Since airspace is under the purview of the FAA, not municipalities, you'll be waiting a long time. Even if they tried, the court battle would last for years.

You mean like all the falling and shot-down airplanes we have? Why do people insist on solving problems that don't exist?

This will basically make retail and delivery jobs obsolete. That's several million people suddenly without work and with no prospects for getting work. I guess there's always tent cities...

Yes, I'm sure all those career delivery men will be heartbroken.

Both of them.

Not having to replace clutch plates, for example, might be a nice and relatively easily doable thing.

Probably not worth it. A properly functioning clutch should have minimal parasitic loss from friction when engaged, so the only thing you're saving is the cost of replacing the clutch. Since clutches are usually easy to replace and relatively cheap, especially compared to the cost of something like this, it's probably throwing money away.

Ironically, the idea that sunflowers are heliotropic is an urban legend.

South. That's why this article is stu... Let's say stupendous.

Dear God, man. Eminem != The Prodigy, and that song's a classic. If you haven't, you should watch the video, as it's still relevant today.

The reason is because someone (a local, actually) got speeding tickets based on an officer's judgment of reasonable and safe, and the courts found the prohibition unconstitutionally vague.

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12...

What's the term that's often thrown around here? Correlation != causation.

1) The analogy doesn't fit. That horses were argued to be more reliable is not at all relevant to whether or not people wanted to own some form of transportation. They did, and they continued to even after the automobile supplanted the horse.

2) Most cars are used and sit idle during the same parts of the day for a large portion of the population, so sharing wouldn't substantially reduce the number of vehicles in use, and without reducing the number of vehicles in use (getting more rides per vehicle) you're not going to lower the cost per trip, which reduces the incentive to share.

3) Most people would prefer not to sit in other people's filth (but, ironically, many are fine sitting in their own filth). Regardless of any logical inconsistency, the "ick factor" will weigh heavily in any determination of whether to rent or own.

I just bring hydrogen and burn it as needed.

ISIS is not even close to being defined along ethnic or religious lines.

They might not have succeeded with more attention to the issue. If, for example, Slashdot had posted the story, we might be reading a different story today.

To be fair, most updates of OS X have required a reboot as well. I'm in the process of installing 10.10.1 right now, and will have to reboot momentarily. There are probably more patches for Windows, but on its own, I'm not sure whether that statistic is objectively bad.

The other half is less use of URLs to pass parameters and query strings, where less is as close to zero as possible.

And while this will certainly reduce sniffing, it won't reduce "metadata" collection at all, and it won't eliminate the need for endpoint security -- if anything, it will increase it.

Also, why on God's green earth isn't Slashdot using https yet??