It is not cool and hip.
The real answer is that Perl can be hard to maintain unless you enforce strict programing standards and it is not easy to find really skilled Perl programers. A less than top notch Perl programer means problems down the road for sure.
PHP, Python, and Ruby are all popular choices. PHP probably has the biggest talent base but has many of the same problems as Perl.
Python and Ruby are easier to maintain but harder to find coders for.
 

"NSA planting backdoors in american products : don't buy american products then! Consider who is least likely to pull this sort of trick to spy on you, germans, chinese, russians, japanese, ..."
None of the above.
hard to hide the building of underground complexes. "planes/satellites : build underground"
Hard to do that with a large factory or lab and you can buy the guards off in some cases."secret agents sneaking in : locked bunkers, armed guards, scary prisons"
Not a perfect solution one could use free optics "old fashioned bugs : sweep the room, use faraday cage shielding"
  backdoors, man in the middle attacks, and codebreaking."wiretapping : encryption"

Ummm..... Just what do you think nations do? There is not a single nation that does not spy on some other nation.
Sweden, Germany, France, and the UK all have special SIGINT aircraft. The US, China, Russia, Israel, the EU, Pakistan, and India all have spysats.
What are you 12 or have you never read any history?

This is now at level of E!.
Modeling debut? Good grief.

Actually this maybe changing for some programing shops. In the Agile training I took one of the rules was do not work more the 40 hours a week. Sure for a crunch now and then you may have to go over but if you do more than two weeks at over 40 something is wrong.

Of course it is all possible but it is not at the level of just works for most people.
"You think that would be good, but in reality it would be annoying. It's nice to have that stuff have its own controls, particularly a volume knob.

Volume buttons are the devil."
So wouldn't it be cool if Android could read the volume knob and even use it and the other buttons that the car uses?

"In both the GPS and OBD-II cases, you can bet that the manufacturer would charge you more than you'd pay to get the functionality from a third party."
To start with probably. Eventually it will just be standard equipment just like traction control, and ABS is now.

I would like to see more than mirror link.
I would love to have an option for the phone to use a GPS built into the car and the antenna. In theory it should be better than the tiny one they have to fit in your phone. Also it would be good if could have access to the AM, FM, and Satellite radio systems and can control them.
I would also like to see it have access to the things like MPG data.

" costs money to license, and you have to agree to forcing Google's shit by default (like the Play store)."
1. No it does not http://9to5google.com/2014/01/...
And the things that Google "forces" android handset makers is frankly what customers want.
Google started making handset makers to do make GMS and all or nothing service when a handset maker put on all sorts of Google apps but made the search BING and locked it down!
Some companies choose not to use GMS but still use Android like Amazon.
AOSP plus GMS == the Android must consumers want.

Compared to IOS, BlackberryOS, and WP Android is as free as can be. If you want source to everything but the GMS apps just run Cyanogen. You can even add in the GMS apps if you want them or just run Outlook, YahooMail, or a FOSS mailclient for mail, and the mapping software of your choice.

exactly.

Isn't the real problem the criminals that made the attack?

simple get another quad and hang a net from it. Fly it above the offending quad and tangle the props and land with it.
In the US you own the airspace up to about 500 feet over your land so it should be completely legal if done safely. AKA don't do it over people.

It is accurate and misleading at the same time. People think of drones as military style drones while small RC aircraft are usually called RC models and have been for decades. The AMA is not happy about the use of word drone because they have had a very good relationship with the FAA up till now.
As to RC aircraft with cameras. I remember reading about people putting cameras on RC planes back in the 70s. Of course that was in the days of film.

This was a guy with radio control quad or a guy with a drone depending if you want to be scary or not.

You are forgetting the other part of the equation.
The working poor do not have a lot of time to cook. High fat and salt foods taste good and are fast to cook. A really good healthy meal often takes more time to prepare so that it is tasty.
The fast food places do not prey on the poor with their $1.00 menu. They offer fast calories. BTW salt does not make you fat. It is good to limit your salt but it is the calories in the food that make you fat.
Honestly most of the working poor I see are not overweight at all.

OpenCL, Cuda, CAD, POVRay, Blender..... Not everyone uses Linux the way you do. There are many linux systems that do not have any graphics cards at all and just use a UART.

Intel graphics just plain suck... Actually they are not too bad these days but really do not complete with AMD or nVidia.