An airline pilot is unlikely to encounter a overturned truck at the corner. A semi-autonomous capability in cars is a bad idea - either you have fully automated cars on a road where there are no human driven vehicles or humans whatsoever, or have only manual drivers. A mix of these is going to cause problems always.

I misread it as AMD and was really excited about it until I re-read it. Nothing to see here, moving on.

Maybe they [the insurance companies] are backing out because they are worried about a possible ban on coal. In Europe especially, such a ban is plausible, and maybe their terms and conditions require them to be liable for every eventuality, including government policy changes. I won't be surprised if these companies are still offering coal insurance in developing countries where such a ban is not forthcoming.

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I didn't read TFA but it sounds like that they are trying put a cap on surge pricing, not eliminating it altogether. And frankly I don't see anything wrong in it. I have at times seen surge prices equaling more than 5x of the normal fares. And that definitely hurt because app cabs have driven local cabs out of business in the city where I live; so I in fact ended up paying that as waiting wasn't an option.

And you do think that one can come up with a convincing answer on when to use locks and threads by looking it up on the stackexchange while on a voice call? If you are asking open-ended, conceptual questions then it doesn't really matter whether the candidate is on a voice call, video call or face-to-face IMO.

You forgot to mention Fox News there. I think it outclasses NYT in all the aspects you have mentioned.

As per TFA:

Yeah but we can now at least safely untwine [this] man from this fundamental principle.

The interesting point to note here is that RailTel is already an telecom/ISP company that has existed for decades, connecting all Indian Railways offices and stations, open only to railway employees though. As a search giant and software services provider, what technical expertise exactly Google is providing here, is not clear.

And almost 90% of this 80% has found its back into banks; ever since the government banned the higher domination currency notes for almost all transactions in one fell swoop. This should say a lot about the so-called under-reported, undisclosed income. It was plain stupid in the first place to imagine that the undisclosed income of tax evaders was held in hard currency.

There ain't any good humor left on Slashdot these days. I guess the biggest casualty of this election is, no matter who wins, is the death of genuine wit in a large section of population - namely Trump supporters.

Yeah but in Android (or any software in development) you have the consolation of seeing new bugs with every new release. It sucks to remain stuck on same old bugs for more than an year.

I am waiting for the day when they push even the URL bar back as a plugin; you will need to type some keywords in Google search to reach a site. Seriously it flummoxes me as to why people use Chrome.

I suppose it must be actually configured to be accessible behind a NAT using port-forwarding and DDNS. That is how the most IoT stuff is meant to be accessed these days. Controlling them on your local subnet doesn't make much sense in most cases; people would want to view and control their devices from their smartphones etc from remote networks.