Except that tulips could not be teleported to and from special freely made flower pots in any location on the planet. Tulips could not be stored as a number, written down on a piece of paper, placed back into a magic flower pot and teleported elsewhere. Their supply was not fixed, they could not be infinitely subdivided and still be useful.
How is bitcoin tulip again? Or are you just an uneducated jackass?

Not quite. There has been one full version and three point releases.

XP = 5.1

Vista = 6.0

Win 7 = 6.1

Win 8 = 6.2

Win 8.1 = 6.3

The n.0 versions of windows have traditionally been less than stellar compared to their .1 counterpart. This is the first time we are dealing with a .2 and .3 release and I agree that there seems to be an abundance of suck on these releases.

CAN is based on Modbus, Modbus is a lot like ethernet. There is no security at the bus level, much like connecting a laptop into an office LAN.

There needs to be an intermediary device, CAN on one end, a firewall in the middle, and a very limited and hardened interface for the infotainment system.

Thus far automakers have been keen on connecting infotainment systems directly to the bus.

Because so much more young and healthy are getting maimed in car accidents than older unhealthy people getting diabetes and cancer.
Insurance is all about managing risks. The risks involved determine the premiums.
Or are you confusing insurance for health care?

If it is not a tax then why do I have to file it with my taxes? Why is the IRS the one responsible for its enforcement?

If my business didn't rely on reliable mobile coverage I would have left Verizon long ago. VoIP works surprisingly well on their LTE network.

This is likely the main reason Otellini "stepped down" a few years early. Intel CEOs typically stay at the helm for 10 years.

I didn't agree with the ribbon interface at first either. But after watching the lengths at which microsoft went in R&D it does make more sense. After watching this 1 hour 30 minute presentation I was left with the sense that this move was genuinely engineering over marketing.

However, force-feeding Metro to windows users stinks of marketing over engineering in a big way. For this Microsoft deserves lots of egg in their face.

Each of those were still more useful than Windows 8

Because governments meddle too much turning an otherwise mostly self-correcting system into crony capitalism. The moment any regulation is introduced the government has metaphorically jabbed a pole in an otherwise smooth flowing stream. The distortions caused by this affect the surrounding environment creating the need for more regulation and more poles jabbed. Before long the system is so chaotic and distorted that it is unrecognizable as capitalism.

Government policy created the worst offending corporations we see today. Don't confuse this crony capitalism with capitalism.

GPS is not necessary in modern aviation and is not used as much as you may think. Modern commercial and military aircraft typically use INS/IRS during flight and use GPS only during the initial flight programming while on the ground and/or manually if the pilot wishes to compensate for INS drift while in flight. If GPS were knocked out during flight it would not affect commercial or military flights equipped with INS.
I would assume that with the $billions dumped into military drone development that they operate the same way. Instead of a pilot they rely on computer vision systems and INS during a GPS outage or loss of communication with C&C.

The real danger we face is not jamming, but cyber warfare. We have already seen the command and control compromised with the RQ-170. A $1 billion INS equipped drone that seeming landed safely on an Iranian airstrip. Think about that one for a minute. For the C&C of a drone to be taken over like that, security at the deepest levels in the military must have been compromised. Of course it is easier to play like an ostrich and keep your head in the sand and believe the official story that GPS (which is never the primary flight sensor in military or commercial flight) was used to land a $1 billion drone on enemy territory.

What it feels like using Windows 8

Yes, it is functional but only enjoyable to a small minority.

The nice thing about bitcoin is there is no record of ownership if you do it right. A bitcoin address can be as small as 22 characters, these characters are the store of value. Use your imagination on where this string of characters can be hidden.
How would the IRS even know you owned them?

This.

Connect a Kill A Watt and compare your energy usage under full and idle loads.
My PC consumes about 60W idle and 250W under full load.
10 years ago it would make sense to use spare clock cycles for side projects, today not so much.