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It's not orders of magnitude but it is better than humans.

This is based on january, 2016. So much more primitive cars than we have over 2 years later in 2018.

https://www.fastcompany.com/30...
"The researchers concluded that the national crash rate of 4.2 accidents per million miles is higher than the crash rate for self-driving cars, which is 3.2 crashes per million miles."

Also, the police chief has just said that the uber car is not likely to be at fault.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2...

"
âoeI suspect preliminarily it appears that the Uber would likely not be at fault in this accident," said chief Sylvia Moir.

Herzberg was "pushing a bicycle laden with plastic shopping bags," according to the Chronicle's Carolyn Said, when she "abruptly walked from a center median into a lane of traffic."

After viewing video captured by the Uber vehicle, Moir concluded that âoeitâ(TM)s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode (autonomous or human-driven) based on how she came from the shadows right into the roadway."

Moir added that "it is dangerous to cross roadways in the evening hour when well-illuminated, managed crosswalks are available."

The police said that the vehicle was traveling 38 miles per hour in a 35 mile-per-hour zone, according to the Chronicleâ"though a Google Street View shot of the roadway taken last July shows a speed limit of 45 miles per hour along that stretch of road.
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What happened to OLPC? The $99 laptop

OLPC still exists, but is now irrelevant. The project is almost dead.

First, they failed to hit their $100 target. The laptop cost roughly double that.

Second, their program focused on the wrong strategy. They tried to make the perfect device but didn't focus enough on volume. They should have made a laptop that they would cheerfully sell to anyone for $100, and shipped hundreds of millions of devices. Instead they made a somewhat boutique device that cost $200 and they wouldn't sell it to you unless you paid $400 for it. (Under their "give 1/get 1" program, you would pay double for a laptop and OLPC would then give a laptop to a student somewhere.) The boutique strategy didn't work out.

Then they spent time trying to design some new devices that never went anywhere. (XO-2 XO-3)

We now live in a world where you can get an off-the-shelf Android tablet for $40. Therefore you can get roughly four tablets plus four USB keyboards for a similar cost of a single OLPC device.

I respect the OLPC project's ambitious design goals. A laptop that is rugged, can work outdoors, is repairable, and has mesh networking features, running nothing but free software! Neat! But compromising on some of these details could have lowered the price and the project might not be irrelevant now. I'd like to see some statistics on how often the mesh networking is actually used, how often schools actually repair these devices.

Around 2012, the OLPC project tried releasing a special OLPC Android tablet for $150. I can't find any information on how many they sold, but I don't think that really worked out either.

At this point I think the best strategy would be to just write educational software to run on Android tablets, and assume the market will take care of making the tablets.

P.S. I personally paid $400 for the original OLPC laptop. I found the thing to be frustratingly slow and hard to use. (In fairness I routinely use computers that cost way more than $200, but even so...) The worst part was the touchpad; I found it wildly inaccurate so using it was frustrating.

Also, I was looking forward to hacking the thing; I wanted to hit that "Show Source" code keyboard button, see some Python code, and make some sort of improvement. I found that most of the time when I hit the "Show Source" button it didn't do anything and my urge to contribute died.

In the end, I donated my OLPC to a church group, to send to a school in a very poor part of India.

I used to use a Palm Pilot to read books and run various programs including games. The display wasn't great but performance was great (you never had to wait for the thing to respond to a click) and the battery lasted a very long time. (If I remember correctly I got about two weeks of life from a pair of AA cells. I switched to using rechargeable NiMH AA cells, and still got days of use before needing to recharge.)

IMHO the OLPC project could have made a tablet device similar to a Palm Pilot, but with a much larger and higher-resolution monochrome screen... and hit their $100 price point. Such a device would be useful for running educational software and very usable as an ebook reader. In particular the long battery life would have been a huge win compared to the actual OLPC hardware. Such a device shipped in the hundreds of millions of units would have had a much higher chance of changing the world. It could have been offered both as a stand-alone device, and in a nylon case bundled with a USB keyboard (kind of like the Apple Newton case). In t

2012 did not see EV outselling ICE at any point, even today. "Clean energy" is still a mere fraction of total power output, especially for long term 365/24/7 reliability.

No expect predicted that EVs would outsells ICE cars in 2012, but the fraction of cars which are electric has been steadily climbing. In 2017, more electric cars were sold than the previous year which sold more than the year before that, and that occurred even as overall car sales *went down* https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/01/2017-was-the-best-year-ever-for-electric-vehicle-sales-in-the-us/. It is likely going to be a long time until electric cars outsell internal combustion cars, but that's a distinct issue.

As for the idea that clean energy is only a fraction of total electric power, that's true, but the size of that fraction which is wind and solar or geotherma has been growing. It is true that the overall percentage did initially trend downwards as the US reduced the amount of hydroelectric power (in part because of its other environmental issues) but the percentage has been going up in the last few years even given that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_the_United_States#/media/File:USRenewableElectricity.jpg. Moreover, total US CO2 production has trended down the last few years https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/us-greenhouse-gas-inventory-report-1990-2014. And while CO2 emission worldwide did likely go up slightly in 2017, that was after three years of it being flat https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-global-co2-emissions-set-to-rise-2-percent-in-2017-following-three-year-plateau.

All of that said, it is true that we're not moving fast enough. So what can you as an individual due to help out? Well, there are the basic things you can do personally, such as use more public transit, eat less meat, and keep your house well insulated. Moreover, all those are things which will pay you back, since you will save money from them. However, small personal changes aren't enough. So what else can you do?

If one wants to help directly with helping reducing CO2 production then donating to solar and wind charities is the best bet. For solar, the best two seem to be Everybody Solar https://www.everybodysolar.org/ (which gets solar panels for non-profits like museums and homeless shelters), and the Solar Electric Light Fund https://self.org/ which gets solar panels for people in developing countries. Right now, the best specific wind charity in the US, the best one seems to be the New England Wind Fund https://www.massenergy.org/the-wind-fund. Finally, if one wants to directly reduce CO2 in the short-term, then the best bet is simply directly donating to Cool Earth https://www.coolearth.org/. Every little bit helps.

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The advisory came with its own disclaimer that CTS—the Israeli research organization that published the report—"may have, either directly or indirectly, an economic interest in the performance" of the stock of AMD or other companies. It also discloses that its contents were all statements of opinion and "not statements of fact."

Quote from this article.

Yes, couple days to respond is a hit job and not a responsible disclosure.

It's responsible enough for Tavis Ormandy. You can simply make up your own shortened periods rather than sticking to a standard 60-90 period. Just make up an excuse and fire away...

Yes, couple days to respond is a hit job and not a responsible disclosure.

It's responsible enough for Tavis Ormandy. You can simply make up your own shortened periods rather than sticking to a standard 60-90 period. Just make up an excuse and fire away...

I get it...get through insane amounts of cash running after revenue and market share...VCs keep it coming in anticipation of cashing-out when you list. But...are people really that dumb, after being burned by a bunch of other dud Unicorns?
Who the hell would buy Uber today? They're destroying billions of dollars a year, with no signs of how to make a profit...neither have Lyft

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2...

All of the AV that can be found and tested.
Recall the CIA and who could find what code over years? Lots of different AV software missed detection. Some brands of AV had some better ideas about what system was infected.
"Found in the wild: Vault7 hacking tools WikiLeaks says come from CIA" (4/10/2017)
https://arstechnica.com/inform...

Microsoft AI has mostly been a joke so far. They want people to use their cloud platform, though.

Net Neutrality is about restricting endpoint discrimination by incumbent monopoly ISPs. Your Ars Technica link did not mention net neutrality once! You might as well have linked to a recipe for macaroni and cheese.

What we don't need is restricted access to utility poles. If the ISPs want to discriminate against endpoints, they need to lose their common carrier status. That way competitors can put wires on the poles too. We call this capitalism.

Let the ISPs compete. Let the market decide. Give the States rights to make their own decisions. Somehow Republicans have forgotten everything that they stand for in this fight.

We need these legislators to just stop putting bullshit laws like this into place. If Wilson, NC can build a viable fiber ISP wire up another tiny town, we don't need net neutrality. Wilson is not a rich town AFAIK. If they can do it, then so can most communities.

By comparison, look at Facebook and YouTube. You'd have to be a window-licking moron to defend net neutrality at the ISP level and then claim "da magic free market's gonna take care of the big platform companies." To build a service that can compete with Google-subsidized YouTube (still losing like $2B/year!) is significantly more expensive. It would cost at least as much private cash as expanding FiOS to the entire Western half of North Carolina so that every nook and cranny of Appalachia has 500mbps.

Yet the film and other entertainment industries keep posting record years in terms of profits. Piracy has been proven not only not to hurt, but help sales of video games.
If it can be played it can be copied, they're completely unequipped to deal with piracy, even with the net neutrality repeal in effect.

Everyone benefits from this type of transparency.

Apple has not fared as well with transparency lately.

41% of their drivers make less than min wage and 4% make nothing.

So even if you game the numbers (by changing the survey questions, which is how Uber got those numbers) you still get a shit sandwich...

Nope. Sorry. Not so. Sorry Again

It's the truth, AT&T, Comcast, Chater, Frontier, took their little lawyers to court, and their bribe sacks to the state legislatures.

I get it, a little troll like you have to mouth your catechisms, but the rest of us remember your mounting lies. It's actually the best evidence of the depravity of your position.

Nope. Sorry. Not so. Sorry Again

It's the truth, AT&T, Comcast, Chater, Frontier, took their little lawyers to court, and their bribe sacks to the state legislatures.

I get it, a little troll like you have to mouth your catechisms, but the rest of us remember your mounting lies. It's actually the best evidence of the depravity of your position.

Nope. Sorry. Not so. Sorry Again

It's the truth, AT&T, Comcast, Chater, Frontier, took their little lawyers to court, and their bribe sacks to the state legislatures.

I get it, a little troll like you have to mouth your catechisms, but the rest of us remember your mounting lies. It's actually the best evidence of the depravity of your position.

Nope. Sorry. Not so. Sorry Again

It's the truth, AT&T, Comcast, Chater, Frontier, took their little lawyers to court, and their bribe sacks to the state legislatures.

I get it, a little troll like you have to mouth your catechisms, but the rest of us remember your mounting lies. It's actually the best evidence of the depravity of your position.

Nope. Sorry. Not so. Sorry Again

It's the truth, AT&T, Comcast, Chater, Frontier, took their little lawyers to court, and their bribe sacks to the state legislatures.

I get it, a little troll like you have to mouth your catechisms, but the rest of us remember your mounting lies. It's actually the best evidence of the depravity of your position.

https://arstechnica.com/inform...

While it might put Uber drivers at risk legally (which they more than likely would see Good Samaritan protections) a study showed that people who found their own ride to the hospital when shot or stabbed were 62% less likely to die on the way to the hospital. So Uber and lift actually make _better_ ambulances.

Every rooftop that can have solar should have solar.

Possibly, but that maxes
out at around 40 percent of our current electical power
needs (not including HVAC and transportation, even). So what else do we do?

The second step is to cover the parking lot, especially where I work. As an added source of revenue, I would PAY to park my car in the shade of the panel.

Every rooftop that can have solar should have solar.

Possibly, but that maxes out at around 40 percent of our current electical power needs (not including HVAC and transportation, even). So what else do we do?

It would make the grid more reliable, cleaner, and eventually cheaper. It would require the grid to be upgraded in certain ways but that's not a bad thing. What we have now is rather outdated anyway. Yes we need batteries to do this but again, that's not a bad thing in the long run.

I sincerely hope you religious fanatics don't get us all killed. The right is in denial about the problem, but the left is in denial about the solutions.

First and foremost, someone should have re-posted the Ars article about it that I read this morning --- that's got pictures.

So I guess because it comes in yellow that media is calling it a 'banana', but I'm pretty sure at person in the late 90's never called that a banana phone back then. Why that stupid ass name all the sudden to garner some reader attention? I'm ok with the the 're-issue Nokia Neo-from-the-Matrix spring slider phone' which already got my attention.

I was actually trying to dig up some super old e-mails or eBay history because I do remember having a Nokia phone where you could swap out the front bezel with different colored one, and after 'The Matrix' premiered, I remember the landslide of Nokia bezels that appeared on eBay had the spring slide-down on it. Truly cool. I wish I would have kept that phone and bezel around just to reminisce.

re " has spent the last few years performing false-flag cyber-attacks"

Russia is to be so skilled at all things cyber, yet get detected for years? Thats not very good cyber.

Re "made based on secret evidence have so far turned out to be legit."

Bear code?

Ip range?

Time of day?

Code litter?

The Dutch watching them live on their own security cameras.

If the Democrats were attempting to push legislation, I'd be willing to take a look at them....

Cool.

Sounds like you should look at them.

that doesn't mean I want it legalized (drugs, OTOH, I _do_ want legalized, but that's another conversation).

Some things _should_ be illegal. And for law to be fair there needs to be specifics about what is and isn't illegal. Right now this tech is so new there isn't much of anything on the books to address it. That makes it possible, even likely, that somebody could do something to ruin your life (stopping just short of framing your for a crime) and get away with it.

Let's say you're applying to Google and I videoshop you into a white supremacist rally. Is that illegal? Heck, it might not even be libel.

So unless you buy the enterprise edition of Windows (Cost: $84 per PC, per year, minimum 5 licenses), or are attending a university that will enable you to obtain the Education edition on windows (Cost: averages about $9,970 per year) you can't even do what you suggest. Windows explicitly ignores the settings that turns this functionality off.

Actually the reason you can't really control Windows is because Windows is proprietary software. No amount of registry changes, config file changes, or changing one's practices with Windows will place Windows under the user's control. That's the same for any variant of Windows no matter how much one pays or if the software bears the name "enterprise".

Microsoft has a universal backdoor in Windows. Even disconnecting the Windows computer from the network won't place that computer under the owner's control. What the article complains about isn't new: tricking and forcibly pushing users into switching to Windows 10, privacy controls that ignore the user's settings and rat on the user regardless, and dropping support for processors Microsoft doesn't want to support instead of letting the users do the work are all part of the same theme—this is what non-free software can do.

Meanwhile, a federal judge has dismissed a case Playboy brought against Happy Mutants, the parent company of Boing Boing for doing something similar.

The article on Ars: https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

From the article:
Back in November 2017, Playboy Entertainment Group sued Boing Boing, accusing it of violating the company’s copyright when, in February 2016, the website simply linked to a separate online collection of "Every Playboy Playmate Centerfold Ever." That portfolio, which was hosted on Imgur, has since been removed. Imgur did not immediately respond to Ars’ request for comment.

Because Boing Boing has advertising on its site, Playboy argued, it is profiting from those unauthorized images.

However in a Wednesday order, US District Judge Fernando Olguin slammed Playboy Entertainment in polite legalese.

"The court is skeptical that plaintiff has sufficiently alleged facts to support either its inducement or material contribution theories of copyright infringement," he wrote.

"SpaceX expects its own latencies to be between 25 and 35ms, similar to the latencies measured for wired Internet services. Current satellite ISPs have latencies of 600ms or more, " https://arstechnica.com/inform.... Possibly dated information. But one has to wonder, even if you've fixed a latency issue, how is packet collision handled when ground stations can't hear each other? There's only so much bandwidth allocated. Should be interesting.

Just the same as satellite phones and other "internet over satellite" (with uplink) providers... Time-division multiple access.

Ground stations have to allocate some time/frequency space over a "management slot" before they are allowed to transmit their normal data.

"SpaceX expects its own latencies to be between 25 and 35ms, similar to the latencies measured for wired Internet services. Current satellite ISPs have latencies of 600ms or more, " https://arstechnica.com/inform.... Possibly dated information. But one has to wonder, even if you've fixed a latency issue, how is packet collision handled when ground stations can't hear each other? There's only so much bandwidth allocated. Should be interesting.

Wrong!

China swallowed some DoD traffic:

https://arstechnica.com/inform...

And Russia went after Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and financial institutions:

https://arstechnica.com/inform...

AC because of moderation

Wrong!

China swallowed some DoD traffic:

https://arstechnica.com/inform...

And Russia went after Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and financial institutions:

https://arstechnica.com/inform...

AC because of moderation

4th option - Coinhive: https://arstechnica.com/inform...

In the context of business, this was non-obvious (nobody did this during the years and years of many e-commerce stores)

But that's the thing, that's not the case at all.

The one-click patent did have prior art in e-commerce, but it just took time and effort to uncover, prove, and file the paperwork (including paying the $2,520.00 filing fee!).

https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

I'm not sure we want Comcast to "deal" with competition. They seem to have a very... "don't call me scarface" approach to it.

That code may contain ROM source code

It likely doesn't, given that a large part of the ROM code's job is to validate the integrity of iBoot (the part of iOS that leaked). Ars' writeup goes into a tiny bit more detail about what iBoot actually is, but the relevant bit for this conversation is that iBoot is the next step in the chain after ROM in the secure bootup procedure. Of course, being able to review iBoot's code can likely provide some insight into how the ROM's code is designed to function.

So in a completely gender blind pay scheme, women still manage to make less then men? Can all of you please shut the fuck up about the pay gap now? It's clear that any remaining difference is caused by women themselves.

I doubt it. It's still possible to argue that gender roles are what leads to women working less profitable shifts and having higher turnover, like for example that female drivers may get more sleazy propositions from drunk men late at night on weekends when prices are high or that mom is the one staying home to watch the kids at night or that they get less social acceptance for being an Uber driver. A lot of the glass ceiling wasn't that they didn't get equal pay for equal jobs but that they could get equal jobs in the first place even if they had the qualifications or they'd get harassed for being a woman. I recall reading an article on Ars Technica about Ivy Hooks, here's a few quotes from the 60s:

Before the NASA opportunity, Hooks had interviewed for jobs in the region's main industry - oil and gas extraction. Despite her degree in mathematics, these companies just wanted her for secretarial jobs. NASA, however, desperately needed talent, regardless of gender

By and large, the Apollo programs at this time remained bastions of masculinity. To thrive, Hooks had to prove her professional skills and have a thick skin. "I had some of the worst treatment I ever had that first year," Hooks recalled. "In today's day and age they'd probably all be in jail or something, or probably at least gotten fired.

"When they yank it off there's a little garter snake, or a garden snake, but definitely not venomous. I guess they were waiting for me to scream, or jump up, or do something. So I just reached over and picked it up and turned around to the guys behind me and said, 'Go play somewhere else.' That probably did more for my NASA career than any work I ever did."

That said, you get pretty much equal pay for equal work. But that's actually pretty well known for anyone who cares to know the truth, they have dug into those numbers and found that actual, comparable men and women doing the same work duties with the same amount of responsibility, overtime and whatnot have very close to equal pay. Some feminists and SJWs simply choose to ignore it. Sure there's the occasional bigot but not many enough to exclude women from getting market wage.

With trillions of unpatched holes. Maybe one day they will invent Windows Update.

I bought a gift a year ago and it was even worse with tablets on physical stores or Amazon. The asymptotic Android 4.4 version apparently just dropped off the map, but it dragged results down for years. Most worrysome is that its old Dalvik runtime is dog slow at best, and infuriating under load. 5 makes things better, but I wouldn't bet on finding it for cheap.

A few hours ago tonight I coincidentally ran into https://www.cnet.com/topics/ta...
where Samsung tablet's video says "best one it's ever made". It's a serious 500 bucks which I find offensive after having purchased other Samsungs for $200 before. That is the golden price point for Android in my eyes. Despite the 500 bucks, the OS is declared to be 7.

The Google tablet isn't reported with a specific version, so a search led to finding 6.0 and 7 https://arstechnica.com/gadget... (we can assume auto-updates given that Google's name is involved but it's almost like 8.0 wasn't even a dream in the reviewer's mind.) More likely the builds just don't exist yet.

The Huawei tablet is only on 6. These are reviews that will hang around for the whole year, so it is worrysome that they don't even mention 8.0 even though it's been available on Browserstack's test suite for several months.

It's odd that the cheap $125 Chinese smartphone I bought around September, despite its serious storage planned obsolescence, came with 7.1 when so much premium stuff out there was still on 6 (and serious offerings already had version 8). It's a pain just number-wise, and features even within the same Android build are shamefully inconsistent across manufacturers... this causes many people to go see things as "iPhone versus non-iPhone" if they are ever disappointed.

Back when Cloufare nuked The Daily Stormer the CEO said it was important it didn't set a precedent

https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

And in an internal company e-mail obtained by Gizmodo, Prince acknowledged that the decision was exactly as arbitrary as it seemed.

"My rationale for making this decision was simple: the people behind the Daily Stormer are assholes and I'd had enough," Prince wrote. "Let me be clear: this was an arbitrary decision."

Prince wrote that he "woke up this morning in a bad mood and decided to kick them off the Internet. It was a decision I could make because I'm the CEO of a major Internet infrastructure company."

In the same e-mail, Prince argued that it is "dangerous" for that kind of power to be concentrated in any one person's hands.

"It's important that what we did today not set a precedent," Prince added. "The right answer is for us to be consistently content neutral."

In a company blog post that appeared later on Wednesday, Prince argued that the Internet needed a better system for determining which content should be taken down-one that gives publishers a right to due process and doesn't put power over those decisions in the hands of a few CEOs like Prince.

But, of course, the decision is likely to set a precedent even if Prince hopes it's a one-time occurrence. Cloudflare has helped to establish an industry-wide norm that some content is too offensive to be hosted by any mainstream technology company. In the future, the public will suspect that if an infrastructure provides service to a site, it's because they don't actually find it objectionable. This may not be a genie Cloudflare can stuff back into the bottle.

And now Cloudfare have let the genie out of the bottle it seems like any site can be nuked, either because the CEO wakes up deciding to do it or due to a court order.

So much for the Internet 'interpreting censorship as damage and routing around it'.

Andrew Anglin is an asshole but he's also a kind of canary in the coalmine because assholes are the first ones to see their sites disappear when censorship starts. Unfortunately they're unlikely to be the last.

Not as much as this $10,000 "audiophile" Ethernet cable does! https://arstechnica.com/staff/...

verbatim, from Arstechnica, maybe you should attribute the headline to that site?

That just seems like a professional courtesy? No?

As Sony CEO Kaz Hirai steps down, the future of some products is in question

verbatim, from Arstechnica, maybe you should attribute the headline to that site?

That just seems like a professional courtesy? No?

As Sony CEO Kaz Hirai steps down, the future of some products is in question

Whew, good catch, the fat fuck is getting trickier and trickier to smoke out, and I can only put in so much time in a day.

The amazon link wasn't mine. Odd format. Not a valid affiliate link anyway. The "creimer" account got closed when California's passed the Amazon sales tax in 2011.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/06/amazon-to-shut-down-calif-affiliates-over-new-sales-tax

As for your mother, she spent three hours polishing my tiny old knob. A big pitcher of heavy cream exploded in her mouth. She swallowed without a single drop falling to the floor. And she did it for free. ;)

Apple stopped charging because if people paid $29 for an OS they could argue that running it on a Hackintosh was legal because of First Sale doctrine.

E.g

https://arstechnica.com/gadget...

I.e. there's no way that it's in Apple's interest to charge people $29 for an upgrade when selling software opened up a legal vulnerability where people could claim that since they paid money for it, they could install it on any hardware they wanted.

for moral absolutism. If we can't look back and say "That was wrong and they shouldn't have done it" then we don't really have a compelling argument against the behavior in question. If something morally wrong is acceptable in context than all you need to do to make it acceptable again is change the context. Regression becomes easy.

This isn't idle chit-chat either. There's a lot of folks who pine for the 'good 'ole days' when sexual harassment not only went unpunished but reporting it _was_ punished. When it wasn't considered abuse of power but a perk. They call themselves 'conservative' but I'd rather they were labeled 'regressive'. Either way they exist, and they're working to make a world like the 50s, 60s and 70s real again.

If you're a man its easy to look at these things and just think of them as awkward passes. You can do that because, well, you've probably got 40-60 lbs more muscle on you than the girl in question. There's interviews with women abused by Weinstein when they were terrified he was going to rape them. He wasn't, but not being mind readers they didn't know that, and, well, he most certainly _could_. Try to imagine you're alone with someone that has 50lbs more muscle than you and wants to have sex right now. This is a real concern for most women. It's also _incredibly_ uncomfortable to acknowledge.

If you want to get a better idea of what I'm banging on about read this. But my point is there's a real issue here and one that men (and a lot of women) don't want to confront. But confronting it is the right thing to do...

>> Mazda powertrain chief Mitsuo Hitomi said that the main goal with Skyactiv-3 is to increase the engine's thermal efficiency to roughly 56 percent. Yeah. Not really. A typical gasoline engine may have an efficiency of 20-30% at best. The maximum efficency of an otto cycle gasoline engine is 40-47%, which is limited by physics. More would mean a different cycle needs to be used.

Right. Use the Atkinson cycle. Infinity is: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2...

(Not really disagreeing with you, just providing more information) It's exciting times we live in.

When Republicans talk about "States rights", they really mean the right of states to pass laws that discriminate against people. They do not mean the right for states to establish their own drug laws nor for states to adopt laws like net neutrality.

See, Republicans only complain about the big bad federal government when they pass laws they don't like. In other words, Republicans want to be bigots, and want to pass laws to support their bigotry, and cry "states rights" only to support their hateful agenda.

https://arstechnica.com/scienc...

its the puzzle that keeps on giving!