By that definition, they could identify a phone number of interest, then target every non-american who contacts that phone number, and "incidentally" collect every call involving that phone number ... and never have 'targetted' the number itself.

> Anyone in charge of a medium sized corporate server room can attest to that.

So don't promote it as a building power plan.
Promote it as an Extreme UPS.

Just a couple of things:

If you're HERF gun is extremely directional, you're golden.

If not, you've got two options...
1) you fire it, and suddenly BOTH of you are coasting to a stop (or crash)
2) you get your buddies to fire it from the roadside, in which case the police coast to a stop right near your buddies.

Of course, a remote control could cover for your buddies, especially if there's a camera or spotter set up.

(Yeah, we've seen remote control munitions for HOW LONG now?)

There are minimum legal vehicle standards. And behavior standards. Your reasons do not well distinguish between falling within and without of them; your gripes are analog.

By the same logic, you would be offended because...
- I drive a lighter vehicle, being more at risk of injury.
- I drive a vehicle with poorer handling, increasing the likelihood of an accident, or reducing my ability to dodge an accident.
- I drive a vehicle more prone to mechanical failures (older, less reliable, other), increasing the likelihood of closing the road.
- I have some other medical condition that causes problems and/or expense when I'm to be pulled from a vehicle. Say, hemophilia, obesity, or age.

Each of the costs you have described apply as well to one more of the scenarios above. And yet, the vehicle and driver may well fall within acceptable standards for driving (and being driven).

As for your health care premium worries, the insurance companies do account for seat belt use (or lack of it). I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.

Hate to say it, but composting 3d printed materials is every bit as likely as biodegrading biodegradable plastic bags. Not every home (or apartment complex) has a composing unit, nor a use for the final product.

This leaves two options: ship the 3d printed refuse where it can be used, or throw it in the general trash cycle. Until it becomes ubiquitous, it won't get shipped commercially (IE with "recyclable" items.

If you can't get folks to "properly dispose" of batteries or fluorescent bulbs or electronics, you won't get folks to compost 3d printed refuse.

The bill being discussed is a very limited form of the Network Neutrality concept.

> given how many copyright violations ...

By that metric, http and https do not deserve protection either. Consider the many many sites that have "pirated" movies, images, lyrics, term papers, basic research available through those protocols.

I find your ragging on the torrent protocol based on the content moved by it disturbing. But you've hit the inference on the head, though: netflix and youtube have a lot of money riding on "neutrality" for their content. Bittorrent does not.

The problem is those evil pedophiles, praying on our children, preferably online.

If the children don't know about it, they won't be violated!

The Business insider link fires back a page that either requires JS (which I did not enable), or requires agreement to a terms-of-service and privacy policy (which I did not submit to, to read a fricking article).

The "thetechherald" article returns "page not found".

Are there alternative sources for your information? Archive links you could provide?

After Unsuccessful Launch, India's Mars Orbiter Is On Its Way.

For what subset of launches that result in the mars orbiter being on its way could NOT be described as 'successful'?

... I mean, wouldn't this "icarus planet" also suffer severe weathering from the stellar wind? How would that effect compare to the tidal stress induced breakup in 3 billion years?

Perhaps not strictly sublimation, if the rock turns to liquid first, but, y'know, made a better title, right?

Two things...

1) the law as written and applied would apply to smart phones, and possibly also to your GPS. You likely wouldn't be pulled over for it unless the cop got a good look at your dash as you go by, but even so. "... video monitor..."

Yeah, it's already a stretch to apply a law clearly aimed at "TVs for the driver" to google glass, let alone a GPS monitor. But the cop in question went there, so...

2) if your GPS is only changing speed indication as you pass the sign, you might well be too late changing speed, if you've a cop with a quota behind you. IE "the new speed limit starts at the sign." I've been pulled over for speeding after just passing a sign while slowing down for the new speed limit. It happens, some times.

In practice, though, who they have to satisfy are the governments of the two nations, not the peoples therein.

And government operatives read the news too.

> Again, so far ZERO evidence, proof, or test case has been provided that the software is in any way responsible for this problem.

Vehicle tests confirmed that one particular dead task would result in loss of throttle control, and that the driver might have to fully remove their foot from the brake during an unintended acceleration event before being able to end the unwanted acceleration.

If he ever had a copy of the code on his computer

- say, from working from home and using his own computer to do so -

it would be impossible to distinguish between having deleted them to hide them from the court, and having deleted them due to termination of employment, IP rights, and professional standards.

Economic damages are seldom considered "irreparable harm". Harm, yes. Irreparable, no.

And you (and the court) appear to be positing two logically incompatible scenarios:

1) publishing the code (open or not) as his own product
2) hiding the fact that he published it.

These are mutually incompatible goals.