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Comment Re:Big Brother? (Score 1) 628

The use of a motor vehicle is a privilege, not a right, and it can be rescinded at any time by the state you live in

Almost. The use of a motor vehicle on a public road is a privilege, not a right. Driving around your own property (or other private property, assuming permission of the owner) is your own damn business.

Maybe you should read the rest of the paragraph before trying to tell the GP he is wrong

The use of a motor vehicle is a privilege, not a right, and it can be rescinded at any time by the state you live in. Because of so-called motor-vehicle compact laws, you will probably not get another license in any other state. Anything that happens on public roads is their business. If you have a problem with that, you can pay to build private roads and pay for the maintenance of those roads with tolls.

Comment Re:Or... (Score 3, Insightful) 157

I was not showing malware, I was showing a "Remote Exploit". It does not matter if you wanted the remote exploit to happen or if some infected website did it. It is running executable code on your device that was not through the app store, which you asked for a example of and I gave. And let me put that quote you took out of context back in to full context. Emphasis mine.

There's always a first time, but I think there's a good chance the security impact of these vulnerabilities will remain theoretical. Despite JailbreakMe 2.0 being open sourced after an updated version of iOS was released, which would have made it relatively easy to modify the code into an attack, I didn't hear about any such modification except a proof of concept that showed up much later.

Comment Re:GPS Accuracy (Score 1) 117

Isn't consumer GPS artificially liimited in accuracy?

Not artificially, economically. It costs a LOT more to get real-time sub 1m accuracy without post-processing. For what you are using the gps for (navigating a turn on the street 90% of the time) 1-5m accuracy works fine. You can buy high end equipment (we are taking more than $1K) and get realtime data in the 1 inch range. For 10-20K you can get to the millimeter range.

Which would you buy to use in your car, the $50 GPS, or the $900 gps with the only additional feature it has is if you go to the menu that actually displays your lat/long you get a few more decimal points?

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