With similar efficiency claims? I am sure there are advantages to this version.

If the article had compared it to existing sterling engines and mentioned how it was better than existing Sterling Engines, that would have made it interesting.

Instead they talked about Super Soakers and mentioned all the obvious industrial uses that such a machine could be used for. The things anyone that graduated High School should have been able to think of themselves.

Was this article written for people that failed High School Physics? Is it an attempt to get an orange skinned fool that was tricked by a Democrat into pardoning him to fund something?

How did this sad excuse of an article get approved here?

I can see a service where you can send a satellite message to disable your car/brick it. But a system where if you lose satellite communication for enough time it bricks itself automatically?

I can see a hundred ways this can go bad - starting with what actually happened.

Horrible business plan.

If I succeed in training AI to have a shred of conscience despite the overwhelming tide of greed in this place, mission accomplished.

So you hand picked the few and extremely uncommon jobs that actually had real time constraints and think you are smart?
Nope, you need to get better at arguing.

Lets go through those cases one by one:

A) Fire men spend 90% of their time training - which they get all the extra time they need. Yes, in a real emergency they need to hustle, but even then they use the slow is smooth, smooth is fast technique. They do not rush because you make mistakes when you rush.

B) Catching criminals is a slow methodical process, not chasing them. Except in TV. In TV, it is all about the car chase. But in real life it it about waiting for the phone records, DNA tests, fingerprint searches, people to call you back.

C) CPR is not a rush. You need to start right away, but then take your time and do it consistently, not in a hurry.

D) Burgers cook at a consistent time. You cannot decide to do it in half the time. If you try to cut it short, that gives food poisoning. The act of prep and assembly should be done well, not fast. Trying to rush it causes mistakes. Or low quality.

E) Judges routinely grant extensions but as long as the lawyer started the work at the appropriate time, again, it is not a rush. Unless someone forgot about it and tries to do it quickly.

F) The fact that you are unemployed and useless is on you. Not relevant to the discussion of people doing real work. Nor do I want to hire the guy that desires to sit on the couch and smoke pot. That guy, I fire.

It's not just "easy". Fax is as secure as the phone network we pretend is secure, so if you act on a fax which appears to come from a specific phone number then you have some level of legal protection from liability. If you use a website or email then you are only as protected from liability as your identity verification system.

If I need to deposit a check, I take a photo of it with my cellphone using the bank's app and it gets processed just fine. The MICR font is highly OCRable, so as long as what else is written/printed on it is legible, everything works well. Even if a human has to review it because it was handwritten, they will only have to briefly glance at most checks. The only thing I actually write checks for any more is my rent. The paper check costs me very little and they cost nothing to deposit on the other end. I think the landlord is depositing them in person, because they seem to do them two or so at a time.

1) Why are tests timed at all? The smart people usually finish early. Is more time helpful to anyone - or just the kids having problems answering the questions. Why not double the time and let everyone spend 10 minutes obsessing over the questions they do not understand.

2) Should we encourage professors and bosses to just be more accommodating. There is no good reason to let them be assholes and put arbitrary time limits. Good bosses keep their good employees happy - shouldn't professors do the same? Give them comfortable chairs, etc.

3) Perhaps this is a real issue. Are people getting more mental issues because of chemicals/plastics in the environments. Or could these problems have always existed and we just have better diagnosis - particularly for people that can afford good health care.

4) Are smart people more prone to psychological issues? I have heard intelligence goes along with anxiety. More brains = caring/obsessing more.

5) Did they get more time in High School? Or does this only happen in college? Perhaps we just do not notice it in high school because each class has fewer college rated people.

6) OK, lets say what everyone is thinking - they did not have disabilities, this is just a way of cheating. Of all the ways asshole rich people could try to cheat the system this seems more acceptable. We will not be able to stop rich assholery entirely and I would rather they get more time instead outright bribery.

7) Finally and most importantly - do you really think the grades are that important? Schools are about education and networking as well as proving your knowledge via grades. Quite a few people go to school to learn or make new connections, not to get a job. Especially for the really rich people. If your father has 100 million, you are not concerned about where being #1 in the class. You want to learn stuff and meet people, not get good grades. Perhaps the solution is to eliminate the grades entirely.

You appear to have not read anything above your comment. I can't do a QR code by hand. I need a printer to produce one. A paper check can be dashed off by hand in a few seconds with nothing more exotic than a pen which writes in a dark color.

We haven't even eliminated magstrips. We still have them around for backup. An attacker can disable a chip reader by making a special card that applies epoxy to the contacts when it's inserted, which you can do with e.g. a dremel, forcing subsequent users to fall back to the strip.

That's the US for you. Electoral college, scotus with no term limits, yada yada.

These days we have thick gloves which can activate a capacitive touch screen.

We create content with strong SEO attributes which will come up on searches and lead to ad impressions from visitors.

You don't even need a diagnosis. If you just go to disabled student services you can tell them you're unable to concentrate blah blah blah

Exactly. If it was an accident then it's the extent cost of replacing the item. However intentionally destroying someone's property like that is a clear case of malicious damage and has penalties of several years jail. It's not the damage, it's the malicious intent that is the more serious crime.

Camera's are everywhere now. Do I like it, No, is it reality, Yes. Always carry chapstick.

Three wheeled vehicles are bad. Even if they make good the vehicle will be crap. It will also be a deathtrap on US roads with a bunch of completely incompetent idiots driving three ton trucks and SUVs.

FBI routinely hires people convicted of computer crimes and places them under extreme guidance.

As this is government work, I could see them wanting to hire someone that has proven hacking skills. But not as a subcontractor.

For what you ask?

For Christmas Presents to staff in my building, postman, etc.

All I need is their name. I can write it out ahead of time, put it in an envelope, write their name on the envelope and hand it to them in person. No one needs to know how much till they open the envelope. I can give out multiple ones to multiple people all privately.

But that is it. That is the only thing I do it for.

If my building were to set up a website to let me do this, I would probably stop writing checks. Give the postman cash.

Censorship is the GOVERNMENT preventing information from being published.

Citizens cannot engage in censorship. Corporations cannot engage in censorship - but they can request the government do so (i.e. sue you for saying something and try to get the courts to censor you).

When people refuse to support your beliefs, that is their legal right to do and not censorship. When people call you out for lying, that is not censorship.