Comment Hybrids (Score 1) 214
TFA only mentioned EVs not hybrids. Ford can't seem to build hybrid Mavericks fast enough, based on the shopping I just did for one.
Comment Freedom Dividend (Score 1) 84
During the campaign for 2020, Democratic candidate Andrew Yang proposed a similar "dividend" dubbed the Freedom Dividend, paid for through the taxing of various artificial intelligence and automation advances that were leverage by companies.
Submission + - Norwegian Consumer Council Targets 'Enshittification' (forbrukerradet.no) 1
DeanonymizedCoward writes: The Norwegian Consumer Council, an independent, governmentally funded organization that advocates for consumer’s rights, has released a report addressing the trends of 'enshittification' in consumer goods and services and laying out some steps consumers can take to buck the trends.
"It should be easy for consumers to make sustainable choices every day. Consumers have the right to be protected against exploitation – both financially and digitally. To ensure this, we work to provide easy access to information, enforceable rights, and sufficient redress options when something goes wrong," says the organization.
They have also released a YouTube video making light of the matter,
"It should be easy for consumers to make sustainable choices every day. Consumers have the right to be protected against exploitation – both financially and digitally. To ensure this, we work to provide easy access to information, enforceable rights, and sufficient redress options when something goes wrong," says the organization.
They have also released a YouTube video making light of the matter,
Comment Re:fake it until you make it is out of hand (Score 1) 20
It's not really "faking it" if everyone else are in the same boat. So technically "faking it" is the same as "real."
Comment Car vs Phone (Score 1) 63
I guess I can just have a phone instead of having a car.
Comment Re:down (Score 1) 45
that explains why i was having issues trying to access it earlier. didn't know there was a slashdot article about it.
Comment This will only be useful... (Score 1) 42
...to humanity if they hired John Connor.
Comment Re:When to rent and when to buy (Score 1) 126
When the company has an ongoing cost - such as they have to make new content every year, then it makes sense for you to pay an ongoing cost each month.
But when the company has no mandatory ongoing cost it makes ZERO sense to pay them rent.
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Yep, like BMW charging to use your heated seats.
Comment Re:Cord-cutting cord-cutter (Score 1) 57
That's interesting. My LG TVs don't do that, but I have never accepted their user agreement. Have you?
Mine sit behind a pair of AppleTVs with no network access of their own so their ad BS is hidden from me, and the TVs don't keep asking for a network.
Comment Re:Group hug. (Score 1) 38
I was going to say the same thing. I have seen some of this first hand and it's not that different when you think back to times when we ourselves were growing up.
Comment Re:Before anyone asks: (Score 1) 57
McNally does work with the Lock Picking Lawyer.
The key is the last word is his nom de guerre. It's not an idle word....
Comment Another outage (Score 3, Interesting) 42
Is this a nice way to say we're getting another outage tomorrow?
Comment Huawei (Score 1) 238
Huawei have had dark factories and placing them on the sanctioned list of companies only spurred them to "get good" even more. Even before they came under fire they were already scaling back their workforce at the factories as they had already started to see the benefits of dark factories. What other dark factories other industries may have is hard to tell but this is an evolution of manufacturing technology.
Comment This is as silly.... (Score 1) 42
...as Peter Gabriel naming his first three solo albums "Peter Gabriel."
Comment Fake News, Inc. (Score 1) 105
I guess we'll see who is a part of the fake news industrial complex.
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