Ethernet may work all the time - but there are no guarantees on packet latency. The basis of ethernet is that all traffic is equal; nobody has priority.

Which, to me, sounds all wrong. I'd much rather the packet from the collision-avoidance system to the brake system saying "holy shit stop NOW" gets higher priority than the next packet of Justin Bieber headed to the back seat.

If you are in BestBuy and you talk to an employee, you're doing it wrong.

Amazon.com is insanely popular in part because they have *no* sales associates, and they never try to up-sell you anything.

Whole Foods has many products that regular grocery stores do not. I go there, buy the product I want, and leave. Yes, there are some aisles full of oddness, but I just skip those ones. In the end, it's just a store; buy what you want, leave what you don't.

It's kind of like Best Buy; just because Monster cables are such a stupid overpriced quasi-religion doesn't mean I shouldn't go to Best Buy; it just means I shouldn't buy those cables.

Heroin has already become massively popular as a recreational drug; so there is no downside to using it in medicine.

A brand new drug meant solely for medical use - e.g. oxycontin - *will* become a street drug. There are many pharmacies that have been robbed or broken into just for the oxycontin; it is so bad in this area that many of them prominently display signs saying "We do not fill Oxycontin prescriptions - no Oxycontin on the premises". I think the point here is not to create another drug that will cause the same problems.

Both heroin and cocaine were originally developed as medicine. Turns out that their potential for misuse far, far outweighs any medical benefit.

As far as new pain medicines go - why not just go back to using heroin? Cheap to make, easily available in generic form, and it's side effects are well known.

If you truly want free and open software, not "open source", then why not do away with the GPL? That license is a primary reason that many companies, and many developers, want nothing to do with anything 'open'; the terms of the GPL greatly restrict what you can do with the software. So why continue with GPL?

Entire text of a correctly done bill here: "The use of portable electronic devices while driving a motor vehicle is prohibited".

That would ban cell phones, texting devices, google glass, and similar - but not prohibit anything built in to the car.

Yes, if you are changing their purpose. But one high tech company is pretty much the same as another - they need a bunch of small offices, a few large offices, and usually some lab space. Other than changing the sign on the outside of the building, there's usually not much renovation to do.

I would rather that a huge corporation like Google buy/rent an *existing* corporate campus, instead of building a brand new one. Isn't that far more ecologically sound?

Last I checked, there is no large corporate campus vacant and available in San Francisco. (There's not a lot of vacant land to build a new one either).

This. Seriously - how many astronauts have ever been devoutly religious? Doesn't NASA generally hire scientists?

It was of great value to the horse.

The change *to* global menus was a few releases back, and was forced on everyone; it was not opt-in. This allows people to revert to the original, sensible behaviour.

As a big fan of focus-follows-mouse, this will finally make Ubuntu at least *usable*, if not pretty. FFM is in direct odds with global menus.

Bonus points if they label the configuration settings "be like a Mac" and "be like every other computer on the planet". Maybe this signals the end of the continual macification of Unity?

This is not a car UI. It is a UI for the car's entertainment system.

The car's UI is still a steering wheel and throttle/brake pedals.

Why is there an API call to read the DNS history in the first place? The only required API is "please look up this address"; I can't see any valid reason to have a "please give me DNS history" call.