My first real programming job was on a VAX system. The file system and scripting language were so extensive we were able to use them to create a working configuration control system for our source code. DOS was a toy operating system by comparison.

I guess that would be me

The larger issue is that people who do own cars and don't mind cleaning vomit will be doing this (if it is legal) and this will decrease the need for people to own cars. Rush hour will always be a problem, but at other times, every town will have a lot of potential taxis.

You mistake idealism with a tolerance to vomit stains.

Why should my car waste its time in my garage when it can make some extra money on the side as a taxi? I can call it back whenever I want to use it myself.

It's not so much torture, but arrest. The government could compel you to answer questions and simply arrest you if you refuse. If you choose to lie, it could keep asking you questions until they trip you up in a lie and arrest you for that.

If there was no 5th amendment, no one would want to go under oath because it would be too dangerous. Once under oath, the government could compel you, under threat of arrest, to answer any question that might incriminate you. You could lie, of course, but they could keep asking questions that would trip you up. The court could trap someone by requiring them to testify at someone else's trial and then ask them questions that will incriminate them. There would be no end to how the government could legally harass you.

Let's say there's no 5th amendment. And let's say person A is arrested for murder. Person A is on trial and is put on the stand. The prosecutor asks person A a question. Person A stays quiet. Person A is judged not guilty of murder, but arrested for contempt of court for not answering the prosecutor's questions.

Bitcoin is the Boxxy of Slashdot.

I only counted release packages that left our company. Each package counted as 1, even though there were multiple executables in each. I also wasn't counting multiple versions of the same software package, although over the years a given package has changed considerably.

I'm just trying to image what the movie would have been like if they had included Deckard's pet goat.

As much as I love PK Dick's writing, Blade Runner has very little to do with his book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. The only movie that I know of that stayed close to one of his books is A Scanner Darkly. The greatness of Blade Runner was a happy convergence of talent from multiple people. In all likelihood, the sequel will be an abomination.

It will only be good if they make it darker and edgier.

AU is fairly common when discussing distances within a solar system. If you play Eve Online it is a unit of measure you are familiar with. If the asteroid was tree shaped it would be really familiar to an Eve player.

I tried to write a Dungeons and Dragons game on the TRS-80 at our high school. I quickly lost track of all the GOTOs. Thus began my lifelong hatred of BASIC.

That's why they put the word "fail" in safety quotes, and said they "speculated" that it failed. They were just thinking out loud and speculating on a hypothesis.