Shift to neutral will be ignored by the computer because some engineer decided it's more important to honor an acceleration request?!?!?!

Fire those engineers. You don't belong near safety-critical design.

Bitcoin transactions are unobserved by government, and thus difficult to track to tax. It's like a Swiss bank account for everybody where transactions take place securely hidden from taxing eyes.

For example:

Troll: Linux is a worthless piece of crap. I like Windows.

Sucker: No, you're a worthless piece of crap if you like windows.

After:

Troll My mom died 6 years ago today. She always liked flowers in her windows. Should I do that?

  Sucker: No, you're a worthless piece of crap if you like windows.

IIRC, editing posts was a trolling tool. People would make outrageous posts, get people to respond, then edit the post to something innocuous and make the responder look like an ass.

Actually, that sounds like fun. The real game for us trollers would be to craft an edit that makes the response look even sillier. Kind of like coming up with an insane Jeopardy question to a mild "answer", or like Johnny Carson's old Carnac the Magician routine.

New Whale Species Unearthed In California Highway Dig

Neat!

Wait a minute. Has anyone seen Oprah lately?

Laws are theories. Laws are untested engineering. They should be treated as such.

If we do X, then Y will happen.

There should be followup with mandatory review. Hell, mandatory re-vote, with optional update or it expires.

The article actually goes out of the way to point out he's invested heavily in a company that brings inventions to market. He isn't some poor little retiree, he's reinvesting his money and it's drying up.

Still I wonder if he licensed the radio, and is now tied to a company that doesn't have to produce it.

As a side note, I bought a Freeplay radio, the spring one. It lasted a few weeks, then the plastic gears inside stripped. What cheapscares, I thought.

The container camp owners drive around to pump out your camper is similarly called the honey pot.

Fail. Why?

It puts primacy of power at a national level as the vastly overriding, important factor, when, in fact, it's the freedom people have to move around.

There are people upset at gerrymandering, even "well-meaning" gerrymandering that creates districts along highway corridors, because they dislike being placed in one nice little homogeneous pool "so you can elect your guy", sayeth those in power, who then sleep like a baby that night.

Something is also wrong if he has to be scared of karma hits for defending "the other side".

It's no longer a joke at slashdot. The metamod system is either impotent, or itself co-opted (nobody meta-downmodding downmods of "the other side") or both.

Thus does an online, mutually-reinforcing meme community drive out any rational discussion, thus giving themselves an even falser sense of security that their received wisdom is settled.

The meme as independent entity, which nobody "really believes in", has human actors as enforcement mechanisms in itself like enzymes and protiens in cells.

"What is thy bidding, my master, I mean, my meme?"

"What have the relatives done?" This is the same meme used to justify large inheritance taxes so certain people can plunder the dead guy.

"Follow the money."

In the case of copyrights, you have to have a post-death buffer of some years so the author can get maximum money out of it. Contracts will be for less if your stepping in front of a bus puts the publisher's investment at high risk.

Someone did a ray-traced video of Quake (not real time, of course) with people running around with multiple color sources and so on.

They estimated a real-time version would require a 30,000 GHz processor. Still, it looked awesome.

Elder Scrolls would fit in a small corner of Tera Online. I spent several hours once just riding up into the mountains outside a city once.

This. Combine it with the downmod system that gets misused to hide opinions some self-appointed people on the left disagree with, and presto!

A mechanically-enforced echo chamber for an online "social tribal community".

Who watches these watchmen who get bent out of shape at those who manipulate the media, except when it is themselves?

> California Professors Unveil Proposal To Attack Asteroids With Lasers

Well, best get started now. They're pushing 10 years to get environmental approval to deepen certain shipping ports by 6 feet to accommodate the new supertanker size of the expanding Panama Canal. I can't even begin to imagine the paperwork for a laser 10x the size of the ISS.