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  1. And there you have it. Immediately upon any new like this, some slashdotter comes on and tries to derail the idea with their personal situation.

    Right, how dare people evaluate, and ask questions about a product based on their personal situation.

  2. My car is from 2012, it doesn't support bluetooth.

  3. Re:Box on Tesla Owner In China Blames Autopilot For Crash (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    ...as Tesla keeps saying, these are not self-driving cars.

    Except the name of the feature is litterally a synonym for "automatic steering system" according to http://www.thesaurus.com/

    They need to pick a better name.

  4. Re:Curious to see how they enforce this. on All Windows 10 Kernel Mode Drivers Must Be Digitally Signed By Microsoft (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    If you have to install a new driver, it's not previously installed. If you don't have to install it because it's already installed on the system before the cutoff date.... it's previously installed. This isn't rocket science.

    If you think it is that simple, then you haven't thought about it enough.

  5. Re:The great thing about standards... on Samsung Unveils World's First UFS Storage Cards, Could Replace MicroSD (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    What possible incentive is there for them to make it backwards compatible.

    Actually selling some of these cards instead of it becoming a forgotten footnote in the history of storage devices.

  6. Re:Horrible in daylight on Japan Says Yes To Mirrorless Cars (carscoops.com) · · Score: 1

    Mirrors also reflect the sun when it is low on the horizon and can potentially cause serious vision problems if / when it hits your eyes. LCD screens won't have that problem. Let's call it a draw between glare and reflections.

  7. Re:Good for Aerodynamics, Bad for Human Driven Car on Japan Says Yes To Mirrorless Cars (carscoops.com) · · Score: 1

    So the worst case will be no worse off than we are now?

  8. It Doesn't Matter; It Won't Ever Happen on Drivers Prefer Autonomous Cars That Don't Kill Them (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    No one will ever program a autonomous vehicle to choose one life over another. That's a lawsuit waiting to happen, if not an outright murder charge.

  9. Re:let it go and follow it on Artificially Intelligent Russian Robot Escapes...Again (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    Its "long term actions" consist of sitting in the road, blocking traffic, with a dead battery.

  10. Have you seen our military budget? An armed rebellion would last about 15 minutes.

  11. Re:4G is fast enough on FCC To Vote On Spectrum For 5G Wireless Networks (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It isn't just about speed. 5G also brings better ways to share existing spectrum without interference, adding capacity to the system.

  12. Re:Please put all your google maps complaints here on The Geek Behind Google's Takeover of the Map (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    You can still do waypoints; I use them all the time. Just grab the route line anywhere and drag it to where you want to waypoint to be.

  13. If they wanted to see what applications are being used and for how long, it would be FAR easier, reliable, and less risky to Microsoft's reputation to just have the operating system record and report that data. Having to rely on users to be running applications that just happened to be compiled with this version of the compiler seems hugely unreliable. Not to mention that it would only report on those specific apps, not apps built by other means.

    I'm more apt to chalk this one up to something that got left over from development and testing than something inserted maliciously. I mean, if you are going to do something that risky, at least make the reward something more valuable that a half-assed list of apps being run.

  14. Re:Permissions on Slashdot Asks: Is the App Boom Over? · · Score: 1

    If you deny the app permission to read contacts it will throw an exception (or get some kind of access denied status) when trying to read them. If you fake a blank contact list, or one full of random data, then the app how no idea. The theory being that some apps would detect the block and refuse to work or degrade their functionality. It would be useful for things like "flashlight" that have no business reading your contact list.

  15. Re:Fuck FBI on FBI Developing Software To Track, Sort People By Their Tattoos (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    By PAYING someone to put a tattoo on a part of your body that is fully visible while walking around it public, you MADE it everyone's business.

  16. Re:Hahahahaha FANTASTIC on Microsoft Removes the 'X' From Windows 10 Update Leaving No Way Out (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Once you have Windows 10, every update acts like this and cannot be rejected.

    Stop spreading lies. Updates in Windows 10 can easily be ignored or rejected. There are several that I'm currently holding off on at the moment.

  17. Re:Overpriced fad gadgets turn out to be crap on Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Fitbit For 'Highly Inaccurate' Heart Rate Trackers (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Right... Companies shouldn't be held accountable just because they made a crap product that advertises functionality that it doesn't have. It's all those idiot users' fault for believing that consumer protection laws should require a product to do what is advertised.

  18. That's a super inefficient way to live your entire life though. We shouldn't have to go through that process for every single picture, or text post to the internet on the off-chance some company decides to sue us.

  19. The horror

  20. True Crime on Cops Deploy StingRay Anti-Terror Tech Against $50 Chicken-Wing Thief (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The real crime here is that 3 sandwiches and 15 wings costs $56.77.

  21. Re:I was almost one of them on Medical Errors Are Number 3 Cause of US Deaths, Researchers Say (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    OK, so you knew that the subscription was for a ridiculously huge amount and that it would almost certainly kill you if you took that much, and yet you took it anyways? Ya, I am with the doctor on this one. The pharmacist should of caught that, and if they did not, you should have. If you found a razor blade in a candy bard would you just assume that the candy bar makers know what they are doing, and swallow it?

    Yes, I'm sure he was thinking very clearly immediately after skull fracture.

  22. I guess that actually works if you count Virtual Machines as "Figurative" computers.

  23. Re:While we're doing Google comparisons ... on Apple Considering Google-Like 'Paid Search' On App Store (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Devs lie through their teeth on android review replies. I don't trust them at all.

    And users give bad reviews for reasons that don't make any sense, such as a live wallpaper not having an entry in the app drawer.

  24. Re:Interesting but not sure how 'practical' it is on Academics Claim Google Android 2FA Is Breakable (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    AZ Screen Recorder ( https://play.google.com/store/... ) is able to record video of your screen without root access and without being in the foreground.

  25. At least... on Quanta LTE Router May Be Most Unsecure Router Ever Made (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    But at least it's locked down so you can't install any custom firmware and mess with the power levels!