This attitude just goes to show that as a bike rider you see the highways as your personal race course / play thing

I see no one here has yet said, If your going to ride motorcycles you should accept at least some of the risk of injury. Cars hit each other all the time, human reactions are not perfect, sometimes they could be avoided, maybe even most of the time, but when a car hits another car at 20-30mph there is a fair chance that only minor injuries will occur, when a motorcycle hits (or is hit by something) something at 20-30 mph there is a fair chance major injuries will occur. Sure motorcycles can be fun, so can flying ultralights, bungee jumping and a number of other things, this does not mean everyone else out there should be responsible for injuries that happen while your out there having fun.

How about people that want to know what time it is, I have seen my phone synced to the cell provider be off by 5 minutes or more, and also that don't want to worry about their phone randomly changing time zones on them while traveling.

It is more than I would want to spend on a watch that will stop glowing in the dark in a dozen years

Yes, but it is nice to know they have the right time too

That is part of why I like my JDM Casio Oceanus (this is Casio's domestic upper line model, not sold in the US)

model OCW-P600TD It is made out of titanium, has world atomic time reception in 5 regions from China to Europe, is solar powered and at a little under $1,000 street price shipped to the U.S. is not so cheap that you will see them everywhere, and not so expensive that you worry about someone cutting off your hand to get it.

http://www.tokyo-toyz.com/proddetail.php?prod=CasioOceanusCachalotOCW-P600TD-1AJF

This is a fair comment, I have helped someone set up free to renters wifi at an RV park, one of the things that had to be done was block peer to peer otherwise it consumes all available bandwidth. (note the broadband available at this location is very limited fractional T1 speed)

Considering the amount of DOD sensor work they did I am not surprised at all.

I wish I had mod points for this one

One more take on it, maybe the company is not doing so good in this economy, and are asking their employees to help drum up business so they don't have to lay people off, etc.

Repeat after me:
Infrastructure items should not auto-update, the potential for something bad is too big. Imagine one Ooopsy bricking every Mercedes, not so bad right? Now picture every Toyota, or Ford.