I am interested in watches.

Whether or not a smart watch is worth it is an open question. If they can provide me something that I think I need with it, then sure. I've outlined a list in comments on previous stories, for quasi-trolls that were about to lash into me for being so general.

But I wear an automatic mechanical beater right now—specifically because it's virtually indestructible, represents only a minor investment (and thus financial risk), and requires no maintenance, attention, or battery-swapping. It's accurate to about 2 minutes per year, which means that about once a year I tune the time on it.

Most of the stuff that smartwatches are currently being said to do I either don't care about (fitness tracking, health monitoring) or currently use a smartphone for with far less hassle (bigger screen, more natural UI) so it'll be a stretch. But I'm open.

Maybe you should read the bible. That land was given to them in the covenant that God commanded. Genesis 12:7 Genesis 15:7 Genesis 15:18-21 Galatians 3:28-29 There are multiple references also, in Exodus, when Moses lead the Hebrews out of Egypt.

Here's the promotional video from Rafael, the system's maker. If the Iron Dome launchers are in a position to hit incoming rockets when they're still in boost phase, they're clearly effective. When they hit, the ascending rocket's flare disappears. Israel has Iron Dome launchers both forward postioned near Gaza, for boost phase defense, and near cities, for terminal defense. For terminal defense, it's harder to tell if they worked. The incoming rockets are just falling at that point, and success requires blowing up their warhead, not their rocket engine.

Videos show the missile's warhead exploding. That's triggered by a proximity fuse. There's a spray of shrapnel from the warhead; it doesn't have to be a direct hit. Whether that sets off the incoming rocket's warhead isn't visible from the videos of terminal defense.The Patriot missiles used in the Gulf war were able to hit incoming Scud missiles, but often didn't detonate the warhead.

Nadella used to run Bing. Did anything change there while he was in charge?

not really. The best thing that he can do is pull manufacturing from China. Seriously, at this time, Apple can build their own robotics plant here in America and bring it home.

I'd like to believe that education benefits from technology - and it might benefit from things like open source ebooks - but making sure the classroom has wireless is a poor substitute for a teacher actually teaching, parents being involved with their kids (not on their own tablets), and kids "bravely" unplugging for a few hours a day to focus on learning.

Schools today babysit students for the state mandatory minimum hours before releasing them to the debt-prison that is college. :/

Yes, I'm jaded. :/

How about 5BN to turn off WiFi at schools, make kids and teachers alike actually log off Facebook for the two or three actual hours of education they get a day?

...and thus not immortal.

QED

As there have only been 100 billion humans ever on the planet, 7% of us are still alive, making being human only 93% lethal.

I suspect the number of Tesla owners versus dead Tesla owners demonstrates them to be nearly immortal.

Here's a fairly complete anti D-Wave article.

http://www.scottaaronson.com/b...

A normal sensor, sure. Just make sure it's the size of Arecibo and pointed right at Auriga.

"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine."

Do you plan on automating the end-user testing and validation as well?

Countless system administrators have confirmed the system was operational after change without throwing it to real live testers only to find that, well, it wasn't.

and yet, Germany knew that we were in fact, spying on their citizens and giving German gov. information. For starters, we have stopped several AQ attacks on them because of that.
What they DID NOT know, was the spying on their gov, which I have to say was surprising.

We need to re-define patents. It should remain for hardware, but not software. Basically, we need to drop that method patent.