Or even just had a QC team pop by unannounced once in a while to verify the testing was being done by the book.

I can only think of one country that has used nuclear weapons and it's not on your list. I'll agree that they have recently invaded other countries, but I doubt US hunter-killer subs are hunting down US SSBNs.

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It has a meat based sensor and processing package...

All the sceptical comments underestimate network centric warfare. In the context he's talking about, "remote piloted" for an autonomous drone is likely to mean selecting a contact on the Global Operations Picture (said contact could be generated from a sensor on any number of your own or allied warships, planes, drones or other units) and telling your drone "go investigate this, if it matches any of these known enemy signatures, kill it". At which point the drone has a target uncertainty area to search, an equivalent of ROE and a silicon pilot that can cope with far more g-force than a human pilot. Musk is right.

Or go to a police station in a different county and hand it in, reporting that person or persons unknown have potentially sabotaged your motor vehicle. Stand back and watch the fun as X County PD ends up investigating Y County PD. Pretty dumb to let it be found with your stash though - clearly the sensible thing to do on finding it would be to ditch your stash, either sell to another dealer at cost or just write it off, and lay low for a while. Maybe hand the thing in once you've sanitised, just to let the PD know that you're not a soft touch and if they're just after hitting their monthly quotas they'd be better off targeting someone dumber. And at that point if they do come round with a warrant, well you've sanitised, there's nothing for them to find and once they've found nothing at all on a "probable cause" warrant it becomes that little bit harder for them to convince the next judge there's probable cause if they want to come back for another search at a later date.

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It's like you chose your username to be an antonym for your actual mental abilities. Even compared with a rock.

Way Smarter Than You wrote:

It's like you chose your username to be an antonym for your actual mental abilities... Even compared to a rock.

Er, yeah, that's how private enterprises work. It's fine for Youtube to say what content gets monetised, censored etc. on their site because it's their site. It's just the same as it's fine for Fox to choose what political opinions they allow to be promoted on Fox and Friends, or for a privately owned newspaper to pick and choose what readers' letters they publish. You need to learn about what a public space is.

So what bit of google account information do I need to update to a lie to make google think I'm Irish and leave my data in the EU?

It's not great if the system relies solely on speed limit recognition: it's not always safe to drive at the speed limit anyway, e.g. in adverse weather or just because speed limits aren't very precise. One would imagine it should be quite important for a car autopilot to be analysing factors such as the actual shape and condition of the road seen on its sensors, the weather / standing water etc., proximity to mapped hazards like blind bends, schools etc., and deriving its own estimate of "safe speed"; if the speed limit is higher than its own estimate of safe speed then it should proceed no faster than the safe speed estimate. Signs can get damaged to the point of illegibility for other reasons as well as malicious intent, another reason they shouldn't be relied on in isolation. On the other hand, XKCD 1958 still applies.

SpaceX imminently have a space-qualified orbital vehicle with Crew Dragon what can get to LEO; in the next year or so with Starship they'll have one that can go round the moon - or potentially to Mars. This is exciting because the focus is changing from NASA being the driving force behind manned spaceflight to SpaceX forging their own destiny. Of course Crew Dragon was designed and built for NASA, but that's just convergence of goals at this point - SpaceX's goals go way further than NASA's and by starting to explore manned civil spaceflight they're really starting down the path of exceeding where Congress has the political ambition to send NASA.

Redbox sounds like it's a streaming box specially designed for redtube streaming. Does it have a wipe clean finish?

And that's exactly why government-mandated back doors are a terrible idea - all and sundry will end up with access, whether it's Huawei or Cisco or the Chinese government, or the Russian mafia. So please, Uncle Sam, can you stop asking for government-mandated back doors in encryption now?

I completely agree with you on a number of points. Whether shadiness or incompetence, the whole debacle has certainly played very well into Trump's hands. It was certainly very unwise for any candidate to provide material support to the election apparatus (or for the Iowa Democrats to buy their app from a company so closely linked to one particular candidate). I totally agree that it's the appearance that matters not the fact of whether any wrongdoing occurred. The situation is undoubtedly very bad: ideally it needs a timely investigation done by a neutral party, the incompetence acknowledged and move on. If it's dealt with properly and right soon, there's plenty of time for this to fade from the public memory before November. But if it lingers unresolved and festers in the public imagination then it's ripe for Trump to exploit. There is absolutely zero room now for anything else to go wrong with the Democrats' primaries in any other state. What doesn't help is all and sundry throwing around accusations at other candidates unless there's proof. And I stand by my point that once a candidate is chosen, the entire party needs to get behind them. Just because Hillary called for unity and then lost doesn't make her wrong on that particular topic. She lost exactly because there wasn't a high enough degree of party unity. It's not even a high bar to clear - you don't have to change your belief that Candidate B is better than Candidate A in order to vote for Candidate A, you just have to accept that Candidate A is better than Trump. All this time that the democrat candidates are busy machine-gunning each other Trump is sitting fat, dumb and unchallenged, strengthening his re-electoral machinery.