The lack of NFC is disappointing.

If you're not planning to use your cell phone also as a Credit Card...then what other uses really are for NFC?

I'd not want any of my CC info on a phone that can be stolen and cracked into. And from the article, apparently not that many people out there are even using NFC functionality, so I'm guessing to many it is no great loss.

What all do you use NFC for so much that it is a deal breaker for you? Seriously curious.

Thanks!

I don't have any problem with the account verification though - it's just a variant of the 2-factor authentication so don't complain too much, it may prevent you from getting your account hijacked.

Well, I just would rather not give Google my cell phone number...

Does this finally mean I'll be able to post replies to my own YouTube channel and other's videos?

I have my account, that predates Google taking YouTube over. I've resisted all these years going to G+ or giving them more information....but for that, Ihad to give up being able to post comments and replies not only to other peoples' videos, but even to my own.

This will be a welcome change if that works!!

Now, if they'd also do away with trying to occasionally "verify" your account with a phone call. I fear I"m gonna have to go get a disposable phone for that one day...but hey at least this is one step in the right direction.

That part was contracted out to interns.

Well, that could be true...

I mean, they DO have a daughter, so they presumably did it at least once...but there have been many rumors that Hillary is more of a "vagitarian" that a penis fan...so...?

As I said in my post, I don't live in the U.S.A. Apart from that solar panel thing, all I know is that she's the wife of former president Bill Clinton.

So, in other words, her primary qualification is, that she sucked a sitting presidents dick, right?

Not sure how that qualifies her for President???

Yeah, that's just what this country's over-leveraged home owners need---more loans.

And exactly who held a gun to those home owners' heads and forced them to take out loans way beyond their means?

If you don't know how to live within your means, manage your money like an adult, and overstretch yourself fiscally and fuckup and blow it and lose it....exactly who's fault is that?

And why would anyone suggest other folks having to be there to catch them when they fall?

The US is supposed to be free...free to succeed and free to fuck up.

Most good lessons in life are learned more from fucking up and having to deal with the repercussions.

Absolutely after a day of hunting, give me a curvy redhead I only have to pay once and don't have to talk to, and a bottle of good scotch and that is money well spent. At least getting screwed by the hooker is a hell of a lot more fun than having the government do it.

Ah....my kingdom for MOD points today!!

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The govt shouldn't be in the business of trying to mold or target my behavior. I fail to find in the US Constitution where that is one of its few, enumerated responsibilities and rights...

Look, I don't mind paying reasonable taxes, to fund common good things, schools, roads, etc. But that is best done by the states who are more directly answerable to MY needs locally.

I earn my my money, and should be able to spend it on anything legal I wish and I should not be having external forces, like the federal govt trying to mold my behavior by penalizing me with taxation.

That is simply NOT their job.

I"m still trying to thumb through my US Constitution and find where within the enumerated responsibilities and rights of the Federal Govt. that it is charged with picking winners and losers in industry. Also,where in there is the Fed govt supposed to figure out health costs of one industry vs another and penalize one over another?

And no, it has nothing to do with the "General Welfare" parts....

Hell, people can't even fucking SHIFT a car anymore hardly.

I've actually heard that car thieves are passing cars by that have manual transmissions because they don't know how to drive them...geez.

I've never owned an automatic car in my life...I like to have something to do while driving...helps keep you awake too.

How about streaming the pupils so that those of similar ability are grouped together for their classes. Ok it might not work at primary school level so much as these tend to be smaller often with only enough pupils for a single class per year. However even then you can arrange the class into groups of different abilities.

You can't do that in the "PC" America today, no sir...

You'll get hit right off to bat with shouts of "discriminaiton".....then classism, elitism...and just about any other -ism you can think of.

No, in the US today, we really are trying to not even give merit to those that do excel despite todays education system. I think I read the other day about a high school that had something like 50+ valedictorians...?? WTF? Afraid to hurt someones feelings that they didn't make the cut?

No, today int he US, you can't have any programs that single out folks for success, or even remedial needs...it might hurt Suzy or Johnny's self esteem and we all know that would be the end of the world. No, we have to keep them all together, and teach to the lowest common denominator.

Any separation of the kids by merit or ability...could potentially lead to an imbalance in the racial or socio-economic mix of kids, and once that happens, the SJW's and other types will scream bat shit bloody murder that this is just another example of the man keeping people down and stripping them of opportunity.

Perfectly legal as far as I know....

Video of similar set up

And LInk to similar product for sale

So, I have trouble thinking a solenoid doing the same thing mechanically would suffice it to be an automatic weapon. Hell, one turn of the crank here fires off 4 shots.

A-frigging-men! I'm looking into a Hellcat. Now I just might look for a '70 and put the Hellcat drive train in that.

Yeah, I just found out about the Hellcats yesterday and have looked into them today. I like the Hellcat Challenger, not so much the Charger, looks too much like a regular family car.

But wow...707 HP bone stock....in the $63K price range that is *BANG* for the buck for sure....

I am trying to calculate how many tires per gallon it gets.

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Unfortunately, it comes with this unsecure system too and would have to be disabled....

Do you want autonomous cars or driverless cars?

Nope. I do not.

At least not for me. Hmm...I was looking at the Vipers that do seem to have the Uconnect as standard package.

I'm wondering if you can disable this without killing functionality in the car?

Same question about onStar for a Corvette...can you kill it without killing the car, or, are these systems so integrated now that you can turn them off?

I wonder if you can at least kill the method it uses to "call home" at the very least..?

About the only policy they had, was to NOT set up or use any wireless access points, they did actively scan for these but cellphones and the like they never had a policy against them on worksite.