Just imagine if someone buying a computer had to get separate permission from its hundreds of patent holders after purchasing it before being able to legally switch it on?

I think it would be fairer for the "grain elevator" in this story to be one one who had to pay Monsanto.

Why not regulate lathes? They can be used to make a barrel of a high powered rifle.
Why not regulate mills? They can be used to make land mines.
Why not regulate sheet metal? They can be used to make the skin of missiles.
Why not regulate screwdrivers? They can be used to make bombs.

Why not just regulate and put a serial number in each and every bullet manufactured? I doubt that anyone would be able to 3D-print a bullet and its charge for many years to come.

At some point, it would have been cheaper to pay another country to take it away for reprocessing and vitrification, even after considering the obscene cost of safely transporting one barrel at a time to said foreign country and transporting the glass logs back for long term storage.

How long before we start seeing missiles with highly polished chrome finish on the outside?

For all the vehicles that I have owned in America, including my current vehicle, I have usually exceeded the EPA estimates except during weeks of especially poor traffic. I consider myself a fairly aggressive driver, especially when compared to the majority of the drivers I see every day.

I think that the EPA estimates are a reasonable "middle ground" but people who drive poorly or inefficiently should not expect to achieve them.

Well... There are two conjectures which need to be tested.

1. Are anti-particles just like normal particles except with their direction of time reversed?
2. Do anti-particles have negative energy?

If they are the "travelling backwards in time", then gravity would be repulsive.

Isn't this somewhat reminiscent of part of the VR hardware shown in the 1994 film?

But detecting that light from the flood of all the other light is a problem.

Fast download rates, okay. But what about the return/upload path?

I do hope that he gets to enjoy an adequate amount of time with his family and friends.
His books have given me much enjoyment over the past 20 years. I thank him for that.

What I don't get is why the USA is so uptight about "gambling"? If they were really serious about getting rid of big-time gambling operations, they really should ban the stock market and insurance.

Given that there are pedestrians (not in a vehicle) killed crossing streets by an automobile, seemingly every day, it isn't working.
By that logic, they should ban pedestrians from walking within 20ft of any road.

Some things are dangerous and should be left dangerous. Just educate that they carry risk and responsibility.

In other news, a report reports that automobiles produce too much energy and poses risks, including death, for the careless.

Looking at the data presented in the pdf, it seems to me that gzip does a fantastic job for the amount of time it takes to do it.

I think that if I was a photographer, I would be OK with Google caching full quality images as long as they put their own annoying watermark all over it with the URL where the image came from clearly visible.