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  1. Premiums based on your proven risk on Insurers Are Rewarding Tesla Owners For Using Autopilot (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I would love to have the old way of calculating premiums back when you started high and then when you showed to be responsible and didn't have accidents it went way down. If you did have accidents the premium went up again.

    This way it's more of a loan where you have to pay back and less trying to predict the future with massive data collection and strange, prejudiced looking, algorithms.

  2. Re:I wish sites would just come out and say it on The Internet Is Ripe With In-Browser Miners and It's Getting Worse Each Day (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean like The Pirate Bay:

    "This is only a test. We really want to get rid of all the ads. But we also need enough money to keep the site running.
    Do you want ads or do you want to give away a few of your CPU cycles every time you visit the site?
    Of course the mining can be blocked by a normal ad-blocker."

  3. Injection moulding on Vinyl Record Production Gets a Much-Needed Tech Upgrade (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Injection moulding is a real step change compared to this

  4. Safety conscious Volvo in bed with reckless Uber on Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars From San Francisco, Sends Them To Arizona (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Why on earth do safety conscious Volvo want to be in bed with reckless Uber? I think Volvo has a lot to lose in that relationship.

  5. Re:Gets the history wrong on Phones Without Headphone Jacks Are Here... and They're Extremely Annoying (mashable.com) · · Score: 2

    The 3.5mm stereo jack has been standard on personal audio devices for close to four decades. The first Walkman had two of them in -79. I don't know what you call recently.

  6. Are you missing the fun stuff? on Celebrating ARM's 25th Anniversary With the Visual ARM1 (visual6502.org) · · Score: 2

    I think the 3Hz visual simulation of the cpu you get to by clicking the image in the article is rather fun. Great way to understand clock cycles and what computing involves.

  7. Pebble on Ask Slashdot: What Would It Take For You To Buy a Smartwatch? · · Score: 1

    I have the same opinion on features as you and I think the Pebble is close enough so that is why I'm wearing one rigth now and it's a long time since I wore a watch but I got really tired of pulling up my smartphone from my pocket all the time. Very happy with it so far. With a 3rd party app I can also get just the right amount of notifications.

  8. Only if you have the original iPhone on European iPhone Chargers Prone To Overheating · · Score: 2

    The page says "We will need to verify your iPhone serial number as part of the exchange process so please bring your iPhone with you." so if you don't have the iPhone the charger came with they will not replace it. They are still dangerous and still made by Apple so why not replace them?

  9. Re:If the Shoe Fits on Google Launches Cordova Powered Chrome Apps For Android and iOS · · Score: 1

    No, it is named after Cordova Street in Vancouver where Nitobi, the original developer of PhoneGap, had an office.

  10. Windows Legacy...I mean 8 on Windows RT vs. Windows 8 Could Burn Consumers · · Score: 1

    Can we stop using the word legacy for all windows applications not for RT. It's not like they are suddenly superseded.

  11. Brasyl made real on Starting Next Year, Brazil Wants To Track All Cars Electronically · · Score: 1

    Sao Paulo 2032: 2 billion arfids - radio frequency identity chips - seeded through cars, clothes, consumer electronics, cash, and cards of the City of Saint Paul's 22 million inhabitants. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasyl

  12. Get past the inevitable accidents on Blind Man Test Drives Google's Autonomous Car · · Score: 1

    The interesting part is if we can get past the knee jerk reactions when the autonomous car has hit its first car, has been hit by other car due to confusing behaviour, has killed its first pedestrian, has gone over its first cliff killing the passengers etc because accidents will happen. Accidents will have to be investigated as thoroughly as air plane crashes.

  13. Re:Power consumption on The Consoles Are Dying, Says Developer · · Score: 1

    So what is the energy consumption at the source of the stream when using Apple TV?

    Even if the stream is from the cloud, Greenpeace is not so happy with Apple and their dirty cloud data.

  14. Would have saved me from a DOA on Do You Want Best Buy Opening Your New Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Waiting right now for a replacement for the Asus Eee Slate that was DOA from Amazon UK.

  15. Re:SPEED SPEED SPEED SPEED on What to Fight Over After Megapixels? · · Score: 1

    Not a problem with my Casio EX-F1. If you are waiting for something to happen you can use it to take up to 60 full frames per second continuously and press the shutter after the event occurred to stop the capture. Then go back in time through the buffer and select the frame or frames that look good. It's only 6 megapixel but I favor speed over pixel count.

  16. That explains it on Dell To Sell Its Computer Factories · · Score: 0

    So that is why Dell makes better computers than HP, imho.

  17. Bundled on Cyan Worlds Closes · · Score: 1
    In 1993, it had amazing graphics, and was one of the first games to be released on CD-ROM
    ...and was bundled with multimedia kits which was the way to get into the action in those days, like the Creative DigitalEdge 3X (SB16, NEC 3x SCSI CD) that I bought, so no wonder it became best selling along with other included games like Rebel Assault. Prerendered images never was my thing so Rebel Assault got played alot more.
  18. Not compatible? on Google Launches Desktop Search Tool · · Score: 1

    Google Desktop Search has the longest list of programs it's not compatible with I've seen in a long time. I wonder why a hard disk search program is incompatible with net programs.
    I have NetLimiter and couldn't install.
    http://desktop.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?an swer=10742

  19. Pimp My Ride on iPod Your BMW Officially Launched · · Score: 1

    Cool! Now I can turn to Apple to Pimp My Ride!

  20. Re:I used knoppix at bestbuy on Knoppix Tips and Tricks · · Score: 1

    There is another reason to bring a Knoppix cd when shopping for a laptop. Sometimes the laptop you want to try out haven't been turned on and it has to be personalized at first start which they will not let you do.

  21. Re:Desks made for computers hur my legs on iWorkstations? · · Score: 1

    How about the NetSurfer instead?