Well, somebody needs to play Devil's Advocate here, so I will. What if onboard vehicle computers truthfully are (or soon will become) so complicated - and so integral to the functioning of the vehicle - that an untrained hobbyist screwing with it could cause injury or death?

Fuck, man, brakes have been like that for a hundred goddamn years!

Stop letting "buh-buh-buh-computers!" be an excuse for corporate sociopaths and nanny-state asswipes to destroy your rights. Seriously.

We have two choices: we can be free, or we can be safe. These are mutually exclusive. And in the United States of America, the only correct choice is to be free. Sniveling infantile cowards who think otherwise can fuck off and die.

I have to wonder if we are getting to the point the drive speed just isn't a factor, that the other components like CPU, GPU, and RAM will be bottlenecking before the drive, because no matter how faster you get the data off the drive you still gotta process it.

Fundamentally, that doesn't make sense because if it were true, we'd just use SSDs instead of RAM.

(1) She's not cruising the country in a Subaru.
(2) It's really more her status as High Priestess of Cthulhu that worries me.

This is the truest thing you've said in so long. Life is wild, and the idea that it commences when your information is complete is the height of obvious.

How would you do that, unless there were a trusted proxy running your searches?

You're a raaaaacist if you vote against Vice President Michelle Obama.

Again, and not to go picking up d_r's argument too much, he's either effective, or he's not. I think he's mostly incompetent. If true, you have to remember to blame the context where appropriate.

Why don't the automakers just seek refuge under the DMCA from all those evil automobile hackers? Clearly, figuring out how your car works is a direct attack on the very hard work and property of those automakers.

Time to pass a bill state by state. I'm the sure the invisible hand of the free market will line all the right politicians' pockets to rush those through. Hopefully someday we won't be able to own our cars and we can go back to the Ma Bell days when every phone was rented.

Excuse me but that sounds entirely implausible. Cooking food with a radar unit? I'll believe it when someone uses one to, say, melt a chocolate bar. Until then keep your loony theories to yourself!

I'm not certain whether using f.lux really improves my sleep (although I'm certainly not complaining if it does). What it does do is make my desktop look more like an object in the room. When a white area on the screen has the same color a white piece of paper would have in the same light that essentially makes using a computer more... immersive. It just feels more natural if the monitor forgoes accurate absolute color representation in favor of more accurate color representation within the context of local light conditions.

It's definitely one of those "try it, you might like it" things. Either it feels great for you or you toss it.

I'll take "Rejecting the Premise" for $50, Alex.
The great conservative revival is to come, and I anticipate you'll be as honest with the flood of prosperity as you've shown yourself elsewhere.

This wasn't obvious? I should have thought it apparent from your Olympian height.

Do you think that there should be an RFC before the protocol is fully baked?

Do you know what the acronym "RFC" fucking means?!

If you have no intention of accepting "Comments" suggesting changes to your protocol, then WTF is the point of submitting a "Request For" them?

He has been exactly what everyone who paid any attention expected.
Totally consistent, achieving the same quality of result across the board and across time.
The #SurpriseNotSurprise will be when Valerie Jarrett decrees that Her Majesty is un-viable as a candidate, and Michelle Obama steps forward to relieve her husband.