I'm not anything near being a pilot, but seriously, aren't jet pilots supposed to fly by what the instruments tell them and not by seat of the pants?

1. Government declares encryption void for the purposes of investigation and policing.
2. Backdoors forced into encryption algorithms, with the keys entrusted to the government
3. Keys leak into public domain
4. Public trust of encryption collapses
5. Ecommerce collapses
6. Banking system collapses

The CPU in an Arduino Uno is socketed.

It is unfortunately the first in a gigantic 'caravan' of alien immigrants.
Among them are drug dealers and gang members.
Many are pregnant and will deposit their fertilized eggs on American soil.
The only solution is to build a wall around the entire Earth.

Do these Kenyans know that in 15 years their cab and truck driving jobs are going bye-bye?

The whole VPN thing has grown out of a mistrust in gov't and ISPs. But are the VPNs trustworthy? That's the big assumption.

Because everyone wants to be free. Free from work, from money, from food, from shelter...

IBM
UBM
We all BM
for IBM

Who's going to put up a $1B factory in a place where the corruption/instability is so bad? The few cents you'd save in low labor costs would be eaten up by bribes, replacing stolen equipment, etc. And you'd never see payback. Even if human labor is dirt cheap there, robots will eventually become cheaper, so what's the point?

Errr... NASA is a "brand" ?

Not just mom-and-pop investors. Walgreen's got royally screwed too. Now there, you'd think, they'd have some experts check this thing out thoroughly. Unbelievable that they got taken.

This phone is a Data General Nova 3 emulator, right?

You may already be aware of this, but W7 thinks it has to reconnect with MS every several months to validate the license. I have several machines at work that are not connected to the network, and display a "this is not genuine Windows" message despite being 100% legit. To get rid of the nag message, you have to connect the machine to the network (license server). All the workarounds I've tried are temporary.

Oh, Teamsters will LOVE autonomous trucks. It's not like they're going t take a pay cut.

That's right! Trucking companies will be happy to pay a premium for self-driving trucks AND pay the Teamster's driver the same money they received when they were behind the wheel.

Uh, no. Push will eventually come to shove.

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