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on Saturday February 03 2018, @05:40AM
from the you-don't-own-anything-anymore dept.
from the you-don't-own-anything-anymore dept.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8JCh0owT4w
When it comes to repair, farmers have always been self reliant. But the modernization of tractors and other farm equipment over the past few decades has left most farmers in the dust thanks to diagnostic software that large manufacturers hold a monopoly over.
Farmers using Eastern European cracking software for their tractors, and MS, Apple, etc. want to stop them.
Related: Right to Repair
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Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly
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Everything you know is wrong!
(Score: 2) by looorg on Saturday February 03 2018, @09:09AM (4 children)
This would be quite an interesting concept. If you invested part of your own Karma to just instantly drop these idiot posts down to the depths they came from. If you get the people in the 40+ range (or just unlock the roof so it doesn't stop at 50) and then if you want to just drop a post to -5 at once then do that so we can just purge all these AC spam posts. Should be easier the poor people that might have to do administrative tasks and weed out the idiot posts to just be able to instantly see these -5 or -6 posts and then check them to make sure it's just not some jackass that decided so try and sink some post they just didn't agree with for whatever reason.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Saturday February 03 2018, @10:46AM (3 children)
If some jackass killed someone's post without damned good reason, that jackass would only do it Once. The curators of this place could easily restore the post to its former glory, and the jackass would lose all of his karma.
He may well have to wait a year or more before he would be trusted again - even if he came back under another handle.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday February 03 2018, @06:21PM (2 children)
All is too severe. Perhaps no more than 15 points. There can be honest disagreements.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Sunday February 04 2018, @08:26AM (1 child)
If it is that close to flamebait or troll, it should be moderated thus... I feel this particular story comment base is full of good examples of spam.
I was a member of TheOilDrum.com, and we also had a problem with bad posts, but over there the moderators didn't think twice about flushing a turd post.
This was many years ago, I was a member of Slashdot, and I had proposed that I would promote TheOilDrum on Slashdot by putting it in my tagline; I was advised not to. They flat did not want 'em showing up at TheOilDrum.
Now, TheOilDrum itself is in archive status, as we had the world's top geologists and petroleum engineers over there, and there is a helluva lot of sciency talk about petroleum depletion issues... while other people referred to our group as "Doomer Porn".
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Sunday February 04 2018, @06:48PM
If you need 50 points to "yank" something, and you put 15 on the line, you are putting nearly a third of the possible status. There are edge cases where there can be honest disagreement. That the particular one you are talking about isn't one of them is nearly irrelevant when you're talking about a system design change. You need to also consider the corner cases.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.