Google: Using location-based services on your iDevice, we have determined that you have run two red lights and are exceeding the speed limit.

Check that dongle your insurance company requires to to plug into your OBDII port. It might have a Gogle logo on it soon.

Don't know why this was modded Troll. Good idea or not, it's worth considering.

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If you need me, you can contact my staff. If it's important, they'll put the call through or forward the message. People who are 'always on' tend to be lower on the social or organizational totem pole. People who will catch hell if they don't pick up NOW.

Handle blocks of code independant of formatting constraints like indenting.

But people willing to pay and broadband companines willing to provide are two different things. In most cases, public utilities have a much lower cost structure than private enterprise. So they can justify providing service in ares which might not attract private investment at this time. The private providers allocate resources based upon maximising their ROI. And so it might be a while before the most profitable neighborhoods are wires up and they get around to the lower revenue areas. Or perhap never. But what they don't want is to have lower cost providers step in and pick off the marginal territories while they are holding them back.

Wall Street demands earnings growth and, should they lose access to these second tier customers, their businesses might start to look like they are in the 'mature' part of their business cycles. And that's when investors start squeezing corporate boards for increases in efficiency. Like lower mangement salaries, less Hookers & Blow, fewer private jets, etc. Everyone likes to be in a growth market. Nobody (in private business) likes to maintain infrastructure, keep the snow plowed and potholes fixed. But that's what municipalities are good for.

This is why Comcast and TWC wan to merge. It produces high levers of capital activity that investors have a hard time differentiating from O&M expenses. And so upper management looks like they are accomplishing things.

Project Orion lives!

There might be a market for a defice that can be placed between any such 'required' dongles and a vehicle's actual systems. Something that can pass certain data in only one direction (read-only vehicle parameters) and block requests (and spoof handshake signals) should dongle attempt to make an unwanted request of the vehicle's systems.

I can also see a market for such a device where emissions tests are done by reading the data port. Just tell the port filter to always reply with an 'all is well' code.

Wow. I wonder what I'd do if my State Farm agent pulls this stunt on me. My cars predate OBD II or any other diagnostic ports by a few decades.

I'd be happy to put them in the ashtray or something.

Management

And take the chance that this will go out of control near a playground? Way to make friends in law enforgement and regulatory agencies. Then, nobody can have nice things anymore.

Why? Was he threatening people? Or just being loud? The latter can just be handled with a quiet, "Shh. Use your inside voice please."

But what you describe isn't 'values'. It's behavior.

But this is an accurate description of Bill Gates. And look how far it got him.

"Their values" being a codeword for whether they go to the same church or smoke the same dope.

Nope. Basic economics: Whenever you weigh the relative values of several options, you assign relative weights to each characteristic being measured. The total weights add up to 100%. If one or more of those characteristics is the moral or social standing of the supplier, that weight is subtracted from the other measures. If you want to make that sort of compromise, fine. But you won't be building any mission critical systems for me. Particularly if the competition (and by mission critical, this might mean military) are not hampered by such misguided principles.

... for calls to cellular numbers: Caller pays.