Rand Paul is a doctor, but not one that would specialize in diseases. He's probably pretty smart, but this is about knowledge, more than intelligence.

Subjective, but I would wager Gates does not give away money to fund research he does not understand.

You may think he's a big dumb wallet, but there is not much evidence of that.

Too bad he did not follow up the travel ban with anything meaningful for a month. Travel ban is one is his favorite fix-all go-tos. Too bad that was the only play in the book this time.

So you can spoof the VIN and charge someone else for your charge-up.

You are right. Maybe it's 2 seconds for a sweep shot.

As a bike rider I support your tax idea that is more expensive than fuel. With all the extra money we can put in bike lanes so you don't have to think so hard :)

Next stop - Sharon Apple.

Yeah! Only right-wing lies are permitted now. Woohoo!

Trump never lies, bullies or makes typos! If you disagree you will be branded as the delicate snowflake you are.

He has the best brain, words, people and hair products! And what an ass - he puts the rump in Trump.

Unlike law, medicine and traditional engineering fields, software development is completely unregulated with no real standard certifications (even a degree is optional). This is nice for letting skilled yet uncertified people into the field and allowing self-taught people to capitalize on their self-investment.

The IOT-craze will probably force us to take a second look at this as craptastic software will have an even greater influence on the tangible world and people that live in it.

Developers usually do not shoulder outward responsibility for the applications they write.

You think a lot, but you know nothing.

He did an awesome job with the Hodor language.

Or in Hodor: Hodor hodor, hodor hodor hodor. Hodor? Hodor!

In my experience, it's kind of fun to start off making a few PCBs and wire-wrap boards - I learned a lot by doing it. After a while I got tired of it and only do it occasionally, but now usually do breadboard>proto-board/wire-wrap>PCB house. I'll sometimes substitute a home-made PCB (sometimes just a few discrete modules to plug in) for the proto/wire-wrap if the layout is too messy otherwise.

I wouldn't knock it - it's kinds fun to make artistic traces and make the board itself a functional work of art.

Wow. You must be making some serious stuff to be interesting to government agencies. You think they don't already know this stuff about you?

I wouldn't want to bother making stuff for an anonymous client anyways - I would think they were up to no good or overly paranoid and delusional. Got better stuff to do, like post snarky comments.

The direct comparison to climbing mountains on earth is super funny.

Keeping people sane under transport and habitat conditions for the rest of their lives with our current (and even 20 years in the future) understanding of our own minds is super funny.

Assuming that going to and living on Mars is anything like visiting the moon is super funny.

Frankly, I hope everyone that thinks this will work will go - as their corpses decay or freeze, the rest of us can focus on the problems on earth.

Oh, man! Look at those cavemen go.

It appears to reflect overhead light by virtue of being white and slightly angled - wow, science. I guess albinos won't be too concerned about this technology.

"A 2012 version, powered by a lithium-ion battery, included LED lights around the nose that shined near-infrared light toward cameras. Computer-vision systems were also fooled by the bright light, but the visor looked dorky and required a bulky power source."

So the new one is the same, just no leds or power source. Dorkiness has been maintained...

All this so the cameras don't think you have a face. They still record you, and can tell you are a person by the way you move. And since you will be the only douchedork wearing these around, you should be easy to find.

Teach kids to code by writing applications that do something Liberal-Artsy - whoa, they just learned two things at once!

All this for only >$40K - wow, if only public schools could emulate this amazing technique.

Pfffft.