The company's own plans do not matter, cannot matter, have never mattered.

The fact that they have the data, and that they operate in a jurisdiction where they can be compelled to turn over the data (and then gagged from saying what the government is now doing with the data), is all that matters. And that applies to both the US and China.

Pre-Snowden, I could imagine some people sticking their heads in the sand and pretending that stuff doesn't happen, or if it does, it doesn't happen here, or if it does, it doesn't happen often, or if it does, it happens with meaningful judicial oversight.

But the cat's well and truly out of the bag. Gathering data is equivalent to using it for evil, and we should (some of us do) treat every app that attempts to gather data, as evil. And we've long known that even approximate location data reveals plenty about who you associate with and what you do.

There is ZERO percent chance that NONE of the affected creators appealed their strikes.

YouTube was flooded with evidence that these clowns were pulling a fast one, and failed to comprehend it, for FOUR YEARS. That kind of negligence should open them to some sort of action as well.

"subsequent language updates can require today's developers to rewrite old code"

That's the definition of a failure by the language, and it's now a new language. It may share some semantics with the other language, but anyone trying to push breaking changes in the language itself should be seen as the enemy.

Sure, this keeps programmers employed, but everyone knows when they're doing a "bullshit job" that shouldn't even exist. Rewriting working code to satisfy a language wanker's vanity is the most bullshit job I can imagine. No wonder people quit over it.

In case you wondered if it was possible to get scummier than Fox...

I don't think anyone polled the users before submitting the PR that added the telemetry...

So what happens to files submitted to VirusTotal, then? I thought they were made available to AV researchers.

These files were submitted several times over the years. Are you telling me everyone who ever checked it out, failed to find its behavior suspicious?

Or were they told/paid to keep it off the detection list?

Those marketing fuckers bring extra spicy strains of flu back the office every year.

Stop. Just stop. Find another way.

Single guy in Detroit here, this would be ideal as my second vehicle. Possibly my only vehicle.

Given my fairly short commute and less-than-weekly longer drives, I'd likely never have to plug it in. There's not a ton of sun here, but the significant battery means I can make this month's commute on last month's sunshine, and it's entirely possible that it could average out on the positive side.

I do have to figure out how many groceries it can hold. There's no good picture of the trunk space. And in the event that I have cargo to haul around, I'd still be using the Prius for that, or the old van I keep around for truly silly stuff like minicomputers.

Which phone were you looking at, exactly? It's quite thick, and I suspect it to be quite sturdy.

DSRC and C-V2X are both in their infancy. Allocations were made in the 90s when ITS infrastructure was just taking off, but autonomous vehicles took longer than expected. Note that Pai parrots the talking point about DSRC's low deployment, but never cites numbers about how C-V2X is even less deployed. It's bald-faced, but journalists don't seem to be calling it out.

To put it very simply: DSRC is a peer-to-peer technology, and inherently allows more individual privacy, since you're only communicating with vehicles around you. It's using the same silicon as wifi, meaning there are lots of potential vendors for it.

C-V2X is being pushed by a certain large company that makes a lot of cellular silicon, because it uses their cellular silicon. They've been throwing large, large sums of money at trial projects and lobbying to kill DSRC. It appears they've now succeeded in that.

Enjoy your single-vendor panopticon future, everyone.

Bingo. I'm sure the Chromebook-alike machines VASTLY outsell the high-end "stupidly fast Ryzen 4000 based, GeForce RTX 2060-based Zephyrus G14", just on account of the latter being stupidly expensive, too.

Probably by a margin of 98 to 2, or thereabouts.

Everything I have ever posted here, especially about Microsoft, is completely untrue and I would like to retract it most sincerely. I said those things with malice in my heart, and with no regard for the truth. Nothing bad ever happened, no harm came to the PC industry, and certainly no competitors were ever harmed, by Microsoft's well-deserved market dominance. Microsoft's business practices in the late 90s were a shining example of pure capitalism in action, and it is only by honoring and respecting their brilliance that I can be at peace with my actions.

Thank you for hearing me out, Slashdot. Just in case.

I can't be the only one who's tried to use Python code I found on the internet and had no end of trouble because there are so many mutually incompatible versions of the language, versions of libraries, etc.

IMHO, "significant changes" should be absolutely the last thing a language ever tries to do. When you reach the point of "significant changes", it's time to call it something different and stop pretending it's the same language, because it isn't.

...because arguably theirs was running 3 years ago...

Everything old is new again. Yawn.