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  1. Re:As a Practice Matter... on EU Set To Mandate Speed Limiters In All New Cars (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    ...Every reason you describe that you think excuses speeding is already illegal

    The ONLY reason to speed that is accepted by the courts is the one that this system allows - you are already overtaking and circumstances change and to avoid an accident you need to briefly speed

  2. Paper works ... on Researchers Find Critical Backdoor In Swiss Online Voting System (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    All computer systems are a black box, even if they are open source, how do you tell that is what the system is running ... and if you can, how do we know it is still running that after you looked ... and the system that is supposed to flag changes... who wrote that ... and can we verify it ... etc ... etc ... etc ...

  3. ... the The scientists actually say all models predict change, all models says we are the contributing factor, we should do something about it .. ..when asked what they will give possibilities : most of which would save money in the long run, and so could be implemented regardless

  4. Re:Should be easy enough... on Trump Directs Pentagon To Create Space Force Legislation for Congress (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    ..you do realise that the Army, Navy and Civilian Federal agencies also have Spy Satellites ... in fact more than the Air Force because they have the least use for them ...

  5. Samsung pre-installations counts .... on Samsung's Android Browser Hits 1 Billion Downloads, More Than Firefox and Opera Combined (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have this installed, as I have a Samsung phone - number of times I have used it ... once ...

  6. Re:false advertising... on FDA Warns Supplement Makers To Stop Touting Cures For Diseases and Cancer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In the UK if you claim to cure a disease then you are a medicine and have to regulated

    If you claim to cure cancer then this is a special case ... your product is illegal and you will be shut down and fined

  7. whereas .... on Huawei CEO Says Company Doesn't Spy For China and Praises Trump in Rare Appearance (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    in the USA many companies are required to hand over your data.. and have done so ...

  8. Re:Hit them in the pocket on Yellow Vests Knock Out 60 Percent of All Speed Cameras In France (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    They are not organised - they have no leaders - the action is not coordinated
    They do not have one set of demands
    They do not have one agenda
    The unions are not in control ...

    Some of them have no real demands ...they just like attacking stuff ...

  9. Worse than useless.... on An Eye-Scanning Lie Detector Is Forging a Dystopian Future (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    So the people who pass the test are :

          Those who don't think they are lying
          Those who don't care if they are lying
          Those who don't think the machine can detect them lying
          Those who have been trained to beat the machine .. oh and those who are not lying

          It will catch those:
                Those who are worried about it wrongly detecting they are lying when they are not - these are the ideal people least likely to offend ... and those who are telling the truth

        So it actively gets false negatives on those very people you want to detect, and false positives on those you most actively want to not detect
                 

  10. Re:Too much of a good thing is bad. on Google Personalizes Search Results Even When You're Logged Out, a DuckDuckGo Study Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Your local newspaper is tailored to you, so is all your historic news, simply because you have a lot in common with people living around you

    the only thing that has changed is how tightly focused this is - turning off cookies stops the tight focus and they can only tailor content to you based on context ...

  11. Re:No company owns it is no longer true on AMP For Email Is a Terrible Idea (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    If a business cannot use it to communicate with businesses or their customers then Office356 or GMail will be dropped instantly ....

    MS Exchange/Outlook is massively propitiatory but did not have issues delivering emails to/from anyone not using it

  12. Re:Who's space station is it actually? on The Trump Administration is Moving To Privatize the International Space Station: Report (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    ...the Russian half is a fully working space station on it's own ....

  13. Re:Go to permanent DST on Daylight Saving Time Isn't Worth It, European Parliament Members Say (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The issue is that people who live in the north (or far south in the southern hemisphere) would have very skewed days for no benefit to them ...

  14. They tried to be anonymous ... but the system saw them watching anti-hillary videos and started to tailor the content ...

    The algorithm worked ... it did it's job, it started with the most popular videos (click bate), then as they searched and watched it instantly tailored to what they were doing ...

  15. Re:UK could help reduce radicalisation... on Call For Tech Giants To Face Taxes Over Extremist Content (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    ...So you picked as your example the country with the 6th largest military in the world ...

  16. These don't corrolate ... on 'Break Up Google and Facebook If You Ever Want Innovation Again' (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    In the USA AT&T had a near monopoly in telecoms in the USA, and were using it to extend to other industries, but were not broken up until 1984 ...

    IBM had a near monopoly, the PC was a little, temporary, side project that was done quickly with off the shelf parts (including OS), IBM never thought it would last and so didn't really put any effort into it ... it was open simply because it was cheaper that way ... it succeeded because it was open not because it was IBM ...

    These are not comparable to Facebook and Google ... Facebook has a single product, which may disappear overnight, Google is expanding to related industries, but is not hitting people with lawsuits to stop innovation

    what he is really saying is that on-line advertising is now run by two companies who are doing it really well, and they are underpaying record companies for work other people did ....

     

  17. Re:Do you live in a house or apartment? on Ask Slashdot: How Are So Many Security Vulnerabilities Possible? · · Score: 1

    You cannot make your house secure, unless you make it unusable as a house - same with software

    Now imagine a city full of houses and realise that you do not need to make your house secure, just secure enough that it is not worth the effort to break into, and they will try and break into your neighbours houses instead ...

    This is how all security works ...

  18. Jeanne Calment lived to be 122... outlived her husband, Daughter and Grandson .. her Daughter and Grandson died at 36

    She was almost never ill, was active her entire life, smoked but only one or two cigarettes a day, and had a healthy diet

    No-one else in her family was long lived

  19. ATSC - USA Only on Ads May Soon Stalk You on TV Like They Do on Your Facebook Feed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    So this does not affect the rest of the world ... welcome to a word where once again we have better TV standards than the USA

  20. ...and watch all large US businesses register offshore/abroad so they can continue doing business

    this is an exercise in how to tank your economy

  21. Current exchange rate 1 UKP = 1.35 USD ...

  22. Some people can... on Can An Individual Still Resist The Spread of Technology? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    20% of Americans do not own a smartphone, 5% do not have a mobile phone,...

  23. Re:..not the fastest train... on China Relaunches World's Fastest Train (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Conventional Passenger Train on normal tracks world record is : 357.2 mph - French TGV

    This was a one off .. normal service is slower due to safety concerns

  24. pretty much as universally beloved ... on Android O Is Now Officially Android Oreo (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    "Oreos are pretty much as universally beloved as a cookie can be" no some people think they taste foul ...

  25. ..not the fastest train... on China Relaunches World's Fastest Train (fortune.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just the fastest train service ...

    Passenger trains have gone faster (one offs), manned trains have gone much faster (632 mph), Unmanned trains have gone ridiculously fast (6,416 mph)