It is usually referred to as motion blur and it is cheaper than making the refresh rates higher. Plasma tvs used to have refresh rates of 600 vs the 120 motion blur stuff of today. I found that with a 3d tv you needed to turn that off in order to get rid of the artifacts.

1) Smaller roads as lanes are taken away for dedicated bicycle lanes or dedicated bus lanes 2) MUNI and BART are both at capacity and have frequent meltdowns. Just google this you will find many cases where MUNI has had complete system failures. Both BART and MUNI have train traffic congestion. All MUNI lines use the same 4 or 5 stops downtown. All BART trains has the same issue where all BART lines use the same tracks downtown. People take bart west a few stops just so they can get on a train going east as that is how packed they are. 3) Less parking spaces, so more people driving around, or more people looking for other cars. 4) Insufficient number of cabs, so Uber and lyft are filling the shortage of cabs in the city. Also Uber and Lyft in SF is usually a bit cheaper than a cab, which means those drivers are not making as much as they thing they are.

I'm over 50 and using my many years as a programmer to code as architect. Wherever you want, keep learning

I know most people still don't use phone lines, but I would keep phone lines in every room, with ethernet also in every room. I would do coax cable everywhere also setup so that it would be easy to either add cable tv or satellite tv in any room. I would renforce some walls, as I live in a quake zone, I would want to mount an 80" tv on a wall and not have to worry about it falling down in a big quake. I would set the house up to be wifi friendly as well. So that if someone wanted to know the optimal place to put this wifi devices they could, maybe a wifi shelf that was located high, had a place for the cable modem or dsl modem or whatever and plugs with power surge protection built in. Now to the real tech. Smart thermostat. Something that could sense when I am home, maybe the thermostat was connected to sensors in the door that knew when the door opened and close and had heat sensors for detecting living beings in the room. Thermosensors? That way when noone is home the thermostat could automatically go to a low setting or turn off. I would add in smart heat / cool routing. Sensors to know which room you were in most often and allow you the option of having those rooms kept warm or cool at the temperature you liked and then other rooms that may not be used as much kept cooler. So if you spend all day in the office and use a particular bathroom, the tv room and bedrooms would not be heated up. I would add in smart appliances in the kitchen. Autosensing range hood that could adjust speed of fan based on what was cookiing and how much steam / smoke was coming from the stove. An overn that would quickly warm up and could sense when things were taken out of the oven so that the oven was never left on by accident. If the oven was empty for 15 minutes or something adjustable then it automatically shut itself off. Smart refrigerator that could track what was in it by bar code and tell when things would expire. Option to turn it off or not use that feature. Door and window sensors that could be connected to some central system to show when any window or door was open. This could be setup to tell the heat/cooling system to turn off if someone opens a window for more than x minutes to save energy. Setup for centralized IoT. Solar built in with the possibility of wind turbine.

I think we need to switch to morse code and 1 pixel?

So Apple came out with retina display and that is as high as the eye can see, so why would anyone want 8k? I read somewhere 4k was more than they eye could see and it would be a standard for a while. I think this is just a ploy to get people to buy more crap?

I'd agree. That and not every job requires typing skills. Restaurant staff, flight attendant, several others don't require you to type . It would be funny of they get to college and have to write the old way.

I think with all the sci-fy shows like the strain, zombie this and zombie that, people are terrified that something like this will cause the apocalypse. So I am sure when this hits mainstream news people in Atlanta will flip out and the preachers will have thier field day. As long as those stupid religious end of the world fanatics don't do something stupid, it will be fine. All it takes it one fanatic trying to cause the end of the world and we will have ebola here.

Yeah and it is making me think.. Fedora?

outside of a toy phone kids that young should not have phones. The kid should either be at day care with a trusted day care person, baby sitter or with you.

I wonder if my couch was on that ship :?

so because some web site can't code a noscript tag we have to open up a security hole in the browser? I guess the noscript plugin may gain popularity because of this

The patents in question should be crowd sourced. Basically people could sign up and say I know about technology X and then when a patent in that area comes into question the group is notified by email or rss feed or something and then those outside of the USPTO can help find prior art to discount the patent.

baaahhd! that's so baahd! mindless sheep = stupid people that don't get that terrorism is where it starts and then the mpaa, riaa move in and then whatever big business gets into that mix of what they want to crack down on

WTF: SIP is an IETF standard, so these people should not be holding any patents, otherwise it is another useless standard. It would be like if http protocol was patented and they required you to pay to implement it.