I already use one of these self driving cars. It's more commonly called "a bus."

You do realize that the runway orientation is chosen due to things like prevailing winds and local terrain, don't you. Once you've discovered the optimal runway orientation for a site, you wouldn't want to change it. Unless, say, a mountain moved, or something along those lines.

My SSID at home advertises the WPA2 key, that is my SSID is keyissomestring . Im happy to share my bandwidth, but I don't want to share my data.

I believe the NIST has tried to write a sensible definition of Cloud Computing, see

http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/

I ran an airline for a time, and I see where you left off a few critical sub-systems.

- Dispatch Planning (what cooks up the flight plans in question for submission, specifying the fuel burn, max takeoff weight, planned landing weight, operating mach speed, altitude, etc.)

- Operations Control (where every plane and crew is, in real time.). Think of a Gantt chart that would make your jaw drop, it's kind of like that.

These are the things that make an airline run. The FAA only has one responsibility -- keep airplanes apart. The rest (largely) is up to the carrier.

Mod parent up.

I refuse to master Word for the reasons cited. My neurons are too valuable to master a broken app. When users ask how to do something, I invariably say, "Hit F1".

Hmmm, that sounds wrong.

My understanding is that the signature line only maens "you" agree to the cardmember agreement and all that goes with it (agreeing to repay the debt being the salient part the creditor cares about).

That being the case you can sign the card two seconds before you use it and it's all good to the creditor. The cashier at the retailer might give pause, but that doesn't mean doodle-squat.

If you want to validate identity, well, that's what a state issued ID or driver's license is for, just check that against the embossed name on said credit card.

I'm all for the advancement of science by anyone, anywhere, anytime. That being said, now is a great time to ratchet up the use of the Fermilab accelerator and catch those hot-shot know-it-all Continentals ^H^H^H^, er, our fellow scientists while they are flat-footed.

(I'm taking my data from a recently aired Nova covering Fermilab and would welcome any updates on what's going on there at this very moment. The piece closed with a mention of funding cuts which I presume have not been reversed.)

I haven't read all the posts, so even if it's been posted or not, the following deserves note -- we waste more fuel via poor technique versus whether there are or are not too many SUVs out there on the roads.

I can drive most peoples car for a week and get 25-35% better mileage by technique. If I told you you could get 25-35% better mileage with a doo-dad that cost 100$, I'd be rich.

But people don't like to be told how to drive. Oh, sure, they'll pay 75$ for a half-hour with the club pro in order to drop one or two strokes a round, but if you could save them $500 a year on fuel (or a half-hour or more in their time, per day), few want to listen.

Crazy, indeed.

Just remember -- Anyone going slower than you is an idiot; anyone going faster is a maniac.

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I drive a 5.7L V8 SUV and get "book" mileage - or better - out if it, reliably. This on a 210K mile motor. And I only need brakes every 60K miles or so (this is with a 2 1/2 ton truck). Technique works.