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Comment Re:Copyright owners can change the license (Score 1) 120

Free Enterprise.

More regulation rarely fixes the problems and creates more problems that only large multinational government tied corporations can comply. Example, the repeated problems with the Banking industry, one of the most regulated industries that has been repeatedly bailed out of bad banking by taxpayers. Filed under "too big to fail"

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 142

CD Audio is digital. It literally offers no difference to all other Digital Formats, excepting for bitrate differences. Most listening is via some sort of digital conversion.

Vinyl is analog. There is a real benefit to analog, as it does not have some of the clipping effects digital is known for. Can most people tell the difference? Probably not.

Comment Re: Australia lack of sensors and reclassification (Score 3, Insightful) 56

Yeah places like finland have sort of bad air in very few places in few of the cities. Whereas in thailand when the pm2.5 index levels are commonly over 150 going to 200 in ALL of the rural areas. For reference in rural finland it would be something like 5 to 10 (and i have firsthand experience for both of these)

Australia would have great air in most of the country because most of the country is far enough from indonesia. Theres no forests to light on fire in inner australia anyway.

Comment Re: I'm conflicted (Score 1) 125

The definition for driving like a lunatic might surprise you.

99% of people its not worth getting an insurance company tracker. If you have bumpy roads even less worth it, but more worth it than a different company selling the data since the data becomes more valuable the more lunatic its represented as, so if you live in a town with traffic lights you'll be doing lots of "hard braking" or running the lights.

Eventually the insurance companies will stop paying attention and paying for the data as they get actual baselines built and notice the fleece and customer drain.

Comment Re: Needs to be shut down with prejudice (Score 1) 125

Its in the fine print you don't see when you buy the car.

The more ridiculous thing is of course that you press on the brakes equals hard braking. Its winter and your abs kicks in and guess what that counts as...

Anyway in a few years they'll revert to normal rates and info gets thrown out, currently its only seen as valuable as they have it of so few drivers and the company selling the data basically just flat out lies about the quality of the data - the "normal" driving benchmark on it isn't normal at all - and the reason they'll revert is that they actually need customers and can't stay afloat with unicorn customers who only drive 35mph on account of being senile.

The data doesn't include where or the limits etc..

Comment Re:Time sensitive (Score 4, Informative) 58

The simple version as I see it is that if Social Media account is used for PERSONAL things only, they can block people, if they use it to communicate within the scope of their job as a public servant then they can't.

Most people can't help themselves and comingle their public life and their private life.

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