"-1 Uncomfortable truth"

As a non-American I find forbidding car manufacturers from selling directly to customers even more bizarre.

And you know this because ... ?

Meh, baboon. You seriously underestimate capitalism. I prefer to find third-world street urchin most bio-compatible with me, buy him for $1000 from the family and just get his heart.

Wow ... you are a moron. Go design next artificial heart if you think it easy compared to slapping encryption, message signing and some sanity checks (like ignoring command to slow down below safe level) on communication protocol.

Encryption, message signing ... does it ring any bells? And why exactly do you think that artificial heart would even accept command to slow down below safe level? Even ignoring communication security, you would not want to give your patient easy way to kill himself by mistake.

Because we have no bloody idea what to do about it. In comparison heart is simple - it has to pump blood and that's it. I would rather not put all medicine on hold until we figure out brain.

And of course 90% comments are whining about wifi. As if 'wifi' was somehow synonymous with 'unsecured and unauthenticated wifi'. Getting this secured is trivial compared to making a heart that will keep patient alive for years. Until it is possible to make artificial heart respond to nervous system and speed up/slow down as needed, having some control system will improve patient's quality of life.

They are trying to reproduce the bug.

Then how exactly you want to control it? Artificial heart won't speed up/slow down automatically in response to oxygen needs of your body because it is not controlled by nervous system. Maybe you want wired connection with plug embedded between your ribs? I don't understand why 'wifi' means 'unsecured/unauthenticated wifi' to you.

You keep telling yourself that. Meanwhile, in GB nobody fears getting robbed by police. Or getting killed for not dropping to the ground within 100ms.

In other words: perjury, but you can't prove it.

Yes. However waking up is not guaranteed.

Because GNOME.

You can also not fly if you can't afford it. Where exactly did you get idea that you are entitled to as much leg room as you want for as little money as you are willing to pay? Do you also have habit of going into five start hotels and demanding their best room for price of flea-infested motel?

Of course, let's turn airlines into charities or nationalize them. For greater glory of proletariat!

You are getting the exact service you are paying for. Waving around your cheapest ticket around while demanding special treatment for being a PAYING CUSTOMER won't work very well.