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Comment Re:Doesn't need to invent the self driving car (Score 1) 228

Why would the inventor of the self driving car allow Uber to use their cars? The inventor of the self driving car will be running the profitable fleet and taxi services themselves and taking the profit themselves. And the software licensing can easily block competitors, unless they pay a premium to use the commercial version. The cost will be what the market can bare, which will be a lot. This is why lots of people are trying to invent the self driving car, rather than waiting for someone else to do it and license it to them.

Comment Snap for containment (Score 1) 213

Under Ubuntu 16.04++, and other systems supporting contained snaps:

sudo snap install chromium
sudo snap disconnect chromium:home core:home
sudo snap disconnect chromium:camera core:camera

First installs chromium, fully contained, as /snap/bin/chromium. Second removes its access to your home directory. Third the camera. Stick a copy of ~/.mozilla in ~/snap/firefox/common/.mozilla to get everything migrated. Enjoy your sandboxed chromium.

Comment Re:Blank check? (Score 1) 547

To break the constitution, it needs to be your data. It isn't your data. It is someone else's data about you. The only thing protecting you is your right to privacy, which you don't seem to have any more. Well, I imagine 'public figures' will be exempt 'in the interest of national security' despite the fact that their browsing history will be more valuable than the bulk data on the masses.

Comment Re:Twitter as a protocol (Score 1) 284

The theory is to monetize the data they collect from operating the messaging platform. While this data has value, this article is pointing out that it is crap data and has little value. Maybe even at '$10 a share', it is enough to operate or maybe it will go under.

I was kind of hoping that WhatsApp's $1 a year business model would work out, but alas we seem to be stuck with the major messaging platforms all operated by people who only see the value in spying on their users. Maybe one of the minor players with a different model will get noticed if enough of the major ones fail.

Comment Re:To be fair, a pretty easy run (Score 1) 246

I think that the driver moving away from the wheel while transport officials watched and not getting arrested is a pretty big deal. It might not be a technical hurdle they overcome, but is it a milestone on the legislative and psychological side. We have years worth of these 'publicity stunts' that need to happen before the general public lets autonomous vehicles on the road without supervision.

Its going to be just like the aviation or space industry, where no politician wants to have their name associated with the headlines about the first fatality. A majority of politicians need to believe there is 0% chance of it affecting their re-election, which isn't going to happen so it needs to be buried in committees and red tape.

Comment Re:Another one bites the dust (Score 1) 365

This is one of the stupidest acquisitions I have ever heard of.

Not at all, they get pretty much a real list of millions of people along with some real data..

Is a list of millions of people worth 26 billion dollars?

You could hire an army to scrape a larger list in a short period of time for a fraction of that. Or just purchase a list from someone who already has similar data, such as Microsoft for example.

Maybe they have a plan to monetize it. I can't think of a way to do it without grossly devaluing LinkedIn, but then again I don't have 26 billion dollars.

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