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Comment Use the Austrailia Airbnbsite (Score 4, Informative) 65

Lifehacker just pointed out that you should use the Australia AirBNB site to show the full price of places. (yes, you can have AirBNB Austrailia show the price in USD if that's what you need.) The site displays the full cost, including fees.

Just don't book it through the Austrailia site. Then you get hit with VAT.

https://lifehacker.com/always-check-the-australian-site-before-booking-an-airb-1849751018

Comment Re:Default Settings (Score 4, Interesting) 281

Comment Re:Fifth amendment (Score 3, Informative) 216

They weren't talking to his doctor. They got records from a third party (the pacemaker manufacturer).

Now, the interesting bit that you can't discern from TFA is whether the pacemaker data was specifically downloaded for purposes of the investigation or if the information came out on routine interrogation. I'm guessing the former since you only check the pacer if you think there is a problem or perhaps twice a year. If the downloading of the data was compulsory, that opens some entertaining legal questions.

Latter.

Pacemakers are typically tested quarterly when in working order, monthly when in low battery state when the device supports transtelephonic or inductive testing. Yearly in-person checkups are also typically done. (Transtelephonic: Patient wears a device on each hand or wrist, device communicates with remote servers over a POTS system. Inductive: Patient places a device over pacemaker and initiates remote reading, device communicates over phone, cellular, network, or internet to remote servers.)

Some "remote monitoring" platforms support automatic daily to 3-week intervals and send results to the manufacturer accordingly. (Source, PDF)

Comment Re:Banks are responsible too (Score 1) 87

Target doesn't want to ditch the magstripe. They do incredible amounts of data mining based off of data on the magstripe.

See: How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did.

Chip-and-Pin doesn't provide magstripe data to Target. Target can't build its demographic data. That's going to hurt sales.

Comment Re:Sure (Score 4, Informative) 500

It seems to me that this could be interpreted to allow the following scenario: A police informant runs out of gas in front of your house. You let him in to use your phone so he can get a ride. The police then mysteriously show up wanting in. You tell them no but from behind you the informant yells "come right in."

That's not what's going on in this case though.

The /. summary is wrong.

Using your case as an example, you kindly let the informant in. Later, police come to your door. The officer asks "may we search your place?" You say "no". Doesn't matter what the informant says. Your "no" still rules, as long as you are still there. That's still going to be the case.

US v. Matlock, 1974 allowed the search as long as someone who could consent did consent. "Government must show, inter alia, not only that it reasonably appeared to the officers that the person had authority to consent, but also that the person had actual authority to permit the search..."

Georgia v. Randolph, 2006, changed it so that if any occupant objected, then the search could not take place.

Today's ruling, Fernandez v. California clarified and limited the exception from Georgia v. Randolph. If the person who objected to the search isn't there, and the person there is able to and does consent to a search, the search is valid.

Comment GPS jamming near an airport (Score 2) 209

Interestingly enough, there was a guy who was recently busted for putting a GPS jammer on his truck. It was discovered when he drove near an airport and impacted the testing of GPS-enhanced plane landing equipment.

Source.

The person was fined $32,000 and was fired by the company he was working for.

Comment Re:The whole idea is dumb (Score 1) 1080

Have you considered how much mercury gets released into the air by burning coal for electricity generation?

Comparatively, a heck of a lot more mercury gets released from coal power plants in a year than has ever been included in every CFL bulb ever manufactured.

Besides, halogen incandescent bulbs meet the new requirements, you don't need to use CFL bulbs.

Comment Re:Law and Regulation? (Score 1) 433

Technically speaking, it should be based on observed speed of people traveling on the road. However, standards have been weakened over time such that yellow light timing can be based on the speed limit rather than real-world speeds.

Source

The 1994 ITE "Determining Vehicle Signal Change and Clearance Interval" states:
When the percentage of vehicles that entered on a red indication exceeds that which is locally acceptable, the yellow change interval may be lengthened (or shortened) until the percentage conforms to local standards, or enforcement can be used instead.

There's a better analysis of how signal timing standards have been changed in the link.

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