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  1. Using google map locations seems like lazy police work and tracking data has the potential to be "faked" by someone with sufficient resources.

    Using cellular carrier tower data requires a warrant. If a suspect can be convinced to hand over their phone...

  2. Re:Shrink-wrap on Bethesda Blocks Resale of a Secondhand Game (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why they have holographic stickers you have to break to open with case.

  3. Re:Stop the Moral Panic on Facebook Bans Sites That Host Blueprints of 3D-Printed Guns (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It also needs to be detectable by xray machines with a gun shape. A rectangle is not that shape.

  4. The buyer has a secured offer in that, with exceptions for the collatoral value of the house, they can totally sue the bank to enforce the loan offer. That's what "secured" means. The fact that the buyer hasn't yet accepted it doesn't change anything.

    Musk is going to need to produce an appropriately signed and dated piece of paper.

  5. Re:Buying an electric car/battery maker is a hedge on Saudi Fund in Talks to Invest in Tesla Buyout Deal, Report Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Saudi Arabia wants to be solidly entrenched in the world when their oil/gas runs out. So they are diversifying hard./p.

  6. Re:Stop the Moral Panic on Facebook Bans Sites That Host Blueprints of 3D-Printed Guns (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    It may be legal to make your own guns, but it is illegal to make guns out of non-ferrous materials, because of metal detectors.

  7. Re:Logical Outcome of a Lack of Principles on FCC Proposes To Maintain US Broadband Standard of 25Mbps Down, 3Mbps Up (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Here in Japan, you canÃ(TM)t get less than 40GB up and down for $30 a month

    You are very wrong about something. Either you're talking a data cap, not speed, or you're using the wrong numbers. Because even high speed intra-computer connections (to hard drives/USB3.1 devices) don't get 20% of that speed.

  8. Sadly, we live in a world where most people are susceptible to such manipulations of their behaviours

    All people are vulnerable to such manipulations. Just not everyone is vulnerable to the same ones.

    Except me of course. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to buy tickets to wait in line for 3 hours to listen to an actor give me a live commercial for a movie I already bought tickets for when it was announced.

  9. Re:Common tool in the online dating industry on New Facial Recognition Tool, Designed For Research Purposes, Tracks Targets Across Different Social Networks (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    And what would they do with that knowledge? Seems awful hard to act upon.

  10. Re:The problem is too many channels on People Still Don't Like Their Cable Companies, ConsumerReports' Telecom Survey Finds (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 1

    Mainly so that all the parents with little kids can pay fees for Disney's mostly low-cost programming, to subsidize ESPN so that people who watch sports don't have to pay $30 a game.

    Or vice versa. ESPN subscribers pay a heavy premium, and it's not like SyFy could support itself ala carte.

  11. Re:Drivers will use wheelchair accessible vehicles on New York City Just Voted To Cap Uber and Lyft Vehicles and Require Drivers To Be Paid a Minimum Wage (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So, what your saying is that Uber riders have to pay more, and my taxes no longer subsidize their drivers (through food stamps, etc.)? The free market gets to work?

  12. Re:Does anyone else see a pattern here? on People Still Don't Like Their Cable Companies, ConsumerReports' Telecom Survey Finds (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 2

    See, I wouldn't say what that list has in common has anything to do with competition. I'd say that those things are required for modern life*. They are also run by oligopolies, but that has a lot to do with the nature of the market making competition ineffective, etc..

    *Cable TV might not be, but broadband internet is.

  13. Sure... but there's no reason to suspect you can.

  14. $27,9 billion in assets. $22,6 billion in liabilities.

    If that were the case, all you're saying is that it's worth 5.3 billion right now. Which is less than 10% of the current stock market valuation.

  15. Re:The problem is too many channels on People Still Don't Like Their Cable Companies, ConsumerReports' Telecom Survey Finds (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That wasn't the cable companies, it was the providers. Disney said, "If you want ESPN, you also have to carry these other 30 channels". Because they were all owned by Disney. And more Disney channels means it's more likely you'll watch a Disney-owned channel.

  16. If that was his plan, that would be stock market manipulation. Which is a crime.

  17. These are engineering positions. At Amazon, they tend to be high paid (as well as high hours and high turnover). This isn't some shitty warehouse.

  18. Re:Is this going to change how anyone votes on The Internal Report Proving the FCC Made Up a Cyberattack (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Trump's poll numbers haven't budged an inch.

    I haven't seen that. It looks like they've been trending down.

  19. Re:"a small amount of our source code" on Hacker Posts Snapchat Source Code To GitHub (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    The codebase of Snapchat may be worth a couple of million. 16 billion in value is mostly the millions of young people who spend there time on it.

  20. Re:Google Images on Online Photos Can't Simply Be Republished, EU Court Rules (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    Less than a year ago, Google lost a case over Google Image search. As a result, it no longer links directly to the picture, but instead the site containing the picture.

  21. (1) I'm not aware that they are shipping AWD versions, just taking configurations for them.

    (2) The battery problem was "shipping at scale", so they should be able to ship some AWD units.

  22. Creating a second, inferior version of a part because you cannot produce the normal one at scale is indicative of the normal one, or things that require it, are not yet profit centers.

  23. The batteries included a second set of terminals, planning for the future with AWD. In the call, Musk said they needed to remove some of the features of the batteries - including some padding and the second set of terminals, to be able to produce them reliably enough to approach his 5k goal.

    Hence, the batteries produced now cannot support AWD.

  24. Re:Student work on Online Photos Can't Simply Be Republished, EU Court Rules (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    In related news, students do not retain any copyright ownership of their work that they turn in to a school.

    Ummm.... where on earth is this coming from. Just because they posted online doesn't mean they think they can use it doesn't mean they are asserting ownership. At least in the US, absent special contractual things with a private school, that's not the case.

  25. [GP omitted t]he fact that the Model 3 margins are without any AWD/P

    In fairness, that's because in Q1 investor call, Musk said they removed the second set of terminals that would power the AWD from the batteries, and standardized on batteries that don't support AWD instead. Because they couldn't reliably and speedily make those batteries.

    I mean, I'm not saying they won't be able to do so some day, but they gave up on doing it now.