Not surprised at number 2 on this list of most-ticketed (per owner) cars here.

I used to own a Pontiac GTO (actually two different ones).

The GTO was the easiest car to drive fast I’ve ever been in, and I’ve owned some fast cars in my life.

For instance back in the early 2000s, I owned a heavily-modified Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo. Now that car was certainly fun to drive, but it was nothing like the GTO.

In the GTO you could get up to 90mph and it felt you like you were doing 40. Driving down the highway, I’d be like “Why the hell is everyone going so slow?” And then I’d look down at the speedometer and go, “Oh shit I’m doing 92!”

The car’d do 0-60 in about five seconds. And with traction control enabled, it was perfectly controllable no matter what shenanigans you undertook – unlike my 400HP 300ZX which was like trying to control a wild stallion on meth.

The orange GTO above was modified quite a bit, so it had long tube headers, a less-restrictive exhaust, a better intake, ECU tuning, a different cam and other things I’m probably forgetting. I never had it dynoed but it probably made somewhere around 450-460 wheel horsepower.

And DAMN was it fun to drive. I still miss it to this day.

Tellingly, the guy who bought the orange GTO from me a few months after its purchase wrote to me saying he’d already sold it because he’d picked up three speeding tickets in it.

Never got one of those myself, but I can understand. I sure can understand.

Notice that this brief article about women in computing – all innovators and pioneers in the field – is in the “Fashion and Style” section of the New York Times.

What the fuck.

About how Windows 10 (and Ubuntu) send all your search queries to be examined by Microsoft and the NSA, I’m surprised by how few people have a problem with this.

In a thread on Ars Technica about Windows 10 a comment criticizing this repugnant privacy  violation was heavily downvoted. That’ s not unusual, and I don’t think there are enough MS and other shills out there to explain the downvoting.

It appears people actually want their privacy invaded and for large corporations to know more about them than their family probably does.

I can’t understand this. No matter how hard I try, I just can’t make sense of it.

My guess is that this permissive approach to privacy is more true of the Millennials and younger as they have been helicopter-parented and allowed little privacy their entire lives. Having a Big Brother (aka Big Father/Big Mother) looking over their shoulder every instant is just natural to them.

Of course there are generational differences, despite scientists trying to “prove” there are not. I bet that approach to and concern with privacy is one of them.

Agreed that some younger folks are better at protecting and encoding (in the linguistic sense, not the cryptographic sense) what they don’t want seen.

I bet the majority just don’t care, however.

That’s a real difference between people of roughly my generation and older, and one that is unexamined mostly.