So hackfrustrated, very hype, much wow

If seasonal ice is increasing, it has to counterbalance sea level rise. Ice doesn't just appear from nowhere; it comes from sea water becoming solid. Its ultimate effect is lessened compared to perma-ice by exactly how seasonal it is (i.e., for how many months out of the year it is solid), but that doesn't mean there is no change.

People with doors that can be locked are often engaged in activities that are not, so-to-speak "legal". As a result we will no longer mortgage houses that have locks.

but then, many things are possible. What if one of these hypothesized aliens derives a higher reward from blasting signals into space than from any other method? What if it sees that as the ultimate fulfillment of its being? We don't know what their psychology is like, or even if they have a psychology. They're hypothetical aliens hypothetically doing something. We have no relevant facts to constrain our speculation.

The more I see you post, the more I realize you've chosen your screen name extremely well.

In 1948. That's why his name became an adjective. I fail to understand why Sotomayor's opinions are news when they are not fundamentally different from high school book reports written all over the US.

In the sense that they had access to all relevant information, yes, the lights were on. In the sense that that information influenced their decision, the lights could have been off. The facts that predict future enrollment in intro to computer science are not necessarily the facts that weighed in the decision concerning admittance. Some of those facts probably were considered, others probably weren't.

Everybody has one?

This requires people to install the app. That's a failure right there on many levels.
Not only that, but it cannot tell if you are the driver or the passenger. That's failure #2.

Then you get to the fact that this could stop you from making emergency calls. That's questionable and teeters in the "is this even legal?" quesiton range.

It is not just the implementation - the very concept of "if vehicle is moving you cannot use your phone" will ALWAYS be wrong whether it can figure out you are a passenger or not, if the decision is implemented via software.

It should be the District attorney that is disabled (or never quoted ever again). She is an idiot, because software like the interlock concept doesn't exist on a phone.

Part of the problem is user education and part of it is that an attorney who has no understanding of technology who simply wants to create more business via litigation.

Who the fuck is Kathleen Rice and why should any of us give a shit? Answer: we shouldn't.

Get it, their names are not Indo-European in nature.

You mean the company that had widespread child abuse in its building for decades and everyone looked the other way? That BBC?

I've been regenerating my own muscle tissue for years. Don't skip leg day, son

Your mom is a visible light detector every time anyone looks at her.

Put differently, the moon is not being turned into a detector of anything, but "astronomers are building a telescope" is not a very catchy headline.

As there are more than one faiths professing that adherents of all other faiths will inevitably go to hell, it was not a shock but a logical inevitability.