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Not by the initial group, no, but others such as Nate Silver and Nate Cohn who looked at the data said that the differences could be accounted for by factoring in demographic differences.could likely account for it.

That said, at some point we're going to need to take measures to make sure that hacking/cheating/rigging doesn't occur, even if only to head off these kinds of accusations. We should not simply blindly trust that an unaudited computer system does what we're told it should. This is something we should put in place for future elections, at the very least, because even if no one actually does try to cheat, it's far too easy to undermine the legitimacy of an election if there's no way to confirm the results are fair. Random audits, such as suggested by Ron Rivest and Phil Stark, would be a good step towards that end:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

I actually pity you, that you imagine that a mere politician has the power to restrain progress for any great length of time.

This is exactly the case, 100%. Trump sold a bill of goods saying he'll bring jobs back and people bought it. There's actually a really great article over at Cracked about Trump's popularity. The TL;DR summary is that "Make America Great Again" means "bring back the manufacturing jobs", not necessarily "let's have racism again". At least that's the theory, anyways.

But those jobs are gone and not coming back, no matter what Trump does. Or if Hillary or Bernie or Stein or Vermin Supreme or anyone else who happened to win would be able to do. Progress isn't partisan and doesn't care who the President is.

Trump's "clean coal" bit? Even if Congress rubber stamps everything he proposes, the coal industry is still doomed, jobs wise. The coal industry is set to drop half its workforce through automation over the next 10 years. That's not theoretical either. The tech is already there. Coal industry will drop 300,000 jobs at least over the next decade, and nothing can stop it. If some crazy "mandatory-buggy-whip-for-each-automobile" type law gets passed here mandating mines can't use robots - still doomed. All that would do is drive up the price of our coal as the rest of the world digs it up cheaper and cheaper.

Best thing we can do is accept it and move on. And plan for it. You're right - people should be *far* more worried about robots than the Chinese. Nobody is talking about how the coal industry is set to drop those 300,000 jobs. Everyone in the rural areas are all aglow with Trump getting elected. They're about to be sorely disappointed though when the robots take over those jobs. Don't think I'm bashing Trump there either - I'm not. Again, it'll happen no matter who the President is. It's just that with Trump he promised to fix things, and he can't. It'll be more bitter.

And the worst is yet to come. Nobody is talking about Google's self-driving car and what stands to happen when that gets perfected. We have 3,500,000 truck drivers employed in the USA. It's the most common profession today, truck driver. And pretty soon most of those people will be unemployed too. It absolutely will happen. What then?

We need to focus more on the future, what we know it will hold, and make our plans for it in the here-and-now.

Wrong. White women without college degrees chose Trump . In fact, educated folks generally voted for Clinton, regardless of race or gender.

Congrats.

But the fact remains that the average new car in the US today is over $33k.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

The united states.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

It used to be called the Air Mule and it was funded by the Israeli military

And that surely included some US taxpayer money, like this $38B in military funding

So, the real question is whether Musk will snatch it up now that it is in the public markets.

I think it's much more than the political establishment that's pissed off:

http://www.usatoday.com/videos...

And on a side note, I can't see any reason for this other than they are protesting democracy? Either way I have to admit I did laugh when one of them got thunked by a car driving at high speed; likely that protester end up with a costly hospital bill, but a criminal record (in many cases it's a felony trespass to enter a freeway on foot if it has a center divider, and all cases where it's not a felony it's at least a misdemeanor.) Poetic justice for people who don't give a shit if they block ambulances or fire trucks.

"EM>Just a few days ago the NYT reported that Trump poisoned Megan Kelly

False. They implied she had been poisoned using her book as the reference. Here are her comments regarding that issue:

Kelly also wrote that on the day of the debate, what The Times describes as an "overzealous, suspiciously enthusiastic driver" drove her to the event and insisted on making her coffee. She writes that she drank it and then was violently ill within 15 minutes, according to The Times. "Ms. Kelly never says outright that someone tried to poison her," The Times reported. (A stomach bug was going around, she notes.) But the episode spooked her enough that she shared it later with Roger Ailes and a lawyer friend of his. Foul play? Again: She reports. You decide."

So in her own book Kelly specifically recounts the events then says she was spooked enough by the "coincidence" that she spoke to Ailes (someone who had been sexually harassing her for some time) and a lawyer. As the ending says, she reported on what happened, you are supposed to decide what it means.

Taking the events as she described them, it is quite plausible someone on the Trump side may have wanted to poison her, or at the very least make her ill, because she didn't cowtow to Trump. Remember, Trump's camp are the same ones who claimed an "assassination" attempt at his one rally without a shred of evidence and no confirmation from the Secret Service.

What makes the Trump claim so false was if there had been an assassination attempt, do you think the Secret Service would have allowed him to return to the stage? Of course not, but the Trump camp put out the fake story anyway.

But as usual, facts don't matter to Trump and his supporters. Not his dealings with an Iranian bank which funnels money to terrorists, not his dealings with Cuba during the embargo, not his assaults on women, not his use of illegal immigrants on his construction projects, not his use of Chinese rather than American steel, not his name brand clothes being made in Mexico or China. Nope, none of that matters because unlike the fake attempt on his life, facts don't matter.

The cited article, 2016/11/17, gives no further references. The Daily Express citation doesn't even contain the word "1000". The Independent, Tuesday 15 November 2016, cites USA Today as a source....

Google finds a VOA News of April 11, 2013 2:07 PM, mentioning the same 1000 years theory three years ago. The phrase is ascribed to a 2008 ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the NASA. So perhaps it should be 992.

Hawking's original reckoning is missing.

So, put this scumbag in jail so he can continue to surround himself with like minded people.

Such as this guy? Or maybe you meant this guy. Perhaps this guy.

Please tell us oh enlightened one how it's only the left which surrounds itself with like minded people and considers anyone who doesn't think like they do the enemy when day in and day out it is Republicans who use the word enemy to describe people within their own party who didn't back him?

Vent all you want but your words ring hollow when for the last eight years all we've heard is how bad things are, how horrible this president has been, how he should be impeached (for doing his job), and all the other vitriol cast upon him almost solely because of his race, yet none of that falls within your myopic view only the "left" being out of touch. If things are so bad then why suddenly, when not a single thing has changed in the last week, are Republicans suddenly saying the economy is doing well and there are no problems?

Because in a Republican's world if you don't bow down to your leader, if you don't blindly follow the leader, if you don't think like the leader, you're an enemy. Wouldn't want to open a Republican's hypocritical and bigoted mind by listening to others who don't agree, now would we?

What about CNN, that was lying about it being illegal to read Wikileaks? And yes, that was a lie, read this: https://popehat.com/2016/10/17...

Why didn't they want us to know about it? Oh, because we have emails between CNN and the DNC, they leaked the debate questions. Then they brought Donna Brazille on there to tell us they were somehow modified. Except, not so fast, Donna: they have DKIM authentication, which provides non-repudiation. And make sure you actually read the damned DKIM headers, because they include the b and bh parameters. So if you try and tell me they only protect the headers, you're going to get a lecture on the DKIM specification, because you're not just wrong, you can be mathematically proven wrong.

Anyhow, there's no great loss to the clickbait sites. Good riddance to such. However, inasmuch as they believe they can use this to control what people say and believe, I can only remind them of the Streisand Effect and laugh. Google took down the video from this story quite a few times before they started allowing it once it hit the news: http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

In case you're wondering what Snopes says about it, they say it's "mixed." You see, there was a fender bender and the guy wanted to exchange insurance info before they brutally beat him and dragged him from the back of his own car, which they stole while nearly killing him.

I believe the answer is zero.

But nice try.

Sorry, but we're talking rabid insanity, which doesn't require a specific set of actions, but covers all the crazy stuff Republicans did to show how completely fucking unhinged they were. Which is important, since if you focus on a specific set of actions, you can be mislead into ignoring all sorts of craziness.

But, you remember something they did claim they'd do? Lots of other talk too. Don't deny it. Links abound.. Huh, maybe the difference is that the right-wing makes empty threats, while the left actually gets off their asses. Or maybe it's all Haymarket Square type things. Since the right is big on accusing the left of setting up false-flag operations, that means they have to admit the existence of such things. Right? You can wonder if outside agitators are leading peaceful protest rallies astray, right?

Or not. Doesn't change the craziness, it just means the right-wing is a bunch of posers. All hat and no cattle.

Which by coincidence, describes the Trump. An empty-suited bombastic sack of hot air.

Actually when you combine Executive Orders and Executive Memorandum, which have the same force of law as Executive Orders, it is predicted that at the end of his 8 years Obama will have issued more than any other president. He already leads when it come to issuing Memorandums.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

So no actual quote for this lie then?

So do you make a habit of wandering into conversations and making bold statements when you lack the most remedial knowledge of the subject? This is on the level of insisting that OJ Simpson was a white former baseball player who was falsely accused of insider trading.

"I stand by what I said: I did not send or receive any material marked classified," Clinton told ABC News, in a series of interviews Friday after the shootings in Dallas that also touched on the investigation into her email system.

Clinton Emails 101.

That's why she isn't being prosecuted.

And that's Trump's real hair color and hair line. Hillary wasn't prosecuted for the same reason nothing happened to Obama when he started a war on Libya without Congressional authorization, or Cheney oversaw a torture program that beat at least 100 people to death: rules are for little people, not right wing warmongers.

Also... kinda funny how Slashdot turns super liberal the minute Trump wins. Where did all those supporters go? Did their last check arrive or something?

I think it's a case of knowing what matters and what doesn't.

In this case, it's "let them get it out of their system, it doesn't matter and it'll let them blow off some steam".

I don't feel any particular need to come to Trump's defence, to counter baseless insults or misleading spin, today.

You may note that it was the losing side that was shrill, insulting, cheating, and at times criminal. No "calibration errors" changed votes to Republican, very few "Clinton" signs were stolen or vandalized, and no one called for the removal of someone else from their job because they supported Hillary.

We also didn't move $60 million from down-ballot elections to unfairly fix our primary, didn't hire protesters to disrupt the opposition rallys (and cause them to cancel), didn't collude with the media, get the debate questions ahead of time, and didn't get free campaigning from the president.

I've never ever laughed out loud at a Marmaduke comic, until today.

Let them get it out of their system, it'll blow over soon, and in the meantime it'll make them feel good.

Uber and Lyft emphasized that they do not tolerate discrimination and their belief that ride-sharing apps make transportation more equitable and available than taxis.

That was borne out when researchers had students hail cabs in downtown Seattle. The first available taxi stopped 60% of the time for a white student but less than 20% of the time for black students. The white students never had more than four taxis pass them before one stopped. African-American students saw six or seven cabs pass them in 20% of cases.

citation

- First the actual source link is: http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

- Second, there is no data released.

- Third, gotta call "whites" european-americans if we go by that logic.

Release the data, if you want people to take these studies as seriously as they need to be.

Last year, UMass had suddenly cited compliance to refuse graduate students form Iran. http://college.usatoday.com/20... It's bizarre when civic and corporate entities enforce laws that even the government doesn't ask them too

Why never Trump? Both sides seem to be against him, clearly he's not part of the corrupt problem. He actually created jobs, he actually knows about money and how to handle it, he actually knows how to handle labor, he's a businessman.

Politicians are for the most part dumb people that think they know how to handle stuff. Don't know about money, don't know how to handle it, can't manage people worth a damn (they exempt themselves from just about every labor law the rest of us have to deal with), etc. Check them out sometime. Just California, we have Boxer and Feinstein, both wack jobs with no clue and they are from one of the largest states. The other house, look at the crazy people that were acting like babies and sitting on the house floor. http://www.usatoday.com/story/... . Why? It was so they can prevent people from buying guns that are on the no fly list. A list that there is no oversight to, no appeal, no due process, very un-American and they know it. A few of the Congressmen were on it, like Ted Kennedy. A Senator and even he wasn't able to find out how he was added. A US Senator! So to ban guns, easy, just add everyone to the list. They've got to know it's unconstitutional, though I'm sure they don't care. Just blatant bullshit, yet people still support Democrats and Republicans. They both smell like last week's fish catch in the dumpster, or a rendering plant, take you pick.

Why keep the madness going on? An opportunity like this comes up about once a lifetime. You can do something about it. It's time to dump the crap out of Washington and Trump is your best bet to do that. He'll be a one term President I bet. Clearly way better than Hillary. Besides, even if she wins, she loses. If you vote for her, you're really voting for Tim Kaine because that's who will be either be President right off, or will be President when she's removed or resigns. There's no getting around all of her crimes. Espionage, corruption, murder, racketeering, and so on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

Yes, yes, laws also require effective enforcement, which also requires money, because police officers don't work for free.

But even the NRA would be forced to admit that much of the gun violence in Chicago is because people who shouldn't have guns have them. It's too bad that one of the largest groups may be the Chicago PD itself.

So yes, we will have to do more than just pass a law. We will need actions. Hopefully somewhere between adoption of armed anarchy and militant police state.

However, it is far too easy to block any and all discussion, the NRA's commercials show that unwillingness to talk. They prefer a scare tactic approach where they castigate Hillary Clinton for not wanting some woman who used a gun to defend herself against a rapist with a knife to be able to do so. Never mind that what she really wants is for that hypothetical rapist not to have a gun.

I almost thought it couldn't get worse, but then Trump started in on his ripped from the womb bit.

That'll teach me. We still haven't hit bottom.

"We can't create a culture that says it cares about diversity and then excludes almost half the country because they back a political candidate,"

When Brendan Eich was ousted from Mozilla, it was for his private backing of California Proposition 8, which won the backing of over 52% of California voters. By the hateful logic of Mr. Eich's detractors, the entire State of California should've been boycotted by the freedom-loving web-sites until the State purged their thought-criminals.

Yeah, but that would come with an actual *cost*. In the same way, they should quit using Eich's work, particularly the javascript language.

Remember, SJWs will do everything as long as it doesn't inconvenience them personally in any way.

"We can't create a culture that says it cares about diversity and then excludes almost half the country because they back a political candidate,"

When Brendan Eich was ousted from Mozilla, it was for his private backing of California Proposition 8, which won the backing of over 52% of California voters. By the hateful logic of Mr. Eich's detractors, the entire State of California should've been boycotted by the freedom-loving web-sites until the State purged their thought-criminals.

Where Mr. Zuckerberg stood on that boycott is unclear, but the words he is preaching now, should've been uttered then.

"False flag" is not the word you're looking for, "agents provocateurs" is.

Read the link carefully (and watch the video). Some of the things listed really were "false flag" operations. Such as:

“So the Chicago protest when they shut all that, that was us,” says Black/Minter. “It was more him [Bob Creamer - a convicted fraudster, mi] than me, but none of this is supposed to come back to us, because we want it coming from people, we don’t want it to come from the party. So if we do a protest and it’s a DNC protest, right away the press is going to say partisan. But if I’m in there coordinating with all the troops on the ground and sort of playing the field general but they are the ones talking to the cameras, then it’s actually people. But if we send out press advisories with DNC on them and Clinton campaign it just doesn’t have that same effect.”

See? Their real flag would have the letter "H" on it with the strange "move right" arrow on it. But "it just doesn't have that same effect", so they falsely raised the flag of "grassroots". Hence "false flag".

It's funny that the most damning thing you can say [...]

Not an ounce of shame in you, is there? Nothing like "OMG, I can't believe Hillary Clinton, such a lady it seemed, could possible have approved anything like that!" None... A typical Democrat.

The problem Uber was changed from its original intent.

[Citation needed]

Initially it really was for computers who were all going to the same place, and the driver could make a few bucks while bringing a bunch of of other people to the same area they were going. It wasn't really a Taxi service, just a way to share your ride.

I don't see any evidence in the historical record suggesting this was EVER the "original intent" of Uber. Uber's name was originally "UberCab," suggesting some similarity to, well, CABS, i.e., taxis, or at least hired cars.

Here's a Techcrunch article from right after the initial launch in San Francisco in July 2010. The article compares Uber to a taxi-finding apps and notes:

UberCab calculates the cost of your trip based on milage and time in the car, similar to the way other limo companies calculate fares. However, the startup says you are able to get better fares because its drivers perceive these on-demand trips as extra money in addition to their regular full-priced trips to and from the airport.

In other words, the initial market was heavily based on limo drivers trying to get extra money. This is confirmed in a Techcrunch article a few months later when Uber was first challenged in court. The article concludes:

... Uber -- nee Ubercab -- often pitches itself not as a taxi service, but an app that helps ride seekers book a premium car and driver quickly and easily via mobile, and helps licensed limo drivers connect with clients.

Or, take the word of USA Today as Uber was interviewed preparing for its national launch in 2011:

Backed by star Silicon Valley investors, Uber offers people with iPhones and Android-based phones an app that connects them to limo drivers of black Lincoln Town Cars.... Uber partners with local limo companies that work with the start-up to earn some extra business during down times.

Then, in late 2012, Uber shifted its emphasis toward lower-end options. Here we zoom in on September 2012 and an interview with the CEO. But by this point you have Lyft and numerous other start-ups in the low end "ride-sharing" space. So, by the time Uber turned to "ride-sharing" instead of professional drivers, there were already PLENTY of amateur folks already doing "ride-sharing" as de facto cabs.

Basically, Uber has shifted its emphasis away from high-end transport over the years. However, it was NEVER this mythical "ride sharing" opportunity for folks to just hook up with "someone going my way." At the beginning it was focused on off-duty limo drivers, and then more folks with lesser cars joined. But Uber has always been about hiring a professional driver, not just "sharing a ride."

Sorry, but you've fallen for their legal propaganda.

I'm pretty sure that the US government can't just agree to pay ten cents on the dollar after being dragged into court for nonpayment.

This ought to refresh your memory regarding Trump's "paying off his debts":

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/09/donald-trump-unpaid-bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/

Here's a case of 15-yo "boy" / 20-yo "woman" and several years later he is forced to pay child support ("USA Today", sigh):

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

Did you think that was isolated?:
"The 15-year-old in California who was seduced by the 34-year-old mom next door. The 13-year-old boy in Kansas who had sex with his 17-year-old babyÂsitter. The 15-year-old boy in Florida who impregnated a 20-year-old."
http://www.tampabay.com/news/c...

Another source - not this rag again! - disregard and go on with your life:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

Here's a case of 15-yo "boy" / 20-yo "woman" and several years later he is forced to pay child support ("USA Today", sigh):

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

Did you think that was isolated?:
"The 15-year-old in California who was seduced by the 34-year-old mom next door. The 13-year-old boy in Kansas who had sex with his 17-year-old babyÂsitter. The 15-year-old boy in Florida who impregnated a 20-year-old."
http://www.tampabay.com/news/c...

Another source - not this rag again! - disregard and go on with your life:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

Deficient bridges aren’t necessarily falling down, but are in need of repair. Bridges are rated on a scale of zero to nine, with a top score meaning excellent condition. Scores of four or below are classified structurally deficient.

and:

The current pace of investment would take 21 years to replace or upgrade all the deficient bridges.

If we can't (or don't want to contribute the resources to) repair or replace bridges that are structurally deficient, I submit we don't have the resources to install roadside sensors.

More like because in these days of Alice Through The Looking Glass political correctness actually increasing police in an area of high crime would be called racism?

So they either try to do things in secret like the above or more likely what is happening in just about every major city in the country you let the inner city become a slaughterhouse thanks to Ferguson effect making more and more cops simply unwilling to do their jobs for fear of being accused of racism. Sadly we can look to the UK to see where this leads where one of the largest pedo rings in history operated without fear because the cops were afraid of being called racist if they stopped them.

Think Chicago hitting over 500 murders in a single year was a big deal? Wait until next year when I have no doubt it will double, why? Because cops simply will not go into those neighborhoods and the criminals know it so its a free for all. They have already seen with Darren Wilson it doesn't matter if everything from eye witnesses to forensics shows you were being attacked by someone that had just pulled a robbery, all the MSM cares about is race so their only logical move is to leave the inner cities to the criminals.

But don't worry, I'm sure the stink this program is causing will insure Baltimore PD will not do anything in the future, well other than send the meat wagon to pick up the bodies that is.

I agree. It is good that it is getting a headline, but this is in textbooks.

An average lab mouse lives about 2 years, I think the record as of Feb 2016 is about 4.5 years, so we seem to be making progress.

More interesting are the nematode C. elegans, thanks to its short lifespan of 2-3 weeks. The record lifespan appears to be 8 weeks.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com...
https://www.jax.org/news-and-i...

http://genomics.senescence.inf...

built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information

So basically they wrote a function to search for certain words. A text search.

This is not news, we've known for awhile now that the Feds can search our email.

The fact that they wrote "a custom software program" is not some new revelation. It's always software that searches.

While we're on this topic, let's remember that in Snowden's info was released in 2006:

The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.
The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans — most of whom aren't suspected of any crime.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/press...

Our investigation looked at whether there is evidence classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on that personal system, in violation of a federal statute making it a felony to mishandle classified information either intentionally or in a grossly negligent way, or a second statute making it a misdemeanor to knowingly remove classified information from appropriate systems or storage facilities.

From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were “up-classified” to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent.

That is 110 counts of Felony mishandling of classified information.

With respect to the thousands of e-mails we found that were not among those produced to State, agencies have concluded that three of those were classified at the time they were sent or received, one at the Secret level and two at the Confidential level. There were no additional Top Secret e-mails found. Finally, none of those we found have since been “up-classified.”

There are three more counts.

Now, as to the government issued cell phone, she was offered a Blackberry like every other government employee, she chose instead to have her own Blackberry, so how did she exactly avoid the "poor excuse" for a cell phone?

http://www.politico.com/story/...

As well, the fact that she failed to turn over official records, that were improperly stored and destroyed breaks the records retention laws that were clarified after she left office, but were always assumed to cover email as well as paper.

https://www.archives.gov/about...

You can choose to believe that she did nothing wrong, but fact is, she committed many felonies, and concealed evidence of them by running her own server. We will never know what she did or didn't do for Benghazi, but we do know that she destroyed emails related to it. It is rather hard to run an investigation when the party is destroying evidence the whole time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It is quite clear that there are many emails not delivered to the investigation. and in fact, there were several emails requesting additional security before the attack that were ignored, that would have been sent to Clinton, but none were in her email dump. In fact, other countries had already closed their embassies at that time, so it isn't like no one knew there were issues.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

But, I wasn't even speaking about Benghazi, you bring tha

He isn't releasing his tax returns because they don't exist in any meaningful sense, and they won't until the audit is concluded. When you are under audit, the IRS is saying that the documents you submitted are not your tax return, and they are going to use the audit process to create your return.

This is incorrect. The IRS has officially stated that there is nothing preventing Trump from releasing his tax information:

In a statement Friday [February 26, 2016], the IRS said that federal privacy rules prohibit the agency from discussing individual tax matters, but “nothing prevents individuals from sharing their own tax information.”

IRS: Trump can release tax returns, regardless of audit

Please cite your long list of examples of these toys being used in such a dangerous way

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-drone-near-miss-lax-20160318-story.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2014/07/08/two-drones-nearly-collide-with-nypd-helicopter-operators-arrested/#1294615f1db8
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/09/travel/unmanned-drone-danger/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/dec/23/champion-skier-marcel-hirscher-has-near-miss-as-drone-falls-out-of-sky
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30369701
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/11/europe/uk-drone-near-miss/index.html
http://www.wsj.com/articles/faa-reports-more-aircraft-drone-near-misses-1417025519
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/29/ny-bound-pilot-swerves-to-avoid-collission-with-drone.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3251543/Drone-owners-forced-register-devices-tracking-database-four-near-misses-aircraft-past-month-alone.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12180261/Number-of-near-misses-involving-drones-and-aircraft-quadruples-in-one-year.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-37042796
http://gothamist.com/2016/09/20/man_maybe_arrested_drone_crash.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/us/white-house-drone.html?_r=0
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/05/25/drone-crashes-hits-2-people-during-marblehead-parade/
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/22/world/drug-drone-crashes-us-mexico-border/index.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/drone-crashes-stands-u-s-open-article-1.2348324
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/07/02/drone-crashes-in-brighton-mans-backyard/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/07/drone-crashes-into-yellowstone-hot-spring/13721055/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/drone-crash-university-kentucky-football-game-could-land-student-hot-water/
http://abcnews.go.com/US/drone-crashes-empire-state-building-man-arrested/story?id=36729221

OK, how about this one: 50 Billion in profits for one quarter of 2015.

Or this one: Net income of integrated oil compaanies Graph at the bottom of the story has historical net income (ie. profits).

As we all saw, Russia interfered with the free and open elections in Eastern Ukraine after the Putin lapdog Yanukovych fled into the arms of Putin when the people of Ukraine wanted closer, more open ties with the West.

Russia sent in its troops and armed its terrorist proxies who burned polling places, burned ballots, threatened anyone who tried to vote, tried to rig votes, and even bragged about doing all of the above by recording their goings on.

Considering the amount of groveling Trump is doing at Putin's feet for his own personal gain and has openly asked for the same foreign government to commit espionage on a U.S. citizen, it would be surprising if Russia wasn't trying to game the system. So long as Putin has been in power that has been the name of game in Russia: only those Putin approves are allowed to run for office.

That Russia is now trying to electronically influence U.S. elections only shows how desperate Putin is to have the sanctions lifted which are dragging his country down each day they are in place. As reported a week ago, Russia will literally run out of money by the middle of next year if sanctions aren't lifted. Supporting the terrorists in Eastern Ukraine and the Syrian regime is costing Russia money it can ill-afford to lose yet from all appearances, Putin is vowed and determined to drag Russia down with him. That is why they are attempting to interfere in U.S. elections.

These stories are always submitted by "Anonymous" claiming obliquely that the Echo is a "sleeper hit". There are a lot of "research" companies that claim that Amazon has sold a bunch too. All lies.
Notice these two links ALSO claim a "sleeper hit" (exact words):

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
https://www.theguardian.com/te...

I call PR bullshit here. I doubt they have sold many Echos at all.

The Echo is a hit? Citation, please.

I have my doubts too, but apparently it is so...

Amazon Echo turns into a sleeper hit, offsetting Fire's failure

Amazon Echo sales reach 3M units as consumer awareness grows, research firm says

She has a name': Amazon's Alexa is a sleeper hit, with serious superfine

How Amazon's Echo Ended Up a Surprise Hit

The Amazon Echo Is Winning the Race to a Screenless Future

Working while traveling isn't high on my list of priorities. Watching an episode on Netflix, playing a VR racing game (admittedly slower on the highway than on the track), whatever.

And the comfort level will get there. The first generation will only be a little bit better than human reactions. The next version (hopefully a free software upgrade - funded by an auto-manufacturer/insurance alliance) twice as safe, the next version four times as safe, etc.

If it can't just be software upgrades, it's going to be a long, slow adoption: cars get replaced every 2-10 years - but then they get resold, so the average age of cars on the road is over 11 years.
(REF: http://www.usatoday.com/story/...)

Eventually, insurance lobbies will get the government to require autonomous driving: first on certain highways and city centers, then eventually everywhere. Just like seat belts, air bags, rear-view cameras.

And no, not "almost anyone could afford new advanced manufacturing machines (tractors) back then". My grandfather was a machinist and could not afford to buy his own machines. Today they can be purchased for 3x-4x the cost of a video game machine. If you buy used on craigslist or ebay you can find very good deals, stuff older generation would have no way of buying.

is partially anonymize their customers so that it was difficult or impossible to determine an applicant's race from his application

Anonymity will not help — there are very few obviously Black names. They need to disable photos — which were denounced as a major instrument of racism for almost a century already. But that would mean removal of an important feature of the system by making it impersonal...

My personal opinion is that while racism is regrettable, its impact is overrated and far less damaging than any heavy-handed (and freedom-trampling) efforts to fight it. Jews, for example, were targets of racism in Europe for centuries. And I mean real racism — the pogroms were far more tangible, than anything Blacks suffer from in the US today. Similarly to Blacks, Asians were victims of racism in the US since building the railroads (I just watched the Bruce Lee movie).

Yet, neither the Jews nor the Asians today need to explain their under-performance in our "White society" by the racism — because they perform better than the supposed tormentors. So much better, Asian college-applicants are advised to not answer the "Race" question on their applications — to avoid the penalty college boards impose on Asians in the name of "equality". Being presumed White instead of Asian is estimated to be an equivalent to extra 50 SAT-points...

50 years ago we surrendered certain freedoms to the promise of racial harmony. The harmony remains as elusive as ever, but the freedoms continue withering away...

People keep saying this, but they have no reason to believe it. You only get prosecuted in a case like this, if they can show that you had intent to trade national secrets.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

https://www.marinecorpstimes.c...

http://www.politifact.com/trut...

http://www.nationalreview.com/...

Actually, all of the conspiracy-theorists I know are all extremely left-leaning.

Ahem...

http://www.infowars.com/

http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

http://www.dcclothesline.com/2...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

There is a Navy person who facing 20 years to life for disposing of a phone which had his picture while inside the sub.

A quick Google search tells me that you're not representing the situation accurately.

The sailor isn't facing charges for simply having taken pictures of himself while on the sub; he had several pictures of classified engineering spaces: "The photos that raised red flags at NCIS and the FBI included images of various control panels, a panoramic view of the reactor compartment and a panel that showed the condition and exact location of the submarine at the time the photo was taken." (source)

p Otherwise we could end up with the DEA smuggling drugs for the Sinaloa drug cartel, the ATF selling guns to violent criminals, or the FBI smuggling child porn.

Hmmm so Silk Road, Fast and Furious and Playpen.
Who watches the watchers?

p Otherwise we could end up with the DEA smuggling drugs for the Sinaloa drug cartel, the ATF selling guns to violent criminals, or the FBI smuggling child porn.

Hmmm so Silk Road, Fast and Furious and Playpen.
Who watches the watchers?

Nice try but if you look at the actual numbers, facebook, google, etc.. are hiring a *higher* percentage of minorities than are graduating from college.

Citation please? Where are those "actual numbers" you reference?

But here's my citation, putting black CS grads at 4.5% but hires at 2%...

But last year, 4.5% of all new recipients of bachelor's degrees in computer science or computer engineering from prestigious research universities were African American, and 6.5% were Hispanic, according to data from the Computing Research Association.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/10/12/silicon-valley-diversity-tech-hiring-computer-science-graduates-african-american-hispanic/14684211/

Where does your 2% of new hires come from? The article only said the total percentage of black employees was 2%(including new hires and hires from previous years).

This Reuters article has more detailed info. Among U.S.-based tech employees the stats are 3% Hispanic and 1% black, vs. 4% and 2% respectively among Facebook's global workforce. 17% of its global tech employees are women.

As one data point of comparison, here is some demographic data for AP Computer Science test takers in California for the year 2012. Looking at students who take the AP exam may be a good proxy for identifying students who will one day be applying for top-tier positions. Among this group, 7% were Hispanic, 1% were black and 21% were women. If those stats are representative of the pool of top-tier talent in the workforce, then Facebook isn't far off in terms of its hiring of blacks and women. It seems further off with respect to Hispanics. Though, California has a higher-than-usual Hispanic population, so maybe nationally the % of Hispanic AP Exam takers is less than 7.

This article in USA Today also has some stats. They looked at the demographics of CS and CE graduates from "top" U.S. universities. Not sure what "top" means. They claim that 4.5% of such graduates are black, 6.5% are Hispanic. They didn't report on what % were women.

Nice try but if you look at the actual numbers, facebook, google, etc.. are hiring a *higher* percentage of minorities than are graduating from college.

Citation please? Where are those "actual numbers" you reference?

But here's my citation, putting black CS grads at 4.5% but hires at 2%...

But last year, 4.5% of all new recipients of bachelor's degrees in computer science or computer engineering from prestigious research universities were African American, and 6.5% were Hispanic, according to data from the Computing Research Association.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/10/12/silicon-valley-diversity-tech-hiring-computer-science-graduates-african-american-hispanic/14684211/