80% of kids have smartphones? I'm glad I'm not a kid today. My father was too much of a Luddite to get a color TV - no way would we have been allowed to have cell phones. much less smartphones, and he probably wouldn't have tolerated a PC or the internet in the house either. We would have grown up in a strange informationless cut off parallel universe from all the other kids.

HA! This reminds me of my days at Rice University, in the early 70s. The Post grad students there each year would award one of their number the "Young Marsden" award. It was presented to the student whose work had been most egregiously ripped off by a faculty member that year. It was called the Young Marsden award, in memory of Marsden, since Rutherford and Geiger got credit for his work on alpha particle scattering

Links? Perhaps you meant Lynx?

SO...you think a medical certificate should be required to fly a 20-30 pound drone, but any schlub with a driver's license can pilot a 2 ton UPS truck on public streets to deliver packages? The medical certificate shouldn't be required for general aviation pilots, much less drone pilots - studies show it doesn't make a difference.

IE's replacement will provide a more Windows Phone like Internet browsing experience to desktop users. We're all gonna love it.

Price. Why spend $4 where $0.05 will do, and will likely never fail anyway? It's a last ditch protection system, not really something that should be tripping all the time.

That said, it used to be fairly common to have breakers on a couple circuits (headlights, for one).

In addition to cost, I'd suppose reliability might be a second consideration. Breakers have contacts in them, which with enough vibration and temperature/humidity cycling might fail, I guess... whereas a fuse has none.

What else.. fuses are faster, better current breaking capacity for DC (at least at this price point). I'd guess the tempco might be better too. (the trip point both devices moves with ambient temperature).

That's how it generally works already. Important stuff is on one CAN bus (ECU, ABS pump, auto trans controller if it has auto trans, airbags, etc). All the secondary stuff like door modules (controls locks, windows, etc), cabin illumination, the radio/navi and whatnot are on a secondary CAN bus (or LIN, or..).

This way if your rear door module dies and manages to take down the (secondary) bus, the car still runs.

I don't see much point in securing it, as you need physical access anyway. I'd rather see it go the other direction, standard, open interface, instead of each manufacturer using a proprietary communication scheme. (CAN only defines lower layers).

This is like suing computer makers for people being able to hack a computer they have physical access to. It's not possible to prevent.

That's also how ethernet works... differential transmit and receive signals, transformer coupled for isolation. (to prevent ground loops and such).

Shutting off all the electronics on a fly-by-wire plane seems like a fairly bad idea.

I'm not saying we won't get our hair mussed...

Like William Gibson says, "The strreet finds its own uses for things".

I don't wanna live in a world with a tech based series that is worse than Scorpion. I hate any TV series or movie where there are characters who are supposed to be extremely smart being played by actors who are, to be kind...not extremely smart..

Here's the rules, FWIW. Pennies are only valid to 25c.

The only place I ever see Windows phones is on TV series as glaringly obvious product placement...never seen one in the wild.

And, since the Republicans are totally incapable of understanding how to select a candidate that anyone will vote for, she will be elected president. And no, I don't think that is a good thing.