Assuming it works like the "LKAS" system in my vehicle, it does NOT. However, the amount of force exerted by the system is very small, and *very* easily overpowered.

In my dreams... I'm sure we'll get there eventually. :)

I have a vehicle with a similar system: a European Honda Accord with LKAS (Lane-Keeping Assist System). It seems to have a watchdog timer in place that checks for input on the steering wheel, and if it doesn't detect anything with circa 14 seconds, the lane-keeping system automatically disables itself (with chimes and flashing yellow warning light on the dash). It's immediately re-enabled the moment you apply any force to the wheel. (It's actually a bit of a pain on a long straightaway, where you don't *need* to make any corrections for that long.)

I have a vehicle with a similar system: a European Honda Accord with LKAS (Lane-Keeping Assist System).

It's very particular about the lines being painted a specific way, and if the lane markings don't meet the spec, the system stays in standby. That said, it was able to cope with the yellow work-zone lane markings on the Autobahn, which seem to take priority over the normal ones.

Would you be willing to share some details?

This is why I love Slashdot.

You have to admit that the capability is still impressive.

Consider: something that just a few short years ago was only possible with a news van and a satellite dish is now in the hands of millions. (okay, maybe Skype installations on iPhones is 2,000,000, but it's gotta be pretty close, right?)

Botnets have been (and continue to be) used in mafia-style "protection" rackets, threatening with DDoS attacks. If you ran a server that was threatened with or subjected to one, you'd probably change your tune pretty quickly.

Oh, and even if you're using an email client with good spam filtering, it still has to download the spam before it can sort through it and throw it away, wasting bandwidth.

Botnets are a scourge, and harmful to many, not only ISPs! (although I do agree with your assertion that ISPs ought to disconnect users with pwned machine :)

Well, practically everybody. Some acquaintances of mine have had ridiculous phone bills after enabling data roaming for an "emergency"... ridiculous on the order of > €1,000 for less than an hour's usage.

It's enough to make me wonder: why don't they lower their prices, so more people would be willing to utilize data roaming? Couldn't they actually make more profit that way? I suppose studies on that subject have already been conducted, and the results doom all of us to suffer on account of a few suckers/idiots: perhaps the same ones that are responsible for spam, due to responding to unsolicited commercial email.

Off-topic, out of curiosity, are you in France, Netherlands, or Germany?

That was my first thought, too...

I wrote a pretty long blog post about this very subject (and the iPhone 4's antenna problem, too). On the "cripped iPhone 3G" topic, Apple is either a)incompetent, b)dishonest, c)all of the above.

I hate advertisements.

Thanks a lot, pal.

The Facetime and MMS issues were due to a permissions problem, which has already been sorted out, per planetbeing's Twitter feed.