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  1. Hammer and nail on Car Manufacturers Want To Monitor Drivers Inside Their Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Use those and your car will be private again. Fuck these guys. I donâ(TM)t text or drink and drive. I donâ(TM)t want them videoing me picking my nose or singing to the radio.

  2. Re:Netflix already limits screens on Netflix Password Sharing May Soon Be Impossible Due To New AI Tracking (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Exactly and Netflix actively enforces that. They'll prompt you to kick one of your profiles off if you exceed it.

  3. Netflix already limits screens on Netflix Password Sharing May Soon Be Impossible Due To New AI Tracking (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I pay a higher tier because I share with my mom and we'd run out of screens. But then what's unusual? I travel once or twice a year across country and I watch netflix in my hotel room. That could be seen as unusual, but legitimate. I'm hoping they're looking at some extreme cases like dozens of people watching in a cooperative.

  4. Crawl out from under the rock on New Windows Virtual Desktop Feature Will Finally Make the iPad Useful (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 1

    This has been on Amazon Workspaces for a while now. I'm using a Swiftpoint mouse with my company iPad pro and Windows on Amazon Workspaces. I think it's been a year already. And I only use AWS as a last resort. Web browsing, email, and even Office work well on the iPad Pro 99% of the time. iPad isn't a desktop, but it's improved. A lot. When it comes to productivity, it is more limited by the app developers than the platform itself at this point.

  5. Re:Maybe avoid on GitHub Free Users Now Get Unlimited Private Repositories (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Can do the same at home with a VPN/SSH tunnel and it IS private.

  6. Re:That dumb or is there an angle? on AT&T, Dish, Comcast All Raising Cable TV Rates To Counter Cord-Cutting (dallasnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't a board decide the terms of an exec's bonus? If so that would make it a short-sighted decision by a group of idiots and maybe the CEOs aren't dumb, just meeting expectations. It would also be the expectation of stockholders - a stupid-people-in-general expectation.

  7. That dumb or is there an angle? on AT&T, Dish, Comcast All Raising Cable TV Rates To Counter Cord-Cutting (dallasnews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exec: Customers are leaving... why?
    Marketing: They don't see the value in our service!
    Exec: Let's raise the prices!
    Marketing: What???
    Exec: It ain't cheap if it's valuable! Double the price, double the valuable!

  8. Screen time vs. addictive behavior? on Screen Time Not Intrinsically Bad For Children, Say Doctors (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I haven't been one to buy screen time is bad in itself. The majority of my kid's screen time is educational stuff. My oldest kid is getting more into the toy videos. However, they do grow tire of it after maybe a half hour and put it down to do something else. If my wife and I start working on something in the yard or doing something interesting they'll put it down and get involved in what we're doing. The only time they really throw a fit about putting it down is at bedtime, but it's usually the typical "Awwwwe, I don't wanna goto bed." It's not tantrums. I'm not really concerned for mine anyway.

    My coworker's kid throws horrid tantrums when he's separated from the tablet. They hate giving it to him (not sure why they keep doing it!). That would concern me if it was my kid.

  9. I have an iPhone. I just like it better than Android. My phones last about 3 years and I upgrade, selling the old phone on eBay to lessen the shock (people still drop $100+ on 3yo iPhones). Every time I buy a new iPhone, I get this thing about recycling and I'm thinking: why? You guys don't sell the parts or the phone anymore. Yeah, it's all about recycling those dollars into newer phones by taking yours off the market. I may buy an iPhone, but I don't buy their "environmentally responsible" bullshit.

  10. Laws intended to protect the public? on Oregon Unconstitutionally Fined a Man $500 for Saying 'I am an Engineer,' Federal Judge Rules (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Similar laws in Florida for nursing and doctors: you can't say you're one unless you hold the license for the sake of public safety. There's a discussion going on right now for the growing number of DNPs (Doctor of Nursing Practice) who can say "I'm Dr. Ratchet!" but will it mislead patients in making decisions regarding their care.

    So should you be licensed before you say you're an engineer and build something that will fail? Would it put the public at risk?

  11. Re:Funding for universal basic income on Is a Lack of Data Holding Back Universal Basic Income Programs? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm a millennial and I agree with that - I'm not paying for it. I make what elitists would consider a meager six-figure salary, but I worked fucking hard to get it and I don't accept I got it because I'm white. Fuck that, I grew up below the poverty line and that was enough motivation to pay my dues, miss the parties and birthdays to study and work late.

  12. Clearly this one an alien firefight. Theyâ(TM)re here. Theyâ(TM)ve been here for a very long time.

    Isnâ(TM)t this how those coverup movies start?

  13. Yes on Using Data To Determine if 'Die Hard' is a Christmas Movie (stephenfollows.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Die Hard and Gremlins are Christmas movies. Stop with the nonsensical argument.

  14. Re:Players must be INCREDIBLE at PUBG on Videogame PUBG Bans 30,000 Cheaters, Discovers Professional Players Cheated (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a great game being developed by an overwhelmed company. These issues? Price you pay for it's indie flair and not being like Call of Duty or Fortnite. It's gotten better and is very enjoyable.

  15. PUBG is learning why you never trust the client. Sony learned it a while back.

  16. ...we're done. But you still can't download and emulate.

    This is called: fuck the fans.

  17. Facebookâ(TM)s roots on Facebook Doesn't Care About Fixing Fake News Problem On Its Platform (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It was a platform for kids to play around and search for a hookup on campus. It shouldâ(TM)ve never been more than that.

  18. I'll be honest: I mined for a short while and made a little money. However, the best money I made was selling the equipment on eBay. Glad I didn't buy any of the imaginary money because now all of them are in the shitter. Trading volumes are down. Anyone considering it with half a brain are going: gee, maybe this is a bubble? While the people still in it are praying and crying. Upside for those of you who resisted its lure, if you own property (a REAL commodity), then the dumb fucks that invested their life savings in it will need a place to live and you can profit off of them.

  19. Power consumption on Californians Have Now Purchased Half a Million EVs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I go out to California once or twice a year. Every time I'm there the news is issuing alerts about electricity usage, turning your thermostat up to ease the load on the grid. So should you unplug your EV, too?

  20. Re:With spinning disks, you do not know either on Why I'm Usually Unnerved When Modern SSDs Die on Us (utoronto.ca) · · Score: 1

    Yep. I've had a number of spinning drives just drop dead on me. Some advice: Western Digital makes returns pretty easy for their drives and, when it comes to all drives, backup regularly/often!

  21. It's the transition on 'What Straight-A Students Get Wrong' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    My company hires a lot of "kids" right out of engineering school. These kids are smart, don't get me wrong, but they come out looking for more grades as school is all they've ever known. There is a transition from this to the real world and the academic community fails to prepare many of them (if any) for this. A quick "A+" and closure to whatever challenge they just met, while the rest of us know things aren't that simple, may take years of work, and even then the overall, multi-faceted success may have some facets of failure. So many don't seem to get this.

  22. Re:Notes is maliciously bad. on After 23 Years, IBM Sells Off Lotus Notes (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, yes... kinda like Apple's old advice: you're holding it wrong.

    I was a Lotus Notes user with my previous employer and it wasn't terrible to use. Just different from every other mail interface out there.

  23. A doctor won't treat you for afib just because an Apple watch tells them to. First, an apple watch's report doesn't meet the definition of afib from the expert consensus statement on afib. The doctor would do an EKG, talk to you about symptoms, history, and maybe do a wearable monitor. Perhaps even an implantable monitor if the risk was high enough.

  24. A physician I work with told me: "Afib is more common in men than in women, therefore we know women cause afib!"

    Interested to see what we may learn from this. It sounds a lot more tolerable than a 30-day monitor and easier than a implantable loop recorder.

  25. Re:How long until health specific advertising on Apple Watch Series 4 ECG, Irregular Heart Rate Features Are Now Available (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Gotta have consent. Going without it has consequences that are usually stiff fines. Albeit, a single line in that massive user agreement many people don't read may do it. Advertisement: Got Afib? Get (insert blood thinner here) at deep discounts!