One of the ways of combating it economically is to make it require more effort to successfully deliver spam to the target recipients. i.e. using a filter.

I think what he's getting at is that the car wasn't designed to withstand people trying to hack it. i.e. security wasn't even a consideration in the design.

I was always under the impression that the fuel savings doesn't come from the altitude but from the fact all of the engines can be setup for efficiency in high altitude/vacuum and no part of the spacecraft needs to deal with low altitudes and high air densities.

The counter to a vibrant and well-informed democracy is to throw so much information (or misinformation) out there that it becomes impossible for the rest of the participants to remain well informed. They burn out, and then it loses the whole vibrant part and you've lost.

I can second the use of both of those. At first I was a little hesitant using ghostery and went around disabling stuff by hand on a per-site basis. Eventually I got tired of that and set it to block everything. Noticed no adverse effects, and it sped up page loading times significantly.

This would be a valid comment if not for the fact that most municipalities implemented cameras in such a way as to entrap as many people as possible, rather than enforce safety. For example, shortening the yellow light duration (sometimes below the legal limit) on all of the intersections where red light cameras were installed. Or setting the school zone speed cameras to act on the "reduced speed when children are present" rules at times when children aren't present and the yellow lights on the sign aren't flashing.

What an odd thing to tell yourself. On the contrary, the drone often watches the target for hours before the strike, and then sticks around after the strike doing damage estimations. You're trying to tell me that that's "far removed" compared to an F18 dropping a bomb from high altitude at near supersonic speed and being basically out of visual range by the time the thing impacts?

A lot of those glitches were things you had to work to make happen though. The kinds of bugs that we commonly see in AAA titles today are often triggered without the player doing anything particularly out of the ordinary.

More like there was already contamination there from other sources, so it was impossible to say for sure if the fracking was at fault or not.

Which opens up an interesting possibility for the whole fracking controversy: what if the fracking in and of itself isn't causing contamination, but something about it exacerbates already existing issues (e.g. natural sources of contaminates or long forgotten buried crap from the first half of the 1900s). Sort of like how someone might claim to be allergic to wifi, and even show symptoms when a router is turned on or off nearby, but in actuality it's the high frequency noise from the power supply switching kicking off their previously undiagnosed anxiety disorder.

And that you don't screw something else up in the several hour project that getting the wifi drivers working usually turns into.

It's also not enclosed and aerodynamic. The drag coefficient of a cruising (as opposed to racing) motorcycle with an upright rider is around 1.2. Compare this with a racing bike and a fully tucked rider that can get maybe .5 if they're lucky. A modern car is around .25. If you plug that into the drag equations, it comes up to a cruising bike with upright rider taking some 40+ HP to overcome the drag at 65mph, while a passenger car is more like 10HP at that speed.

A lot of it depends on specific job and workplace environment I'm sure. Also the method of drop bys.

The restaurant was just an example. There are still hundreds of ways someone could copy off your card even while you look and observe nothing wrong. Since you seem to be having trouble imagining your own scenarios, I'll give you another one: ever notice the security cameras at places of business focused down on the register? Those are there so the loss prevention guys can see the workers hands when the register is open and count the bills they place or remove if it comes up short. How carefully do you think they guard that video? A few minutes with security footage and liberal use of the pause button could get you plenty of card numbers and security codes. And ignoring any kind of technology at all, any person with a decent memory could steal the numbers no problem unless you exclusively swipe the card yourself (hoping they didn't put a skimmer on the machine at the beginning of their shift) while keeping black tape over the front to deter casual glances.

The bottom line is that if you give a business enough money to charge the card and a human handles the transaction, you've given at least one person all the info they need to charge it anywhere else they'd like.

Right, but why are you buying from sketchy startup e-commerce sites rather than the more established and well known places (e.g. amazon, newegg, etc.)?

Getting really close to invoking Poe's law there.