Yeah but who wants to live in the mid-west?

Because in most places, public transport is ran by the government and governments/politicians have a tendency to make businesses and contributors happy, not their constituents. Most public transport thus does not run where YOU want to go but rather where people go to spend money, where contributors have lobbied the thing to be built and whatever other decisions make the now privatized bus companies the most money (cutting lines, frequency and convenience while increasing costs and filling vehicles well beyond their capacity).

All you need is to load a 64 bit kernel by using a custom compiled 32 bit EFI that simply passes all 'foreign' calls to the hardware. The hardware is 64-bit.

Millions of dollars? If your OS had a decent and open ABI, there is no reason the actual interaction of your code with the system could be traversed and tested in a fortnight. I've never seen any company dumping millions of dollars in a single version of a driver, a few thousands at best (and most driver code for laptop hardware looks like it was never even tested).

Does your mom's basement have a filtered air intake?

No, if the NSA were interested at all it would be to hide a hook in the software that you can no longer inspect because it is encrypted.

If you put in the effort, it would. There are several types of cars where enthusiasts replace gasoline with diesel or even electric motors. This is akin to Subaru welding in every part of your car so that when it breaks down you have to throw away your car and replace it.

I built one of those in a robotics class 10 years ago. We don't particularly think of cockroaches as intelligent thus it is not an AI. Most of our primal functions are purely robotic and easy to implement. Intelligence is something not quite yet defined.

They're not trying to get the bomb (if you can believe their media). They're trying to power their country without relying on foreign oil or foreign tech since historically, they have been hard hit economically by the instability of the region. The bomb may be secondary but nuclear power is still the cheapest power available (if you ignore the NIMBY and regulation problems western nations face)

What would be even cooler is if these trucks could do it without having to stop your car. Like military planes in full flight can refuel, cars should as well.

Or perhaps they did find the holy grail that Nikolai Tesla was working on - free energy, charging through the air.

Yeah, but that's simply inductive charging, basically placing the secondary coil inside or very close to the primary. You still need to have the device in an exact position very close or in the charger for it to work. At that point it doesn't matter whether or not the wires are touching, it's actually more efficient to have the wires touching (and having a charger that is fully reversible and magnetically snaps is optimal at that point).

What I've understood as wireless charging tech has been in concept for years but not yet fully worked out is a wireless charging mat or area where you simply put down your device (eg. on your night stand) and it starts charging. The problem with that is position, area, air gap etc; the tech exists already but they are woefully inefficient and thus put a big strain on the larger batteries.

It IS relevant to this case. Extra peering connections cost 0, zilch (besides the actual hardware cost which is really minimal if you're just popping in a cable into an existing switch)

At the peering centers, after the obvious monthly colocation fees you simply pay for YOUR traffic towards the Internet (upload) and for YOUR to be reachable across the Internet. You don't pay for the amount of data you transfer, you pay per Mbps that you upload disproportionate to what you accept.

So Netflix is paying an amount of money to upload their data, Comcast gets it for free, if they would actually accept the data, it would reduce their peering costs (not by a whole lot but a couple of thousand/month at least). The problem with Comcast however is that Netflix is disrupting their side business (cable etc) so by spending money in blocking Netflix they hope to recap that by more cable subscriptions.

What mainstream? None of my devices (and I have a lot of them) have wireless charge options. There are aftermarket options but looking at the tech, it is incredibly wasteful and destructive to the batteries.

A number of ISP's have pointed and even shown graphs of Comcast/TWC allowing their connections to fill up to 100% even though there is plenty of availability of bandwidth at the peer points.

I have a Foscam clone, nothing wrong with it, great night time view. Convert to B/W and regulating the brightness/contrast should give a very good picture.