I remember hearing a proposal that the barrel (or rail) would be magazine-fed along with the armature and round. Kinda defeats the probable space/weight advantages over a chemically-propelled round, but at least you don't have tons of explosive propellants in the magazine.

I don't know how serious the proposal was. But it would solve the rate-of-fire issue.

So, this explains why you were tipping those "Smarts".

What about your criminal confederates? More illegal thrill-seeking? Someone secretly paying to have the cars tipped? Voices in their heads? Hatred of tiny four-wheeled tin boxes arrogantly pretending to be cars?

The last is the reason I do it. I mean, would do it. Although I don't. Really.

It is if you have operators and engineers that have any brains

But out here in reality, what operators and engineers have in brains they make up for by the absence of give-a-damn. Laziness can trump smarts every day of the week, and the path of least resistance is a damn fine malware vector.

that have any brains, There are tons

Speaking of brains... that's a comma splice. If English is your first language, please return to third grade to learn not to do that.

There are tons of CNC machines not being infected out there.

There were tons of numerically controlled machines out there infected by this very mechanism. The fact that it wasn't CNC machines this time doesn't mean it can't be CNC any time in the future. The attack is feasible.

You're not the target demographic. That doesn't mean it's a bad idea. These kinds of phones will be bought by tech nerds in their 20s.

Glassholes, you mean.

modular IBMPC / overclocking crowd.

Modular PC. Not exactly the stirring precedent I'd go looking for.

Thus, even if you have access to a movie for free through Netflix, using the Voice Search for that movie will only bring up Amazon's paid options.

You make that sound like a bad thing.

--Signed,
Jeff Bezos

Wait, what?

Burning Man has greeters like Wal-Mart has greeters?

O_o

I think you're missing the point.

As far as I can tell, the point is "You're wrong, because I, and only I, am right. It doesn't even matter if you agree with me. You're still wrong, because you're not me."

Yeah, doesn't make sense to me, either. Probably all the heatstroke and pharmaceticals.

Do we really want to send reality TV loving cretins to colonize other planets?

Three words:

Golgafrincham "B" Ark.

No, you're thinking of Raymond Luxury-Yacht (pronounced "'Throatwobbler Mangrove").

Heinrich Bimmler? From Minehead? I have no idea why the TSA would be interested in him. After all, he wasn't the head of the Gestapo for 10 years... I mean, 5 years... I mean never.

You gotta cook the beef somehow.

Ok, well, maybe not "gotta"...