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Comment Excise tax (Score 2) 238

Once upon a time, there was a federal excise tax on tires. At one time, it was based on the weight of the tire. The law was changed, and only heavy truck tires were taxed. Then *that* changed, and the rate was based on the load capacity of the truck tire. Info from https://www.everycrsreport.com...
Something similar could be introduced, without needing to intrude into personal driving habits. Even EVs need tires, and the vehicles that put the most stress on the roads use tires that would be taxed the most. Yeah, used tires, yadda-yadda-yadda. Used tires are only a small fraction of the tires sold, and the tax would have been paid at the original sale.

Submission + - Australian Federal Court finds Google misled customers (news.com.au)

Submitted by Sooner Boomer
Sooner Boomer writes: In a world-first ruling, Google has lost a case in the Australian federal court, after being found to have misled customers.
Google has lost a case in the Australian federal court, after being found to have misled customers about how their location data was being used.

The court found Google still tracked locations, even if the user had turned off the settings or had asked for service to be stopped.

Google misled consumers by thinking if they had turned off location history it would mean the company would stop storing or keeping data on a personâ(TM)s âoeidentifiableâ location data.
ACCC chairman Rod Sims. Picture: Jonathan Ng

However, to stop Google collecting location data, a consumer had to turn off another setting called web apps.

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chair Rod Sims welcomed the ruling after taking the legal action against Google.

âoeThis is the first ruling of its type in the world in relation to these location data issues. It is also the first result we have had of a series of cases in relation to digital platforms, and so we are very happy to have come out with a very positive court result,â Mr Sims in a press conference on Friday.

âoeData issues are only going to be more important. It is crucial ⦠we get some court rulings in relation to what platforms can cannot do.â

Comment Re:We need to be protected from browser makers (Score 1, Troll) 31

by Sooner Boomer (#60473680) Attached to: Firefox Will Add a New Drive-by-Download Protection

The new Firefox android is so bad it basically killed it

Indeed! Fuck Firefox. You've made yourself useless to me on tablets and phones! At some point, waaayyy in the future, I *might* consider going back, IF they revert/restore previous features. For now it's (shudder!) Chrome.

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