You mean, you didn't start masturbating until you were 399 ± 21 million years old? Geez, what late bloomer.

No, no, there is only one bag of kittens. They are simultaneously dead and alive until you open it. Only then does Schrodinger Claus determine whether or not they are living.

Your only choice is whether or not to open the bag.

I understand what you're saying, but then I wonder: is a drone really going to accomplish this any better than a "traditional" method? Whenever a new technology comes out that can be used nefariously, I have to remind myself that our entire civil society is based on an honor system. People don't commit crimes simply because most people are not inclined to do so, and because crimes are punished.

This is really about people the fear someone could commit an old-fashioned crimes with fancy new technology. I don't really think there is any more risk criminal activity. Hypothetically, if I wanted to kill you, I could fly a drone into your office and try to explode it on you. Or I could just wait until you get off work bash you in the head with a rock. Both accomplish the same result, one method has been around since there were humans.

What I see as a potential new risk, however, is the possibility that one person (rather than an organized group of people), could activate numerous drones simultaneously and coordinate some kind of mischief in a way that was hitherto impossible. One guy with one drone and bad intentions is not much worse than one guy with zero drones and bad intentions. But if that guy has fifty drones, and he's programmed them to do something naughty, that's a lot more like fifty guys with zero drones and bad intentions -- and that could be quite bad! Even so, discussions have already pointed out while this may be effective against pilot-controlled drones, it is much less so for the kind of fully-automated drones that seem, at least to me, see more menacing. It's really not even a discussion about drones at that point, though, it's (in the most general sense) about the effect of automation on human productivity.

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I actually like their android browser. I think it's better than Chrome, and I especially like that you can write addons for it.

That said I use Opera on android, because it still does text reflow. Firefox used to, but it's a feature they broke. In theory, I could not be a lazy schmuck and write an addon myself for Firefox to do text reflow. Just the fact that it has the extensibility to add that "killer feature" gives me a lot of respect for the browser.

Maybe I'm not thinking clearly, but shouldn't the operating system employ a robust I/O cache that obviates the need for this kind of tomfoolery?

Actually, upgrading to Windows 10 should free up disk space. A full install of Windows 10 takes up less disk space than Windows 8.1. It also eliminates the need for a recovery partition.

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Sounds like an adult film empire...

Consider the usage in the slang term "fanny pack", which I recall from the 90's was a sort of belt-pouch not unlike where my level 12 high elf wizard keeps his spellcasting reagents.

His genius was so great that not only did he crack the enigma code, but he could even read his own Perl -- and the language hadn't even been invented yet!

Fascinating article, thanks for sharing.

Why only tax those who drive on the roads? Even non-drivers indirectly use the transportation infrastructure. I think it would make a lot more sense to tax everyone the same and call it a day. You could come up with a complicated system, and let costs get passed along to non-drivers. Or you could have a very simple system with the same outcomes and much less overhead.

Google isn't the problem, and I daresay the carriers aren't the problem. You can buy a Nexus and get updates for it fresh off the Google presses. Blame the like of Samsung and HTC. They want to push their custom software (touchwiz and sense) at the expense of being compatible with AOSP. On top of that, carriers want to add their custom crap, but only because the whole system is already mucked up by the manufacturers. You don't see it happening on iPhone, Windows phone, or Google branded phones. Google isn't forcing this as a prerequisite for using Android. It's actually the "openness" of the platform that allows for this kind of situation to develop.

Even so, even CDMA carriers here will probably activate an international version of popular phone like the galaxy if you bought one out of pocket.

I just read the wikipedia article about DNA methylation, and while much of it is over my head, the pedant in me seems to accept that the accept the language that the DNA is "changed". It doesn't change the sequence of the DNA, but it seems to change the composition of the individual nucleotides.

I know this it totally off-topic and may hurt my karma, but ICANN not resist the temptation. I just don't have the resolve. I'm phishing for puns. What's your best ICANN pun?