They need to be careful and make sure they don't reduce Robin Williams tributes or Ice Bucket Challenges. Otherwise there won't be anything left :(

This is good technology, but not as good technology as that thing where people call the bad guy and have to stay on the phone with him for 20 seconds in order to trace the call. If I can offer one recommendation: they should work on making that like 19 seconds. Because 90% of the time the bad guy knows it takes 20 seconds, and has a stopwatch by the phone, and hangs up at like 19 seconds, just to toy with the good guy.

You're OK with unsafe & unpredictable drivers on the road, as long as they're insured?

Wish I could mod parent "+1 Edgy"

If it wasn't so edgy, the suggestion to let the car companies decide for themselves would come off as ridiculous.

Are you suggesting simulators can't deal with multiple scenarios at the same time?

I think if there really was something like that, we would have heard of it by now.

Some have, some haven't? Anyway it's a version of D&D 3.5. Some people unhappy with 4 went to Pathfinder. It's not really a big deal, and surely if this system is great, people from Pathinder will move to D&D 5.

BlackBerry Ltd. has created a new business unit that will combine some of its most innovative technology and patent portfolio as the company focuses away from handheld devices[....]

Independent technology analyst Carmi Levy said the new unit reinforces the fact that Blackberry's days primarily as a handset vendor are behind it as it moves "very aggressively" toward a different business. "This is probably the most tangible evidence yet of the company's transition into something very different than it was even a year or two ago," Levy said.

Over the years, there's been several articles on Slashdot about the problems involved with transitioning to Linux, which is like FOX news talking about problems with unregulated assault rifles. There's been constant cost overrruns, the transition has been far behind schedule, and I'd say a better take is "possible, but not a good idea." As a model, it hasn't been widely copied by other municipalities around the world, despite Linux becoming a much better, well-known, and practical system over the past 11 years.

Uhhm, OK, uhhh...I'm sorry, why is this on Slashdot?

I had a friend who was a lawyer working at Cisco, him and the other lawyers had essentially no work to do and spent their time playing card games. After half a year they lost their jobs. Good. That is how the system is supposed to work. Eventually my friend found a job where he did use his skills, training. It wouldn't have made sense for Cisco to teach him how to install routers, and he wouldn't have been interested in that anyway. He didn't get a job with Cisco expecting lifetime employment.

Sucks to get layed off, but companies don't owe us jobs, and we don't owe the company our lifetime dedication, and it's pretty well understood in the Silicon Valley and really all of the US.

It's even easier than that- just think, one four millionth of an inaccurate estimate of the circumference of the Earth!

And when people say they are hungry enough to eat a horse, they actually would not eat a horse.

I suppose I meant "self-reported IQ." I was making fun of how common it is for people on the internet to claim to have an extraordinarily high IQ, when an IQ of 163 would put you in the top .0013%.

If you are so smart perhaps you can explain why 98% of the internet has an IQ in the 150-170 range.