Tons of lame excuses in this thread for not accepting the start of a great technology. I have been saying for years that I wish my car could hook up to railroad tracks and autopilot me along them. This system would be so much better. Most of the complaints are from not RTFA. I know, must be new here. The rest of the complaints most humans cannot even deal with. The amount of energy that it would take to be as alert as these sensors 100% of the time would probably kill a normal human or at the very least, the humans senses would quickly degrade. I think a great start to this would be patches of straight, uncluttered, highway that is designed to handle this type of vehicle. Go from there! Sign me up!

http://support.verizonwireless.com/information/4gsim.html

Just block the whole country. All I see is issues from Nigeria, Brazil and Russia that account for 90 some percent of the attacks and spam.

Who asks for that type of information? Tell them they can have it, but it is the same password to all of your financial information and that they will be liable if there is any breach in information. Seriously though, there is no way someone could get a password out of me, to me that is akin to asking my PIN number to my DEBIT card.

I assume this could be used for alerting you for various things. Cell phone on vibrate. Or it could be used for feedback in video games. How about invisible fences for humans? Hikers could use this to be warned of dangerous areas or conditions. Could also be quite the distraction when you are driving.

They don't have to burn a book, they just remove them.

~RATM

Or turn a walkway from grippy to slippy at the right moment. How about changing the texture of a glass from grip-able to something smooth and easier to wash? Perhaps this could be used for airflow changes.. maybe a helmet that can alter its skin to allow more or less internal airflow? Sounds like fun!

Seems to work just like DRM. Gives the company a sense of power and usually just inconveniences the average user. The power user probably has very few issues.

How much time does posting/reading slashdot account for that 80 hour work week? How about doing other things other than working?

I think it also depends on the type of work. If I am doing labor jobs, I have easily worked 70+ hours a week. Working a job that actually makes you think is another matter. If you are so comfortable with your job that you are not really learning anything "new", I could see being able to go beyond this time frame. Working in a job where everyday you are hit with one or more new concepts or ideas could definitely limit your effectiveness. Many studies have been done on how much the brain can handle of new material at a time before becoming fatigued and ineffective.

I really hope when you say that "downloading is a crime" you don't include content that has already been purchased, free content, open-source content, moving content from one place to another, etc...

Most of the content that I download is TV shows that I already pay for, I just don't want to watch them at the times that they air. Most of them are also not "On-Demand". I certainly don't want to watch them in some crappy web-based format that buffers every 10 seconds for 800x600 resolution. That leaves downloading them in High-def. I can get them in under 10 minutes and watch them whenever I want.

The slight difference in percentages really surprised me. Somehow I expected better of the private sector.

I have seen quite a few "Government" built software applications. 40% of the time it is a single person or kid just out of college with no or not much experience that works in that group and was asked to create it because they have programming experience on their resume. Another 40% of the time it is someone who bid low on it and is frantically posting to forums and groups asking for help with their work because they really don't know what they are doing. With these first two you can also add in that the application was created in DOS and now runs in a emulator on a winME system.

It looks like the remaining 15-20% may actually know what they are doing.

I Think you make a great point for military use. The issue is that local police get their hands on all of this equipment thanks to SWAT and other such programs.

The military is much better trained for these types of situations, they have been in actual combat and (mostly) know the difference in situations that call for deadly force or not.

The local police just like to use whatever toys they are given. What I have seen from local police training is: "Here is your mace/tazer/peppper spray, let me zap/spray you with it once so you know how it works... go have fun". It should be ingrained in them that you only use these where you would previously have had to pull your gun. I have volunteered at a few police departments and have seen this personally.

Certain uses of Yoga and Meditation have this same goal.