>> maybe Google's willingness to build its own hardware just to get the technology on the road means that its self-driving car team knows something the rest of the industry doesn't

Or...that the rest of the auto industry doesn't want to get tagged with the "first death caused by an automated car."

>> java infusion can certainly help, but studies also suggest that alcohol can also have a positive impact

A better idea then: mix the two. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...

...there would be no Slashdot summaries.

So this is a call for what - people to use their computer skills to censor viewpoints they don't agree with?

Prehistoric hockey games?

>> Why Didn't Sidecar's Flex Pricing Work?

Because they hired Bennett Haselton to promote it, and the target audience died of thirst waiting for BH to finish his pitch.

>> Sir Richard Branson Quietly Shelves Virgin Submarine Plan

"Quietly shelves"...really? From the department of less crappy headlines, here's a couple of freebies:

"Branson Deep Sixes Own Submarine Mission"
"What Do Sir Richard Branson and the Red October Have in Common?"
"Virgin Dive Aborted Before Anything Gets Wet"

>> business could collect a...card number and use it to make an instant payment...real-time, payment transaction risk-scoring

Congratulations you've invented the credit card!

>> Who's old enough to remember when the best technology was found at work, while at home we got by with clunky home computers and pokey dial-up modems?

I'm even older. I remember when the best technology was at home, on our personal computers. From there, PCs started invading the workplace...finally breaking up a lot of the control held by an iron-fisted, non-innovative, mainframe-based IT department.

I love the source document, but how about a TFA that summarizes what this is all about?

>> Does the FAA know about this?

They probably would after the fried plane drops into the sea.

>> U.S. Navy has declared a "laz-er" ...an operational asset and ...has given permission for the commander of the ship to defend itself with the weapon

Today, we finally begin to close the Shark Gap.

>> The company might adopt a new pricing model for the upcoming operating system, as it looks to shift away from the one-time initial purchase to an ongoing-revenue basis.

This certainly follows what we've seen out of the Office and Azure product lines already, what developers are used to with MSDN subscriptions and what many enterprise customers are used to with "true-ups" with large CAL and desktop/laptop counts. However, the coming squeeze on customers locked into Microsoft is why I love the fact that my company has gone all in on a multi-year "if it's not open source (or our own customizations), we don't need it" approach to software.

>> Give Jackson money and he'll go away.

This. Remember when beer distributorships were harming minority communities by entrenching already dominant companies? And then Jackson's kids mysteriously ended up owning a distributorship or two...and suddenly all was well? http://www.martinlutherking.or...

>> doesn't look like there's rampant wide-spread abuse of this sort of data. Yet.

But there could be. Many IoT company's privacy policies seem to be just a cut/paste of their wide-open web privacy policies. For example, take a look at Lowe's IRIS system. According to the legalese, I think they might be able to scan your home video feeds to look for products you might want...
http://iotsecuritylab.com/iot-...