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Re:It all made sense when we found out we were autistic on Monday March 26, 2018 @11:12PM (#16684894)
I think this is an interesting intersection with the recent episode of Full Frontal... in which the host points out that women appear to be under-served by Medicine.

Are we failing half the population so completely?

I think there is an aspect of privacy that folks may be ignoring. Privacy from commercial entities.

Consider the following scenario:

Driver A and driver B are involved in an accident. Driver C is in an autonomous vehicle that "witnesses" the accident, by being in close proximity to the event.

If driver A or B have the same insurance company as C, that company could get the data from C to determine fault in the accident that C's vehicle witnessed... or better yet, show that both drivers were at fault and they will not pay anyone anything.

As the number of autonomous vehicles rise, the amount of data available to companies will grow, too.

I would be surprised if there isn't language in the policies being underwritten today that would make such a thing possible... possibly even mandatory.

Re:Southwest Airlines is intimidating our startup on Thursday November 16, 2017 @02:46PM (#15715890)
That would be one way to comply with the letter of the TOS. There will be some issue of getting enough traction from users that obey the TOS to make the site useful, though.

I think crowdsourcing would open up SWmonkey to 'attack' from SW, where SW would flood the channel with conflicting info at a rate that would make the SWmonkey site useless to legitimate customers.

Also, most of the companies that offer fare comparisons do not show SW flights... Some of those companies have the tech chops to implement 'fixes' that would comply with the SW site TOS and the massive legal departments to defend their position/approach in any and all courts in the world.

Re:Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History on Monday October 09, 2017 @07:20PM (#15438207)
want to get rich fast... start a new credit reporting agency that just does a 'sed' on one of the big three reports and feeds it to you as their report... put a big warning on the home page that folks should freeze their report from your CRA for just $5.00. Watch the money roll in. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
Re:Mondo 2000 Issue 2 (1990) on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @03:27PM (#14799329)
Old guy here... I always thought of M2k as a text heavy, Heavy Metal. And Heavy metal is still going.

As an aside... There is a show of 40 years of Heavy Metal art and such in Santa Monica, CA through Aug. 19, 2017 at the Copro Gallery.