Beat me to it. This is the obvious benefit. I doubt it will ever be the marketing coup that "astronaut ice cream" was, though.

What we need is another WAR! If people are too busy getting killed for real, they'll be to busy to reproduce, OR eat!

What you're missing is Grandma has to be able to figure out how to do this, too, and the fact that you may have to access those password-protected services from places where you can't use your password bank.

Disposal and proliferation. What happens when your redneck neighbor lets his nuclear-powered beater corrode in the back yard for 10 years? And do you really want someone being able to go to any car dealer to get their dirty bomb payload? The device itself, in good condition and being used properly would be superior to any car on the road now. Unfortunately when it comes into contact with reality, the dream falls to pieces.

So I can't use a Mastercard to pay for Usenet service, then?

In related news: Al Franken makes cases for everything else good in the world, and Washington ignores him.

Did you read the readmes in the torrent? The attackers claim that they took DAYS to download those passwords. That traffic didn't look unusual to anyone? Should any system anywhere that isn't either migrating that database or backing it up be looking at more than a couple of passwords in any short span of time? Regardless, this didn't draw any attention. Bug or not, there's not really any excuse here.

and it never gets posted in completely irrelevant subforums.

"IQ in the genius range"

I really wish people would stop saying things like this.

You did that by posting data that had nothing to do with the car in question? Okay.

I suppose it is difficult to reliably get a real-world testing environment colder than that. I mean, there are plenty of places that get -40 for weeks at a time, but you'd have to park your engineers in the middle of nowhere Canada or interior Alaska for months at a time to be sure they'd get their -50 or -60.

I don't think you understand how fuel economy works, or what an average is.

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/compx2008f.jsp?year=2009&make=Toyota&model=Corolla&hiddenField=Findacar

That said, I'm surprised how bad the larger engine in that year's Corolla is. You COULD average 27 in it.

But you'd still have to have no idea how to drive to get that on the highway. And keep in mind this is the new EPA testing regime, and it was entirely possible to get better than old-style EPA numbers, without driving like an asshole.

Just another reason to hate Toyota, I guess.

Uh, yeah, you are. Sometimes you've got to park all day someplace without power outlets.

It's bad for the engine, and a bad habit to get into, but on older cars (good ones, anyway), you could, assuming a good charge on the battery and the starting system in good working order, start them at LEAST as cold as -50F, without block heaters.. (That being the coldest I ever did it.)

I hope that's 27 city, because jesus christ, either there's something wrong with your car or there's something wrong with you.

Only -40? How do new cars do in REAL cold, anyway?