In exchange for selling your data to food companies.

Get used to the app then break it and come out with something new and charge a fee.

Where I live it rains sometimes. I don't want to get out of my car and open a door in the rain.

It's not your database, it belongs to the airlines. You must have agreed to them collecting and selling your personal data in the terms of the flight contract/ticket you purchased. This is just like the way you consented to your smart TV collecting and selling all your data because you plugged it in. I wish there was a legislative fix for this sort of thing in the USA.

That should be easy. The airlines could agree to pay the lawyers $40,000,000 and admit no wrongdoing. Maybe with any luck the airlines would also agree to provide a voucher for a bowl of nuts to anyone who flew in the past 10 years.

So? What could someone do with the information that your garage door opens every weekday at 7am, opens again at 6pm, and your heat is set to 55 degrees during those times?

Just got an email from United. (They use Newark as a hub so they are at a big risk of cancellations) They say anyone can get a refund from them -- even people with bottom of the line economy tickets. They also say they don't plan on cancelling international flights. The most at risk for cancellations are domestic flights to a non hub city. Travel insurance should pay too but I'd much rather get it directly from the airline.

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USA patent laws are awful. How can EpiPens be patent protected when epinephrine is a natural human hormone and not patentable and the rest of the EpiPen is a syringe, needle and spring?

Maybe I'll get my $3.50 in 2028 -- assuming the court doesn't find that I "agreed to the terms and conditions"

The tax was passed in 2024 and Canada wants to collect it retroactive to 2022. If there's one kind of tax I don't like it's a retroactive tax.

My electric rate at home is close to $.15 per kWh. Tesla was charging about $.45 per kWh at most superchargers. It is cheaper to operate a 40mpg gas powered hybrid car on $3/gallon gas than to use an EV at $.45 per kWh. This is especially true in the winter when heating your EV causes your electricity consumption to go way up. For $3 you could go 40 miles on gas. $3 at a $.45/kWh supercharger will get you 6.7 kWh. At 75mph in the winter you could use over 333 watt hours per mile so your 6.6 kWh will only get you 20 miles.

German courts sent people to prison for the fraud in Dieselgate: https://apnews.com/article/vol... Forget class actions, send Facebook executives to prison for computer fraud! It's time that sleazy business practice like this lands the engineers and corporate management that approved it in prison.

1.8 million apps is a lot.