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Wow. Two years. Umm. I should like login or something.

It was introduced (and announced) two years ago:

- https://pipedot.org/61RE

All hail the new feature

Did the porn companies do something in particular? All I can see in recent news is the PornHub/Boston deal. I'm not entirely sure people got screwed on that one, but they definitely got plowed.

A SEX toy company has promised to destroy data collected by its smart vibrator after it was accused of storing "highly sensitive" information about women's sexual activities without their consent

This device likely has a significant male following as well

???

How many of those were contractors?

This is not.

See, this is where we need hashtags so I can put "creepy" on this one

Pipedot has a similar feature! How cool! http://pipedot.org/story/2FWPB/similar

Department of Human Services now nicknamed the Department of inHuman Services
Several cases have been reported where a debt was called against a person for which does not exist
There are quite a few news articles about it

Department of Homeland Security?
Nope... Department of Health Services in Australia.

Wow.. a debt recovery program issuing fake debt claims to citizens. Sounds as bad as those porn companies in the U.S.

We could have beaten them!

Next time, Dr Claw..

As you say, run-flat tires are normal car tires (with air) that are also capable of being used without air for some relatively short distance (50 miles?).

The Tweel is an airless tire-wheel combination with rubber tread elements and a polymer wheel that flexes to absorb bumps. Michelin has been pushing these for low speed applications for a number of years now. Small Tweels have been made for wheelchairs, probably much better than solid rubber or pneumatic tires in this application. Large ones for construction equipment as shown in the lead photo where they probablly replaced pneumatic tires. In other cases they might replace solid rubber tires (commonly used inside factories), for example, a fork lift that goes outdoors.

While Michelin have also been doing research internally and externally (maybe at Clemson U?) to make the Tweel suitable for normal cars this hasn't happened yet. Current Tweels are not low rolling resistance and transmit much more vibration than ordinary pneumatic tires, so they are unlikely to replace very many car & light truck tires in the near future.

I was initially interested in this announcement, but further investigation revealed it to be a terrible marketing cash-in. HMD Global already released the Nokia 150 late last year, and it is a better phone. It seems to me that the market is ready or will soon be for the slate meme to recede, and a real, decent feature phone could carve out a significant niche for itself. This, however a 2G-only phone with only 16MB of storage? Are you kidding? Not even hipsters will take this seriously. I suspect it will be forgotten before it even launches.

I'm not sure about EMPs, but anything with larger bits might be better able to resist cosmic rays. OTOH, it may just provide more area for them to hit.

I went with ubuntu on the desktop and except for systemd don't regret it. Will look into bodhi for next time.

Everyone tapes over the camera. No one leaves it open.

We don't use video calls in office though.

https://www.wired.com/2016/07/snowden-designs-device-warn-iphones-radio-snitches/

Not sure how a Faraday cage is supposed to leak if it is made correctly. The two requirements are sufficient coverage (a mesh can be used, but the maximum spacing is related to the frequency being blocked) and sufficient thickness, to ensure eddy currents can't radiate from the outside.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/02/27/uk-us-spies-hacked-webcams-millions-yahoo-users.html

It's even being done by the "good guys". Disgusting.

I expect commercial versions on non-pneumatic tires to not be open-air like those pictured.

Seems to me the tires pictured are the commercial version: http://www.michelintweel.com/tweel-SSL-AllTerrain.html

Normal car tires flex in about the same amount. If they didn't flex they would be very hard and seriously impact handling from both a ride-harshness standpoint and a grip standpoint (harder rubber = less grip). The flexing also allows for a larger contact patch with the road.

Let the privacy violations continue!

At the rate that systems are remotely crackable and the short lifespan of maintenance releases I'll have no part of it even if it means driving autos that are no newer than 2012. I'd rather be responsible for my own driving than trust that some 13-year-old in Russia isn't going to smash the vehicle I'm in through the front door of a bank just for the LOLs.

Did you figure it out? Was wondering the same, and tried to create packages from CentOS ones but when I run nova --list or openstack -h I get errors...

The man handpicked by Malcolm Turnbull to head the government's digital transformation has said the error rate in Centrelink's data-matching process is so unfathomably high that it would send a commercial enterprise out of business.

Paul Shetler, the former digital transformation office head, criticised the government's response to its latest IT crisis, telling Guardian Australia it was symptomatic of a culture of blame aversion within the bureaucracy.

"It is literally blame aversion, it is not risk aversion," Shetler said. "They're trying to avoid the blame, and they're trying to cast it wide.

"The justifications that have been given I think are just another example of the culture of 'good news', reporting only good news up through the bureaucracy.

They should get a bigger shovel.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jan/06/centrelinks-debt-recovery-failures-referred-to-auditor-general-by-labor

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jan/06/centrelink-crisis-cataclysmic-turnbull-former-head-digital-transformation

They probably can't handle speed too well, so probably no application on cars?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-04/centrelink-defends-debt-recovery-scheme/8161822

MP says system designed by 'dunderhead'

Earlier today independent MP Andrew Wilkie said the debt recovery system had been designed by a "dunderhead" and was driving some Australians to the brink of suicide.

The Tasmanian MP said the system was flawed and has called for it to be suspended, telling reporters in Hobart that many of the letters sent to welfare recipients were "just plain wrong".

Furthermore we will likely be subpoenaing this website for information about all detractors, including you dannorder. We will comb over your utterances for any untrue derisive statements, and we will also submit to the court your current statements about our "ignorance".

Why is it that opensource people, and white western people in general are feminist piece of shit scumbags?

Congratulations.
Any hope you may have had in suing just went up in smoke. A lawyer will take this and completely rip any arguments made to pieces.
No doubt you have made similar statements elsewhere. They will be found and compiled against you.

it's not improving
https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/this-is-the-biggest-issue-in-australia-centrelink-debacle-gets-worse/news-story/e7f18becbaf16d11fcdb3ce79d87f624

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/turnbulls-digital-gurus-spent-18-million-on-temps-20161227-gtiayo.html

The DTO is dead

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/dec/28/call-to-suspend-centrelink-system-after-single-mother-receives-24000-debt-notice

A low-income single mother says Centrelink wrongly issued her a $24,000 welfare debt just before Christmas, the latest in a series of complaints about the agency's new automated compliance system.

On Tuesday Labor's human services spokeswoman, Linda Burney, wrote to the government asking for a suspension of Centrelink's new automated compliance system, saying it must stop accusing people of serious wrongdoing and charging recovery fees until it could be certain the system was targeting the right people.

Last week, a Centrelink compliance officer blew the whistle on widespread faults with the new compliance system, saying it was error-prone and grossly unfair to welfare recipients.

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/212000-per-public-service-it-contractor-and-were-hiring-more-of-them-20161220-gtf4q5.html

You should see how much we pay them.

Keep laughing; DHS is now automating its way into a pool of pain
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/centrelink-boss-offers-personal-email/8136138

The DTO is also down the drain. Agile is a failure.

Before you do, check the status and ethnic makeup of the ATO. High percentage of contractors. High percentage of persons from India. Indian managers hiring Indians from mainland India. These are facts. Walk around ATO offices to see this happening.

Racism? Is it racist to point out that the ATOis hiring a disproportionate number of staff from India? If so, is this bad?

Next topic: failure to hire people with the appropriate skills and knowledge.

Paul Shetlersaidthe history of the federal government digital failure underlines the need for the public service to train its own workers and end its reliance on expensive and wasteful private sector outsourcing.

OMG! An admission that outsourcing permanent jobs to Indians was a bad idea? Never!

But I am too busy laughing at ATO systems being down.

But manufacturers don't like them because they last an exceptionally long time, and are perfect for many applications that utilize
very expensive tires(such as tractors).