Even if you have the immobilizer on your new car, if a potential thief thinks your car is one of the stealable ones, you may still end up with a broken window.
I have a 2022 Hyundai Tucson hybrid (which I love!) and your comment makes me wonder about another commenter's suggestion to get The Club. My car _has_ the immobilizer, but maybe adding a visual deterrent is a good idea.
Eh, a steering column and a busted window might be a couple thousand dollar loss, but it a fraction of the loss the insurance company would otherwise have.
Not even. Used columns are ~$150-300. New or used windows are less. There's a huge supply because these are popular cars. You're talking like a grand all in.
I am giving the above commenter the benefit of the doubt with my high estimate. There is also labor, administrative costs, and other consequential costs (e.g. rental car).
Why is that scary? Some insurers refuse to insure all vehicles in entire states. Some insurers refuse to insure expensive brands. Some won't insure you if you drive your car to work. Some don't insure cars.
Because I'm legally obligated to have insurance, so a car that is street-legal should be insurable. The premium may need to reflect that higher risk (and of course here is how insurers can play the game of "let's set premium to $2k a month" to make cars de facto uninsurable), but I should not be sent away.
There are whole ton of reasons why vehicles and/or drivers are dropped or refused insurance every day, some of which are way more widespread than this particular story. Undoubtedly it’s part of the reason why millions of Americans drive illegally without insurance.
However, if you’re risky enough that no insurance company will touch you, but you are able to financially mitigate your risk to other drivers, many states will allow you to fulfill your legal insurance requirements by self-insuring. So it’s technically not correct (in many states) to say that you have to buy insurance. You usually just have to be able to prove you can afford the risk of a (minor to moderate) accident. For example, in California, you can deposit $35k at the DMV and drive with no insurance.
Sometimes they use user agents for this, but those are easily faked, so it's only done by websites that don't have comprehensive auth walls.
A more comprehensive method is based on ip ranges, say whitelisting traffic from Google and Bing. This gives you > 95% of search traffic as Google alone has >90%, and many various smaller search engines like Yahoo or DDG are Bing resellers.
On the other hand, a pure ip based check can be circumvented too. Sometimes you can view how search engines see a website through google translate. But places like LinkedIn have countermeasures for all of these circumventions.
Odyssey is closer to 64 than Galaxy. You don't repeatedly enter the level for different stars, you just enter the level once and there's different objectives that reward you with stars. Definitely not on rails at all.
Having Apache Spark as a dependency kept us locked into JDK 8 for ages. They've finally got things updated now, but I don't know what their hold up was.
Same here, though it doesn't seem like they've upgraded fully. The Dockerfile[0] for their Kubernetes base images are pinned at 1.8, for example. I bit the bullet and built Spark against newer JDK's myself in the last couple years, but look forward to ditching that.
The Hadoop ecosystem has definitely been dragging its feet on JDK bumps.
