As a professional with several years experience in Autonomous platforms (mining trucks, drill rigs, aircraft & rail), I can publicly state that the technology already exists for fully autonomous passenger planes and cars. The issue for lack of adoption is two fold, most of which readers of this site would already understand;

1. Government / institutional inability or unwillingness to adapt to the new technology
2. Social / cultural reluctance to knowingly hand over operational transport control to a computer

The irony is that a large percentage of systems are already heavily automated, if not fully, and it is just kept out of the public spotlight. For example, 80% of Sth Korea has a fully automated metro rail network yet US , Australia and UK passengers reject the very same tech for fear of robot drivers. Yet the Chicago airport shuttle train is fully autonomous and runs for about 1.5miles under the tarmacs shuttling passengers between two terminals. Passenger aircraft take off, landing and transits are fully automatable and land better in adverse weather than manned systems as the follow the digital beacons rather than following their 'guts' when the weather gets bad.

Back to the question, will autonomous passenger planes become a reality soon. I believe the answer is yes and a lot sooner than the public will know about. Simply continue the heavy automation root whilst dumbing down pilot / crew training until they basically become a figure head that makes the public feel like a human is in control. A generation after that, the charades ca cease as the cultural adoption catches up with the technology being implemented.

WWII line up of trains is now completed and US Civil war development has commenced. US Civil war siege gun now available...

Please note that our website is now up and running too. www.trainsofwar.com

In the next few weeks we will start accepting BTC for pre-configured rail sets!



An example of Battle Group Epsilon configuration.

ETA for launch? I would like to be on the ground floor for this one 

so is here a pooled solution to busting block 716? My 980X is munching at 2.3M for about 3 days and the best I have hit is ~18. Given diff is 68, I think some hired help might be necessary then have them throttle back as the natural mining comes online...thoughts?

so has the diff got us stuck at block 716 or is the wallet just failing to synch?

GRE producer here, just getting up to speed with the changes and happy to continue supporting the evolution of carbon abatement in which ever form it moves to.

Check your card rate against benchmarks here 
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Non-specialized_hardware_comparison

If you think the mining rate is low, check your flag settings and tweak them.

No more than the fiat system...

Is the GRcoin team planning a coin value recovery strategy? It appears to be in freeeeeeefall towards the dreaded single satoshi...

Do you have any e-commerce arrangements in place to exchange GRE for physical goods?

Do you have an advertising campaign for expanding the usage?

Nice, looking into it for a store I have in mind.

I am developing two business websites for selling both physical and electronic products and was looking for some direction on bitcoin widgets for wordpress based sites.

I have found a couple of widgets by 3rd parties however they all want to convert BTC to fiat for a fee. What I want to do is sell my product in BTC and sent the amount straight to my business BTC wallet without any middleman (basically the embodiment of the decentralised BTC movement).

Ideally, a widget that allows the user to select their crypto-coin of choice from an approved list (set by me) is desired. Basically the product is sold for $10 and you can pay in a crypto equivalent such as LTC, DOGE, Terracoin, etc...which is sent straight to my associated wallet.

Can anyone recommend a wordpress based widget that would facilitate either the BTC only or the any-crypto-coin options?

re-rolling from last month. Please continue my count, no claiming this month, as I have had a lower than normal posting count due to other commitments.

I have hot wired mine into the ATX power supply of my PC. Given the hash rate, I use mine to solo mine. aka - a lottery.

Celebrations all round begin with a massive 10 days of happiness for no other reason than I feel like having some fun. Some might say I am mad but *shrugs shoulders*, I am having some fun with the onset of summer.

To commemorate:

    the return of the humble BBQ,
    swimming,
    longs days filled with sun-shine, and
    the Photo 101 blog event.

I am making all of my ebooks free for 10 days. Just go to my smashwords site and use the coupon codes for the associated book and get it FREE until 16 Nov 2014.

Cyber Nightmares #1: For the sake of nine million > SV34D

Cyber Nightmares #2: Autonomous Chaos >SV34D

Nature Abhors a Vacuum > NK85P

Sisters of Salvation #1: Cult of Z > VP59V

All I humbly ask in return is that if you download and read a copy, please leave a review.

Please feel free to send this to everyone on the face of the Earth whom you think would be enjoy these books.

Shayne’s smashword profile (go here for the books): https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/shaynetwright

Muuuuhahahahha...crazy arse asians are always doing dodgy shit.

I have a fistfull of DDR2 and DDR3 at home, will post details tonight.

I cobble together old garden solar panels and am in the middle of converting some old ceiling fans to low power generators (~150W each). Pump everything through a small battery bank in a 400W UPS which powers the following solo mining gear (for as long as the juice is available);
1. Celeron dual core laptop
2. Jally 7GHs
3. R-box 32GHs

Using the UPS I have soft start up / shut down and the system runs about 8~14 hours per day.

I normally pool mine with this set-up but am looking to solo mine now that the returns are so low for pools.

I am on the scrounge for any old low power miners people have lying around. e.g. USB stick miners. As these only use a few Watts each, I can slowly expand the gear whilst adding more 'solar garden lights' to compensate.

Huzzah.

Link died  

Darth Vader needs a bigger universe...let the Avatar be freeeeeeee or at least a little bigger 

Feels like BTC has stalled...