People will get used to it in a hurry. Too mach gain.

The statement you quote could very well be correct. Pretty much everyone will be dead at 65MPH, so at 85 you can't get deader.,

It's like the falling cat question.
How com cats the fall 13 floors seem to live as much as cats that fall out of the 6th floor? Because almost no one takes a dead cat to the vet.

America is not actually litigation happy. Stop using the news and pundits as is they are accurate.

The insurance is not that big of a deal.

The same person whose at fault when there is a issue with current cars.

If it was improperly maintained? the owner.

Manufacturer defect? The manufacturer.

Was it a random unforeseeable event? No one.

Really people, this has been solved.

"(which would be an extremely odd, and frankly, a not very believable aspect of cosmology"
says someone, every time something new is found.

"Pass me that last piece of pie, would you?"

No. Lose some weight.

OTOH, Quark's garbage route will be shorter.

I saw your bad SCI-F, and raised you :)

Since E=mc2, have a negative mass would mean negative energy.

How do you have negative energy content?

"I read an article recently about scientists saying the speed of light is not constant. "
scientist selling a book. Not scientists, and certainly not consensus.

And what do you mean so fundamental?

Reading both your post is like watching dogs try to explain airplanes.

"but it's the way the universe really works. "
at the quantum level. The macro universe is also how the universe really works.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but PCI compliance doesn't necessarily require a firewall between each system that takes credit cards. It just requires a firewall to protect all the systems that take credit cards. If you have a few POS systems and a SQL server that access credit card info, you don't need a software firewall on each of those systems. You could set up one hardware firewall that protects all of those systems from Internet traffic (and other LAN traffic, if needed).

It depends on what you're talking about, and where. A firewall between the LAN and the Internet, yes. Generally speaking, put it up, and then figure out what needs to be opened.

Beyond that, it starts to get a bit more foggy. Security is often a trade-off between making access too easy for attackers vs. making access to hard for authorized personnel. It's not uncommon for security software to do more harm than good, blocking things that shouldn't be blocked, breaking the networking stack in weird ways. When it comes to software antivirus and firewalls, my view is that you should use the more lightweight, least intrusive solution that meets your needs.

I'm not sure, but it seems to me that the original poster is asking about the built-in Windows firewall. Should that be enabled on all machines?

And no one build bridges, they just assemble one from parts!

I don't even know how you can do that with a modern(last 20 years) computer.