You can design anything you like but you can't necessarily sell it. Specifically products have to comply with the FCC and UL just a name a couple groups of regulations.

An anti-obsolescence law against waste would be very American. And it would strengthen the security of the country. Products do need minimum standards.

I don't care how you feel or what you believe about any topic. We need to get back in touch with freedom of the press and everyones right to their own soap box. The whole public laws vs corporation perogitive is an end run around free speech. It like a few monopolistic printing press making companies conspiring to only sell to people that hold their own viewpoints.

If you hold a close to monopolistic power position as relates media you should not be able to refuse people their soap boxes. If you want to editorialize then you get out your own soap box... you don't knock the other guy off his.

He could have simply been taking his work home with him... could have. That he could do such a thing shows their poor security and ability to protect their own supposed trade secrets. He did it for over a year and not just before he left the company. He could have understood it was "officially" forbidden but in practice it was not enforced which is proven by how he did it for over a year before he left the company. Theoretically he could have simply been covering up frowned upon ways he cut corners that he used in order to perform in his job better. Not sure I believe it but it is easily plausible. Based on this he shouldn't be sued now.

As far as the company that hired him... I wouldn't want to touch him if I intended to ever sell my cars in the western society; since it should be trivial to compel the company into an independent code review. Either for direct copyright infringement or code or against patents.

P.S. On a tangent... I think all software sold in all markets for all commercial products should have it's source code be forced to be confidentially registered. Makes it easier to catch cheaters. So companies can't go out of business or claim a fire ate their homework. Would also make it easier to do automated code comparisons.

It was there because it was low cost. Whomever made it sold it for very cheap to get out their message. Just like all the UFO documentaries. People are choosing to watch it so amazon was showing it.

While Amazon doesn't have to sell anything they don't want to I think it's wrong of them. To editorialize means you are biased which in turn gives reason for people to distrust you. If you sensor some things and not others it henceforth means you endorse them. It's a huge can of worms. And just like banned books it lends them credibility deservedly so or not. If Bezos' really disagreed enough to do something than then it would have been better to do a counter documentary himself rather than shutting them down or simply posted a ghosted editorial.

As far as the subject matter itself.... there is a modicum of credibility to the issue. There are diminishing returns vs risk. Some people will die in the lottery of rare reactions. Who gets to decide what reasonable risk is? You can document the numerous people dying from the disease on one end and on the other you have the few children that die or other are supposedly otherwise harmed from a bad reaction to a vaccine. You have parents on both ends questioning their decisions in 20/20 hindsight. Beyond that there are people that choose to live a more natural/primitive way of life.

I'm guessing it was written in another language and simply went though a translation program that isn't a full AI that can understand context or political correctness. Other languages use their own terms for race that translate as such.

In Spanish they often call me "whity" and I have to remember not to take offense every time they say it and it does not carry any baggage of a slur but rather an allusion of race. Which is how language should be.

If you participate in two or there such rallies then your account becomes flagged as an activist and as such discounted as new accounts under six months old are. It's like throwing your credibility away.

That implies that ship for others. That would only apply for associate companies or whatever you call them that sell on amazon. I wouldn't call that competition. Maybe in the distant future... they might take public shipments. But for now I wouldn't call them competitors. They are simply doing the job of delivery for themselves which if they can do it for cheaper or the same they should. It also gives them leverage against traditional shippers in their price and quality of service negotiations. I can so see them doing the same for truck shipments.

I think it's time for the internet to grow up and allow guaranteed transmission or "End to End QOS". Guaranteed bandwidth. I think it's reasonable for telecommunication applications (which include games which need low latency). I can see people wanting remote pilot drones over the internet as well. Surgeons that have consultants watching and talking to them as they perform surgeries.

The problem is that it's technical and not easy to understand. Too easy for the big telecoms subvert to extort big streaming companies. This is what the FCC should be doing for the public good rather than giving the big ISP's what they want. How it can be done across borders is beyond me. I think it will require new standards and protocols to make it easier to for end users to manage. Possibly mandate that it work over IPv6 and work though proxies.

But it's tricky. As far as regulation I think the money must come from "users" rather than servers and services. But it will be difficult to regulate to make that distinction. First thing to do is get rid of all talk of unlimited anything. Every internet plan has minimum bandwidth spelled out that is guaranteed if everyone uses the internet at the same time. Internet providers must deliver that total bandwidth of all users to a backbone in full. Second they spell out in the plan how unused bandwidth gets redistributed. As far as fast lanes that total "fast" bandwidth must but separate and above all the general use bandwidth and may not be subtracted from it. Standard providers can purchase that bandwidth from all the backbones with fine grained QOS guarantees provided that it does not slow down the internet for standard users and uses.

Call in a license plate and if it's registered the car stops or pulls over. Get a picture of a person behind the wheel and they can't enable the system for six months.

Computer science as a bachelors needs to be dropped like the dead subject that it is. Keep the master and PHD programs though for those pursuing academic careers. How about computer systems engineering? Data analytics? At least systems administration is still relevant but hardware design should probably be spun off though I suppose that's covered by systems analyst. Generally the names of all the computer degrees need to change to make them relevant to careers.

Yet again the US is applying it's laws to conduct happening on foreign soil. By this principle Saudi Arabia could extradite me. Further politicians could get laws passed in other countries that would be unconstitutional here. How long before a US citizen is extradited to Germany for selling Nazi antiquities.

I don't see how any other free nation would endorse an extradition like this.

"Oracle" underpaid the market rate. So these women could have quit and been hired elsewhere at the market rate? Isn't that a choice? If they could not have made more money then then they are paid the market rate.

You have all these supposedly underpaid people... sounds like a business opportunity to me. Any business person that likes to make money will jump at the chance to hire them at slightly more money. They would be stupid not to and must hate women more than money.

Where are all the business women creating all women businesses? If women are equally productive then business women can hire these women away at half the salary difference. Women could buy stocks in such companies since such businesses would be at an advantage. Anyone that likes money would invest this way.

The truth is women as a whole are indeed less productive at SOME things. All big businesses have a spreadsheet that calculate what each employee is worth. There are businesses that do these calculations for businesses based on all sorts of historical data as well as current performance data. As it is I speculate most tech business pay women slightly more than their performance is worth simply to increase their diversity numbers. And there is more than just performance to each employees value. There are training costs and prediction of how long a person might stay with the company. How much overtime do salaried people do? The more women you have the more "he said she said" suits you will have; men don't initiate the suits. These are costs.

Their problems right now are in production. You lower the price to get more people to buy your product. But demand already exceeds supply.

This doesn't made sense unless they are trying to do a quasi ponzi scheme through getting more money from more people paying the prepaid down-payment.

At this point I am beginning to doubt Tesla. They have a great product. But for all their troubles their assembly line should be finished as they have had more than enough time. How do other car manufacturers do it and how did the Japanese start their companies after us Americans if it's this hard? I'm not buying it.

I think the truth is the required performance batteries are hard to manufacture at the advertised price point. They are trying to leverage presale numbers to satisfy their investors and expecting a magical manufacturing breakthrough. I think they need a new CEO to put on the breaks and realistically raise prices and or do a limited bankruptcy.

One solution I suggest is selling the auto bodies of their cars without the batteries. Ditch the auto driving feature into another company and let people hack their own cars and hence assume full liability. They are attractive car bodies. Is there no way to retrofit them for a fuel cell engine? Bring the fun back.

I only hear claims. How can they be sure it did not come from somewhere else? It's trivial to reroute though other computers in the same country or other countries. I can not see how the US can be aware of every single connection going in and out of every country...(probabilistic matching incoming and outgoing streams to determine proxies). Russia and China along with other not quite US friendly countries in that region have direct connections. But supposing they did there are ways to disguise the data to make them sufficiently unmatchable. Further nowadays these things are done via script and fully automated. There are reasons for countries to make it seems like data is coming from one another.

Russia and China are full of technologically sophisticated people fully capable of hacking with their own agendas.

The gravity on the moon is way too low. The low gravity on Mars will weaken the human body but not nearly as much as the moon. Mars does have an atmosphere. So a rip in a suit isn't nearly as critical. Same goes for habitats.. they don't quite need the same structural requirements as one would in a vacuum.

Mars is dangerous and isolated. It should be seen as a one way mission. But necessity and autonomy will breed success. What mars has going for it is being a platform for mining. When mining is done one can easily construct a town on the same spot because on mars you want to be underground.There is limited water there to be found. Much more than on the moon. There is sunlight and lots of area so solar farms could be constructed though I much rather see nuclear. Hydroponics/aeroponics with led technology is a reality now. On mars a space elevator is easier to construct and you won't have people saying not in my backyard. Again Mars does have an atmosphere so some non delicate supplies (such as frozen pizza) should be easier to send. It's only hard to send people and equipment into space. If you take your time one can send supplies in space that could take a decade but wouldn't require as much fuel to send. You just have to plan ahead. Those supply missions we should be doing now instead of sending rovers. If people can survive the first 10 years they should become self sustaining.

I'm not saying a moon base wouldn't be nice but for near earth orbit it would be better to build a massive rotating space station at one of the lagrange points. Such a station would be easier and cheaper to build in mars orbit.