The Biden administration told car manufacturers not to comply with a state law that would allow independent auto shops and car owners the ability to fix their own vehicles.

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[–]captainramen🇺🇸🛠️ MAGA Communist 🛠️🇺🇸 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Kolodziej argues in the letter that since the law grants open access to a car’s telematics—which are used to wirelessly send commands to cars—a “malicious actor here or abroad” could remotely command a car. The outcomes, the NHSTA says, could be vehicle crashes, passenger injuries, or death.

Absolute load of garbage. Part I, Title XV, § 2(f):

Commencing in model year 2022 and thereafter a manufacturer of motor vehicles sold in the Commonwealth, including heavy duty vehicles having a gross vehicle weight rating of more than 14,000 pounds, that utilizes a telematics system shall be required to equip such vehicles with an inter-operable, standardized and open access platform across all of the manufacturer's makes and models. Such platform shall be capable of securely communicating all mechanical data emanating directly from the motor vehicle via direct data connection to the platform. Such platform shall be directly accessible by the owner of the vehicle through a mobile-based application and, upon the authorization of the vehicle owner, all mechanical data shall be directly accessible by an independent repair facility or a class 1 dealer licensed pursuant to section 58 of chapter 140 limited to the time to complete the repair or for a period of time agreed to by the vehicle owner for the purposes of maintaining, diagnosing and repairing the motor vehicle. Access shall include the ability to send commands to in-vehicle components if needed for purposes of maintenance, diagnostics and repair.

Unless they're going to claim that TLS 1.3 is not secure this is a solved problem.

[–]risistill me 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Remember when you were in school and they taught you about federalism and how the US federal government is one of limited powers?

HAHAHAHAHA.

(which reminds me, has sudo made it to saidit?)

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I haven't seen sudo here at SaidIt. He had cut back his Reddit WotB activity a lot lately.

[–]risistill me 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks. I hope sudo is ok!

[–]risistill me 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

That was a referendum question in my state! Shows how much they give a crap about voters and consumers without unlimited funds.

If voting made a difference, they wouldn't let us do it.

Anonymous, but often misattributed

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

I always attribute the voting quote to Emma Goldman.

[–]risistill me 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

That is one of a number of misattributions, at least as far as the people who try to track down the origins of quotes like this were able to ascertain. By that, I mean they find no evidence that she (or anyone else) said or wrote this. That, of course, doesn't mean Goldman never said it, just that no evidence exists, one way or the other.

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (10 children)

"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."

If I'm not sure my citation is solid, I say "attributed to..." History is generally unreliable, and quotations are part of history. It doesn't make the truth of a quote any less true.

[–]risistill me 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

But it hasn't become fact.

Goldman is only one of the famous people to whom that quote gets attributed. https://marktwainstudies.com/the-apocryphal-twain-if-voting-made-any-difference-they-wouldnt-let-us-do-it/

Nor is it fact by definition....

fact făkt noun

Knowledge or information based on real occurrences.

Something demonstrated to exist or known to have existed.

A real occurrence; an event.

Of course misattribution does not make the truth of the quote less true (or more true), but the quote isn't the issue; the misattribution is.

Perhaps ironically, the bit about printing the legend is itself a misquote: https://sevencircumstances.com/2018/06/15/the-mystery-of-the-misquoted-quote-from-the-man-who-shot-liberty-valance/

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Emma Goldman was likely quoting someone else. Her friends liked the quote, and it gradually became hers. So what? It's great quote whether it was originally Emma or Anacharsis of Scythia.

For fun, look up who said "aures habent et non audient" (they have ears but do not hear). Yes, it's quoted in 20,000 Leagues (1869-70), but it's from the Latin Bible (The Vulgate, late 4th Century). Victor Hugo quotes it in Les Misérables (1862).

[–]risistill me 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Her friends liked the quote, and it gradually became hers.

I'm not familiar with her friends' fondness of the quote, but many people think it is Twain's quote, though that cannot be proven, either. And, again, the truth or the quality of the quote has never been the issue.

For fun, look up who said "aures habent et non audient"

Didn't need to. I read the Bible as a kid, King James version. The latin is in the Latin version of the Bible--any Latin version, I'm guessing. And probably originated in either Greek or Hebrew. But the English translation is in English versions. Not sure what the significance is, though.

AFAIK, there is no evidence that Goldman ever said or wrote this. So the issue is not whether she was quoting an earlier source or not. For all we know, the quote may have originated after she died and was misattributed to her then. "The definition of insanity is repeating the same behavior while expecting a different result" is often misattributed to Einstein to make it seem much smarter than it is. (As if there is only one definition of insanity!). That doesn't mean that Einstein ever said it or ever knew of it. It also doesn't mean that the saying was floating around during his lifetime.

BTW, this is one of the odder exchanges I've ever had online or IRL.

[–]captainramen🇺🇸🛠️ MAGA Communist 🛠️🇺🇸 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The definition of insanity is repeating the same behavior while expecting a different result

It's from alcoholics anonymous afaik. Makes sense if you think about it.

[–]risistill me 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not original with AA. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/23/same/

I have no idea if AA officially incorporated it at some point.

While searching for info about this quote, I saw "Was Einstein wrong?" And that's where misattribution leads us! Poor guy losing his rep as a genius because someone misattributed that quote to him!

[–]risistill me 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The point was spurious misattribution in order to embue gravitas, but I'll respond to what you're saying.

In order for it to make sense, just on its face, the first word of the sentence would have to be "One," instead of "The."

And every person with more hopes than sense is not insane. Or Americans would have stopped voting by now. (Note: an attempt to quip along the lines of all Americans being insane will be met with an eyeroll.)

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

"How absolute the knave is! We must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us."

— Kit Marlowe 😺

[–]risistill me 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Facts matter.

Most people. (-:

I expanded my first reply, if you're interested.

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

If facts mattered to "most people", Bernie Sanders would be serving in his second administration.

[–]risistill me 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

First, the claim was that most people say that, not that facts matter to most people. Second, I'm not sure your claim about Sanders is the fact, either.

I can't believe anyone is defending intentional misattribution this persistently, but the surprise has worn off. I'm on to other topics.

[–]yaiyen[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Vice first reported that the major concern the Biden administration’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has with the law, which is colloquially titled the Data Access Law, is hacking. To express these concerns, Kerry Kolodziej, from assistant chief counsel at the NHTSA, authored a letter (dated yesterday) to the chief counsel of nearly two dozen major automotive manufacturers including BMW, Ferrari, Ford, and Hyundai. Kolodziej argues in the letter that since the law grants open access to a car’s telematics—which are used to wirelessly send commands to cars—a “malicious actor here or abroad” could remotely command a car. The outcomes, the NHSTA says, could be vehicle crashes, passenger injuries, or death.

[–]yaiyen[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Before this was all conspiracy that people can control cars remotely and kill people, now they are using that to stop people from right to repair. Many people dont understand this but its very expensive to repair these cars when you use the manufactures own repair place

[–]R51 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I went to nissan to fix the remote key for an old car and the dude just straight up told me to get it on amazon for $15 because if they order it it's gonna be >$200

[–]yaiyen[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

So again Biden side with the donors and make excuse that its all about security

[–]risistill me 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You wouldn't expect them to say, "I'm all about the benjamins, baby!"

Before long, interfering with the income prospects of a politician or a political party will be categorized statutorily as an form of domestic terrorism, perhaps even the hanging offense of treason!

BTW, though lobbyists have proliferated and become more systematic, more well-funded and more generous to the political class, "interest groups" seeking to affect legislation have existed in the US since Day One, and, before that, in the American colonies.

Oh, and, "political class" is an oxymoron, if using "class" in the sense of "classy." Elitism and classiness are not synonyms. Neither are corruption and classiness.