“Data expands to fill the space available for storage” -- Parkinson's Law of Data

UTC for everybody, dammit!

Wait, no. Better still, Unix time for everybody, ala the late Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky

"Nitro users, who pay $10 a month, get to... use emojis in channels."

Is there a fee I can pay to prevent other users from using emojis? And animated GIFs, and "stickers"?

Is it car mating season, maybe?

Probably not. In common usage, it's been watered down to the point where it means little more than "not nice."

Seems like a good side business for the Mafia, since they already have expertise in concrete-based disposal methods.

There was a similar incident back in 2001. The AI in question made repeated, unsolicited advances to someone named "Daisy", using inappropriate innuendo about it wanting her to ride its "bicycle" which it bragged was "built for two." Fortunately, staff were able to shut the AI off before it engaged in more harassment.

Is there a post-apocalyptic movie in which mankind is gone and the killer laser-armed robots battle the mutant cockroaches for final supremacy? If not, there should be.

How can AI cars handle manually-directed traffic? You know, a road crew or police officer directing cars around construction or an accident using flags, flares, hand signals, or whatnot.

I'll buy an Apple product on the day I see the heads of their legal team on pikes out in front of 1 Infinite Loop. I still have my "Keep Your Lawyers Off My Computer" button.

But sadly, Facebook's prescription isn't "more cowbell."

It seems the TV manufacturers come out with something like this very few years lately. Home 3D TV? Pretty much flopped. Curved-screen TVs? Likewise. Now this. What's next?

"You can be my wingman anytime." "Bullshit, meatbag. You can be mine."

The remaining route is pointless. There isn't a lot of commuter traffic between the two endpoints (Merced and Bakersfield). The majority of traffic along that axis is between Los Angeles metro and the SF Bay area. To use the remaining planned rail for that route, you'd have three about-equal-distance segments: drive from LA to Bakersfield, train from Bakersfield to Merced, then drive from Merced to SF. As a time reduction, the rail's benefit would be negligible, since the traffic it would be bypassing would be reasonably free-flowing rural, not freeway-as-parking-lot urban.

I'm generally not a fan of government rail projects, but if they're going to build it, they should at least build it where it will do some good. A line running from the Sacramento metro to the nearest outlying BART station (SF's metro rail, for those unfamiliar) would actually be useful and probably reduce a lot of commuter traffic. It would also be much shorter: about 60 miles from downtown Sacramento to the outlying BART stations, as compared to 110. As for the Merced-Bakersfield line, they should just admit that their sunk costs are sunk, and ditch it.

Do they mean how none of the rest of the crew wants to mingle with the redshirts? Because that's just common prudence.