With an ARM processor, why go with embedded 7 instead of say Linux with xfce?

Is a droid that understands the binary language of moisture vaporators!

One guy may say that the sun is green, the other guy may say it's purple. Having both of them in the same article does not make it neutral.

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... you could just treat your employees like adults, let them exercise discretion, and as long as they get done what they're asked to do, don't be a dictator.

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Ignoring the technical aspect... there is (amazingly!) an artistic component to getting a good shot. It's not as simple as pointing at what you want to photograph and hitting a button. You may replicate this if you have an eye for composition, but a human still has to make that decision at some point, and that person may well be (or have been) a photographer.

Sorry for the impatient tone before, I just assumed you'd overlooked it. No biggie.

http://stopsmartmeters.org/why-stop-smart-meters/ , second paragraph. And it's really not just this one - the internet is peppered with nonsensical opposition to anything and everything that sounds scary to the ignorant.

I sincerely do think your fears are mostly unfounded. The catalyst for a lot of this work is not a profit motive but spectacularly huge government grants. As to the effect of realtime pricing (which is still years down the road for most utilities) I think there will be a more or less normative of the generating capacity: When the thrifty turn off their ACs and unused appliances, the price of electricity also falls in general. This is because an significant amount of total grid capacity is dedicated to a total of like an hour every year of peak demand. If the electric company can price based on the actual cost, which fluctuates very quickly, even ten over minutes, the actual use will to some degree scale to the economy. Meaning, the grid doesn't suffer the additional overhead of having unused capacity, the price people pay is fairer, and electricity doesn't get wasted. The guy using during peak is simply paying something closer to the actual cost, where today it is spread out like a collective guilt.

I don't watch TMZ. I'm contracted at a utility currently in the deployment phase of similar meters.

I don't see anything related to the wider utility health practices - in fact everything I see is directly related to the meters themselves, including the health claims - perhaps you missed that section. From the website:

"Do you value your health, and the health of your family and friends? Just as we’re learning that cell phones cause brain tumors, why are we installing the same technology on everyone’s homes, often with no right to opt out?"

Unless you're going to quibble on the definition of cancer, I'd say that's pretty much on the mark. They are also plainly stating this as a causative link without presenting a shred of evidence. In fact, all of their relatively outlandish claims are made without anything to back them up.

Realtime pricing should in theory benefit all parties involved - generation, distribution, and consumption. The sky is not falling.

When so many Californians believe that their new electric meters are going to be giving them cancer ( http://stopsmartmeters.org/ ), this is comes as no surprise at all. Also, crystal healing and homeopathy.

I want to know how driverless cars react to uncommon occurrences - for example, in the UK and in California, lane sharing and filtering are very common. As a motorcyclist who once in a while will filter up to the intersection for a quick takeoff, I am very interested in knowing how these new vehicles will react to occasional semi-chaos. It would also be helpful to have an easy way to pick them out so I know in advance how I should approach them.

Also something I've wondered about - what's the design and rationale for speeding? If you've displaced legal responsibility to a machine, can you be held responsible if your car speeds to maintain the flow of traffic? Perhaps this will be a motivation for a realistic re-baselining of speed limits to reflect what actually happens, rather than assuming people will be ten over and adjusting down to compensate. This is at least the case where I live (southeastern Pennsylvania).

- In aggregate, they probably know more about you than any one person - They publicly supported CISPA A better mousetrap there could not be. They could have an open season on pirated content and I still would not bite.

What in the world is a "social clock"? What's social about it? It doesn't seem to have anything to do with interaction.

Regarding health effects, the claimants have failed to convince me that there is any benefit of significance. The numbers just don't make sense, in many cases are not supported with citations, and in some are obvious outright lies - I've seen 50% reduction in HIV infections claimed. Anorexia is also a psychological and emotional issue, correct? The people who suffer from the condition have not just physical, but emotional issues as well? So to is being mutilated sexually. I often hear arguments that talk about "most people" not caring. I am not "most people". I want the body that I was born with, but because my parents were ignorant and the doctors greedy, I will never know what it is to have that. While I recognize the need to live my life, this has caused and will continue to cause me tremendous emotional pain, and for nothing. It won't go away until people start caring about their children enough to simply not do this to them. So, yeah - not a direct comparison. Anorexia in advertising is not a human rights issue. This is. Anorexia is developed independently, and people have a measure of control over it. Circumcision is decided for a child without his consent, and without an iota of scientifically-valid justification. The point of intersection is that both are highly relevant to peoples' ultimate happiness and well-being, or lack thereof.