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Comment Re: Mobile phones (Score 2) 332

It's not just the kids. I'm 36 and have been using computers since grade 2, ran a BBS, used winamp until I moved to a Linux desktop fulltime in 2000 (subsequently switching to xmms) and I'm now a full time streamer.

My job is intense and I don't have time to deal with managing local mp3s. It simply makes no sense. I now use an online streaming service full time which also provides offline access via downloads.

Comment Re: Mobile phones (Score 1) 332

I stopped using winamp and xmms because I now just use Google Play Music and stream everything. I can even download music offline to play on my cell at the cottage and it goes via Bluetooth to my Bose wireless speaker.

At the end of the day, obtaining mp3 files, storing, sorting, organizing etc is just too much work. Also I listen to a lot more music that I'd not have known about. Unless a new winamp provides all the same functionality of Google Play Music subscription, I'm not sure I'll have a reason to use it.

Comment Long live the autonomous car! (Score 1) 367

I for one welcome our autonomous car overlords.

I see enough people doing stupid things on the roads that a computer controlled car can't be any worse. Provinces in Canada, such as Ontario, are continuing to ramp up laws and penalties on those who text and use their phones while driving. Just recently the fine went up to $255, and there is legislation tabled that could make use of a cell phone pretty much synonymous with drunk driving (there were more fatalities last year due to cell phone use while driving than drunk driving in Ontario).

Penalties of 3 demerit points and $1000 fine, plus increase in car insurance (do to demerit points) are on the board, and likely to go through. The best way to get around this I believe is in the use of self driving cars. Let them do the mundane driving for us. I'll stick to driving myself when it's fun, or I'm at the track.

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