This might do what you want:
http://forscan.org/
FORScan is a software scanner for Ford, Mazda, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles, designed to work over ELM327 and J2534 Pass-Thru compatible adapters

So how can 62 senators pass a bill that supersedes the constitution? The constitution specifically states 2/3 of present senators must agree with the president in order to pass a treaty (article 2 section 2). The fast track law says a simple majority can pass a treaty which would then have the same force of law as the constitution.

This seems illegal.

I live in Iowa, we got 7 inches of snow today, the guy 1 block down from me has a heated driveway, he has no frozen water issues that I can see, but I haven't asked him. Concrete is porous, the snow probably leaks slow enough to seep through the concrete to the unfrozen ground below.

I agree on the stingray issues, etc. Which is why I bought one of the few thermostats that does not talk to its corporate website, it talks to my server and my server alone. Same with my home automation server and the Zwave switches and motion sensors and the electrical stats are down in house as well. Most of the consumer friendly thermostats, home automation stuff, and electrical trackers agreggate this info at corporate HQ and present a nice friendly website to the consumer, while stealing the data and selling it. But there are options that do not do that.

Your house plays a warning tone on your bedroom speaker you to let you know your teenager's window was opened after 10pm on a weekend night.

Because I raise my teenager like a veal in a hermetically sealed room. If she's opened the window, it means she wants fresh air. I don't need my house to parent for me.

Think of it like a firewall. If I want the kids to go out, I tell them they can go out the front door. If they go out the windows, that is opposite of parental authority.

These are some of the things you can do with a 'smart' house. pick and choose what you want to install.

Except, you're not going to "pick and choose" what you want to install. It's going to be a package deal and all of it will require an account where the data is stored in the cloud and the activities of my teenaged daughter are being sold to the highest bidder, ostensibly for market purposes.

Except I did pick and choose all of those, installed piecemeal over the last 15 years. My house already does all that and none of it goes out to a cloud account. All of it stays on my personal server that has a firewalled + snorted web interface to the outside world for my access alone.

Friend, how hard is to turn on a thermostat? You realize there are thermostats with timers on them for people who are away from their house for a long time, and they don't require an IP address or account with iPrison.com.

I have a large house and I am lazy, If I am in the basement and I decide to kick the heat up 3 degrees, I can do it from the comfort of my sofa.
Again, pick and choose what interests you. If its not your cup of tea, great. If you cannot see why someone else might like some of these features I don't know what to tell you.

If the "Smart Home Revolution" has been prioritized ahead of personal jet packs and a robot to go shovel my driveway, there's something seriously wrong.

Shovel? The next thing on my list is a heated driveway, not a robot. heated driveways have been around for 20 years, and cost about the same as a snowblower, if you are installing a new driveway anyway.

Let me paint you a picture. Your house graphs the indoor and outdoor temperature with mrtg along with when your furnace or AC was on. It graphs the per outlet electricity usage on a minute by minute basis. Both graphs can go back for years. Your hallway and bathroom lights turn on and off automatically based on motion sensors, only they are smart enough to know that if you get up after you go to sleep you want hte lights to only come on at 50%, not 100%. Your doorbell rings and you get emailed on your smart phone with a picture of the front door of your house. Your house plays a warning tone on your bedroom speaker you to let you know your teenager's window was opened after 10pm on a weekend night. The camera system notices someone pulling into your driveway and pops up a picture in picture of the driveway on your tv while you are watching a movie. You decide to come home from work early so you login from your phone and turn the thermostat setback off, to warm the house before your arrival. These are some of the things you can do with a 'smart' house. pick and choose what you want to install.

To add some real content to this article,
A wifi web server enabled device that monitors temperature of the food, the bbq pit, and controls the fan that allows it to turn temp up and down to control a sterady bbq temperature:
http://www.thebbqguru.com/products/CyberQ-Wifi.html

A nice set of add on parts for the webser smokey mountain BBQ unit:
http://cajunbandit.com/wsm-parts-mods/

A review of 50 different bags of charcoal:
http://www.nakedwhiz.com/lumpdatabase/lumpbag6.htm