Those systems basically consist in a very advanced inertial measurement unit coupled with daytime star trackers - which limit the drift of the inertial measurement unit. They cannot find where you are if your initial position is unknown. They can therefore be hardly be compared to GPS... even if they are very useful in stratospheric bombers or ballistic missiles.

I have very good memories of Descent 3 online (maybe not has crazy as Descent 2 online because the maps were not as cramped). What did you find so poor about Descent 3 ? The hitscan sniper gun ?

In Descent, it's called trichording.

Well, have you seen how a cable car is in San Francisco ? I don't know how these fake cable cars are, but real cable cars are nothing like a city bus... first of all, they're wide open, and secondly, there are actually people hanging outside of the car... To get a better idea, have a look at that picture.
So, in the event of a crash, I really wouldn't compare them to city buses.

I don't know how it really works in the U.S., but in France, if you called an ambulance for a cold, for sure it would be free, but you would end up in the emergency room of the hospital waiting for hours and hours because your condition is not critical... who would do that when you have much better ways to spend a day, especially when you have a cold ?

You'd probably lose your dollars. For instance, under French law, there are two exceptions to this rule.
- When there are maintenance or urgent works to be done (and actually not for just any work)
- When you have noticed of your intention to leave, to allow for visits
In these cases, the schedule of the visits must be agreed by both parties. They cannot exceed two hours or occur during weekends. In any other instance, there is no right of access. Of course, the landlord can ask (like any other person), and he may be denied access without any justification.
But of course, there is no such thing as an universal european law for renting. This may vary from country to country.

Did it actually happen? That is the question.

From an engineering standpoint, it's not really the question - if there is a design flaw so that the system can fail with a non-negligible probability, it will eventually fail. Bits flip everyday, everywhere, but there should be mitigation in place to take care of that (at least a watchdog).

This was precisely one of the options of the poll, which was voted against (only about 10% of support).

It's not absurd at all if you think about the different workflows that could be used. If the video was edited on a desktop-based software, some time was already spent transferring the video from the recorder to the desktop, and a wide choice of video codecs are available.
But it's a bit different if the video was taken on a mobile device. Here, the "editing" part might have been much quicker (just a few clippings with the built-in app), and very few codecs might be available.
So it's not really about decoding, but encoding. The idea was to allow people shooting from mobile devices to easily upload content to wikimedia. You might think that this content would have been low quality anyway, but it might be better than no content.

Indeed, along similar lines, it can be argued that the existence of submarine missile platforms such as the Oscar 2 has made carrier battle groups obsolete. However, just like ICBMs, such weapons are available to a very limited number countries, and are only used in an all-out war. They will not be deployed in the kind of wars that have taken place in the recent history.

C code generated from Simulink is also increasingly being used for spacecraft embedded software. Several satellite buses have at least a part of their attitude, orbit and control system running software directly coded in Simulink.