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  1. Re:The Great Truth Revealed on Portland Kicks Off Smart City Initiative With Traffic Sensor Safety Project (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You do realize the equitable solution is to take a lane from drivers everywhere and dedicate it to a protected cycling lane, right? Cars do not own the roads.

  2. Re:Pathetic whiners on Apple's App Store Officially Bans Cryptocurrency Mining (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Because they have grown so large and influential, with no sign of it slowing down. Companies are supposed to by symbiotic, when they become parasitic we reign them in with law. This is a dystopia, where no one has root/admin and dopes you like you help foster it. Apple is a hardware company, they sell hardware. There is no reason that hardware cant execute code from other resources using the hardware's OS. Im surprised I have to explain to someone with such a low UID how VERY bad this situation has become.

  3. Re:Protecting interests on Apple's App Store Officially Bans Cryptocurrency Mining (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is the app store. Apple should not be allowed to be the sole vendor. By law, they should be forced to support other stores. There is absolutely no reason to allow Apple to continue on this path.

  4. As the manufacturer, Intel doesn't get the luxury of showing off overclocked perf. They are obligated to show what they can actually deliver and warranty. No consumer or business setup would run what Intel demoed. The chiller alone drew 1500 watts.....The PSU was rated at 3300 watts....https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/event/1126665.html

  5. Re:Do this on Apple Jams Facebook's Web-Tracking Tools (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    All webpages should have an html fallback. If they dont, its not really a webpage.

  6. 'We all stand on the shoulders of giants' -Sir Isaac Newton, one of the smartest men to ever live.

  7. The computers will start thinking on Eric Schmidt Says Elon Musk Is 'Exactly Wrong' About AI (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    and the people will stop! - Walter Gibbs, Tron

  8. Re:Anti competitive on Apple Blocks Steam's Plan To Extend Its Video Games To iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Users should be able to install any executable they choose on their devices, from any source. Why do i have to explain this to someone on Slashdot?

  9. Re:What about everything else with a microphone? on Woman Says Alexa Device Recorded Her Private Conversation and Sent It To Random Contact; Amazon Confirms the Incident (kiro7.com) · · Score: 2

    I have root on my phone and computers......They answer only to me. I tire of this incredibly poor argument. You are small minded and purposefully pushing a terrible narrative. Slink back to the hole from whence you came.

  10. Re:this is an ACLU fundraiser on ACLU Sues ICE For License Plate Reader Contracts, Records (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    If i have an item for sale, and you buy it from me, i have the right (and duty) to record that down in my records. Those are my records, not yours. You have no claim of ownership of my transaction records. In what universe do you think you can erase my transaction records? Its not your personal information, you dont own the transaction record, I do.

  11. Re:this is an ACLU fundraiser on ACLU Sues ICE For License Plate Reader Contracts, Records (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    So you feel you should be able to erase transaction records out of my database? Its not YOUR data, it is mine. I collected, sorted and stored it as a record of the business we have done together. It may be about you, but that is not the same thing at all.

  12. Re:Upgrade Fatigue on Next PlayStation Is Three Years Off, Sony Says (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    PS5 will need all the power it can get for Virtual Reality. 2021 is a good time to release a 2nd gen, console-based VR set.

  13. Re: All politians have no respect for security on Trump Ignores 'Inconvenient' Security Rules To Keep Tweeting On His iPhone, Says Report (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Physical access to the device is always game over.

  14. Re:Yet another profit center for the Trump admin on US Government Wants To Start Charging For Landsat, the Best Free Satellite Data On Earth (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    You are going to need to provide some citations. Under what scheme would a manufacturer pay royalties for GPS? Any relevant patents are expired.

  15. Re:Gandalf took the Ring on Google's Selfish Ledger is an Unsettling Vision of Silicon Valley Social Engineering (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Tolkien's contemporary and friend C.S. Lewis said this. "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”

  16. Dynamic DNS is a thing.....

  17. I have been using my Surface 3 without a keyboard for 3 years. Works fine. You know you can use your finger like a mouse pointer and draw over the files you want to select, right? I will give you that the checkboxes need a way for you to lock in what you have already selected in the case of fat finger.

  18. Re:I would add some AI on Google Maps Is Getting AR Directions, Recommendation Features (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Or, as a human, you can make choices for yourself.

  19. Re:If it's on a public facing server... on Police Drop Charges Filed Against 19-Year-Old Archivist For Downloading FOIA Releases (techdirt.com) · · Score: 0

    James Comey is a liar......Do not refence him.

  20. Re:so traffic tickets is a committing a crime and on Police Drop Charges Filed Against 19-Year-Old Archivist For Downloading FOIA Releases (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    The NRA is a grass-roots organization, who draws its power DIRECTLY from the citizens that are its constituents. MILLIONS of citizens support the NRA directly.

  21. Re:so traffic tickets is a committing a crime and on Police Drop Charges Filed Against 19-Year-Old Archivist For Downloading FOIA Releases (techdirt.com) · · Score: 2

    Whether you choose to accept it or not, the NRA represents a significant block of grassroots voters. It is entirely funded by its members and represents a large voting block.

  22. Are you kidding? Minecraft is chock full of DLC they shove in your face as you log in with absolutely nothing free in their store at all. They even toss up modals as you login. Im in the world creation screen, its offering me to buy pre-made worlds.... Minecraft (win 10)is one of the worst offenders.

    You simply cannot play the game without Microsoft taking an opportunity to try and sell you something.

  23. Keep in mind, the GTA IV you play today is not the same as upon release. Last week most of the music in the game was stripped out due to licensing expiring. Its a massive blow to the style and tone of the game.

  24. Try VR, for now its still a paradise.

  25. Re:We still have the record for most people / manu on China's Bungled Drone Display Breaks World Record (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Quadcopters are drones because the computer is what keeps it aloft and balanced.. The operator just provides directional and power input.