Well you can pull the fuse to turn it off and I know this the typical arugment but it is ture unless you are doing something illegal you have nothing to worry about
Actually anonymous ass I happen to maintain my own vehicle on a regular basis and have worked on a race car pit crew from the time I was 8 years old have changed tires on everything from a lawnmower to a tractor trailer oh and worked on every kind of vehicle from a lawnmower to a tractor trailer. What the hell is wrong with having a little extra protection on the road. Trust me if I have an accident it wasn't my fault I have been driving to long without even a minor fender bender to think otherwise. I also live in the northeast where if you can make it though the winter without an accident you must be a good driver
I currently own a car with OnStar installed and working and I can tell you security concerns are not even on my radar. I think the fact that knowing that someone call contact emercgency personnal and send them to your extact location and also being able to tell what is worng with your car at any time so you don't get stuck on the side of the road in the middle of the night in some place that you have never been far outweighs any security concens that someone might have about it. And really why do we care that they know where my car is
I agree with this as much as we like to think that Linux will replace that other major operating system completely that probably won't happen anytime soon so we need to be able to do both becasue we may understand the great values of Linux but there are plenty of people out there who also understand the ease of learning and using that other operating system
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Well you can pull the fuse to turn it off and I know this the typical arugment but it is ture unless you are doing something illegal you have nothing to worry about
Actually anonymous ass I happen to maintain my own vehicle on a regular basis and have worked on a race car pit crew from the time I was 8 years old have changed tires on everything from a lawnmower to a tractor trailer oh and worked on every kind of vehicle from a lawnmower to a tractor trailer. What the hell is wrong with having a little extra protection on the road. Trust me if I have an accident it wasn't my fault I have been driving to long without even a minor fender bender to think otherwise. I also live in the northeast where if you can make it though the winter without an accident you must be a good driver
I currently own a car with OnStar installed and working and I can tell you security concerns are not even on my radar. I think the fact that knowing that someone call contact emercgency personnal and send them to your extact location and also being able to tell what is worng with your car at any time so you don't get stuck on the side of the road in the middle of the night in some place that you have never been far outweighs any security concens that someone might have about it. And really why do we care that they know where my car is
Being a newspaper employee I can tell that to a newspaper that size a millon doallrs is not much
I agree with this as much as we like to think that Linux will replace that other major operating system completely that probably won't happen anytime soon so we need to be able to do both becasue we may understand the great values of Linux but there are plenty of people out there who also understand the ease of learning and using that other operating system
I am a XM listner and unless sirus is alot different you muxt have been lisiting to a crappy radio because the muisc is cd quality
I have to say that I am very happy with my cable companys high speed access they do spam filtering and bandwidth is not a problem