to say First Priest!

I think we need to know what rating systems they are using? Clearly attributes such as Cold Hands?, Circumcised?, Nasty wine breath? and rarely caught in the alterboy are good ways to rate them.

'My God!, It's full of porn!"
                        - The internet as seen from space.

That it is

a maze of twisty little passages, all alike

Never doubt the power of pork rinds.

Clearly the submitter got that backwards. Millions of Pirates are suing Uwe Boll for wasting their bandwidth.

Now my Slashdot Antivirus 2010 detected it as a unstable joke. Naturally my Craigslist Buyer Protection plan come in handy now.

Orly Tates will be suing Novell shortly demanding the birth certificate of UNIX

There's even a bigger reason than that - the guy mentioned in this summary too exploited the OtherOS feature (with burning the PS3 hardware to cause kernel panic and subsequent escalate to PS3 code) and it would possibly allow piracy on PS3. It's obvious that now Sony will disable that feature from the few geeks to keep the system secure. You can thank this guy for ruining it for everyone.

You should go ahead and do that. Just find a Toyota owner and ask if they're worried, or if they're having any problem with their car. Because, as I said before, it's the Non-Toyota owners who are offering the majority of the FUD.

They might soon make the discovery that to challenge NASA is not a wise endeavor.

Just to add a personal experience a very close family member leased a new Ford Escape a couple of years back and had a similar experience (non hybrid model). She was stopped at a red light with her foot on the break and the engine went full throttle. Lucky for her she had her foot on the break but the suv did jump a foot before it came to a stop.

There is really no excuse for not having a mechanical backup to the system and the more companies that will be going the route of consolidating mechanical functions with electronic means we just have to give way to the possibility of errors becomes greater. Now that HUD's are becoming more popular what's to say a bug in the software won't obstruct your entire view of the road in front of you? Maybe a bug in the NAV system will take certain control over the vehicle to prevent a perceived collision where there is none. Technology is meant to assist the user not supersede them. As this technology becomes more prominent it will just bring the focus to the malicious to tamper with it for what ever outcome they choose. We are also putting a lot of trust in something like a battery. Currently if your engine fails you still have control over the vehicle apart from acceleration, on a fly by wire system once it loses power all those components will cease to exist as well. If we look into real possibilities such as corrosion of the contacts that deliver power, short circuits, blown fuses and battery wear/defects these will make a much larger impact on the driver then ever before. Many people even as we speak may be driving around with some fuses blown but now that the power involved is much greater the systems involved in regulating power flow become much more involved and again more likely to cause a complete system failure.

Unless, like McBride and the lawyers, "the others" form a business model of privately profiting from running a company into the ground, in which case they win either way.

So the software producing and acting upon those CAN frames keeps the data in CAN frames internally, and has some sort of integrity check at EVERY layer? This could still be a hardware EMI problem. One that is usually caught by the CRC in each CAN frame, but in a few cases is affecting portions of the system that do not have an integrity check on them.

That has little to do with free speech, you'll have trouble for doing that even with your mouth shut.

...which is surprisingly close to slander or libel, isn't it? OK, I also don't exactly support outright ban of one specific thing such as this, but my country, e.g., has an article criminalizing "movements aimed at limiting civil rights and liberties", which seems to be used judiciously against the worst offenders here. I don't, however, understand why our courts consider fascism belonging to this category but not communism.

Short answer: No. The statute of limitations on patent infringement is six years. And in the case of ongoing infringement, even if you miss the six year mark from when infringement started, you can still get damages back to six years from when you filed your law suit.