I attacked your illogical argument.

You keep repeating your assertions, and haven't done a single thing to add actual logic to your thoughts.

Your move.

(Was married for over a decade Got rid of that bitchy adulterous cunt, but even she liked warm white over cold, hard high-color-temperature light -- all else the same. But even if she didn't like the warm lights, my domestic issues would not entail a forecast of the greater future of humanity: The sampleset is insignificant.)

Please note that I'm really not trying to proclaim one direction of color temperature over an other; mostly, I'm attempting to proclaim that while OP's observations may be inarguably correct, his conclusions are without basis in fact and are unsupported by even his own observations.

For my own opinions: A dozen or so years ago, I saw an outdoor Rammstein concert in Cleveland, Ohio, which was at a time where stage lighting predominately consisted of approximately sixteen million halogen PAR cans.

Rammstein likes very white light on their stage.

Accordingly, the vast majority of this plethora of cans had a light-blue gel over them, making them appear to be very, very white. (Glistening white. Fairy-tale white. 7000k white, in a time when lights were never 7000k.)

Except for one stray can where the gel was installed wrong and fell out or burned or was missed or somesuch thing, which in comparison seemed to be unnaturally yellow.

It was a brilliant show; the best I've ever paid for, both in terms of music, theater, and performance. That one yellow (aka open halogen) light still hangs in my mind as the flaw.

But, back to color temperature, that was the intent: Rammstein is not exactly easy-listening, and they very purposefully chose a lighting color to force the audience to be alert and awake -- even though it had real tangible costs in terms of space on trucks, generator capacity, cabling, and/or overall luminance.

My own opinion is that higher color temperatures have their place. One of my employers has a showroom with a lot of east and south-facing windows, so it gets quite a bit of natural light. The owner upgraded from halogen PAR-30 halogen track lights a couple of years ago to 7000k LEDs on the same tracks, and it's a positively lovely thing during the day at any time of year: 7000k is not so dissimilar from the oxygen-filtered blue that we get with ambient sunlight.

But in the winter months, when the sun goes down early, it looks positively dreary in the evening before the shop closes...and for a couple of hours a day, for a few months a year, it would be better if he had lower-temperature lighting.

My own garage is another good example: I tend to prefer "warm" lighting after decades of actually paying attention to color temperature*, so I've got it lit with warm Cree LEDs. But my garage is windowless, and in the winter (when the doors are all closed) the Cree LEDs work great.

In the summer, with ambient light streaming in from both the man-door and the overhead door? Not so much: My LEDs -will- appear to be artificially yellow in that environment.

*: When I was younger, the hottest non-flickering white one could get was halogen. I liked it quite a bit. Later, I discovered that I liked dimmed halogen better. Later than that, I discovered that my television's default settings were very wrong, and learned how to calibrate them using the service menu and a colorimeter for a picture that is much softer and much more...brown than most people expect, but which matches the same broadcast standards that the studios use and is therefore more accurate. Later still, I actively hunt down improperly-placed high-color temperature lights: When I moved into my new house a few months ago, one of the first things I did was remove the blue-ish CFLs lighting my basement/home-theater room and replace them with -anything- warmer: It is now warm LED-lit, with some Cree and some Wal-Mart Great Value, and everyone remarks that it is the most-evenly lit area of the house despite the giant fucking windows in all rooms on the first floor**.

**: Which are lit with chandeliers with 5ea 25W flame-shaped incandescents. Which the landlord insisted that I keep the same, forever. And for which even provided a packaged retail example of to make sure that I knew what bulbs to buy for replacements. And which my lady-friend actually likes. I installed cheap Lutron rotary dimmers to try to take advantage of zero-crossing to be nice to the filaments (which tends to make tungsten-filament bulbs last years instead of months), and also to be able to turn them down to save energy while also providing navigable light***.

***: Even if that dimmed light is far more warm than I might like, it's still just fine for navigation and saves as much money and materials as I can given my stated constraints.

****: As an unreferenced footnote, I will check out your link, though it sounds like something that Rammstein's lighting engineer figured out over a decade ago. Likewise, you might want to check out the Imaging Science Foundation, fl.ux, and see if anyone on avsforums has an ISF-based calibration model for your television. You might be surprised, but then you don't seem like you are basing your conclusions and predictions on the utterances of others (minor children or otherwise).

Lights on during the day?

You don't need 7000k LEDs, you need a house with windows.

Good luck with your circadian cycle in the meantime! (I'll just leave this fuckton of citations over here.)

I can trivially create an environment wherein any common general-purpose light source appears to be artificially yellow. Or blue. Or green. Or pink.

I can also show you two objects of two decisively different colors that appear to be identical under different types of artificial light.

The eye can do some strange things.

That my kids might be able to tell me why they prefer chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream over vanilla ice cream does not lend itself toward an empirical forecast of any merit about the future of ice cream flavors.

Meanwhile, I wasn't around for the transition from gas to electric lighting. Perhaps you might offer something other than a repeated assertion to support your claim, because it's nowhere near as obvious to the rest of us as it seems to be to you.

Because Quebec is always closer than...oh, wait, it's not.

The conclusion that your childens' stated preference is based on color alone is non-sequitur, at best. At worst, it's a blatant red herring.

Suppose I put two bowls of ice cream on the table: One vanilla, and the other chocolate chip cookie dough. Suppose I ask my own kids which one they prefer. Suppose the overwhelming majority of them prefer the chocolate chip cookie dough flavor over the vanilla flavor.

Does it follow that the kids prefer chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream because they are young and unencumbered by tradition?

Will everyone else prefer chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream rather soon, as we slowly transition toward more diverse ice cream flavors? Is my preference for vanilla by the facts that I am old and burdened by tradition and I like "sucky" ice cream?

No, of course not: Because these conclusions are all logical fallacies, just as your own conclusions equally are.

So what you're saying is that by overwhelming things, an attacker can make brakes misbehave at a whim?

And you're also saying that flooding a CAN bus can save an expensive dealer trip when it comes to bleeding brakes on a Prius?

Awesome! That's even worse / better than what I was suggesting.

Thanks!

The NES had no hardware for any kind of networking, dial-up modem or otherwise.

The NES has an expansion port on the bottom. It was never used for anything commercially, but was rumored to have been intended for a modem, and was apparently developed into an unreleased accessory to gamble at home with the Minnesota State Lottery.

Video.

IIRC, the "brake disabling" hack involved many layers in a car with a dashboard that resembled a breadboard moreso than a car, and relied on being able to emulate/override the wheel-speed sensors so that the ABS computer -thought- it should be carefully modulating the brakes as if driving on ice or marbles or whatever.

Anyone who has experienced it can easily attest that on dry pavement, even without third-party fuckery, a faulty ABS sensor can be a scary thing: One recognizes that the coefficient of friction is such that the car ought to be able to stop rather rapidly, but it just...doesn't. Instead, one get a dim clatter from the ABS relay(s) and maybe some unusual feedback through the pedal, combined with what is apparently a rather complete lack of stopping ability*.

*: Though it wasn't completely disabled in TFV from years ago, either. There is no electronic "off" switch for any braking system in any road-going car, but there are very carefully-designed ways to provide far less braking than the operator's pedal input might suggest should be happening, and never a dashboard control to input whether or not this behavior (ABS) is or is not desirous.

To extend your argument to its logical conclusion:

All attacks worth worrying about are personal, political, or business in nature. Risk mitigation must take this into account.

I know that Dropbox is insecure, but I use it anyway, because nobody I personally know can fuck with me using that vector and I have a personal policy against growing vendettas.

The random attacker won't give a whit of my cell phone landscape photos, or of my shorthand business notes. And I'm not into politics.

So, being a boring person and not having much to lose and even fewer enemies, I don't worry much about my personal security.

If I ever become less boring (doubtful), I'll take more steps.

Those amongst us with a reason to care about political, business, and personal attacks should perhaps look at my original comment with a keen eye, however.

Call me when this can be done wirelessly.

OK. What's your number?

Scenario: Physical access via an unlocked vehicle (quick trip into the carry-out, forgetfulness, or whatever), and an active attacker (with whatever motives an attacker has).

Attacker simply plugs in a COTS ODB-II Bluetooth dongle -- perhaps modified to be extra small (remove housing, clip LEDs, add black conformal coating), perhaps modified to talk to different buses than the standard interface, perhaps modified to have a stronger radio and/or antenna.

Add a directional 2.4GHz antenna at the attacker's end (which needn't be a particularly large or obvious thing), and the car can be controlled wirelessly, insofar as that physical interface allows.

Or, forget all that: It's not much of a hack to use an RS-232 ODB-II module and an RS-232 GSM modem, either, and gain wide-area control. I'll eat my hat if the amount of active digital logic needed to glue to tie the two COTS modules together in usable form is other than zero.

Do you always lock your car when you're not inside of it? Do you check regularly your ODB-II port for nefarious devices? I don't.

Xposed is in deep alpha on ART, and doesn't work (at all) with stock Samsung Lollipop ROMs.

Maybe they'll fix it sooner instead of, but until then I'm on 4.4.whatever. Switching from Dalvik to ART is kind of a big deal for things like Xposed.

And yes, I realize that Xposed uses improper, and/or undocumented interfaces to do much of its business. But it, and the various tweaks it enables me to perform, gets my S5 from a perfectly reasonable 20-24 hours of battery life to something much closer to 36, while helping to maintain my privacy with AppOpsXposed.

Other than that, I somewhat frequently see updates for more mainstream apps in the Play Store that are Lollipop-related in a "we squashed a show-stopping bug, and it might work OK now" sort of way. I don't recall which ones because I won't be on 5.0 until Xposed works so I just don't care right now, but it is plain to me from these developer utterances that the non-root userland has shifted a bit.

Another car analogy: Suppose my well-hacked hyper-mile car is being towed for whatever reason, and the towing company somehow manages to break the cast oil pan. They don't notice, and I don't notice when I try to restart the car. Badness ensues*.

Someone's insurance company installs a new used engine of appropriate mileage, but this new-to-me engine doesn't support the interfaces I'm used to using for my hackery for whatever reason.

Who's to blame? Nobody, I suppose. I'm not the litigious sort. Maybe I, or someone else on the net, will find the time to similarly hack this subtly-different motor.

And sure, the car still has an engine. But that won't keep me from lamenting about the lost features on my own hardware.....and I'm certainly not going to appreciate the reduction in mileage.

*: This actually happened to my sister's car. Replacing her stock Volvo I5 with a different stock Volvo I5 was a simple thing for someone's insurance company, though.

I couldn't even tell from TFS that it was a website, and not some other manner of site.

You mean the $80 adapter that does HDMI, USB A, and USB C "passthrough"?

Because that's all I can find, other than the one that does VGA instead of HDMI.

So it's not "just to get HDMI" -- it's either better, or worse, depending on how one spins it.

Plainly it's not a good laptop for you. And I'm awful goddamn certain that it is definitely not a good laptop for me, because I do plug all manner of random stuff into my computers on a regular basis.

But not everyone does.

Meanwhile, peripherals are sure to get cheaper. This laptop was announced -- what, yesterday? And USB 3.1 passed through the usual standards-body channels only as recently as the end of July?

It's still just USB -- albeit on steroids, and with a different connector. It's electrically-compatible with USB 3.0 and 2.0, and I'd frankly be shocked if actual implementations didn't also work with 1.1 and 1.0.

The market will fill with cheap (first $20, then $12, then $5, [...]) passive adapters that present a USB A connector for plugging in traditional periphery soon enough, and the early adopters will pay Apple $80.

And, yes, we do need a better system than common USB for charging devices: 3.1 is that system, and is said to be capable of delivering 100 Watts.

Do I think it's foolhardy to have a laptop with only one physical external port, especially if charging requires that same port? Yep. But do I give a shit? Nope. I won't buy one, and I frankly don't care if anyone else does or not.

It's not my problem.

(I might buy a laptop with three of them, though, but I also want HDMI -and- DisplayPort -and- Cardbus -and- ExpressCard -and- normal USB A sockets in addition to USB C sockets, -and- ...)

It doesn't work with all of the software that I am accustomed to using on my pocket computer(s).

If my old engine did things that were useful to me, and my new one lacks some of those abilities, then I would also say that my car has had features removed.