Travel without ID happens all the time. How many people do you think fly to Vegas or Paris or some other large city and lose their wallets/purses by theft or whatever? And are they then stuck there for life? Or, are they allowed to travel home without valid ID?

"I do not want to ask permission to travel anywhere at any time"

Try crossing a border or entering private property. Or try driving to Asia in your car. Guess what? You already have restrictions on where you travel and how you do it. Unless you own a yacht, jet, and a helicoptor; the bulk of planet Earth is not accessable for you.

And there won't be a push against car ownership. It will just follow the best economy for the masses. If owning a car costs $1000/month and most people can use a self-driving service to get the same places in the same amount of time for $350/month; guess which option most will choose? I don't know if the math will ever get to those stats, but the winner will be the best value for the masses.

I totally see that being the future. Insurance has 2 options:
1. self driving which costs $20/month
2. human can drive which costs $500/month

Anyone can do either, but 99% of people will go with option #1 and only car enthusiasts will do #2. And many of those enthusiasts will be slowly restricted to specific areas they are allowed to drive. Think of how they slowly phased smoking from society. You used to be able to smoke anywhere, even hospitals and churches. Today, some people can't even smoke outdoors many places.

Yes. If you run someone over you could have reasonable avoided (even a protester on a highway), you can be arrested. I get it can be a hassle when protesters block the road, but that action doesn't warrant a response that includes purposely running them over with a vehicle.

The biggest issue I've had with drives the last few years is that it can take DAYS to copy a fraction of a drive's worth of data to another drive. I'd like to see faster throughputs more than greater capacity at this point. A petabit sized CD isn't too useful if it takes hours to read/write much.

A DVDr or Blu-Ray disk 1generally takes ~1 minute to write 1GB. So a disk holds 125,000GB of data, will it take 125,000 seconds to fill which is about a day and a half. Maybe they will be able to eventually write to multiple layers at once. That could be a game changer. Until then, this seems like its main use could be offline backup and/or long term storage. And as many has said, I'd be sure to have multiple backups if this were used for that purpose.

So a facial recognition device was pointed at a marble statue and recognized it as a face? I may be mistaken, but faces aren't usually made of marble and a system whose sole job is to recognize HUMAN faces fails when it recognizes anything else as a face. This is especially true for an inanimate object.

It seemed pretty obvious at the time that the Autonomy acquisition wasn't a good deal for HP. I don't see how HP could ever value an an enterprise software company at $4B when they could have recreated all their tech for much much less and add/remove whatever features they desited.

I'd bet money that if you dig deeper, key people at HP got their pockets padded nicely for approving and pushing the deal to go through.

So your waterjet parts got damaged by water?

That someone's saving is dead. If they gave that money away while alive it would be taxes. So why does their death change the tax equation? Death doesn't eliminate bills owed, presuming your estate can pay them.

Look at Gates and Zuck as examples. Both went to Harvard. They did make their billions, but they had nice head starts with families that could send them to Harvard.

I get the sentiment that some people want to physically own a disk/cartridge/whatever for a game/movie/music/app. That said, what percent of people who bough an Atari/NES/SuperNES/Genesis/PlayStation or any games 20+ years ago still play them? Or how many even have the ability to play them? And how many people bought tons of VHS movies that can't watch them now because they don't have VCRs or the tapes just got to corrupted to watch?

And yes, I know there are a handful of Slashdot nerds who still play Kings Quest 2, the original Leisure Suit Larry, Atari Pitfall, or whatever. But you know that is less than 1% of the original purchasers. And in case you weren't aware, companies don't usually cater to or even care about the 1%ers. I even recall sit in protests against the 1%ers a few years ago.

There have been multiple documented cases where people (with no prior stealing) have forgotten to scan something in the cart or on the bottom, and stores like Wal-Mart and Kroger have them arrested for stealing.

If you let them scan your items they can't accuse you of stealing, but anytime YOU use self-checkout, you are opening yourself up to making an honest mistake, being accused of stealing, being arrested for stealing, and an eventual prison sentence. If you don't believe me, search youtube for "self checkout falsey accused". The top hit is about a woman in Alabama who just won a $2.1M lawsuit from Wal-Mart. Even after she won her shoplifting case (which Wal-Mart didn't even defend), Wal-Mart kept harassing her for $200 via a law firm.

"wait in line behind 3 other people with carts full of groceries"
The "10 item or less" line was supposed to fix that.

"Rarely" sounds like they do enforce speeding at times.

FYI: You can speed nearly everywhere most of the time without getting ticketed. Of course, there are limits to how much you can speed past the posted limit without seeing blue lights in the rear view mirror.

I'm pretty sure you still have to be intoxicated to get a DUI. Just sleeping in a car doesn't mean you are intoxicated or violating the law.