Oh please. Do you have another proposal to allow companies to verify the entire boot system is locked down so that state actors and advanced hacking groups can't own your system at a low, undetectable level forever?

The entire surface of the Earth wouldn't have resurfaced itself by then, otherwise many scientific firlds wouldn't be a thing. Some parts of earth's crust are incredibly old, some of our satellites are in basically permanently stable orbits and lava doesn't destroy a number of our man-made radio isotopes. Heck, I'd argue we've covered the world in little lead objects (bullets), and that alone would be detectable hundreds of millions if not billions of years later. You would literally have to scrub the entire surface of the Earth with fire AND mix it up good to remove all traces of that, which there isn't a natural explanation for how those bullets would have formed. If we were to disappear, a civilizations advanced as us would know by now whether that had happened before. Now, something as advanced as say 1600's society? Probably no trace, or very very little.

Sorry for all the typos, was rocking a baby.

Correct. This is an initial correlative finding that signals other institutions to come through their date and design experiments to see if they are linked. Unfortunately such experiments will take decades to complete, and we won't know for sure until then. But if more institutes validate this link in other populations that have different heading loss risk factors, the days gets stronger, and thus could be a recommendation for those with generic risk -- keep your heading intact, it may help. It seems like man be supposedly science minded people have no idea how science actually works, and instead parrot some correlation and causation stuff. I can forgive the reporters, they're dumb. But those acting like they know science, but then dismissing this finding outright are worse IMHO.

Albuquerque, NM meets that bill too. High altitude, semi arid and mild versions of all 4 seasons. Los Alamos National Labs, Sandia National Labs, Air Force Research Labs, Honeywell, Raytheon, Facebook and other major tech companies. Somewhat surprised it didn't make the list. Not a start up hot spot, but lots of non-IT engineering tech work happening there (and some pretty major super computer work).

Honestly, I have a $150 chromebook that has a trackpad that is 100x better than all 3 of my $1k+ Windows laptops. Not having proper support in Windows has driven a lot of that, so it's Microsoft's fault. But also, the drivers that implemented these gestures made by the touchpad companies sucked.

This is just another example that if you leave it to OEMs, they basically suck at everything. Microsoft, Google, etc are all learning that they need to drive the bus here, because otherwise the OEMs find ways to cut costs, even on their highest end laptops, and as a result we are getting a lot better hardware here.

My account with Wells Fargo is my longest sustained credit item on my credit report. I've had an account with them since 1983 (well, it was a local bank that then got bought by them). It out-distances any of my other accounts by about 15 years of longevity (parents opened it for me when I was an infant). It'll knock my credit score down if I get rid of it....but maybe I should just stick the minimum balance in there and then never use it again.

With respect to taxes, we've tried multiple times to get simpler taxes through. Obama made it a priority, but the problem is that most tax prep companies are based in California, and they're big companies that make tons of money and have lots of clout. Whomever wants to push that through as to do it without the California delegation, which is really, really hard.....They've presented a pretty united front.

Uh, what? What magic ground breaking technology is specifically in 5G that enables it versus 4G (or even 4G)?

Guess what, NOTHING. It's just, you know, if you want to instrument a huge chunk of a road, then you pretty much need to be the government. A single sensor attached to a billboard does nothing (and no one would opt int). You basically need to instrument a huge chunk of it, and the owner of that land is the government.

Yea, sidewalks and other pedestrian areas seem to make a ton more sense. I mean, I can't tell you how many pedestrian areas around commercial buildings I've seen dug up to put in heater wires and then filled back in. One employee slipping and cracking their head on company property that hasn't been adequately cleared of ice can be pretty costly. If these can get cost comparable to those heater systems by just being able to lay over existing walkways, or even just require less tearing up of the current walkway than the embedded wires do, or generating power in non-winter months to help pay off install costs, then I could see a future in that niche area. These look kinda slick themselves though, so it could be self defeating :) On a real road with multi-ton trucks at 65mph with gravel, and other stuff in their tires? Not a chance.

Annealing is an optimization algorithm, mainly. It can be applied to other things, but generally it is really good at optimizing complex problems with lots of variables. Used extensively in simulation packages for pretty much everything, and other problems without easy closed form solutions. Good for the traveling salesman problem also.

Yup. They're without a mission. And looking in from the outside, all future/current missions looks like bad plays. IoT will play out like the smart phone thing, and so on.

So, what should they do? Well, you wait until a mission comes. You don't just cast around for one because you have money and the desire. You enhance, solidy, and perfect your current mission. Polish the heck out of FF, and wait for the next thing. It'll likely be adjacent to FF, and having an exceptional product on hand will make that leap easier and more likely to be successful.

They keeping trying to hop onto fads as they start -- like trying to get in on the bottom floor or not miss the boat. Instead, they need to wait for a problem to present itself and fester for a bit so that the ways to fix it are clear. Trying to catch every bandwagon just leaves you exhausted and covered in dust. My bet is that they still feel that "it's win" because they nudged to market towards a freer or opener place or something. But they'll never have impact, nor survive like that....gotta have the big marquee projects and successes also.

Some of our schools essentially have "token" solar installs, and others have legitimate ones. The legitimate ones have reduced operating budget for the schools resulting in more money for actual education at the school. I don't know about the token ones, they probably don't do anything. When designed right, things work. When not, they don't.

Yup. And with the current tax credit setup (in my state at least), if you're replacing your roof you can essentially roll a large part of that cost into the solar tax credit $$$, so people line up like crazy to do it....I haven't looked into the exact words in the law, but tons of people do it and essentially get solar on their roofs for almost nothing.

They very well might. Never underestimate the power of timing combined with marketing. It's what made the iPhone and countless other products.

I looked at the Dow and other systems, and they were quite expensive and not really wanting to talk to individual home owners, and when they did it was ridiculously obtuse and no installers would touch the things. They were 5 years too early and didn't have enough juice to make it happen, both likely inside of the company to essentially go all in, nor with public mind-share and installer credibility.

Cells are much cheaper now, home solar is much more of a known commodity, and you have a company with nation-wide installation presence fronting the install and handling all of that, and a man with free-press touting this. It definitely could have legs. If Musk does one thing well, it's identify things that are good ideas and feasible, but everyone is timid about, and then just take that idea and go balls-to-the-wall all out bet everything on it. Thus, he becomes a driving force, and every success adds to his confidence and ability to take massive bets and the cycle continues.