you are wrong thinking you can't be pulled over even when others are speeding or even going faster than you. Illinois troopers can and do single out a person who is speeding regardless of what others are doing. I have a friend who gets nailed every other year driving to wisconsin and he only "keeps up with the flow of traffic. By the way, each trooper writes average of 72 tickets a day, if they're slow on the "quota" for the day they may start grabbing nearest offenders. sucks, yup.

And the new law for 2014 about going 26 MPH or more over limit and getting jail time and fine, scary stuff.

he admits the rough edges already, and has improved the language.

(no not a c++ fan, suffered much with it at job)

Glad to hear you survived! ^^;

ISPs chose their flat-rate business model; Netflix didn't force it on them. If that business model no longer works, ISPs should switch to a different one.

Nah, Netflix used to use other CDNs. But then they got big enough that it was cheaper to build their own.

That's orthogonal to the issue that (in most people's opinion) no CDN should have to pay broadband ISPs.

The "Here I am" message is insufficient for coordinating between vehicles. And as I mentioned localization using GPS, even differential GPS, is not reliable enough or fail safe enough for collision avoidance. ... Because some percentage of the time cars will be giving you bogus location messages. At some point message protocols for coordinating actions between vehicles does make sense. In addition to highway drafting, vehicles could use some protocol to more efficiently merge or change lanes. I just don't see transmitting absolute position and velocity being something good to base a system around. Autonomous vehicles need to be allowed to get established without V2V. As they are doing now. Don't hobble them by making them rely on a poorly conceived notion. Getting to a fail safe V2V for Here I Am messages is a very steep and expensive curve compared to a camera and proximity sensor based system which would be more closely following Moore's law.

you are truly naive, HIPAA doesn't even mandate encryption. the max is $250K penalty for repeat violations if corrected within certain time frame. in other words, no teeth.

offtopic to raise possibility of feds using tech to stop or crash your car? the mods have limited imaginations

no need to "cut it", you can get arrested and fined for doing that on I-294. In fact, for five miles over limit on I-294.

-- 50 year resident of Chicago area

I think the V2V proposal should be scrapped altogether. It would take decades to implement, be very expensive (at hundreds of dollars per car) and it won't actually make cars safer compared with relatively simpler collision avoidance using cameras and other relatively cheap proximity sensors that don't rely on everyone else having functioning V2V systems in their car.

Autonomous cars have cameras and other fail safe sensors they can rely on. GPS is for navigational way points and route planning. Just getting a signal from another car that it is at a certain position is not a sufficient replacement for actually seeing that car with a camera. In all cases I would program that car to trust the camera and distrust the V2V and if it didn't have a camera then the car should stop as safely as it can and not continue to try and drive automatically. GPS is better for navigational way points where precision on the scale of feet and inches is not as important. For collision avoidance in close proximity you want to rely on sensors.

200K is one percent of 20M, and that 20M not from a single vendor as 1992 the year everyone and their uncle jumped into PC market as price plummeted

Did you know Apple was considered part of the PC market in 1992, and had whopping 19 percent share? That's wasn't an intel platform.

couple white house mandate with their assuming power to kill anyone without due process, and things are coming together nicely for a robust fascist police state

You can't climb a ladder and take pics of some girl sunbathing in her backyard legally if she is behind a privacy fence that you had to go out of your way to see over, that includes using a drone to do so.

Who said a ladder is required? From the second floor of a house you can often see much of a neighbors yard when there is only a man sized fence.

Sometimes a bigger fence is required, just ask Todd Palin: http://xfinity.comcast.net/blo...

Fark isn't, and hasn't been, relevant in nearly a decade. This is just Drew, the whiny owner of Fark, bending over backwards to please advertisers. This is a PR move, based on money, nothing more.

yeah that was my first thought, totally perverted. things involving webcams and internet are counted as startups