The study was small and short.

Never mind.

The supporters of Prop 8 at least had the decency to push their viewpoint through legislative channels, giving the electorate a chance to vote on the issue

The backers and financiers of Prop 8 were not even Californians, FFS. They were citizens of Utah; specifically, members of the Mormon church, meddling in the affairs of another state.

This is basically the EU saying "you've shown you can't be trusted to not take the piss, so we're taking your ball and going home".

FTFY

In the event of a crash where there is grinding across the titanium shield, there would be a lot of sparks on the outside,

So the folks in the other involved vehicle(s) will be quickly torched by leaking gasoline ignited by the long-lasting sparks from the shield designed to protect the rich man's batteries. Aces.

For many of my clients that run milling machines that still run XP, I am just making sure that they are not connected any longer. In that scenario, continuing XP is sensible and cost effective, with little to no risk.

Unless they also epoxy all the USB ports closed, they run the real risk of it becoming a viral reservoir, created and spread by harried machinists sneaker-netting CNC code back and forth to various machines and even home and back again after a little custom tweaking. Most machinists I know ain't overly concerned about security - nor are their smallish companies.

For the last two or three years, when I want to write a highly personal letter to a foreign leader, or even some American leaders, I hand-write it and mail it, because I feel that my telephone calls and my email are being monitored, and there are some things I just don't want anybody to know except me and my wife.

"And I'm proud to be an American, were I know that I am free..."

Symantec has demonstrated it with an ATM in its labs, though it is not revealing the brand of the vulnerable machines.

Gotta be Diebold. Yes, they changed their name. No, those thieves should never be allowed to remove the albatross of crooked voting machines from their scrawny, corrupt necks.