We need to bring back harasment and mockery of "Glassholes" - remember when Google Glass users were literally shamed out of bars and other public places?

It's not even close to universal in rural parts of the US ... also, tracking without consent is bad regardless of what means are used.

What "tech guru" (as opposed to corporate hack) promoted NAT once IPv6 became a thing?

Most Apple IIs had a two state speaker with square wave output - how did he get it to output voice? Or did it have a sound chip like a IIgs or a sound card added?

More likely that ICE uses this to disable the cars of dissidents who are tracking their abuses of authority.

Did you snip the antenna cable after that?

We need to push for CEOs to be replaced with AI. They'd do a better job and would cost a LOT less.

Start repeating this everywhere and get the meme-makers on it. It will be wonderful to watch them squirm as they suddenly find reasons why AI shouldn't replace a company's most valuable assets: its most highly-paid executives.

It was ancient aliens.

This reply is a series of related statements I would have bullet pointed if this was a powerful point presentation but I'm stuck with the slashdot edit box with circa 1968 typewriter tech. Just fyi.

Slow drivers are a menace. Thankfully you can be ticketed for driving too slow. Because it's dangerous.

And in his little golf cart it's not 2 seconds. He's causing a cascading failure behind him of slow cars, traffic and people stuck at lights which will add minutes to his victim's arrival time. Traffic patterns have been well studied. Did you know that a single hitting their brakes on the highway will impact dozens of cars behind, and often take several minutes to "unwind" as everyone has to tap their brakes long after that first car is gone to maintain safe distance in moderate/heavy traffic? What do you think the impact is and how long does it take to unwind when that dumb ass crawls up the on ramp? Rude, just damned rude.

There are 3 key things that make old people a danger on the road: they can't see, poor reaction times, and they drive too slow to account for the first two problems which fucks up normal traffic flow. He drives like a blind and unsteady old woman.

When you drive in ways that are not "normal" you are the danger.

I'm glad you live in a place where there's no traffic and you don't have a line up of 100+ cars behind you trying to get home after work. Good for you. Not everyone has that luxury.

Slow drivers are a menace. Thankfully you can be ticketed for driving too slow. Because it's dangerous. Yes I'm saying this twice. For emphasis because it's true and important.

And in his little golf cart it's not 2 seconds. He's causing a cascading failure behind him or slow cars, traffic and people stuck at lights which will add minutes to his victim's arrival time. Just because your time has no value doesn't mean other people's time is worthless, too.

Absolutely nothing went wrong with my life, that's why my time has value. Every second is precious. Every moment wasted behind some selfish jerk in a golf cart is a moment I can't spend doing something valuable which would be almost anything but sitting behind said selfish jerk for "only 2-3 seconds" or worse, missing that highway entry light in heavy traffic because his toy can't come up to speed. It won't just be me but 5-10 real cars could've made that light while his car struggles up the ramp holding everyone back. The typical red light is a 2-3 minute cycle depending on how the city's planners decided to set it. If you're lucky it's a 1 minute light. So that's 5+ people sitting for at least a minute every time some selfish dumbass in a golf cart struggles to get up to safe highway speed.

He posts on slashdot, which statistically makes him at least a reasonably well paid techie of some sort. He should be able to afford a decent vehicle. It doesn't have to be a sports car. But even a 4 cylinder soccer mom 4 door Honda civic would do better and have great gas mileage. If he can't afford a real car then he should spend his time improving his place in life, not posting his shit-car flex here. It's not a flex to drive a golf cart on the highway.

Currently I'm teaching my daughter to drive. I'm teaching her how to pass the dmv test and how people actually drive as separate driving styles. If you drove the way the dmv says you'd cause accidents. No one drives that way. Driving too slow for current traffic is one of those problems the dmv pushes, at least in the states I've lived.

Drive safe. I assume you have a real car, don't fuck up traffic patterns, aren't a highway menace "flexing" your slow dangerous entry to the highway in a golf cart and just posted to be contrary because it was me calling out his dumb ass. Have a nice day.

Of course, but if this tech becomes widespread, it will be used to disable the vehicles of dissidents (including those tracking ICE) in authoritarian countries (yes, that includes the US). This is an example of bad tech harming bad people, but the same tech can easily be weaponized against good people on the wrong side of evil laws.

Russia in its current form is a scourge, but if this tech spreads, it will be abused by other authoritarian governments (including the US) to track and harass dissidents. Better that NO ONE has this kind of power over people's property.

Yes, fuck Russia, but this can equally well be used in authoritarian countries (Russia, US, China, etc) to track or disable the vehicles of dissidents or keep protesters from following ICE vermin.

Sure, your little shit is had no problem accelerating to a safe speed going up an on ramp. So says the shit is owner.

Tell that to the people behind you who would've already been on the highway and a dozen cars ahead after a safe at speed merge if they weren't following behind your little clown car, building up their road rage all the while.

Selfish, dumb, ignorant, bad driver, poor, self rationalized bullshit; completely expected and normal coming from you.

Get a real car that can come up to speed in a safe time frame and get your little expired child's toy car off the highways. Nit's a golf cart not a car.

Never heard of original author. Doesn't matter who he is, anyway. This entire concept is pure rage bait.

If a single person on the planet uses ruby for something of value to them and it does the job as required it is serious.

This alleged programmer/author isn't serious. This slashdot re-posting of his unserious article isn't serious. Pure rage bait for clicks and ad views.

Yes, I taught myself ruby, no I never used it for anything ever, it was just interesting at the time.

Entire concept of a serious vs not-serious language is stupid.

They did ragebait on purpose. It worked on you. You engaged with it and got angry enough to leave a comment. That boosts posts.

It's literally what ragebait is meant to do.

Someone smarter than me can tell us if this is true literary irony or not. I never got the concept very well.