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and just stick to meat, fish, animal fats, oily fish, eggs, lard and butter, vegetables (starchy ones in smallish quantities, rather mostly greens) then, Paleo would say, things fall into place pretty quickly.

Right now in Google's cars, "the system works with a very high definition inch-precision map of the area the vehicle is expected to use" (wikipedia). People are wildly extrapolating what these cars will be doing and Google isn't tamping down any of the hype. Within the next couple of decades or more, it won't be in your garage in the morning and it won't drop you off at your employee-of-the-month parking space.

It's Google though. They've never made any mistakes.

That's not what these early cars will be doing at all. They will all be assumed to be on certain roads that have been pre-mapped to a high precision and assumed to be on roads with many people driving manually, and I've heard nothing from Google that their cars will talk to each other in the near future.

So maybe in 50 years we can think about getting rid of the steering wheels. Until then they are mandatory, even for basic fundamental use (such as being able to go somewhere other than the expected route).

And it will blindly follow the incorrect map.

You will need the steering wheel anyway, if you want to take the car somewhere not mapped out by Google or not mapped out properly (seriously, web maps still aren't reliable). So you can pull into your designated parking spot instead of your neighbors, or to use the spot with the unexpired meter, or hunt for a space at the grocery store, or pull into the alley, or...

But Google's plans seem to have this oriented as a transit service, not an owned automobile that can do everything.

What if the manual brake is broken?

These cars will not be 100% automatic for decades. The plans now are only for the car to pick you up at a designated location (not your driveway) and drop you off at a designated location (not the parking lot at work). If you want your own self driving car then it will need to have manual driving capabilities just for the basic stuff you need to do. Such as being able to go somewhere that is not fully mapped out by Google.

It's part of the spiel. Guy says your watch is broken and he'll sell a new one, then you look down and notice that your watch really is broken! Same with antivirus, they get the victim to check their computer and they see all these red alerts in the messages window that prove they have a virus (chances are they do anyway).

Part of the defense is knowing that Microsoft will NEVER call you, keep the paranoia meter on high alert at all times. But if you don't know that , how do really know that the person is or is not from Microsoft? Maybe you think, it really is Microsoft but you ask to see some credentials or proof. Same as if someone in a gas company uniform knocks on your door and says there are gas leaks in the neighborhood and he wants to check inside your house with his fancy detection machine. So you have to train the parents that everyone is an asshole the same way they trained you to never get into cars with strangers.

The other defense is to just hang up. Otherwise the scammer gets a chance to use the spiel and wear down defenses. If they say you have a virus then say "thanks, I'll check it out, have a nice day" and hang up. Which in essence means being rude which can be hard for some people.

My mother fell for the scam. Didn't lose anything but did get the remote service tool installed. She explained that since they called her it seemed legitimate.
Later she was put in contact with some web site that did identify theft clean up, and I tried to discourage her but she said her friend had used it (turns out it was semi-legitimate as it had some downrating from the better business bureau for pushing unneeded services).

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You know, I was around during the transition from WordPerfect to Word, and from Lotus 123 to Excel. Both of those products were held back by their legacy DOS codebases, and were extremely slow to transition to Windows, which is where everyone started moving, of course. When they finally did release Windows products, they were horrible. So, no, WordPerfect and 123 just lost out to competitors because they couldn't keep up with advances in technology - simple as that.

I'm not sure what what had to do with Linux being a closed software vendor, though...? I agree that being open source is certainly one of it's strengths.

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