Gavagai80 has a true point of contention.

There does not need to be an infinite amount of cars driving around. In fact, we probably don't need the number of cars that we have right now if we converted a large number of them to selfdriving.

If I could call a car to pick me up and take me somewhere at a price that matches my car payment per month, it's a total win. No fuel costs, no insurance costs, no maintenance costs.

There really is not going to be a need for an individual to own a Google car. You will have an app on your phone that you will schedule a car for when you leave, and if you know when you are leaving, schedule that as well. Otherwise, when you have a better idea to return home or go to the next place, you then schedule that with your app. No maintenance to be involved in, no insurance to carry on it. There won't even be a need for parking, no need to even worry about handicapped parking, you will be left off at the place you indicate (and perhaps busy places will have to be modified for having people just dropped off at the door instead of walking through the parking lot), and it will go off and pick up it's next fare, or decide to go back to the garage to be cleaned/maintained/fueled. It will be the Uber/Lyft/cab company nightmare, because no drivers will be involved, just companies with their fleets of autodriving cars. The average individual will not own a car anymore, except perhaps for far rural areas where it would be impractical to be running a fleet of autodriving cars, and those that need a specialized vehicle like a pickup truck/towing vehicle for a trailer.

A selfdriving car changes the paradigm, at least for a large swath of Americans. It also won't change for some, either.

I've got a common enough name that hits one of my Gmail accounts. I reply ALL back, and tell them I'm not the person that they are looking for. Although for some issues, this doesn't work. Juniper Card Services. I've emailed, I've talked to them on the phone, I've marked them as spam. I was able to figure out one guy's real email (he was looking for a new car) who lived in Hong Kong. Another guy in West Virginia was sending me stuff about used cars, and the sender was pissed that I wasn't responding. I told him where I lived, NOT in WV, and that his emails were going to the wrong place. Frat brothers have sent me crap. I've gotten a ton of personal emails.

Luckily for me, I don't use this email address as my regular address. But if I did, I would be doing password resets just to lock those jokers out of their accounts.

And I have deja vu, didn't we discuss this previously on /.?

others call a utility.

MSE doesn't give a damn about Produkey. Every other antivirus I've ran wants to erase it.

I have a program called vfat.com, which was a disk defragmenter for MS-DOS, working only on FAT formatted disks. I have used it hundreds of times for years back in the days of dial-up 2400bps BBS. Now, everybody screams that it's some kind of virus. The damn file predates the Morris worm, and you're telling me that it's a virus, the VFAT virus?

Another program, pskill seems to be on most other antivirus lists. I think it got corrected, but I remember when mIRC was considered a virus because somebody was using it (surreptitiously) for command and control.

Who knew?

Ad Block Plus FTW!

Installers that install much more than what I asked for, on the other hand...

Speaking of bittorrent, I updated Utorrent recently and found out that it really wanted to install Search Protection.

No thanks!

Not that utorrent can't seem to remember where it installed itself last time, (didn't it used to be truly portable???!), but to be installing crap like that without even asking?

Crappy infrastructure or not.

will most likely never learn to drive.

Fuck freedom.

Look at why we are now required to wear seatbelts despite the fact that air bags are the better reason why we don't get hurt in accidents as much as we used to. The 55 speed limit was all about saving oil. Now the speed limits are all about the safety.

It's all about the safety.

Nothing is going to change for me. Mailbox is at the curbside already. Now, for my neighbors across the street and a few others, yeah, this is going to impinge on them.

Yep. Exactly what I was thinking of saying.

Flash works. No Script works. Adblock Plus works.

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Now, if you want to crash 64-bit Nightly, this is the way to do it.

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Keep scrolling. And it's nice that the crash reports are null and invalid.

On #4, I use my Note two handed. Which isn't that big a deal. I use Swype, so I'm not tapping out individual keys, and I would still have trouble using Swype with a smaller phone, as my digits aren't wired that way to hold and try to Swype with my thumb. And the previous device I used, a Palm TX, was certainly used two handed, so I really don't have an issue of using it two handed. Even my daughter's GS 2, I have to use two handed, and that's a fairly small phone.

On #5, it fits in all of my pants pockets comfortably, at least the front ones. I'd probably break the Gorilla Glass front if I kept it in any of my back pockets. I tend to break the unbreakable combs somehow, already.

I've had Bryan Prices from Canada, Hong Kong, and the various states (including a person in mine!) that forget that they don't own that particular gmail.com address. I have gotten things to do with Juniper, Apple, business loan applications, cable TV and Internet appointments set (it took them over two weeks, but I think they finally realized that they were using the wrong email on that one), frat brothers that think I'm part of their frat (wrong frat, I'm afraid), people sending me pictures of their Jeeps as if I'm in the market. The automated stuff like the Juniper stuff, I just mark as spam. I have called them, but because I'm not a customer, they refuse to do anything about it. Meanwhile, that guarantees that I will never use them for anything. Notifying the mistaken parties can still be an issue, because they don't change their address book, and the next email arrives to me!

The drones are already in the air. Do we really need robots when it's just easier to kill from the air?

And if the drones are too pin-point, there are still enough nukes out there to take out huge portions of population if that is the need.

It's all going to be death by air, drone, ICBM or bunker buster.

Nothing, I didn't post anything worthwhile to start with on that service.

I was burned when Blogger stopped supporting publishing by FTP. I'll be running my own server from now on, thank you.

'As we move toward the cloud and technology gets easier to use...'

And who is going to administrate the "cloud"? Yeah, it's nicely removed, there is still quite a bit of manual work to be involved even with cloud solutions.

And just who is going to fix his shit when the cloud decides to do a Nemo, or it just evaporates? He really doesn't have a clue.