That's the one where the older you get, the worse it is. I've never been clear on why that is, but if you didn't have it as a kid or get immunized for it and then contract it as an adult, it's a serious problem.

There are valid medical reasons that some people can't get immunized. (Allergies, compromised immune systems, etc.) Those people benefit from herd immunity.

Sounds wonderful until it decides that the fastest route is through the bad area of town.
Or it decides that an address is about two miles away from where it actually is.
Or the road washed out and the car can work out that it can't go that way but can't route around it since the map says it should work.
Or it takes me to the foot of a two mile long driveway and stops.

All things that have happened to me with GPS navigation. Not saying we need pedals and a steering wheels to solve those problems, but they are a really good solution to those problems.

Yeah, pretty much this.

I could go through a laundry-list of problems I have with every OS I currently use (Ubuntu 12.04 & 14.04, Windows 7, FreeBSD 9 & 10, several builds of OpenEmbedded) and what I did to fix them or work round them, but that wouldn't be particularly productive unless this happened to be the mailing list for those projects.

I tried to RTFM, but TFM just says I need to RTFM. :(

Lucky you.

They all suck, including the one I use!

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Verizon FiOS. Not Verizon Wireless.

But then again, it seems it's fairly easy to convince legislators that it's essentially the same thing, so I guess you could be forgiven for making the same mistake.

For my part, I'm still going with the company that marginally less anti-consumer than the other.

In two months, I'm moving to a new home that has both Comcast and FiOS available. At that point, my cable modem will go live in a cardboard box until I move again.

While I don't believe for a second that Verizon won't jump on the data cap bandwagon once everyone else is doing it, they haven't spent the last few years pushing data caps onto their customers.

The crazy part about that is that the car doesn't actually need to be present to get the key made, nor do they need a key to copy from.

When I got the key on my '96 Z3 replaced, all they needed was a copy of my registration (with VIN) and an ID. A couple days later, I picked the key up.

I'm... not entirely sure how I feel about that.

Make sure you use the correct hand so you don't break your wrist.

In 30 years or so when I inherit my parents' home in Missoula, I'll be sitting pretty.

In the mean time, I can go visit them and enjoy the pre-Fairfax/Loudoun County-ized state of the area.

This seems like a win-win situation to me.

Most jammers work by blasting noise on whatever channels you are trying to block.

Perfect band pass filters are not a thing the exist, especially not for transmitters. Especially not for transmitters cobbled together by some guy on the cheap. The assumption that they do is why they (rightfully) smacked down LightSquared.

So, let's do a little exercise:

First, look at the 800 MHz Band Plan
http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedi...

See that slot right below "Cellular?" You know, that cut-away that has all the "Public Safety" allocations? Now, let's look at a quote from the FCC posting:
"According to deputies from the Sheriff’s Office, communications with police dispatch were interrupted as they approached Mr. Humphreys’ vehicle."

The jammer was blocking police radio. Not just cell phones. He was actively interfering with public safety communications. NON-CELLULAR public safety communications.

Personally? $48,000 is getting off easy. I'd add another order of magnitude onto it.

*"Change" was meant to be "chance."

Remember, kits. All way use you're spell check cur.

Why invest milions of dollars into a platform that only a handful of people are going to use?

Omega Smartwatch: No apps because the few hundred people who have them aren't really enough of a market to bother developing for. Especially not when [whatever smartwatch platform ends up winning in the end, if any] has two or three orders of magnitude more users.

Far more likely scenario: Let the Pebbles and the Samsungs and the rest duke it out for marketshare, then partner with them. What do you bet Pebble would jump at the change to make the "Rolex Smartwatch based on the Pebble platform?"