Only for the people who have no friends or family. But that seems to apply to you.

Most people have more than one car. The average is about one car per person, and more than one person per household, so a "house" has more than one car. Only if you claim people will never share cars with family will your statement be true. And the sum of "exceptions" doesn't surpass the cost of rental for those purposes, so it's still cheaper to have a single electric that doesn't do what you want, and do whatever you want, whenever you want (but rent a different car to do it).

Electric cars are more practical. It's the oil-fueled cars that are the vanity vehicles.

Always ready to jump on a bandwagon, many new buildings in Vancouver are doing the same thing.

Most of our electricity here in B.C. comes from hydroelectric systems, so fossil fuels/emission elsewhere is a non-issue.

...laura

A middle-of-the-road EV like a Nissan Leaf would cover 98% of my driving. I can afford one easily. I could afford a Model S if I put my mind to it. I've even looked in to buying an old banger and converting it myself.

The problem is I have nowhere to plug one in. I live in an apartment building and there is no wiring in the parkade. Nor is there any requirement (or incentive) to retrofit the building. I've talked to the building management, but we've never come up with any answers.

New buildings must have EV support. Old ones don't.

...laura

Is that all?! That's a bit of a letdown.

Errr... wtf is a "homeless carriage"? (honestly, I've never heard of that term)

Yes, well... pacman and the ghosts scared the shit out of me :( And I won't even mention the Commodore 64 version of Friday the 13th because I've blocked it from my mind. Maybe I should stay away from this VR. :(

I just hope that automatic updates (water and food, for example) are provided.

I've seen this movie.
Now that you've seen the special effects, you've seen ALL this movie has to offer.
It's quite a juxtaposition seeing such good visuals next to such bad story and acting.

Brake fluid? Who needs brake fluid? Mechanically activated 4-wheel drum brakes works for me.

does it run the T-1000 os? wopr os?

What an expensive turd! I SHIT ON AMERICA! AMERICA SUCKS! AMERICANS ARE STUPID HEADS! americans are dumb stinky stupid butt heads!

You've missed. It's not about the technical definition. The "key" is the passphrase. The passphrase is pre-shared. The shared secret is the key, and that is the passphrase.

The crypto key is what you are describing, not the pre-shared key the user uses.

The failure to communicate isn't our misunderstanding of the technological terminology, but your inability to put the technical terminology aside and listen to others.

MAC address filtering isn't very secure, but it's better than nothing. It's like the door chain. They are easily cut, can be kicked open easily, and don't really improve security, but it makes you feel better. Aside from brute force, the glaring hole is that someone can snoop your network and see all the valid MACs on it, even if encrypted. Then, when any of those devices are gone (like your cell phone on WiFi in range), clone the MAC of the missing device, and you are 100% in, if MAC filtering is your only authentication. At best, it will deter a casual snooper, but will only add a tiny delay to a targeted attack.

PSK is Pre-Shared Key. The "key" in that is the passphrase. You pre-share it by putting it in both devices before you try to pair them. The PSK isn't the session key. As you say, that's generated for the session.

And nobody was talking about what is "transmitted" so unclear what that has to do with whether the PSK you enter on the "passphrase" space on the router is a [PS]Key, or a passphrase. It's both. The terms are used interchangeably for that setting. And yes, that's confusing as "key" is used elsewhere for a different purpose. But that doesn't make your car-key not a key because it doesn't look like your house key.