There will still be plenty of tickets to write for a long time, as until we are at 100% adoption, people will still break trafic laws

I'd imagine there is a network effect which would dramatically reduce traffic violations even with a realtively small proportion of fully automous vehicles on the road.

You can't speed if the car in front is doing 3 mph below the speed limit, you can't run the red light if the car in front is already slowing down for the amber. As the proportion of automous vehicles increases, people will get used a more conservative driving style and their driving style will change to compensate.

I don't know the proportion of traffic which would have to be automous to have an affect, but it will be far less than 100%

If we introduce life it becomes much harder to say any life we find in the future isn't just contamination we brought with us.

Without a LOT if energy input, you'll never create the fuel.

I can't work out if you are agreeing with the GP or failing to understand his point.

His

sentence is saying it's just a way of producing fuel, it's not a source of energy.

Long charging times for electric vehicles stop any journey where the trip is greater than the battery range. Who wants to have to stop for hours to get a full battery when you are trying to get somewhere.

Liquid fuels can refuel most vehicles in 10 minutes, and half of that time is queuing and paying. Electric vehicles will have match that capability at some point or they are going to be forever stuck in the niche of toys and glorified shopping carts.

So this is not a solution against ads per se, but at least it will keep advertisers from snooping browsing behavior.

Either

the website host (www.cuteandfluffy.com) will host the ad injection software themselves but the ad injection software will phone home to www.uglyandspikey.com with all the information that cuteandfluffy have collected

- or -

The cuteandfluffy will provide a URL inside the cuteandfluffy.com domain which forwards requests to a script hosted by uglyandspikey.com

In both cases, the ad resource appears to be from the domain you are visiting and in both cases, the ad network is still gaining access to everything that cuteandfluffy knows about the brower.

The only difference is that there is now some work for the ad network to tie the unique ids from cuteandfluffy.com and mymotorsbigger.com as being the same user, but most people use the same email address as login details so that doesn't seem like a huge problem for them.

A sociopath would not damage their own company to the point of having to declare bankruptcy.

You are making an assumption that a sociopath while willing to steal from clients, would not choose to go so far as to damage the company as a whole. That assumption in turn depends on 2 other assumptions

1. He feels that there is future value to the company to be worth preserving
2. He has enough knowledge and skill to avoid the accidentally damaging the company

If Assumption 1 wasn't true he might decide to cut his loses, create some story about hackers stealing stuff and close the company while keeping the stuff he already has.

If assumption 2 was't true, he might damage the company past the point where the theft could be hidden. Sociopath only states that an individual feels no social or moral responsibility for his acts, it says nothing about their technical ability in any given field.

Did they look similar to thousands of other warnings about others that never panned out into anything? If so, then it was just noise.

With the benefit of 20-20 hindsight that warning was proved to be accurate. That means it wasn't noise, it was actually a signal lost in the noise.

"Real People" are not the ones who decide if MS is used in gov't offices or not.

"Real People" who spent their formative years at the coal face of IT 10-15 years ago are now in a positions of increasing influence if not outright power. They have spent their careers watching how MS manipulates the Windows ecosystem for MS's benefit at the expense of MS's customers.

Sure invading Iraq reduced the risk of a maniac launching a first strike against America but it created far more terrorists.

Something of which there was no risk of anyway since he had no weapons capable of doing it.