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  1. Re: All politians have no respect for security on Trump Ignores 'Inconvenient' Security Rules To Keep Tweeting On His iPhone, Says Report (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    So I guess this means all the 'iPhone security' that people strut around about has just been completely hype.

  2. Re: All politians have no respect for security on Trump Ignores 'Inconvenient' Security Rules To Keep Tweeting On His iPhone, Says Report (politico.com) · · Score: 0

    Obsessing about what the one who won the election had done years ago, you say???

  3. I have several tubes of Z80s and two working systems that use that processor.

  4. Re:Buy Chevy Bolt instead on Tesla Model 3 Falls Short of Consumer Reports Recommendation (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Rei doesn't worry about things like that. He launched his old roadster into space, you know!

  5. Re:Won't matter on Tesla Model 3 Falls Short of Consumer Reports Recommendation (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Tesla was a talented engineer and scientist in his younger years and up into middle age. But he faced attacks and opposition from people like Edison and degenerated into a weird crank in his later years. He ended his life with the same reputation as Aleister Crowley or Madam Blavatsky, and the coffee-table books about Tesla on the remainder table at big-box bookstores have the same occult aura about them.

  6. Re:Hybrid brakes on Tesla Model 3 Falls Short of Consumer Reports Recommendation (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I've often put furniture or even lumber into a car's front passenger seat -- in the Tesla, this would virtually guarantee damage to the screen. It's also not tactile and hard to use with gloves on in winter.

    You evoked fond memories from the past. On a few occasions years ago I hauled aprox. 20 8-foot 2x4s in my Saturn SL2. You could fold down the back seat and run a whole lot of LONG pieces of lumber diagonally forward through the trunk and into the front passenger foot space. Once the first two or three boards are in you can pile in a LOT, and the trunk even closes completely.

    Not quite as extreme as when I hauled two Tektronix 500-series vacuum tube oscilloscope mainframes in the trunk of my '84 Jetta GLI, of course. That thing had an immense trunk.

  7. Re:Buy Chevy Bolt instead on Tesla Model 3 Falls Short of Consumer Reports Recommendation (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I saw an Aztec the other day in a parking lot. They sort of blend in with all the other cars, now. The shock value has worn off. It's a shame that car fashionistas were allowed to destroy the Aztec before all the rest of the car designs could catch up to it.

  8. Re:teslas numbers also bad. on Tesla Model 3 Falls Short of Consumer Reports Recommendation (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Did Motor Trend have to cut the blue ribbon wrapped around the car they received from Tesla to evaluate? Or did Tesla provide an attendant to do that for them?

  9. Re:Really? on Tesla Model 3 Falls Short of Consumer Reports Recommendation (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's be more realistic and talk about 15% improved range. And that toddler that's 130 feet ahead.

  10. Re:Really? on Tesla Model 3 Falls Short of Consumer Reports Recommendation (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Prepare to be terrified

    Terrified by OTA brake system hacking by some random thug?

    It's not that likely, but it is a possibility that should be heavily guarded against.

  11. Re: Microsoft spies on you more than all others on 'I Asked Apple for All My Data. Here's What Was Sent Back' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no black/white perfect world out there. I am not happy with the level of telemetry intrusion within Windows 10, but it's not over-the-top outrageous. It's certainly no better or worse than most Android implementations.

  12. Re: Would you like to buy a bridge? on 'I Asked Apple for All My Data. Here's What Was Sent Back' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "High end" phones in general are beta test platforms. My phone was $120, though I've seen it for $80, too. I apparently was a little too early of an early adopter.

    It's so nice that there are suckers who will spend all that money for a cell phone, so 'the rest of us' don't have to.

  13. Re: Once more, with eye-rolling on Estonia To Become the World's First Free Public Transport Nation (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    You mad, bro?

    Why be so angry that somebody else sees shades and hues, where you see only black and white? You aren't stuck being in such a monochromatic world, it's your choice. So bug off reacting so strongly.

  14. Re: Would you like to buy a bridge? on 'I Asked Apple for All My Data. Here's What Was Sent Back' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    And, speaking of shit, the display in the iPhone X is made by Samsung.

  15. Re: so how do you prevent from scanning your plat on Repo Men Scan Billions of License Plates -- For the Government (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Derpy little fuck.

    No, it would be conspiracy. I am saying a bunch of us choose a five day period when we do it to all these cameras.

    They can't afford to pursue 10,000 of us, and the streisand affect would mean the next week there would be 100,000.

  16. Re: so how do you prevent from scanning your plate on Repo Men Scan Billions of License Plates -- For the Government (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps we need to raise the liability cost for retaining data to be commensurate to the risk. Holding and maintaining control over a huge database like this has to introduce huge risks for abuse. The risk of said abuse should fall completely on the maintainers of the data. They couldn't afford it, frankly.

  17. Re: so how do you prevent from scanning your plate on Repo Men Scan Billions of License Plates -- For the Government (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Spray road tar (driveway coating) on the repo vehicle's camera?

    'Oops, sorry about that' say 10,000 random people over about a five day period. People on bicycles or pedestrians.

  18. Re: IBM is known as on IBM Warns Quantum Computing Will Break Encryption (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What you mean is that the ole boys back in the machine room don't like them too well.

  19. Re: Crypto coin apocalyse on IBM Warns Quantum Computing Will Break Encryption (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The fact that blockchain is an immutable ledger (and generally public) is an even bigger issue.

    So the government can simply grab everybody by the throat who has been doing shady stuff with cryptocurrency, because the evidence needed to convict is all nicely laid out in order.

  20. Re: Microsoft spies on you more than all others on 'I Asked Apple for All My Data. Here's What Was Sent Back' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    There are multiple setting changes you can make to reduce the amount of telemetry sent to Microsoft with Windows 10.

  21. Re: Excel? on 'I Asked Apple for All My Data. Here's What Was Sent Back' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Originally Excel was a Macintosh-only software product. At the time Microsoft's spreadsheet for MS-DOS was Multiplan. They didn't produce a PC version of Excel until they released Windows.

  22. Re: Would you like to buy a bridge? on 'I Asked Apple for All My Data. Here's What Was Sent Back' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No, the alternative would be telling people what they had done to the Apple devices they owned. Like, when somebody came into the Apple saying their phone was acting slow and non-responsive, telling them it had been throttled that and a battery replacement would speed it up again. Instead they would sell them a new phone.

  23. Re: Libertarian Paradise! on Floating Pacific Island Is In the Works With Its Own Government, Cryptocurrency (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    'Atlas Shrugged' is more of a young adult novel.

    (by the time you're 24 you have outgrown it)

  24. Re: I've heard this one before on Floating Pacific Island Is In the Works With Its Own Government, Cryptocurrency (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a good China Meiville book that also explores this sort of city.

  25. But does Goofy, one of Mickeys good friends, throw scraps from the table to Pluto?

    $130k is a good return for one lay. Don isn't really *that* ugly and it's certain she has done worse guys for less.