Yeah, that was a typo in my submission. I should have said 2021, not 2024 given that the REDIT post was '4 years ago'. Sorry.

Multiple credit card companies are already doing this. Our merchant services company offered us this same data. Of course Google is tracking everything you do. But they can only do it with the willing help of Visa/Mastercard.

It's too late for everybody who isn't named "Tesla". Tesla's got over 100,000 charging stations installed already. Tesla's chargers are going to be the de facto standard at this point.

Unless you buy brand new hardware, hardware is absurdly cheap. Our hardware costs are somewhere around 1/20 of our software costs. It might even be less. I don't see any costs savings on hardware.

What I do see with "microservices" is crossing your fingers that whoever you're buying from knows what they're doing (ie: backups, non-faulty hardware, non-faulty sysadmins, etc.)

The other thing is that you have to rely on Internet access, which, in most of the US, is spotty at best. We're in a major metropolitan, high-tech area, and neither of the ISP's can provide us with reliable service. Hence, all of our software is built to run off-line during our very regular Internet outages. With "microservices", we'd just be stopped from doing any business at all every time the Internet dropped out.

If these companies even tried to end "hate speech" or whatever nebulous crime where a specific group of pigs are more equal than another group of pigs, we will see the end of these platforms and companies full sail.

Banning trolls will hurt their business, how? As an employer, I'm MORE likely to advertise on a platform that wasn't full of screaming, stupid Trump people. Those are not people that I want to advertise to, anyway.

How can Uber have trouble turning a profit? What expenses do they have? Are they literally wiping their asses with money, or something? I can't imagine how maintaining a few little apps would cost billions of dollars a year.

Wow. That's neat. In return for those cute little gimmicks, Amazon has a complete recording of everything that happens in your house. And, then they sell that to other companies. You're OK with that? Really?

I feel bad for kids these days. The world is going to be a nastier place to live in than it is today in many ways, environmentally, notwithstanding. Go, Trump!

Big Oil also told Norway that they wouldn't drill in the North Sea if Norway set their oil royalties where they are today.

If launching 5G networks works financially for the companies then they will do it.. With or without Net Neutrality laws.

From the sounds of things, if you "angrily hit the (F^@king) red 'x' to close the update window a second time, you'll be scheduling an upgrade.

It appears that Microsoft hasn't learned the 25 year old lesson that 'clicking on the close box means STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING -- RIGHT NOW!

Apparently, trump hired a rabid global warming denier as his energy adviser.; Supposedly, this guy is so anti-global warming that he believes that the earth is cooling and that claims that CO2 is a greenhouse gas are fraudulent.

I have no reports on whether or not this guy is also a flat-earther.

If you've got enough money, you can pressure the government into holding you harmless from any serious prosecution. It happened with the bankers on wall street after 2008, and it's happening with the Saudis after 9/11.

Rinse^w, money launder, repeat.

What makes Americans easier to recruit to ISIS is the fact that they have right wing yahoos who make a point of looking down their nose at the kid, calling him a terrorist and sometimes even spitting in his face, when all he's trying to do is live a decent life.

I will quit reading Slashdot if that stupid Beta shit is implemented. It's horrible. It fixes nothing. It is not an improvement in any way.