BMW's programmers did as much as I'd expect any application programmer to do. It's then time for the security audit, by a truly qualified security person, to catch the kinds of mistakes that the author caught.

Also very hard if there is not a set of reference photographs.

Every e-mail client(desktop and mobile) should have S/MIME and GnuPG integrated in - including Gmail, Yahoo and the various ISP web clients. What's taking Google so long for Gmail - pressure from various governments?

While some carmakers today offer over-the-air software upgrades to navigation maps and infotainment head units,

Conventional ships guns hit targets over the horizon by firing up and then gravity brings it down (hopefully on target) and they have about as much range now as they are ever going to get, everyone is agreed there. All I was implying is it's going to be hard to hit a target over the horizon with a straight shot. If your going to shoot the railgun the same way you shoot conventional guns what's the point?

Then they expanded like hell, employed stupid corporate business policies like charging people to pay for store catalogs, ridiculous "i need all your personal info" so I can sell you a resistor, etc.

then how are we supposed to do it?

I don't mind ads as such, but what I do mind more than anything else -- more than being noisy and obnoxious -- is the tracking that comes with them. That's why I block all advertising that I can, and why I always will.

JuliaBase is organized in a public Git repository on GitHub. So far, there is no public release of JuliaBase 1.0. However, the master branch in the repository is a release candidate, ...

How big is your brick? While there are hexa- and octocopters that can carry a couple of pounds (which are big and conspicuous spider-looking things), the payload of the DJI Phantom line is measured in low-double-digit grams.

if your friends run off a cliff, do you follow them?

Every time there is some little incident of terrorism the public starts soiling their panties and begging politicians to do something. Frankly I find it disgusting.

Since AES is a block cipher, and an AES block is 16 bytes, and since keypresses appear to be transmitted "instantaneously", does that mean for each keypress, a 16-byte block is formed, and encrypted? And what about the encryption mode? (Otherwise doesn't it basically become ECB?)

The problem is, that hasn't been decided as of yet. It would make sense to any normal person that they wouldn't be. But law enforcement isn't sure how to deal with such services so they are doing their best to kill the industry with raids, but then drop the cases before they hit court so no ruling can hurt their efforts.