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Submission + - US government ramps up mass surveillance (theconversation.com) 2

sinij writes:

People have little choice when buying devices, using apps or opening accounts but to agree to lengthy terms that include consent for companies to collect and sell their personal data. This “consent” allows their data to end up in the largely unregulated commercial data market. The government claims it can lawfully purchase this data from data brokers. But in buying your data in bulk on the commercial market, the government is circumventing the Constitution, Supreme Court decisions and federal laws designed to protect your privacy from unwarranted government overreach.

Still nothing to hide?

Comment Re:Same as it ever was (Score 2) 283

BYD didn't so much chose to not build a factory here as they are blocked from doing so.

Last I heard, the trade policy was set to deter importing cars made in China into the United States. BYD having been blocked from setting up a factory on United States soil and hiring United States residents to produce cars for the United States market is news to me. The interview that Wikipedia cites states only that BYD isn't planning to build in the US or Mexico for the US market, not why that's the case. Searching DuckDuckGo for "is byd blocked from setting up factory in usa" didn't turn up relevant results either.

Comment Re:Same as it ever was (Score 1) 283

Get someone to install a decent charger at home: View it as part of the purchase price of the car, if one even needs it.

So to buy a car, you have to first buy a house, or at least buy out the rest of your lease in favor of somewhere to live whose parking could support a charger.

Find out the office doesn't have a single charger: One would think one would know this before they bought the car.

Consider the case of buying a car and then changing jobs. How practical is it to choose where to work based on whether the office has a charger?

Not to mention that a lot of ICE car drivers aren't rich enough to afford a new car, only a used car. And a lot of ICE car drivers live in the United States, where BYD has chosen not to build a factory, and have an ethical disagreement with the leadership of Tesla.

Comment The article is about removable media (Score 1) 85

You are correct with respect to their internal storage.

However, say you want to interchange files among several computers using removable media, such as an SD card, USB flash drive, or USB hard drive. One is a Windows PC that prefers NTFS, another a Mac that prefers Apple's FS, and another a Linux PC that prefers ext4. What file system would you use on the drive?

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