Owners can kick the board. The board can kick the CEO. And all three can kick the cronies.

But in practice, that is all theoretical, and due to the high visibility, they are not "fired", but rather "step down" with a golden parachute to pursue "other opportunities".

It is basically like firing, but with a silver tounge and golden severance package.

Given my experience with douche drivers with blue LED high beams, I can believe they brake a lot less. Break, however, I would not know.

Not sure where here means, but that hadn't been a problem anyway. Two thumb buttons to easily switch stations on the steering wheel, and a third to jump from radio to CD to AUX.

Only 8 channels at a time, need to run automatic station tracking every hour as I cross the land. Ads never was the annoyance, the news was. They all seem to run the news at the exact same time with the exact same news, meaning I get the same blurbs across all stations 10 to 12 times during the drive. Those are the times I swap to the CD with 150 tracks, which I have heard to death by now.

I have a small stack of CDs like this with me, but I've heard them all so much I both know which song comes after which, and even with shuffle on, I've grown accustomed to the PRNG to the where I am sensing patterns.

I seldom use AUX and my phone, because it is a distraction. The stereo has all the main controls I need on the steering wheel, so when I hear more than three seconds of an ad, I'm usually in steeper turns (or trying to overtake someone).

Spotify and other mobile streaming of the phone is spotty at best; there's a lot of steep mountains and long tunnels, some under the Sea. But guess what? They've often ensured that one or two of the National channels actually work in these tunnels! Curios if that'll work with DAB+ as well.

But anything on mobile or external devices are a distraction I do not want when driving; I drive fast, but safe. And given trends with car manufacturers not wanting us to tinker with stuff, and compatibility of handsets not being ideal, I don't expect to see my phone and steering wheel integrate seamlessly over Bluetooth any time soon.

On a tangent; and to kill this subthread with Godwin, I am surprised the older WW2 generation isn't up in arms about this. Owning a home radio during the occupation was a huge danger and act of defiance against the Nazis here back then, much more so than the paper clip on the lapelle...

Mountainous terrain you say? That would be almost all of Norway. I think my half a dozen yearly 8+ hour drives are going to start sucking even more with digital radio.

But it is in the EEC which give most of the EU membership crap and just some of the benefits...

Yes it can. Man in the middle plus image library vulnerabilities, and similar for other content. Whose WiFi are you on? Do you fully trust them?

When I was in university, hacking your Linksys router to invert all images for people leeching of your open WiFi was all the rage... until someone went with goatse instead.

Didn't you see the two golden buttons in the pic? The left is for ones, and the right for zeros. This literally is a computer for ants...

But a bit more to the point, the power issue is explained in TFA. Couldn't see anything on IO, but my first thought was something similar to RFID.

Highest? Come on! 300 comments nearly, and not a single good "the Dutch are the highest" joke?

... which just means they'll be promoted to management sooner. If that means running interference and customer expectation management, that tends to be a good thing for the real techies.

MRA, eh? What's their slogan?

"If you want my penis, you'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands!"

Oh, wait, that sounds rather accurate.

The Linux kernel is written in C. Without classes, namesakes, modules etc, indenting size of 8 ain't a big issue. Now, do that in Java and the actual working code ends up on the third monitor from your left.

You can't pirate free apps. The question for these become; how rampant is piracy or hacking for getting the in-game stuff for free.

The argument may be that Rust, like a lot of other types of tools, libraries, frameworks etc, tend to make easy things easier, but harder things harder. It is a common pitfall and tradeoff that may be worth it or not.

For single threaded programs, I'd likely rather stay with C++ than jump on Rust any time soon. For heavily multithreaded programs, I'd be plenty lost, so perhaps Rust would be a net benefit in those cases.

At any rate, I hope this means it is maturing, stabilising and can get documented well enough to be a feasible alternative. If nothing else, the ideas around security handling might get us thinking in better ways in other languages.

Personally, I ran away screaming from C++ to Ruby after several years of losing my sanity, despite that meaning a large jump in other aspects of work area. Perhaps this is a good halfway point? Time will tell, crossing fingers.

No, that is the preferred method of communicating with _customers_, not co-workers!

Just as long as it is not feltching...