Because dealerships want to charge customers as much as possible for any work on the vehicle.

£200 for an electronic radio key is just daylight robbery. Then they'll also try and charge you for topping up your oil, doing a "30 point safety check" etc.

Frankly why they don't have a usb port the user can download firmware from the internet, then upload the new firmware to the engine management unit I don't know.

Hell they can sign the binaries so that ricers can't modify it ... but then again, auto manufacturers aren't computer companies, and certainly won't buy in the crypto expertise to do it properly. sigh.

Some of them even know how to spell 'think' properly.

That said, there's not been much thinking done in the states recently has there?

Have you actually seen the altitude reading on a GPS unit? It's terrible. It's much less accurate than the long/lat as you need to see more satellites to get a proper 3d fix *and* even then it's pretty crap.

If I had mod points AC, I would mod you up.

You are full of win.

That was a rubbish, buggy game.

Gartner is supposed to be into market research.

In reality they're nothing more than shills and bad "futurists" that Managers believe.

Last I looked, NaCl is moving to llvm bytecode, allowing on the fly JITting to x86, Arm, etc.

The only thing that'll be really annoying is there will be no way to access hardware directly. I wrote a PC/SC plugin ages ago to do just this.

I guess the only way there now would be writing a signed Java applet...

But wait ... I can't do that on OSX, because ... Chrome is a 32bit app!

So say we all.

They're fdisked dat fer u

+1

I'm of the opinion that "Drone" should refer to autonomous (flying) vehicle. The question of it having a weapons or surveillance payload is irrelevant.

There, fixed that for you.

Damn.

So did I.

More importantly, dear reader, so have YOU

We'll be okay.

We're on a nice island and probably already have the channel tunnel rigged with explosives, just in case.

Then there's KIK too

Yes, please ... why stop at 90% make it 100%. Hell I'll even help you pack.

Oh yes, take your goddamn nukes too.

At least this should help european states by upping our own defensive forces instead of reducing them.