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This just blows my mind :

Ford Motor Company is introducing an innovative new technology – called MyKey – designed to help parents encourage their teen-agers to drive safer and more fuel efficiently, and increase safety-belt usage.

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The MyKey system allows the parent to program any key through the vehicle message center, which updates the SecuriLock™ passive anti-theft system. When the MyKey is inserted into the ignition, the system reads the transponder chip in the key and immediately identifies the MyKey code, which enables certain default driving modes…

What type of default driving modes? A seatbelt reminder system that keeps beeping at you and keeps the audio system muted until you buckle up; earlier low fuel warnings; preventing safety features from being deactivated; and of course, the concern of anyone with a teen driver, fixed upper-limit speed (80 mph) and audio volume control (44 percent of total volume).

I can see why this is a neat idea, but if I were still a teenager, I’d be sooooo annoyed by those features.

I wonder what the security implications are for this?

Oh yeah, first things first…this is awesome.

No, not this guy:

(Ah, the ’90s…such an inspired time for creating new comics characters…)

Okay, so I kinda forgot how to log into my blog… But I’m back, baby! And the login page is bookmarked! And I wrote down my login and password! So let’s see if I start posting again…

So anyhow… Coming up: I finally answer the meme that Rob spread to me almost — lordy! — almost a month ago (that one’s about ready to go, so should be up tonight); I give you my top 12 (and, so far, only) movies of 2008; and…I had something else in my head, but I don’t remember, and probably shouldn’t get ahead of myself anyhow.