It's the first indicator of an invasion from Titan! Kurt Vonnegut foresaw this happening decades ago.

I'm guessing you're not too close to a Best Buy either.

Exactly. FedEx will deliver anywhere.

Best Buy lost me years ago, deliberately. Pity, as they used to be one of my favorite stores.

The whole "terrorist hacking" thing reminds me of Y2K - a way to extort dollars for mostly inconsequential IT problems.

{cue the former Y2K programmers pointing out that they saved the world}

Since when does an automobile entertainment system need security updates? Oh, the wonders of Microsoft...

See also "time-sharing", "client-server" and "thin clients". Much of the evolution of computers has been a power struggle between centralization by technology producers and decentralization by users. "The cloud" is just more of the same.

Isn't everybody? ;)

I'll bet Steve Jobs' wife didn't pay any inheritance tax, either. Sometimes I think our system is broken in ways that only a revolution will fix. I'll be shocked if Zuckerberg actually pays that tax bill, versus finding a way around it.

Mike Brown discovered the planetoids that led to Pluto's demotion, but Tyson removed Pluto from a display at his planetarium, then wrote a book about it.

So instead of $8,100,000,000, they'll only get $8,099,600,000. That'll show 'em.