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One of the features of the ever more connected car is that carmakers are increasingly ‘over the air’ in charge of many functions, writes Brian Byrne. In the same way that we have got used to the operating systems in our phones and computers being automatically updated across the internet, this is happening in many of the latest new cars which are ‘always on’ connected to base by proprietary online systems. For extra services owners can subscribe via a monthly fee. But that electronic ‘street’ is very much a two-way thing, and the extra services can be disabled if the subscription is ceased.  Ford is one manufacturer looking at bringing that control a step further. In the US is is trying to patent a system for disabling a car over the air if the buyer hasn’t kept up repayments on the vehicle. The company’s application for a patent titled “Systems and Methods to Repossess a Vehicle” was published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) last week. Looks like the ‘Repo Man

The email letters that Hal Finney ( First person to receive bitcoin transaction from Satoshi. He died in the same year, 2014. Surprisingly Finney is Nick Szabo’s closest friend since 1993.. ) supplied to The Wall Street Journal in the spring of 2014 and which were written in Jan 2009 , has a bitcoin address that Satoshi shared with Finney which has initials matching Nick Szabo’s name . 1.12 1.11 1.10 1.9 1.8 1.7 1.6 1.5 1.4 1.3 1.2 1.1 1 “Unfortunately, I can’t receive incoming connections from where I am, which has made things more difficult. Your node receiving incoming connections was the main thing keeping the network going the first day or two.” “You can send to my Bitcoin address if you want to, but you won’t get to see the full transfer sequence:” 1NSwywA5Dvuyw89sfs3oLPvLiDNGf48cPD This bitcoin address starts with 1NS as the first two Base-58 capital letters where “1” is the default prefix for Bitcoin pubkey hash while the string that follows after “1” is