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New Jersey legislators aim to ban most in-car subscriptions

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Re: New Jersey legislators aim to ban most in-car subscriptions

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Post by w1nst0nsm1th »

In Belgium, home shitrooms are considered as a premium feature... You have to pay monthly fee to use them or you can get locked outside (or inside) without notice, even if you own your house.

Seriously, nobody said a thing when HP started to do it with their printers. And everybody jumped in the wagon when we started proposing such a thing as SaaS, IaaS and so on.

Apple App Store recommandations is 90% filled with subscription apps very few people actually use or like. Don't get me started with these pay to win games were you have to buy 'coins' or 'diamonds' to spend in the game if you don't want to wait 24h for a building or wathever before you can continue playing.

I have consulted prices for a remote virtual desktop instance for malware analysis et reverse engineering training (I don't trust home virtual machine) on Azure...

I have nothing again MSFT and think it's a company which still produces real value for its consumers on many fronts (as opposed as WeWork, for example). But the price they ask for a remote machine with very low specs is stagering. How a manager could decently believe it's a good idea to give away in 6 or 12 months the same money you could use to buy enterprise level hardware with 5x specs ?

Re: New Jersey legislators aim to ban most in-car subscriptions

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Post by rconti »

bearcobra wrote: post #53

I have mixed feelings on this. On one hand the idea of subscriptions for components that are physically present in the car and don't require ongoing cost by the manufacturer to support them is annoying. On the other hand I think that there could be some advantages to that model. The costs of cars seem to going up considerably because of all the advanced features. If it is possible to standardize some of the manufactu…

The law seems to allow software unlocking, just not subscriptions.

Re: New Jersey legislators aim to ban most in-car subscriptions

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Post by Retric »

kennend3 wrote: post #55

Can we add XM radio to the list? I bought a new car and they keep calling and send mail to my house far too frequently. I've told them NO around a dozen times.. They are bordering on harassment. Just because you put some receiver in my car doesn't mean you can constantly contact me. I never asked for it and they should take no for an answer.

Rather than simply saying No tell them to put you on their do not call list.

Saying that is useless in many situations, but for a company like XM Radio that you haven’t done business with they really need to follow those rules.

Re: New Jersey legislators aim to ban most in-car subscriptions

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Post by leereeves »

jedberg wrote: post #54
leereeves wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> in a nation where, on aggregate, their platform is unpopular Many polls report that the Republicans are more popular than the Democrats at the moment.[1] Sadly, refusing to acknowledge the existence of differing views seems to be rather common these days. 1: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/2022-generic-...

That's the congressional vote, which suffers from gerrymandering. In raw numbers, far more people support the Democrats than the Republicans.

It's the generic congressional vote, which is simply the percent of people polled who prefer either party. It's analogous to the popular vote for President, not the percent of seats either party is predicted to win.

Re: New Jersey legislators aim to ban most in-car subscriptions

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Post by [deleted] »

AlexandrB wrote: post #36
jaywalk wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least with something like this, it would be relatively simple for the manufacturers to just enable the functionality based on where the car is sold. Can't do anything like that with emissions regulations.

You totally can. VW's emissions cheating scandal was about the ECU firmware tuning the engine for lower emissions when it detected an emissions test and then switching back to tuning for performance the rest of the time. No reason you couldn't do the same but based on location.

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Re: New Jersey legislators aim to ban most in-car subscriptions

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Post by MonkeyMalarky »

bearcobra wrote: post #53

I have mixed feelings on this. On one hand the idea of subscriptions for components that are physically present in the car and don't require ongoing cost by the manufacturer to support them is annoying. On the other hand I think that there could be some advantages to that model. The costs of cars seem to going up considerably because of all the advanced features. If it is possible to standardize some of the manufactu…

>The costs of cars seem to going up considerably because of all the advanced features.

Or Maybe they could just not add all those features? Crazy, I know.

Re: New Jersey legislators aim to ban most in-car subscriptions

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Post by Retric »

leereeves wrote: post #47
dfxm12 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quoted post unavailable.

> in a nation where, on aggregate, their platform is unpopular Many polls report that the Republicans are more popular than the Democrats at the moment.[1] Sadly, refusing to acknowledge the existence of differing views seems to be rather common these days. 1: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/2022-generic-...

Many congressional elections are unposed due to extreme gerrymandering this zeroes out voters from that party in a nationwide count.

Going alphabetically Alabama 2 of 7 races without Democratic candidates which means Democratic voters in those districts will obviously not vote for a Democrat.

https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representativ...

Re: New Jersey legislators aim to ban most in-car subscriptions

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Post by Retric »

leereeves wrote: post #64
jedberg wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's the congressional vote, which suffers from gerrymandering. In raw numbers, far more people support the Democrats than the Republicans.

It's the generic congressional vote , which is simply the percent of people polled who prefer either party. It's analogous to the popular vote for President, not the percent of seats either party is predicted to win.

Many races only have candidates from a single party.

Which discards votes in any such count not just from the election tallies but also likely voters.

Re: New Jersey legislators aim to ban most in-car subscriptions

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Post by BitwiseFool »

Retric wrote: post #63
kennend3 wrote: post #55

Can we add XM radio to the list? I bought a new car and they keep calling and send mail to my house far too frequently. I've told them NO around a dozen times.. They are bordering on harassment. Just because you put some receiver in my car doesn't mean you can constantly contact me. I never asked for it and they should take no for an answer.

Rather than simply saying No tell them to put you on their do not call list. Saying that is useless in many situations, but for a company like XM Radio that you haven’t done business with they really need to follow those rules.

Some companies have notoriously desperate pesterering. I've opted out of XM Radio and Spectrum solicitation multiple times. It doesn't seem to stick.
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