Guy had a long time blog on automotive lighting issues and technology. From him I learned to be glad there are experts who know and care more than I can. G**gle his name and learn.

Who says property is sacred? Not rentiers. Not only commoditize everything, but convert everything into a revenue flow. And shut it down when the revenue stops.

The incentive for me is I can do other things. When I drive, I focus on driving and the radio/podcast/audio book. If someone, or something, else drives, I could read a real book, nap, do email, play games, whatever.

As others have mentioned, it also greatly reduces a huge point of failure in the whole driving thing . . . driver fatigue, human error, etc. No more opening the window in freezing temperatures and sipping on the 5th cup of gas station coffee to make it to your parents for the holiday . . .

Argh, correct link for the blink(1) Kickstarter - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thingm/blink1-the-usb-rgb-led

Purchase link: http://buy.thingm.com/blink1 (out of stock, was $30)

The BlinkStick mentioned in the original is $16

The Dream Cheeky was $10 (I think I paid 9 on a woot sale)

There was a kickstarter, blink(1) a little over a year ago that did the same thing - http://stackexchange.com/leagues/1/year/stackoverflow/2013-01-01/759517#759517 (and in a nicer package).

I wanted something similar (visual cues for meeting reminders; my "email" system is on a KVM with other "dev" systems). I ended up getting the Dream Cheeky 815 USB Webmail Notifier (http://www.dreamcheeky.com/webmail-notifier) - the thing is designed for email notifications with webmail, but there's an Apache License 2.0 driver and helper app (http://dreamcheekyusb.codeplex.com/), which worked fine to drive the thing - the little command line app that uses the driver had enough functionality (gradual on, color change, and blink) that I didn't need to write any real code.

A little macro scripting, and it was working fine with Outlook.

A little bigger that the other solutions, so maybe not great for a rack (though it's probably about 1U so it would work fine), but works nice sitting on my desk under my displays . . .

Genes, being a part of a species' DNA, ought to be considered 'prior art' and unpatentable.

Don't know why this is modded "troll". Poster is talking about a Pigouvian tax, raising prices to reflect external costs not captured in the market price.

Collusion may be explicit or implicit but antitrust laws should be written and enforced so that no one firm has the market power to lead or lower prices.

But it's not just about hedging bets.

It's about learning, using science as a technique that has most bearing on the physical world, and using other tools (including religion, social science, literature, and art) on the non-physical world.

(Yes, for any being with senescence, a non-physical world exists).

I used Windows ME for a year or two and it was perfectly fine, so...

True, the web cams are still active. http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html