There's an entire song cycle, in fact; Baba Yetu is the first of a set.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

They can get whatever they want because they're a cartel whose products the government mandates everyone buy.

If you believe that speed limits are always set in order to maintain road safety then I have a bridge made of waterproof gingerbread to sell you.

Does this car have regenerative braking? If so then it's even less, since once you stop you're going to be recovering a lot of that kinetic energy.

Isn't that basically a Chevy Volt?

We have had a century to figure out the "unplugged" car interface, and it is simpler: dials for speed and tachometer, nothing else. Drivers train from an early age to drive with this sort of instrumentation.

The lack of safety with these HUD's is likely a consequence of inexperience both on the part of the HUD designers and the drivers. Once the interfaces themselves iterate a few times, and then drivers get experienced with them, I imagine they'll be much safer.

What sort of mission do these drones fly where even a 2000msec latency would matter?

Once you've eaten one shit sandwich and it tasted like ass, you're a bit leery of the same guy who says "buttttt this one's chocolate!"

"Trying to do what they have been doing for years" also means "running some software without needing or wanting anything from the OS rather than a window manager, device drivers, a filesystem, and a networking stack". Just because the "platform" isn't "innovating" doesn't mean that people don't run nifty software on it.

Most of the frustration with Windows comes from trying to get the Microsoft marketing bullshit to fuck off so we can use computers for what computers are for: running software.

It won't even ignite things 2m away, assuming uniform diffuse reflections in the half-volume facing the surface:

30 kW / (2 pi r^2) = 1200 watts per square meter = sunlight.

Yes, but they're very cheap. They'll melt eventually but, in the meantime, should deliver enough power back to the attacker to screw up eyeballs and sensors.

It took "mere seconds" to burn through the engine manifold.

Paint it white (specifically, something with high albedo in whatever frequency range the attacker favors) and you can probably increase that time by a factor of ten. Paint it with that retroreflective paint that they make street markings out of and you've blinded anyone near the firing station.

Laser weapons look effective now because nobody's taking rudimentary countermeasures against them (because they don't need to). But if these things start appearing on battlefields, there are some simple countermeasures that will make their life a lot more difficult.

Part of the point of the internet is that it's a network of peers; how do you draw a bright line between end users and content providers?

And, yet, critical hardware runs on Linux all the time, like most of the world's supercomputers...

The cop here said that his intent in making the jaywalking stop was to stall for backup in order to effect an arrest for the felony murder that Mr. Brown had just committed.