We are very close to a large percentage of the population being able to do all of their day-to-day driving by simply recharging at their various destinations without any inconvenience. Instead of going down to the gas station ever week (or half-week) and sitting there waiting for it to fill up, just plug it in when you get home or to work and let it recharge until you get back.

I think you just answered your own question.

Many areas have roads whos conditions change with the weather or other scenerios. Mountain passes can be closed due to heavy snow, highways can have reduced traffic from a large accident, detours can be set up for long-term (but sporatic) construction, etc.

There's a highschool near where I grew up called "Tweedsmuir". Every year at the end of the school year, the grade 12 grads would steal the "T" off the sign. One year the principle, knowing about the tradition, made an announcement threatening the grads "if anyone took the "T" off the sign". He said he'd with-hold report cards, cancel some event, or something like that. The next day they discovered that someone had taken *all* the letters, leaving only the "T".

I'm fairly convinced that if the human race is extinguished, or at least heavily reduced, by robots or computers, it will be from a bug, not it becoming "evil". With so much infrastructure and technology being computer controlled (from water filtration to drones and aircraft carriers), a shorted out relay or buffer overflow is probably more likely to have catastrophic effects than some computer becoming smart enough, and evil enough to decide that the human race requires culling.

What I remember is 95% of all radio show, newspaper, etc contests having iPods as the prize. We used to joke that more people won iPods than actually bought them.

FreeBSD 9.0 uses OpenSSL 0.9.8q by default (though 1.0.1 is optionally available in the ports tree), which according the summary should be safe (from this attack at least).

That's not a warning. A warning is supposed to come before something bad happens.
- Leela

Yes, sellers usually do check the addresses (though this may not be required depending on their CC handler). The reason they do that is because they don't want the bank to go after them later if the purchase was fraudulent. Any merchant that gets a high quantity of fraudulent traffic is most likely going to have to the CC handling privileges revoked, so the chances of getting away with it for long are slim. The notable exception is places like E-Bay that have a fair bit of financial baking to them and enough presence to keep the banks at bay. I know very well (having caught a credit card thief in-the-act) that stolen credit cards are fairly easy to use on E-Bay to order expensive items to shady destinations for extended periods of time.

And none of that is prevented by AT&T telling your bank where your phone is.

The thought of a bit-torrent client written in Javascript makes my stomach hurt.

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1) Steal credit card
2) Use stolen credit card to buy new phone
3) Take/sell phone and credit card to Russia
4) ???
5) Profit!

Usually the credit card companies compares your address to the shipping address of the order, not the seller's address. This is why you'll often have problems buying something online as a gift and trying to have it shipped to them directly.

Cool, so now people with multiple credit cards (personal & business, etc) need to either carry multiple phones or fumble around swapping sim cards in the grocery store line-up.