Let's be more specific about how and why this could happen? What scenarios could lead to the total destruction of mankind?

This is correct. He identified a problem with the existing commercial drones. He iterated his design until he could achieve what he wanted to achieve. And most importantly, he wrote it down, and he shared what he did. As I get older, I am learning that it's not the end product interests schools or employers or government projects. It is the ability to identify problems, the ability to come up with solutions to those problems, and integrate those solutions into an existing design. He's thinking like an engineer. And they want to cultivate that.

It's free to write it, not to read it.

I recently played a few games on them, and it's not the same experience. Maybe the lane I was on was poorly maintained or just hexed, but pin 7 would always get stuck in the setter, then drop. Sometimes the system would catch the error, sometimes not. But if the pin stayed stuck, you had no chance at a strike. I was with a bunch of kids who were under 10 so it really didn't affect scores all that much. But I can see this being a big problem in a competition setting.

He'll live there... on paper. He'll get his driver's license there. He could be a snowbird that comes down for the winters and travels all other times. It is a tax dodge.

I am the opposite. Anything less than 90 minutes is a waste for me.

I missed the whole point of twitter. It's just a listserve with a 140 character limit.

Technical management evaluates the options based on the requirements, and makes recommendations. BizMGNT shit-cans the recommendation in favor of whatever buzz-word technology is in vogue. Engineers implement the technologies chosen scratching their collective heads as to how this meets any of the initial requirements;. AND they have to engineer supporting infrastructure with no budget, and even less time to make pager-duty tolerable. At least that's how it's worked in my experience. Someone who doesnt have to answer the phone at 2am gets to decide.

...and you could vaporize a human target from space.

I have noticed this trend in OSs, Windows/OSX hide file extensions. Windows hides filesystem structure in "Libraries" (Complete Bullshit by the way. I went through and removed them from the registry, only to have them reappear after an update). Windows hides system files. Web browsers hide the protocol info. HTTP:\\ or FTP:\\ I do not like it.

Only if you assume that the ISP isn't filtering egress already... which is doubtful.

An algorithm scanned through images of works of art, and identified similarities. And that means what?

Pay for Value.

If the 5th amendment applied during interrogation, then no one could confess. Every case would go to trial. You can refuse to talk to police. Miranda rights apply when talking to police, AFTER GETTING ARRESTED. The summary is that there is nothing that you can say to help yourself until you get to court. By saying nothing there is nothing that the prosecution can hold against you.