I can kinda buy the justification but I dont think the solution will get adoption. The TSA will cut the TSA-compliant locks if it will take the agent longer to find the key than it will to find the cutter. Or at least that's what the airline employee told me when I asked why my compliant lock had been removed. Law enforcement are not going to settle for a 5 minute skeleton key.

This thread is about jobs. If I had $10M in the bank I would be developing something I had equity in instead of enriching others.

If you ever hang out in the nonprofit sector you will notice that a lot of these underpaid workers are independently wealthy as well.

to VW's credit there is a setting to automatically turn on the heated seat and steering wheel when it's cold out. In my car it is fully toasty by the time I finish scraping the ice off .

Chevy Bolt is supposed to have seat heaters that come on when remote started, but it doesn't seem to work on mine.

My old honda fit had one of those inside the glovebox. I believe you were meant to plug in a flash drive or ipod and leave it forever. It did not provide enough power to actually charge a battery.

Oh. That's interesting. I have a 2018 Fit and I've never been able to get the USB port in the center console to charge anything. I bought it used, so I just assumed it was broken and moved on to using an adapter in the cigarette lighter. I wonder if that's what's actually going on?

Tesla does something similar as their USB port for flash drives is in the glovebox. It is intended to make the dashcam drive harder to steal.

I agree, if only because the UK seems to be the florida of goofball defamation cases. And while I do think the developer would win their case, having to field one at all really sucks.

CoD is currently 300GB on disk due to all the textures. I suspect a lot of players would be happy with a modest regression in fidelity if it means the game can run smoothly on affordable devices and leave some room for their other games too.

Here's a better rec: Buy any device with a carta 1300 screen and only buy from shops that are supported by the DeDRM plugin in Calibre.

Yes, but Calibre can get the files onto any other device with a drag and drop operation, which is not the case with the newest version of Amazon DRM.

I guess we just have to wait a little while, until that method using Calibre also does no longer work, because either Kobo or Adobe or someone else wants to make sure it does not work.

Someone googles "free VPN" so they can watch region locked videos and now their connection is a part of that network too. They may or may not realize that this is the arrangement.

Or his kid uses a free game with a lot of grinding, not knowing that the child's phone is now technically part of a botnet.

I would like to know more about this. Got a source?

It's hard to find a source that isn't paywalled, but fortunately it's covered in a paper: https://www.xiaojingliao.com/uploads/9/7/0/2/97024238/ndss21...

Works great if you are the product owner. We ended up having to fire and replace about a dozen 3rd party vendors over this.