change, but only be ratings fodder for Fox and CNN. Because yes -- American's don't care, Americans don't want to know, Americans just want to be given shiny things.