Consider this scenario. I am merging right to make a right turn.

1. Indicate right
2. Wait for a car to give way
3. Merge one lane to the right

This doesn't work with automatic cars because they don't understand hand signals. Instead I just have to merge and hope the overtaking cars are going to give way. If this behaviour becomes common, people will start merging without indicating in the expectation that automatic systems will take care of the resulting conflict.

I ride a bike to work and I indicate for right and left turns as well as stopping under some conditions. I doubt that the systems on a (semi) automatic car will understand that.

Could that body have been... The Earth? The same thing happens whenever I try to look at Paris from Australia.

Its clearly a trap.

I wonder if it has any Earth sized moons. Maybe one close in could be kept warm(ish) by tidal heating.

I liked Scottie

Maybe she will pop up elsewhere.

Lets hope it doesn't start by attacking rubber seals.

Plenty of biological material was left on the surface in jettison bags during the apollo missions. Its going to be interesting when those bags get retrieved. In fact I wonder if it justifies a sample return mission right now.

Yeah, given that launch sites tend to be on coastal areas.

But the wheels aren't failing. The skin on the wheels is failing but the wheels will work fine with structure alone.

JavaScript virtual machines have no security between applications. Any script can replace the javascript API at run time, messing with other code running in the same window.

At best they would give the keys to software provided by Yahoo and running in their browser. Law enforcement could compel Yahoo to provide a backdoor to that software or they could compromise the encryption in the browser. Unlike java, javascript has nothing to stop code from a different source interfering with other code running in the browser.

Doctorow succeeds partly due to self promotion, but that will only work for a few prominent authors. Not everybody can be an editor on boing boing.

So create your own e-book and associated infrastructure.