They just need to hint that they'll stop selling iPhones in Australia, and the people will start making phone calls to government people

I'd still be working more than scheduled hours! Its not like someone's workload will magically reduce based upon a shorter work day.

And its easy to espouse this nonsense when you're already a 1%'er and don't have to worry about paying the mortgage and feed the family.

Its cool from a geek / engineering standpoint. But its a solution looking for a problem.

Who actually pushes on the screen gently, normal, and hard? Probably statistically insignificant. Tap screen, expect response.

Remember who else "solved" this problem? Sony, with the PS2 controller. The face buttons were analog, so you could go easy on the gas and brake in Ridge Racer & GT. Turns out, the L2/R2 triggers were much more effective for analog control. Gamers (like me) just mash the face buttons. Using your ring and pinky fingers plus your thumb is WAY more difficult versus using your index or middle fingers plus your palm to generate the analog signal.

If I were running a small to mid-size community, there is NO way I would have bid for HQ2. Why?

1. That's alot of tax dollars in one corporate basket. They will do anything and everything to reduce that as close to zero as possible.
2. Infrastructure costs. Sure the initial construction boom in roads, utilities, housing, and shops is a boon to the community. But long-term costs are never included, and the negotiated tax breaks/incentives will reduce any available cash down the road. Especially when $company packs up and moves one town over for a new round of tax breaks.
3. City Government costs. An influx of 50k people will up the amount of government workers. Fire, Police, Parks, all have overhead costs that are direct costs to the tax-payer. Again, long-term costs.
4. Lower Tier suppliers. Around Detroit and the automotive and manufacturing areas, there is a large manufacturing base of Tier 1, 2, 3, etc. companies. They make components, subcomponents, and tooling, along with maintenance, transportation, and logistics. And that doesn't even include all the service and support companies that workers rely on, i.e. restaurants, gas stations, grocery stores, and so on. A 50k employee HQ2 compound doesn't come close to the same economic impact. Why?
5. The lower Tier companies just aren't there. Some services, janitorial, food prep, etc. Sure there's transport and logistics around Amazon's warehouses, but that's not what we're talking about here.
6. Who buys more groceries, gasoline, autos, housing, household goods, clothing, etc.: 1, $200k salary single person; or 4, $50k salary families?
7. Corporate cafeterias: As noted in a recent Article, local eateries lose business to the Company Store. And potentially any other stores the worker may walk by at lunch.
8. Plus, the usual subjects: traffic, real estate, urban sprawl, schools

I'm certainly not against economic development, but don't become a serf to corporatism.

Malware? Definitely. But is it any better than the ATT, VZW, etc. apps that you can't get rid of and are close to worthless? Or ads on the lockscreen? Or full-screen browser ads? Or ads that take over the full screen of your app/game?

In that case, your information goes to advertisors instead of hackers. Not sure who I would trust more.The person who wants your eyeballs, to sell you stuff and your information, to make money, or the hacker? Ha! (...who also wants to sell your information and make money.)

300 houses, on a fake island, with no natural resources (except fishing), and a requirement to import everything for daily life. This is only viable for wealthy investors, who won't actually live there.

So you'll have a couple of maintenance folks and data-center geeks on a from-the-mainland shift-rotation schedule. The rich folks may stop by in their yacht once a year. They may not even stop in to check on their money-launde...er, offshore accounts.

Climate refugees...hahaha! Waste. Of. Money.

Oh, and the book: "Seasteading -- How Floating Nations Will Restore The Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, And Liberate Humanity from Politicians." Could the title be any more self-aggrandizing? These floating concrete blocks would accomplish nothing of these things. At least classic homesteading had natural resources and an available trading environment to work with.

• Restore the Environment: Everything, everything needs to be imported. Its not like these building materials just appear. Just the concrete pumping ship will offset the "greenness" of this place for the first 5y. 90%+ of food will need to be grown on the mainland, and shipped in. Power? No signs of solar on those grass rooftops, so a really long extension cord to..Tahiti? They mention breakwater and wave generation, but will that be enough for the data center plus residents. Restore the environment by using a different resource location, and not counting the other location in the reported data. Kind of like US/EU and China.
• Enrich the Poor: How exactly? They can't afford to live here. There won't be any service jobs. And a simple $50m cost / 300 units = $167k/unit. Even at $50k/unit, plus the remaining $35m made up by the business center side, still unaffordable for the fishermen. So how again??
• Cure the Sick: Elysium style? 300 housing units doesn't equate to much of a need for anything more than an occasional visit by a General Physician. ...Got It! This will be one of those 'illegal' operations that aren't under any jurisdiction, and again, only rich folks go to.
• Liberate Humanity from Politicians: Except when they move in. "No" politicians is very attractive to current/aspiring politicians. Call it a new market.

Will this law last until 2040? Probably not.

You know, the European Union went into effect in 1993, 24y ago. I'm sure NOTHING has changed in France since that happened... /sarcasm.

From the former MeeGo team, SailfishOS is what you're asking for:

• -- Linux, Open source (mostly), easy to use, Android compatibility, ARM chipsets, not Apple or Google. Also, its not American-centric, if that matters to you.

Read more here, wikipedia here, the Toolkits here, and the Sony handsets here. And if you are enough of a hardware hacker, there are numerous other handsets to try it on.

Is it 100% complete? Almost, just missing a few sensors and bluetooth, but its sure better than starting from scratch.

There are a few of you around that are anti-Sony or got burned on the Jolla tablet and won't consider this. So have fun with your spy gizmo from Apple or Google.

If the government is so concerned, they could invalidate the patent(s) involved, and let the generics makers get involved in the auto-injectors. The drug itself is already a generic medicine. Let the 'free market' decide which product is better. The gov't, and patients, would be returning the fingers.

Seriously, its 2017 and why are the touchpads on PCs not ever equivalent to the Macs? Maybe these new ones have the Precision touchpads, but standard Asus touchpads aren't great. Plus, Linux support for more than PS/2 emulation would be nice.

None of the articles list him as a police officer. Was there a crime committed? Perhaps, but that doesn't necessarily give him or his videos legal standing. Here are a few of the many ethical, reasonable, or otherwise questions to be asked:

1. What is the expected privacy of the people in the vehicle?
2. Was the privacy of the people in the vehicle breached? But what if this was on private land instead of public?
3. Was this evidence lawfully obtained? The court put her in jail, so under the current laws, apparently so.
4. How long until laws banning this type of "citizen surveillance" are enacted?
5. How were the police notified? Did he call in the illicit activity, then handed over the video?
6. Could I use this same technology to record speeding vehicles on the highway, texting and drive, failing to stop, or tailgating, then call the cops and use my video as evidence? Knowing full well that my "evidence" cannot be checked for accuracy (MPG, location, time, etc.). "But darn it! They're committing a crime!!"

If you're going to do a study on automobile infotainment systems, you need a broader set of data: 46 people with 7 types of systems, 2 of which are very uncommon. This dataset sounds like they just asked around their office and of the 46 people that work there, only 7 employees had any sort of infotainment system, 3 being the bosses.

Want to do this study right? Go rent 10-12 cars with the various systems, park them at Walmart one day and survey, park them at the mall the next day and survey, park them at the fancy downtown shopping district and survey, and then hold a private dinner for the upper-class folks and survey. 4 distinct groups and hundreds or thousands of data points.

Be sure to include systems that actually are used: Toyota Entune, Ford Sync, GM/Chevrolet Intellilink/MyLink, Honda HondaLink, Dodge/Chrysler Uconnect, Nissan NissanConnect, Mazda, Volkswagen, BMW ConnectedDrive, Mercedes Comand, and Cadillac CUE.

Come on, how many people actually have a Porsche with an infotainment, or a Tesla? Seriously, Ford sold twice as many Fiesta's in the US last year than Tesla has sold total.

Fantastic! Thank you!

Do you have a link to those neat Japanese Led lights? I'd like to evaluate them for a project I am planning to build this fall. Thanks.

If you've read Daemon and/or Freedom by Daniel Suarez, this sounds like the Hummers guarding Matthew Sobol's house. There's other autonomous vehicles, but I won't give anything else away.