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  1. Re:GPS can only send location (and time) informati on Dealership Remotely Disables A Car Over A $200 Fee (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    But he didn't agree. That's kind of the point. Also, once you sell a vehicle to someone else, it should be your responsibility to recover any items you may have left in it at the time of transfer. Trying to force the buyer into paying to return property he didn't even know he had is repulsive. The dealership should be sued into insolvency just for trying.

    This is why you never buy from a dealer.

  2. Re:GPS can only send location (and time) informati on Dealership Remotely Disables A Car Over A $200 Fee (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 0

    As pointed out above, anything with gps capability can be called a gps device but it doesn't make it accurate. Would you call a JDAM a gps device? Is your phone? Think it through, dear.

  3. Re:GPS can only send location (and time) informati on Dealership Remotely Disables A Car Over A $200 Fee (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Fucking brilliant plan. You fall behind on payments and they remove your ability to move around and have a hope of making the money. I bet they charge you for the privilege too.

  4. Re:GPS can only send location (and time) informati on Dealership Remotely Disables A Car Over A $200 Fee (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: -1

    Why do you think the GPS device was in there in the first place? It's a device specifically designed to disable cars remotely. Don't you think that GPS device had something built-in to remotely disable the car?

    Look up GPS. it's to locate stuff, not communicate with. The thing to disable it might have been in the same 'package' but they certainly didn't disable anything over GPS unless they used a fucking JDAM.

  5. Re:That's your boss saying on Is Slashdot Blocked In Parts Of India? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    It's 9AM in Delhi, get to fucking work, then read fucking Slashdot.

    FTFY

  6. Re:Wish List on The Next iPhone Is Going To Be Unveiled On Sept. 12, Report Says (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And no, a case won't cover the camera, because they're all specifically designed to avoid doing that.

    Fot the most part yes, but as with anything have a look and you'll probably find something. I don't know what type of phone you have but https://eyepatchcase.com/

  7. Re:Wish List on The Next iPhone Is Going To Be Unveiled On Sept. 12, Report Says (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm right with you except for the "no camera". What I want is a sliding cover over the camera or a camera that flips 90 degrees so that it points into the innards of the device. There are times when I want devices to have a camera, but I want it to be entirely under my control, and I don't feel that any software can adequately provide that control.

    Well, and I couldn't care less about changing the IMSI.

    Tape? A case? A pack of them little circle stickers? There's plenty easy enough ways to all but disable one.

  8. Re:Does it matter? on Ask Slashdot: How Much of Your Online Browsing Can Advertisers See? · · Score: 1

    Haha yeah, I have a couple bits on that redbubble site and it keeps advertising them back to me.

  9. Re:It's not just tied to a single machine either on Ask Slashdot: How Much of Your Online Browsing Can Advertisers See? · · Score: 1

    I keep getting ads on my phone for stuff I've searched for at work, probably because I connect my phone onto works wifi but I'm not sure how they associate the two. Probably from some third common factor but anyway I'm definitely not buying a learning management system or vle for my personal use.

    The best one is though, I have a couple shirts on that redbubble site (sly link drop https://www.redbubble.com/peop...) and it keeps advertising my own designs back to me.

  10. Re:I'm confused on Ask Slashdot: How Much of Your Online Browsing Can Advertisers See? · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure incognito mode only stops the tracking on your computer, so your mrs can't see you've been on porn. It doesn't change any data that is or isn't sent and has no effect on what the sites do with said information. I could be wrong though.

  11. Does it matter? on Ask Slashdot: How Much of Your Online Browsing Can Advertisers See? · · Score: 1

    They can serve up all the ads based on my browsing habits they want. They just get ignored like TV/print ads and more often than not they advertise stuff to either after you've bought it or decided you don't want it. If by chance they do manage to serve up an ad for something you're after for a good price then all's the better, if you even notice.

  12. Re:bitcoin isn't real, either on Here's Why People Don't Buy Things With Bitcoin (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So it's like a sadistic game of chicken with your money? No wait. OTHER people's money? Holy shit.

    That's banking.

  13. Probably offtopic but do men without foreskins wank in a different way?

    Probably with furious resentment.

  14. Re: The Republicans will never allow... on Engineers Discover How To Make Antennas For Wireless Communication 100x Smaller Than Their Current Size (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Correct. Improvements to batteries happen constantly but never make it to the people. To the people.

    (STORED) POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!

  15. Re:PS4/XB1 game developer here on Sony Blocks Yet Another Game From Cross-Console Play With Xbox One (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Sony allow PS4 cross play with PC but not with live chat. They can't have you talking to PSN members unless there's a facility to be reported and blocked. So PS4/PC cross play is missing a key feature already because of this. We dropped it for this reason.

    Why would you drop it just for that when there are workarounds and voice chat is one of the most underused non-essential features ever?

  16. Re: Giving MS a helping hand? on Sony Blocks Yet Another Game From Cross-Console Play With Xbox One (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Not OP.

    I own a multi-million dollar game shop.

    Well then your lot need to fuck off insisting digital versions price match physical to keep your business alive.

  17. Re:Giving MS a helping hand? on Sony Blocks Yet Another Game From Cross-Console Play With Xbox One (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously you can say "fuck off" because you are not afraid that your company will ever die because of its blatant neglect of its paying customers.

    Did you not read the comments or have a vague understanding of how it works. I'm not a developer in any way shape or form but even I know that regardless of if a developer wanted to give you a 1000+ hour game, fully featured, all bells and whistles, even sucks you off and all for free, if sony (or ms (consoles only)) says no. It ain't gunna happen. End of.

  18. Re:Giving MS a helping hand? on Sony Blocks Yet Another Game From Cross-Console Play With Xbox One (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    " It was pretty obvious from day one it wouldn't fly with Sony. Why would they give Microsoft a helping hand?"

    Err, isn't this about giving GAMERS a helping hand, or have you forgotten about them , you know, the people who ultimately pay your wages?

    Developers, publishers and platform holders are very different beasts.

  19. Re: You have ask why? on Sony Blocks Yet Another Game From Cross-Console Play With Xbox One (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    How much spyware and adware does Sony try to cram down everyone's throat with their PC monopoly? How many developers are Sony treating like utter shit and restricting with their console monopoly? How many DRM filled and always online single-player games are Sony selling?

    Apart from the pc monopoly the answers are probably pretty similar.

  20. Rule of the seas: the more manoevrable boats give way, otherwise referred to as sail before steam.

    No real details in TFA but I'd imagine even the law of gross tonnage would give it to the other guy.

  21. Re:Then pony up cash to do that. on Getting NASA To Comply With Simple FOIA Requests Is a Nightmare (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you willing to pay? For the system to be designed, implemented, staffed and maintained, including the cost of bandwidth and hosting?

    Like it matters? You're going to pay the same in tax regardless. The government is going to spend whatever and borrow any difference and even that doesn't matter because all the money is made up anyway.

  22. No need to be a twat. It's very common in the journalist crowds.

    They have it covered then.

  23. Re:In violation of the law? on Getting NASA To Comply With Simple FOIA Requests Is a Nightmare (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Everything they claim we need independent 3rd parties to validate

    Everything everyone claims needs independent 3rd parties to validate otherwise you end up with a religion.

  24. Re: All four Oreo users? on Slashdot Asks: What Are Your Favorite Android Oreo Features? (thehackernews.com) · · Score: 1

    Slashdot doesn't favor, it doesn't make it.

    Slashdot doesn't favour anything

  25. That's all this "Air Taxi" company will be. Another company sapping the cash from venture capitalists. I expect this will be one of the last times we hear from them, before they inevitably go under. And i guess that'll be in a few years.

    There will probably be a kickstarter or two before then.