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"You can argue that Trump isn't a good business man based on the simple argument that if you invested his initial wealth in the market you would have ended up with about what his current wealth is now."

Supposedly. Given that he still hasn't disclosed his tax forms so that people can independently his claims about his wealth, and there's lots of vagueness about the true valuation of what he did disclose in his recent election filing, I'd take it with a grain of salt. There are plenty of suspiciously inflated numbers, such as his golf courses.

Um, modern plane auto pilots can, and regularly do, take-off and land without assistance.

Automated systems in modern jets very rarely land the plane and never do takeoffs. A modern jetliner flys itself about as much as a modern operating room operates by itself.

Today, pilots are mostly there for emergency backup.

Not true at all. Pilots fly the airplane - the automation facilitates the work of doing this but a cockpit is actually a very busy place for a pilot. While it's true that we have the technology to automate, in nearly all cases a human pilot is still the one in change of the plane.

I call BS on professional airline pilot. Pilot in general, sure, due to general aviation. But no way on commercial aviation.

You can call BS all you want.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

http://time.com/4326676/danger...

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/12...

These are statistics from three different years. And being a police officer is still less dangerous than being a taxi driver or janitor.

If you don't like the statistics, you can call and complain to the Washington Post, Time Magazine, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and CNBC.

Maybe YOU should RTFA....this is all about counterfeit products.

Nonsense. TFA doesn't refer to a single case of "counterfeiting". p>

It kind of looks like you're just being argumentative. That's fun, I know, but at some point you should give the rest of us a break.
This article is not just about the bed-tightener.
To save other people (and you) the trouble of RTFA, I'll pull out the quotes that address the gist of the matter.

From the article:

In May, CNBC.com reported on a Facebook group, now consisting of over 600 people, whose members have seen their designs for t-shirts, coffee mugs and iPhone cases show up on Amazon at a fraction of the price of the originals. The designers described it as a game of whack-a-mole, where fakes pop up more quickly than they're taken down.

Birkenstock has seen dozens of stores at a time hawking its Arizona Sandal for $79.99, a full $20 below the retail price. The names of the online storefronts change all the time, one day including the monikers Silver Peak Wine Cellar and Ryan Hollifield and the next Keila*Knightley and Bking sewneg.

"Amazon is making money hand over fist from counterfeiters, and they've done about as little as possible for as long as possible to address the issue," said Chris Johnson, an attorney at Johnson & Pham LLP, which focuses on intellectual property and brand enforcement and represents clients including Forever 21, Adobe and OtterBox. "Word is out in the counterfeit community that it's open season on Amazon."

And this, Even Alibaba says they're doing fakes.

Counterfeiting online is nothing new of course, particularly when it comes to commerce. Alibaba, the Chinese e-retail giant, has been dealing with it since launching in 1999.

Some form of the word counterfeit shows up 30 times in Alibaba's latest annual report, and founder Jack Ma said in a speech last month in Hangzhou, China, that the fakes are of "better quality, better prices than the real products, the real names."

From a sub-link:
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/25...

"They respond and take down the images, but the very same images go up within a week by another new seller," said Kristi Spencer, whose e-commerce site Golly Girls sells personalized sports-themed T-shirts, backpacks and notebooks. "Counterfeiters are selling low-quality knockoffs of other people's artwork."

Yeah, I thought only old people used facebook these days, so who cares.

Tesla claims you still need to pay attention to the road around. Vehicle autopilot is no different than aircraft autopilot. It is a workload reduction device, and does not replace the driver/pilot. Interestingly this confusion about where the autopilot tasks begin and end is not limited to just cars, even aircraft pilots apparently goof this up. In the case of this Tesla crash the dumb*** was watching Harry Potter on his portable. The driver fracked up, by not paying attention. It's no different than if the pilot crew left the flight deck. Stuff happens and someone needs to be able to take over for the autopilot when it does. This driver's Tesla--which he nicknamed Tessy--saved him from another potentially serious accident of which he documented in his blog. Unfortunately that episode must have given him undue confidence/expectation in the autopilot system.

45? What kind of retirement community do you live in that keeps programmers around until they are 45?

By the late 1980's, even being over 30 was perilous.

Could always work for a military contractor. They're still using 8-inch floppy disks!

Three U.S. healthcare organizations are reportedly being held to ransom by a hacker

Can't wait for there being a single-payer system. The job of hackers world-wide will be much easier as they wouldn't need to waste efforts coming up with different ingenious ways of hacking different organizations.

Check the date. http://www.cnbc.com/id/1006061...

Guess what? It's yet another fuck up in the summary.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/28...

I see you didn't click any of the links. For starters, the this one clearly explains that these "drive-bys" are not, in any way, shape or form, mutually exclusive with traditional diplomacy. They're a tool for enhancing traditional diplomacy. This link explains the legal nuances of the freedom of navigation operation in much greater detail, and describes the legal and diplomatic needle the operation was threading. Sailing a single destroyer past an island is hardly a flexing of military muscle. Flexing muscle is when you sail an aircraft carrier battle group through the strait of Taiwan. As for the hacking, please note the lede paragraph of this story:

Chinese state-backed hackers have carried out a string of cyber espionage attacks on U.S. companies, violating a pact signed by the two countries to stop carrying out this kind of activity, according to a cybersecurity company.

The two-way street you suggest has already been attempted, and it has sadly resulted in jack diddly. Attempts to bridge these gaps by inviting China to participate in the major US-and-allies annual pacific naval exercises were similarly undermined by the Chinese sending an uninvited spy ship.

You see, there is no lack of diplomatic effort being made regarding American-Chinese relations - but time and again the Chinese have declined to reign in their aggressive efforts to enrich themselves at the cost of others. It is only natural that the United States has been taking measures to re-assert their commitments; (diplomatic, economic, and defense-wise) to their many regional allies in the face of ever-more-bold Chinese demonstrations of military power and diplomatic hardball.

It is pretty idiotic that our foreign policy and military establishment seem intent on picking periodic fights with China over stupid little things rather than trying to elevate the relationship to become close allies.

Have you been living under a rock for the last several years? The Chinese have been using dredgers to build artificial islands atop coral reefs in the South China Sea, and these islands are now equipped with huge runways for operating military craft from fighters to patrol aircraft to medium bombers; all so they can project firepower over the entire South China Sea. To simply claim the entire Sea right up to the coasts of their regional neighbors as their own is one thing, but China has invested in a massive military build-up to back up their claims with raw force. Many of those nations are our regional allies, especially the Philippines. And if that's not enough, the Chinese have long engaged in hostile cybercrimes against the United States, not only hacking critical military defense information (like the information on the F-35 they stole) but also an ongoing government-ran campaign to steal American commercial trade secrets that mirrors their complete and utter disdain for Western Intellectual Property rights.

And you're going to tell me that America is the one "picking fights" because we dared sail a ship too close to a few of their sand-castles? Freedom of Navigation exercises are run frequently, all over the globe, and are NOT mutually exclusive with traditional diplomacy.

I understand that some people are deeply suspicious or even disdainful of America's role in world politics; but when you try to make out the 800 pound gorilla of Asia - who's busy mugging everyone it can get its hairy paws on - as the poor victim here, you just come across as a moron.

AWS is HIPPA-compliant, which is why the company in TFA is able to use them at all.

Your data is no less secure at AWS, than in any Internet-connected hospital — though that in itself is not saying much.

If you can not store it yourself, trusting a company like CareMonkey, whose entire business model is predicated on the security of customers' data, probably, makes more sense, than trusting someone, for whom it is but a side-show. Such companies may still experience a problem — nothing is safe — but they are less likely to.

And if you worry about government, well, to the delight of Statists, our "democratically controlled" "strong government" already has access to your medical history. And will get more, when the "single-payer" system, so beloved by those same Statists, replaces the designed to fail — and failing — Obamacare.

Affected company apparently has no website, phone, or email.

FTS: "... consider the way Facebook is decreasing an emphasis on text ..."

Consider the way people seem to be decreasing their use of Facebook and other social media.

If this decrease actually constitutes a trend, and the trend accelerates, then in five years FB will have bigger problems to worry about than encouraging its users to be less literate.

Also, in light of the fantastical nature of Mendelsohn's conjecture, I'd say that Facebook's Kool-Aid is laced with some very powerful hallucinogens.

I noticed this article this morning:
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/10...

Seems Tesla disagrees with the Daily Kanban's report:

"With respect to the car that is discussed in the blog post that led to yesterday's newsthe suspension ball joint experienced very abnormal rust. We haven't seen this on any other car, suggesting a very unusual use case. The car had over 70,000 miles on it and its owner lives down such a long dirt road that it required two tow trucks to retrieve the car. (One to get the car to the highway and one to get it from the highway to the service center.) When we got the car, it was caked in dirt."

Secondly, Tesla said that the NHTSA had not opened any investigation and hadn't even started a so-called "preliminary evaluation", which is the "lowest form of formal investigatory work it does". The car maker said on April 20 the regulator asked about its suspension as part of a "routine screening" and on April 30, Tesla complied.

"NHTSA has since told us that we have cooperated fully and that no further information is needed. Neither before nor after this information was provided has NHTSA identified any safety issue with Tesla's suspensions. This can be confirmed with NHTSA," Tesla said.

You don't even need cars to prove how many idiots are out there. Even just walking around is now considered unsafe for those people.

So here is Hillary Clinton having a speech last night after essentially securing the Democratic nomination. She touched on most of the typical democratic talking points...equality for all, helping the working class get a fair shot, etc. This is while wearing a $12,000 Armani jacket: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/06...

If this isn't the height of arrogance I don't know what is. That jacket is worth more than the yearly salaries of some of her supporters. Not to mention that many of the people on her campaign are unpaid volunteers. At least when these phony celebrities show up on humanitarian missions in some of the poorest parts of the world they at least have the humility to leave the Rolex at home.

This is the same party that was criticizing Trump for allegedly lying about how much money he raised for Veterans groups (he claimed 6 million, it was actually 5.6 million. By the time it's all said and done, it will be over 6 million). Emperor Hillary has donated a grand total of $75,000 to Veterans groups - over the past 8 years. This is from a woman with a net worth that far exceeds $100,000,000, much of it in dubious fashion. Am I surprised? Not in the least.

I wonder how many of her supporters are made up of the following:

1) People that support her solely based on the fact that she is a woman, putting aside past and current scandals and suitability for office questions.
2) People that simply hate Trump, for whatever reason.

What is striking to me is the popularity that Bernie Sanders still enjoys. I watched his speech last night in California and I'm telling you his supporters are worked up and they love this guy. I've read polls where up to 25% of Sanders supporters will not support or vote for Hillary. Some of them will even vote for Trump. That has to be alarming to the Clinton campaign, especially in light of Sanders vow to hang in to the bitter end.

I would say that the Emperor has no clothes but evidently she does...expensive ones at that.

Paranoia? You think?

These guys all live in a world where leverage is used to succeed and get ahead. As such they are proposing now to elect King Leverage himself. He will surely choose to get us more so in to debt and then have us go bankrupt and ask all creditors for a hair cut. Oh wait! He said that.

From 2014: http://www.cnbc.com/2014/06/21...

"In a genre of play called "Real Escape Room," two or more people get locked in a decorated room and must solve puzzles to escape—before time runs out."

"Few are smart enough, and the success rate averages less than 20 percent, the business owners said."

"But the fun lies in the joint puzzle-solving, which spurs tourists and companies alike to pay just under $30 a person to play."

"The venues are relatively easy to set up: Create about six themed puzzles, find a room or two to rent and decorate, and advertise on social media."

So, basically it's the Chinese version of the Jewish Internet Defense Force or Hillary Clinton's Correct the Record shills.

Or, how about these shadowy forces controlling online conversations in the US?

Not to mention the Pentagon, Shell Oil, and all the other shills. I don't mean to pick on the USA, everyone employs shills. Hell Germany goes above and beyond and has Merkel trying to silence anti-immigration political views on Facebook.

protip: If you use social media you are either being deceived or are a deceiver.

Chuck Schumer didn't do us any favors when he added fuel to panic and caused a bank run on IndyMac.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.co...

http://www.cnbc.com/id/2565430...

http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/1...

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB...

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

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

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/13...

Why admit you're 10 years behind the news? http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/13...

Of the four depressions in the list you provided, one was not in the US at all (the Greek depression), and the others aren't obviously supportive of the "one worse than the last" claim.

Worse — for your argument — even if it were true, having a depression "every few decades" is still much better, than having a famine or a mass-murder, which Communism and Socialism (a.k.a. Communism-lite) bring about with alarming persistence. One is unravelling in Venezuela right now — which is far worse off today, than it was before it elected a Socialist to help divide the spoils of oil-wealth "fairly".

Despite being insanely wasteful, it [FDR's first 8 years in office -mi] was hugely successful at solving economic problems

Was it successful? Or did it simply perpetuate the depression — making it much "greater" than it had to be?

UN Human Development Index is a measure of success

Lies, damn lies, and benchmarks... A measure of success according to who? Bureaucrats sent to the UN by their governments? Of course, they are going to consider Statist countries more "successful". For just one example, this index of yours awards extra points simply for "years of schooling" the country provides...

What would yours be?

I would consider GDP per capita and the attractiveness to (would-be) immigrants.

Yup, and it's likely worth the cost for the time being because they are polluting less and represent an incredibly small portion of miles driven on our roadways

We aren't talking about whether it's "worth it". Musk's contention is that electric vehicle adoption is hindered by unfair subsidies to fossil fuel producers. The fact is the exact opposite: it's his vehicles that are massively subsidized.

Raising taxes on gas can't currently result in more profits for Tesla because they are already producing and selling their cars as fast as possible.[...] The only avenue for extra profits here is that he could possibly raise the prices on his cars but that is opposite his mission of making mass market vehicles.

Last year, Tesla was losing $4000 on every car, although that oscillates wildly quarter to quarter. That can't go on like that, they need to raise prices in order to increase profits to something that is reliably positive. Tesla is also selling to a niche market, which is why he can't ramp up production much or risk having prices fall even further and losing even more money.

And you're right that raising prices is "opposite his mission", and that matters a great deal. Since Musk's company is built on massive political favors and subsidies, if politicians and the public perceive Tesla for what it is, an overpriced toy for high income earners, he risks losing those favors. He can't ask for even more subsidies, so instead he is trying to raise the costs of his competitors. It's the only way left to him to make his cars mainstream.

In any case, my main point is: Musk's arguments are bogus. It's electric vehicles that are massively subsidized, while fossil fuel is taxed at around what even climate change activists generally say externalities from carbon emissions are. Musk is right that massively increasing the tax on fossil fuels would make his cars more attractive, but he is wrong in his assertions that such taxes are economically justified or beneficial. In fact, taxing fossil fuels enough to make his vehicles competitive would be a massively regressive tax that hurts low income people the most.

Musk is pushing for the antiquating of the ICE powdered vehicle.

Fossil fuel powered cars are going to disappear on their own, once the technology is ready. But saddling the economy with billions of taxes and even more billions of crony capitalist earnings for Musk isn't going to help anyone, and it isn't going to speed up the breakthroughs in material science and other areas needed to make that happen.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/24...

Jeans and black shirt. But then, how many industries exist based on copying Apple's design chops?

LOL. Totally.

TFA also said that this guy's company claims to be on a path to take down Tesla Motors head-on, too.

And why did the CNBC talking-heads keep referring to it as his company –while simultaneously showing said company's public share price?

What many people here seem to be unaware of is that his company really is far ahead of Apple. Look no further than his choice of wardrobe when he made these comments. Apple would never do that. Thought leaders, that company! Mark my words!

Dude, do you know how much cash Apple is sitting on? 200 billion dollars. Saying that revenue is "much needed" is a bit of a stretch. They have a *looooooong* runway to innovate with. http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/28...

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/24...

Jeans and black shirt. But then, how many industries exist based on copying Apple's design chops?

Figure 8% rate of return, assume it all happened 40 years ago, and we find he dumped in something like $20K/year (wild approximation, but not that wild), pretty impressive for a guy with a low income investing what he can after taxes.

CNBC did a break down of the numbers.

For example, to reach Read's $8 million fortune, Hogan calculated that investors would have to invest about $300 a month at an 8 percent interest rate over 65 years.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/02/09/heres-how-a-janitor-amassed-an-8m-fortune.html

Yeah, not really. Saudi's budget breakeven oil price is >$100 per barrel.

How would that, keeping them in check, benefit Google?

That is a good question. How does a fair and open internet benefit Google? Let's not forget that residential ISP's have been forcing content providers (e.g. Netflix) to purchase exclusive internet connectivity to their backbones rather than upgrading their backhauls at intermediary providers...effectively double-dipping with their customers. They're trying to go after YouTube (a Google company) as well, and I assume that if Google Play takes off, they'll go after that too.

Also, due to Verizon and AT&T mobile's metering, Netflix is downgrading video bandwidth for these customers. If Google is able to make end roads into these markets, their competition may force other providers into line, making a better experience for Google customers as well as avoiding nasty double-dipping fees from providers.

At least, that's just my guess if the original hypothesis is correct. Who knows, maybe Google is trying to turn a buck on building regional ISP's. I just find that harder to believe than the idea that I proposed.

Oh sure and they are also building the Russia Alaska Superhighway, A fleet of Supercarriers. In the Real World Russia shrank the defense budget by %10 in 2015 and still Russian Reserve Fund running empty

S.F. to see $99 million budget deficit next year, as pension costs soar
The US Debt Just Exceeded $19 Trillion.
Household debt at highest level since 2010
Student debt load growing, so are delinquencies

The people that taught you we're wealthy are idiots. Stop listening to idiots.

S.F. to see $99 million budget deficit next year, as pension costs soar
The US Debt Just Exceeded $19 Trillion.
Household debt at highest level since 2010
Student debt load growing, so are delinquencies

The people that taught you we're wealthy are idiots. Stop listening to idiots.

Probably depends upon if you were on the wrong end of the axe. In the business world, he was revered, and you don't just rise up the ranks by being the idiot you claim.

http://www.cnbc.com/2014/04/29...

Let's get a similar image which includes the US, shall we?

http://fm.cnbc.com/application...

its a bit like the idea of strapping a VR google on while riding a roller coaster http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/04... where it says: "Users will still physically be on a roller coaster as usual, but the headsets will add extra sensory experiences." It will be a thrill to be able to run linux on an operating system where the dangers of falling of the tracks are so real. The simulation of adventure can not be more authentic.

we will not allow any individual, group, or nation to sabotage American financial institutions or undermine the integrity of fair competition in the operation of the free market."

LOLs that's hilarious right? What integrity of fair competition: when favored HFT is practically insider trading

The SIP time stamps aren't just false when delayed—they are always false. The SIP applies a time stamp that is always later than the actual time of the quote, generally by the millisecond or two it takes for the quote to travel from an exchange to, and be processed by, the SIP. The trading advantage enjoyed by insiders is larger than subscribers may be led to believe.

And where also is the fair competition when favored flash traders get $$$$$$ unhindered while the small fry get charged/prosecuted?
The Trader as Scapegoat
Norwegian traders convicted for outsmarting US stock broker algorithm
p.s. yes I know the Norwegians got acquitted in the end but they got convicted first and had to appeal etc.

NIRP = Negative Interest Rates, a situation where a central bank tries to push interest rates below zero (instead of getting interest on your savings, you pay the bank to hold your cash). The theory is that THIS is the thing that will force consumers to spend their wealth, and yadda yadda, the economy starts growing and adding jobs (the reason for the 2% inflation target is similar, to make debt more attractive as one can pay it off in less valuable currency, and to institute a "use it or lose it" tax which doesn't need to be voted on by the legislature).

The PROBLEM is that if rates get too negative, then people will convert their wealth to cash. Large denomination bills enable that. That's why there has been a push on to eliminate the 100 dollar bill, under the guise of battling terrorists and criminals. The head of the European Central Bank has recently proposed eliminating the 500 Euro note for the same reason. A happy coincidence is that this makes it harder for people to convert their wealth to cash.

This won't be instituted all at once. This is how it is introduced, under a false casus belli.

A cashless society means you are a captive audience to these sorts of experiments. Additionally, while cash doesn't require infrastructure to complete transactions, cashless transactions require a great deal of infrastructure. Buying something electronically means you are requesting permission to buy - either via authentication or other constraints.

Humans have been using currency for thousands of years. Instead of hastily rushing to do away with it, we should approach the situation with a lot of caution. Something proponents most certainly do not want.

Currency is already a logical construct. The slips of paper are inherently worth very little. They don't even function that well as toilet paper (not that I would know). Currency which becomes an electronic logical construct gives a tremendous amount of power to the people running the servers. And even more importantly perhaps, their cronies.

The man sounds on target to me.

We won't win war on terror: Former French PM

" Europe is taking the wrong approach to fighting terrorism, former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has told CNBC.

Speaking immediately after a series of explosions rocked the Belgian capital of Brussels, de Villepin said that they were "tragic events" but added that Europe should be showing that it is sticking to its rule of law and can only "reduce" the threat of terrorism.

"I do believe that our strategy should be very different than the one it is. Much less a military approach than a political approach, trying to find solutions in the Middle East and we are far from doing that," he said."

According to Reuters, "The U.S. budget deficit narrowed to $439 billion in fiscal 2015, the lowest level since 2008." (I don't know where you're getting the 'over $1T' number from.) So your hypothetical 100% top marginal rate would just about cover it.

But let's be more realistic, and say we boost that top bracket to 50%... That would only add another 15% of that $622.8B or $93.4B, which does not eliminate the deficit, but it makes a big dent in it. What else could we do...?

    * Equalize tax rates for investment income and income from work.
    * Eliminate the ability of U.S. corporations to defer taxes on offshore profits.
    * End corporate inversions that allow U.S. companies to merge offshore to avoid taxes.
    * Enact a Financial Transaction Tax on various financial market transactions.
    * End unlimited executive pay tax write-offs.

I'm too lazy to look up specifics, but I believe that's close to another $100B in annual revenue, so we're already near halfway toward eliminating the deficit. Throw in a few other things like lifting the cap on FICA withholding and eliminating subsidies to Big Oil, Big Ag, and Big Pharma, and then add some judicious cuts to, say, the military and the DEA, and you're pretty much done.

It's not that hard to do.

if we raised the top marginal rate to 100%. How much revenue would that generate? Why, all of $622.8B

BTW, for anyone who's not clear on how marginal tax rates work, this hypothetical 100% top bracket would only apply to the portion of income above the $357,700 ($388,350 in my link) cutoff. The income up to that amount would be taxed at the normal rates.

For individuals:
        10% on taxable income from $0 to $8,700
        15% on taxable income over $8,700 to $35,350
        25% on taxable income over $35,350 to $85,650
        28% on taxable income over $85,650 to $178,650
        33% on taxable income over $178,650 to $388,350
        35% on taxable income over $388,350.

So, a person who makes $388,349 pays taxes equal to 0.1 * 8,700 + 0.15 * (35,350 - 8,700) + 0.25 * (85,650 - 35,350) + 0.28 * (178,650 - 85,650) + 0.33 * (388,350 - 178,650) = $112,683.50. That leaves a net income of $275,665.50, having paid an effective rate of about 29% overall. Thus, $275k would effectively be the maximum income (for an individual).

I could live pretty comfortably on that.

Cheaper too. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/26...

Original Slashdot story linked to CNBC article, that said:

An Apple representative said the company had taken steps over the weekend to prevent attacks by revoking a digital certificate from a legitimate Apple developer that enabled the rogue software to install on Macs.

What new information do we have?

The Instant Blood Pressure app (IBP; AuraLife) estimates blood pressure (BP) using a technique in which the top edge of the smartphone is placed on the left side of the chest while the individual places his or her right index finger over the smartphone’s camera.

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I guess it's more accurate than rolling fair dice or plucking daisies.

No one is disputing that America has a lot of cars, but I don't see how that relates to people moving to self-driving cars?

TFA says most people don't want them. I understand this is a nerd forum, and nerds love technology even when it makes no sense, but you have to accept that a lot of people probably don't care for automated cars*.

But you have to consider the source An organization that would mostly become obsolete with self-driving cars, and which has an aging membership base (median age of 54) said that only 25% of its members would trust a self driving car.

Here's a different survey:

http://www.cnbc.com/2014/07/29...

According to a new study by comparison-shopping website Insurance.com, three-quarters of licensed U.S. motorists would be very likely to consider, if not buy, self-driving vehicles. If they were offered lower insurance rates, that figure jumps to 86 percent.

Note: I do some some value in a robot car for some people (old, young, drunk etc), but there's a whole lot more where people actually want to drive themselves.

So you want to make every driver blow a breathalyzer test every time they get into the car so the car knows if they are drunk?

While McAfee promises that he can unlock the phone, his views on whether Apple should comply with the FBI seem to actually support Apple.

Here is a source for that.

According to a couple of reports he was arrested in Miami.