A lot of new cars do have internet built in whether that is exposed for your use or not.

My 2014 Chevy gave me 2 years of their mobile app which could unlock/lock the car via cellular for free. I know the car still has a data connection available because if I play songs via bluetooth it pulls in album art that doesn't exist on my phone via Gracenote. I can also hit the OnStar button and talk to someone via the car and I don't pay for that.

That Chevy lock/unlock API may not be a public API but there is nothing stopping someone from reversing it. Or just signing up to use it: https://developer.gm.com/vehicle-apis

Most modern cars offer the same features.

I don’t understand, what you’re saying doesn’t really make any sense. Were they also using Ethernet over power devices? Even so they typically have a setup process that negotiate the encryption keys between devices in your own home.

Is it really that scary? Ok maybe it isn't perfectly accurate but so what? He might be going 33 instead of 30..doesn't really matter.

Why not? Do you think any sensible driver would overshoot/undershoot their speed by any meaningful amount without noticing? Like without a speedometer everyone would just accidentally go 100mph everywhere or something?

Having to send in a physical postcard before account activation probably helps with that.

I noticed the same thing with the see through envelope part. I live in an apartment and get mail in my informed delivery dashboard addressed to past tenants at this address all the time. The system seems to only care about address, not name. The mail never arrives (possibly due to forwarding?) but I can read the first page of about half of it. It does seem to have gotten slightly better but I just checked my last few emails from USPS and I can still make out words through the envelope. I'm sure with a small bit of image manipulation I would be able to read them clear as day.

Are counterfeits listed as brand names that big of a problem on Amazon? I make most of my electronics purchases from Amazon (tons in the last few years) and have never received a counterfeit item to the best of my knowledge.

Certain categories of items are ripe with them, fake Sandisk SD cards have been a problem for years, for example.

That's precisely the problem: I don't know how big of a problem it is, and I'm not keen to find out. I know it's enough of a problem that it's easier to simply shop elsewhere.

I personally know a few people who have gotten counterfeit items, even including consumables like protein powder. I don't have to buy from Amazon so it's just a chance I'm not going to take until such a time I can be convinced it's not a problem. It's not any more difficult or even expensive for me to shop elsewhere so I don't have to be particularly rational or thorough about it (I don't have time for that!).

The person you were replying to was talking about adaptive cruise control and automatic breaking. The majority of cars on the road do not have those features. Very different than plain acceleration and braking and much more likely to have glitches.

Apache or Nginx would give you the same experience with a default install. Path would vary between the 3 of course.

Highly unlikely. More likely they're using location tracking or a shared data source to know that you like that specific coffee place.

I don't buy it. There was nothing else in that pocket.

Your pocket is irrelevant. Location tracking and shared marketing databases have nothing to do with what was in your pocket.

"Location tracking and shared marketing databases"

“I haven’t checked but I don’t think I’m in too many databases.”

Neato. Well dude you got your answer, take it or leave it. I understand acting dumb and trolling is fun too though.