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  1. Traffic signs = active cameras on HERE, Automakers Team Up To Share Data On Traffic Conditions (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The Berlin-based company, owned by Germany's three premium automakers, will provide four services in which drivers share detailed video views of traffic jams or accidents, potential road hazards like fog or slippery streets, traffic signs including temporary speed limits and on-street parking.

    Wasn't Germany one of the countries that had a hard time with google street view? Are they going to accept millions of cameras driving around sharing everything they see?

  2. Re:No noise = problem ! on Germany Unveils a Hydrogen-Powered Passenger Train (fortune.com) · · Score: 0

    When the Prius first came out, I figured there'd be a market for car "ringtones" to address this silent killer feature. Still hasn't happened, which surprises me a bit.

  3. 12!=479001600

    ftfy

  4. I believe the way to opt out of government is to go somewhere where there is no government. Enjoy!

  5. Re:social experiments on Robot Babies Not Effective Birth Control, Australian Study Finds (sky.com) · · Score: 1

    This. As well as "give them to the boys too."

  6. Mosaic + Godzilla = Moe-zill-uh

    I'll take a tenth of your tenth.

  7. Re: Bad programming idea that works on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Bad Programming Ideas That Work? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It was then followed by a laymans explanation of utilisation vs. response times. And a decision that the consultancy wasn't in the company's best interests.

    That worked? Impressive Jedi skills you have

  8. This

  9. Why is this on slasdot? on UCLA Shooter Accused Victim Of Stealing His Computer Code · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Because it is about someone who uses computers?

  10. What you [will] see in Tetris is the teeny tip of an iceberg that has intergalactic significance."

    The game is actually a portal that is activated when blocks are placed in a specific complex configuration over, like, 1,000 levels. The world grandmaster Tetris champion unintentionally opens the portal during a competition and our lives are forever transformed.

    Or something like that.

  11. Apple's not open source on Apple's Lack of Bug Bounty Program May Explain Why Hackers Would Help FBI · · Score: 0, Troll

    If it were, finding and reporting bugs is just part of being in the ecosystem. Apple are a for-profit business that seems to be ok with having users do their work for free.

  12. A variation on Pascal's Wager?

  13. Re:She is so smart on The Law Is Clear: the FBI Cannot Make Apple Rewrite Its OS (backchannel.com) · · Score: 0

    This

  14. Re:Predictable... on Mercedes-Benz Swaps Robots For People On Assembly Lines (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Why use machines when humans can do the same job more flexibly and cheaper?

    Consistency of results comes to mind.

  15. Re:Bathroom prevents on Stealing Keys From a Laptop In Another Room — and Offline · · Score: 1

    Freezer is better. Put it next to your car keys.

  16. Nothing new here.

    And that's the point, right? It's nothing new yet some vendors with some very widely distributed software still have the vulnverability.

  17. If AB+ were forced on users on Online Ad Czar Berates Adblockers As Freedom-Hating 'Mafia' (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    He might have a point or two if use of AB+ weren't voluntary. As it is, how is my choice to block his content censorship? I call it editing a data stream.

  18. Re:is this the last gasp for amd? on AMD Goes Open Source, Announces GPUOpen Initiative, Linux Compiler, Drivers (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe if AMD only made software, but I believe they're still considered a hardware company. CPUs and GPUs and stuff like that.

  19. Explosive population growth on Harvard Prof. Says Cure For Aging Could Emerge Within 5 Years (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    “One of our biggest economic disasters right now is our aging population. If we eliminate retirement, then it buys us a couple of decades to straighten out the economies of the world,” he said.

    But if this could be done and is done without a plan in place to keep immortals from having babies, we'll have a much bigger economic, social, political, enviornmental or whatever disaster you can name on our hands.

  20. Re:Is this really as typical as it seems? on IoT Home Alarm System Can Be Easily Hacked and Spoofed (cybergibbons.com) · · Score: 1

    The purpose of the system is to keep you from being robbed. Until burglars learn that a sticker like "security by X" is a joke, they'll move on to a house with no sticker. So there's probably still some value for now.

  21. Why wait until now? on Tardis Wars: The BBC Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    It seem like this would have been worked out years ago.

  22. Re:is it just me on Tardis Wars: The BBC Strikes Back · · Score: 2

    It's not just you.

  23. Re:"secretly started pushing updates" on GM Performs Stealth Update To Fix Security Bug In OnStar · · Score: 1

    Quietly: suggests caution, or even wisdom, due to security and safety concerns
    Secretly: suggests a pure profit motive. Avoid scaring people so they keep buying our cars

    The full story is probably a mix of the two.

  24. Re:This is not reassuring on GM Performs Stealth Update To Fix Security Bug In OnStar · · Score: 2

    Missed the most important quote somehow:

    “We were able to find a way to deliver over-the-air updates on a system that was not necessarily designed to do so.”

  25. This is not reassuring on GM Performs Stealth Update To Fix Security Bug In OnStar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From GM chief product cybersecurity officer Jeff Massimilla:

    “We were able to find a way to deliver over-the-air updates on a system that was not necessarily designed to do so.”

    They hacked it so they could hack it. I'm glad GM has my back.