I can see the early days there being "enhanced cruise control" type thing that people can be licensed for that can be used on freeways only in the near future. I would basically be cruise control that can brake and accelerate and then maybe steering capabilities included, etc.

I don't think it would be possible to have some mix of fully autonomous cars with regular ones on the road at any time.

We should be using that on our roads instead of whatever stuff we are using now.

The people who don't feel like paying 2500$ per song after the fact.

I kinda thought that same thing with Google+.

Microsoft with Xbox is not really analogous. They came out with a completely new device with new games. Music Key (sounds like) just another content delivery service.

Who knows maybe they will bring something new to the table.

Sorry google, you missed the bus on the music thing. Play Music is a flop because it's competing in a saturated market where everyone has picked a pony already. Unless you're gonna offer some earth shattering new thing Music Key will be a (relative) flop also.

No I will have to hear endlessly about this completely misleading article from people who know nothing about avionics.

That you article writer and slashdot submitter for adding to technology hysteria.

This article is basically saying someone can hack your washing machine from your cable modem without any supporting evidence that is true.

I heard this is the new tactic by collection agencies. They try to get you to pay some tiny amount on a debt long off your credit report and as soon as you pay 1$ it becomes active again on your CR as a debt in collections.

Not sure how true it is.

They're probably valid debts and I imagine that's how a lot of people end up in this study. They moved and lazy billing/collections just fire out to whatever address they have and the person is unaware the debt exists until they try to go buy a car or something.

See above, basically if a company "verifies" the debt you are boned without getting the courts involved.

I had a like problem with AT&T long ago. I had proof of payment and spent months trying to resolve it but they were basically like "f you pay me". It went to collections and basically the same run around. Years later I was buying a house and ended up paying the friggin thing because I had a short window and really no recourse other than taking them to court.

Once you have something go into collections it is always there until you pay it. (medical bills/school debt probably drives a lot of this)

You're only 30-90 days lat for a short period.

"Many consumers were burned for relatively small amounts -- about 10 percent of the debts were smaller than $125, Ratcliffe says"

This kind of thing probably drives the numbers way up too. That late fee from blockbuster, etc.

They investigate retail fraud/theft now? Don't they have better things to do? You would think once discovered it would be pretty easy for the store to identify the person and forward the information to the police.

You must be a blast at parties.

Pretty sure I was passing 1Mb per sheet when I was 9.

When I got assigned sentences when I got in trouble I would write them as small as possible to be a little jerk.

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I take issue with the statements not the man.