I agree with the part about already owning a second car which runs on gas.Electric cars are quite expensive, and most of the people I know who have the money to spend on an electric car already have 2 cars. It would do the environment a lot of help if at least one of those cars was switched to electric. Even if you're single or only own one car for other reasons, it still might make sense to go electric if you really care about the environment. As long as you aren't the kind of person who goes on long trips every month, then it probably doesn't matter much if you have to rent a car a couple times a year when you go out of town. Many people I know never go more than 100 miles from the city. And when they do, it's on a plane. So there really isn't much justification for owning a car that uses gas for a lot of people. For many people it's really just a matter of price. A lot of people only buy cars used, which there aren't very many of in the electric market.

There are solutions other than traditional batteries. Flywheel technology, molten salt batteries, pumped water, etc. All these can help to reduce the strain on our electricity system.

Also, once that technology is mature, it will make things so much easier to manage. We lose a lot of power just in transmission. One estimate states that about 6% of the power generated is lost in transmission. By decentralizing, and not shipping power over long distances, we can cut into that number quite a bit. Put battery backups in houses so that there's no so much fluctuation in demand. The main reason we still use fuels like coal and gas is because they can be ramped up quickly to meet varying demands. If you can smooth out the power demand with batteries,either industrial sized for the grid, or home sized, then you can eventually go to using only nuclear and renewable sources.

I think the solution to all this is to move to a system where everybody has a big battery or capacitor bank in their house. That way we can get rid of the need to ramp up the power. The power draw will be basically constant, and we will be able to make do with a much smaller capacity on the grid. It's not cost effective to do this yet, but as battery prices come down, it will become cheaper, and eventually make sense to have something like this in your house. Combine that with a couple solar panels on your roof, and you've cut down the strain on the power grid by a very large amount.

You can get pretty cheap and pretty small computers, so it wouldn't be a bad idea to put both a film copy and a digital copy into the time capsule. Put a Raspberry Pi or something similar in there win an OS the boots up and auto plays the movie on an SD Card. If it doesn't work, you haven't lost much. If it turns out that they still have HDMI in 50 to 100 years when they open it, they will be able to play the video instantly. Some people say that SD cards degrade after a few years, even without writing to them. There's probably better storage solutions. But I still think that computers are cheap enough that you should look for a solution so that the video can be shown right away. Maybe even an entire laptop with an archival quality CD in the drive that boots and plays the video. Take out the battery and hope that they can still hook it up to a power source.

I'm not so sure about this. People are different. They would probably ask for different things. Some people may think an office is necessary. Others would be just as happy if you provided them with noise cancelling headphones. There's plenty of things that should be open to negotiation. Better computers/equipment, bigger offices, working hours, more vacation time. They probably shouldn't be trying to keep salaries secret anyway, because employees will talk. If there is a huge disparity between different employees, it will get out. And the company should be prepared for this. There's many companies with an open salary system, so everybody knows how much everybody else makes. And these companies aren't falling apart.

Salaries are important, but that's not all that matters, especially when you get up to senior positions, since most senior positions will pay more than enough money to live comfortably off of. To me, working hours are quite important. I know people who make more than me (and less than me for that matter), but they often have to work evenings or come in on weekends. I don't want a job that I'll have to work tons of extra hours. Once you get beyond the the first 5 or 10 years of your career, having an enjoyable working environment is much more important than your actual salary, assuming a reasonable salary.

A copper pipe wouldn't be much good for assault. Not enough weight to it. You'd probably be better off with a laptop battery, which they have no problem with you carrying onto a plane.

Just knowing the total number of positions doesn't really do much. It's just a huge combinatorics problem. Knowing the number of positions doesn't tell you much about which positions are good or bad, or even which ones are likely to happen in an actual game. I guess it gives you some idea of the problem space for solving the game, but that doesn't get you very far. We already knew the problem space is extremely huge. I don't think that standard methods or computing all the possible moves like we did with checkers or chess are the right way to go about it. On a 19x19 board, there are 361 choices for the first move. and for the second move there are 360 options. That's 129000 possible combinations for the first 2 moves. Mind you, many of those are symmetrical, but it's still a large number of positions. Compare that to checkers where the are 16 possible 2 move openings, and chess, where there are 100 possible 2 move openings, many of which we know are almost never used in competition play. Attacking go using the same strategies as chess seems like it would just lead nowhere.

Considering all the different spammers out there, it's hard to imagine any single entity getting 26% of all complaints. Somebody must have been really out to get them, or there must not have been that many complaints submitted. From the quick glance I did, I couldn't determine how many complaints they got, or how many emails this company sent out. They probably would have not gotten such a big fine if their unsubscribe links worked.

I'm from Canada, and as much as I don't like spam, I think that this goes a bit too far. Spam filters are so good now that I rarely see spam in my inbox, and anything that isn't caught can easily be blocked by a filter. This may stop a few companies within the country from sending out emails, but the vast majority of spam comes from outside the country, and this law can't protect against that. It really makes it difficult for small companies to verify that they comply with the regulations. When even companies like Microsoft stop sending out important emails, because there's no way to verity that they have consent for the emails they are sending out, then there's not much the small companies can do to cover themselves if somebody was to complain.

I just checked around the Internet, and I couldn't find a single example of this maple leaf apostrophe in the Tim Hortons logo. Every example I saw had no apostrophe, no maple leaf, just plain old Tim Hortons. I'm not sure where you got your information from, but I've never seen this Tim Hortons sign you're referring to.

The difference is, that if they want to inspect your luggage, and you don't give them the combination, they can very easily break the lock. This is not so easy with good cryptography. With certain levels of cryptography, they could try to brute force the password until the heat-death of the universe, and still not even come close to breaking it. Should people be forced to give up information that could be used to obtain evidence against them, or should people truly have the right to remain silent? I don't think our current laws cover this very well.

You obviously don't drive where I drive. It's not uncommon for drivers to treat the road like a racecourse, doing seemingly illogical and unpredictable things, all in the name of finishing a 20 minute drive 30 seconds faster. I see so many people race towards red lights that I really have to wonder how they ever got their license.

There's a lot of companies working on technologies that will get is closer to self driving cars, but almost none of them are really trying to build a truly self driving car. A true self driving car has no steering wheel, no gas pedal, and no break pedal. That, or I'm allowed to sit on the back seat, and read a book or take a nap while it drives me where I want to go. Why would I need a license for that? Currently, everyone is building more and more advanced forms of cruise control, but they still expect you to be sitting there, paying attention, ready to grab the wheel or slam on the brakes if something goes wrong. I could easily see accidents increasing in the near future as people start to rely on these technologies too much, and really stop paying attention to the road when they really should be.

I'm still trying to figure out if House Of Cards does product placements. It seems like they have a lot of clear shots of products, but there doesn't seem to be any brand loyalty. You'll see plenty of Apple hardware. Then you'll see people using Dell computers. Then you'll see some people using iPhones.some people using Blackberry's, and others using Windows Phone. I can't recall if I've ever seen an Android device in House of Cards, but I've seen just about every other OS in that show.