I've tried before, I'll try again . . .

(I don't have any but . . .) What is the advantage of putting all my Bitcoins in a Bitcoin bank?
I can see (for a few milliseconds while passing through) converting real works $$$'s to/from either a credit card or REAL bank account . . . into Bitcoins, then I KEEP the Bitcoins.

I thought that was part of the purpose/advantage of Bitcoins, they're Peer-to-Peer and need no bank.
It seems to me the only purpose of putting Bitcoins in a Bitcoin Bank . . . is to lose them when it goes under.
Physical assets (tangible cash, or jewelry in a safety deposit box) . . . sure, in a real bank.
Other than having a place to risk losing it all. What is the advantage of having a Bitcoin bank? When I can perform all my necessary transactions Peer-to-Peer, and only need have ANY funds "in" a bank . . . for the brief sub-second time it takes to convert it to/from some other currency.
And I'm not asking that they do the currency conversion for free . . . charge a fee.
But why do people "deposit" Bitcoins? I've searched, and read . . . I'm just missing something obvious I guess.

Why did "remote kill switch" and "built in spying" just pop into my head?

Or we could take the "Blue Thunder" route . . . and just "Erase them all!!!"

I do that too, but I'm pretty clear now that's "chemical pathways". You think "so hard" about the wrong answer, and reinforce the neural/chemical pathways to the wrong answer, that you need time to allow that to dissipate and suddenly the circuit flips to the right answer on the next try. (I am not a brain scientist, I don't even play one on TV, but I think its a safe bet that's what's happening.)

Coercion is immoral WHEN DEALING WITH AN ADULT.

Children aren't adults. They can't reason like adults.
They're unfinished adults in training.
Swatting an adult on the butt because they started to dart out into traffic . . . would offend most people.
Swatting a child on the butt because they did the same . . . might just keep them alive long enough to be an adult one day themselves. Because you won't always be there to save them.

You may be right . . . swatting the child on the butt to enforce a lesson may very well be "Immoral" . . . it may also be "necessary" to train the child to not do dangerous things that can kill them.
(Unmarried with no children so of course I'm an expert. But . . . ) I'd prefer to have a live offended child . . . than an emotionally well adjusted casket filler.
Sorry if that sounds brutal . . . I don't intend to offend. Its just unreasonable to assume you can "teach" a child, in the same way you "teach" an adult.

I wouldn't "reason" with a two year old why drinking drain cleaner is a bad idea . . . I'd just lock it out of their reach. Yes, they have rights and emotions, and we want them to be non-traumatized and emotionally sound adults . . . but they must LIVE to achieve that.

Q had it right . . .
When you don't like how the current theory is going . . . just change the gravitational constant of the universe . . .

Seriously . . . there are few absolutes in Science . . . just models. And perhaps this (todays) model . . . is improved over yesterdays. He's at least willing to fling something down and see if it sticks . . . that's how progress is made.

But I will anyway. I chose handheld monoc or binoc . . . but really I use my Camera w/zoom lens and hand made Scotch mount . . . (good to see the heavens, better to share with lasting photos . . .)

And . . . shouldn't the last one be . . . I run the "Observatory"??? . . . I'd think the guy that ran the Planetarium . . . was limited to the presentations someone sent them.

You mean I could finally have proof that JAVA isn't the salvation of all mankind?
Go Watson Go.

Yes I can . . . an override is a perfectly acceptable solution. (Even including tickets and losing my license.)
As for the previous response . . . its seldom presented as if we're "given warning". Its typically presented as if . . . RIGHT NOW . . . the autonomous device that knows better than you, is shutting it off NOW, and you're screwed.
I can remember when (mostly for emissions testing) cars had to have annual inspection stickers even in the backwoods here in Kentucky. (Heck,they probably still do in California). If you want annual inspections where I have some warning that the car's unsafe to drive . . . that's fine. But its almost always presented (and was in several of the preceding comments) as if the "autonomous car knows best" and can stop you RIGHT NOW. Even when RIGHT NOW might kill someone.
Yes to override (with accepted responsibility.)
Having said that . . . I stand by my "I'll never accept autonomous cars, until they can stop for a ball rolling out in the road, knowing a child is sure to follow." (And no, "the car can react faster" doesn't obviate the stopping distance required of a one ton car, no matter how much faster a cars reaction time is to begin to press the brake petal.)
I want the autonomous car (in restricted lanes, on restricted highways) but . . . we're still 50-100 years away from a safe one.

". . . then just lock the car from starting once those lifespans have been reached."

So I, Little Timmy and Betty Sue drive out into the desert for a quick photo op . . . only to find out as we arrive, the car as deemed itself "unfit for further use, due to a maintenance issue", stranding us to die in the desert.

REAL LIFE example . . . friend of mine and his wife had had a baby the week before. They were driving back from somewhere (only two in the car) and she develops "internal problems" and . . . begins to bleed out RAPIDLY. I wouldn't want to be the mechanical engineer that "speed limited" his car to "sensible speeds". The Doctors said if he'd been even a minute later getting her to the hospital . . . she'd have died.

The standard rebuttal at this point is "but you people driving like maniacs to the hospital are endangering others and might kill someone."

I'm 51 years old . . . its purely apocryphal and anecdotal but, in my entire life, I've never heard of anyone hitting another car on the way to the hospital when it was so serious, they couldn't wait for an ambulance. I HAVE heard of at least half a dozen cases where people drove to the hospital (speeding the entire way) and had the Doctors tell them . . . "you got them here just in time . . .".

Even if the standard rebuttal is right . . .
Given the two scenarios: My father (in another car) is killed when struck by someone speeding to the hospital, trying to save a family member . . . Or: my mother is killed because someone decided "to protect everyone" to limit the speed my car could travel while I was trying to take her to the hospital . . . I'd find it a lot easier to live with the first scenario, than the second. And I suspect most other people would as well.

And my mod points just expired yesterday . . . sigh.

(I've heard of it happening to others, but never thought it could happen to me . . .
It finally happened . . . I see something worth moderating up, but I have no points . . .)

"I have a couple cards and if I'm somewhere I worry about the system's integrity, I use the card that doesn't have any autopayments associated with it. Then if it does get stolen, there's absolutely no hassle outside of a two phone calls to the issuer: one to report it, and one to activate the new card."

You have no idea how simple, powerful, and non-obvious that statement was . . . and yet I've never seen it suggested before.

Tomorrow I will be busy rearranging my financial life.

Not "Google Glass" as is but . . . some future version of that, would seem to be the ideal. HIGHLY directional microphone, lets you "look" at the speaker of interest to help #1 see facial expressions/body language, #2 discern that "voice" from among the background noise clutter, with interpreted output onto the display.

Something should be possible... if its done in "Wet" electronics (Brain-Body), with enough processing power and sensitivity, discernment should be somewhat possible in "Dry" electronics (IC's and discrete components.)

I keep thinking back to my early days in Ham Radio . . . as time passed and band conditions changed, signals faded and were occluded by background noise, but my human ears "locked on and tracked" the fading morse code. Such that, a passing observer, walking in fresh, might not "hear anything" in the din of noise . . . when I was just able to stay locked on and keep the conversation going a few minutes/seconds longer. How was I staying "locked on"?

Clearly, all I need to do is break out the CSI Miami DVD's and watch a few episodes, where they pull out a clear conversation from the background of a garbled audio conversation, and just repeat their procedure . . .

It'll take more than just directional audio input and decoding (recognition) software. (For those cases when you're trying to listen to ONE conversation in a room full of three or four going on) . . . "directionality" will help, but some pretty heavy duty "fast fourier transforms" (or something similar) might be needed to "track" the particular voices of interest. And laughter, non "voice" sounds like "gasps", tonal changes for surprise or interrogation . . . will make "tracking" problematic.

(Whether build by God, or 1.5 million years of evolution . . . the current design has a big head start.)

I know . . . all that's design postulation, and not the "I need it now" answer you were hoping for. Just thinking out loud.

I remember as a teenager, my mother telling about a miscarriage she had a few years after I was born (too young to remember). Apparently they did a D&C afterwards (to scrap residue off the walls). But, hospitals (at that time at least) must've listed some Abortions as D&C's.
(At the time of the conversation) its 13+ years later and someone had just stolen some hospital records and was harrasing recent D&C patients for "having Abortions" . . .
She was horror struck at what it must've been like, for those "want to be mothers", still suffering the tragedy of having lost a child unwillingly . . . to have some dipwad confront them and accuse them of having an Abortion.
Patient records should be sacrosanct for a reason.

I don't disagree. I'd just like to see all the numbers before I drink the Kool-Aid(tm). No matter how efficient the electric plant is, they still need to mine, and install, and have fleets of trucks to maintain . . . copper/wood/steel distribution systems. (I know, Gas doesn't just "appear" at my local Convenience store tank, they have refineries and fleets of trucks that pollute too, . . . I'm just saying without a FULL head to head TOTAL end to end comparison . . . its hard to separate propaganda from fact. And its in both industries interests to obscure those facts.)
Ignoring all that . . . (3 years ago when I checked) the pricebreak for my wallet, just wan't there yet, considering . . . initial vehicle cost, my mileage per year (and the type city/highway) and expected mileages per $ on electric and including expected rising gas prices, and expected maintenance and lifespans of the vehicles . . . Hybrid just wasn't there yet. (Considering the range, and my lifestyle in KY . . . "Electric only" is totally out of the question.)
And at the typical 15k miles per year, my life/driving is pretty typical for here.

I'd like to by Hybrid and save the planet. I'd even pay a "slight" premium over gas. But, the numbers just aren't there yet. (And I mean by $10k+ not there.)
If I lived in a large city and drove only locally 95% of the time (and could use a rental otherwise) . . . Maybe.
But living an average KY life . . . Hybrid just doesn't cut it for me, dollar-wise.