I own a car with heated/cooled seats. I've even tested them.

However, they aren't used. My nephew loves them, firing them up each of the dozen times he's been in the car in the 4 years or so that I've owned it. They were part of another "comfort" package, which was part of the lift kit package for the car. Can't even say I remember how to turn them on, considering how often they're useful.

Would I have spent money on them otherwise? No. Five minutes in the car, the seats are "at temperature" anyway. Why do I need to spend electricity (and fuel) to do what nature does anyway?

Of course, the BMW owner has already paid for them, even without being charged to pass electricity through them. They're just not detailed out, so they can charge extra if you power them up.

No, they're willing to force Europeans to pay for it. If these politicians were putting their own, personal money into it, things would be different. But "the people" can pay for it just fine.

Doesn't mean anything will come of it, but they DID SOMETHING!

(and they can blame the Americans for screwing it up)

It used to be that way. But they went to central servers about a decade ago, so you aren't as random as you used to be.

Cats like X. We can improve sales of X by proving why cats like it. Then we'll find out what their second choice is, and "improve" that. But we need variety, so let's identify 3rd, 4th, and 5th, so the cat food aisle will have more stuff to convince cat providers with choice.

Then someone will show why X is dangerous to cats, making the other things more popular.

They must have heard you in advance of when you posted, because the new Amazon SSL certificate was issued before your message.

If you rely on email FORWARDING to hide yourself, I can see where ALSO asking for SPF-validation will fail. The only SPF failures I've seen in 15 years or so involved people forwarding their forwarded email to a domain that has SPF-validation turned on, AND they forwarded mail from our SPF-bearing domains. These are usually Microsoft-based forwarders, but not entirely.

Inbound, we don't exclude mail from non-compliant SPF domains. If they claim compliance, though, they better actually have it configured properly. If you're not going to configure it right, don't claim to be using it!

A government-owned device, with certain exceptions, should not be used for personal-use apps.

You can install [inset program name here] on a PERSONAL device, but the government-owned-and-issued device should only have government-approved software on it.

What are those "certain exceptions"? If the government agency has a "presence" on [insert service name here], official representatives of the agency should have access on their particular government-owned devices. But employee X should not.

But those don't profit from your data, they're government entities. They're immune.

https://slashdot.org/story/23/...

Seems strange that this keeps happening in Detroit...

To reach their goal, they'll need to triple the people with digital engineering experience in just two years. That isn't going to happen when you're just adding 1/10th that many in a year.

They have a few choices. But I don't think they want to import 2 million workers to make up the difference, if their target is maintaining full (domestic) employment.

We had to get the nay-sayers to concentrate their fire, and down-mod posts as a way to make them feel better about themselves.

If we keep it up, they'll run out of mod points for the week.

Officially, you didn't post that.

https://entertainment.slashdot...
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As others have said, we don't always CHOOSE a "big bank".

I've had two credit cards in the past 50 years. Neither one stayed the same in that time. I finally got rid of my "Bank of America" card when they decided to take me off getting a statement each month. BOA was the fourth company name on that card since I opened it. It started as a card associated with a group I was a member of, and the first few cards had they group's name on them.

The other card has changed names just as often. That card was opened back when it wasn't every bank issuing cards, like today. Want a credit card? You need this bank to issue it.

Even if you open a card with "Bobbijoe's Collective Bank of Piscataway" today, you've just got a private label on some other bank's card.

The big thing to all of these is to not jump on everything the bank throws your way. There is a reason they're pushing X program at you, and that isn't because it will make YOU money (or save you some). It's being offered to make THEM money. "I just want a credit card to use" is not going to make them lots of cash.

America hasn't use coins like the Japanese have for a long time. We have had bills for $1, $5, $10, and $20 "forever". Paper has ruled above $1 here for decades.

Japan, not so much. Less than 1000 Yen, coins rule. At least they have, for a LONG time.

The recent changes have been the increase in digital money. And the increase in prices above what coins exist. They're going through it later than we did, is all this is.