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  1. You mean an employee fired from Apple?

  2. The problem is it's the kids who die when the parents fail.

    If the parents died, then the problem would solve itself

  3. Foolproof! on Engineer Develops Sonar Alarm System To Monitor Kids In the Pool (newatlas.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Unless the wrist band falls off
    or It's battery goes flat
    or it gets damaged
    or someone forgets to put it on
    or it gets dirty and the ultrasonic transducer doesn't make a sound
    or it gets dirty and the water detector doesn't trigger
    or the detection microphone is fouled
    or the floating detectors battery goes flat

    There is already a solution for this problem. You can buy a system that detects disturbances in the water. They automatically arm themselves when the water is calm, you temporarily disarm it when you use the pool and it rearms automatically then you stop disturbing the water.
    When something disturbs the water, like a child falling in, an alarm is triggered.

    They're designed by real engineers to solve this specific problem as an alternative for pool fencing where it's legal or in addition to it as extra protection.
    They're designed to protect all kids, not just the ones you remembered to attach a wristband to.

    I fail to see a market for this and I hope no one gets lulled into a false sense of security by it.

  4. Re:What is this "Right"? on Google Seeks To Limit 'Right To Be Forgotten' By Claiming It's Journalistic (cjr.org) · · Score: 1

    There are places with "clean slate" laws, where criminal convictions are hidden from nearly anyone, providing they're not too bad (usually violent and sexual crimes, sometimes any prison sentence)
    The only way to access them is by the person who committed them, when they need to supply it for immigration to counties that don't have those laws.

    The easy access to past crimes that would have been covered by these clean slate laws undermines them and that's the reason for the "right to be forgotten" laws in the first place.

    Lots of human rights laws include not being discriminated for irrelevant past convictions.

  5. Re:wrong statistic on There's Growing Evidence Tesla's Autopilot Handles Lane Dividers Poorly (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Given that all cars in the 320 million miles/fatality are modern 5 star safety rated and the cars in the 86 million miles/fatality are average cars, you can't make the the assumption that the correlation between incidents and fatalities are the same for both groups.

    If you want to compare Autopilot cars with non-autopilot cars, the cars you compare it to also should have the same standard safety features:
    automatic emergency braking
    a dozen or so air bags
    stability control
    abs
    5 star impact rating
    front and side collision warnings

    All features that are available on other new vehicles.
    Then it's a fair comparison.

  6. Re:FFS change the name! on There's Growing Evidence Tesla's Autopilot Handles Lane Dividers Poorly (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Except you learn when not to use Autopilot after Autopilot fails and you crash.

    Tesla's navigated past the crash barrier that killed the man thousands of times before. The first time it failed, the driver died. How do you learn from that?
    The guy who died probably drove past it hundreds of times using Autopilot, it was part of his daily commute.

  7. Recalculate the miles per fatality after you remove all the other cars without the other safety systems the Tesla has.
    It would be interesting to see the miles per fatality when the cars counted all have stability control, crumple zones, a dozen or so airbags, side impact beams, etc.

    Unless you're comparing 5 star crash rating cars with other 5 star crash rating cars, it's not even a remotely fair comparison of Autopilot.

  8. These are the Core 2 and very first Core I series processors from 8 to 10 years ago.

    Hour long are they expected to keep updating microcode? Especially when apparently their customers that pretty for support don't want too bother with these old CPUs

  9. Re:No shit Sherlock on Facebook CEO Says Not Planning To Extend European Privacy Law Globally (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The billions that are still using Facebook.

  10. Equally low pay for contract workers on The Gig Economy Keeps Growing, But Worker Benefits Aren't (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    If you force the companies to treat contractors like employees, they'll pay them the same.

    The lack of restrictions hiring and firing and benefits is one of the reasons contractors get paid more than employees.

  11. If my boss called I'd pick up on Most Tech Workers Would Ignore a Call From Their Boss Outside Work Hours (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    I'd also charge a minimum of 2 hours for answering the phone too.

  12. Re:If you work in tech on Nearly a Third of Tech Workers Are Ready To #DeleteFacebook (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I've haven't looked personally.
    I also haven't had a phone with the facebook app installed, so I don't need to worry about them collecting my contacts, calls, app installs, etc.

  13. Re:But will they do it? on Nearly a Third of Tech Workers Are Ready To #DeleteFacebook (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Don't worry, mewe.com has the standard "fuck you in the ass if we can" clause

    MeWe reserves the right, in our sole discretion to modify these Terms, effective upon the date a revised Terms of Service is posted on the Site with notice to you, the User, of such modification. Your continued use of the Service constitutes your binding acceptance of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, as they are amended, revised and posted on the Site periodically. We may assign our rights and obligations under these Terms, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, sale of assets or equity, or by operation of law.

    They'll be all nice to you and your privacy until if some day they find themselves in a position of power. Then they'll change the terms and bend you over.

    Kind of like what Facebook did.

  14. Re:If you work in tech on Nearly a Third of Tech Workers Are Ready To #DeleteFacebook (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    They can't be that careful about what you can download.

    The recent discovery that Facebook is retaining detailed call data from Android app users was found out by someone looking at the zip Facebook let him download.

  15. The cell carriers are required by law to accept emergency calls from phones with no sim.

  16. What if someone typed 112 in to the keypad?
    Who says someone at the factory isn't doing it for shits & giggles?

  17. Dialing 112 should also work with your old Nokia, as it's the GSM standard number for emergency services.

    112 is easier to accidentally dial than 911, considering 1, 2 and in some phones, the dial button, are all next to each other.

  18. Re:Just mix in some Cyrillics on Microsoft To Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Fuçk you, assholè!

  19. Much safer to use Google Drive, they'd never remove your content.

  20. Re:God Damnit Intel on Intel CPUs Vulnerable To New 'BranchScope' Attack (securityweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Only if it's the low power, low performance versions with no out of order execution.
    You could also go with Intel Atom

  21. Incase you forget your password, you can find it again so you don't lose your encrypted data!

  22. It doesn't matter how many party votes you get, if you win an electorate. That can happen with as little as 10,000 votes.
    If you win your electorate, less than 1% party vote can get you an extra seat to bring in a list MP, giving you 2/121 votes. The Maori part got fewer party votes in 2014 than Internet MANA, but scored 2 seats because they won an electorate. Kim's deal with Hone meant one of his list MP's - Laila Harre - would be first in line.

    Laila Harre was bought and paid for my Kim Dotcom. She refused the position when first ask. Then suddenly changed her mind after a personal meeting with Kim.

  23. I'm not your research monkey.
    Also, the Summer Olympics is a lot bigger than the Winter Olympics.

    Regarding your first reply to my first comment, Usain Bolt has never won a medal at the Winter Olympics.

  24. Re:Cisco owns linksys on Foxconn Announces Purchase of Belkin, Wemo, and Linksys (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 2

    2013 called, they want their Belkin purchase of Linksys back.

  25. crappy bug laden products are now going to be even crappier bug laden products.