It's really interesting how business shies away from valuing people and expertise over some sort of even very nebulous, intangible and somewhat imaginary asset. I think there are some powerful blinders in operation somewhere.
Deplorable, but easy to understand. The idea is to take all of the fruits of the lone inventor's labor. Patent trolls and big dumb companies alike do this with nebulous and imaginary patents. When they win, they not only get the advantage of the inventor's life time of effort, they also get to keep any would be competitors out of the market. Big dumb companies also like to buy smaller companies, often after destroying their market share and value though bogus lawsuits. "Who wants to buy thing from a company that's about to get creamed?" whine the kind of weenies who run XP because it's "supported." All of it is theft and all of it is made possible by nonsensical patent laws.
The only real solution is to restrict patents to real and useful inventions. "Business method," software and other abominations can eliminate the advantage real patents give and are no more worthy of a patent than an efficient way of alphabetically organizing paper files.
It would be better for you to spend time reading the coursework and apply it to something you do. In engineering, school and grades are a start, achievements are king. You can learn anywhere you are.
That's classic twitter, insulting people who hold a different opinion than him.... Why must I "hate" something if I don't "love" it and viceversa?
I don't know why people like you dedazo are so full of hate. Given your tenacity, I assume you are some kind of astroturfer. It's hard for me to believe that people would spend years of their life harassing people on Slashdot unless they were paid to do it. I just don't see the entertainment value and think most people who act that way get bored of it when they grow up and have better things to do.
When others use terms like "godawful" and "don't get me started" to describe something, I assume they don't like that something. When I mentioned that the security of X was greater than that of Windoze, I got a response bashing X with terms like that.
Of course the performance allowed by vanilla X is so godawful, that to get any decent performance at all requires "extensions" to X that basically ignore X architecture and are essentially hacks to provide high performance that wasn't even considered in the decade X was invented.
Next, you will tell me that M$ did it better? Give me a break. I watch movies in X and I've played games in X, it works just fine. Think about it - if X can render high definition movies, like this one, it should also be able to render a game that looks just as good as a movie. I've watched that movie on a 233 MHz PII. It blew up to 1024x768 fullscreen without a problem, just like Intel swore MMC would back in 1998.
The real but surmountable problem is that none of the major hardware makers but Intel are co-operating with free software developers. It's amazing how the X framework is able to absorb those "hacks" when accelerated graphics drivers are available, free or non free. That's why Linux system requirements are usually much lower than M$. When those accelerated drivers are not there, some games can crawl.
Let's say you just hate X because your crazy. That's OK, because you don't really need X for gaming. libSVGA does nicely. PS2 and PS3 also show what can be done when you are not encumbered by M$ legacy crap.
If indeed the one package you submitted to unstable yesterday is accepted, then I stand corrected: I have met a stalker that thinks Windows Media Player is superior to Amarok and who is also a Debian developer. Somehow, I doubt it. I also doubt that you work for a grocery store, you are too rude for any kind of customer service.
Gaming and computing are two different animals.... Gaming demands high-end, near-to-the-hardware, unencumbered access.... From what I've read, Microsoft has made some tough but I think "correct" choices for security in Vista.
A reasonable OS makes resources available, without compromising security. You don't have to be able to overwrite system files to gain access to video card functions. There's also no reason to restrict other programs, such as email or browsers when your OS has been designed to perform for customers rather than confuse competitors. The conundrum has been addressed and solved by X, which has had network transparency without significant security risks for decades.
Oh, I bet you mean Windows...and "it's all I know"? Please. I'm using Linux right now and just submitted a small piece of software (just a utility and associated library, not much, certainly nothing big) to the Debian archive. I've been using Linux on and off since about 2001.
It's like you're going out with a girl; forgive me, blank, it goes the other way also. You're going out with a girl, what you really want to do is have a deep, close and intimate relationship, at least for one night. And, you know, you just can't let her feel like that, because if you do, it ain't going to happen, right. So you have to talk long term and white picket fence and all these other wonderful things, or else you're never going to get what you're really looking for. So you can't let them feel like pawns, no matter how much they really are.
I can only imagine the kind of respect they have for their customers because I quit using their software around 1999. It was bad enough then and now you know why.
When US computing, communications, and networking implementations are more secure, we all benefit, and NSA contributes to this in its overall mission.
Sounds great, but it's not because the NSA can not fix Microsoft's broken development model. Our "benefit" depends entirely on what you consider "secure". The former USSR, with a guard at every copy machine, could have been considered secure. Even if you use the right definition, "software is made more difficult for others to exploit and disrupt network public networks with," Microsoft has yet to show any benefit from this form of corporate welfare. The worst kind of "help" maintains Microsoft's monopoly position: use of non free methods for document access and storage. Vista was made the same way every other M$ OS was and it's not going to be any more secure.
The best thing than can happen to World computing is for people to stop using M$ and start using a good mix of the alternatives, heavily favoring the high quality free ones. Microsoft is the definitive host for the everything you think the NSA is helping to fix. The easiest way for government to encourage rational computer usage is to using Microsoft themselves. At the end of the day, you have to wonder why all levels of government pay huge licensing fees to obscure public records.
"90 percent lock on the PC market"... Wow! And it's not even out yet!
Government and corporate planning tends to go that way. Some famous examples include:
Spain and Portugal split America
Napoleon owns Russia
European powers split Africa, Asia and Australia
Hitler owns USSR
Multinationals split World by owning "IP". See glass, steel, audio recordings, radio, unix and just about everything invented from 1890 to the present.
Microsoft/NSA owns your "digital lifestyle" with a second rate OS.
Sometimes, things just don't go according to plan, which is good. Prosperity comes from mutual respect and free trade. The kind that comes from screwing people is expensive and short lived.
Bad capacitors got everybody, not just Dell. While Dell and other large computer vendors do sell some of the worst components and suffer some of the highest breakdown rates, the capacitor problem got everyone a few years back and still do. badcaps.net has the dirty details and the issue has been covered by Slashdot numerous times:
Sooner, rather than later, the upgrade train is going end. There's no other "durable" good that gets trashed as often as computers do. Automobiles, appliances, TV's, stereos and other items that cost less than a PC are all expected to last much longer than five years. There's been way too much turnover and there will be much less of it as people realize that their hardware does what they want it to.
The PC churn is wasteful, environmentally harmful and mostly intentional. Going from Win3.1 to 95 and then 95 to 98, and then from 98 to XP and now from XP to Vista put a lot of computers in the trash. Outside the Windoze world, the same computers remained useful much longer. Last year I retired the Debian GNU/Linux, 486, fileserver that originally came with Windows 3.1. It was 13 years old, still running and stands ready as a backup. The laptop I'm writing this on is from 1998. It came with Windoze 95 but now runs Etch like a champ. I've got better machines, of course, because the trash is full of 1 GHz corporate cast offs. While I'm happy to have the hardware for myself and my family, I know that I pay for it everytime I buy something from any company still in the Windoze world. A select few at telco and software companies can get rich this way but the rest of us are being being poisoned.
I think you missed the point of my sarcastic reply; i.e. that your...solution is entirely useless.
Of course I missed that, because it's bullshit. It's stubborn fools like you that drag companies down. You cling to expensive stuff that's broken because it's all you know.
Show me Google's back up tapes. One of the big reasons they are such a big success is because they bought the cheapest junk hardware they could and made it into one of the world's largest storage networks. All it took was a little brainpower and guts.
Go ahead, sneer at me for not knowing dick about expensive tape drives and other exotic dinosaurs. I don't need it.
OK, it's possible to live without Windows. I've been doing it for years and my family is much happier because of it. I've yet to run into that "required" M$ thing people talk about. Etch, through Kino, fills in the last thing I was missing - easy video editing.
Checked mine, its present:( Anyone know if its safe to make that file and its registry entry 'disappear' ?
Sure, just go get the Mepis Patch. This will end all of your activeX problems. It won't end your Flash, Adobe and other problems but those are minor in comparison.
Really, do you think eliminating this one control will make your computer safe? Chances are there are coppies that will "respawn" later, a common malware trick, and that there are far nastier controls you don't know about. The malice is built in from Redmod before anyone else gets it.
, complete with screen shots about how inconsistent the M$ GUI has become. Just look at this screenshot. I thought the differences between KDE, Gnome and other toolkits was bad but that's way off, M$ has no excuse for the fundamental differences seen in their own tools. Why would you ever throw a new user into that mess? The worst part is how frequently they change the interface, No one else does it more.
I'll conclude with
with Microsoft applications, there's a feeling that, by and large, the only UI guidelines that Windows applications adhere to is "what we feel like." (I know Microsoft has a lot of UI guideline information, but since no one seems to follow any of it, I'm not sure what the point of it is.)
We hear this suggestion all the time, but the reality is that the reason Firefox and Opera are "more secure" is that there are less people using them. Their market share isn't worthwhile to the commercial malware authors.
Why not move to the zero cost option that works better, if that's true?
The next M$ line of defense is to blame the users. Mac, Linux, even Firefox users are "savvy" and M$ users, "the masses" are somehow stupid they will tell you. Somehow, ease of use, means ease of abuse to them. This really just tells you that M$ thinks you are stupid. Mac specifically markets itself to people who are computer phobic and want nothing to do with computers. Oh but now we are back to popularity and it never ends because it's a lie.
Free software is both easy to use and more secure and the two are not exclusive.
[using anything but M$] is a steep learning curve, and a lot of people think why bothered [sic].
So M$ shoved IE 7 down their throats as a forced update. Borat voice, "Is nice!" If you want a consistent interface instead of, "change for change's sake" use free software.
Back in the real world, my five year old girl is happy with Firefox. I like that her system does not have to be replaced every two years and that it does not catch porn spam or American Express pop ups. Mepis took me all of 20 minutes to install and it works with all of her favorite PBS toy sites, and many more demanding A/V playthings. I'm sure, in time, she will master other tools and that they will be nice free ones that don't change all the time.
Not use Microsoft? That's unpossible! They must be Mac or Linux users and are completely out of touch because they don't have the problems in the first place.
Seriously, it's good to see the message getting out. Another widely read, "mainstream" source, the BBC, has said the same thing already, like this. Of course, everyone without a vested interest in M$'s welfare has been saying enjoying the same for years. Sooner or later, despite billions of advertising dollars and bullshit studies, people are going to get it and real OS choice will happen. Seeing this in the NYT makes me think this is sooner than later.
This is MUCH less efficient than just converting the chemical energy directly of fossil fuel into mechanical energy in your car's internal combustion engine. In every conversion to different type of energy you lose something.
Yet the vehicle is supposed to get 50 MPG, when using gasoline. This is much better than the average vehicle because the gasoline engine will run at nothing but it's most efficient speed. If they use regenerative breaking, you get back a lot of the energy you used to get up to speed. Unless they are lying about their milage, again, this is an improvement.
Oh yeah, if the electric company's 40 miles worth of electricity cost you less than the price 0.8 galons of gas, you use that. They get close to all of the possible energy out of their fuel because they also run at constant speeds and can condense the exhaust with regenerative pre-heaters. Try that trick with your car and you will find yourself driving a truck, most of which is devoted to moving itself. Despite the losses of transmission, it could be cheaper, especially when you factor in the cheaper nuclear generation that utilities can offer. Either way, being able to chose your fuel source based on cost is better than what you have now.
Internal combustion is simple, lightweight and cheap. Sooner or later, it will be cheaper and lighter to carry around batteries.
IE still owns the market and its the de facto standard, like it or not.
1999 called and asked for it's ignorant flame bait.
At best, they have 60% of browsers. The 40% they don't own comes from the growing Linux and Mac crowd and huge M$ Firefox crowd. IE 7 is unlikely to rob much of the M$ Firefox base because it's still insecure and buggy. I know one person who bought a Mac over the forced move, and I'm sure others will follow. Most M$ users just want their computers to work - the force was designed to move people to new computers and Vista but it's going to backfire. The IE 7 share will peak at 60% and drop from there along with the M$ desktop share.
Now, what commercial site do you know that's going to throw away 4/10 dollars? Really, there's more to lose because the Firefox, Linux and Mac crowds are more likely to spend than the others. Commercial sites would much rather develop to real standards and reach 100% of the market. Microsoft's breaking standards, especially their own broken ones, is anti-social and a burden to every web developer.
What if... Insurance was much cheaper with this car...
It won't be cheaper if it causes more accidents than it prevents, it will be more expensive. Accidents cost money. The insurance companies will know if this works or not and charge accordingly.
I can see why you're hired full time by a FTSE 100/Fortune 500 class company to do all of their incredibly important back office IT work,
Fortune 100 company? Is that where you would like to work? I hope you get your wish.
I have worked for one of those and I did not like it. They were too busy wasting their money on stupid stuff, like expensive software that did not work, homeland security and other nonsense, to pay their people. There may be better companies out there, but big is usually dumb and abusive. I'm not going back if I can help it.
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It's really interesting how business shies away from valuing people and expertise over some sort of even very nebulous, intangible and somewhat imaginary asset. I think there are some powerful blinders in operation somewhere.
Deplorable, but easy to understand. The idea is to take all of the fruits of the lone inventor's labor. Patent trolls and big dumb companies alike do this with nebulous and imaginary patents. When they win, they not only get the advantage of the inventor's life time of effort, they also get to keep any would be competitors out of the market. Big dumb companies also like to buy smaller companies, often after destroying their market share and value though bogus lawsuits. "Who wants to buy thing from a company that's about to get creamed?" whine the kind of weenies who run XP because it's "supported." All of it is theft and all of it is made possible by nonsensical patent laws.
The only real solution is to restrict patents to real and useful inventions. "Business method," software and other abominations can eliminate the advantage real patents give and are no more worthy of a patent than an efficient way of alphabetically organizing paper files.
I'm going to combine this with my OpenGrading program. I predict a 4.0 this semester.
That does not work very well. It's funny how the world takes care of silly tricks like that.
It would be better for you to spend time reading the coursework and apply it to something you do. In engineering, school and grades are a start, achievements are king. You can learn anywhere you are.
That's classic twitter, insulting people who hold a different opinion than him. ... Why must I "hate" something if I don't "love" it and viceversa?
I don't know why people like you dedazo are so full of hate. Given your tenacity, I assume you are some kind of astroturfer. It's hard for me to believe that people would spend years of their life harassing people on Slashdot unless they were paid to do it. I just don't see the entertainment value and think most people who act that way get bored of it when they grow up and have better things to do.
When others use terms like "godawful" and "don't get me started" to describe something, I assume they don't like that something. When I mentioned that the security of X was greater than that of Windoze, I got a response bashing X with terms like that.
Of course the performance allowed by vanilla X is so godawful, that to get any decent performance at all requires "extensions" to X that basically ignore X architecture and are essentially hacks to provide high performance that wasn't even considered in the decade X was invented.
Next, you will tell me that M$ did it better? Give me a break. I watch movies in X and I've played games in X, it works just fine. Think about it - if X can render high definition movies, like this one, it should also be able to render a game that looks just as good as a movie. I've watched that movie on a 233 MHz PII. It blew up to 1024x768 fullscreen without a problem, just like Intel swore MMC would back in 1998.
The real but surmountable problem is that none of the major hardware makers but Intel are co-operating with free software developers. It's amazing how the X framework is able to absorb those "hacks" when accelerated graphics drivers are available, free or non free. That's why Linux system requirements are usually much lower than M$. When those accelerated drivers are not there, some games can crawl.
Let's say you just hate X because your crazy. That's OK, because you don't really need X for gaming. libSVGA does nicely. PS2 and PS3 also show what can be done when you are not encumbered by M$ legacy crap.
If indeed the one package you submitted to unstable yesterday is accepted, then I stand corrected: I have met a stalker that thinks Windows Media Player is superior to Amarok and who is also a Debian developer. Somehow, I doubt it. I also doubt that you work for a grocery store, you are too rude for any kind of customer service.
Gaming and computing are two different animals. ... Gaming demands high-end, near-to-the-hardware, unencumbered access. ... From what I've read, Microsoft has made some tough but I think "correct" choices for security in Vista.
A reasonable OS makes resources available, without compromising security. You don't have to be able to overwrite system files to gain access to video card functions. There's also no reason to restrict other programs, such as email or browsers when your OS has been designed to perform for customers rather than confuse competitors. The conundrum has been addressed and solved by X, which has had network transparency without significant security risks for decades.
Oh, I bet you mean Windows...and "it's all I know"? Please. I'm using Linux right now and just submitted a small piece of software (just a utility and associated library, not much, certainly nothing big) to the Debian archive. I've been using Linux on and off since about 2001.
I've never met a Debian developer who was a stalker who loves Windows Media Player. Who pays you two Astroturf this place?
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I can only imagine the kind of respect they have for their customers because I quit using their software around 1999. It was bad enough then and now you know why.
When US computing, communications, and networking implementations are more secure, we all benefit, and NSA contributes to this in its overall mission.
Sounds great, but it's not because the NSA can not fix Microsoft's broken development model. Our "benefit" depends entirely on what you consider "secure". The former USSR, with a guard at every copy machine, could have been considered secure. Even if you use the right definition, "software is made more difficult for others to exploit and disrupt network public networks with," Microsoft has yet to show any benefit from this form of corporate welfare. The worst kind of "help" maintains Microsoft's monopoly position: use of non free methods for document access and storage. Vista was made the same way every other M$ OS was and it's not going to be any more secure.
The best thing than can happen to World computing is for people to stop using M$ and start using a good mix of the alternatives, heavily favoring the high quality free ones. Microsoft is the definitive host for the everything you think the NSA is helping to fix. The easiest way for government to encourage rational computer usage is to using Microsoft themselves. At the end of the day, you have to wonder why all levels of government pay huge licensing fees to obscure public records.
"90 percent lock on the PC market" ... Wow! And it's not even out yet!
Government and corporate planning tends to go that way. Some famous examples include:
Sometimes, things just don't go according to plan, which is good. Prosperity comes from mutual respect and free trade. The kind that comes from screwing people is expensive and short lived.
Bad capacitors got everybody, not just Dell. While Dell and other large computer vendors do sell some of the worst components and suffer some of the highest breakdown rates, the capacitor problem got everyone a few years back and still do. badcaps.net has the dirty details and the issue has been covered by Slashdot numerous times:
Solid sounds good to me.
Sooner, rather than later, the upgrade train is going end. There's no other "durable" good that gets trashed as often as computers do. Automobiles, appliances, TV's, stereos and other items that cost less than a PC are all expected to last much longer than five years. There's been way too much turnover and there will be much less of it as people realize that their hardware does what they want it to.
The PC churn is wasteful, environmentally harmful and mostly intentional. Going from Win3.1 to 95 and then 95 to 98, and then from 98 to XP and now from XP to Vista put a lot of computers in the trash. Outside the Windoze world, the same computers remained useful much longer. Last year I retired the Debian GNU/Linux, 486, fileserver that originally came with Windows 3.1. It was 13 years old, still running and stands ready as a backup. The laptop I'm writing this on is from 1998. It came with Windoze 95 but now runs Etch like a champ. I've got better machines, of course, because the trash is full of 1 GHz corporate cast offs. While I'm happy to have the hardware for myself and my family, I know that I pay for it everytime I buy something from any company still in the Windoze world. A select few at telco and software companies can get rich this way but the rest of us are being being poisoned.
I think you missed the point of my sarcastic reply; i.e. that your...solution is entirely useless.
Of course I missed that, because it's bullshit. It's stubborn fools like you that drag companies down. You cling to expensive stuff that's broken because it's all you know.
Show me Google's back up tapes. One of the big reasons they are such a big success is because they bought the cheapest junk hardware they could and made it into one of the world's largest storage networks. All it took was a little brainpower and guts.
Go ahead, sneer at me for not knowing dick about expensive tape drives and other exotic dinosaurs. I don't need it.
OK, it's possible to live without Windows. I've been doing it for years and my family is much happier because of it. I've yet to run into that "required" M$ thing people talk about. Etch, through Kino, fills in the last thing I was missing - easy video editing.
No, but it will make it safer (if only a little) then leaving it there. Ive set its kill bit in the mean time though
Good luck.
Checked mine, its present :( Anyone know if its safe to make that file and its registry entry 'disappear' ?
Sure, just go get the Mepis Patch. This will end all of your activeX problems. It won't end your Flash, Adobe and other problems but those are minor in comparison.
Really, do you think eliminating this one control will make your computer safe? Chances are there are coppies that will "respawn" later, a common malware trick, and that there are far nastier controls you don't know about. The malice is built in from Redmod before anyone else gets it.
I think your argument of "It's so simple a 5 year old can do it" is flawed for one big reason: The five year old isn't used to using IE.
You must have missed this article
, complete with screen shots about how inconsistent the M$ GUI has become. Just look at this screenshot. I thought the differences between KDE, Gnome and other toolkits was bad but that's way off, M$ has no excuse for the fundamental differences seen in their own tools. Why would you ever throw a new user into that mess? The worst part is how frequently they change the interface, No one else does it more.I'll conclude with
We hear this suggestion all the time, but the reality is that the reason Firefox and Opera are "more secure" is that there are less people using them. Their market share isn't worthwhile to the commercial malware authors.
Why not move to the zero cost option that works better, if that's true?
It's not true, of course. Just three days ago, you might have read this about IE being naked for more than 200 days last year where Firefox was only exploitable for nine days. You might also have read about exploits for Vista being for sale before it's available, while the market share is next to zero.
The next M$ line of defense is to blame the users. Mac, Linux, even Firefox users are "savvy" and M$ users, "the masses" are somehow stupid they will tell you. Somehow, ease of use, means ease of abuse to them. This really just tells you that M$ thinks you are stupid. Mac specifically markets itself to people who are computer phobic and want nothing to do with computers. Oh but now we are back to popularity and it never ends because it's a lie.
Free software is both easy to use and more secure and the two are not exclusive.
The old "security through obscurity" solution rears its head yet again..
Sounds like you bought the popularity lie.
[using anything but M$] is a steep learning curve, and a lot of people think why bothered [sic].
So M$ shoved IE 7 down their throats as a forced update. Borat voice, "Is nice!" If you want a consistent interface instead of, "change for change's sake" use free software.
Back in the real world, my five year old girl is happy with Firefox. I like that her system does not have to be replaced every two years and that it does not catch porn spam or American Express pop ups. Mepis took me all of 20 minutes to install and it works with all of her favorite PBS toy sites, and many more demanding A/V playthings. I'm sure, in time, she will master other tools and that they will be nice free ones that don't change all the time.
Not use Microsoft? That's unpossible! They must be Mac or Linux users and are completely out of touch because they don't have the problems in the first place.
Seriously, it's good to see the message getting out. Another widely read, "mainstream" source, the BBC, has said the same thing already, like this. Of course, everyone without a vested interest in M$'s welfare has been saying enjoying the same for years. Sooner or later, despite billions of advertising dollars and bullshit studies, people are going to get it and real OS choice will happen. Seeing this in the NYT makes me think this is sooner than later.
This is MUCH less efficient than just converting the chemical energy directly of fossil fuel into mechanical energy in your car's internal combustion engine. In every conversion to different type of energy you lose something.
Yet the vehicle is supposed to get 50 MPG, when using gasoline. This is much better than the average vehicle because the gasoline engine will run at nothing but it's most efficient speed. If they use regenerative breaking, you get back a lot of the energy you used to get up to speed. Unless they are lying about their milage, again, this is an improvement.
Oh yeah, if the electric company's 40 miles worth of electricity cost you less than the price 0.8 galons of gas, you use that. They get close to all of the possible energy out of their fuel because they also run at constant speeds and can condense the exhaust with regenerative pre-heaters. Try that trick with your car and you will find yourself driving a truck, most of which is devoted to moving itself. Despite the losses of transmission, it could be cheaper, especially when you factor in the cheaper nuclear generation that utilities can offer. Either way, being able to chose your fuel source based on cost is better than what you have now.
Internal combustion is simple, lightweight and cheap. Sooner or later, it will be cheaper and lighter to carry around batteries.
IE still owns the market and its the de facto standard, like it or not.
1999 called and asked for it's ignorant flame bait.
At best, they have 60% of browsers. The 40% they don't own comes from the growing Linux and Mac crowd and huge M$ Firefox crowd. IE 7 is unlikely to rob much of the M$ Firefox base because it's still insecure and buggy. I know one person who bought a Mac over the forced move, and I'm sure others will follow. Most M$ users just want their computers to work - the force was designed to move people to new computers and Vista but it's going to backfire. The IE 7 share will peak at 60% and drop from there along with the M$ desktop share.
Now, what commercial site do you know that's going to throw away 4/10 dollars? Really, there's more to lose because the Firefox, Linux and Mac crowds are more likely to spend than the others. Commercial sites would much rather develop to real standards and reach 100% of the market. Microsoft's breaking standards, especially their own broken ones, is anti-social and a burden to every web developer.
What if... Insurance was much cheaper with this car...
It won't be cheaper if it causes more accidents than it prevents, it will be more expensive. Accidents cost money. The insurance companies will know if this works or not and charge accordingly.
I can see why you're hired full time by a FTSE 100/Fortune 500 class company to do all of their incredibly important back office IT work,
Fortune 100 company? Is that where you would like to work? I hope you get your wish.
I have worked for one of those and I did not like it. They were too busy wasting their money on stupid stuff, like expensive software that did not work, homeland security and other nonsense, to pay their people. There may be better companies out there, but big is usually dumb and abusive. I'm not going back if I can help it.