Comment Re: This Is A Nonstarter (Score 1) 66
Snakes on a plane.
Comment Re:Of course (Score 1) 215
And a 30%-off coupon for tattoo services.
Comment Source of infinite carbohydrates & fat (Score -1, Troll) 124
The big bright orange Cheeto showing up at regular fascist rallies.
Problem solved.
You're welcome.
Comment Gun nutz getting off on destruction & terroris (Score 2, Insightful) 116
#SEKKUNDAMENDMINT, amirite?
Comment Re:It already started. (Score 4, Insightful) 237
Anyone with a bigass weenie-compensating SUV or pickup truck needs $12/gallon fuel. VROOOOOOOOM
Comment Shocked⦠shocked (Score 4, Insightful) 109
Shitty company does shitty stuff to employees.
Comment Re: I think they are relocating to EU. (Score 1) 45
Bolt is an Uber-ish, app-based taxi-ish company in Europe. Popular here in Portugal. I don't think it has any relation to the US Bolt.
Comment Re:Clutter of late-stage capitalism (Score 1) 45
....and to think, I used to hate the idiot tourist groups on Segways in the Seattle tourist district. I was a pedestrian on a really narrow sidewalk and just kept walking when a column of ten of those slobbering lazy morons wanted to pass. Fuck them all with a rusty rake. The scooters are far worse. Maybe a monkeypox-laden pitchfork for them.
Comment Clutter of late-stage capitalism (Score 1) 45
Good riddance.
Submission + - CBP can attack your Smartphone... with your Car
ytene writes: As reported by The Intercept, U.S. Customs and Border Protection have just spent $456,063 for a package of technology specifically designed to access smartphone data via a motor vehicle. From the article:-
"...part of the draw of vacuuming data out of cars is that so many drivers are oblivious to the fact that their cars are generating so much data in the first place, often including extremely sensitive information inadvertently synced from smartphones."
This data can include “Recent destinations, favorite locations, call logs, contact lists, SMS messages, emails, pictures, videos, social media feeds, and the navigation history of everywhere the vehicle has been, when and where a vehicle’s lights are turned on, and which doors are opened and closed at specific locations” as well as “gear shifts, odometer reads, ignition cycles, speed logs, and more. This car-based surveillance, in other words, goes many miles beyond the car itself."
Perhaps the most remarkable claim, however, was, “We had a Ford Explorer we pulled the system out, and we recovered 70 phones that had been connected to it. All of their call logs, their contacts and their SMS.”
Mohammad Tajsar, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), is quoted as saying, “Whenever we have surveillance technology that’s deeply invasive, we are disturbed,” he said. “When it’s in the hands of an agency that’s consistently refused any kind of attempt at basic accountability, reform, or oversight, then it’s Defcon 1.”
"...part of the draw of vacuuming data out of cars is that so many drivers are oblivious to the fact that their cars are generating so much data in the first place, often including extremely sensitive information inadvertently synced from smartphones."
This data can include “Recent destinations, favorite locations, call logs, contact lists, SMS messages, emails, pictures, videos, social media feeds, and the navigation history of everywhere the vehicle has been, when and where a vehicle’s lights are turned on, and which doors are opened and closed at specific locations” as well as “gear shifts, odometer reads, ignition cycles, speed logs, and more. This car-based surveillance, in other words, goes many miles beyond the car itself."
Perhaps the most remarkable claim, however, was, “We had a Ford Explorer we pulled the system out, and we recovered 70 phones that had been connected to it. All of their call logs, their contacts and their SMS.”
Mohammad Tajsar, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), is quoted as saying, “Whenever we have surveillance technology that’s deeply invasive, we are disturbed,” he said. “When it’s in the hands of an agency that’s consistently refused any kind of attempt at basic accountability, reform, or oversight, then it’s Defcon 1.”
Comment F U Zuckerschmuck (Score 1, Informative) 19
People feeble enough to run the Facebook app can at least do one more clicky-click to allow Lord Z to cash in on their ignorance. If you -must- use FB on your mobile, run it in a browser. The app is a fukkin' disaster.
Comment Making Shitty Code Great Again (Score 0, Flamebait) 164
Fascist websites scrape the bottom of the skill barrel. Just like their more public idols.
Details after the game.
Comment Is Waymo for real? (Score 1) 185
There isn't really any proof that Waymo vehicles are driverless, only that the driver isn't in the vehicle. If you compare a dozen dubiously driverless vehicles to a million collecting data every moment and already doing a pretty good job at autonomy, which do you think will succeed?
Comment Remote driver != "no driver" (Score 1) 185
The fact that the driver is not in the vehicle does not mean that there is no driver.
Comment Came from Amateur Observers first. (Score 3, Insightful) 31
I believe that this was figured out in the amateur observer community before NASA confirmed it. I saw it go by in my twitter feed. Not sure I can find it now...
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