I seriously doubt OBD-II data is the kind of data we are talking about here. That will be a different, proprietary interface, not your government mandated to be open OBD-II stuff that you can get a $39 tool to deal with.

You you would like to sod off?

In California, the annual S Corp tax MINIMUM is $800 (plus 1.5% of the net income).

Just because I give money to your cause, doesn't mean I want to give money to dozens of other organizations.

I could supply combustible materials for a village to cook over, with the unsolicited mail that is stuffed into my mailbox on a weekly basis.

Google "charity ratings" before you give, to make sure your donation is going toward the cause, and not to pay for marketing...

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

- Redd Foxx

Come on, some lawyer will jump on this - just as soon as we get being a curmudgeon classified as a disability.

Or maybe anyone can self-identify as disabled?

There was just a case where a parking/tow-away fine was overturned due to a missing comma between "motor vehicle" and "camper" (e.g. no parking for "motor vehicle camper", so, my non-camper is ok...)

So, being a clever grammar Nazi can pay off, in the realm of law.

Dunno why, that reminded me of some of my own late 80's early 90's hacks.

I once had to take an X-Acto knife to the backplane of something (VAX or PDP-11 or vice-versa to get a card for the "wrong" one to work).

Another time, I needed 240V, but the office only had 110V, so I made a "two headed" extension cord - two normal plugs, and one 240V twist-lock socket.
Then All I had to do was find two outlets on opposite phases and I was in business. This item would probably NOT get UL approval.

Not really a hack; but as a software guy there was one problem driving me nuts, to the point that I had to figure out how to use the logic probe to prove to the hardware guys that the circuit board they layed out had flipped the upper and lower 8-bits of a 16-bit buss... I fixed it in software (until they did a new spin of the board and fixed it, as it was just a prototype).

That was back in days when the CAD program would take days to route a board, and PCs were expensive. We made a moderately priced PC into an expensive (faster) one by changing out the clock crystal - back in the day when "overclocking" was a hardware hack.

Best modern hacks? Root your Android phone and put Cyanogen on it, for crying out loud, stop whining about bloatware!

Also, not too long ago, my kid complained that the "windshield washer fluid" warning light was on all the time (older Camry), but there was plenty of fluid and it worked fine. So, rather than "fix" it, I figured out which wire needed to be snipped... problem solved. (Now you have to "manually" inspect the fluid level of the washer fluid - oh the horror.)

They could just delete most of the photos after they age a bit, analyzing it with some of their AI whiz-bang software.

If anyone ever asks to see the image again, they can just show one that is "close enough" and nobody would ever know the difference.

I personally, have never posted a photo to Facebook, so I'd be OK with that.

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So, while this particular group is complaining that they are relatively underpaid, it seems,on average, government employees are overpaid.

Let them train some H1-B visa holders to replace themselves and help get the government average down to the private sector average.

Wow, so it's a good thing that in today's PC society, I can "identify" as a 28 year old female of color, with 30 years of industry experience the next time I apply for a job. That will increase my chances, because, as a 50 something year old white guy, I am screwed.

Anecdotal, but interesting to note your examples are from other countries, both of which don't have much opportunity. Recognizing that and coming to the US was seen as "the land of opportunity" for them, yet many here don't see it that way. Why is that?

Well, not secure from outside attack, you can defend against that by not putting it on a network... KISS

Maybe everything after XP started phoning home to who knows what "area code" (206, NSA, KGB, unit 61398?)

Doing things right, and doing things cheap are two different things.The presumption was that "COTS" was both... maybe not so much anymore. (BTW the spirit of COTS means OSS is fair game for scrutiny.)

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Can we also get rid of horoscopes, psychics, religions, and politicians?