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I am referencing specifically Diablo canyon since it was mentioned in the article, but a lot of energy plants need huge water sources. This is either for emergency procedures or efficiency which makes them attractive to build pretty much anywhere there's ocean or water - which happens to be where most fault lines are in California.

On top of the problems outlined in the article... I don't understand how people in my state of California can sit easy with this concept knowing what happened to Japan/Fukashima just over a decade ago. What is the thinking that we can run a nuclear power plant on a major fault line (eg:Diablo Canyon) any better than the Japanese (corrupt company or not - in commercial energy business I take this as a given - à la ENRON).

We have wasted real estate on top of people's roofs we can safely cover with solar and wasted energy going to empty parking lots (buildings, offices, etc.). Why not work on the workable rather than throwing nuclear at the problems? Is this really the quickest and most logical action to take?

I ask these questions in earnest, I am not being paid by an oil company...

Just because a street runs parallel doesn't mean it will have all the same intersections or traffic flow as the main street. I don't specifically know the streets you're talking about from any personal experience or map, but I bet the main drag at least has a longer span through town making it an attractive route for many difference commutes by bicycle.

You have an excellent point about who is willing to moderate versus someone who is actually fit for the job. I feel the concept it lost on a lot of people and too many look at it as another webforum or social media. There is something to be said about using curated link aggregation instead of a blog or forum. Ultimately expressing myself through other people's submissions is pretty cool and I like to think my ("my") subreddit has gradually reached that point.

I think this problem is nonexistent to an autonomous car. A situation where the car has a choice to hit something would never happen. The only times humans have that choice is if we don't look far ahead enough or our field of view is impaired.

Sure, autonomous cars may eventually hit something. But if they do it will be totally out of their control, by design. We can make them see further, stay focused, and be cautious. Humans can't always do that, and that's why we have to constantly choose our lesser evils.

I do many of these functions with just the usual Google voice commands. It's not as fancy, but making it into a separate app instead of making the features more accessible seems silly.

Infographic has it all:

[✓] Trojan horse in physical, symbolic, form.

[✓] Fluffy cloud to represent network "stuff".

[✓] Shopping cart full o' ca$h.

I agree. Frankly, if these become popular to the extent predicted in the article, I think pushing the privacy issue may potentially be the Glass' greatest potential accomplishment.

That's a silver lining no matter how you see the potential in 'Glass.

Pidgin/gaim fan here - thank you. I think I started using it just before the time of the name change and it's had an enormously positive impact on my life. That might sound silly but it was one of the few Linux programs I knew how to install and configure at the time.

My roommate bought a Nest about 6 months ago and I haven't seen any real potential or usefulness out of it. It doesn't actually add functionality to my HVAC system, just more ways to complete what simple function my old thermostat could do -- with more points of failure.

I want to believe this is either a plane or a satellite.

http://bit.ly/1ffbpQH

I think it's only potential power. People have to organise to realize that power into fruition and in the US that's a whole can of worms. This is great proof of concept.

If displaying sponsored tiles within Firefox is to make any impact beyond sounding scandalous to it's user-base, it has already failed. Firefox is a program for people who actively avoid these things and custom tailor their web browsing experience.

Mozilla would be better off filling those blank tiles with donate links.

He's being facetious.

This one made me laugh.

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:bnqK1ZVJS...

>Sooner or later it will be one of you reading this. :)

O_O ...

This game would be a lot more enjoyable with music that matched the theme. Impressive performance for flash.

>Their kids are dead, their grandkids are dead, their great-grandkids are probably also gone.

Well, my grandma was born in 1919. Close enough?

>"No the sums don't add up. Tax payers will subsidise some of the costs and Google will undoubtedly analyse the traffic to deliver yet even more personalised advertising. The local government will subsidise parts of the installation and make it legally as smooth as possible."

As much as I agree with you, this quote highlights something that cycles through my mind whenever I read about Google's ambitions. Basically, Google is doing and motivating people to do what our government should (and as we read, apparently somewhat can in some ways) do to improve our communications infrastructure. It annoys me to think that we could simply be building a new (potentially more neutral) fiber "highway" across the country with a similar model, run by the government. If only people weren't so afraid of government and hell bent on handing things off to private sector instead of the public sector. It's disappointing, and I feel in the very long run it could very well backfire on all of us if google succeeds and becomes the next AT&T.

Well it's a little bit of both so I think he has every reason to also attribute competition. Firefox has definitely borrowed a few ideas and motivation from Chrome, and vice versa.

You need more foods to choose from, but I suppose that's where the users come in. Very interesting app! I might sign up.

Edit: Just found some of the features I had suggested, whoops.

Steam working with hardware vendors on Linux drivers means everyone in the Linux community benefits. This is fantastic news.