You're missing the point; the US uses these weapons for good, Syria uses it on their own people.
Normally, I can spot the implied/irony tag. Tell me that you're being ironic.
The Syrian message is "This is what you will get for thinking, not just doing collaboration with the enemy. I am the head of state, and I make the rules.|
American message, "We are full of piss, and vinegar, signifying nothing!" Use satellites to guide the missiles, and make sure they do not have American Markings.
You know, create an American city called "Russia" and in 26font, say Made in Russia, and in 4 point size, add USA. Send the drones to find the chemical dumps and the Russia usa missiles to clean it up. There is no need for a human to cross the borders.
Either you care about human carnage, or you are just heartless. Stop torture
The latency will be absolute shit. Useless for most bandwidth-intensive internet applications. Imagine trying to play a game with twice the lag of a dialup modem. Not only that, but one cloud in the sky and it's game over, man.
Not reliable at all.
=== Its not the latency, but the fact that communication is truly point to point. In a way, far far more secure than radio transmission. And why should laser communications be slower than radio? Both signals travel at the speed of an I/O interrupt.
There are three reasons to retire. a) Health b) a better offer elsewhere (business or personal life) c) Get out and let someone else take the blame for the debaucle with the W8 and smart whatever device or devices. (More are surely in the planning).
I have a LG Nexus phone, and to have the battery last, with doing nothing except keeping it in my pocket, I have to run off wifi and data. Otherwise the battery appears at 50% after 12 hours.
With data and wifi disabled, I can go about 5 days to reach 50% capacity left.
I would suspect that programs such as these do work, because they provide a means of seeking help, support and resisting temptation, instead of having no direction to go but down.
=== There is a story about a Quebec farmer that went to church every Sunday with the same horse and wagon. Farmer would fall asleep on the way. The horse did not really know the path, but over the years of doing that trip, ruts were made in the path, and the horse followed the ruts. The brain is the same. Do something repetitively and the habit will be formed. Do the same with a drug (Pavlov conditioning), and the dependence will be imprinted in the brain. To break that imprint, one must break the Pavlov link and then one must poison the mind so that the individual rejects the harmful stimulant. And one must also substitute a good thing as a reward for going away from the bad.
I a not a psychologist, but a simple practical guy who quit smoking by following the above advice.
I actually find that with current desktop technology, that the most ambient noisy part of the desktop box is the power supply fan, To achieve power vs package size, the power supply's fan has to roar in high speed.
I actually bought a more expensive power supply, just to combat the noise. I can now sit for hours with the ambient box within arms length of my face, and not notice if the box fans are actually running.
Will I be able to put his cooler fan into the box so refrigerated air flows through the power supply case?
You might be surprised... see, if they're hiring H1B workers, it means they're implicitly claiming (under the laws that allow H1B work visas so you can hire foreigners in the first place) that NO SUITABLE TALENT could feasibly be found state-side. If it can be proven however that they regularly pass over US citizens for the sole reason that H1B workers are the more cost effective option, they're probably going to be facing heavy fines at the very least. Its quite possible they will be in a lot of trouble and the court case will precipitate the type of more heavy restrictions on granting of H1B visas in the first place.
=== You must do the lawsuite and show that you (and others) were rejected, and that you did not make salary demands that were above the average salary for that kind of position. You cannot expect to be hired if your salary demand puts you in the.0001 percentile
Or perhaps it's just oversaturated. Wifi doesn't have unlimited bandwidth you know. After enough people find out that they can stop paying for their regular ISP and just hop on a free wifi you'll start to run into problems.
=== This network problem is one which I call "teething". At low internet speeds (700-1.2kbits) everything is tuned for arrivals of packages and the queuing of packages for forwarding.
At higher speeds, the buffering of packets must be much much larger, as the number of queued packets can vary from instant to instant. Ergo, forwarding and resending of packets takes more cushioning. Peeks and valleys in buffering need to be placed at every interchange point. Timeouts and the like are also important.
In effect, to go up in speed from dsl/cable to fibre, takes some serious tuning and learning a new system management paradigm.
Microsoft really dropped the ball with RT. That is the problem. They really should have added some PC Compatibility for some legacy systems. Sure you don't need to go back to windows 95 apps. But being able to run any.NET applications may have made it useful.
=== The world is afraid of closed source, and with companies that share your private information with the government. So, its time to drop windows products in favor of open source. It could be linux or android linux version
=== its not piracy. Ebooks cant have me pass a yellow marker on some key text, or allow me to put commented post-its in the right pages, or allow me to put some physical bookmarks so I can look at a back page as well as the current one with hardly any effort. Yes, I like paper bound books the best.
Why does the hard disk have to use ssd's 8 gigs is one dim3 bar or equivalent. And with a tiny rechargeable battery on the drive , it could store data for months in the cache.
Our old raid servers had sealed lead acid battery backups. Could save the data in cache for more than a year. Battery life was estimated at 7 years.
when the crowd leaves XP for windows 7, W7 becomes the target. And with the momentum that is around, XP gets forgotten as a dust collector system on a dust collector PC.
So.. who runs their accounting on XP, or sensitive data? After 4 years, of knowing it is going.... bye
If taking a couple seconds to answer a CAPTCHA is too much effort, I probably don't really care what you have to say in the comment section.
Or a couple of minutes considering most capchas are illegible.
This!
More and more, captchas take two or three attempts. (Disclaimer: IMHO, I'm not senile, dyslexic, a horrible typist. blind. Your opinion may vary).
I suspect some sites are intentionally forcing a fail once or twice, at least occasionally, especially when you enter the word in a timely interval. Bots probably give up after two failures, and they probably answer quickly.
So implementers make it more and more restrictive and throw in bogus failures.
I have a 13 inch diagnal laptop screen, and a 22 inch desktop screen, and theses distorted captchas are the pits. If they could be as good as the ones from/. I would not mind them. But for some site, the programmer, if you get the captcha wrong, wipes all your input.
Regarding multiple entries, "yahoo.com" always forces me to enter the password twice. That is at least better than clearing the form and starting from the beginning
I would consider imprisonment and ruining his life just for doing the right thing to be a form of torture.
=== Outside of the USA, he, Snowdon, is considered a hero. His actions at revealing the snooping has caused a lot of other countries to look at the spying the USA is doing within the former borders. And to also look at their own surveillance. I guess that within a year, Snowdon will have found a wife, in Russia, and would be accepted as a permanent resident.
In the world, there are many fine places to live where the quality of life, measured by discretionary income, exceeds that of the USA. I read somewhere that Russians get 1 month mid-summer vacations, free and excellent medicare, and good home nursing, where needed. Since free Medicare is open to all Russians, the hospitals and doctors do not check for passports as proof of residency or entitlement.
There is a good working beta by a Chinese company that has engineered a clone of windows 2007 for, of course, Windows, and Linux. I have run the Linux version and while it still has a way to go, it works for whatever a unilingual person would do with excel, word, powerpoint, etc.
The bug I encountered was incorrect spacing for a accented character. For some characters it put a space character before and after the correct display. Company is called Kingsoft.
Re outdated rates. Do the rates include pre operative preparation -- steralizing the operating table, wiping down cabinet knobs, clean towels, etc. And does it include cleanup immediately after. Of course the doctor does not do it. But if he was in the boonies, he would do all three, pre and post and operate.
The system is, however being milked. Most general doctors after 3 years following internship become nothing more than skilled triage experts. They can do triage and send you to the specialist. Do you really need a doctor for that triage assessement, or can a skilled nurse do the job as well.
They served as a dual purpose... dogs actually were a result of wolves domesticating themselves. The socialable wolves were not killed by humans as they hung out eating their scraps. The new dogs served as companions and were used as "reserve" food supply. Humans used to eat wild horses regularly, and later used them as a beast of burden AND a "reserve" food supply.
Once you start having a relationship with something, you tend to want to avoid eating it, because you cannot undo it. So, you keep looking for another food source. Eventually, it becomes taboo.
=== Most insects are not halel or kosher. Religious taboos come into play. It is so bad that the orthodox jews inspect every leaf of a lettuce, cabbage or other item that may (Gd forbid) hide an insect. Crazy Fanaticism.
Is it racism to be concerned that our military is using computer parts that can't (or won't) be produced at home?
If we had to go to "total war" tomorrow like we had to after Pearl Harbor I think we would be in pretty big trouble if our enemy was from the east and all of our sudden our constant shipping was gone. It we Americans are so damn expensive and corporations are at their height of greed and power we've pretty much forgotten how do that manufacturing.
=== What you are writing is that the USA is a warring country. That may be why the USA is disliked in many parts of the world. Guns and wars are what the USA is known for. Other countries are known for eduction, safe places to live, public and private medicine, low cost eduction, but then your fear, which has been instilled in you by people wanting to profit from it, works for them.
What makes you believe that MS has not put backdoors into Windows 7, or 8, or into servers? Do you think that the Lenova PC, a hardware box with the Microsoft Software is any more dangerous than one from DELL, or HP? They all sell Windows, and you are a windows consumer. Are you being spyed upon by your government because of using Windows on your computer?
How about being supportive instead of antagonistic?
Be honest with yourself: have you spent more time watching television or being politically active?
This is also a criticism I aim at myself, but the first step is to be honest about the situation. Americans are politically lazy, and we have the government we deserve. I don't think there has been a massive nationwide protest here since the 70s, with the possible exception of the anti-war protests before the invasion of Iraq.
The people who run the show aren't going to give it up because we're complaining about them on the internet. It's not difficult to convince yourself to hang on to millions of dollars and unchecked power when there is no real penalty from the populace.
Sir, there are two passions which have a powerful influence in the affairs of men. These are ambition and avarice -- the love of power and the love of money. Separately, each of these has great force in prompting men to action; but, when united in view of the same object, they have, in many minds, the most violent effects. Place before the eyes of such men a post of honor, that shall, at the same time, be a place of profit, and they will move heaven and earth to obtain it. The vast number of such places it is that renders the British government so tempestuous. The struggles for [profit] are the true source of all those factions which are perpetually dividing the nation, distracting its councils, hurrying it sometimes into fruitless and mischievous wars, and often compelling a submission to dishonorable terms of peace.
And of what kind are the men that will strive for this profitable preeminence, through all the bustle of cabal, the heat of contention, the infinite mutual abuse of parties, tearing to pieces the best of characters? It will not be the wise and moderate, the lovers of peace and good order, the men fittest for the trust. It will be the bold and the violent, the men of strong passions and indefatigable activity in their selfish pursuits. These will thrust themselves into your government and be your rulers. And these, too, will be mistaken in the expected happiness of their situation, for their vanquished competitors, of the same spirit, and from the same motives, will perpetually be endeavoring to distress their administration, thwart their measures, and render them odious to the people.
-- Benjamin Franklin, 1787
== What we should do is manage the salaries of our government representatives. Many will fight tooth and nail to keep their high paying, high pension jobs. Public service jobs should be at the average of the working class, and not more. Their pensions are too too generous.
When the salaries are in line with productivity (we need to measure a representative's productivity by the number of attended sessions, the townhalls he has called, the problems he has solved for his constituents, we would see a lot of deadwood disappearing.
I agree that the decision is sensible in that it allows you to use your own gear at least somewhat as you would choose to (certainly they are not letting us use our gear "freely"), still, one has to consider what a broadcast entity dependent upon advertising revenues will do if those ads no longer generate cash.
One fairly obvious path is "product placement", where the "ad" is in the show with some character brandishing, using, or otherwise making a point about it. That can be subtle... or it could be quite heavy-handed. There are other paths, some of which end with the disruption or even collapse of the broadcast entity -- if the advertising shifts context -- say, to billboards -- then there's no funding going to the broadcast entity, so now what? Or you might find yourself taxed, a' la PBS or the BBC, in order that these entities have operating funds. Some might applaud that, but some will scream bloody murder about the additional levy.
Anyway, since ads do almost entirely support a lot of these entities, if you kill the viability of the ad to any serious degree, you can expect some kind of consequential change on the horizon.
=== I noted that one hour shows do 6 minutes of show with 4 minutes of commercials. In total, that is 36minutes of entertainment.
During the 4 minutes of commercials, I leave the room, go for a bathroom break, read my emails etc. If I recorded the show, I my provider device allows me 3 minute forward jumps and 7 seconds backward jumps. I do the 2xfwd and 4x back, and I see the close of the commercial and the restart/continuation of my program. All the networks are doing this concurrently. as of by agreement.
So, I record all shows, and watch a day later, all being commercial free.
Apply Occam's Razor. User or mechanical failure are much more likely than his car being hacked.
The story talks about a *wired* port by the parking brake. That would mean the attacker was in the car, or a remote device was attached, which investigators would (or at least could) find. It also only addresses a specific Ford vehicle, which has no relationship to a Mercedes.
Significant user failure would seem to be present. Options are available when the brakes don't work. Downshift. Turn off the key, let the engine stop, turn the key on to unlock the steering wheel. Spin the car. Even hard maneuvering will bleed speed off. Ask any racer. Turn the key off, let the steering wheel lock, and have a slower speed impact into a fixed object.
The option of driving as fast as possible, and dying in a fireball is the poorest choice. A conspiracy is one the must unlikely scenarios, only slightly better than alien abduction/intervention, and poltergeists taking over the car.
I'm kind of fond of the alien theories.
If it were the feds, wouldn't it be easier to pay a thug to do a random carjacking? A home invasion gone wrong? Shot by SWAT in a drug raid at the wrong address? There are a million other ways to remove someone without needing a high tech solution that doesn't exist yet.
=== You forgot to mention "hand/foot parking brake". These apply enough force to lock the wheels.
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You're missing the point; the US uses these weapons for good, Syria uses it on their own people.
Normally, I can spot the implied /irony tag. Tell me that you're being ironic.
The Syrian message is "This is what you will get for thinking, not just doing collaboration with the enemy. I am the head of state, and I make the rules.|
American message, "We are full of piss, and vinegar, signifying nothing!" Use satellites to guide the missiles, and make sure they do not have American Markings.
You know, create an American city called "Russia" and in 26font, say Made in Russia, and in 4 point size, add USA. Send the drones to find the chemical dumps and the Russia usa missiles to clean it up. There is no need for a human to cross the borders.
Either you care about human carnage, or you are just heartless. Stop torture
I did not attend college with him, Drinking only makes a person obnoxious, and rarely diminishes his intellectual capacity with regards to business,
The latency will be absolute shit. Useless for most bandwidth-intensive internet applications. Imagine trying to play a game with twice the lag of a dialup modem. Not only that, but one cloud in the sky and it's game over, man.
Not reliable at all.
===
Its not the latency, but the fact that communication is truly point to point. In a way, far far more secure than radio transmission. And why should laser communications be slower than radio? Both signals travel at the speed of an I/O interrupt.
Quebec has a mentally bancrupt government.
There are three reasons to retire. a) Health b) a better offer elsewhere (business or personal life) c) Get out and let someone else take the blame for the debaucle with the W8 and smart whatever device or devices. (More are surely in the planning).
I have a LG Nexus phone, and to have the battery last, with doing nothing except keeping it in my pocket, I have to run off wifi and data. Otherwise the battery appears at 50% after 12 hours.
With data and wifi disabled, I can go about 5 days to reach 50% capacity left.
I thought the point was not to save money, but to find a machine without TPM.
In the bios, tpm can be burned off. My Asus motherboard has an empty socket for a TPM. At the time I bought it the tpm chip was a $13.00 addition
I would suspect that programs such as these do work, because they provide a means of seeking help, support and resisting temptation, instead of having no direction to go but down.
===
There is a story about a Quebec farmer that went to church every Sunday with the same horse and wagon. Farmer would fall asleep on the way. The horse did not really know the path, but over the years of doing that trip, ruts were made in the path, and the horse followed the ruts.
The brain is the same. Do something repetitively and the habit will be formed. Do the same with a drug (Pavlov conditioning), and the dependence will be imprinted in the brain. To break that imprint, one must break the Pavlov link and then one must poison the mind so that the individual rejects the harmful stimulant. And one must also substitute a good thing as a reward for going away from the bad.
I a not a psychologist, but a simple practical guy who quit smoking by following the above advice.
I actually find that with current desktop technology, that the most ambient noisy part of the desktop box is the power supply fan, To achieve power vs package size, the power supply's fan has to roar in high speed.
I actually bought a more expensive power supply, just to combat the noise. I can now sit for hours with the ambient box within arms length of my face, and not notice if the box fans are actually running.
Will I be able to put his cooler fan into the box so refrigerated air flows through the power supply case?
I think not.
Justifying a murder, or in this case glorifying murder by hoping to write a justification for it, must be hate speech.
===
just kill the messenger creator
You might be surprised... see, if they're hiring H1B workers, it means they're implicitly claiming (under the laws that allow H1B work visas so you can hire foreigners in the first place) that NO SUITABLE TALENT could feasibly be found state-side. If it can be proven however that they regularly pass over US citizens for the sole reason that H1B workers are the more cost effective option, they're probably going to be facing heavy fines at the very least. Its quite possible they will be in a lot of trouble and the court case will precipitate the type of more heavy restrictions on granting of H1B visas in the first place.
=== .0001 percentile
You must do the lawsuite and show that you (and others) were rejected, and that you did not make salary demands that were above the average salary for that kind of position. You cannot expect to be hired if your salary demand puts you in the
Or perhaps it's just oversaturated. Wifi doesn't have unlimited bandwidth you know. After enough people find out that they can stop paying for their regular ISP and just hop on a free wifi you'll start to run into problems.
===
This network problem is one which I call "teething". At low internet speeds (700-1.2kbits) everything is tuned for arrivals of packages and the queuing of packages for forwarding.
At higher speeds, the buffering of packets must be much much larger, as the number of queued packets can vary from instant to instant. Ergo, forwarding and resending of packets takes more cushioning. Peeks and valleys in buffering need to be placed at every interchange point. Timeouts and the like are also important.
In effect, to go up in speed from dsl/cable to fibre, takes some serious tuning and learning a new system management paradigm.
Microsoft really dropped the ball with RT. That is the problem. They really should have added some PC Compatibility for some legacy systems. Sure you don't need to go back to windows 95 apps. But being able to run any .NET applications may have made it useful.
===
The world is afraid of closed source, and with companies that share your private information with the government. So, its time to drop windows products in favor of open source. It could be linux or android linux version
It's piracy! We need to make reading a felony!
===
its not piracy. Ebooks cant have me pass a yellow marker on some key text, or allow me to put commented post-its in the right pages, or allow me to put some physical bookmarks so I can look at a back page as well as the current one with hardly any effort. Yes, I like paper bound books the best.
Why does the hard disk have to use ssd's 8 gigs is one dim3 bar or equivalent. And with a tiny rechargeable battery on the drive , it could store data for months in the cache.
Our old raid servers had sealed lead acid battery backups. Could save the data in cache for more than a year. Battery life was estimated at 7 years.
XP is quite secure
when the crowd leaves XP for windows 7, W7 becomes the target. And with the momentum that is around, XP gets forgotten as a dust collector system on a dust collector PC.
So.. who runs their accounting on XP, or sensitive data? After 4 years, of knowing it is going.... bye
If taking a couple seconds to answer a CAPTCHA is too much effort, I probably don't really care what you have to say in the comment section.
Or a couple of minutes considering most capchas are illegible.
This!
More and more, captchas take two or three attempts.
(Disclaimer: IMHO, I'm not senile, dyslexic, a horrible typist. blind. Your opinion may vary).
I suspect some sites are intentionally forcing a fail once or twice, at least occasionally, especially when you enter the word
in a timely interval. Bots probably give up after two failures, and they probably answer quickly.
So implementers make it more and more restrictive and throw in bogus failures.
I have a 13 inch diagnal laptop screen, and a 22 inch desktop screen, and theses distorted captchas are the pits. If they could be as good as the ones from /. I would not mind them. But for some site, the programmer, if you get the captcha wrong, wipes all your input.
Regarding multiple entries, "yahoo.com" always forces me to enter the password twice. That is at least better than clearing the form and starting from the beginning
I would consider imprisonment and ruining his life just for doing the right thing to be a form of torture.
===
Outside of the USA, he, Snowdon, is considered a hero. His actions at revealing the snooping has caused a lot of other countries to look at the spying the USA is doing within the former borders. And to also look at their own surveillance.
I guess that within a year, Snowdon will have found a wife, in Russia, and would be accepted as a permanent resident.
In the world, there are many fine places to live where the quality of life, measured by discretionary income, exceeds that of the USA. I read somewhere that Russians get 1 month mid-summer vacations, free and excellent medicare, and good home nursing, where needed. Since free Medicare is open to all Russians, the hospitals and doctors do not check for passports as proof of residency or entitlement.
There is a good working beta by a Chinese company that has engineered a clone of windows 2007 for, of course, Windows, and Linux. I have run the Linux version and while it still has a way to go, it works for whatever a unilingual person would do with excel, word, powerpoint, etc.
The bug I encountered was incorrect spacing for a accented character. For some characters it put a space character before and after the correct display. Company is called Kingsoft.
Re outdated rates. Do the rates include pre operative preparation -- steralizing the operating table, wiping down cabinet knobs, clean towels, etc. And does it include cleanup immediately after. Of course the doctor does not do it. But if he was in the boonies, he would do all three, pre and post and operate.
The system is, however being milked. Most general doctors after 3 years following internship become nothing more than skilled triage experts. They can do triage and send you to the specialist. Do you really need a doctor for that triage assessement, or can a skilled nurse do the job as well.
They served as a dual purpose... dogs actually were a result of wolves domesticating themselves. The socialable wolves were not killed by humans as they hung out eating their scraps. The new dogs served as companions and were used as "reserve" food supply. Humans used to eat wild horses regularly, and later used them as a beast of burden AND a "reserve" food supply.
Once you start having a relationship with something, you tend to want to avoid eating it, because you cannot undo it. So, you keep looking for another food source. Eventually, it becomes taboo.
===
Most insects are not halel or kosher. Religious taboos come into play. It is so bad that the orthodox jews inspect every leaf of a lettuce, cabbage or other item that may (Gd forbid) hide an insect. Crazy Fanaticism.
Is it racism to be concerned that our military is using computer parts that can't (or won't) be produced at home?
If we had to go to "total war" tomorrow like we had to after Pearl Harbor I think we would be in pretty big trouble if our enemy was from the east and all of our sudden our constant shipping was gone. It we Americans are so damn expensive and corporations are at their height of greed and power we've pretty much forgotten how do that manufacturing.
===
What you are writing is that the USA is a warring country. That may be why the USA is disliked in many parts of the world. Guns and wars are what the USA is known for. Other countries are known for eduction, safe places to live, public and private medicine, low cost eduction, but then your fear, which has been instilled in you by people wanting to profit from it, works for them.
What makes you believe that MS has not put backdoors into Windows 7, or 8, or into servers? Do you think that the Lenova PC, a hardware box with the Microsoft Software is any more dangerous than one from DELL, or HP? They all sell Windows, and you are a windows consumer. Are you being spyed upon by your government because of using Windows on your computer?
How about being supportive instead of antagonistic?
Be honest with yourself: have you spent more time watching television or being politically active?
This is also a criticism I aim at myself, but the first step is to be honest about the situation. Americans are politically lazy, and we have the government we deserve. I don't think there has been a massive nationwide protest here since the 70s, with the possible exception of the anti-war protests before the invasion of Iraq.
The people who run the show aren't going to give it up because we're complaining about them on the internet. It's not difficult to convince yourself to hang on to millions of dollars and unchecked power when there is no real penalty from the populace.
Sir, there are two passions which have a powerful influence in the affairs of men. These are ambition and avarice -- the love of power and the love of money. Separately, each of these has great force in prompting men to action; but, when united in view of the same object, they have, in many minds, the most violent effects. Place before the eyes of such men a post of honor, that shall, at the same time, be a place of profit, and they will move heaven and earth to obtain it. The vast number of such places it is that renders the British government so tempestuous. The struggles for [profit] are the true source of all those factions which are perpetually dividing the nation, distracting its councils, hurrying it sometimes into fruitless and mischievous wars, and often compelling a submission to dishonorable terms of peace.
And of what kind are the men that will strive for this profitable preeminence, through all the bustle of cabal, the heat of contention, the infinite mutual abuse of parties, tearing to pieces the best of characters? It will not be the wise and moderate, the lovers of peace and good order, the men fittest for the trust. It will be the bold and the violent, the men of strong passions and indefatigable activity in their selfish pursuits. These will thrust themselves into your government and be your rulers. And these, too, will be mistaken in the expected happiness of their situation, for their vanquished competitors, of the same spirit, and from the same motives, will perpetually be endeavoring to distress their administration, thwart their measures, and render them odious to the people.
-- Benjamin Franklin, 1787
==
What we should do is manage the salaries of our government representatives. Many will fight tooth and nail to keep their high paying, high pension jobs. Public service jobs should be at the average of the working class, and not more. Their pensions are too too generous.
When the salaries are in line with productivity (we need to measure a representative's productivity by the number of attended sessions, the townhalls he has called, the problems he has solved for his constituents, we would see a lot of deadwood disappearing.
I agree that the decision is sensible in that it allows you to use your own gear at least somewhat as you would choose to (certainly they are not letting us use our gear "freely"), still, one has to consider what a broadcast entity dependent upon advertising revenues will do if those ads no longer generate cash.
One fairly obvious path is "product placement", where the "ad" is in the show with some character brandishing, using, or otherwise making a point about it. That can be subtle... or it could be quite heavy-handed. There are other paths, some of which end with the disruption or even collapse of the broadcast entity -- if the advertising shifts context -- say, to billboards -- then there's no funding going to the broadcast entity, so now what? Or you might find yourself taxed, a' la PBS or the BBC, in order that these entities have operating funds. Some might applaud that, but some will scream bloody murder about the additional levy.
Anyway, since ads do almost entirely support a lot of these entities, if you kill the viability of the ad to any serious degree, you can expect some kind of consequential change on the horizon.
===
I noted that one hour shows do 6 minutes of show with 4 minutes of commercials. In total, that is 36minutes of entertainment.
During the 4 minutes of commercials, I leave the room, go for a bathroom break, read my emails etc. If I recorded the show, I my provider device allows me 3 minute forward jumps and 7 seconds backward jumps. I do the 2xfwd and 4x back, and I see the close of the commercial and the restart/continuation of my program. All the networks are doing this concurrently. as of by agreement.
So, I record all shows, and watch a day later, all being commercial free.
Apply Occam's Razor. User or mechanical failure are much more likely than his car being hacked.
The story talks about a *wired* port by the parking brake. That would mean the attacker was in the car, or a remote device was attached, which investigators would (or at least could) find. It also only addresses a specific Ford vehicle, which has no relationship to a Mercedes.
Significant user failure would seem to be present. Options are available when the brakes don't work. Downshift. Turn off the key, let the engine stop, turn the key on to unlock the steering wheel. Spin the car. Even hard maneuvering will bleed speed off. Ask any racer. Turn the key off, let the steering wheel lock, and have a slower speed impact into a fixed object.
The option of driving as fast as possible, and dying in a fireball is the poorest choice. A conspiracy is one the must unlikely scenarios, only slightly better than alien abduction/intervention, and poltergeists taking over the car.
I'm kind of fond of the alien theories.
If it were the feds, wouldn't it be easier to pay a thug to do a random carjacking? A home invasion gone wrong? Shot by SWAT in a drug raid at the wrong address? There are a million other ways to remove someone without needing a high tech solution that doesn't exist yet.
===
You forgot to mention "hand/foot parking brake". These apply enough force to lock the wheels.