Connected cars present a rich target, akin to retailers or banks, where hackers can troll for credit card numbers, home addresses, e-mail information and all the other personal details required for identity theft.

Don’t forget the massive KitBag shenanigans.

Oh for fucks sake. Doesn’t want to play for you? He signed a contract through 2019. That’s not a “normal” contract length, heck that’s not even a normal “long term” contract length. That’s a goddamn lifetime contract.

Nah... I’d consider teams like the pre-now Cubs, Mets, Brewers... whoever hasn’t really done all that well in the last decade or so... as the Championship league. If they had relegation there’s some definite candidates out there. Then as you get into League 1 you start hitting the minor leagues and college teams. I…

Better yet. Just shoot anybody you see with a gun. The problem will fix itself very quickly.

Think Minor League baseball, they still get reported on (and often are filmed by) the local media. But instead of 240 teams spread out across the country, there are between 5 and 10 teams in every city.

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The top of the line model on that page is still only $36 grand.

Amen to that. The more things change they more they stay the same.

Because the Raptor flexes slightly between the cab and the bed. Remember all of those people who bent the aluminum frame doing the offroady things they showed in the Raptor commercials? (And then FoMoCo promptly stated that they were not using the vehicle in it’s “intended method”.)

Sure... but if there was a simple definition of “common defense” then we’d just have all of these extra lawyers milling about aimlessly. And we wouldn’t want that, now would we?

Exactly. This is all just a matter of simple microeconomics. The building code and fire is a perfect example of how “the government” is involved. The building inspector’s job isn’t to prevent fires, it’s to make sure the rules are enforced.

Because ‘Murica brah.

The goal of the government FTC is not to stop the hackers. The goal is to create a financial incentive TO provide adequate protection for customer data.

>if Germany had successfully conducted an aerial bombardment of a Ford dealership during World War II, would the government have the legal right or imperative to punish the dealership for not having adequate anti-aircraft defenses?

I guess that’s better than scattered, smothered and covered.

Not necessarily. An individual may appear inebriated when actually they may just be tired, or have a severely elevated fever, or a bad med interaction. These are not necessarily things that the arresting officer can test for, and quite often these things are thrown out of court by a judge.

Plus... they’ve spent the last 40 years scrimping and saving and actively NOT spending money, that they end up at 60 with a metric tonne of money in the bank and no desire to let go of any of it.

Did you try turning off bluetooth, or wifi, or even putting it in airplane mode when you don’t have a full signal? I took my S5 to a football game where my phone was competing with 100,000 other devices for one of the 500 or so cell signals being broadcast from the tower maybe a couple of hundred yards away. Needless…

I found a couple of these already on the market.