You do know that a 1 in a million chance has to occur all the time. We have proof it actually does in the holywood videos, their cars explode all the time !

With less slow motion.

That remains to be seen, internet access can be pretty slow at times :D

Does it really matter ? I live in France, here high speed internet is provided mainly through ADSL (and deployment on fiber has started). Each ADSL connection comes with a wifi enabled box which also serves as router (we also get phone and some TV in the package).

At least two providers give you the option of joining their roaming network : you enable your bow to be a roaming access point, in exchange you get credentials for the roaming network allowing you to connect to any of their box with roaming enabled.

Considering the density of deployment here, it means a lot of the city is covered. Actually, inside of buildings it can be hard to access it because there are too many access points interfering with each other ...

In this case the ISPs are not exactly paying for more than they already offered to their customers, they simply changed the software on their boxes to allow for a new service. (I heard rumors that some of the isps plan to deploy femto cells too).

You never used lotus notes

(disclaimer, I never used it above v8)

let's assume the simple case of a single user system for a sec : I wish that for portable media, the file system were mounted in way such that it makes the current user the owner of all
the files on the drive (ignoring any userid if they are present)

this way you would always have corre

The problem on multiuser systems would be identifying the 'current' user. That could be defined as the user connected to the Display connected to the local monitor.

For the rest keep the standard file permissions and maintain them throughout the life of the filesystem....

You wouldn't know of a userspace application able to read a filesystem in a file in windows ?

And in some way to mount it as a drive in windows... (like having a custom samba server, exposing the filesystem as a share and mounting it ?)

would this require admin privileges too ? (I would like for somthing from portable apps I can just unzip anywhere,start and point to a file on my usb key ...

What happens to the game/software industry ?
Not much... It goes entirely software as a service (think xbox live/steam/...) + some console games

Or for software used in business they continue as before to get their licensing fee.

why leave your basement, hack the security camera around him to take the picture, and the cellphone company to find out his phone number. send the picture to the phone number and call him to tell him the codeword easy, nothing to sweat about :)

what happens if the guy in front of you jams on the brakes or the car in the other lane swerves towards you

The computer which is always fully attentive of road condition through it's radar and cameras, detects the trajectory change or the rapid shortening of the distance with the other car or even the lighting of the brake lights on the car in front and reacts to it a thousand time faster than a human driver would ?

I don't think the problem really is the software. The problem more likely is cost : putting all the sensors on a car would most likely cost a lot driving car prices by a fair amount. this isn't a problem with planes because, a plane carries more people, has a longer life expectancy, has a better maintenance plan, etc etc, than an individual car has.

(Not to mention that the computer which does not bend or break rules will have left a safe security distance between the two cars)

Thanks for the great post, makes me wonder how they test their system, do you know if they use some kind of fuzzy testing ? like simulating completely random input combinations and applying them to the system to see how it reacts ?

just with your last sentence :
 

AND KNOWING IS HALF THE BATTLE! (Come to think of it, did they ever say what the other half was?)

They did actually, the other half is fighting the battle. You can know everything there is to know about doing something, if you don't actually engage in doing it, your knowledge is useless.

Is image recognition still a problem ? I thought it had been successfully solved by crowd sourcing it to spammers and bots writers .... there was an article about this a while ago but I can't find it right now.

I personnaly own a Logitech MX900 it does come with a usb pluggable pod/receiver but it is fully bluetooth compliant. I never pugged the pod's usb cable anywhere, just the power cord to recharge the mouse. And it has always worked flawlessly.

http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-MX900-Bluetooth-Cordless-Optical/dp/B0000CEPDF

Would it be possible to make the Antikythera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism in LBP ?

It seems the irony of using an amazingly powerful digital computer to emulate a simple mechanical computer is completely lost on you ...