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At my repair shop, I have a $1 contact-break alarm system on my back door. As soon as it goes off, 100 dB alarm in your face and it's rather difficult to disable without knowing how it works. Not many people would say "well, that alarm is blasting but let's keep robbing it." They just run. I can't believe modern people are still stupider than medieval people. This is pure castle theory. You don't build tons and tons and tons of defense like walls and locks and moats and then just leave it. Persistent threats will find a way in. What did rich people and kings do? Set traps. Make it look somewhat secure but then oops, you stepped on the wrong rock. Now there's spikes in your face. Or you pick a lock on the treasure chest and it released poison gas because the treasure chest is actually backwards and the real lock is on the back. Bars on the windows are nothing. They'll just bring a crow bar. The "low hanging fruit" theory about which stores get robbed do not apply here. But add traps aka window break alarms and make sure the "Protected by alarms" and red blinking lights are showing and a thief would have no idea what trap they're about to fall into and would stay away.

All that is cool and James Bond-y, but if it's an inside job and they know police response times, your "traps", etc. it's all for naught. Determine the cause/source of the crimes and THEN apply your silly castle theory. Also, local laws might prevent you from making "traps", so checking with a police officer first would be a good idea. Don't want your security theatre turning into a lawsuit against you because you maimed a burglar.

If you use Firefox or Chrome, install the HTTPS Everywhere addon by the EFF.

  https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

I also recommend HTTPS Finder, which detects HTTPS-compatible sites and adds them to HTTPS Everywhere's rule-set.

Lua is designed to be a embedded companion language to C. You still use C where it makes sense (i.e. pointer manipulation/performance). You use Lua for expressing higher level logic more easily. Lua is very fast. Writing the same higher level logic in raw C might not be any faster because you have to build up all the infrastructure that Lua has already provided and optimized like associative arrays.

Actually, Lua uses the intersection of ANSI C and C++. So it's also a companion to C++. It's embedded in a lot of C and C++ code including several operating systems and window managers. See Where Lua Is Used.

Noticing higher results in Windows 7 over Linux (See Windows OpenGL score)

I still run SSH on it's standard port with DenyHosts. However, I add a second layer such as two-factor authentication: http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/. Even if you do manage to somehow get my password, you still need my one-time pass code. It's not perfect, but I believe it reduces the risk of having a publicly accessible SSH server being compromised.

No. Read http://www.google.com/search?q=transcription+foot+pedal&tbm=isch

Are here under Fedora.

And by equipping front-line personnel with the most fragile peice of telecommunications equipment in the world!

Have they changed their mind and went with the Samsung Galaxy S III? https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=iphone+5+drop+test

The Apple Store northeast of Indianapolis continues to sell carmel apples and other apple related food items as it has since before Apple Computer stores existed, while the Apple Store on the nearer northeast side of Indianapolis sells iPhones and hip mp3 players. They're only eight miles away from each other.

It's still not a story.

The Apple Store northeast of Indianapolis continues to sell carmel apples and other apple related food items as it has since before Apple Computer stores existed, while the Apple Store on the nearer northeast side of Indianapolis sells iPhones and hip mp3 players. They're only eight miles away from each other.

It's still not a story.

I've been using google authenticator for a year or so on my linux boxes. It was pretty easy to set up too: https://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/wiki/PamModuleInstructions

The co-owner of 3dFiles (great site that allowed me to do pretty well on this app for Voodoo I/II/III -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22APK+3dFx+Tuning+Engine%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=kuAfUda_I5Og0gHX24CICw by hosting it for me there, which was GREAT & DIRECT "p.r.", going to the people that could actually use & GAIN by it... ).

I was living in Atlanta Ga. USA @ the time, & contacted the owner (saw his name, & remembered it from highschool in NY's why, & we had a common pal (who died, God rest his soul))... asked IF he could use an app like that, & I was JUST "starting out" in this field professionally, but doing that type of freeware on the side (helped on interviews in my early days is why).

He said "Sure, 'bring it on'" & it did well... well, so did his site, extremely so. So much so, ZDNet BOUGHT THEM OUT, but there's a "hidden ulterior motive" to these types of buyouts: What's that?

TO DESTROY COMPETITORS... point-blank!

They'll pay you in stock that MAY *tank* is why (which is what happened with 3dFiles... right around the time of the bubble-burst!). The guy I knew took a beating, had to drop a few things he bought (I might've done the same actually, thinking I was secure/safe).

I asked him though when I headed back into NY again after 6++ yrs. or so in the "dirty south" this question:

"DID THEY PAY YOU IN CA$H or STOCK?"

He said it was primarily stock (like 9/10ths iirc) on a 3++ million dollar deal he SPLIT with his FORMER partner (young crazy kid, but I liked him, & one of my co-workers knew him too, another coder)!

Anyhow/anyways - & he had a GOOD day job, as a DHL truck delivery guy, & iirc, #5 of 100's of them after a decade++ or more - I told him "DO NOT QUIT YOUR JOB!"

(Albeit, I did so, but without telling him my REAL reasons why - which is that "hidden ulterior motive" above I noted in caps... it's obvious actually, if you "channel your inner-criminal" & have worked with as many "business goofs" as I call them in the Fortune 100/500 over time building them apps in MIS/IS/IT is why - you figure out they are HUSTLERS (not in a good sense either)).

I figured they were going to 'sucker' him & *tried* to warn him politely... he quit his job (dumb, imo @ least, but... that's the way it goes, we all take a beating now & then + get 'cocky')... & when the stock tanked? The above "went down", & so did he.

I gotta hand him 1 thing though - he lived up to his words!

He told me he'd do it again, & BETTER, & yes:

HE DID MAKE A "COMEBACK" THOUGH - & told me he would. Majorgeeks is his now...

From what I have heard tell from mutual pals or just on the wire?

Doing well too.

I have to hand him that, he's a shrewd businessmen (even though he turned on me in the end, lol, like a typical business men does when you no longer serve enough purpose/offer enough utility & gain to them is all - I can accept that, but not after he ASKED myself & others to help out on his forums, which I did of my own free time, not asking a cent!).

We parted our ways... but the moral of this story?

BUYOUTS OF UP & COMING COMPETITORS MEANS THEY ARE AFRAID OF YOU, & FIGURING YOU'RE RELATIVELY "poor" BY WAY OF COMPARISON TO LARGE BUSINESS ENTITIES? They pay you peanuts, & do it to shut you down... ending a threat!

Didn't "RTFA", but I would almost BET that's what went down, here...

APK

P.S.=> That's life in the big city/fastlane, folks - get USED to it, if you EVER get in a situation like that yourselves (& nothing STOPS YOU, but you, on

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zielm.emacs&hl=en

"So...."? Not "Did you mean"?

2) Some cars do not have direct shift capability; ie - it's "shift by wire": the shifter tells the computer what gear to be in. (Admittedly, I've never seen one, don't know if it's true.)

I think what is meant by that are flappy paddles. It's what formula one cars have: there are two paddles behind the steering wheel that you can pull. One to shift down and the other to shift up. The computer then controls the gear box.

"Let's be realistic here with your last comment. Running Windows is frankly asking for it." - by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16, @06:24AM (#42920905)

WTF? The ONLY reason, say, Linux isn't as 'exploited', is because it's NOT used as much - FACT!

Basically - THIS is a solid rule:

What's MOST USED, will be MOST EXPLOITED on ANY given computing platform - on smartphones, since Android "rules" there, displacing Apple's iOS in terms of most used worldwide, PROVES it... if you don't agree? "Argue with the numbers"... good luck!

See, & IF you *think* about it, especially from a 'criminal point-of-view' in their motivations (which is MONEY &/or INFORMATION nowadays)? It makes TOTAL sense (from their perspective, which is "dollar$ & cent$").

They're NO different than pickpockets targetting crowds, where 1 shotgun blast takes out a LOT of folks, instead of targetting only 1 individual...

E.G.-> Pickpockets frequent & operate in crowded streets, malls, bus & train stations come to mind as the throughfares they exploit, where MORE folks are to target... think about it, & "channel your inner criminal" (since it's the ONLY way to outfox an opponent of THAT nature, you have to THINK as they do & understand their motivations by looking @ their modus operandi - & criminals, are CRIMINALS, online or offline...).

Anyhow/anyways:

So - What proves that statement FOR me?

Easy - Android does!

(AND, yes, it IS a Linux variant since it uses a Linux kernel)...

In fact - See my p.s. below on THAT note too, since Linux has around a 50/50 split with Windows machines on servers worldwide too (some of the documented stuff from the past 2++ yrs. now proves that much for me again, too). Where Linux gets used more, it gets attacked, no questions asked. Same with MacOS X - hence, why Apple cut the crap on the "we don't get viruses" on TV, & changed it to "pc viruses" but they have their share now too since their marketshare/userbase went up (due to outright lies & bullshit marketers used above, pure "1/2 truths galore", nothing less!).

"Oh yeah, almost forgot, you better install anti-malware, anti-spyware, and anti-virus too. Oh, and don't forget to patch those too. Yeah, just tell the user to come back in another hour or two. It might be ready by then." - by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16, @06:24AM (#42920905)

No, you're not TRULY "ready", until you "security-harden" your Windows setup, thus (by "yours truly" & I wrote the VERY 1st GUIDE for truly securing Windows, since 1997 online, owards - this is its final evolution from 2008) -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=G3IfUcekOefG0AHihoHgCA

(Same goes for Linux/SeLinux in its defaults, or MacOS X either - CIS tool works for Linux as it does for Windows and SHOWS YOU THAT MUCH in fact, & in a fun to use tool no less, almost like doing a benchmark for speed, albeit instead, for BETTER security, especially online + MacOS X has guides for doing it BETTER than it ships by default too, straight from Apple no less!).

Put it THIS way, with evidences:

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To "immunize" a Windows system, I effectively use the principles in "layered security" possibles!

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&go=&form=QBRE

I.E./E.G.-> I have done so since 1997-1998 with the most viewed, highly rated guide online for Windows security there really is which came from the fact

New here, you must be.

The patent appears to covers more than methods. It appears to cover the isolated DNA itself.

Since NIH and University of Utah (a public university) were involved in the discovery of the gene, there should be no way to keep the gene a trade secret.

The first seven claims in the patent are for "an isolated DNA" - the DNA itself, not some method of manipulating DNA or any treatment related to DNA.
Patent claims: http://www.google.com/patents/US5747282?printsec=claims#v=onepage&q&f=false

I think anyone with a modicum of insight into the history of apple and the tech world in general is fully aware that Herr Jobs was nothing but a capitalist CAUC. My friend's post on G+ sums it up nicely... https://plus.google.com/110294227533168060832/posts/hwQWSWkNLYT

TFA has no links to any papers or articles about this supposed "vaccine"

The research group's web page has no direct reference to any such vaccine.

What is being hyped is pre-clinical *animal* trials (cf. http://advhealth.com/alcohol-vaccine/) which haven't even begun yet.

Move along. Nothing to see here. At least not for some time.

When run on a computer, that could be called expressive, but it is a performance then, and not fixed and therefore not copyrightable.

This is...not even wrong. Consider a vinyl LP. If the music on the LP is played, that is a performance. But the LP is still a tangible medium of expression in which the work has been fixed. Similarly, running a computer program may be considered a performance, but the hard drive (or whatever medium) is still a tangible medium of expression in which the work (the object code) has been fixed.

Suppose someone wrote a program directly in machine code, as was done in the old days and is still done in some cases now. Would that not be a creative expression? What is different about machine code written by a human as compared to machine code created by a program from source code written by a human?

Anyway, you're making an argument about what the law ought to be. I am describing the law as it is. "At the other end of the abstractions spectrum, source and object code, which are the literal elements of a program, will almost always be found to be protectable expression unless the doctrines of merger and scenes a faire come into play." Gates Rubber Co. v. Bando Chemical Indus., Ltd., 9 F.3d 823, 836 (10th Cir. 1994) (emphasis added).

.6 miles is a little over a thousand yards.

That "parking lot" is a giant freeway rest stop. Look at it on the map. A couple a laps is all it takes.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=milford+supercharger&hl=en&ll=41.246664,-73.009847&spn=0.004763,0.006126&sll=35.603719,-95.625&sspn=58.218126,100.371094&t=h&hq=milford+supercharger&z=18

Broder is a douche, but 5 minutes and .6 miles to locate the charger isn't crazy.

IANA EE, automotive or HVAC engineer either, however I do have a heat pump that heats and cools my home. Heat pumps work great for stationary applications, but you need a relatively large evaporator coil to generate any significant amount of heat. Compare a regular residential A/C unit to the equivalent tonnage heat pump and you'll see that the unit is almost twice the size. Automotive A/C condenser coils already take up all of the surface area they can get in the front of the vehicle's radiator. Also keep in mind that heat air-to-air pumps also require defrost cycles to clear the evaporator coil of frost accumulation, this requires an auxiliary heating method as well, unless you don't mind ice cold air being blasted at you during each defrost cycle. Place the evap coil on the front of a moving vehicle with precipitation constantly blasted at it and these defrost cycles will be even more frequent.

In theory, a heatpump would be great, but you need to solve a few problems with the conventional heat pump application first to make it practical. I really think it would just be easier to have propane catalyst heat that used those canisters that camping applications use. VW used to offer something similar for their air-cooled vehicles that burned gasoline called the ebersparcher

In context to your quotes by the measure of a CEO its share value, Ballmer is doing an awful lot better than Cook

Have you actually looked at the stocks? Apple has gone from $7.50 in 2003 to over $464 at the time I write this. Microsoft's stock over the same period is essentially unchanged. It was around $25 in 2003 and still is. Cook has been in charge for roughly one year and the stock had a huge run up during that time but is now basically back to where it was when he started as CEO.

Frankly Tim Cook hasn't been on the job long enough to really tell how he is doing. We'll have a better idea in another year. Balmer has a long track record at this point and the price of MSFT has gone nowhere during his tenure. Why MSFT shareholders aren't calling for his head is something that eludes me.

In context to your quotes by the measure of a CEO its share value, Ballmer is doing an awful lot better than Cook

Have you actually looked at the stocks? Apple has gone from $7.50 in 2003 to over $464 at the time I write this. Microsoft's stock over the same period is essentially unchanged. It was around $25 in 2003 and still is. Cook has been in charge for roughly one year and the stock had a huge run up during that time but is now basically back to where it was when he started as CEO.

Frankly Tim Cook hasn't been on the job long enough to really tell how he is doing. We'll have a better idea in another year. Balmer has a long track record at this point and the price of MSFT has gone nowhere during his tenure. Why MSFT shareholders aren't calling for his head is something that eludes me.

In context to your quotes by the measure of a CEO its share value, Ballmer is doing an awful lot better than Cook

Have you actually looked at the stocks? Apple has gone from $7.50 in 2003 to over $464 at the time I write this. Microsoft's stock over the same period is essentially unchanged. It was around $25 in 2003 and still is. Cook has been in charge for roughly one year and the stock had a huge run up during that time but is now basically back to where it was when he started as CEO.

Frankly Tim Cook hasn't been on the job long enough to really tell how he is doing. We'll have a better idea in another year. Balmer has a long track record at this point and the price of MSFT has gone nowhere during his tenure. Why MSFT shareholders aren't calling for his head is something that eludes me.

you didn't accidentally enroll in a high school?

Just out of curiosity, if you were to stand up and walk to a mirror, would you say you look like this man here?

I consider that statement to be one of those things that Politifact would rate "half true" or even "mostly false"; I think Musk overstates his case, and as a result I can't tell how much of a case he has. (At the moment, I don't find either side particularly credible.)

In particular, let's look at the portion where the battery died. Based on charging, this was (1) leave Milford, (2) arrive and spend the night at Groton, (3) do a tiny recharge in Norwich, (4) try to make it back to Milford.

Google maps says that the Milford->Groton distance is 60 miles. So in Milford, if you're trying to figure out how much you'll need to get to Groton and back, you only need 120. Now, Broder took a long-cut and increased that to 79 miles on the trip there, meaning that he'd really need 140 miles. (He was planning on taking a shorter path back, actually a bit less than my 60 miles: "I drove, slowly, to Stonington, Conn., for dinner and spent the night in Groton, a total distance of 79 miles. When I parked the car, its computer said I had 90 miles of range, twice the 46 miles back to Milford." Musk's data says that, despite charging for less time than the original review said, he still stopped charging at 185 miles -- at least for someone used to gas driving (i.e. me) who doesn't have to worry about how the car takes into account heating and such in that range estimation, that's plenty of wiggle room. Nothing particularly dumb yet.

For some reason -- the four possibilities that come to mind are the range estimate ignoring the effects of cold weather + heater use, other causes of a very bad estimate on the part of the Tesla; a dumb mistake on the part of Broder, or deliberate malfeasance on the part of Broder -- the estimated range when leaving Milford was dramatically high. It's certainly possible that the cause of this was Broder's doing, but it seems equally likely to me that it was not, given that the Consumer Reports reviewer didn't exactly have a ton of leeway when they made it. And the Consumer Reports author (1) started from Milford with a larger charge, and (2) had warmer weather from what they say in their articles (which is admittedly very imprecise, but it was perhaps 15 or even 20 degrees difference). Anyway, if it was the car (very plausible), then there's no dumbness on Broder's part.

That leaves his behavior on the morning he left Groton. He took a detour to Norwich to get a trickle charge, which Musk's data shows he stopped at 28%. This is the one time that Broder left a charging station with a report that he had inadequate charge. How much this is "dumb" depends on your level of risk factor. Under a reasonable assumption, it was risky but reasonable to do. He felt that the Tesla was underreporting its available mileage. This is a reasonable assumption -- the batteries output less power when they're cold, and driving along was supposed to warm them up. That was the purpose of the conditioning. After all, this exact thing happened to the Consumer Reports reviewer, and is the reason I posted that link at the GP. ("The night before my voyage back to work, I had 88 miles left, according to the car's computation. ... But while parked outside my house overnight, the temperature dipped and so did the indicated range, which now read only 58 miles. (Yes, a little range anxiety began to set in.) ... According to Tesla, the car's computer takes into account the freezing temperature and readjusts the remaining range. The company also said that, upon restarting, the battery warms up and the computer once again updates the range.") Broder's or

But people don't post stories about Ferraris on mainstream publication's websites.

*cough*bullshit

Well, if it's overpriced, then the logical response to that would be to find a cheaper alternative that can still do the job, right? So, what other options are there if you need to power your electronic device for 2 weeks without access to power outlets?

Dynamo, yo.

> Detroit power consumption has dropped

no wonder, with neighbourhoods like this in Detroit

We use one of these...

https://www.google.com/search?q=dual+lcd+mounting+arm&hl=en&safe=off&tbo=d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=IrodUd-HBaeOiALjoYHACQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1051&bih=638#imgrc=_

When Broder claims he was driving around [nearby streets, presumably] looking for the [in his words] poorly marked charging station...

Um, I'm not sure why you'd think he'd be driving around nearby streets, or what streets are nearby (in a driving sense) to the service plaza with the charging station that he could have been driving on.

(And the original article states that's where the charge was made.)

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A more interesting question is what Musk's speed data is based on. Is it based on the GPS which is no doubt present in the car (as you say and I agree), or is it based on a more traditional speedometer reading based on wheel revolutions?

My estimate of the perimeter around the main parking lot area is about 500 feet.

Oops, sorry; that was supposed to link to the Google Maps satellite view of the service plaza.

A charging station he had previously been to...which makes his claim seem pretty suspect to me.

When? On the way up?

Not true: there are separate service plazas on each side of the highway. Furthermore, if you look at Google's "satellite" photo, they are not symmetric -- the parking lot is a completely different layout on the two sides, and the Tesla charging station (marked on the Google image) is in a different location.

IE 6 won't go away any time soon, the same way Windows 3.1 is still very much alive. I believe that the number of IE 6 clients in use on the Internet (excluding China) is too low to bother. IE 6 is almost dead. Move on.

"Adblock also greatly improves the performance of browsing the web, especially if you're on a slow network or dialup." -

Not as well as custom hosts files do, 1 of 2 ways:

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A.) By doing what adblock does, but better (since adblock no longer blocks ALL ads by default, they "souled out" imo) - in blocking adbanners (also due to them infesting folks with malicious code, not just for speed gains - See links below for numerous "proofs thereof)

AND

B.) By using "hardcoded favorites entries" which is FASTER than calling out to remote DNS servers since it is locally done by FAR (& the 1st thing your OS loads for online access IS the tcpip.sys file/IP stack & hosts are a simple textfile filter for it, cached into RAM either by the local DNS clientside cache service in Windows, or as I do it, since that service IS 'buggy' with larger hosts files, the local kernelmode diskcaching subsystem - as well as any webbound client programs (browsers, email programs external to browsers like Outlook, Eudora & others adblock does NOT protect there vs. spam/phishing/maliciously scripted HTML mail etc. either) since the 1st thing queried is the hosts file itself, before ANYTHING else, & browser addons + browsers CANNOT determine the IP address resolution by themselves, first).

That's just a sampling - there are also 10++ things custom hosts files do for better speed, security, reliability, & even added anonymity to an extent (vs. DNS request logs + vs. DNSBL's you may NOT agree with as well), that adblock just PLAIN CANNOT DO, that is to YOUR ADVANTAGE as a user of the web!

See below for that list... read on:

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What do I use to populate mine? This (I designed it):

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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:

http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74

Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...

"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"

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Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...

Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA

That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!

(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):

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Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option

(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!

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Plus, Adblock CAN'T DO AS MUCH & not from a single file solution that runs in Ring 0/RPL 0/kernelmode via tcpip.sys, a driver (since it's part of the IP stack & tightly integrated

Given that the screen cap in Musks rebuttal says "Charged for 58 minutes", this isn't a misunderstanding. Broder is either lying or engaging in shoddy journalism, or Musk is fabricating the screen cap.

I meant a misunderstanding between Broder and whoever put together the map for the Times that said he charged for 58 minutes. It's possible he simply told them he stopped there for 58 minutes and that someone put that down as charging for that period of time, without any malicious intent or intentional deceit having taken place, though that would be shoddy reporting. However, if he told them he charged for exactly 58 minutes, then yes, you're definitely correct, and I'd be more inclined to side with Musk on that point.

As for an agenda, I certainly agree (particularly with regards to knowingly driving on a near-empty battery), but I don't believe that absolves Tesla of their responsibility to ensure accurate range reporting and a charge that holds overnight. Overall, I think Broder comes out looking more like the scoundrel in this, but Tesla's handling of it is rather poor as well, since the claims they're making are slanted so far as to be easily discredited. And in being discredited, even their valid complaints are being disregarded, which is a shame, since they do have some valid points in there.

Also, as an aside, Broder issued a statement later on regarding the circling the parking lot thing. He offered a rather logical explanation: it was night and he ended up circling the building while looking for the charge station, since it wasn't lit. I'm actually inclined to believe him after seeing how large the service plaza looks like from Google Maps. There's no indication of when that "Tesla Supercharger" marker was added to the map, nor do we know it's correct. I could easily imagine someone circling the building to find a station at a place like that if they've only ever seen one once before in their lives. Nonetheless, that doesn't excuse the other things that he cleared did wrong; it merely highlights another area where Tesla may be trying to create an issue where none exists.

Actually it probably has something more akin to a credit card and button take a look on YouTube

this is almost comical, just yesterday someone posted in response to the technology of cars the more "digital" they get the less reliable they will become. So sure the idea of digital is wrong but the difference between the kind of digital that We're used to and now is that the amount of variables the computer will eventually have to account for will increment exponentially, in a world where all the computer has to do is calculate air fuel ratios it can account for all the reasonable variables. But when they start making decisions about things your not allowed to do to prevent condition 'X' like say turning the engine off at Speed.

I recommend a Hanns-G/Hannspree HZ281HPB 28-inch 16:10 monitor. You won't likely find a new unused one now, but it isn't hard to find them used or refurbed on eBay. I bought two from different sources on eBay for about $200 each. I can't remember what computing was like before this. I almost bought a third for gaming, but I do very little FPS gaming and most of the games I play wouldn't benefit much from being strung across three monitors.

A simple Google search shows that the Renault Laguna doesn't have a key. It uses an electronic keycard. It's likely the case that pulling out the keycard doesn't operate a mechanical switch which would shut off the engine. Given the widespread reports of instrument problems, there may be a software issue involved. The article also states that the car "is adapted for disabled drivers," and that "it wasn't the first time his speed dial had jammed but that Renault had looked at the car and assured him that it was fine."

I "forgot it" since I don't "do" repositories (?) ala filesharing etc./et al (IF that's what you mean, that is)... so, there ya are! I honestly ACTUALLY DIDN'T KNOW about that, & am a HUGE IDSoftware fan too (the 1st post & only post I ever did with a registered 'luser' (lol) account here was to Mr. John Carmack, circa 2002 iirc... never used it again though!).

Anyhow/anyways - "onwards & UPWARDS":

Agreed - There's no "magical thinking" (woobie or talisman is what you called it before, lol, remember that?)

However, YOU must admit that I never said my "woobie" as you called it was a cure all/do all, especially since I do ALL of what's noted here -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=umMdUc6zMoSJ0QHHsoHgDw by "yours truly" ( & more)...

There's only "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth", best thing we all have vs. online threats, to make it harder on the dorks that pull crap online like malware & such! Especially when software programs are weak!

(Ala Adobe Reader + Flash, JAVA weaknesses, & even javascript misuse as the "main culprits" out there, as well as unpatched wares + OS too, but not as much lately on the latter 2 @ least, & it's gotten WORLDS better on that front!)

At least, that's how I see it, so we are in agreement here!

They ALL get attacked & of course, the MORE THEY'RE USED? The more the online criminal attacks it... just like pickpockets in busy streets/throughfares, bus & train stations, etc.-et al!

Criminals ARE criminals, online or otherwise!

Same mentality, & even same type of "modus operandi" as a conman almost!

(You sort of really HAVE to "channel your inner criminal" to THINK like they would, to outfox 'em is all)..

Don't know if I ever told you this but... I used to be a loss prevention mgr. (damn good one too, if I do say so myself (lol, pats self on back), that led a chain of HUGE stores, 218 of them, for 2 yrs. straight & had to learn that... it only helped me later in computing really & in THAT very capacity... id'ing criminals & their patterns, even online!).

NOW - These "penguins" (or as I call them, the "Pro-*NIX crew of /."?

Hey man, we discussed this in email... they are MERELY FEARFUL they will be left in obscurity & wasted the MOST PRECIOUS ELEMENT THERE IS, of which there is only a FINITE amount allotted to each of us - time.

However, imo @ least?

Hey - It's never a waste to learn other tools (be it OS', programming languages, even apps...) in computing imo... besides, they really don't have to 'fear'!

Why? Well - Mr. T. & crew (Linus T.) did the RIGHT THING by diversifying into other areas since they 'failed' (not really) on the desktop & getting the "majority share" of it vs. MacOS X + Windows - smartphones did them just fine!

Things had a way of "working out" for them, & good for them... as I told you before? I like Linux... yes, I actually do, just NOT as much as Windows is all.

They do "ok" on servers too, around a 50/50 split with Microsoft Servers worldwide I'd say...

HOWEVER - YOU & I have been around here a LONG time, & have SEEN the b.s. that used to get spread around here, total "FUD" along the lines of which you allude to - that "Linux = the magical security panacea" & that only Linux = Secure, Windows != Secure etc., lol!

(What a truckload of utter CRAP that is, especially since Android show them JUST HOW MUCH SO IT IS!)

Bottom-line "rules" here is Most used = most attacked... period!

It will always be thus...

APK

P.S.=> Heh, in my younger days? Well, let's put it THIS w

Section 4 of the Google Play Legal Information says the following, which means you're buying the app from the provider of the app (the developer) and not Google, which seems to mean that the developer is in fact the merchant whether he realizes it or not. It doesn't really surprise me that the merchant gets this information but it does surprise me that the developer doesn't realize they are the merchant! Maybe it needs to be spelled out more clearly to all parties.

( via https://play.google.com/intl/en_us/about/play-terms.html )

Direct, Agency and App Sales.

When you buy Products from Google Play you will buy them either:

(a) directly from Google (which is referred to as “Google”, “we”, “our”, or “us” in these Terms) (a “Direct Sale”);

(b) from the provider of the Product (the “Provider”), where Google is acting as agent for the Provider (an “Agency Sale”); or

(c) in the case of Android apps, from the Provider of the app (an “App Sale”).

Why do they need my name and address? They're not shipping me anything.

I wish they did!

and voluntarily pipes all of it to various 3 letter agencies in the U.S

Bull. Fucking. Shit.

Google only hands over data when legally required to and documents complied requests publicly: http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/

And FYI, every web server logs every request you make - that's web server admin 101.

Excel can already use VBA, which in turn can use IronPython.

Done.

Awesome; but not quite done. At that point you can run an X86 emulator inside it and boot Linux. Then you can run Firefox inside it and finally, you will have access to a sensible language.

Actually, this is one of the best Ask Slashdots ever. A language war enclosed inside a user interface design war enclosed inside a programmer pet hate.

https://developers.google.com/google-apps/ --> https://developers.google.com/apps-script/ or directly to script.google.com (Full-disclosure: not affiliated - just a user.)

https://developers.google.com/google-apps/ --> https://developers.google.com/apps-script/ or directly to script.google.com (Full-disclosure: not affiliated - just a user.)

I can tell you that it's not always easy to give back a progress indicator which is meaningful to the user. The user wants to know (generally), how *long* is left, time-wise, where most progress-bars indicate how much of the overall activity is left to complete. The OP actually makes this point quite clear.

And therin lies the proverbial rub: if you're, for example, unpacking a small app, but you send some kind of statistic or registration information over a network at the end, even though that last sub-action is small (in comparison to the overall process), you're at the mercy of network latency, so that could be anything from 5 seconds to whatever network timeout has been set.

Trying to give a useful ETA on a progress bar / percentage feedback: now that's a challenge. Just for chuckles, check out http://code.google.com/p/fappy -- it's a playlist generator written in python. I wanted some kind of ETA on there, but I'll be the first to admit that it takes a while to settle and the ETA may rise -- because you can only make future predictions based on past experiences so, whilst you may have zipped through the first 1000 of 20000 files really quickly, you could hit a bunch of super-fragmented files, wait longer on disk IO, and have your ETA rise.

So the short answer is that it's quite easy to provide a progress bar displaying, essentially, a percentage of completed tasks within a procedure. But tying a progress indicator to an ETA or making sure that all percentage points come at the same time cost -- less than trivial.

"They'll ask me if there's a way to deal with it and I'll point them to Adblock." - by Sycraft-fu (314770) on Wednesday February 13, @08:24PM (#42890843)

1st of all: Adblock does NOT block all ads anymore by default (they ought to call it "almost all ads blocked" nowadays instead, lol)... it's crippled from its former efficacy!

Secondly - Ghostery = ADVERTISER OWNED & tracks you... not good!

Lastly - DNS = riddled with security issues (via the UNPATCHED, mostly WORLDWIDE, Kaminsky bug (redirection dns poisoning) for 1/2 a decade++ now, pure negligence - & WORST OF ALL, @ the ISP LEVEL we all use..).

So - What's better for added speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity to an extent (vs. DNS request logs &/or DNSBLs you may not agree with as well)?

THIS:

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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:

http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74

Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...

"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"

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Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...

Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA

That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!

(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):

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Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option

(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!

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Plus, Adblock CAN'T DO AS MUCH & not from a single file solution that runs in Ring 0/RPL 0/kernelmode via tcpip.sys, a driver (since it's part of the IP stack & tightly integrated into it) which is far, Far, FAR FASTER than ring 3/rpl 3/usermode apps like browsers, & addons slow them down (known issue in FireFox).

To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, hosts can:

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1.) Blocking rogue DNS servers malware makers use

2.) Blocking known sites/servers that serve up malware... like known sites/servers/hosts-domains that serve up malicious scripts

3.) Speeding up your FAVORITE SITES that hosts can speed up via hardcoded line item entries properly resolved by a reverse DNS ping

4.) AdBlock works on Mozilla products (browser & email), hosts work on ANY webbound app AND are multiplatform.

5.) AdBlock can't protect external to FireFox email programs, hosts can (think OUTLOOK, Eudora, & others)

6.) AdBlock can't help you blow past DNSBL's (DNS block lists)

7.) AdBlock can't help