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  1. That is what they did. Plugging in second hand devices, That is how I got access to their network.

    The second resaearch will be "How many random SD cards do you have to put in before your network is infected."

  2. Re:Doesn't make sense to me on How Much Americans Could Save by Ridesharing Driverless Cars Over Owning · · Score: 1

    The gain you get financially is the fact that you do not need to buy the car. If I buy a car for 10.000 and I drive it for 1 yesr and only 10KM per year, The cost of the car is 1.000 Per year per KM.
    Now if I share the car with 9 other people who also just drive 10KM, the cost goes down to 100 p/KM

    Obviously you would have an increase in maintenance and fuel. On top of that the company needs to make a profit. For that reason the company I am at sayd that it is interesting if you are below 10.000km per year. For many people this will not be a first car, but it might be interesting for a second or third car. http://www.cambio.be/cms/carsh...

  3. Re:Hatfields & McCoys on How Much Americans Could Save by Ridesharing Driverless Cars Over Owning · · Score: 1

    I do car sharing. I see not as being the owner wher I share my car with my wife, my kids and my dog I see it as short term renting, like Avis or Herz where they rake care of the car and I pay miles and time
    They even clean the cars.

    Compare it with a hotel where you rend for weeks or days, but instead you rent by the hour. Uh, wait. BAD EXAMPLE. BAD EXAMPLE.

    To be fair, the cars I rent are cleaner that what I owned. And if people would abuse it, they would get kicked out. I know one person who abused them and is banned. Using it now for several years. My calculation is that I save around 200EUR per month.

    The only thing you need to do is see that it is filled up if it is 1/4 to the end. That means leaving a car empty and you have a risk of not being able to use the service in the future.

    So no, it is nothing like sharing a lawnmower, unless you sign a contract when you loan that lawnmower, but then it is renting.

  4. Re:Dodgy math built on broken foundations on How Much Americans Could Save by Ridesharing Driverless Cars Over Owning · · Score: 1

    If you where average, the average would be different.

  5. Re:Plug-Spreading? on 'Plugspreading' is an Abomination (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What country is Wednesday the 4th a holiday? That would happen several times per year. I am all for it, just curious.

  6. For the average person, if that money goes to India or to a US companies account in the Bahamas does not really make a difference.

  7. Re:âoeSmartâtv is for dummies. on How Smart TVs in Millions of US Homes Track More Than What's on Tonight (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    So you want to get access so other don't have the access? Nice try.

  8. Re: Woah! calm it down there on Elon Musk's Team Is Talking With Thai Officials for Cave Rescue (bloomberg.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah. Think of the children!

  9. Call me when it is playing Thermo Nuclear War.

  10. Re: Trust us with the backdoor, we're the Governme on An Employee of NSO Group, Which Sells Powerful Spyware, Allegedly Stole Company's Tools For Personal Profit (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The criminals are the ones requesting the backdoor. The others are merely opportunists.

  11. Re:âoeSmartâtv is for dummies. on How Smart TVs in Millions of US Homes Track More Than What's on Tonight (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    That is all great where you are able to do that. Could you call my mom and explain it to her on how to do that?

  12. Not as much as you think on How Much Americans Could Save by Ridesharing Driverless Cars Over Owning · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As a European where the public transport is availabl to go to and from work fatsre than I could drive and that trip is paid 100% by the company, I do have car sharing.

    They advertise that if your drive less than 15.000 KM per year, car sharing is cheaper. However you do need to have a car nearby available and it take some planning.

    Most people will not be willing to walk 5 minutes and plan it in advance. And if you trive 14.550 KM per year, the gain is so small that it is not worth it.

    So what it can be is a great alternative to a second car for many people. e.g. at leats one person goes to work with public transport and the other might as well. Just sometimes you will need a second car because reasons. Why have a car that is standing there costing money all the time.

    Having a self driving car that comes to you would lower the treshhold of the 5 minute walk and make it even possible for those who would have to walk more, It would increase the availaility as well.

    As extra information: I mainly use it to do shopping one per week. This months monthly bill was 75EUR and that inclused insurance, fuel, miles and the rent. That was abit on the high side as I normaly pay around 30 EUR per month. I also have paid 150EUR a month when I did a trip.

    I save on average 250 EUR per month comparing of when I had a car.

    And all this is in Europe where not having a car is not a real issue. I know many peope who do not have one. I also know people who have one, yet do not need it.

    Before I sold my car, I tried it for two months to be absolutely sure that it was the right choce. http://www.cambio.be/ if you live in Belgium and want to get more info.

  13. UK Record labels? on The EU's Controversial Copyright Law Has Been Rejected -- For Now (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Fuckoof and wait till Brexit is complete and start your 1984 wet dream over there.

    I said it before and I will say it again. What we should do is exchange England and Wales with Canada. Europe keeps Scotland and N-Ireland and gets Canada and Northern America will get England and Wales and can build their own paradise. (probably without any gambling or hookers. Sorry, not sorry)

    It would be much easier to build the wall and the whole world will be paying the Mexicans to build it. After that we can start filling it with the extra water they cause by the melting of the icebergs.

  14. Re:A soldier in the UK working immigration said... on Europe is Using Smartphone Data as a Weapon To Deport Refugees (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    When I look at the current generation (that keeps walking on my lawn) I am not surprised if that is true.

    That said, many times refugees have to hand over any papers, so the traffickers can get more money out of it. And that is if they have papers at all to begin with. If you are a political refugee, you can not just walk up to the city hall or police station asking for papers.

    So yes, obviously people who cheat will simulate being in the same situation as that results in a better chance not to get caught.

  15. Re:Refugees, asylum seekers, migrants on Europe is Using Smartphone Data as a Weapon To Deport Refugees (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That could well be because they are the ones that are targeted for various reasons. And yes, I understand the difference between a political and economical refugee. Living in Europe you will meet both at different stages in the process and life.

  16. Re:Refugees, asylum seekers, migrants on Europe is Using Smartphone Data as a Weapon To Deport Refugees (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    And then there are several European countries that let other European citizens in and out and have no way of deporting them, no matter what they do. The only limitation they might have is certain jobs where you need to have the nationality of the country and voting.

    And I also doubt that English (not just British) people are forbidden in any way or form to go to Scotland, no matter how good of an idea that would be.

    I am sure there will be many other exceptions for various reasons.

  17. Re:Doesn't sound stupid to me on German Police Accused of Carrying Out Some Pretty Stupid Raids (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 0

    Just reading that brief description is enough to make me think that group is suspicious.

    I agree that the subject is extremely vague on details. This could be anything.
    They could be supporting people that need or want to be annonymous for various reasons.
    This can go from money laundering, to supporting terrorism to supporting some Himan Right Activist in country where that is seen as illegal to even annonymous donations to EFF or Debian.

    Without the order it is very hard to say what is going on and both the guilty and the innocent will tell you they did not do anything wrong.

    What I think is strange is the lack of information they could give. It now sounds they just want to influence the public opinion.

    because if they are unable to give more details about it due advice from their lawyer, why talk at all?

  18. Re: IMHO, it should be illegal on Cities Don't Have To Offer Huge Subsidies To Companies Like Apple and Amazon (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No, they don't. The supporting industry already supported the local business. So that will be replaced by their own partners they already have.
    So that whole group will be competing with a whole other group that was already there.

  19. What os "too much"'? What if I want ot to do that what it does?

  20. Re: Common Technology in Autonomous Vehicles? on Exec Accused of Stealing Waymo's Trade Secrets Starts New Self-Driving Company (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I shpuld start looking at all patents about radar, lidar, cameras and add "in a vehicle" to it. Or save time and replace "on the inyernet" wit "in a vehicle".

  21. Well, Several countries have a King or Queen at the top and that is almost like a dictator, but it stays in the family. Like North-Korea. Then there is France that has an emperor and they smell and Germany has Hitler. So all of them.

    BTW I really like going to school in Kansas. I e-learned a lot about God and Evalutian.

  22. Re:Police state on UK Launches National Dashcam Database For Snitching On Bad Drivers (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Being drunk driving over puppies apparently. Just watch the footage.

  23. Re:Police state on UK Launches National Dashcam Database For Snitching On Bad Drivers (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I value the privacy of my family above their safety on the road. I even value YOUR privacy above my own saftety and that of my family on and off the road.

    To me privacy is the first and foremost right of the people. Without it, all other rights become meaningless.

    Or to say it in other words "First they came after the blatant reckless drivers ..."

  24. Looking for problems? on Companies Must Let Customers Cancel Subscriptions Online, California Law Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    I do like if people are able to do cancelation online if they did the acceptation online as well.

    When I look at the example that is given about the 2 times 15 minute calls. I wonder about two things:
    1) I never knew that the New Yor Times was based in California.
    2) The answer was agiven after the question:
    "Please send me your newspaper cancellation horror stories." So that seems a bit biassed, I would say.
    And without any extra explanation, we have NO idea why that happened or what number was called. I see cancelation of our services coming in wrong all the time. The best ones are "Hi, I am Don, I would like to stop." No email that is known. No other information and it comes in with a fax without the return number showing.
    Then 3 months later we get a complaint from Ronald Somelastname and he is angry we did not cancel the service.

    I am all for automated cancelations. Doing retention at that moment is way to late and too much work. People have already made up their mind. Automated cancelation would be so much cheaper. But then I live in a Communist country (Belgium) where customers have some rights, the bastards. Automated cancelation would avoid the 50% or more where it is not (legally) clear what the customer wants exactly. Saying "I am interetsed in canceling" is NOT the sasme as "I am canceling". If you have multiple accounts, which one do you want to cancel? And if you send an email to NoReply@example.com or to SomeRandomAdress@example.com does not mean you did it correctly and your cancelation will be honoured.

    But again: automated cancelation if the subscription is done online is a good thing. Should not matter if it is a newsletter or a credit card or whatever.

  25. Re: IMHO, it should be illegal on Cities Don't Have To Offer Huge Subsidies To Companies Like Apple and Amazon (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The thing is that often large companies will suck the life out of local businesses. And you bet that once they have gotten that first incentive, they will be back for more, or else ...
    I have seen a company blackmail a city that way. "Do as we say, or we leave and X people will be out of a job." They did and the vompany left anyway.

    And Renault closed a factory, because production was not needed. At the same time they build a new factory in Spain with state sponsering. So the number of jobs stayed the same and the company go some free money.