Some cars stop the engine when idling at the lights to save fuel. It sounds like the cut off device can't tell the difference between that and turning the key to the off position.

As for the highway stuff, I expect development was farmed out to the lowest bidder and they didn't bother with extensive testing, so it's not hard to believe.

Of course you blame the people who put the clamp (boot) on. Look, parking in the wrong place is bad, but making the car impossible to drive is going way too far. It's also counter productive since now it can't be moved from the space except by tow truck.

A fine is one thing. People make mistakes, they are under a lot of stress (in the example the woman's daughter had a life threatening disease and she was probably in debt from paying for treatment) and this sort of thing just makes it worse.

People keep saying this but never present any evidence. At best you get a few pathetic links to YouTube videos that don't offer any sources, or are told to "just google it" but when you do it's all stupid blog posts and bullshit.

The goal is to "catch" people before they commit a crime, i.e. when they are only thinking about it and no-one has been hurt yet. Therefore thought needs to be criminalized.

There are forum posts detailing how it was done and offering to do it if people can supply email addresses. It worked by brute forcing passwords, which for celebs isn't hard because you can find the name of their boyfriend or pet with Google. Then software from Elcomsoft was used to download the data from icloud, including deleted images that were in old backups etc.

Expect it all to be spelled out in detail in the inevitable lawsuits. It will be interesting to see what the dignity of a celebrity is worth.

It's interesting how the narrative has become "an attack on gamers" simply by people like you repeating it so often. The assault on Ms. Quinn is quite unprecedented I think, and Anita Satkeesian actually goes out of her way to point out that most gamers don't hate women and even the developers are mostly just lazy rather than malicious.

Of course none of that matters. The professional victims like Thubdetf00t have too much to gain, and it's easy when your audience has too short an attention span to view the original material you are criticising.

You assume an awful lot there, which I think is more telling of your attitude than anything. Maybe it's time you dropped the victim angle and tried to address the actual issue being discussed here.

They gave everyone a free rubber bumper to fix the antenna problems, without admitting that there was a problem. In this case they would have to give out free cargo pants or a lanyard case to suspend the phone around the user's neck.

Actually Fukushima did plan for loss of the pumps and had alternative cooling in operation when the reactors melted. The problem was that water pumped in by external pumps (fire engines) never reached the reactors because of damage done during the earthquake.

There have been cases in the UK of people using the Sale of Goods Act with software. Bugs are expected, but if it fails to do the job it claims to do to a reasonable standard the SOGA applies.

In this case firmware wouldn't really be an issue. The thing doesn't work properly. There is a login page which needs credentials and basic security, but the security is faulty. It's like a lock that is easily bypassed - if you paid more than a few quid for it you can reasonably expect more.

If there is one thing Australia is not short of it's space. What they need is an inland sea for pumped storage.

I want it. Internet connected air con is the greatest thing since sliced bread. I can turn it on ten minutes before I get home, or switch the heating in my car on before I go out and while it is still plugged in to the wall.

The security is fixable. I don't see Leafs or Model Ss getting hacked left, right and centre. Nor my smart TV or air con for that matter. Maybe because I chose good manufacturers who care about security.

Hopefully people will exercise their legal rights to correct this kind of thing. For example, goods must be "fit for purpose" and of "reasonable quality". In other words, security must be reasonably effective.

Could be even more interesting if you paid to have it installed.