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Comment Re:Not exactly (Score 1) 224

Then, when you scan it, and it's expired, (assuming they don't adjust the date down OR up on the QR coode), you get to throw the rest away.

The cloud-linked scanning app will use your GPS location to suggest nearby partner stores where you can buy some fresh milk. Act now for a special offer, save even more when you sign up for a milk subscription. Well select the right plan for you based on how much milk you have used over the last 3 months. Hurry to the store for a limited time offer on the brand of salad dressing that the camera picked up in the last 4 scans. Based on the other barcodes we have seen, we think you'll love these other offers from our selected partners.

Comment Re:Nature of his problems... (Score 1) 106

Is it out of warranty? If so, I think the dealer has every right to tell a problem customer to get lost. He still had options...he just didn't like them.

Did he? I highly doubt that JD turns off all their DRM when the warranty expires. With the software locks in place, all being out of the warranty period means is that the farmer now pays the authorized dealer whatever price the dealer chooses, instead of JD paying a reduced price.

Comment What's the problem? (Score 1) 39

I don't know why France is complaining. The Pegasus software is only sold to governments on the condition that they will only be surveilling targets of "national security interest". The political plans and strategies of the president of France is unquestionably of national security interest to Morocco.

That's what is so convenient about "national security interest". It can be anything that helps to keep the current administration running, especially if the current administration gets to define what what will keep it running. And no, we don't need to publicly justify how those conclusions were reached since that would jeopardize national security. This sound bad, but we have legal opinions that say it's entirely fine that we don't have to inform the public. Those opinions? Sorry those are classified, you know, national security.

Comment Re:This will not end well (Score 1) 103

Only if Jack Dorsey actually registered the copyright and transferred it's ownership to the person that bought the NFT. An entirely separate step that has nothing to do with the crypto side of things. Anyone buying these "Moments" has no ownership whatsoever in the underlying intellectual property. You can own a physical baseball card and still own nothing about the picture or the text that was printed on it. The most you can do is sell your one copy under the 'first sale' doctrine. With this NBA scam you might have some restriction on that too, based on whatever TOS is required to go through their sales portal. And it it's anything like a trading exchange, you don't even have the keys to the NFT so they can do whatever they want, including shutting down the server in a year after the early insiders have all sold off.

Comment Since the beginning (Score 4, Insightful) 171

On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. —Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

Comment Re:what a stupid design (Score 1) 136

By powered breaks, I was meaning electrically actuated mechanical breaks, (traditional bicycle hand breaks + a servo to close them). I'm not familiar with these scooters so I'm assuming they are not relying totally on motor breaking. That would be massively irresponsible for a vehicle that they know isn't going to be subjected to actual fail-safe designs standards and qualifications.

Comment Re:what a stupid design (Score 1) 136

There is no need for electronic breaks. (I'm actually quite surprised they went to the expense of powered breaks.) They're powered by a DC motor so a relay across the terminals will put a massive load on the motor making it effectively unusable. That relay is not triggered by software, the user pushes a button to latch it in (that has to be done to end the ride and end the billing). You can do the same thing with solenoid activated latch on a traditional mechanical hand break.

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