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sorry I was a little sarcastic... but for passengers, they can always contest their tickets later... just like they have to do with red-light camera tickets.

Your cellphone usage should be automatically linked to your car's GPS data and automatically bill you every time you use it while driving ? this is not that hard, I am sure the NSA already has all that data

before they partnered with the NSA, it used to be P2P to save server bandwidth... But I don't think the problem is with the company being a partner with the NSA, the problem is that the powers of the NSA are too broad (they can force companies to participate in these mass-surveillance programs, or throw them in jail).

Why not put an expiration date on the digital books while they're at it so that they can possibly charge you 3 times (or more) for the same book.

it eventually loads in Firefox 17 but it is yellow for a fraction of a second (probably javascript that is slow to load?)

this is so true... like if you use port knocking, how can that not increase security

I hope that they put a backdoor in it so that they can learn about European secrets...

Physical property rights do expire. The builder gets paid for each new creation only once. He doesn't make one building and get paid every time someone wants to visit it, for example.

Do you also think that copyright lasting 2,000 years would be fine as long as it is not retroactive? I know it doesn't make sense to me...

you can use a wireless/usb mouse and keyboard with a laptop or [windows] tablet and its pretty close to a PC... you can also use an external monitor on many of them. PCs need to become the size of a raspberry pi, that's all.

Hydrogen can be safely stored without using high pressures.

For example: "Hydrides chosen for storage applications provide low reactivity (high safety) and high hydrogen storage densities." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_storage#Chemical_stor....

It almost seems like Elon doesn't like fuel cells because of his battery investments.

Did you set the default megapixel setting for the camera lower then 41?

how about: business? you can add an adjective when it is large enough

jet engine model made on a 3D printer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rX4xv5-NvE

Do you really expect to learn about open bugs by reading HN?

the link that you provided is very broken in my Firefox (which doesn't mean it's broken for everybody of course)

new accounts with 0 karma can't upvote either... you can test it by upvoting a submission and refreshing the page.

I noticed that with a new user account the upvote arrow disappears when I click it, but if I refresh the page it comes back and you can see that it didn't really upvote.

I am happy with the fraction of bitcoin that I received for free.. maybe one day it will be worth cashing in, but hopefully not.

if bitcoins would ever become the primary world currency, I think you would be doing pretty good either way, even at 0.05 bitcoin

Because something is legal doesn't make it right... Google it...

would you blame Google if they gave money to legislators for allowing this kind of tax evasion scheme?

I am not worried about criminals... they are a danger to everybody else.

The worst part of Google software is the included always running updater program which in addition to using unnecessary resources, probably does other unknown tasks (spyware related).

They need to make the desktop monitors as small as phone screens for this to be acceptable.

Maybe it's only one year when there is no chance that the data becomes useful in the future... which would mean that it isn't one year.

I have noticed the same and I am having more and more difficulty to find exactly what I want in the first result page. The disappearance of the minus and plus operators is probably the major reason for me not getting the results that I want.

I wish the 1998 Google page that made the front page on HN was real (with updated index of course).

the article shows for me with Disqus disabled

this could easily be automated to make sure you don't miss a day if you keep a commit buffer offline

Blocking outgoing traffic for all applications except the ones that need the Internet can make a difference, especially under Windows. For example, some applications like to phone home for no benefit to the user and there is sometime no option to turn it off.

The option to block traffic per-application in Linux is no longer included in iptables (I think it was the switch --cmd-owner )