I thought they dropped the doughnut (and then picked it up and put it back on the shelf).

> Which means as new technology is invented it won't be able to displace current technology for 100 years till most of the current fleet departs. I keep adding/upgrading to my PC.Can't cars be upgraded to the latest technology?

Someone mentioned that this is only a short term solution and the gas production goes back up after a while. I never checked into it to see if that is true or not.

If it is an open source project someone else should be able to branch the code from before this change and create a new project (relevant xkcd).

There is a little more to it then just getting from A to B, you need to be able to do that over an extended period of time. Cheap interior and paint job can really impact how long you want to drive the car. Maybe with EV' battery life will always be the limiting factor.

Who even does that?

I have an older book called 'The Magnet in your Nose' that talks about this.

Beam the messages into space and just assume there will be faster then light travel by then.

Steal his game password and kill his character.

I don't understand what the 18 parameters could be. I mean, all it has to work with is sound waves, what the heck does this mean? What is it using for a baseline?
It sure sounds like BS to me.

If you live in an apartment or in the city and have to park on the street, you really don't have a good way to plug a car in over night. I think I will patent a 'Charger Post'; insert credit card, open door and plug in car, lock door, next day insert card again to open door.

Don't they have to go to court if the extortion attempt fails and wouldn't the ISP then have to testify? If my ISP started to sell out its customers like that, I would have to shop around. Even if I am not a file sharer, that is still a company I could not trust (we need some revenue, so fake some logs so we can extort some customers).

So did MS lie when they assured me that no personal information was collected when I installed WGA?
(RTFA)
Maybe not. Oh well, so much for a massive class action.

Unless because of the smaller entry cost you can get more people using your product. Then both might benefit.