Uber Technologies Inc. disabled the standard collision-avoidance technology in the Volvo SUV that struck and killed a woman in Arizona last week, according to the auto-parts maker that supplied the vehicle’s radar and camera. ... Aptiv is speaking up for its technology to avoid being tainted by the fatality involving Uber, which may have been following standard practice by disabling other tech as it develops and tests its own autonomous driving system.
Preemptive JavaScript could: Easily override a given page function with a user-defined function. Alter the page document (DOM) before it was rendered by the browser.
No just run uMatrix with default settings, which ** Blocks 1st party frames, and ** Blocks 3rd party: ** ** Cookies ** ** Media ** ** Scripts ** ** XHR ** ** Other
I also remove most all of the uMatrix subscription lists, which are mostly redundant with the above settings. Although it will necessitate tweaking to get some sites to work -- mostly enabling CDN's.
Roku search works for us, it at least easily lets you find where something is. Of course most of the streaming options outside of the three Majors (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon) are unbearably laden with forced ads.
I don't generally side with the "music was better back in the day" folks either -- but it sure hasn't evolved much in the last 40 years, compared to the 1930's to 1970's.
You could try replacing the executable from another Windows instance, or Safe Mode maybe. Except the binary (like Cortana among others) is a monitored file, whose hash-sum is checked, and will be replaced by the OS if it is found to of been tampered with.
You could try removing most permissions from it except for read,and/or creating a edge junction|hardlink, but Microsoft will still update the file via Windows Update. They are real cock suckers.
About the only option going forward, if you are going to be running Windows, will be to pay for an Enterprise license which gives you a modicum of control.
And how many thousands of Staffers does Google|Alphabet have whose sole job is to hire Engineers. I would bet more than the 1147 temporary people that Amazon is hiring.
Is there ever a decent|accurate Forbes article on Slashdot?
But its collapse has been especially acute, due to terrible mismanagement by private-equity firms. After Toys “R” Us was taken private by KKR, Bain, and Vornado in 2005, it took on a lot of debt, leaving the company with repayments that have crippled it in a period of declining sales. Toys “R” Us has spent more than $250 million annually to pay back $5 billion in long-term debt. These repayments became unsustainable once revenue started to decline consistently, as it has each year since 2012. That left one option: for the company to declare bankruptcy and renegotiate the terms of its debt.
The three firms and their co-investors sank $1.3 billion of equity into the takeover of the Wayne, New Jersey-based toy company, financing the rest with debt, according to company filings. The debt included senior loans in which they held a stake.
Partly offsetting the loss is more than $470 million in fees and interest payments that Toys “R” Us awarded the firms over time.... KKR and Vornado, which are publicly traded, had previously written their investments in the company down to zero. As a result, the bankruptcy won’t affect their earnings going forward.
;TLDR Bain and Co financed most of the purchase cost of Toys R Us with Debt, have made half a billion dollars in fees since then, and will suffer nothing from the closure of Toys R Us, unlike everyone that actually works for Toys R Us.
Tan Hock Eng is the company's president and CEO. The company is incorporated in Singapore, and co-headquartered in San Jose, California (administrative) and Singapore (corporative). Avago took the Broadcom part of the Broadcom Corporation name after acquiring it in January 2016.
Wow if only there was a solution to that problem. Yeah - don't run Nightly, which is primarily for Addon authors and folks that wish to help with FF development.
Slashdot Mirror
When is Trump not being a blowhard?
As if that money will actually be there when it's needed in 25 years.
A handful of the "noticed" times that Amazon has discriminated against "sex."
2009 - Amazon Culls Offensive Books from Search System
2010 - Amazon Taking Down Erotica Removing from Kindles
2013 - Books with Questionable Content Being Deleted from eBookstores in Sweeping Ban
2015 - How Amazons Monster Erotica Book Ban Shaped Cloudflares Censorship Stance
An ongoing attempt to remove anything "too sexy" from general search, or outright bans of fringe content.
Amazon already has the "adult setting" for Adult Novelties|Toys aka "Health and Wellness."
Probably because Uber Disabled Volvo's SUV Safety System
Well it's certainly popular for the nutters to claim it near constantly. Yet if it were actually true, someone would of leaked that nugget by now.
Preemptive JavaScript could:
Easily override a given page function with a user-defined function.
Alter the page document (DOM) before it was rendered by the browser.
No browser allows you to do those things anymore.
Wow welcome to 2011 Firefox :: Dev.Opera — Autoplay, Go Away!
Back before Opera became a useless Chrome clone, and had preemptive JavaScript.
Not really a problem in Canada
Rape Statistics per 100,000 population:
| Canada: 1.7
| USA: 27.3
| Nicaragua: 31.6
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics#By_country
California?
Sacramento police shoot man holding cellphone in his own backyard
No just run uMatrix with default settings, which
** Blocks 1st party frames, and
** Blocks 3rd party:
** ** Cookies
** ** Media
** ** Scripts
** ** XHR
** ** Other
I also remove most all of the uMatrix subscription lists, which are mostly redundant with the above settings. Although it will necessitate tweaking to get some sites to work -- mostly enabling CDN's.
Hate for Mr. Bean. How disappointing.
All automated driving systems aren't created equal. Waymo and GM's Cruise have redundant braking/power and detection systems.
I would be surprised if Uber even has a fully functioning detection array, let alone any redundancy systems at all.
When is the last time you "bought a CD/DVD/Blu-Ray?
January 2018, The complete series' of
Mr. Bean and Due South for for $14.95 and $19.99 respectively.
Roku search works for us, it at least easily lets you find where something is. Of course most of the streaming options outside of the three Majors (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon) are unbearably laden with forced ads.
I don't generally side with the "music was better back in the day" folks either -- but it sure hasn't evolved much in the last 40 years, compared to the 1930's to 1970's.
And then CSS and JavaScript screwed that pooch.
Yeah maybe, considering there's also more used iPhones than mined bitcoins.
BBK Electronics
Markets smartphones under the Oppo, Vivo and OnePlus brands.
Unlike Oppo and Vivo, OnePlus is sold in most markets and was found to have preloaded spyware on numerous occasions.
You could try replacing the executable from another Windows instance, or Safe Mode maybe. Except the binary (like Cortana among others) is a monitored file, whose hash-sum is checked, and will be replaced by the OS if it is found to of been tampered with.
You could try removing most permissions from it except for read,and/or creating a edge junction|hardlink, but Microsoft will still update the file via Windows Update. They are real cock suckers.
About the only option going forward, if you are going to be running Windows, will be to pay for an Enterprise license which gives you a modicum of control.
And how many thousands of Staffers does Google|Alphabet have whose sole job is to hire Engineers. I would bet more than the 1147 temporary people that Amazon is hiring.
Is there ever a decent|accurate Forbes article on Slashdot?
From earlier in the year: Why Toys “R” Us Is Closing One-Fifth of Its Stores
Reported earlier last year: Bain, KKR, Vornado Suffer Wipeout in Toys ‘R’ Us Bankruptcy
Bain and Co financed most of the purchase cost of Toys R Us with Debt, have made half a billion dollars in fees since then, and will suffer nothing from the closure of Toys R Us, unlike everyone that actually works for Toys R Us.
Not so much: https://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11827149&cid=56227033
Broadcom aka Avago
Wow if only there was a solution to that problem. Yeah - don't run Nightly, which is primarily for Addon authors and folks that wish to help with FF development.