On some mountainous highways that get icy conditions, there are highway department operated AM radio stations that play an audio loop covering the state of road conditions and upcoming road closures. Some of these conditions can be shown on some of the electronic signs, but the full story is within the audio loop.

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The road condition signs read "Road Conditions: Tune to AM 1540 when flashing (with lights above the sign)"

Due to some car manufacturers starting to no longer include a basic AM/FM radio, there is talk of modifying the vehicle code to make such a radio mandatory safety equipment.

Why doesn't Amazon reach out to the larger apartment complexes and negotiate to place some Amazon Lockers next to the clustered mailboxes. I am sure that the landlord/superintendent would be happy to let Amazon rent access to this shared space.

My important test:
What happens when the touchscreen becomes dark/inoperable?

A non-functional touchscreen should not preclude the safe operation of a vehicle.

...of infinite length as a trap to the ransomware program and placed to be the first file to be acted upon. This is assuming that the ransomware program is single-threaded.

This is called nuclear fusion and it is a VERY exothermic reaction.
Our sun consumes about 620 tons of Hydrogen and yields about 606 tons of Helium, every second. The remaining mass is converted to energy.

4 H --> 1 He + 2 positrons + (An enormous amount of energy.)

If the FAA can survive a system-wide computer outage and land every plane that was launched safely, what is the fail-safe system that can allow airlines to check-in passengers in the event of such an outage.

Answer:
Paper tickets, pre-printed manifests with the expected (confirmed) passengers expecting to board the flights, with space to write-in any pop-up standby passengers.

That racket you hear at the check-in gate is an impact printer (usually dot matrix) printing multiple carbon copies of the final manifests before departure. This is a carry-over from earlier FAA rules requiring such a paper trail (with signatures) in duplicates.

I know that Facebook doesn't censor my political views, as I already do that for my own postings. Twitter, censoring nothing is easy as I don't use that service.

When I read that initially, I thought the article was saying that Symantec was also breached.

The United States already has a De-facto import duty against importing Chinese cars in that none so far are able to get https://www.nhtsa.gov/ approval for importing them into the United States.

Two words:

Zone Transfer.

This is how one DNS server shares its list of DNS entries with another. The transfer could also include a bunch of TXT records with cleverly included "certificates" as part of its payload.

I am thinking all that Facebook has to do to make WhatsApp global would be to sponsor one of the root servers that can use UDP 53 with cleverly encoded TXT records for the transaction. It would also work for DNS delegation where direct connections are not possible.

I would take all of the judges, as they finish their case loads, and completely disperse them randomly to all the federal court districts.

The idea is a patent troll wouldn't be able to venue shop as their favorite judge may be in the heart of Silicon Valley, right alongside other judges that frown upon this revenue seeking business model.

To the patent troll, this puts the randomness back into Russian Roulette, by having at least one chamber loaded.

If I were Facebook. I would implement the censorship tools, but I would make the censorship filters, settings, and collected stat world readable.

N. Dakota charges reporter with 'riot' for covering protest--but gets slapped down by judge
http://www.latimes.com/busines...

I would "salt" the DVD drop with AOL CDs/DVDs to multiply their propaganda disposal efforts.

Apple still has an ongoing operating cost on each of these iDevices after they are made and sold.

This is for the back-end Big Data needed to make these devices perform their magic throughout the service life of the device and Apple has invested substantially in several large data centers to make that happen.

(I am going to stop here as there are additional R&D efforts that are not yet public knowledge.)