Slashdot Mirror

How many news articles have you read about Uber drivers raping or otherwise assaulting riders -- I can think of several off hand in the last year.
How many news articles have you read about legally licensed cabbies doing the same?

Just take your pick. I'm not necessarily defending Uber, as they're not exactly a white knight in this story, but the notion that a government-issued license is going to somehow prevent sickos from assaulting women is naive.

The popularity of Uber and the dissatisfaction of traditional taxi's customers clearly show that a better solution can and should be found, so that services like Uber can legitimately compete for services, while at the same time not eschewing reasonable safety regulations that other taxi services must comply with.

The Netherlands regulates taxis in order to maintain various standards of safety and fair competition. But Uber is an app that doesn't play by the rules. So they've been busted, several times.

Initially the drivers received warnings.

Then the fines started to increase, which Uber Corp. seems happy to pay. In January the penalties were 10,000 euros, and unlicensed drivers risk a criminal record:
(in Dutch) http://www.nu.nl/internet/3978...
(English, machine translation)

Did that stop Uber, even when they were warned the next time, and subsequent violations would become 100,000 euros. No way!
(in Dutch) http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2015/...
(English, machine translation)

Uber defends itself by saying that innovation is faster than legislation. Uber says The Taxi Act of 2000, is outdated, and just keeps on truckin'

The Netherlands regulates taxis in order to maintain various standards of safety and fair competition. But Uber is an app that doesn't play by the rules. So they've been busted, several times.

Initially the drivers received warnings.

Then the fines started to increase, which Uber Corp. seems happy to pay. In January the penalties were 10,000 euros, and unlicensed drivers risk a criminal record:
(in Dutch) http://www.nu.nl/internet/3978...
(English, machine translation)

Did that stop Uber, even when they were warned the next time, and subsequent violations would become 100,000 euros. No way!
(in Dutch) http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2015/...
(English, machine translation)

Uber defends itself by saying that innovation is faster than legislation. Uber says The Taxi Act of 2000, is outdated, and just keeps on truckin'

shut them down be for they become the next yellow cab

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t...

Do you not understand what the skateboard concept was? This is a skateboard powertrain that you swap the body on (truck, van, car, etc). Also, it is Hydrogen, not electric, though would work just fine as an electric. They have had a demo model at the test track ride in Epcot for years:

https://www.google.com/search?...

What is 'promote'? Talk about it? Investigate it? Report on it? Discuss it? Express your personal opinions?

What do they mean by 'block' and 'web sites'? If it is a torrent shared file, then what? What does block mean, what if some content cannot be 'blocked' will they (who is *they*) take France off line completely?

How do they define 'France' in this case? Who is this magical 'France' that will do all of these things?

Also why 'block websites', does that mean forums as well?

---

In Russia Putin is making it illegal for people to drive cars in a group together and to set up tent sites... these are being equated to anti-government protests and we can't have anti-government protests obviously and apparently this is not only happening in Russia, I don't see any difference between Russia and France in this case.

Ditto. Been running Wordpress on Dreamhost for 6 years. Any issues were quickly resolved, which is the best you can hope for. Use an affiliate code to get $97 off your first year's hosting.

Also for your own education.....

https://books.google.com/books...

Buy this book if you want to learn how insecure 90% of the lock designs in use are.

Car keys and house keys are there only to keep your neighbors honest.

My experience is similar. I have appreciated how easy it is to work with. I point one domain at my home server, a sub-domain of that at Google AppEngine and my other domain at Google Sites.

Your needs will determine who the best host is for you. Here's what works for me:

• Self hosting: this allows me to build complex things and access very large amounts of data at no per-month cost, but bandwidth cannot go too high without causing a problem
• Google Sites http://www.google.com/sites/ov... : Free hosting for basic content
• Google App Engine https://support.google.com/a/a... : Big stuff to small stuff, pricing is free to pretty widely variable.

My experience is similar. I have appreciated how easy it is to work with. I point one domain at my home server, a sub-domain of that at Google AppEngine and my other domain at Google Sites.

Your needs will determine who the best host is for you. Here's what works for me:

• Self hosting: this allows me to build complex things and access very large amounts of data at no per-month cost, but bandwidth cannot go too high without causing a problem
• Google Sites http://www.google.com/sites/ov... : Free hosting for basic content
• Google App Engine https://support.google.com/a/a... : Big stuff to small stuff, pricing is free to pretty widely variable.

I've averaged 740 KWh per month of electricity over the last 12 months, and my average power bill was $105.79. This calculator suggests that I'd need about 5500 watts of capacity to replace 100% of my usage, which would cost less than $10,000 for most of the choices on that page (plus installation). Even if installation doubled the price to $20K, your estimate is still 50% too high.

The cost of the panels isn't the issue, it is the cost of installation. There is more to installing panels than bolting them to the roof.

http://www.solarizeplano.org/

That is a group of pro-solar people right here in my home town.

https://docs.google.com/docume...

That is their "FAQ" about what it takes to get solar on the roof.

"âoeHow much does it cost?â
The cost of installing a solar PV depends on the size of your house. The average residential system is 5 kW and the average price per watt is about $3.50. (This is based on data for Texas residential sized systems from Figure 16 of this report - Tracking the Sun VII: An Historical Summary of the Installed Price of Photovoltaics in the United States from 1998-2013.) Therefore, an average 5 kW system would cost $17,500 before any incentives are applied."

---

So you'd spend $17,500 to remove a $100 a month electric bill? That is not a good deal.

And that, by the way, is ignoring (a) tax credits (and Georgia's state tax credit is quite good)

Sure, you can get that deal, but everyone can't. If there was a real push to install solar on a wide basis those tax credits would vanish very quickly. To figure out if solar makes sense as a wide scale replacement for coal and natural gas, you have to look at the actual cost, not the "cost to you".

As a side note, you're pay 14.2 cents per KWh, that strikes me as expensive. If you paid my rate of 10.7 cents, your bill would be $79.18, which makes the above $17,500 even worse.

It's easier than you think.

Just print out one (or more) of these images and use that as your "biometric" "faceprint."

And, done! You shouldn't divulge such an image to those pinks, anyway, so you're covered on the religious morality front if push comes to shove.

Unlike the GP (who appears to live in some kind of horrible McMansion), your 100+ year old house was designed. In fact, it's perfectly livable without air conditioning at all, proven by the fact that people actually lived in it for decades before air conditioning existed! You just need to go re-learn how to operate it properly.

Cab drivers are way more likely to rape you than Uber drivers.

I offer as proof the same article you linked to. i.e. Nada.

Or, there is this Google Search...

The first hit? "Taxi driver gets 20 years for raping passenger".

So enjoy getting raped in a vomit covered cab.

We can't have hydrocarbon fuel/storage technology. Don't you know that The internal combustion engine is the greatest enemy of mankind. Every time I drive to work it makes baby Al Gore cry.

Now that I have that out of my system I really wish the US would pursue things like the Fischer-Tropes process you mentioned or other forms of thermal depolymerization instead of the silly corn based ethanol policy the US government has been pursuing. As a side benefit when fed biological matter one of the other outputs is carbon based solids mostly char which is actually a fairly good soil amendment and is good for long term carbon sequestration.

Ok... I'll do the test... let's start with something that lots of people might want to look for... a popular website...

Google: https://www.google.com/?q=kick...
Bing: http://www.bing.com/search?q=k...

I don't know about you but, from where I am, only Bing returns the correct website as the top result (kickass.to). As for Google... the correct website cannot be seen (at least in the first page of results) and, even worse, the first result given is actually a scam website that tries to mislead people into installing malware (kickasstorrents.eu).

So.. uh.. yeah... I'm not totally convinced Google is that much better than Bing, no.

GMOD FacePoser in addition to GMOD w/Kinect would be a blast!

"I'm worried primarily about two kinds of abuse: political capture of our nation (a coup through intelligence services) and theft from motivated American minds working to accomplish things that could benefit us all. The overarching problem is that there is absolutely no way for the average citizen to know these abuses are not happening."

America in the Technetronic Age 1968

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://64.62.200.70/PERIODICAL/PDF/Encounter-1968jan/18-29/&chrome=true

Page 21 "At the same time, the capacity to assert social and political control over the individual will vastly increase. As I have already noted, it will soon be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and to maintain up-to-date, complete files, containing even most personal information about the health or personal behaviour of the citizen, in addition to more customary data. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."

"Moreover, the rapid pace of change will put a premium on anticipating events and planning for them. Power will gravitate into the hands of those who control the information, and can correlate it most rapidly."

Most have no clue what's really going on in the world... the elites are afraid of political awakening (aka global revolt). i.e. they fear you stopping voting for politicians and causing social and political change because the democratic system is a sham.

This (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY

The real news:

http://therealnews.com/t2/

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X/

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

Look at the following graphs:

http://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

And then...

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnkNKipiiiM

Free markets?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Free trade?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju06F3Os64

http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Illusion-Literacy-Triumph-Spectacle/dp/1568586132/

"We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a

Mind Control Rays are Real.
A patent for wireless mind control was filed in 1974
There seems to be a cover up.
Declassified documents in 1996 explained viability of Non-Lethal energy weapons.
Microwave weapons are now viable for crowd control.
The LA County Jail now has microwave guns.

You have been told about this so many times that "conspiracy" actually invokes the use of "tinfoil hats"... and you didn't ever wonder why that is?

I haven't personally verified the claim, but some theorists speculate that some contrails are "Chem Trails" could be caused by airplanes dumping chemicals to change reflectance of the atmosphere and combat global warming, or dose cities with traces of chemicals; Some say nano metalic particles are spread this way to increase the effectiveness of the aforementioned Nonlethal Energy Weaponry upon those who ingest the particles.

My pet theory is that if the widespread use of such secret weaponry made their exposure inevitable that their existence would be quietly unveiled outside the mainstream media bit by bit so that the general public would begin to see things like "trans-cranial stimulation", "crowd control rays", and "nano particles for mind manipulation". So far this seems correct. According to the declassified documentation, the next things you'll see are EM fields and low frequency sonic waves that have mood and emotion altering properties.

In other words: Fool, they are already abusing the tech. The stories you hear now are just whitewashing the tech's existence by allowing the average citizen to think that it was just now discovered.

P.S. Flying Saucers are real too. They're just top-secret aircraft. Oh, and the government is spying on everyone! Oh, wait, slashplebs finally accepted that fact after Snowden's leaks, as if we didn't know about Room 641A, Five-Eyes, Omnivore / Carnivore, ECHELON, etc. prior to that.

FYI: You should probably reconsider the quality of the news you've been getting.

But we can very accurately measure CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere.

This study shows the best sensor tested had an accuracy of 30ppm plus 2% of the reading. That means if the reading is 500ppm, you can be reasonably sure that the actual value is between 460 and 540 ppm. That's a range of 80ppm, and an error of 8%.

Second, while there is a correlation between atmospheric concentration and emission, it is not a 1:1 correlation. There are other processes involved.

We can also measure fossil fuel extraction and storage, and from that calculate consumption.

Nobody asked me how many trees I cut down to feed the fireplace this winter. You can get approximate numbers for some fuel supplies, but those numbers don't equate to CO2 emissions. Spills and evaporation will consume gasoline but not produce CO2, for example. Wood used for heating may be sold but not consumed, or it may deteriorate (rot or pestilence) such that it cannot be used.

The emissions numbers are estimates. They have an error associated with them. If the error is as large or larger than the measurement of economic growth, then it is quite possible that the emissions did go up at the same rate as the economic growth. This failure to acknowledge errors in making statements that allegedly prove things is not uncommon when one wants to prove that very thing.

Your view would imply that a non-anti-aliased scene is better than an anti-aliased scene for say, an FPS where you're looking down a straight road. This is nonsense, because without that blur you're actually going to end up with a scene that looks less real - it fits your definition of sharper.

And you did so while at the same time making an incorrect assumption of my definition of "sharp". I've given you my definition, by the way; I'm still waiting on yours.

No, it isn't.

https://www.google.com/search?...

E

Nope. You have a fair amount of control as to how much data Google stores, and can tell Google to delete all of your data if you like. See here. I do think Google could stand to do a bit of work improving the interface, and making it more clear that they allow this sort of thing. But they do have pretty good privacy controls.

Even on a Chromebook, you can avoid Google collecting essentially anything connected to you if you simply browse in an incognito window and don't log into Google within that window.

There's Google's own 'google code project' for that .....nice.

If the wise denizens of /. can tell me I just need to plug thing X into slot Y to get [1TB, like my Macbook], I'll send in my order.

Sure, plug one of these into one of these into one of the USB-C slots on the Chromebook.

For client-side encrypted backups, duplicity is popular, however it is a bit too buggy in edge cases for my taste.
dar is similar but seems more mature, however takes up more space (deduplication is less efficient than Duplicity) IIRC.
For offsite online backups you can check out: Tahoe-LAFS, Obnam, tarsnap, brackup, attic.

I don't think they are spun down. That would kill their reliability.

There is no reason to believe that idling a drive shortens its life. Reliability studies from Google and Backblaze found no failure increase with spin up/down cycles. Total spinning time is a much bigger predictor of failure, so spinning down when not in use likely extends the life.

Biggest factors affecting reliability:
1. Manufacturer: Hitachi is best, Seagate is worst. WD is in the middle.
2. Total spinning time
3. Temperature: Hotter is better (the opposite of what most people believe).

In a recent corruption case (to which you can disagree as to the seriousness, I think it is very serious but definitely not as serious as terrorism), the prosecutor engaged with the FBI and ultimately Apple (source) to get his iPad decrypted. Although the case requires a good research into the suspect, it is questionable whether there was any need to go to these great lenghts.
As a background, the Dutch (officials) have a standing as being the nation with some of the most telephone taps in the world - without good justifying. The judge understood this, and clearly prevents the prosecutor office from abusing this particular power in the future, although the parliament still has to decide on a new law-proposal that is being made, giving back these far reaching options (albeit with a bit of smoke-and-dagger 'judicial oversight').

If the Koch brothers contribute $890B every couple years to the elections, I cannot imagine what their fortune must look like. You focused on the wrong part of my comment. If the Koch brothers can afford to push that much money at elections, they must be more rich than Gates: https://www.google.com/search?... who is apparently worth around $80B, and is either the top or second place richest in the world.

You don't quite seem to undertsand the concept of Open Source and "free".
Source code for Google Chrome is available free of charge under open source software license agreements at http://code.google.com/chromiu...
Yes, when others build it from source they call it Chromium. Claiming Chrome is nonfree is either an asinine attempt to flame or representative of a pretty poor understanding of the terms you are throwing around.

> you can write blazing fast code in C++ and still provide a sensible code architecture.

Not if it is OOP based.

Pitfalls of Object Ooriented Programming

Mirror:

*http://www.slideshare.net/roycelu/pitfalls-of-objectorientedprogramminggcap09

* http://www.google.com/url?q=ht...">

Us console game devs use DOD (Data Orientated Design) for highest performance.

* http://www.yosoygames.com.ar/w...

Mike Acton is a respected programmer in the video game industry, and he's right. In fact, if you were paying attention I listed his famous "Typical C++ Bullshit" as reference in my Ogre 2.0 proposal.

OgreNode.cpp was written 13 years ago when OO programming was all the rave (still is?) everyone had a single core, caches didn't matter and most efficient way to cull the world was to use an Octree or a BSP. The world believed that "if( dirty )" was a magical, no-cost expression that is immediately a performance improvement wherever used to avoid the execution of more than 3 instructions.

13 years later, Moore's law kicked us in the butt and everyone is multicore. You probably know that story already.

Mike Acton reviewed the 1.9 version. Perhaps it would've been more interesting to see a review of the 2.0 file which has been refactored to better fit Data Oriented Design principles (and I'm sure there are things I wrote to criticize). Many of the things he criticizes of 1.9 have been fixed. Nevertheless there are things we can learn. Note that if he weren't right, then it would be hard to explain why there was a 5x performance increase between 1.9 and 2.0.

* http://www.bounceapp.com/11641...

The issue report linked from the original story showed people were getting Chrome working with kernels going back to 3.13, so it should have been obvious to anybody with eyes that 3.17 w/TSYNC was not a real requirement.

C++ was the first popular fast OO language. As such, there's a lot of confusing cruft left behind. Consider overloading the && operator or || operators. You should never do this*. But someone will come along and do it anyway. You can't get rid of the feature because of backwards compatibility and yet it's miserable. We can go down the list from polymorphic arrays to calling virtual functions during constructors. All things one should never do, but the language keeps them there for the sake of backwards compatibility.

Languages like Java fix some of these problems by explicitly not allowing operator overloading (which is heavy-handed) but enforces some readability.

As others have said, using good 3rd party libraries like Qt makes the language tolerable, but in the legacy applications I've supported, there's no shortage of programming faux pas made possible by the language (like assumptions about the order of static variable destructors -- which is compiler dependent). As a programmer, it can be fun and productive since simply using the better parts of the language can make programs easy to write and read. As a maintainer, it's a smorgasbord of bad programming practices which the language makes no attempt to prevent.

That said, Linus really likes the new version of Subsurface based on Qt. So there;)

* Scott Meyers More Effective C++ p.35

A different post on Paperback (software to create a computer readable binary dump on paper) got me to thinking, shy not store the actual video images on paper directly?

There are lots of ways to make a flip book, and how to print on paper for long term storage is pretty well known.

You may argue this is the same as film, but I see it as a slightly more sure option - film itself is not all that stable and degrades over time. An actual dump of all film images to paper would be the ultimate backup should other measures of storage fail.

Comment from a Chromium developer in the bug report:

#47 asargent@chromium.org

Ok, while it sounds like this is technically a regression, I'm going to mark this as Wontfix because there is a reasonable workaround of updating your kernel.

If that causes great hardship for anyone and you want to do the work to figure out what's going on submit patches to fix it, I can provide pointers for where to start looking and code reviews for the patch.

From that comment it wasn't unreasonable to conclude that chrome and chromium would only work on systems running with a kernel version of 3.17 and later, or with older kernels that had backported the patch and had support for the secomp features. Only today was the comment added that corrected that assumption. Besides, that still doesn't change the fact that a Debian developer rejected the TSYNC flag patch because of his animosity toward Google and not based on any technical merit.

How is this considered trollish? Mod abuse.

What if someone close to me, or not, died, and I was the last person who read information online about the manner in which they died? If someone commits suicide, and I recently looked it up. That could be "evidence" of a murder! Should I become a suspect, based on that alone?

This is at best a fundamental misunderstanding of how law enforcement actually works, at worst a total straw man.

1. The NSA doesn't concern itself with murder. The overwhelming majority of murders in the United States are handled at the State level.
2. Local law enforcement isn't going to put you on the radar because of a Wikipedia search. They won't even know about your search history unless you appear on their radar for other reasons and the investigation develops enough for search warrants.
3. If an investigation does progress that far and you have a search history that suggests a furtherance of the crime being investigated..... well, probably time to call a lawyer.

What if, while in the course of designing a videogame, I looked up information about how weapons work? Everything from handguns to atom-bombs - for accuracy's sake? Do I deserve to be on a watchlist because I could be planning something?

It takes more to get on a watchlist than Google searches. Watchlists are pointless if the signal to noise ratio is too low. Filling them with people who Googled atomic weapons design is self-defeating. Go ahead, click on the link, it's not going to pop up on a screen at NSA. As much as it may pain our egos, the lion's share of us are fat and unimportant.

Experts and laymen have long assumed that people who died by suicide will ultimately do it even if temporarily deterred.

Yes some that are suffering will go until they are "relieved", but I am reminded of the story of Kevin Hines, the man who jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge and instantly regretted it, survived to tell us.
He states he prayed to survive and never thinks about suicide any longer.

I wonder how many other would say the same if they had survived.

http://www.theblaze.com/storie...

https://www.google.com/search?...

Comment from a Chromium developer in the bug report:

#47 asargent@chromium.org

Ok, while it sounds like this is technically a regression, I'm going to mark this as Wontfix because there is a reasonable workaround of updating your kernel.

If that causes great hardship for anyone and you want to do the work to figure out what's going on submit patches to fix it, I can provide pointers for where to start looking and code reviews for the patch.

From that comment it wasn't unreasonable to conclude that chrome and chromium would only work on systems running with a kernel version of 3.17 and later, or with older kernels that had backported the patch and had support for the secomp features. Only today was the comment added that corrected that assumption. Besides, that still doesn't change the fact that a Debian developer rejected the TSYNC flag patch because of his animosity toward Google and not based on any technical merit.

You don't seem very familiar with black fraternities.

In my experience, they're mostly concerned with being a better man, Jesus, that type of thing. That, and step-dancing. Not chanting about crackas.

You don't seem to know very much about them either. In my experience the black frats were BY FAR the worst hazers on campus, among other negative traits. My local Q-Dog chapter (Omega Psi Phi for those of you who don't know what a Q-Dog is) actually killed a kid when I was a sophomore. They beat him so bad during pledgeship that he died from internal injuries. Google it and you can see plenty of other, more recent, examples.

At least at my university, black frats were really more like gangs than anything resembling a traditional college fraternity--complete with beat-ins and everything. Most of their members weren't even in college. They didn't have houses (partly because no one would insure them, partly because their members couldn't be relied on to pay dues). And black frats ABSOLUTELY DID NOT EVER, EVER, EVER admit white members, not even the pathetic "whiggers" who used to hang around them.

Basically we white greeks wouldn't have anything to do with them. The last thing you ever wanted to see was a Q-Dog or Kappa at your party (expect a 90% chance that he was going to at least start a fight before the night was over, with a 50% chance of something even worse). The A-phi-A's were the only black frat that white frats would have anything to do with, at least on my campus.

A fair amount of M$ patents over Linux are invalid, because Microsoft duplicated and distributed Linux internally.

That distribution kicked in the patent clause of GPL. Thus estoppling all licensing claims their patents against Linux.. I.E. They authorized duplication, distribution, and use by their Employees/Sub-contractors/etc all of which are 3rd parties to M$ corporate patent port folio.

A similar claim can be made for Nokia android phones, which Nokia android phones of which Micosoft paid 7.2 Billion for.

Any decent lawyer can easily point out these estoppel conflicts and moot a motion for a pretrial injunction.

Kind of a specific problem, but I hope they actually fixed the stupid "doesn't recognize opus files" bug, given that 5.0 was officially supposed to natively support opus audio.

You need to get informed.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://64.62.200.70/PERIODICAL/PDF/Encounter-1968jan/18-29/&chrome=trueAmerica in the Technetronic Age 1968

Search document for 'control' to help find.

Page 21 "At the same time, the capacity to assert social and political control over the individual will vastly increase. As I have already noted, it will soon be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and to maintain up-to-date, complete files, containing even most personal information about the health or personal behaviour of the citizen, in addition to more customary data. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."
"Moreover, the rapid pace of change will put a premium on anticipating events and planning for them. Power will gravitate into the hands of those who control the information, and can correlate it most rapidly."

http://www.amazon.com/Between-Two-Ages-Americas-Technetronic/dp/0313234981Between two ages

They want to try and maintain social and political control during this period of increasing global change.

https://code.google.com/p/andr...

This is ridiculous.

I'm fed up with issues I've had with Google Nexus line Android devices:
1) Nexus 7 first gen. Enable encryption and device becomes superslow due to not having a proper fstrim support.
2) Galaxy Nexus. No more updates after 4.3, not even security updates.
3) Nexus 4. This recent dialer issue. I'm still getting updates but what good are they if they only break things that worked before?

I'll maybe care when it's actually "released".

TFA says "Today we are rolling out..." and "...available on...Nexus 6 and Nexus 9", while https://developers.google.com/... has 5.1 for neither...

If you must have a "real" (read: really small) keyboard, just get an iPhone and one of many slide out keyboard cases.

I doubt the combo would be much bigger than what you have...

From the summary:
> and two integrated 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports

The article doesn't say that they're integrated, just the summary. Maybe the mac is internal, but the phy (the power hungry part of ethernet) will be a separate chip. There's no way they stuck it in the cpu, 10G phy silicon is huge and heatsinky.

Who knows if they they included the phy power in the 45 Watts.

Didn't we just pass some laws to protect cops from recording (cause they'd never break the law - umm Homan Square), so I'm not sure if this is still the case.

Actually, the state legislature passed some bills to regulate the drilling of wells and the pumping of groundwater back in August.

Amusingly, people have been conserving water so much locally that the water utilities are actually running out of money, they say, to maintain infrastructure. The article barely touches on it, but the Santa Clara Water District (termed affectionately by a local columnist as the "Golden Spigot") doesn't exactly have a record of sound spending. Hopefully this will bite them on the ass.

Except there are articles stating that when the price of oil fell, SUV sales shot up.
https://www.google.com/search?...
Perhaps it simply takes a while.

Downwards pressure on fossil fuel usage is mostly from green policies govt or business.

Prices also fell right when the next years models were being released. You have to also take into account they may have been better offerings than last year.

Except there are articles stating that when the price of oil fell, SUV sales shot up.
https://www.google.com/search?...
Perhaps it simply takes a while.

Downwards pressure on fossil fuel usage is mostly from green policies govt or business.