Autonomous weapons are needed for the nuclear defense system that Elon is working on (and now Trump is advertising at rallies), https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiL... Stunning this isn't all over the news.

Mars was a recruitment story. Elon is a conduit for DARPA to good engineers and Trump has bought into the ultimate goal: https://redd.it/1fy10k1

Because the DNC is a club while voting is a right.

SpaceX is launching more than the rest of the world combined and on track for 10x with Starship. Indeed, they're likely to launch the next Strategic Defense Initiative (rods from God). Look up Starshield on wikipedia.

"This continual “brain exercise” has stimulated the dog’s brain to grow bigger over thousands of years."

It sounds like the author believes in Lamarckism.

A thought experiment for why you can travel UP wind in one of these: Simply face the cart up-wind and lock the wheels so that it doesn't get pushed back (via some ratchet or otherwise). Store energy from the wind turbine (lets say in a battery). Then after T seconds, drive the cart into the wind (note it will have significantly less drag now because we have a spinning prop). After we use up the stored energy. Lock up the wheels and repeat. Now take the limit as T->0. There is some math for everyone :).

I wouldn't trust any voltage measurement made on this PZT.

This is different. Consider the diffusion of a gas. You can boil down the "law" that red particles in a room diffuse to a simple observation: that there are more ways for the randomly moving particles to be apart than there are for them to be together. The "force" that drives the red particles apart is really just an illusion in or mind interpreting randomness. See, we lump the nearly infinite number of "diffused" particle configurations under this label "diffused particles". So in fact, it is all in our head. Maybe gravity is the same thing... Frankly this is the only type of law that makes perfect sense and does not invoke some "fundamental force" explanation. -Martin McCormick

Is this a step in the right direction for internet security? Will a more unified approach leave government networks vulnerable to single point of failures?

How can the hard-drive manufacturers preimage the drives if the install is device-dependant? In other words, the drivers would not be correct in this 'generic' image.