Both countries, well known for their low levels of corruption, would never use these to suppress undesirable voter blocks! Never would they allow them to become a barrier to voting for anyone without a permanent address.

At which point this solution degenerates into the same solutions that already exist, with the same problems. Take voter ID cards. Lots of people don't like them because they say it disenfranchises people who would have problems acquiring them, like the poor. A digital signature is going to have the same arguments.

But, I agree: that's not the point of the block chain, its ancillary. But involving the blockchain adds about as much towards solving the real problems with voting as saying "Hey! What if wrote down the votes, but not the person!" Ballot stuffing is about all the blockchain solves.

So is Google going to pay my speeding ticket when a cop pulls over my autonomous automobile for speeding?

Same here with Maya. I've even thought about bumping it up to 64 GB from its current 32.

Really, anytime I see these kinds of articles pop up, I just substitute its title with "How much X is enough for our product's target market" anymore. They're really not useful as a general analysis, the desktop market is just to broad.

"They installed a simple Chrome plugin on every Macbook [...] the least popular keys are Capslock and Right Mouse Button"

You don't say!

NGA? The mapmakers? You can't seriously want to reform the agency whose only recent notible point of excess is having a really nice atrium! They even share satellite images with Google Earth!

I don't have statistics on hand, but since WWII, I am aware of dog fights have played into air battles of the following wars with us pilots involved:

Korean War
Vietnam War (quite famously as we thought the days of day fighting were over.)
Kosivo et al.
First Gulf War.

Guam, Afghanistan, and Gulf War II did not , too my knowledge and I and not sure if there are others I've forgotten.

Breakdowns, flattires, hitchings or straps come loose. There's more than just "normal driving" and " turn now or die." Sure, we could detect a lot of these problems and dispatch a service vehicle, but why suffer the down time when we can have a guy right there to handle all the myrid little tasks that crop up. Hell, somebody has to pump the gas!

However, it is only the standard because the nano-Dijkstra unit was too large to be of practical use.

Simple choice : Scream "Human, take the wheel!" and let the human choose what to plow into.

Maybe they should change their name to Anathema Insurance

... and he scores! The crowd is going wild!

(My condolences to the family.)

This article seems relevant: On the difficulties of reforming torturers.

No, I am the eggman. You are the walrus.

I doubt the intent is to actually absorb the territory. The Crimea is the only space they actually want. This is just a buffer, either to distract focus from continuing to hold the Crimea ( best defense, is a good offense you know) with the small added possibility of generating a real buffer state during settlements out of the Eastern Ukraine past the Dnieper.