Some cars with keyless ignition do have column locks. My 2008 Lexus ES350 auto-locks the column:
1. if I shut down the car before opening the door, the act of opening the door locks the column.
2. if I shut down the car after opening the door, the car dings at me with the seatbelt chime, warning me that the column is unlocked. Upon shutting the door after exiting the car, the column locks.

I have a somewhat related issue.

Google has my cell number anyway (they forward google voice calls to it), but they INSIST that the initial verification to setup 2factor be by SMS/text, which I have blocked on the cell itself. Maybe that is to verify its a cell, and not a landline.

And aside from my other reply, what if you don't HAVE a cellphone?

There is a disturbing trend toward providing a cellphone number being a requirement to obtain various kinds of goods or services, especially in various online forms, without any allowance for an individual to specify that they do not own a cellphone (or perhaps any phone) and therefore do not have a number to provide. The form designers seem ignorant of the fact that sometimes the 100% accurate and valid answer to "What is your cell phone number?" is "I do not have one" and design the forms to be incapable of accepting and processing that answer.

Even in cases where someone DOES have a phone, sometimes the 100% accurate and valid answer to "what is your number?" is "none of your damn business, its private, you don't need to call me and even if you think you do I don't authorize or enable you to do so".

Yeah? And what if the reason you lost both your phone and computer is because they were in your house which burned down, as did your printed out pre-generated codes?

How do you log back in after that?

Can't work for me.

I have a celI rarely use text, so paying $15 for a chunk of texts I'll never use is stupid.
I'd allow pay-per-text, but only if I only had to pay to SEND - I refuse to pay per-message for someone ELSE (perhaps spammers) sending to me.
As a result, I have texts/SMS through my cell carrier BLOCKED.
Instead, I use google voice for the one or two people I *occasionally* have to send or receive a text from.

Heck, I don't even use my direct cell number for calls - I consider the number disposable, and use the google voice number instead. If I have to switch cell carriers, no mess giving people a new number - only one or two direct family members, for use in the very rare instance where there was an emergency AND google voice was down.

So this is completely useless to me - trying to use the GV number for the 2-factor would be problematic since I have to have access to my google account to be able to see those text anyway.

Something which helps protect against someone else accessing my account is great, but it absolutely has to first have an absolutely failsafe way of ensuring that *I* never lose access to it. Printed-out codes can be lost, as can cellphones and dongles.

Right now my solution is to have a very good password which I absolutely remember. I suppose if I were to ever lose my memory that could be an issue too.

I don't know what the solution is. Clearly neither does google or anyone else.

What about something that I've thought about? Using a cheapie Android phone (i.e. pay as you go, can get an LG Fuel - rootable - for $10 on sale from time to time). Obviously only if you're really into digging into coding if you want absolute security, but I'm sure there's something out there perhaps pre-packaged in an app to do what you want. I've thought of this as a sort of hacked-together security system for home just to upload video of anyone coming and going from the house. And yes, I know it's not really security - but honestly, I'll defer to a monitored service if I want the "security" portion.

I've had late 90s motherboards (think AMD Athlon xxxxXP chip timeframes) from asus with bad caps; had a customer who loved to keep equipment well past serviceable date blow a few up. Since then, Gigabyte boards with solid caps - haven't had a bad board since, even though I've read reviews of others on newegg/amazon with some DOA concerns.

Ditto with EVGA; bought 2 cards direct, no issues - however if I have a choice at the time of build, I'll usually go with something with a quieter than stock aftermarket cooler attached. EVGA has (had?) a trade up program, but I upgrade so rarely that I've never taken them up on it.

Agreed; I recently started wearing earplugs on my fairly silent bike due to wind noise. Very shocked with just how fatigued my ears would get on a 3+ hour ride prior.

Motorcycles don't inherently have to be noisy. In fact, from the dealer floor - most harleys are pretty tame. (note: not a harley rider, and I detest anyone who thinks loud pipes save lives. No. No they don't.)

What's done in some instances is that they'll make a "sport shifting" mode that is selectable and it forces the CVT into locked gear ratios like a normal transmission.

My wife and I have had a Ford Freestyle for quite some time now, and it is slightly different from a normal auto... in fact her drive in the car on the way home she was doing 80mph on the freeway because she wasn't used to the sound yet!

If I'm not mistaken, I think that was the Gamecube.

After reading, there's some back and forth about it. People speak of the same rotational direction, but potential reading outside in rather than inside out as in normal discs. The bigger deal is a "barcode" or region of keys that are used to decrypt the image potentially...

Isn't one of the "anti-piracy" measures for a console to load up specialized firmware in each system's drive? Using one system's drive might trigger the other system to see it as a non-native console drive and puke as well.

BUFFER UNDERRUN

Had a fairly high end machine at work at the time; pentium pro 200 + all SCSI inside. Seagate 1.2GB drives x2 and a cd burner. Oh how buffer underruns used to piss me off.

Hmmm.. exploding lens flares... it might just work!

A lot of the safety on the Autobahn is built into the rules; specifically two rules that are almost always followed:

1. You do not pass on the right.
2. You only stay in the left lane to pass, otherwise you stay in the right lane.

Additionally, the areas that the Autobahn touches have much stricter driving licence requirements - in addition to fines for motorists caught violating the above rules. If these rules were able to be enabled within the confines of say the United States (where I am) it could help drivers with enabling better traffic flow, even given the slower limits imposed here.