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"Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
--Albert Einstein

âoeOnly two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and Iâ(TM)m not sure about the universe.â
-- Albert Einstein

Not so in countries where "annual raise" (or not) is related to performance reviews and regular (*) "inflation correction" is a separate mechanism mandated by law. Yes, there are such countries. I live in one.

(*) Regular can even mean more than once er year.

When I was working towards my MBA, we had 6 Indian nationals in our class, located in Europe. They all said that caste is stupid and they didn't care - and even less so outside India where they were free of social pressure. One of them was relatively low caste and one was quite high - I never found out about the others. Despite what they claimed, not only did those two know of other's caste but even as a European I could see the difference on how they behaved towards each other. If it's really stupid and a "we don't care" item, why did even bother they telling each other what they were...

One of the 6 had moved to Europe "for love" and obviously stayed here later on. The other 5 are now all CEO/Founder/GM, but interestingly the low caste one works in the US.

So imagine that the police manage to trace and recover more - or even all - of the remaining/missing bitcoins? Will they return those to the university as well? And if so, what will the university do next?

And that's not even the only issue.

The headline claims that the reason for the start of the ice age has been found, but even the Slashdot summary already makes abundantly clear that the reason why it started has been known or "known" for a while and that the new paper is about explaining why it hit Europe as hard as it did - i.e. harder than would normally be expected. (*) And it is not as if the paper is not 100% clear about that fact either. It literally says "The importance of Canadian Arctic Archipelago gateways for glacial expansion in Scandinavia".

Seems that it's not just the readers who don't RTFA around here... And apparently not even RTFT/RTFH.

(*) Not that I find that so unexpected. Just compare the latitudes of places such as New York, London, Berlin, not to mention Oslo or Stockholm.

They should, but it would have made zero difference. Putin's plan was made long ago, and the engine for last night had already been started before they recognized the Donbas.

The Biden administration has never been fine with NordStream 2. They reluctantly tolerated it because of relations with Germany, but always pushed to get it cancelled - in as far as you can cancel a project that's 99.999% done.

A key difference with Keystone XL is that of direct involvement. The US can always block or unblock Keystone XL, irrespective of the incumbent administration, but it can only comment on and/or generate pressure about NordStream 2. Just as Germany cannot stop Keystone XL and you would surely scream murder if they ever did it anyway.

Keep in mind that also the Trump administration did not stop Nordstream 2. They just commented about it.

You mean like this one: https://dilbert.com/strip/1998...?

Please read "been electrically been" as "been electrically dead".

I did not say that the battery messages lasted for 4 years.
I said it took the OEM/dealer almost 4 years to figure out I no longer that car.M
And as it happens, after the car had been electrically been for a while, the "low battery" messages restarted. Apparently someone recharged or replaced the battery in the damn thing for some reason that did not involve actually moving the car and then afterwards let it go dead again.
As I still had access to the website, I could still go and read the data there.

The car OEMs gladly pay for the telecom costs. Well, maybe not anymore once a car gets to be really really old, but then they'd just let the contract expire.

What they get out of the data, is very accurate statistical info on how and where their cars are used. This allows them to:
1) Analyze (and after some time also predict) frequent failures. This enables them to react appropriately, either by performing preventive recall actions before the issue explodes into a PR disaster, or by taking corrective action for future cars of the same model or even future designs;

2) Figure out what parts of their car designs are over-engineered. If something is designed to last 50K operations, but in reality is only used 15K times over the lifetime of 80% of their cars, then that something can be redesigned to be much cheaper in future models. This has been one of the biggest impacts of telematics on the car industry, because in earlier days a lot of guesswork was involved and a lot of it turned out to be wrong.

The latter of the two is the financially biggest technical/internal incentive for the OEMS to pay for the data transfers.

As a side effect, they may be able to make money using the data via other routes. One way would be by enabling "location based services" (read as: hidden advertisements) provided by partner companies, but this is a touchy topic, as premium car OEMs are very brand image sensitive and don't want to be caught selling user data the way some other companies openly do nowadays. Next, there are opportunities for cooperating with, for instance, insurance companies. Those can make a better profit if they have better statistical knowledge about what tends to happen to cars of model X (or even color Y), even without detailed info on who owns one of those. Many more possibilities exist...

Yes.
They all have.
It's even advertised as a feature nowadays... "Locate my car via a web page" is an actual service of my 2019 car.

My 2017 one (that got involved in an accident) also had it, which is why until 1 year ago I knew where it got stored and still was after the accident. I hadn't bothered to inform the dealership that I no longer had that car (legally speaking it was not mine anyway, as it was leased). Later on, on purpose, I didn't react when the manufacturer started sending me messages that the battery was very very low. I wanted to see what would happen and how long it would take before they'd figure it out. Almost 4 years, it turned out.

My 2012 car doesn't have this as a user accessible feature, but very likely does have it towards the manufacturer. I know, because I actually worked on automotive telematics devices for many many years. In around 2010 (or thereabout) I was at a technical project meeting where a major German car brand simply admitted "under implied NDA" to having all that data for all their recent cars. These days, they are also open about it being a "feature", but 95% of the public doesn't get or understand the full implications.
Of course, the OEM doesn't know who actually uses the car on any given day. Also, if it gets sold on second hand or third hand, they start losing track of who owns it in case the new owner doesn't "register" it at an official dealership. But still...

Are you the old me? :-) Up to and including the Tyan Tomcat, even. :-)
Or are you my friend who was in the same boat? Also up to and including the Tyan Tomcat.
We both were past the dorm stage at the time (though not by much), but other than that you could be one of us...
Very, very sweet memories!

What if I don't have a google account? Then how can I turn this off and still be sure google is not anyway building a shadow profile of me?

I've seen google emerge from zero as the good old "do no evil" company they once were, and I was a big fan of them back then. The search experience was both excellent and minimalist and some of their other tools were godly good. But not anymore: the search interface has been dumbed down, good tools have been killed and replaced by useless rap, and - most of all - their evil unethical tracking disgusts me.

I completely changed my mind about them since the old days. I absolutely refuse to have an account, I block ads at multiple levels, I block google analytics cookies as much as I can - and will kill any that I do find, as they change the specs over time. I nowadays also avoid all google sites like the plague, but their dirty fingers are just everywhere. :-(