He wouldn't. I was talking about the government agencies, not the executive or legislature.

On the downside, you did miss a great opportunity to play out a Monty Python sketch.

How do you make that atomic?

You're not incorrect. I don't know why we're not seeing a move to this already. It wouldn't even be too hard to retrofit to existing installations if they're wired properly.

Though the heatsinks on the lights don't get as hot as incandescents. I can unscrew an LED immediately with bare fingers where an incandescent needs to be allowed to cool. Still, wasted energy...

Who says?

It seems more likely than the electron decay postulation (though butterfly effect and all, I guess). It's not unlike the whole "toilet flushing in the opposite direction in northern/southern hemispheres" urban legend where it turns out that other factors far outweigh the Coriolis effect.

And then a step to the right?

That *can* work but everyone who's found themselves pinched in that trap thought it wouldn't happen to them.

To be fair, the government's been pumping out money like crazy and suppressing interest rates also.

Depends on the depth of the pockets. My razr rests flat against my thigh, well below the bend.

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery."

All good until they come to your house or place of work and tow it away anyway.

There are easier ways to steal a car.

It depends how it's wired. If it interrupts the starter power or solenoid line, it will stop it. It's quite possible that the installation instructions for these devices explicitly says it's not for use on self-restarting vehicles but the guy at the salesroom just bought a bunch, threw them at his mechanic and told him to install them. Similarly, it would be possible to miswire these so that they did stop a running vehicle.

I'm more inclined to believe that these complainers are just lying though.

I hope they make it work properly this time. I turned it on and it was unreliable and so I turned it off and still had problems for months until I found the hidden file they hadn't deleted.

What if it's encrypted without a password but using a non-standard encryption algorithm?

No need to answer that, really.