Frankly said, OS X has changed very little since 10.0, at the most basic level. They've been adding features, but things that were there have mostly remained unchanged. Anyone familiar with OS X 10.5 would be right at home with 10.10 Yosemite.

Yup. Volvo has fan speed on the left, temps on the right, Ford trucks have it reversed and the controls are buttons instead of knobs, etc. It is maddening.

Don't worry, that's what I use too, except I've got two of them, and one is not used for anything.

If you're not on the phone all the time, a Tracfone is a very good deal. These days you can get 1 year with about 800 minutes for just shy of $100. Not bad.

I've been doing it for so long that I was thinking that it must be a widely known thing, just like you aren't supposed to click on the "your computer is infected" browser popups. Wait a moment. Yeah, sorry, silly me, what was I thinking. /s

Although to be frank, there's nothing difficult about it. Have a CC account, order an extra card online, it'll come free to your address. When signing up for things, use that card. Boom, done. Takes 5 minutes, one time to set it up, per CC account.

I've not used a real street name and credit card name anywhere online for the last decade at least... I'm not trying to defraud anyone, so I'm in the clear. I do it so that everyday data leaks don't expose me, that's all.

I doubt very much that a random dating/cheating site requires a credit check just to sign up. You'd need to provide your SSN, and it would be a US-only thing too. I doubt it very much.

No. I know exactly what you wrote, and I made it clear what the negative physical implications are. You have some sort of a magical, non-physical way of viewing the world that is pure, unadulterated fiction.

By the time your vehicle has moved forward any appreciable distance (say more than a foot), the peak accelerations are over, and the damage to your body is done. You are crazy. Stop it.

Precisely. You ideally want *all* impact force to get shunted to the pavement, so that none of it causes the acceleration of the occupants. That's the ideal outcome. If you're not firmly braked, you lose that advantage.

A model of a pedestrian is a data structure that represents the state of the pedestrian - its position, velocity, rough shape, detection accuracy (e.g. whether the face was detected). It also includes behavioral flags. A Google self driving car is essentially an intelligence gathering machine that would make NSA, CIA and FBI simply melt if they had access to the data.

Given that it's rather easy to use a credit card with an assumed name, and also a fake billing address submitted while paying, I really don't see why the people who wanted to stay discreet/anonymous didn't do so.

In case anyone wanted to know how to do it, at least in the U.S. it's rather trivial:

1. Add an authorized user on your credit card account. The name can be fake. You'll get a card for that user.

2. Add a throwaway billing burner phone number on your account. Can be a $5 Tracfone from Walmart. This is optional only if the billing processor demands a phone number.

3. When registering/paying for AM, use the fake authorized user's card, and enter your address with a wrong name of the street. The ZIP and house number must match, the street name doesn't have to. The phone number should be the burner phone.

If the hackers get your data, all they have dirt on is a fictional character. This is 21st century, I thought every guy who knows how to use a bank account and a computer would know this shit?

If we wanted to swing or do it with other people, both me and my wife would simply sign up on AM or a similar site, with full knowledge of each other. Perhaps most people "cheat" without their spouses knowing about it? I thought the whole point of rational adults being married was that they talked and shit? Sigh.

This is very different from what happened in the Google accident. The car behind the wife was slowing down. The car behind the Google car was acting as if the road ahead was clear.

Fucking no. You are not minimizing all these things. It's a zero sum game, to a first approximation. The impactor will exchange some energy with your car, and the more energy you can redirect to brake friction and crumpling of the crumple zones, the better you are. Whatever energy is left is used to stress your musculoskeletal system, and accelerate your car.

You are trading off less damage to your vehicle to higher occupant accelerations and higher trauma to the occupants. You are an idiot. I fucking mean it. Stop with the nonsense.

You are crazy. And I mean it. CRAAAAZY.

In a rear impact, the impact energy is redistributed into: 1. Braking friction, if brakes are applied. 2. Crushing energy. 3. Inertia of the car. When you reduce #1 - apply less brakes - more energy gets redirected towards #3. Assuming a slow crash with no significant incursion into the passenger compartment, the injuries scale with accelerations. The more energy you pass to your car's inertia, generally higher the accelerations will be. The braking force is replaced by inertial forces, but these are simply proportional to acceleration of the car, and its occupants - meaning you.

In a rear impact, if you release the brakes, you will experience higher impact acceeleration and deceleration than if you didn't. This directly translates into the trauma your neck and other body parts are subject to. All that in the name of what? Less damage to your car? Yes, you are crazy, unless your car is worth more than human life ($10M+).

Not everyone is like that - in fact, majority of people are not like that. If you can't train this effect out, you might be in a group of people who have an inability to sufficiently context mask your peripheral (fast) vision's input when it's undesirable/out of context. This also negatively affects your regular driving. You're not aware of how much your central vision is snapped from under you by various things that move in your field of view when you drive - it's "distracted" way more than most people. This has negative effects on contextually important visual target acquisition, since you're constantly overloaded with targets that are irrelevant. It might be a strong thing to say, but you may well be one of the people who are functionally visually impaired in spite of having 20/20 vision when tested using normal methods. You probably shouldn't be driving.