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Believe me, I understand that dedicated roadways would become a huge, ridiculous rat's nest of red tape, and pork barrel money pits. And probably a Robert Moses character might eme…

We need time to mature this technology. Household home-ec bots are a safe start to a bold plan. Autonomy is an ambitious project. Large heavy machinery is an unnecessarily risky en…

Yes, yes. We're all so high and mighty. Each of us knows more than the other, in an endless moebius strip of circular genius. Gee whiz! I never heard of roombas! How do they work? …

I'm not going to dodge the premise of your quandary, which is that accountability and responsibility are necessary components of a civilized society, and that idealizing anonymity …

I wish people would just give up on this self-driving car business for now. We don't even want autonomous robots in our house, pitter pattering about like toddlers, at 3 miles an h…

It's still an important component of human-oriented societies, to permit the individual to inform you of who they claim to be. You rob individuals of agency, when you start dictati…

... or "roughly three months" for that matter. I wonder, in the final days and hours, what the amount of impact individual seconds have on a given image. Do the sensors record the …

Turing tarpits aside, people speak very highly of C, just as they may do the same for assembly, but depending on context. Languages fill a niche, and outside of their area of utili…

The meme is becoming lame. Talentless developers who fight and argue are the only real hazard in the world of programming. Mature trends and languages have attracted decades of dev…

You're right. I skimmed the numbers too fast.

A utility worker's laptop suffering an intrusion is something that should be investigated earlier, rather than later. I'd rather hear about false alarms, early and often, since I'm…

So, an English corrolary for a similarly named fictitious zone in Hawaii might be? Flamablish Fields

Involving hundreds of employees in the handling of millions of credit card transactions, regardless of however trivial the goods may seem, requires caution.

That's a big number, way too large for anyone to take personally in an emotional sense. But it's definitely big enough for a purge. Jailing, disappearances and more. This is a pret…

It's policy document regarding the company's Standard Operating Procedures for conducting post-mortems on "incidents," which is technical parlance for investigating SNAFU's, major …

Only in so many words. It was a block. It was made of wood, and it was a real thing you could hold in your hands.

125th Street really, really needs some cross town service. Something connecting all the way from Riverside Drive/Henry Hudson Parkway passing through the 125th Metro North Railroad…