If you're interested in the science of climate change, and why the small amount of gasses we produce is a larger problem than the percentage would imply, I recommend this easily digested series of videos.

Ah, but the earth is flat. Gravity simply warps space around the center of the earth's mass until the flat plane touches on the other side.

That'd be a hell of a kaboom considering the Earth is quite a ways away.

Liability isn't too much of a problem in my opinion. Insurance will cover any issues, and rates will change based on the performance of the autopilot. As long as the autopilot performs equally as well as drivers across the entire set of cars insured, then the insurance rates will be the same, people will pay the same rates, and insurance companies will shell out the same payments. An accident wouldn't cause rates to go up, but good driving records wouldn't bring the rates down, and everyone would pay rates based on the area they live and drive in. A horrible autopilot would be detected quickly by insurance companies, and that would be the fault of the manufacturer, a poorly modded autopilot or poorly maintained vehicle would also show up as an anomaly and would be the fault of the owner. Uninsured drivers would be responsible for themselves.

"No reason to do this. As a fucking human being this is totally unwarranted."

FIFY.

Windows Explorer is not the same as Internet Explorer.

Have you upgraded to IE9 in Windows 7? It closes Windows Explorer in order to install. That wouldn't be necessary if it wasn't tied to the OS. You could try to make the argument that Explorer isn't tied to the OS, but as it's the way that people interact with the OS, that wouldn't hold much weight.

Bogota hired a few hundred mimes about 6 years ago to make fun of people breaking traffic laws. It was reported to be quite effective actually as the people were more apt to change their behavior because of shame then because of fines. Probably much cheaper than radar as well.

Kitchen PC is the best use that I can see for it. Hook up a 7" usb touchscreen monitor, and use it to browse recipes online in the ki.

Videos, pictures, and text is fantastic, and I'm glad you're capturing that. However, our most personal recording device is our brain as it captures emotions as well. I'd encourage her to make something for each of your daughters. It doesn't matter what it is, a drawing ,a knick knack, a story in a bound book, a little table, it doesn't matter a bit. It just has to be a thing that will be there and remind them of her. Digital information is great, and I love technology as much as the last person on /. but they are no substitute for memories brought on by something tangible that you can hold and was created by someone.

I can see where they could use stored electricity to shut engines off when landing to reduce noise, charge at the gate, and take off without engines as well.

That alone wouldn't affect efficiency necessarily, but would probably allow the use of louder engine types that might be able to reduce efficiency, and it would reduce the opposition to airports allowing them to be placed in better locations.

The earth is flat though! It's not the earth, but space that's curved due to the influence of gravity, causing the edges of the earth to meet. I don't get why otherwise reasonable people don't understand this.

The Nexus One is pretty great in data centers. It kills pretty much all of the background noise. The Motorolla S9-HD headset however, while fantastic for music, is pretty much worthless in the data center or if you have your windows down in the car.

That's because the Nebraska Oranges are in such high demand that the farmers don't sell locally. Where do you think frozen orange juice comes from?

I made the mistake of moving a massive amount of files from one server to another with teracopy. When the move failed due to a dropped network connection, teracopy deleted all of the files in the queue, including those that it had failed to copy to the server.