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High tuition seems to have very little to do with the number of students but everything to do with services/administration bloating and the policy of "you get a loan! you get a loan!" policy from the US government. One would think with more students, you would achieve better economy of scale and so be able to charge less per student.

Looking at this: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/..., it seems countries can have a high percentage of college-educated people without charging them a lifetime of debt.

Don't be so quick to dismiss the idea of vigilantes.

I'm pretty quick to dismiss them.

Law enforcement simply can not do the job in all too many cases. And even when the cops catch bad guys we get stuck with huge court expenses and if we punish that is a money killer as well. So you have a problem with dope turning your neighborhood into a hell pit. All of a sudden you start finding users and sellers hanging from street lamps. The problem goes away!

Life is not a comic book.

Got a problem with cars getting broken into? Can the cops solve it? And when vigilantes start asking who is doing what in a community you can bet they get answers.

And probably the wrong answers. Then your idiot vigilante (I know, redundant) is the problem, probably a worse problem than already existed in the neighborhood.

But what's most likely to happen is this: https://screen.yahoo.com/snl-d...

So, that I know of, no ISP has a program where they police what you do.

Really? That's just not so. What is more, the abusive contracts/TOS/AUP do restrict what you allowed to do. Whether or not that's actively policed is a different question.

These types of restrictions are one of the biggest threats to the real promise of the Internet IMHO -- the truly free sharing of ideas and information.

All the people saying "don't open your router because then the gov't will hold you responsible for things other people use it for" are missing the point. This is exactly why this is a freedom of speech issue and why the EFF is involved in the first place.
The gov't would like every act online to be traceable to an individual who can then be held responsible for it.
Freedom of speech means freedom from punishment because of your speech. The Soviets used to have a joke "everybody in Russia is free to say what they like - they're just not free to stay out of prison afterwards."
The only way to guarantee FoS is anonymity. The gov't can't punish you if they can't find you. Which is why dictatorships hate online anonymity.
Even if it was true that you could be held responsible for things others do using your router, you'd still have a duty to let them do it.
IANAL but AFAIK there is no legal basis in either the UK or US to punish someone for enabling someone else to commit a crime, unless it was part of a deliberate conspiracy, or 'common purpose'. So, (if its true at all that this is 'dangerous') the authorities are trying to illegally blackmail people into supporting their unconstitutional attempt to destroy anonymous Internet access.
Submitting to this blackmail is treason. Keep your country free, Keep your WiFi free.

Kate was already there cracking codes. Who knew?

They should fix it even more so with auto drive cars.

  so you can not get lost in Death Valley

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/26/...

directs drivers to trun on to runway at an airport

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/20...

The road looked clear, at low tide - but the map forgot to show the 9 miles of water and mud between the island and the mainland

http://news.yahoo.com/gps-trac...

takes goat trail up mountain

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

sending cars down an private road that has no thru access.

I see someone at DARPA is a fan of Mission: Impossible.

Cool concept though, and pretty useful for firefighters I'd imagine.

Dude, your precious POTUS has declared 60+ wars around the world, including a few at home. War on drugs. War on children. War on Terror. Visit Detroit. Fuckers "standing their ground" in Florida. The US is a war zone and when Barrack Osama keeps his 2008 campaign promise you'll see it ramping up when all those violent gun-toting douchebags return.

Tesla is in the business of selling cars, not charging stations.

Indeed they're not.

It sounds like he's hoping to spread around the cost of charging:

If Musk does go through with this plan, he wants the competitors to go along with Tesla's "free power for life" clause. All the electricity used to charge up a Tesla at the Superchargers is included in the (hefty) purchase price of the car.

So if other companies are making a free charging station which is also compatible with the Tesla, then Tesla makes even more money by not having to pay for the charging.

It sounds like there's some magic going on in here where the owner doesn't pay the cost of charging their car, but it gets foisted off onto everybody else (ie taxpayers) because having electric cars is such a good idea the rest of the world should pay for it.

And I'm not sure why the owners of electric cars should have their consumption subsidized, other than it helps Tesla sell more cars. If it's such a great idea, why aren't the owners getting charged? Someone is going to have to pay for that, and it will likely get applied to other products.

So you could pay more for milk in order that someone who owns a Tesla gets free charging. Which is great if you can afford to buy a Tesla, but not so great if you need to buy milk.

He did, actually.

There have been tilting cars that lean into curves for years and years. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/tilting/info

Oh yeah, and I think I read somewhere that the term for an 80 year old japanese anime fan is chi chi, which means grandfather, daddy, also boobs. Also see https://answers.yahoo.com/ques... There is also this "daddy" term in English, and a custom of men being usually older than women in a relationship, as men don't mature at age 12-14, where women are way ahead in mental powers and world comprehension, also done with height growth, while a lot of boys/men don't finish growing to their full height til age 16-18, and some men mentally don't mature until age 45. So even if they want to, sometimes 12 year old women or even 18 year old women have a hard time finding males on par with their own abilities of world comprehension and seriousness about life in their own age group. Men tend to play video games to later ages compared to women getting busy and serious about babies and jobs and things that matter most at an earlier age. Sometimes they go at it alone, and in single, unwed mothers, sometimes they have to be mothers to their husbands of the same age as themselves too. For women the clock is always ticking and it's too late for a woman to mature in mental capacity and seriousness about life and babies at age 40, as menopause is too close, also a woman can't rape a man if the man is not willing, and has full mental control over his erections/ejaculations, but a man can rape a woman even if she has no desire, mental state, or willingness, and produce a pregnancy, so population control issues are fully the responsibility of the males, not the females, because she's always willing right now (often she don't have time to wait for mr right, she needs a mr right now), the clock is ticking for her, she also loses her 12 year old youth with every second that goes by. It's complicated, because she also needs somebody to stick it out by her to help raise the baby, but in a democracy with a guaranteed welfare safety net this waiting for mr right is not that important because she can rear a brood in absence of mr right on welfare, nobody is allowed to starve. It's also complicated because though men control populations, women can also control it, they can kill a baby (though this is very difficult for a mother) or torture/mis-raise a baby psycho style if they hate the father, or even, in a breeding out of control world, handing down abortion sticks from grandmother to granddaughter, with which you do your own abortions by smashing the fetus. Anal sex is a great contraceptive, but in the heat of the moment in a party world who's got time to contemplate "rules", it also feels nowhere near as good as the normal way. Women control populations too because the father can be very far by the time the 9 months is up, 9 months is a long time, and she holds life and death in her hands, but for a mother it's very difficult not to be a mother. So theoretically the women can do a lot, in practice the men are responsible for watching population levels, which is why most societies are patriarchal around the world, to manage resource availability with population levels in balance, as the woman has no power to make decisions about population levels. A child is born out of the will of the father, not the mother, 99% of the time. In a democracy with a welfare system, the men who are always willing to ask for a back that thang up take over very fast, and the future is people like brazil, everybody neither white, nor black, or asian, everybody brown, looking like white/asian women, and black men. That's a great loss of genetic variability. Ideally you should have white people as white people, black people as black people, asians as asians, and, as neither group should be too inbred, there should be always some mixing at the fringes, to small degrees, not 100% "melting pot." This requires some kind of segregation, that there is a natural tendency for people to do anyway. But then you get issues like job discrimination, you have a black family with 7 kids each of two generations

This is a nice sentiment from someone in the industry. However this particularly engineer will have no control over how the technology develops generally. Bean counters will always want to replace the human to save costs and generate a better profit. As such, middle class jobs have been and will continue to evaporate.

You might want to read about the Linux Mint founder's concern for anti-semitism.

https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=clement+lefebvre+israel

There is ample evidence that many American corporations have been actively discriminating against American Workers for well over a decade. This is especially true when it comes to STEM work skills. India, China, and Russia have been the main sources of off-shoring (and now, in-shoring). India is the absolute worst, with India's goovernment actively pushing for more H1-Bs because they would rather America hire them than India build proper educational and business infrastructure systems. Indian government is one of the most corrupt on earth (easily as corrupt as some of the worst African states).

Want proof? Unemployment is a problem in America, and so are our sticky problems with immigration. Undercover of helping those immigrants who have so long labored in our agricultural sector, the American IT sector has seen fit to use the sentiment to help agricultural workers to create a Landslide of advantage for itself. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

The H-1B fiasco has cost Americans **$10TRILLION** dollars, since 1975. For anyone who wants to know the truth, read on.

One of the most respected technology pundits in Silicon Valley has this to say about the H1-B worker problem http://www.cringely.com/2012/1...

Here's an attorney and his consultants teaching corporations how to manipulate foreign-worker immigration law to replace qualified American workers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

H1-B abuse if accompanied by other worker-visa abuse L-1 Visa (H1-B's are only the tip of the iceberg). There are more than 20 categories of foreign worker visas. http://economyincrisis.org/con...

Professor Norman Matloff's extremely well documented studies on this problem. http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/...

Federal offshoring of healthcare.gov website http://www.economicpopulist.or...

How H1-B visa abuse is hurting American tech workers http://www.motherjones.com/pol...

There is no stem worker crisis in America http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-wo...

Marc Zuckerberg and wealthy tech scions continue to perpetuate this trend http://programmersguild.org/do...

Yahoo http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs...

Also, little known is the tactic of creating many different kinds of sub-visa categories to "fool the system". There are almost TWENTY different kinds of work visas. The whole thing is a sham and a lie, designed to drag down wages and keep from having to re-train Americans. Never thought I would see this day!

Some of the information presented in the aforementioned links will shock most Americans, because American corporate leaders don't want us to know the truth, and they are paying off policy makers with contributions to keep the truth from us. Bill Gates, John Chambers, Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt, and many, many others - including the principals of the most prominent immigration law firms, who profit from this outrage, are lying through their teeth. There is NO shortage of STEM workers in the US!!

There's no particularly good reason to believe that its bug count per line is any higher than any subsequent, later version of Windows. One million is pretty small, Did you mean 40 Million?

It's tough, going to work and doing boring stuff but the $250,000 pay scale overcomes an awful lot of developer resistance...

Where Blue eyes and Blond hair originated.

The subject itself is a troll gimme, as is the best answer in the link https://answers.yahoo.com/ques...

Having Blond hair and Blue eyes I traced their evolution long ago, Scandinavia was the origin; for a fast post the link was the first hit.

You also won't find any law prohibiting a child from nibbling his Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun, but a 6-yo was suspended from school for having a "weapon" - or anything which a mentally-disturbed teacher might think LOOKED like a gun. Yes, it happened.

ThisIsTrue.com is a weekly compilation of bizarre but true news stories; search for the "zero tolerance" ones.

But here are a few selections from a Google search for "parents arrested for leaving children alone".

http://stratford.patch.com/gro...

https://answers.yahoo.com/ques...

https://secure02.kidshealth.or...

http://www.lawandparents.co.uk...

No no no, it's a typo for "meteors," and "Phillip J" at Yahoo says the mean of meteors is about the size of a grain of sand, so grain of sand x 50. Pretty small. I think.

"I started paying for cable back in the late 70s to early 80s, with the intention that my monthly bill was a replacement for having to watch all those stupid advertisements-- exactly as advertised-- with the perk that I would have more reliable and higher quality of service."

This is getting sad. I see this posted somewhere in the comments of every article about cable television on Slashdot. Aren't people on Slashdot supposed to be smart enough to not accept facts without question simply because they support whatever argument they'd like to make?

It does seem some people on the internet are smart enough to question the story: link and link.

Others seem far too blinded by their desire to believe the story to realize just how likely it is that it is complete bullshit, like this guy who even put "fairy tale" in the title of his story. At first I thought maybe he was presenting it as a fairy tale, but with no argument against the story being presented, I can only conclude that he believes that commercial-free cable television did exist at one time, but has now become a "fairy tale" as it no longer exists.

...and just to make sure I get down-modded, I'll also point out the other popular myth Slashdot is unable to recognize as such: that "hacker" originally meant "intelligent person who is able to make technology do awesome things." Sorry, people, but the only time the word had any meaning besides "criminal" was when it meant (and still means) "to do something in an incorrect way which never the less works," e.g., "I think I can hack that equipment to do what we need." As such, applying the word to computer criminals is entirely appropriate, as they break into computers by exploiting the software on those computers in clever ways to do things that software wasn't intended to do. The legality of the action is irrelevant to the word. Even with the original definition, a hacker isn't something one should aim to be, but rather, being able to hack is merely a useful skill to have. Defining yourself as a hacker makes no more sense than defining yourself as an ass wiper. Yes, you have to wipe your ass, and it's good that you can do it, but if that's how you choose to define yourself then there's something wrong with you.

The timing of this amuses me, given what I recently saw on Yahoo. They've updated their privacy policy to say they ignore DNT. But since marketing types have to spin everything, they bill it as:

"Web browser Do Not Track settings are no longer enabled on Yahoo. Users receive a personalized experience by default."

Thank you Yahoo for caring about my experience! :P

And the windshield turns into everyone's favorite toy form the 70's:

Bag of glass!

https://screen.yahoo.com/bag-g...

Global Warming causes arson.

does it? http://news.yahoo.com/longest-...

oh bolox, i suppose i should put the link in as well. https://autos.yahoo.com/news/t...
it can do 2000 miles on a tank full on motorway driving, not bad for a 6 litre engine.....

Anonymous GP here. Thanks for the support.

I believe CS should be clearly exposed as a major for those who want to do something later in academia, which is what some liberal arts BAs require you to do

And, I agree that CS should be forked, but I cannot figure out how we might get the prestige from CS graduates in the fork. Special degrees with the names of Information Technology and Computer Programming exist, but they are rare among non-technical colleges. You rarely find a job listing allowing for them, even if the position is a non-math Java programming job.

The math grades, long 3-per week homework assignments and labs were a drag on time and energy when I just wanted to move forward with the degree. And it is annoying when you got a code-heavy course in the same semester, because math homework just keeps coming --but the CS project that needs your full attention for next week just won't compile with the little bandwidth you have left for the week. I sympathized when you mentioned the calc issues, because I went from A's in HS to a D in Calc my first semester. In calc 2 I saw signs of trouble and got a B thanks to tutoring. Linear caused me to fail a semester later. Eventually I switched schools and Calc 3 went well. I forgot to mention that discrete math proofs were a turnoff even if I dug how CS-friendly the class finally felt. Real analysis was a scare on my graduating semester, but things ended OK.

Advanced Math brings too much instability for me to want a master's degree, and I'd only dig robotics or natural language processing. Both would remain pretty useless in day-to-day IT, so that would be a waste of $50K per year and juggling work + career or putting the latter on hold and rusting my skills and hireability during the last economic downturn. I ended up not getting programming jobs until a summer contract recently. However, I've capitalized on the experience of having worked at the computer lab while I was pursuing the degree. Still working as a helpdesk-guy a decade later, with access to some shell and web code, and hoping for a code-only job some day.

There’s no guarantee that -KG will have the same effects on aging in people as it has in worms. And before researchers can even address that issue, they’ll have to figure out if the compound also extends the lives of laboratory organisms such as flies and mice.

The reason why worms are an awesome model for certain things is it costs pennies to grow thousands of them. I had a professor who calculated that doing a mutagenesis screen in mice (that is, get a mouse with a mutation in every gene) would cost as much money as 20 minutes of the Iraq war, which is of course an unfathomable amount of money for something silly like biomedical research that doesn't kill people. A mutagenesis screen in worms on the other hand might cost closer to 20 minutes of undergraduate tuition.

The same thing goes for drug screens like the one discussed. Mice have a lifespan of about 2 years. Worms have a lifespan of two to three weeks. You'd identify drugs that keep worms alive longer in a month, and you'd only need plates full of bacteria (the worms eat bacteria) to do so. Mice require food, water, cages, climate control, dedicated staff to clean the cages, and a 24/7 monitoring system. You'd need multiple mice for each drug you're testing, so if you test a thousand compounds, you'd need several thousand mice. And if you want to do a longevity screen, you'd need to keep those mice alive for years. That would be an idiotic waste of time and money.

Any researcher who should be trusted with a pipette would quickly determine that the correct way to identify drugs that could increase longevity would be to first identify drugs using worms, then test whether those drugs have the same effect in mice or higher more expensive vertebrates, then finally see if there's a way you could show that same effect in humans without waiting 100 years. This is exactly what they appear to be doing.

The math seriously works out to something akin to a 200 pound man needing to climb ~20 flights of stairs to burn the equivalent of a single piece of white bread. (90-100 calories?). That's a lot of stairs. And that's only assuming his appetite wouldn't increase to accommodate the increased output

Actually exercise reduces food cravings. See this and this. I admit these don't sound like the last word, scientifically, but I have other arguments :

1. Personal experience - being an irregular exerciser, I know both states of mind. The exerciser me yields a lot less to temptations.

2. Comfort food : Lots of people eat because they are depressed. Exercise reduces depression.

3. That's a lot of stairs : The one who exercises knows that a LOT of exercise is required to burn a little extra food. He also knows the effort / pain/ willpower required to exercise that much. The one who doesn't exercise, doesn't know at least one of these. Since it is a lot of stairs to burn the extra bread, the exerciser is more likely to choose to not eat the extra bread.

Just a story about age-based sex.

http://news.yahoo.com/texas-ma...

Not saying it proves anything, but the timing is spot on.

By the way, just saw this article and thought it was quite coincidental in timing.

http://news.yahoo.com/texas-ma...

Actually an infinite universe does not contradict the Big Bang theory.
One explanation with a handy diagram (authored by an astrophysicist) http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wri...
Another more comprehensive answer is here https://answers.yahoo.com/ques...
And something from NASA for shiggles http://wmap.gsfc.nasa.gov/univ...

I'm certain there are plenty of other discussions of the topic. AFIK we are not yet certain that the universe is('nt) infinite, we don't even know its shape, but it is possible for it to be infinite.

Currently observational evidence points to an extremely flat universe (as flat as we can measure as yet), implying its size is tremendously larger than the Hubble Volume and allowing for an infinite universe (but obviously doesn't require it).

Old Glory Insurance. "For when the metal ones decide to come for you. And they will."

https://screen.yahoo.com/old-g...

There were in fact 7.5 million readers last time I checked.

Because the efforts are global, and the feed into other anti-vaxxers, as well as fund them.

Right, because misogynistic societies like Pakistan and Syria have a long history of giving a fuck what women have to say...

Oh, not just women, but hedonistic Western women. Who became famous for sexual exploits.

Yea, sure, that's the ticket...

If you have to push the brake pedal down all the way to trigger the 'keep cranking until start' mode, you couldn't pop-start since the car wouldn't be moving :)

If the starter works, why would you want to pop-start the car? The idea is that the starter isn't working, for whatever reason. So you press the button twice to switch the ignition to "ON" mode, put the transmission in 2nd gear, step on the clutch, get a friend to push your car (or roll it down a hill), then slowly release the clutch. No brakes are involved. This page has some more details on the process.

Google never made it easy to suck up data from the web and throw it on their spreadsheets.

Yahoo Pipes was much better, and other smaller software firms that went out of business.

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/

Google only does search & ads.

Even programming languages: they hired Rob Pike. The man couldn't get the first one right (C), and that's supposed to be cutting-edge?!

Menawhile, Facebook is using D internally, and Microsoft rolled out F#...Google is mentally broken. Too many Java programmers at the GOOG - that's what happens: a bunch of dead-ends.

Like sheep! Baaaah. Silly primates with their ordinal fixation, it was inevitable for the counters of cows and sheep to become counters of protons.

"How is everything that is different different from everything else?" Fair question, perhaps the ultimate question. So we started with four elements: "One, two... three... four! A ha ha ha ha!" says the Count. Then we got real and stuffed the periodic table with critters.

Q: How do I find the number of protons? A: You look it up in a table of the elements, silly! Baaa, wrong answer. Q: How did the scientists count the number of protons? A: They counted them just like you would, one by one. Baaaa. Wrong answer but I wish I'd said it. Q: Is there a certain way to count the protons in an element when identifying them? A: [quoted below] now we're getting somewhere...

[Bruce Alexander] There is a technique called mass spectrometry that is pretty good at counting protons, albeit indirectly. If you take an element, and strip of an electron you make it slightly positively charged. If you ping it through a gap between two oppositely charged plates (one negatively charged, and one positively charged), then the positively charged element will be repelled by the positive plate and attracted to the negatively charged plate. How fast the element moves towards the negative plate depends on how heavy the element is and, as the weight of an element depends on how many protons it has (as well as neutrons) you can 'count' the number of protons by measuring how fast the element moves towards the negative plate.

Okay so you're confidently shaving off what you think is an individual electron, observing the behavior of the resulting mass to infer a number of what you presume are individual protons. Q: How many decimal places of surety does this give us that in fact we are dealing with an ordinal number of things that act out on a linear scale? I wonder. How many electron licks does it take to get to the proton center of an atom-pop? Let's ask Mr. Owl. Mr. Owl just bit and swallowed the damned thing. Then I passed out of boring ordinal space into dream-time. In my dream I wondered how the fabric of reality knits together. Is the Hand Of God counting, "a-one, a-two, a-threee... crunch!" for every atom? What is the Hand with those wiggly ordinal fingers? Then I thought of entropy and radiation, the dances of the little electron chicks in their shells.

In order to build an atomic firmament suitable for every day use -- a quantum boundary of is-ness below which things are not just made of smaller things, al absurdium, nature must change the rules. At this boolean primordial level there can only be is-ness and is-not-ness, one and zero so the only way to change the rules is to NEGATE them. In other words, a flav fly groovy flip in which things are different from other things because of the absence of something, not the presence of something. Bizarre. What would that something that is absent, be? Because I like prime numbers one meta-universal topic came to mind. It may be the only possible answer.

FACTORABILITY. What if... what we know as discrete atomic elements are the shapes of relative stability that are BEST represented -- not by ordinal proton count -- but by prime numbers, as islands in a seething quantum foam, their stability arising by nature's inability to factor them further? What if the quantum firmament is continually 'factoring' thing

If cyber "war" has replaced nuclear war then that is an excellent trade. Even John Kerry was waxing nostalgic for the Cold War the other day. What a joke! Are people that dumb? Have we so quickly forgotten what it was like to face a REAL threat of annihilation and actual global destruction? I would take another 9/11 over another Cuban Missile Crisis any day of the week. Let alone some computer hacking.

life will find a way...

I love the movie but HATE that saying from Jurassic Park. (Snippet here.)

It does, unless it doesn't.

Concrete example? Let's just ask the dinosaurs... (They've had their time? But I though you said they could find a way.) Or, lets ask starfish about something odd that's currently attacking part of the population.. Something's out to get them; hopefully the starfish can mount defenses.

"What doesn't kill me makes me stronger" is a much better quote, I think -- but notice that living is one of two options. And in any case evolution doesn't care a whit about individuals.

Finally, a life that you better hope doesn't find a way: ebola. (Virus vs Life discussion, anyone?)

Just because the article is a terrible piece objectively and doesn't link to any hard data doesn't mean the data doesn't exist. There are plenty of data to suggest that tablet use isn't the best for kids' brains. Enough evidence to suggest that ANYTHING else would be better, including (OHMYGAWD) playing with LEGOs.

Science tends to disagree.

Use IMAP.

Yes.

Cargo Cults.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://answers.yahoo.com/ques...

And for fun, The Gods Must be Crazy. :)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...

It's not just "plausible", but in fact likely, that the FBI has a lead that there are Russians operating in Boston.

yes.

Putin is wearing the Patriots' owner's Super Bowl ring as we speak: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/...

What you just described is a huge farce.

The unnaturally high liquidity being created by HFT is actually being supported by most of the exchanges (through kick-back fees) not because it makes it easier for investors to buy and sell shares, but because the HFT is hiding a huge market correction that has been happening since 2009.

While billions of dollars in shares are being passed along at high speed, the rate of decline on shares during a correction slows to a crawl because it is hiding investor sentiment beneath the high speed veil. Since you can make more money on a stock gaining (sky is the limit) over declining (zero is the bottom), almost all of the HFT is aimed at gains and not losses.

So, over the last five years, the HFTs have been pumping stock prices up while actual volume of trades HAS DECLINED.

Look at any graph of stock trade volume over the last 10 years. You will see a very steady downward trend on volume and an unnatural upward trend on stock prices.

http://finance.yahoo.com/echar...^DJI+Interactive#symbol=^DJI;range=5y (Hit Max)

You might also notice two huge days of volume on December 6th and 19th of 2013. If you can figure out what happened on those two days, you'll discover where your parent's retirement went.

This article has a much better photo, including the "drone" right after it smacked into the guy's head.

And CASA is investigating the damn-fooled-accident. The competitor is extremely lucky she wasn't killed.

"I have lacerations on my head from the drone and the ambulance crew took a piece of propeller from my head," she said.

The stock price has dropped quite a bit in the last few days, but it's still above the average for the last year and a lot higher than it was this time last year. It's hard to draw intelligent conclusions from the Facebook stock price, it's better to use it as a source of entropy for your random number generator...

Hey, man, it's not like this is Pakistan...

Back when the aptera was a possibility, they removed the mirrors in favor of camera for the aerodynamic gains. (Aptera was a very aerodynamic car so the gains were real). Unfortunately, state laws didn't allow it everywhere, so they had to put them back on.

Also, mirrors aren't that simple. Even in many low end cars, they have electronics to move them around in the meantime for the driver and I'm it can break. Mirror themselves often are poorly made and lose their finish (see this on vans and the like).

So I think a nonmoveable camera might actually work better if it has a wide angle.

Right now, someone designed a mirror without blindspots that wouldn't cost much to implement, but current law doesn't allow for that either.

https://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/...

So I would be pleased if the law does change to allow both/more flexibility.