You're assuming you can't transmit the signal for at least half the stopping distance of a train. If you can, then you start transmitting at half the stopping distance, and it will stop before it leaves the signal range.

In practice, one mile of range would likely be enough for even the heaviest trains.

Cattywampus? Lollygag? Omnishambles? Bumbershot? Quire?

More clues required to find this pesky word!

Thats a really excellent rebuttal of an argument nobody made.

What exactly is your point? Do you think mashing in "MAEK ME A SONG PLEASE COMPUTER" with your hulk fists into the chromebook counts as "art"?

The key understanding with this stuff is that a contract is NOT the piece of paper its written on but the actual agreement itself. The piece of paper is merely the record of that agreement (Hence a handshake agreement is also a contract, just harder to prove in court).

Part of this however, is the agreement really has to be understood by both parties. If one side slips some random latin fineprint in page 231 of the contract that fundamentally alters the meaning of the agreement or imposes conditions that are blatantly unfair, theres every chance the judge is going to strike it out as unrepresentative of the actual agreement. The test is usually something to the effect of "would a reasonable average person know this is what they are agreeing to". This is also why contracts with children, or the mentally impaired are rarely considered valid, as a child is not considered "reasonable", and thus unable to consent. It also requires a degree of good faith on both sides. Intentionally not reading the contract so you can say "I didnt agree to this" is not going to impress a judge.

So folding back to EULAs, judges tend to find these a bit suspicious, because they tend to be dense and hard to parse for most non lawyer folks, and often contain clauses that seemingly contradict what the person purchasing the software or service think they are agreeing to.

Unfortunately a couple hundred years of robber barrons paying off lawyers and lawmakers have tipped US courts somewhat away from the traditional common law understanding of contracts towards the "the paper is everything" nonsense. Not entirely, but its not good and US companies seem to get away with shady nonsense that would have anti corruption and fraud cops kicking in doors in other countries.

Then just recompile it. Its just a regular old CMAKE system as far as I'm aware (its been a while since I've looked). If the headers for it have been dropped, just patch them back.

Yup. But this wasn't ever about protecting children. These laws are about shaming people, and asserting dominance over those who like things that they don't, and about compiling an easily subpoenaed list of people whom they consider deviants.

If the laws were really about protecting children, they would have passed a law requiring browser vendors to provide age check support in a privacy-protecting way.

Because EULAs are hot air. Software manufacturers will back down if you call their bluff if you look like you have the necessary lawyers to back it up. The last thing they want is a definitive legal ruling on EULAs, because it will establish a legal answer and likely won't be in their favor.

If it is a passive signal, it seems like the only thing preventing that is a lack of transmit power, at least to within the limits of the curvature of the earth (or, depending on frequency, maybe not even beyond that limit). And it's hard to overestimate the potential for financial loss if someone remotely cracked into a SpaceX satellite and manipulated its SDR to send such a signal from space.

Even if the attack requires two-way communication, the attacker still wouldn't need to be close to the train; the signal generator would. Nothing prevents someone from maliciously dangling a battery-powered or solar-powered, cellular-capable pod off the edge of a highway bridge that crosses a railroad track and being half a continent away when actually triggering it.

On the flip side, the fact that this hasn't been exploited yet is a pretty strong indication that nobody is trying to attack us, making it likely a pretty low risk. :-)

Some years ago i had an appointment for an interview as software developer at King, but then I found accounts on how they had treated former employees and contractors, and that really changed my mind.

I think that the "corporate death penalty" should be applied more: Forced shutdown and its assets forfeited.

Oh, silly me. How could I make that mistake. You are of course correct. Let me fix that for you.

Listing it is the right thing to do. That doesn't make it the proximate cause of death if the person dies, though. The folks who crunch the numbers know how to tell the difference between dying with COVID and dying from COVID. That's how we know that COVID caused a huge surge in strokes and heart attacks that, if we were using your approach, would not have been counted, because they don't look like deaths from COVID, and yet the statistics on their timing show that the excess clotting that caused them is, in fact, caused by (or at least triggered by) COVID or other viral diseases.

Did that address your concern?

:-D

And of course the American Idiots (I'm an American, but not ignorant) immediately define "communism" as Stalinism.

Which is amusing, just now, since the MAGA deity wants, well, pretty much that.

It's like Space Lasers talking about "communist socialist Dems", as if there were such a thing.

Hey, I'm amazed most people manage to read the whole headline.

Also it would appear this restaurant doing research on it's guests is it's USP. So people are signing up for the personalised experience. This isn't a local IHOP keeping tabs on who comes in for waffles... although the number of people who download a restaurant chain app giving huge corporations access to massive amounts of personal data on them for a 5 cent discount is astounding (and they'll be the first ones crying that their privacy wasn't protected) but I digress, this isn't the kind of restaurant your average paranoid crank^W^W Slashdotter will visit, especially accidentally.

If anything I'm curious as to how they did this before the age of social media... although not curious enough to read the article.

This is why most countries have advertising standards that give legal meanings to words like "lifetime" or "unlimited". Advertisers love words that have no meaning or very ambiguous meanings like "organic" (anything that contains organic molecules). This is why multi-vitamin ads concentrate on words like "wellness" and "feeling" rather than pretend there is a tangible health benefit, it's specifically avoids saying there is a tangible health benefit because they want to give the impression of doing something without having to commit to making a product that works under real world testing.

The US doesn't seem to have advertising standards so advertisers can lie their arses off.

Here in the UK, a product description will very, very rarely include the term "lifetime" because it's a term that has a legal definition and obligation. If it does, what "lifetime" means is defined in the terms and conditions very, very, very, very, very, very clearly. What the big print giveth, the small print taketh away.

This.

Chrome isn't a full blown general purpose OS like Windows or Linux, it was designed to be a limited OS for low powered hardware. Also it's not been very successful so it makes sense to roll it into the Android project.

The thing is, if that wasn't what was wrong with out society Apple wouldn't be one of the most "successful" and profitable companies in the world.If not for a greedy, materialistic world they'd never have become so big and powerful.

Apple is massively overvalued, that value was based on creating enormous amounts of hype, which Apple cannot do any more. Apple have become passe and that's the most devastating thing that could possibly happen to them. With the hype bubble bursting and the reality distortion field failing then investors are going to try to sell whilst it's still high (especially as Apple don't pay divs). It's everything wrong with western civilisation that allowed a company to become valued on hype rather than performance. Otherwise companies that had fewer headlines but consistently made the same profit quarter after quarter would be worth more.

People are realising Apple isn't that good... that means investors are going to get scared.