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  1. Banned from driving? on Tesla Driver Banned From Driving For 18 Months For Sitting in Passenger Seat (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does that mean he can do what he did once again? If he was sitting in the passenger seat, he wasn't driving.

  2. XMarks never seemed to recover from ... on Bookmark Syncing Service Xmarks Closes For Good On May 1 (betanews.com) · · Score: 2
    ... Firefox's switch to the new API. I could never get it to work correctly after the API changed. Judging from the comment section on the Mozilla Add-Ons page for XMarks, only a few people seems to be able to get it to work without messing up their bookmarks everywhere.

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    XMarks was an excellent, even superb, product in its heyday. I wonder whatever happened to them?

  3. Walled off? on Amazon Will Now Deliver Packages To the Trunk of Your Car (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Is the car's locking system for the trunk sufficiently walled off from other parts of the locking system, and the car's control system in general, to provide the necessary security for this "feature" offered by Amazon? Or will this be yet another example of people wanting convenience at the expense of demoting security to a secondary priority?

  4. Re:This Is Why I Travel Very Light! on Hackers Built a 'Master Key' For Millions of Hotel Rooms (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I like the way you turned your comment into an advertisement. Good work!

  5. If the hackers have the master key... on Hackers Built a 'Master Key' For Millions of Hotel Rooms (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... you can be sure that state-level entities also have it. It is one of the reasons why I use a disposable notebook, set up with a minimal configuration, when I travel.

  6. Troll? Couldn't think of a counter argument, so it was marked as a troll?

  7. If a lot of people obsess upon something (in this case, pagination), that obsession does not make that something inherently important. It just means that some people may have far too much time on their hands...

  8. This is a big part of the problem... on A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... ."the right long distance company."...

  9. Re:Invented by accident.. on Scientists Accidentally Create Mutant Enzyme That Eats Plastic Bottles (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Post-It notes. (3M was going after a very strong adhesive, not the easy-to-release adhesive on the Post-It notes.)

  10. Invented by accident.. on Scientists Accidentally Create Mutant Enzyme That Eats Plastic Bottles (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    How many inventions were the result of accidents? Microwave ovens? Telephone?

  11. Headline fail on Linus Torvalds Says Linux Kernel v5.0 'Should Be Meaningless' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    It is not the kernel that is meaningless, but the concept of version numbers that he says is meaningless.

  12. OK, thx. I was just curious. imo, if there's no monetary downside to the behavior, I doubt it will change.

  13. ..."We found several vendors that didn't install a single patch but changed the patch date forward by several months,"...

    If a phone that falsely indicated patches were installed were taken over by malware because of the lack of patches, would that phone manufacturer be liable because of the lies?

  14. Re:Waste of money, invasion of privacy on Dubai To Launch Digital Vehicle Number Plates (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    ...it's already happened in parts of the US, where EZ Pass is required for some bridges and tunnels.....

    E-ZPass Is the Best Tracking Device That's Already in Your Car https://gizmodo.com/e-zpass-is... It's not just for bridges and tunnels anymore...

  15. Only the positives are talked about... on Dubai To Launch Digital Vehicle Number Plates (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    ... what about the real-time tracking of each and every vehicle? Is there a concern that the government now knows where your car is at all times?

  16. Re: Research vs Development Spending on Amazon Spent Close To $23B on R&D in 2017, Outpacing Fellow Tech Giants (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Whatever distinction you are trying to make is entirely in your own head. R&D is product development, how much is 'new' doesn't matter one bit.

    It is funny how you lash out at me for your own inability to comprehend something beyond your capability of understanding. :)

  17. Research vs Development Spending on Amazon Spent Close To $23B on R&D in 2017, Outpacing Fellow Tech Giants (geekwire.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'd really like to see the spending for Research and the spending for Development reported separately. While both are a form of investment in the future, they have differing reasons for the expenditures. For example, it looks as if Amazon's R&D spending was mostly development, with very little research.

  18. Camaign contributions? on Zuckerberg Gets a Crash Course in Charm. Will Congress Care? (bgr.com) · · Score: 2
    Facebook a big contributor to the committees in Congress that will question Mark Zuckerberg https://www.usatoday.com/story...

    Members of the House and Senate committees that will question Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about user privacy protection next week are also some of the biggest recipients of campaign contributions from Facebook employees directly and the political action committee funded by employees. The congressional panel that got the most Facebook contributions is the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which announced Wednesday morning it would question Zuckerberg on April 11.

  19. There was a Windows phone? on Ask Slashdot: Do You Miss Windows Phone? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Next thing you'll try to get me to believe is that there was a Microsoft media player.

  20. So long as significant security issues continue... on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 1

    ... it is evident that companies are under-investing in IT.

  21. Does the medium really matter... on Ask Slashdot: Should Coding Exams Be Given on Paper? · · Score: 1

    ... if the purpose of the exam is to determine coding capability?

  22. for sharing the user data with advertisers? ... So what, exactly does Facebook get for sharing the user data with advertisers? Free pizza?

  23. ...if I thought I could trust Facebook to honor it....

    That's the problem. Who can trust Facebook anymore?

  24. Re:How much would it cost me? on Sheryl Sandberg: Users Would Have To Pay To Opt Out of Facebook Ads (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    ...Realistically, how much money does FB make off of showing me, personally, ads?...

    $0.75 – about how much Cambridge Analytica paid per voter in bid to micro-target their minds, internal docs reveal. https://www.theregister.co.uk/...

  25. ...Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg insisted that Facebook does not sell or give away user information, but made clear that Facebook's entire model is based on being able to share user data with advertisers...

    Let me see if i understand her... Facebook does not sell or give away user information, but Fabcebook's entire business model is based upon Facebook sharing user data with advertisers. So what, exactly does Facebook get for sharing the user data from advertisers? Free pizza?