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by buran77 5y ago
> Sometimes courts do order people not to use computers or electronic communications devices. Yes... a court , almost exclusively as a result of a major crime (hacking or child pornography/pedophilia), and almost always just restri
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by buran77 5y ago
> I agree with the airlines reasoning that they needed to move a crew A company should deal with its internal processes without making them the client's problem. Put that crew on a different flight, hire a charter for them, plan bet
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by buran77 5y ago
Not referring to this case in particular, barring someone from ever using a service which may not have a decent or equivalent replacement always seems like an abuse especially when we're not talking about something criminal on a certai
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by buran77 5y ago
Android phones don't intrinsically track tags, they need software specifically installed for this. So almost none of those Android phones can be used to track anything. On the other hand all newer iPhones can track any AirTag out of th
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by buran77 5y ago
All student drivers particularly at the beginning are "dangerous drivers" because they aren't drivers but they're asked to drive. In their first half of driving school most students would probably cause an accident withi
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by buran77 5y ago
Of course the Autopilot adds value, all such driver assists are there to add value and help the driver on any car. I just don't think Autopilot can drive , let alone drive safer than a human . There's a difference between "
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by buran77 5y ago
Student drivers (with an instructor in the car, and secondary controls) have very few accidents, if any, not because of their safety record but because every mistake is saved by the instructor. A car can be considered as driving "saf
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by buran77 5y ago
> All data collected through the TCF must now be deleted At best the companies will have to delete months of data, the rest being stale or already fed through some ML loop that extracted any useful value from it.
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by buran77 5y ago
Google has been explicitly conditioning access to some features on users agreeing to share data [0]. This is perfectly in line with that strategy. Bugs which happen to work out that way aren't bugs. [0] https://bgr.com/
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by buran77 5y ago
I have seen chargers that tax you per kWh and per minute and for the parking spot and sometimes also another per charge fee. So I have plugged into a charger that taxed ~€1.5 for plugging in, €0.5/kWh for charging plus another €0.05&#x
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by buran77 5y ago
> With a gas pump, you need to stay with the car while it's charging. Is that a realistic concern for anyone? The "charging" process at a gas pump takes around 1 minute (in Europe gas pumps have ~50 l/min flow rate, i
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by buran77 5y ago
Enterprises love security but they also love easy operations. Having to press a button on 15.000 computers, especially if they're laptops and people work from home can be a headache. And if you rely on the user pressing it for you then
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by buran77 5y ago
The story is most likely made up and one of the last clarifications strongly hints at it: > It can't be this simple / this is fake because you aren't doing blah blah. You're right, it's not this simple. There are
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by buran77 5y ago
For people willing to commit insurance fraud putting a few scratches on the lock and door to make it look legit isn't really that much of an effort. Are insurance companies actually conditioning their conclusion based on this kind of e
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by buran77 5y ago
You didn't mention what might be the most important things successful people have to get them there: a good support network of other successful people, and a good safety net to catch them if they fail (sometimes the same network). I th
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by buran77 5y ago
When risking getting caught stealing is more attractive than working then it's safe to say the working opportunities for those people aren't worth almost anything. People take the easier option. You choose "lock your trains w
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by buran77 5y ago
> Indeed. There's so much focus on short-term solutions for crime – even outside of the US. There's an old nugget that if anyone could time-travel they'd go back in time and kill Hitler. Nobody would go a few more years ba
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by buran77 5y ago
A salary is like RAM, you only notice if it's too little. Once you reach this comfort level where you can cover your expenses and feed your lifestyle without having to think too much about it, getting some extra will make far less impa
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by buran77 5y ago
While both taxes and bans are hard to enforce on small players in such cases, at least for the big players bans work more effectively. Tax is easily avoidable in any country by large players by moving the money to tax havens, and nobody wan
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by buran77 5y ago
You found a perfect way to drag the discussion into the gutter. > Please enjoy your freedom to advocate on behalf of a foreign govt on a US based forum Is this freedom transactional? Because you suggest that in exchange for "freedom
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by buran77 5y ago
> Right now it is politically unthinkable for Western governments to demand people Well now you hit the nail on the head. The issue hasn't been technical for a long time but rather one of "image". People have to still beli
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by buran77 5y ago
That's the only sane approach to start with. Even the NSA, in a country which undoubtedly leads in its technical ability to collect and store vast amounts of data, didn't try to intercept every Cisco router on the planet to back
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by buran77 5y ago
There's the saying to "quit while you're at the top". He has a massive victory with M1. Staying in place the best outcome in the future is to deliver incremental improvements. Going to the competition and helping them bo
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by buran77 5y ago
Companies rarely have an interest to get in a bidding war because the best outcome is that you pay a lot to hang on to that person for a little while longer. People at that level more often leave because their job was done and they want new
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by buran77 5y ago
> People are still referencing Mcguyver, but nobody's had the hubris to try and reboot that classic. They did. And it probably got the same treatment mentioned in the article. It survived 5 seasons despite receiving abysmal reviews.
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by buran77 5y ago
Tony Stark is a "next level" rich scientist, engineer/inventor, and ladies man. His IT related sides are incidental at best. The only recent and decent "IT guy" series was Mr. Robot and the differences from any othe
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by buran77 5y ago
The feature that automatically submits samples for further analysis has been known to catch proprietary executable code, send it to the AV manufacturer's sandbox where it was promptly executed and leaked data from inside that infrastru
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by buran77 5y ago
When I say unpopular I mean in the way in which very few people vote to focus on fixing homelessness rather than something that personally benefits them, yet almost nobody would ever accept this is at least partly their failure and their wi
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by buran77 5y ago
As unpopular as it may sound, the reason we have so many homeless is that the people who have more deciding power decide to vote to focus on very different issues. Slowly more people slip through the cracks into homelessness and lose all th
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by buran77 5y ago
I think the author is more in a Euro-US-centric bubble rather than Eastern European. Adding the rest of Europe or the US would make no difference to the conclusion as it's unlikely any other woman would have fit the bill. Your first 2

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