Taxi drivers will try to stop it, it's true. I suggest to them that they demonstrate superior service. If they can, people will use human services over automated driving services.

Now, as a city resident (cyclist, pedestrian) who has been hit by taxis I'm going to root for their destruction in totality. Fuck them, and fuck everything about them.

I live in Washington DC, and I live a life surprisingly like your description of Tokyo life. And friends of mine who live in NY live it more so. The city life is great, and you *can* have it in America. You just have to live in (or near) a real city.

Use an encrypted password storage system like 1Password or LastPass. Yes, it's not perfect, but what is? Passwords that don't look like line noise are vulnerable nowadays.

WordPress does only store password hashes, using the PHPass hashing library.

Dumb question, I suppose. But, given that the earth rotates, and given that the flywheels will have a huge angular momentum, are they gimbaled? The article says they're suspended in a vacuum, levitated on a magnetic field, which is cool. But if they're not gimbaled a huge amount of energy will be wasted fighting precession as the earth rotates.

I assume the people making these things are smart and know their shit. I'm just curious how a problem like this is solved. If not gimbals, what?

Every post here is (understandably) negative. But, come on kids, we are not the audience here. Programmers are not the audience. Hackers are not the audience. Gamers are not the audience.

People who spend all day on facebook, gmail and last.fm are the audience. And this is probably a very good solution for them.