Tags are attached to an Apple ID, which is supposed to be personally identifiable. Just like most anything else, you can make shit up when you make an account.

Sure, but this goes beyond just a bit easier. It makes it all sorts of simple and accessible, plus it works with an infrastructure most people already are bought into and know their way around.

I’d be lying if I didn’t think this was going to happen at some point.

The point of these things isn’t just short range location. It’s long range as well.

A “solution” to a single instance, but not to any others. If you call beating someone a solution at all.

I wonder what the solution to this problem is. There’s absolutely a use case for readily available, cheap, and accurate tracking devices in regards to not losing your stuff. On the other hand, this happens. If you have a semi-recent Apple mobile device on your person and don’t blindly dismiss messages that appear on…

I’m still having some trouble understanding how people got maimed or killed crank-starting engines back when this was a thing. Freewheel devices like sprag clutches must have been invented and widely in use by that point. Why would they not just stick one of those between the socket the hand-crank goes in and the…

Like auctioning your house because they misapplied a payment for your tax bill? Suspending your driver’s license because of an unpaid ticket they never sent you? Blowing up your house to catch a criminal because a they decided to run in there while evading the cops and the claiming sovereign immunity when you ask them…

People leave windows open. Kids spill drinks. People have wet feet. Cowl and sunroof drains clog. Look, I get putting modules near the things they control, but putting them in the bottom of tubs where liquids can and do go is just dumb.

Good for you. Make work fun!

Right? Is this not the very definition of the fox guarding the henhouse?

What is it with the fascination they have with putting multi-thousand-dollar computer modules in places where water can and does pool?

Reading these comments is giving me an ulcer.

It’s even worse than that. For something like heated seats, economies of scale probably work out such that having only one seat with the heater and putting in the wiring is cheaper than the overhead of offering one with it and one without. It’s cheaper for them *and* they charge you extra.

You think that until the keyless-entry fob in your Toyota stops locking and unlocking your doors because you didn’t pay a fee. Oh, by the way, your lock cylinders don’t work anymore because nobody has used them in ten years. Good luck getting into your car now.

We’re already halfway there. So many cars now require things be done with some sort of shockingly expensive scan tool that “available” in the same way that Ferraris are “available” to everybody. Luckily, in a lot of cases, intrepid hackers will write software to provide the same functionality as those scan tools for…

There’s a difference between maliciousness and developmental disabilities people are born with and have no control over. There’s always a better term to use than the one referenced.

It’s almost as if you’ve never had to deal with an inept bureaucracy.

In the case of the toll dodger, all they *can* identify is the car. In this case, all the parties are identified. As for suing the insurance company, sure, but that’s really expensive.

Given how shady the insurance company seems to have been acting, it probably would go badly either way. He calls the municipality to have them bill his insurance, they refuse to pay it because they suck, they do the various scary government stuff they can do to get that money in the mean time, he’s screwed because…