Recent content by BGK

It's fairly simple. INSURANCE. The insurance will pay the liability. Insuance companies themselves will be happy to insure driverless cars for the right price. Whether it costs more or less than a human driver will depend on the statistics.

Dark matter is a theory to explain OBSERVATIONS. Dark matter can be measured and its effects observed. The big bang is also a theory to explain OBSERVATIONS...it can be measured and it makes predictions. String theory can at least potentially be measured and is also predicted by math. I don't...

Did Conan get a face lift?

This game is not S.T.A.L.K.E.R. It is Stalker. It's based on the same source material so it has 'anomalies' and 'the zone,' but it is an independent project. I also was confused when I first heard of the game. Wait for Survivium is you want a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. MMO.

Okay so everyone lives a healthy lifestyle... that drastically cuts down type II diabetes, heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, pulmonary disease, and certain cancers. We are still stuck with neurodegenerative diseases (like Alzheimer's and parkinson's), other cancers, autoimmunes diseases...

Some research is risky and wont pay off for a long time (possibly not in a human lifetime). Other research has the potential to spur economic growth but wont be profitable in and of itself. The private sector avoids these types of research for the most part, yet they are important to society...

I like the "misleading" titles. They're fun.

I went with the brown switches for $61.03 shipped. Seems reasonable enough. Thanks for posting.

There are many ethical problems associated with this (most having to do with the human cloning aspect), but it's an intriguing idea and we would learn a lot from studying living neanderthals. I say do it. This isn't some crazy dude cloning his dead child, it's bringing back another subspecies of...

I'm getting a laptop paid through a scholarship, I will probably get it within the next month. I'd a like a good, powerful, all around laptop. No bigger than 15", under $3000. Right now I'm leaning towards the 15" rMBP with maxed out specs. I don't think I need the super high res (I'm doing...

Only research institutions that received the money in the form of a grant, these are usually universities, but they are always nonprofits. The universities then license the IP out to companies to commercialize. The commercialization process costs hundreds of millions of dollars or more, no for...

Why would a company invest a billion dollars in R&D to make a drig that anyone can copy for a few million if they did not have patent rights? They wouldn't. All you would have are generics of existing drugs without any new innovation. The government would be forced to take on all the R&D...

His head does look pretty big... but how would it look on your (massive) torso? Proportional.

Pretty sure these claims have been falsified at least dozen times (with blinded studies and so forth). He's just a crazy person.

She's hot (and obviously smart + ambitious too).