The people responsible for specifying the environmental constraints for the asphalt mixture messed up. Plain and simple. Polymer reinforced bitumen binder can be made to wildly varying environmental specs to make sure that this sort of thing does not happen.

The problem is not the distance but the fuel required to cover that distance. My diesel family car takes >10s to get to 62mph but delivers 45 mpg in real world driving. It is an average size family car (Peugeot 308SW). An average size family car in the US will be much quicker (which is useless while commuting) and will be much less economical because of it.

A SPOC is never a good idea. So putting everything on one SAN isn't either. Why would you purposely introduce so much fragmentation in your data when you could just build a proper SAN environment which had high availability built in?

So how is this tech news?

Use tools like Webex/GoToMeeting/OCS where you can have an integrated A/V meeting and use local telco numbers to control costs. Be aware about the telco plan of the vendor (included or not and at what cost per minute). Webex used to charge for the telco minutes but I don't know what they do these days. GoToMeeting is free as far as I know but check to make sure.

Set up a collaboration environment like BaseCamp (if it's for Project Management) or MS Team Studio, Atlassian JIRA/Confluence if it's for development work.

If possible implement a way to easily work on documents together (either in-house or externally with something like Google Docs/Office 365 depending on what's allowed by company security policy).

Heavily promote the use of these tools and train people in effectively using them. Some people have difficulty starting up with these tools and end up not using them to initiate anything.

Doing your due diligence as an attorney could also mean backchecking this with Blizzard first and *then* firing off the C&D if it is still wanted. I'm sure Legal would have the means to check this quickly with someone like Pardo or Metzen or even Morhaime.

Basically Activision Legal fires off the first shot before people with real brains realize the potential for something like this. The people with the brains probably did not know this existed before the C&D became news.

Not if he had 1.21 Gigawatts first.

It's Symmetric 100Mbps over Cable. And a sizeable number already have 100Mbps (like with UPC Fiber) but that still is asymmetric. Yes that is news.

This was a ThyssenKrupp design: http://twin.thyssenkrupp-elevator.com/#/en/entdecken

I was recently in an office building where the elevators had no buttons at all. In front of the elevator was a keypad where you typed which floor you needed to go to, the system assigned you an elevator and you could only get on and be delivered to your earlier chosen floor.

Slight difference: when locomotive driver fails the deadman's switch kicks in and the train stops. Or in an extreme case: part of the tracks are powered down so the train will cruise to a halt.

There 's no deadman's switch in a plane and where would it go if it did? Trains are riding on terra firma. Plane's will crash either way.

Same with the discussion about bus drivers. Bus driver fails --> passenger takes over --> stops bus in controlled fashion. Pilot fails --> passenger has 0 skills --> plane goes down.