My son recently started working for Google, working on backend systems. Should be an interesting job.

Michael Valentine Jones (11/12/2010)

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It’s just a matter of time until it is possible. Faster processors, better sensors, more sophisticated algorithms are all being worked on now, and the financial...

Or knowing the difference. A system...

steven.malone (11/10/2010)

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The routes are fixed, and need to be virtually linear. Compare that with buses, which can go virtually anywhere and can alter routes to suite changing ridership, rather than...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (11/10/2010)

There already is some of this in dense areas, with Zipcar. Seems to work very well.

The light rail works very well in Denver, and lots...

Privacy? What privacy?

Every trip you take is logged in some database.

(one of the reasons I do not use EZpass)

But there is too much variability. Have you ever had a piece...

Ben Moorhouse (10/18/2010)

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I think you need to choose who you trust with data. I would certainly trust my Mam and Dad over a data backup company.

You're right about the burglary...

it's still more fun...

Saving the data is the easy part.

The biggest part of our DR is questions of how we get the system going: the network, the production control and the customer service...

My last car had ABS and I didn't like it at all. Especially...

ron.carlton 41182 (10/13/2010)

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And the latest car ads on TV promise to build cars that will avoid accidents. Wait until these babies hit the road, then you will hear all...

edward.ahlsen-girard.ctr (10/13/2010)

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There are aircraft, mostly fighters, for which failure of the flight control computers in flight would result in catastrophic airframe failure. These are triply redundant computers, but if...

Agreed that often the media gets things incredibly wrong without doing simple back of the envelope calculation to see if it even makes sense.

Like the article a while back claiming...

I'm on board with that

It brings up an interesting experience, I was in an auto parts store with my 4 year old...

mbenish245 (10/6/2010)

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And I do wish we had younger woemn going into IT. My 16 year old, who I think could be a doctor, lawyer, etc. is looking at...