Oh, get over yourselves with the flamebait moderation on this post. I have suffered with chronic insomnia for between three and four decades, but you know what? I can still tell a joke when I see one. Parent post didn't deserve the downvote, just s quiet chuckle or a roll of the eyes.

Yep, this whole thing is BS. There's every chance Whole Foods just became more *expensive*, but because they only checked the handful of items Amazon hyped lower prices on, of *course* we get told "Yes, they're really cheaper." Lazy journalism abounds, today.

And it's because they don't actually make that, Subaru does. The entire mechanical design is Subaru, as is most of the engine and interior. Toyota just contributed the fuel injection system, external styling and the laughably outdated, 1980s red LED clock.

Translation: "I saw an opinion that wouldn't fit in my safe space, so I ran away from my standard Republican-leaning news source to an alt-right-leaning news source." There's nothing liberal about the WSJ, as even a cursory glance at their editorials will reveal.

Not hurting yet, perhaps, but over time they'll find the same thing that others who've tried this have. Once you take away that first free dose, the rest of the product feels less valuable because you can't really see what you're getting. Those who subscribed before the policy will eventually age out of the system, and that churn won't be replaced by as many new customers.

It'll take a while, but eventually they'll go back on this. Wait and see.

Bullshit. Every editorial I've read there in the last couple of years has had a strong conservative slant, just as you'd expect of a newspaper aimed predominantly at rich people (and poor people who think they're going to become rich people).

Let me fetch my tiny violin for that bastion of biased Republican reportage, shall I?

Or maybe, Tesla actually has real problems it needs to resolve, but you're dismissing those concerns because standard Slashdot practice is to fellate Mr. Musk at all times, no matter how utterly absurd the idea. (See: Hyperloop.)

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The big issue isn't the question of who to shoot (what's it matter if you take a while to get them, so long as you get the right people?). It's also not "How can we stop the tools being misused", because the simple truth is that we can't, and that they'll get their hands on tools like this even if we don't pass this moronically-named act.

The real concern is that we're trusting big business to use this appropriately. I can guarantee that it won't. The RIAA and MPAA are probably wetting their pants in anticipation of this so they can start hacking internet users to get their identity and extort money out of them, for example. I'm sure they can manufacture some evidence that they were "hacked first". Companies will also be using it against each other. (Microsoft: "No, honest guv. We saw a hacking attempt from both Google and Amazon simultaneously, with an assist from Apple too. We totally had to hack them back. It's just a coincidence that our subsequent product launches seemed almost to have anticipated our competitors' products." Etc., etc.

Big business can't even be trusted with the tools it already has. It sure as hell doesn't need this one too!

People expecting to find Target became one.

Yep, and that was actually one of the simpler schemes. A lot of the copy protection back then relied on having to use feelies, or browse through long texts or lists of stats to answer obscure questions on the subject matter.

It's amazing that a full three-plus decades later, the software industry still hasn't realized the staggering stupidity of inconveniencing or even punishing your paying users for buying the software, in your hopeless goal of even slowing down the pirates.

What does that have to do with my point?

Mod parent up insightful please, someone. Loads of people talking about tourism here, but very few acknowledging that this will also have a *huge* and negative impact on business travel -- and that's more likely than not going to result in some business going to other countries instead of us, in the long run.

Yes, brain fart and I typed it into the calculator as weeks because my mind was somewhere else. Thanks for the correction.