Maybe - but it was both limited in scope and targeted based on probable cause (however flimsy the probable might have been). It's better than mass surveillance and does not attempt to bludgeon corporations into violating customer privacy and security using the legal system.

Are you kidding? Considering that god wrote a program that is self-modifying, evolutionary, infinitely adaptable, and capable of self-reflection and consciousness from a few basic parameters that started the size of an infinitesimal speck containing all the energy in the universe... I would say god is an uncomprehendingly amazing coder!

May I ask, when does the right to bear arms become the requirement to bear arms? Is firearm possession so prevalent that gun safety and training needs to be a required course in college?

I understand you were likely making the statement tongue-in-cheek, but how would you allow for students who wanted to opt out? What about those students whose religious beliefs would be violated because they belong to a pacifist or non-resistant religion? Frankly I would not use a firearm if my life depended on it, and my family has emigrated numerous times over the course of centuries to avoid persecution by religious groups and governments that wished to compel military service.

The culture and rhetoric around US citizen firearm rights and mass violence has long since passed into the realm of ridiculousness.

It is a design flaw, but you are correct that it is also a testing failure.

It is a simple use case that should have been discovered during testing and addressed - but that does not take away from the fact it was a design flaw in the first place. It's a chain of errors that resulted in this problem being present in production.

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That analysis was done here: http://norskmeteornettverk.no/... (it's not in English, but google translate does a decent job). He makes a distance estimate based on speed, which itself is based on the assumption it's a falling rock at terminal velocity. But the distance, speed, and time it takes to cross the FOV are related, and if you make a stab at speed you can get distance and vice versa.