Whenever I hear the term " bank grade encryption," I think 3DES (Triple DES), which is traditionally used by the banking industry but, frankly, kinda sucks. I know it's probably just meaningless marketing babble anyway, but I hope Venmo is at least using AES 256.

I feel like this is the new way to show you are uber rich... people who are only mildly extremely rich drive street versions of hypercars, people who are uber obscenely rich buy track only specials of street cars and smugly laugh about those who have to use their street car at the track, I mean goodness old fellow…

You can actually do these sorts of IFTTT -> Dropbox -> Computer Script automation mashups without the Automatic OBD2 dongle: just use IFTTT geofence triggers. I use this approach to turn recording on my security cameras on & off & set my thermostat away mode as I leave or approach my house. I wrote another script that…

I suppose I should point out the sheer number of different ways this was a huge gamble:

Not exactly racing, per-se, but it's hard to think of a bigger gamble on wheels, ever, than the Thrust SSC supersonic land speed car.

The unequivocal remarks by Ryan, who chairs the tax-writing Ways & Means Committee, quash hopes for the deeply tax-averse House to pass a gasoline tax increase as a mechanism to pay for a long-term highway funding bill.

Most of the Audi RS cars. Fabulous on the street, but far too prone to understeer at the limit to be any fun on a track.

I meant to say 10th overall at LeMans, in case you don't know the story already.

I'm not sure any car has ever had a more surprising performance at the track than this 1950 Cadillac Coupe de Ville, which finished 10th overall.

The Z/28 has posted slightly better lap times on *some* tracks with *some* drivers, but (and I BTW I love what Chevy has done with the Z/28) that comes down almost entirely to the stock tires, which are both wider and a good bit stickier than the stock GT-R rubber. I have a GT-R kitted out with 305-width treaded R…

Clearly this is only simulated crowdsourcing, since the article fails to tell me how I can make thousands of dollars per week working from home.

I've always been partial to the early 70's Ferrari V12 F1 sound (from 0:49-1:10 in the infamous Shell commercial below):

I can understand (and I suffer from) the horrible completionist urge to finish every stupid, repetitive side quest in sprawling open world games, but I have to admit, when I hear about players "grinding" through the exact same content over and over again in order to turn the #31 in their character stats page into a…

I'm playing on Xbox One. Other than some lengthy load times I'm not running into much in the way of technical issues.

Cadillac is going to be pissed that Ferrari stole their tail fins.

In fairness, dry clutches only rattle like that when the clutch is released and there is no load on the drivetrain (i.e. the transmission is in neutral). Also, from the factory Ducati typically puts a (solid magnesium, in their nicer bikes) cover over the clutch that mutes most of the noise. Still, I suppose removing…

While it's just a visual issue, somehow the cartoonish aesthetic of the Telltale engine's character animations doesn't quite mix with the serious nature of the source material.

I spent three hours driving the morning shift on Sunday in the wet and it was one of the most exhausting (but exhilarating) race stints of my life. I was in a big old lump of American iron that wanted to oversteer, understeer, or both in every. single. corner. We were also leading class B by 5-6 laps, so every time my…

I'm a bit shocked arm restraints weren't mandatory.

China these days seems more like an plutocracy/kleptocracy with a thin veneer of communism sprinkled on top in order to keep up appearances. Actually, the US seems to be developing into an plutocracy with a thin veneer of democracy sprinkled on top, so at least the world is coming together :).