I am still trying to figure out why all of those things that you mention require a remote connection or need to be tied in to the "entertainment" system. There should be zero possibility that "remote" commands could be sent to any of those systems. I would go so far as to say those circuits should all be encased in a faraday cage to prevent the circuits themselves from acting like an antenna.

For myself, I am pretty happy with many of the advances; however, I have had issues with drive-by-wire throttles and would hate to see a similar problem with drive-by-wire brakes. Some, dare I say most, of the systems on a vehicle should have a mechanical linkage to fall back on.

Well, because if we get used to doing such things, they become easier to do when it is important.

Why exercise? It is a pure waste of energy.

"We" need to get off of this planet. If not now, when? I am willing to bet then, it will be too late.

LOL. Odd, I thought he was talking the CIA/NSA budgets. It is weird how the same words can be perceived differently by different people.

I will check my spam folder from time to time just to see what kind of spam is out there. I always like the 419 style scams. I rarely, very rarely, find any real mail in the spam folder. In fact, the few times I have found real mail in the spam folder, it was spammy in nature not a true communication that I valued.

Really, kudos to the Google spam team.

I hope you did not buy the vehicle that you are having problems with. If so, I would seriously looking at returning it for a full refund as defective merchandise.

I am guessing all new cars are off the list now. GM has OnStar, Ford has shit that remembers where you drive, and Chrysler has buggy, remotely exploitable software. All of them have stuff that let's someone else control your vehicle.

What the fuck? Who would buy something like that? Perhaps the consumer just does not know...

Indeed. I wonder if SpaceX can sue the supplier? I wonder what the contract terms were.

Odd. My update patterns do not fit on your axis.

I furiously update and live on the bleeding edge until I find something that works well and the way I would like it to work. I then only update for security purposes or because the software will not run anymore due to changing hardware (X64) or changing software environment (GLIBC).

In other words, what you are saying is most important you, stability, is not what is most important to me, usability. What is most important to a person will determine that person's update patterns.

For others, it is familiarity instead of stability or usability. That is why I find your axis to be limited.

I grew up way before the Internet became a reality to the wide world. Scams are scams. "On the internet" is not enough to garner a patent, it is not enough to garner a new name for an old art: Scam.

If you can fall for a scam on the Internet, you can fall for one through plain old snail mail. The Internet just makes communications quicker and exposure more likely.

Fuck you. Prove it. I am sick of this shit. When I went to school way way way back in the mists of time, girls were encouraged over boys. My own son dealt with this shit too... and yet girls are STILL not at the top of the heap.

Stop abusing boys. You can not force girls to be on top of the heap... and this is nature: There will be a heap. Deal with it asshole. All you are doing is creating misogyny.

I am cool with this. Darwinism in action. My only concern is for the truck driver. :)

If you are going to be driving wastefully, doing it as efficiently as possible still makes sense.

I *WANT* one of these. Madly and desperately. Tesla heard my only objection left: All Wheel Drive. I have been maneuvering my finances to buy one since the AWD version came out. Now, I am almost willing to mortgage my soul to get one of these. (I would definitely NOT mortgage my soul, it is a figure of speech designed to show how much I want one of these.)

If it were true, wages would be sky high. Ipso facto, it is not true.

Let's see how the women's soccer team does against the men's soccer team. So the unspoken argument is that you should hire inferior people to fill the role.

Somehow, I do not think that is the message they want to get across.

Only a few months ago? At least you removed it... I removed flash from all of my computers back in 2009. I was responsible for vulnerability analysis and noticed that every month, there was at least one vulnerability for flash and another for java. I removed both.

I bought a laptop in 2013 that had Windows 8 on it. The very first thing I did was start patching it and downloading updates. It did not matter, I got a virus less than 4 hours after starting the patching process. How? Through a flash plugin that was not installed in such a way that I could even see that it existed.

I formatted the drive with a vengeance and installed Arch Linux on it... which it is still running to this day. Flash can burn in hell as can Windows 8.