There we go, turned it down.

Yeah, I get +2 and I didn't realize it was automatic and I thought I had just become really insightful and everyone loved my posts. LOL.Thanks for letting me know I can turn it down.

No, 1984 was reference to a certain novel with a level of surveillance I feel comfortable accepting, as opposed to what's happening now.

I'm not techie enough to know for sure, but I don't think there was anything worth hacking in most cars built in 1995, although a few top of the line Buicks and Cadillacs had electronic data recording. List of cars with EDR

Yes, I feel like I'm in preschool with the big, bulky Legos when I want the cool small ones. And the big bulky Legos have all this crap in them reporting everything to Microsoft. Also, they are less versatile than small legos. All I want are executable programs that do what I want them to do and no more and don't share my personal data.

This reminds me of recent questions, can anyone build a car that can't be hacked? Well, yes, all the cars built 2 decades ago can't be hacked and contain all the features I want in a car (drives from A to B, air conditioning, heater, radio).

- Take me back to 1984. Please.

Oh please. Older workers cost more (healthcare costs), won't put up with as much crap, and won't be in the workforce as long.

Also if you fire them, they can sue you based on Age Discrimination. Why do you think there's a law against discriminating against a person by age? Hmm, how did I ever get hired?

Here is a link to a handy list of cars that have Electronic Data Recording. For the tech unsavvy who can't figure out how to disable an EDR, it should be possible to use this list when car shopping, at least for the next few years.

More specifically SRWare Iron which also can be loaded and run from a flashdrive. My brother turned me onto this, I confess.

Why are you talking about browsers like it's an either/or? I use Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Iron, and even Internet Explorer depending on what I want to be doing, what cookies I want kept on the browser, etc. Firefox is poor at reading pdfs, though.

I think the relevant question is will the hovercraft trigger an IED. This probably more than poor road conditions is likely the reason for hovercrafts. Ewok attacks are not as big a problem as roadside bombs in Afghanistan, Syria, etc.

You flatter slashdot, if you think this is so.

Nate Silver did very poorly in the UK election just this spring. His trend was better than most pollsters, but he was still way off.

I once wrote an English paper in which I suggested pi be replaced by 3 to make the math easier. I was going for satire. The guy posting today is going for . . .

So, I posted a link to the Stop Fast Track website on Facebook, to see if it would be blocked, and it wasn't. I can see the website link from Facebook, my friends can see the website and post on it. So, if it was a mistake to block it, it's fixed now. Get all fired up people.

My point of confusion was that she worked for a "money transfer service." Now, I don't know exactly what that means, but does it mean she had money that she went around transferring to people? And in that case, an employer might be motivated to know where the employees are all the time, as well as all the money. But I think it's all electronic transfers, and she didn't have anyone else's money, and wasn't bonded. In which case, buy some aluminum foil and get yourself your own phone.