But they won't, because those cars are safer than human driven cars, and they don't have an agenda, just statistics.

I demand that you disable this thing because I don't have the willpower not to turn it on.

I don't relax that much. :) It's more about reducing overall stress while driving. I was a pilot in the Navy, so I'm used to automation helping me pilot/drive a vehicle. If you understand the system and it's capabilities and limitations, it can be used at the appropriate times.

1. If I have to give the car my full attention, why don't I just drive the damn thing?

Drive one, then you'll understand. All my car has is adaptive cruise control. It reduces stress while driving significantly. Even just being able to rest your foot helps. I'll never buy another car without it.

I don't doubt it. Why would someone who uses short, simple passwords be using a password manager in the first place?

I don't think you understand violence, nor how it influences your life. It's just as much a part of your life as sex. Likely, more so. All property rights are rooted in violence. Do you own anything?

I read that as: our customers don't have a problem with porn, but these agenda based fanatics are making a big deal, so we have to get out in front of it.

I define censorship as anti-social. Maybe you should go live in the woods, since you're so afraid of naked people.

Seems to me that would be easier to do if Google and Amazon were tracking mouse movements. I'm very anti-tracking, I write Android apps that are designed to prevent Google from tracking data and meta-data. But this, at least, seems like a (possibly?) valid use. A large dataset of mouse movements across the population (when combined with the other things Google tracks about us) could even verify or debunk the whole theory. I, at least, would prefer for Google to tell me I might need to see a doctor, when compared to telling me what I ought to buy today.

I think you miss the point. The point is employers wouldn't be able to hire foreigners cheaper if it wasn't for H1B. If it was a free market, those foreigners would be more expensive than local talent.

Alert! 12 year old commenting. Only children think the world will be safe if only their parents are allowed to protect them.

Am I the only one that sees the surveillance issues? Police won't even have to pull you over any more. They won't even need patrol cars to catch you. Just send the signal to force your car to drive to the nearest arrest depot. Absolutely, I think self driving cars will be safer, but the gov is shitting itself to get them into production, cause they will allow significantly more control over the population. Am I the last conspiracy theory nut left? :)

Late 2001?

No. It is much less painful. Hence the proliferation.

I've been there. They don't stay on the line. They transfer you to someone new every 4 hours. And they usually helped not one bit, and certainly not enough to justify the costs. It was almost always our in house experts that solved our problems. Or Redhat. For 200k, you can definitely find someone better than the Oracle support line to help.

This has got to be the most ridiculous thing I've heard all week. The idea that the machines we could get as kids 35 years ago (I was one of those kids) were more 'interesting' doesn't make any sense to me. The level of effort required back then to get the machine to do anything interesting was astronomically higher. Today, it's literally 30 minutes from deciding to do it, to having code you built yourself running on your (Android) phone (assuming you've already got a PC and an internet connection, of course, but that's a pretty low bar today). Download Android Studio and an example, push to your phone. Then, the internet alone provides all the resources a kid would need to learn to write their own functionality. A whole universe of possibility at their fingertips. It isn't the machine that makes them want to do it. It's curiosity and drive and wonder. More machines, and different types equals more ways to tweak that curiosity. More chances to light that fire.