Just today I saw this story Vegas woman gets $200 distracted driving ticket for applying lip balm at a red light. Apparently in Vegas the law is pretty vague, but strictly enforced.

So the big question is how would that law treat a car which drives itself? And how will cops make a decision whether behavior of the person in the drivers seat counts as distracted driving or is simply the person taking advantage of an autonomous mode? I can see a lot of people being pulled over and booked when they were not actually driving the car. And even if cops can recognize an autonomous car, how do they know what mode it was driving in?

I said no such thing, and you are deliberately mis-representing my position for your own benefit - as can be seen by your ignoring the anything past the first sentence in my first paragraph. However I will concede that perhaps I should have prepended my statement with "in general".

So why have you ignored my US/Saudi comment? Do you think that the US should be a country of "do as I say and not as I do' in the international realm? Do you salivate at the application of the monroe doctrine? Do you support the takedown of Iran in the 50's?

See, I can make up all sorts of attacks (framed as questions) just like you.

One one hand I agree with her sentiments. But her view needs to expand beyond attacking a couple of people. IMHO the US has a bizarre relationship with the Saudis, who seem to be able to get away with a shitload of things that other countries in the middle east get beat down for. But I cannot explain why the US turns a blind eye to it all, except possibly in the name of oil.

On the other hand, she said all of this on Hannity, and he is not known to be the bastion of logic (or even at times coherent thought). And I say this from first hand listening experience. In addition during the last US federal election Hannity was basically running an "anybody but Hillary" campaign, so I am not surprised by the "Hillary bashing" coming out on that show now.

Disclaimer, I can't vote in US elections. So don't start accusing me of being for or against any political party. I merely observe.

Oh come on .. you are such a debbie downer. Don't you see the fantastic new technology that Dice is deploying to /.??? Duping the story used to take days, if not weeks. Now with the latest auto-dupe code they are pushing the limits and attempting to dupe the story within itself!

Mind blown!!!!!

I agree. Heatbleed is not a counter example, it is simply evidence that the original "Linus's Law" was not complete. A better version of it would be

With the definition of "enough" being dependent on the complexity of the code in question.

You're comparing apples (code) to oranges (break pads). Third party manufactured break pads will be subject to some oversight and regulation, especially as you can't just whip up break pads in your garage. On the other hand you are suggesting that anyone who really wants to can modify and install software without oversight or regulation - and that is not something I'd like to see in safety critical systems.

And if the people writing the code have to get it certified before it can be used, then that puts them on the level of car manufactures right now, and sort of defeats what is being proposed by the EFF, as you will still not really own the code that is in your car.

What the OP is alluding to is working on the code that controls things like the ABS, not the physical brakes themselves.

So it's auditors all the way down?

Is this a deliberate choice of quote,or just randomly apropos?

Wasn't the NSA accused of suggesting/modifying various encryption standards in order to weaken them? In which case they don't need back doors into the software as they can already unlock the data.

Technically there is no travel ban. You are just prohibited from spending money or receiving gifts in Cuba without a government license.

From United States embargo against Cuba

We can only hope!

Yes they are amusing, but that is not what April fools day is about. It is supposed to be about (in western parlance - I'm not sure about other cultures) things from fooling you into believing something that isn't so all the way to outright pie in the face (ponies)

What we have here is someone not quite getting what the day is meant to about and as a result most of us are cringing rather than laughing.

I agree .. reads like a bad Onion story.

Blackjack and hookers!