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In point of fact, Insurance companies have been refusing to cover some of these Kia and Hyundai cars because they're "too easy to steal". The lack of immobilizer chip apparently is…

You also can't buy Audible books through the Audible app. I get that Google wants their cut and Amazon doesn't want to give it, but come on.

Supporting test credit cards in production with no fraud or risk assessment. Do you want fraud? This is how you get fraud.

There are still pretty heavy economic restrictions on US Citizens & companies doing business within Cuba. IIRC there is also US imposed restrictions on foreign companies who do bus…

Yes, at the very least in Apartments in the US. Every apartment I've lived in (in several states/both coasts) has had the simple style keys. IANAL (i am not a locksmith), however. …

That's a truly fantastic article. And a bit scary, considering I have a family member training to fly one.

I should note as well that as I recall, the Navy & Air Force ran into similar problems in Vietnam as may happen soon. They phased out most of their prop aircraft in favor of much f…

Most drones only carry IIRC a single hellfire missile. Not particularly useful against Infantry, and a 1 shot and you're done. An aircraft like the A10 (and a helo like the Apache,…

A valid point, and one I should have noted. Mea Culpa.

It also talks about how after speaking to Nakamoto – who told him to leave him alone... Nakamoto's Son – who told him to leave him alone... and Nakamoto's Brother – who told him to…

And specifically, sea salt tends to be low in Iodine. "Iodine, an element essential for human health, is present only in small amounts in sea salt,[1]" (cribbed from Wikipedia) [1]…

San Jose is the nearest major city to Mt. View, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto & Santa Clara... they're using it as a Metro area grouping. EDIT: Yes, these are part of the "The San Jose-Sunn…

I suspect (this is entirely speculation) based on conversations with Hoteliers in Italy before that they find it an onerous, silly requirement. They simply have to show that anyone…

YMMV, depending on country... and how much the hotel cares about Wifi access. Italy has strong controls related to terrorism, IIRC. The which has meant the last few times I stayed …

I worked for 10gen (now MongoDB) for over 2 years (I left in December). Never once while I was there did they publish a benchmark: There was a [publicly] stated company policy to n…

You confuse decisions by government with those of the American people. I can assure you, as an American, I have qualms about blowing up people with anything, including drones... an…

That is already happening. We are moving Eventsourced into Akka to become "akka-persistence": https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/eventsourced/B2Nx4HJB-...

You mean like this one? http://www.mongodb.com/press/10gen-announces-mongodb-backup-...

Exactly. And it potentially opens up legal grounds, with evidence. Every member of the protected classes he has venomously disparaged, who applied for and didn't get a job (or was …

He was in a position to hire people, and expressing views that clearly indicated bias towards certain protected classes. That alone would be cause for concern. I don't know that I"…

Very differently (I'm the original author of Casbah, though I gave up maintainership a few months ago when I joined Typesafe). Casbah was always created to be a straight MongoDB dr…

Why would it confirm it? "Correlation does not imply causation". He may be pulled in by the same rumours as everyone else and being overly cautious. Just because he does this doesn…

This is a bit hyperbolic. Vigilantism refers specifically to "an individual or group undertaking law enforcement without legal authority". Not to defend the clearly overreaching ac…