I wouldn't be surprised in the least if there was some payment from the companies to place their tech on campus in this fashion.

Oh, that's going to backfire bigly.

Slashdot is safe from such nonsense. We don't support such esoteric characters as âoecommas.â

Pretty much this. It's been the law for years in every developed country that any mobile device, even when used as a navigation aid, must be secured to the vehicle in a cradle (holder). Its the same in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, I'd be very surprised if it were not very similar over on the continent or in Japan. Most countries even specify that it must be able to be used without interacting with the screen.

I've a Kenu Airframe that attaches to the AC vent because I don't like anything obscuring my windscreen. Cost £20 and that's expensive for a phone holder.

I think you missed the caefully hidden sarcasm in the OP's post:

For what it's worth, I agree with you, knowing how to use profanity correctly is a sign of intelligence, using it incorrectly is a sign of the opposite... I guess profanity is the same as most other parts of the language. Using profanity correctly adds impact and emphasis to an argument or statement. However it's best to treat profanity as a valuable and rare commodity, used judiciously it has a phenomenal impact, however flooding the market makes that commodity worthless so effin' and jeffin' every second word doesn't have any effect on your statement, other than pointing out you're an idiot.

Because values like saving are actively discouraged in today's society.

Banks, governments, almost everyone wants you to be in debt. No credit is a bad credit rating which makes it hard to get credit for the things that you need to or are beneficial to get a loan for like a home loan, car loan or business loan.

A few short decades ago, saying "I'm living pay cheque to pay cheque" was a cry that you're struggling, now it means you're doing well as most American (and sadly this attitude has spread to other western countries) are now living debt repayment to debt repayment. Their entire salary goes on servicing their debts and bills, leaving no money left for expenses, let alone savings. So the shopping, food, et al. gets put on the credit card which gets paid off next month further perpetuating the cycle.

Banks are making megabucks off this, not through interest repayments (you never make back money from defaults, let alone a profit) but rather through merchant service fees, charging the merchant for accepting the card (and forcing the merchant to hide this cost from the card users).

Before anyone says "but Klarna"... the reason Klarna is struggling is because they are trying to get profit from people who lack the ability to pay. Winning business model there.

In preparation for Brexit, I de-debted my life. Got rid of every extraneous debt or source of debt I could... Turns out the Pandemic was good as my costs went down as my salary went up. I was saving 60% of my pay cheque at one point despite paying for everything out of my own pocket, still saving about half despite costs going up in recent years. Sadly the cost of property has skyrocketed at the same time so I'm still saving.

True. But then the results of any test would be invalid unless it was repeated over time with the same vehicle. Sure, a Hummer will squash more bugs. But you can't use that to say anything about insect populations over time unless you've been driving that same Hummer for the past 20 or 30 years.

Lots. And I have an advantage that most other people don't. Still driving a now 46 year old vehicle with a vertical windshield.

The way Cap and Trade works is that industries are motivated to sell their credits when its economically possible to do so. They receive a reward in the form of payment for them.

With Cap and Tax, the price signals become distorted. And because the entity that controls the cap is motivated by income as well, they have an incentive to keep the caps higher. The government addiction to tax revenue can't just be thrown out of the equation just because you don't like the answer.

How long to hook up a Starlink dish?

1. Better vehicle aerodynamics.

2. Farmers have gotten smart about not setting their hives along the edge of the orchard adjacent to the highway.

Taxes have little or nothing to do with reducing carbon emissions. They are a politically correct way to fund gibs. If the emissions actually went down, the taxing authority wold receive less revenue and either have to increase the rate or encourage more of the activity you were told that they would be reducing.

Can't maintain revenue? Then we'll have to take it out of the children's education budget.Which has f* all to do with carbon. But it makes for tragic news.

We have to. We can't blame the Jews anymore.

Washington State's is going strong. I guess this is what happens when California forgets to hide the audit trail from the public.

... is a very involved and precise job. And that's my take on what Vibe is: You tell a machine, in natural language what it is you want done. And then the machine generates code.

Anyone who has ever tried to build an app based upon a poorly written requirements document knows what kind of headache this can be. I feel sorry for the Vibe 'back end' working in Bengaluru who have to put up with this.