The GPS functionality will be woven into the brain of the engine, so that blocking or disabling will cause the engine to cease functioning. Ever try to cut out the GPS of your phone? I mean, REALLY kill the circuit? You can't. The phone ceases to function. Cars are rolling networks now, and pretty easy to control.

Disabling GPS could cause the car to yell to the cops, the insurance company, Ford, whatever. Once the pieces are in place, any scenario can be deployed.

Cutting out the GPS will be declared a crime. Eventually. Because terrorism, crime, whatever. Doesn't matter. This is stepwise world engineering here - boil the frog slowly, and no one will care much.

Regardless, GPS modules will be incorporated, permanently, into the engine block or essential structure of every new car. Shortly, modules will be required in all cars by law. So, used or new, you will be tracked. Why? Parking tickets, speeding tickets, movement tracking for any purpose. And of course all cars will be required to be wirelessly networked, so such data will be easily provided. What Have You Got To Hide? It was done to our cell phones nine years ago, by law. Few people noticed (I did - if you can drill back that far, check my increasingly rabid Slashdot posts). Or cared.

Thanks to Snowden, my nation is finally noticing the noose drawing tight around their lives.

I keep my very old car running, and probably will spend ten grand rebuilding the body. It's pre-black box, not to mention non-GPSed. It's a statement, not a dodge, as cameras are tracking our cars and opting-out isn't possible.

I've read many of the comments, and not one mentioned software failure, sensor failure, GPS failure, power failure, design failure, or hardware failure of any sort I can't envision. Or being hit by a non-automated car - which could make the system fail and drive the car into further danger. Is it possible techies cannot conceive of a computer system that does not work 100% of the time? (Makes me reflect back on all those posts I used to make contending that voting systems were inherently designed for cheating. No imagination. Machines *always work* in techies' view, it seems) A little too much programming - no experience in actual machines operating in the real world.

Computers *fail* in the real world. The more complex the system, the more certain the failure. An airplane can get away with automated flight, as there is room to maneuver and pilots are always standing close by. Cars have no safety margins for failure in traffic. None. This will not work, not unless people are willfully blind when the failures accumulate - possible.

What happens if someone spoofs a GPS signal? It's been done to drones, making them dive and kill themselves. What if a HERF gun blows out the brains of the car with EMP - or someone simply makes an EMP "bomb" and detonates it on an overpass?

Question again: who's responsible when the perfect machine fails and causes an accident?

UIs becoming mildly useful after only decades of no imagination gives me hope yet once again for flying cars.

We need a VCR equivalent. Been looking for one for a while.
For all you young people, a VCR - Video Cassette Recorder - let us record live TV - unencrypted - onto tapes. I'm only half kidding about the education here.
We need a simple box that records OTA in 1080P onto a hard drive or USB stick. There are several out there, of various flavors. The key for searching for such is "converter box" with recording capabilities.
A PC with media software is not sufficient. We need a simple solution.

This might be a contender very soon:
http://www.avsforum.com/t/1500872/channel-master-cm-7500-2-tuner-ota-dvr-with-guide

Remember to contract private companies to build machines and systems to count votes as well. Nothing could possibly go wrong, and those companies will be as assiduous in detecting flaws in voting systems and their front ends as they are in counting vast quantities of cash. Because, you know, they will. 'Cause. Perfect.

Spooks don't need keys. They either have masters or have a little toy or two that opens the locks. Our doors and windows are paradoxically designed so that they can be opened, not to keep people out. If we had real door locking tech - steel frames/door plates and amazing locks - firemen couldn't get in, and police would be REALLY pissed off and have them outlawed... hmm. Probably are outlawed.

Scientology operatives of various levels of competence love to let you know they've been there. Basic tactics: make the person insecure and neurotic about their home and theirr privacy, especially as law enforcement will not believe you, or care. The target lives a miserable life, and the thugs don't even have to make a return visit. Once does it.

Three of the four systems he had installed (good man!) were deactivated. The agency who broke in just weren't expecting that many layers (they will now be aware of super-tinfoilhatting). Whipping out the Occam's Razor, they are doing this to every effective anti-spying activists they can - but those hundreds or thousands of targets didn't have four layers of armor.

Now the challenge: let's get some pictures! Let's see these little sneaks.

The mac mini is due a refresh. Mavericks supports multiple monitors, better, that is, you can have a full screen game in one and still use the other at the same time, or so the say.

XCode is free and comes with a simulator for iOS (does not run apps that you do not have the code for).

Well, i hope you get it all the way you want. :)

I just use a Mac now. I'm sorry to say, but i love my mac mini.

I finally gave up on using my Nvidia card in that box.

Wasn't it nvidia that was originally going to release their drivers as open source?