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Comment Re: All that's needed (Score 1) 286

Yet itâ(TM)s the atypical day that scares me with automated driving. Can a car understand a cop waving you around an accident? Can a car see a frisbee about to fly into the street, with a kid (currently in the yard) running after it? Can a car understand snowy roads covered with ice and a truck kareening out of control on a cross street? Can it understand itâ(TM)s cameras are blinded and drive slower in a snowstorm, or does it assume nothing is there and go full speed? If you can control the entire environment, then automated driving makes a lot of sense. But in the real world, things are always more complicated, and I do not trust the computers have enough knowledge yet to navigate that.

Comment Re: Because it's biased. (Score 1) 1024

He is PRESIDENT. Yes, I expect him to be able to figure out how to use a phone. Dear G-d, how low will you set your standards? They actually have training for WH personnel on how to use their phones, so unless he was playing on Twitter during the session he was already brought up to speed. Also, itâ(TM)s not his first month, so I do expect heâ(TM)s had to use it before now.

So, yeah, if he doesnâ(TM)t know by now heâ(TM)s never going to, or heâ(TM)s forgotten (which is scarier by far).

Comment Re: So, "immigrants"? (Score 1) 677

Right up until that company gets hacked. Then the data on where you go and where you shop is out. Data that doesnt need be collected in the first place for their business.

They may, as privately held properties, have the right to collect the data, for now, but by doing so they incur extra liability if they inadvertently leak that data about their customers. Not necessarily legal liability, but PR liability. Just because someone is legal doesnâ(TM)t mean one should do it, or that it has no consequences.

Comment Re: Swap the twitter phone while he sleeps (Score 3, Insightful) 542

Ah, so in your company the CEO apparently gets to ignore any rule he wants. See, in reasonable companies, the CEO hires people who are experts in their field, and if they set rules he has to obey them, because THEY KNOW MORE THAN HE DOES. Otherwise why bother to hire them in the first place.

And the President isnâ(TM)t a King or Emperor - even he has to obey rules that he doesnâ(TM)t like, or approve. He has a specific role to fill and itâ(TM)s not to dictate what happens, but to Lead the country and Execute the laws thereof. Not to tweet every effing thing that comes to his head - thatâ(TM)s actually the job of his Press Secretary.

Comment Firmware?? (Score 1) 275

So what they want to do is mandate firmware for all phones to allow them to disable, complete, all functionality of a phone. We have only their word that they won't disable *MY* phone, or *YOUR* phone, that they won't accidentally read off the wrong IMEI and disabled Trump's phone..

And here's the way around this: buy your prison phone from Europe, or Asia, pop a US SIM in it, and you're good to go. Asia, in particular, has low cost phones that won't observe any firmware "shutdown" commands as they are made for use outside of FCC jurisdiction.

Comment Shame on the ad network (Score 3, Insightful) 70

What advertising network? They should be known, publicly shamed, and every website operator should know not to do business with them.

Honestly, I wish there was a way for me to report an ad that's violating browser rules. I hate when I go to a real newspaper site that uses ads, and I get served an ad that takes over the whole window, hiding stuff behind, but there's no way for me, on my phone / tablet, to know who served the ad or report the ad placement. Makes me want to block all ads everywhere on my personal devices and networks, but THAT comes with issues because many sites and even many mobile apps refuse to function if they can't talk to the ad networks and/or Google/Adobe/etc..

Comment Re:Congress doing something right? (Score 4, Insightful) 176

Nice try, but already several states have emissions standards, and had the Feds used their unconstitutional "right" to pass a law only permitting Federal jurisdiction over emission standards, CA's rules (which like 10 other states follow) would NEVER have seen the light of day. And those standards have helped push electric vehicles, even self-driving cars (which arguably would not exist if alternative fuel cars wasn't as big of a market as it is - it's sparked innovation in a previously dead market).

In the end, the Feds don't really have authority to do this, if the States would finally stand up and remind the federal government of their rights under the 10th amendment. Great point: I may not be a leftie or rightie (I'm actually centrist), but how would you feel if the Feds also demanded concealed carry reciprocity nation-wide? Or blocked LGBT marriage nation-wide? Most liberals squirm, at best, at the thought, yet ITS THE SAME IDEA - the feds taking away the right for a State to determine its own laws entirely within that state. It's only when something is commerce cross-state boundaries that the feds should be doing anything like this, and several states (esp. out west) are larger than many European countries, so I have a hard time believing they are having a hard time doing business in California (practically its own country already).

Comment Re:Good (Score 2) 57

You're kidding, right? The certificate location doesn't change. Once you setup the certificate, you just run letsencrypt-auto renew once a week and when it's done do an apachectl reload. I run over a hundred websites across 10 servers and haven't had any issues integrating LE into my flow. I will admit I use nginx and not apache, but given that the path to the certificate, chain and key don't change and are all symlinks, I fail to see how it's "complicated".

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