Distracted driving is already illegal. Why create new laws when existing laws are sufficient? Someone wearing a headset could already be cited, the same as using your phone while driving or watching a TV while driving.

Agreed. HI is my favorite podcast, though episodes are infrequent

E-Coin will help Evil Corp, er, I mean E-Corp become a leader in tracking online financial transactions.

If the photos are accurate, it has about a 3 foot bed. That's ridiculous. Unless it has at least a 6 foot bed, it's useless as a pickup truck. At 50K, it's only useful for rich people to tow a camping trailer.

It's not social media per-se that is the problem (IMO), it's the AI employed by these companies that decides what you should see, and the AI employed by advertisers and malicious entities to drive advertising profits. A.I. is not yet self aware, so it can't be classified as malicious itself, but it is pernicious. AI has learned to manipulate the algorithms that decide what you see in your news feed and even worse, it has learned to manipulate people. AI is responsible for most of what we see online and it has learned that political content that divides us is the most effective at keeping people engaged. I honestly believe that the use of AI with the goal of keeping people attached to their screens is probably responsible for the global political divide that continues to grow. AI may yet cause the extinction of humanity even without becoming self aware.

It's not really "playing hookey" if the teachers are giving the kids extra credit to participate.

This post is ridiculous. OK, so the radiation environment at 30 thousand feet is higher than standing next to a (shielded) reactor. So what? Radiation at high altitude is not even close to harmful levels and nuclear reactors are shielded for the protection of the people near it. This is not a thing that needs to be reported since it's been this way forever and everyone already knows it. That said, I have brought a small geiger counter on a commercial flight and yeah, it showed 10 to 50 times the radiation at sea level, but 10x nothing is still nothing. AFAIK, Airline pilots and flight crews do not have a higher risk of radiation related illness even though they are exposed to those levels every day.

Since there isn't a "track" in the conventional sense, but a tunnel or tube, there's little to no chance of derailment. The only thing I can think of that could cause a crash is a destruction of part of the tunnel or tube. If a section of tube fails, the vacuum is lost, air rushes in and the pod slows down. My biggest engineering concern is life support. To achieve these high speeds, it will be necessary to evacuate most of the air from the tunnel. A moving platform in a near vacuum will require on board life support. In the event of life support failure, I hope they have evacuation hatches at regular intervals throughput the tunnel.

I really don't like that they changed what the Klingons looked like. According to canon, following STE and 10 years before TOS, the Klingons should look like they did in TOS. I would be fine with either way but not with a third mutation that makes then unrecognizable as Klingons. I'm totally skeptical about this new series. I don't expect them to respect traditions or canon. 10 years before TOS means it could be in JJ Abrams alternate timeline and the bridge lighting would seem to support this.

It would be interesting to see how it works with tasks other than writing and drawing. I wonder if this would negate the need for the special spoon that was invented a few years ago. https://www.google.com/#q=spoo...

Rift is better visually. Vive has much better room scale tracking. Vive accommodates glasses better

After watching that video, it's clear that "Autopilot" didn't predict anything. When the lead car suddenly stopped, it was obscured by the car in front of the Tesla. The Tesla detected the stopped car just before the second car collided with it, and warned the driver that they were approaching a stopped car too quickly.

Agreed. No way in hell I'm installing any Facebook "platform" on my PC. I've no doubt however that this has something to do with FB owning Occulus. Occulus already has it's own game distribution platform though. Possibly they will merge and Occulus users will eventually be forced to use the Facebook platform. Good thing I went with the HTC.

From the sound of it. Autopilot was not engaged and it was auto braking that saved the day. They were not on a freeway or highway, they were on a street with intersections where pedestrians might cross. Not autopilot territory. Auto braking happens even when auto pilot is not enabled or engaged. Auto braking is available on several other car makes.

I'm a lifelong Star Trek fan. I'm looking forward to a new series but I don't have high hopes for this new series to be any good. Jar Jar Abrams has ruined the movie franchise (for me) and I expect this new series to be equally bad. However, even if the series stays true to Star Trek and is a huge success, I have no intention of subscribing to CBSs streaming service just to watch one show. I expect I'll be able to find this series on any Torrent site as easily as any other TV show. I already subscribe to cable, Netflix and Amazon. The idea that I might have to subscribe separately to each network is ridiculous and I'm hoping that CBS All Access fails completely. If they made the episodes available on a service I already use or even for $2 an episode on iTunes like most other shows, I would pay to watch. When will the studios realize that creating barriers to viewing only pushes people to piracy.