Lolita is considered by many to be one of the 100 best books of the 20th century.

Complete and utter bullshit. You are pulling numbers out of your ass. I give you the truth. I stopped reading your post after that sentence.

And thus you prove to the world one and for all that all those young whipper snappers really are psychopaths.

Wake me up when Apple supports Bluetooth SPP on iOS.

If you want to know why people are a bit dismissive of the OP's post, please read this critique of the website the OP linked to. Trust me when I say that you don't want to get your history lessons from that site.

All those bells and whistles come at a cost. The Edison draws about 10x as much power as an Arduino. Much more capable to be sure, but at a cost.

I've met those people. Not impressed.

I guess that disproves the Big Bang Theory! Now what show am I going to watch?

Actually, that was my point entirely. I would like this stuff vetted by professionals first. My father was a long-haul driver, so I have quite a bit of respect for the profession. They are going to have a lot more valuable input on the safety of these systems than the general public.

It's time to start having driver-less automobile races! I'd actually watch the after-race interviews with the pit crews and programmers.

I would think that this sort of technology would be tried out on commercial vehicles (long-haul trucks, local delivery vehicles, taxis, etc.) first, before letting it loose on amateur drivers. I also think it is high time to replace Chicago's CTA drivers (especially on the 'L') with this technology.

Lack of unsigned numeric types, especially when dealing with binary (octet) data streams. Drives me up the fracking wall.

CVEs or it doesn't exist.

Any /. article that talks about security vulnerabilities or exploits and does not reference the relevant CVEs in the summary is a worthless piece of shit.

Do American citizens have a constitutional right to fly?

Yep. Here's a good source for the relative masses of the solar system object: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Solar_System_objects_by_size#List. It does not include the Oort Cloud, which is though to contain about 5 Earth masses of material.