"Fast paced work environment!" actually means that we change our specs a lot, even up to the hour before delivery, and we don't want you to complain because we're "fast paced"! :)

Exactly. If a manufacturer makes a car that explodes when hit in a rear-end collision (Ford Pinto), they get sued. If they installed faulty brake lines, they'd get sued. If they provide a self-driving car, they have to make it "reasonably safe", where "reasonable" is determined by the current state of the art in that field of engineering, or by a jury informed by expert witnesses.

They probably saw in the logs that he went to the Tor website first, downloaded Tor, and then used it. The initial visit to the project's site would be easily visible in the logs.

Really, that's what we had to drag our butts through interstellar space for? Unobtanium is just tin?

That's not he point. The question is, "do you trust that *other* driver more than an automated system?"

As if we have any proof that Health Sherpa is well documented and scalable.

This might be OK if we all had equal access to equivalent amounts of data on what our government officials and employees were doing.

If there's one thing business is exceedingly good at, it's ramping up production when a big customer says they want to buy lots of your product. All Tesla has to do is sign a contract guaranteeing a minimum buy.

Ok, so they made a car with (limited) remote controls that have the same security as a typical website. What could go wrong? Honestly, it's just a really bad idea. I would want it guaranteed that there was a way to completely disable any remote control functionality, so if you still want to have diagnostics and monitoring, etc., then you have to install some kind of data diode to really made it secure. But that's the right way to do it.

With all the news about medical devices with deadly security flaws, and people even hacking into cars (even if only from the backseat), I can't believe Tesla really didn't even *try* to add proper security to their API. The only right way to do it (from a corporate perspective) is to hire an outside security company to audit your design and implementation, and to continue to monitor the security whenever changes are made (so continuously in this case). It's well known that you can't trust the programmers to implement security properly, especially if you had Elon Musk screaming over your shoulder like Steve Jobs all the time.

I was on Rogers in Canada. I was under some kind of grandfathered-in middle-of-the-road high speed connection capped at 95 GB/month, for a little over $60/month. Just started going over that and getting charged for it, so we switched to TekSavvy (local provider), and it's much faster, the "cap" is 300 GB for under $50/month, and if you go over, it they charge you $0.50 or $0.25/GB over, but then *that* caps out at under $70/month total. Then you're automatically on their unlimited plan. Rogers called us 3 or 4 times when we cancelled trying to give us a better deal, but the best they could come up with was $72/month for similar speed and caps, but it was only an introductory rate!

I was definitely thinking of that story when I was writing it. :)

I always love the "for the price of a coffee a day" arguments about how little it costs to start saving. What are my savings goals, though? I guess to retire, so I can go down to the local coffee shop every morning and enjoy a coffee. Oh wait...

There is the tiny problem that chemotherapy damages your brain. There is, at the very least, a measurable and significant decline in IQ when tested before and after chemotherapy. Google for effect on iq from chemo to see some information.

In Canada the "clusters" are called "super mailboxes". They've been here for a while, in subdivisions. Where I used to live, we had mail delivery to the door, and we had mail stolen a couple of times, not to mention it just being rather annoying (both to us and the mail delivery person) that our dog would bark when they came up the steps. The super mailboxes (at our new house) solve both those problems by (a) not requiring the person to be on our front porch, and (b) requiring a lock to open. When we get large parcels, they usually put an extra key in your mailbox, and that opens one of the large compartments where they can put medium and large boxes. That's convenient, and better than trying to leave it in an unlocked mailbox at your front door. As for having to "walk" to get your mail, it's only half a block away, and most people I see just stop their car there for 60 seconds on the way home. I pick it up the next morning when I'm walking the dog. Plus each one has a mailbox (for outgoing mail) built-in. Overall, I think it's a better solution, especially if it saves money.