You are correct that a vehicle needs not one bit of personal data. However, unless I'm mistaken, when you use the vehicle as an interface to your mobile phone, all that personally identifying information gets stored in the vehicle unless you specifically delete it. Call me a Luddite, but I'll never tether.

Absolutely. For reference, I turn 65 this month and for the last half year I've been absolutely bombarded with mail and phone calls about enrolling in Medicare and other coverage. There must be some serious profit involved for insurance companies to blanket "older" folks with this many unsolicited adverts.

How will this teach chemistry students when they don't even list the actual element name? What does Sn mean for Tin? Au for Gold? Hg for Mercury... etc.

The longest strike in U.S. history was when the International Association of Machinists walked out of Brown and Sharpe in 1981. That strike officially lasted 17 years. These guys have a long way to go. https://www.rihs.org/mssinv/Ms...

Being one of the five, I really like my G7. It's been a very good device for the past two plus years, it takes fantastic photos, people can hear me, fewer dropped calls. Far, far better than the Droid that preceded it, on which nobody could hear me with that pinhole microphone on the back side. I would have stuck with LG for a new one, but now I'm not sure what I'll get when the time comes. Oh well...

If "they" are really concerned about stopping this virus, why don't/didn't they put a stop to all international travel? The original insult came from China, the recent virulent variants are from the UK, South Africa, Brazil. I'm no epidemiologist, but it seems to me that instead of worrying about church gatherings and birthday parties, they should stop more virus from getting from nation to nation in the first place and let what's going around in each country burn itself out.

Hey, we found the Alphabet employee here! I don't know what you may be using for search terms but typing in, for instance, "Keystone Pipeline" yields virtually identical results in DDG and Google. (That search was the first time I've used Google in probably two years.) Anyway, to each his own, but to say "DuckDuckGo sucks" is disingenuous.

What? What are you on? Florida is the tourist mecca of the entire free world with millions of visitors per month, whatever gave you the idea they had "literally months" to prepare? SMH.

You forgot the "/s" at the end of your post.

Yes, working on the Space Shuttle was probably the coolest thing I ever did. Also yes, we actually knew the end was coming for a long time, and a lot of folks did leave before the RIF. Among the hangers-on, there was the quiet hope that Congress/NASA would have funded either some maintenance flights to the ISS with one vehicle being kept operational, or Aries/Constellation would fly, or some other gap filler. None of that came about. I only mentioned the layoff to put a point on the date of the last flight of a human rated American launch vehicle.

It's just a nitpick, but the last flight of American astronauts from Kennedy Space Center was 9 years ago, not 11. July 2011. Shortly after that, myself and 10,000 of my cohorts lost our jobs.

"Why are they treating it like it is the ebola-aids-enhanced T virus then?" I'm guessing because: A) this virus has a fancy new name and it's not just "the flu", and B) the press ran out of "Orange Man Bad" stories

"They also worry about terrorists using drones to deliver payloads to heavily populated areas." No real terrorist would dare to disable the internet connection on their drone of doom. Would they?

Way back in the 90's when I worked at Kennedy Space Center for a contractor, a buddy of mine who works for NASA was working on a sample return mission to get rocks back from Mars. This must be really hard to do if it's taken over 25 years to make happen.

Am I the only one that remembers the McDonnell-Douglas DC-X back in the mid '90s? This looks remarkably similar.