I agree this technology has limitations, but even with these limitations it can increase the chances to find a missing person.

About the battery draining when off-grid, this can be an issue when the person is missing for few days. Where I live we are encouraged to contact emergency services as "sensibly" soon (maybe couple of hours) as possible. This also increases the chances of finding that person, regardless if that person was carrying a cellphone.

If you don't want to be found it's likely that you won't be carrying a cellphone. Or at least that phone will be off and with lots of tin foil around.

Make it so that if a driverless car gets a fine, all driverless cars of the same type get the same fine. They are in fact the same automated driver.

But you are right, first they need to get that fine.

What surprises me is that there are still unions in the US. Everytime here in Slashdot someone mentions a union is almost labeled as communist. Why that difference in thinking? Why it is ok for the film industry to have unions while the rest do not?

What about trying to decode the messages whales, dolphins exchange? what about chemical messages, like the ones ants use? what about color patterns some cephalopods use?

There are many 'intelligent' conversations on earth that have not been deciphered. How do we assume we could do that with extraterrestrial life?

Clippy was indeed AI, an Expert System (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system). Probably with a knowledge base curated by humans.

mod this up. Orwell had a good insight here.

In Spain, a few days ago, a 18 months-old girl died because of hail. A 10cm (almost 4 inches) hailstone hit her head and she died afterward in the hospital.

Link to news (only in Spanish): https://www.elmundo.es/catalun...

This bug can only be triggered if the attacker has access to the managment interface of the network device. In that case the main problem is that exposure. No real network admin would ever expose that management interface.

> At 20 C (68 F), the speed of sound in air is about 343 metres per second (1,125 ft/s; 1,235 km/h; 767 mph; 667 kn)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

That was not a comment, it was a book.

I've been working remotely for more than 5 years straight. In my experience working physically close to persons in your team makes sharing information much easier and faster. In fact, it is usual that companies offering remote work to ask new joiners to show for a short amount of time to the main HQ. Also, it helps a lot when the team joins from time to time in the same physical location. In addition to sharing ideas it fosters team building, and the remote communication afterwards is much fluent.

Said that, the most effective way of communication for sharing knowledge is videoconference. As a mentor, you can see the face of the other person and know if they understand or need a bit more time/different explanation. That's something difficult to achieve just via phone call, chat or plain documentation. It is not a substitute of them, but a good improvement.

As of this day, many persons prefer voice calls over videoconference, which looses many of the benefits forementioned. Many of this persons tend to be in the 'old' range. The new generations seem to be more used to this. So I wonder if this is going to be just another barrier.

Under normal driving conditions probably self-driving cars are much less likely to be involved in an accident. But in the road not everything is perfect. There are so many diverse situations that I think an AI can't cope with. What about:

- Police directing traffic. Would they be able to follow orders?
- Debris or big objects on the road
- Puddles
- Potholes
- Fallen trees
- Accident has happened (not to you), pull over to try to help
- Drunk/mobile talking driver (risk incoming)
- Overtaking on two lane roads
- Roundabouts (where I live drivers take them in creative ways)

And many more I'm sure you can think of.

The article seems to be behind a paywall. There's an editorial on the article describing the main points at: http://atm.amegroups.com/artic...

From that editorial: "Shimamura et al. demonstrated that a microbubble-enhanced ultrasound method successfully delivered therapeutic genes into the CNS with no evidence of brain damage". So it is not only ultrasounds that are required for this procedure to work, but some microbubble injection needed. I could not find any reference on the gas used for this microbubbles, nor their size nor how they generate them. Still sounds like a very promising treatment.