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You obviously don't 'know' Morse code - Too much work.

All they are doing is using an approved tool in a collaborative way, exactly as their teacher showed them. That's much easier than learning "tap code" like prisoners in the Hanoi Hilton:

https://www.inverse.com/articl...

When the NASA guy tried to patiently explain why it would be 2030 when NASA was there, Trump should have responded with:

"Well SpaceX says they'll be landing people there in 2025, why is NASA so slow? Maybe I should just send more government money to SpaceX. Why do you think you deserve it instead?"

Stopped reading your comment at the mention of "SJW"

Why. That there are SJW's out there is non-debatable after all the flack Marvel got for not race swapping the Iron Fist.

Stan Lee has been fighting racism and bigotry for decades, as his article from 1968 proves.

Your ignorance leaves you without a leg to stand on. Your cowardly kind is vanishing from the face of the Earth. Good-Bye!

ZIP

Believe what you want; facts state otherwise. I know it's hard to comprehend the rate at which they're churning out battery capacity, but it's reality whether you want to believe it or not.

other companies have already engineered their cars, built battery plants

A list of car companies with their battery plants would be nice if you're making such claims.

Like this Or this Or this Or this

And keep in mind those articles are a couple of years old. The other car companies just don't blab and have publicists that inflate their CEO's and company's reputation like Musk does.

Tesla fanboys live in a bubble and know nothing of the auto-industry or its trends. They believe all the hype and Musk's bullshit.

Solar is mostly a "feel-good" solution; capturing a significant fraction of the US energy market with solar is dubious at best.

That's demonstrably false. Germany TODAY gets about 6-7% of their energy from solar and it's clearly possible to do more. Would be much easier to do in many parts of the US which are far sunnier and further south. Hawaii currently gets close to 1/3 of it's electricity from rooftop and grid solar. If you think upwards of 10% (which is very realistic) is not a significant fraction then I don't know what to tell you.

If the US were to try to entirely use solar + batteries for power we would need to cover an area the size of West Virginia with solar panels

It would take roughly a tiny corner of Nevada to power the entire US. Less than 1% of the US landmass. You could capture a good fraction of that simply by using existing roof tops which is already utilized and wasted space anyway and has the bonus of being at point of use. If you're going to argue against solar you might try starting with actual facts instead of made up ones.

Wind is a much better option - centralized power (think MW or 10s of MW) from one turbine

Wind is a great solution in some places and solar is a better option in others. It depends entirely on the local geography. We need and will use both. Centralized power is not necessarily an advantage and in fact distributed power systems can be much more robust if done correctly. The biggest limitation to either of them is the fact that fossil fuels are not required to pay for much of the pollution they generate so economically they appear cheaper than they really are.

A realistic solution is a mix of wind, advancing nuclear, and a dash of solar for the long-term.

A realistic solution is a lot more wind, a lot more solar, keeping what nuke plants we can running for as long as practical (we aren't going to build more). Unfortunately there is no viable solution that doesn't involve substantial fossil fuel use for another half century even if politically we could agree to move on the matter. But as long as we have politicians in the pocket of big oil and coal companies that is going to be hard to do.

Mars One is a hoax.
Elon Musk is an excellent marketer getting no end of free publicity with his Mars plans. He may or may not be honest about going to Mars - it doesn't really matter. There's not going to be any Mars colonies in our lifetimes. Probably not even a manned mission.

Two links- one to Fortune, one to Slashdot. Fortune rarely works for me, but right there in the article is a link to a previous, better story from Inverse, a more interesting publisher. Why Fortune and not the better article? Kickbacks?

Where are the Youtube links? Perhaps you thought they would be superfluous in a story about clever robots?
Inverse article: https://www.inverse.com/articl...
Cheetah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Boston Dynamics: https://www.youtube.com/channe...

And you still haven't told me who you want to car to purposefully kill in the event of an unavoidable accident.

Nobody.

If the car just hits the brakes when there it senses an obstacle ahead, then nobody can sue the manufacturer since that will always be a legally acceptable choice.

Amusing - what it slamming on the brakes will cause you to be killed by the guy tailgating you at 80 mph?

Humans must make these choices, just slamming on the brakes is one of many. Since I have occasionally avoided accidents by speeding up, hitting the brakes hard might be the worst possible decision.

I gave you one link already from the people who might be writing the software or involved with self driving cars, here's one from the auto industry https://www.inverse.com/articl...

You might want to call Ford and maybe MIT to let them know that you have solved the problem - Hit the brakes and hope.Who knew the answer was so simple, and the ethical dilemma solved by a random guy on Slashdot?

Superman: I am here to take you in Luthor
Lex Luthor: You just destroyed my wall, that's vandalism and where's your warrant ? Oh and btw you are violating your restraining order that says you cant get within 500 feet of me.

Interesting example.

Here is a comparison between Donald Trumps and Lex Luthors presidential campaigns.
The comparison was made 2015 and assumed that Trump wouldn't win.

Unlike Trump, Lex Luthor didn't violate the Emoluments Clause. The storytellers assumed that Luthor would have to play by the rules to keep public support.

Yeah yeah, I know, you're just trolling. But just to clarify:
1) You wouldn't have seen any changes yet because the rules are still in place. They expire today.
2) The repeal of Net Neutrality is extremely unpopular outside of the corporate boardrooms. As a previous Slashdot story pointed out, ISPs will wait until we're not paying attention as much before they really screw you over. It would be an absolute PR nightmare for them to pull this crap on Day One, so they'll play it safe for awhile, say "see? Nothing to worry about after all" before pulling shit like throttling web sites who pay for their bandwidth but don't give the ISPs additional kickbacks.

I don't think I communicated correctly. I don't know of anyone renting general access to their AI for it to perform various tasks like an AI MTurk. However, all the usual network services that people use every day are using prime time AIs to help with the service they perform for you. Google has AIs to decide what you're thinking of when you write search terms and what to show you when you visit Google News. Facebook has AIs to decide what advertising to show you. When you talk to a virtual assistant, there's AIs helping to try and get the assistant to do what you say, and helping to decide what advertisements your requests suggest would be best to throw your way when you're at a site with advertisers that pay for the AIs' suggestions. I feel confident that they're using AIs to help make catchpas that other AIs can't defeat. IBM bought the digital part of The Weather Channel so that they could use its data for selling weather predicting services of its AI. Here's an article telling how more than 100 web services are using Watson instances to power apps and other online business. Here's another article telling how Ross Intelligence is using a Watson to help lawyers act like they've read all the recent decisions. Eviebot and Cleverbot will chat with you. None of these are at the level of science fiction AIs, but they are providing actual value to their owners, and often to the customers of their owners.

How may solar panels and wind turbines would it require to generate that much electricity? I remember seeing someone talk about this and if I remember correctly, it would cover an area the size of a small to medium U S. State.

Musk claimed it needed 100 miles times 100 miles for solar alone (10000 square miles), which is about the size of Massachusetts. See this article and the accompanying image. Massachusetts is the 7th-smallest US-State. The average US state is about 7.5 times larger. Or, in other terms, it's 0.2% of the total US land area. With the US Interstate Highway System having about 50000 miles, it would be a 200 m strip to the left and right of every interstate highway.

It's not trivial, but a) it not going to be solar alone, and b) other energy forms also have significant land use, from mountaintop removal to roads for fuel shipment.

"Which has up to now been assumed to exist" assumed by who? Because I clearly remember apple trying to claim and also fight in court that jailbreaking is illegal Also that fixing your home button is illegal - they bricked phones over it before the backlash of stupid forced them to recant (FFS just disable the print reader not the phone) Tell this to farmers who can't repair thier own tractors because it's illegal, it goes on and on. We wouldn't need right to repair laws if it was always assumed.

This one

https://www.inverse.com/article/12807-the-13-most-hilarious-anti-piracy-traps-in-video-games

The ISS was only designed with a 15 year life expectancy. It is currently about 18 years old (some modules are older, some newer), and by 2025 it'll be 25 years old. NASA figures the absolute deadline is 2028. So 2025 is a good retirement date if you want a safety margin. It's commensurate with a previous NASA study which green-lighted keeping it operational until 2024.

Discussion should be focused on what comes next. Not on how to keep the ISS flying. The Space Shuttle was retired for the same reason - its components were designed with only a max 30 year lifespan in mind. Retrofitting it for longer service would've involved replacing all these parts. And if you're going to do that, you might as well design something completely new that takes advantage of new technology that's been developed in the previous 20+ years.

It seems to me that poor communication discourages people from being interested in Physics. "The Universe should not exist" is clickbait dishonesty by the media.

Read the scientific article, A parts-per-billion measurement of the antiproton magnetic moment. There is nothing dishonest.

It would have been far better to explain the conflict being observed and acknowledge that not much is known in that area of interest. It is FAR too early to draw conclusions.

What the CERN scientists may have discovered is that the "basic assumptions of the standard model of particle physics" are incorrect.

More clickbait dishonesty:

CERN Antimatter Experiment Suggest the Universe Shouldn't Exist

CERN Research Finds "The Universe Should Not Actually Exist"

The Universe Should Not Actually Exist, CERN Scientists Discover

CERN Scientists Find Further Evidence That the Universe 'Should Not Exist'

The universe shouldn't exist, scientists say after finding bizarre behaviour of anti-matter. Quote: "We don't know why the universe isn't destroying itself." That is at least in the direction of being honest; we don't know why.

I'm guessing that media writers didn't want to try to understand the actual issues, so they all adopted one writer's wild exaggeration.

I see NO evidence that anyone at CERN is dishonest. The dishonesty seems to be only in media reports.

If there's one place where SJW's belong, it's Star Trek.

William Shatner disagrees with you. See

https://www.inverse.com/article/34854-william-shatner-sjw-twitter-star-trek-outrage-controversy

Trump impeachment odds now even.

Yep, no reason to go to Mars. It's not like there's resources to make rocket fuel and water there, making it the next logical step for space exploration or anything.

Tesla certainly does, SpaceX does not as their rockets fall under military arms regulations. My apologies for the imprecise grammar. https://www.inverse.com/articl... Although there are procedures to allow SpaceX to hire foreign workers, that would require permission from SecDef or SecState.

Foxconn installed the nets to try to make the Western media shut up, not because there was a greater suicide problem there than anywhere else.

And since that did not work, they've moved on to a new tactic - robots! Since the iphone 6 was released, Foxconn has replaced more than half of their labor force with robots (employment went from 110,000 to 50,000). That's more than a 50% reduction in suicides!

for those that won't rake... :o) https://www.inverse.com/articl...

There was a Eco-program from the US which showed a solar panel (not this one) being smashed with a baseball bat and it still worked fine afterwards, i expect the tesla one would as well otherwise it would be a PR own goal. Regarding the snow angle https://www.inverse.com/articl.... Might not save much during the winter but you'll save something and for the rest of the year, it'll be fine. If you are going to put the battery in your garage, might be an idea to insulate the garage first

new info as undiscovered feature found in Tesla Autopilot https://www.inverse.com/articl... Could this could be an issue in terms of agreement ?

Undiscovered feature found in Tesla Autopilot https://www.inverse.com/articl... Could this could be an issue in terms of agreement ?

As if the phone in the San Bernadino case wasn't one that was used by an actual, real, murdering person who embarked on a terrorist attack?

Correct: it wasn't the one used in planning the terrorist attack.

To remind you of the facts, this was the work phone of (one of) the persons who embarked on the terrorist attack... which they planned using burner phones that they took some pains to destroy (along with the hard disk from their computer) and succeeded in doing so in a way that the FBI could not recover information.
https://www.inverse.com/articl...
http://www.washingtontimes.com...

So, the question is, would they make an effort to to destroy two phones, and not bother destroying the third phone, if the third phone actually had any information on it?

900 acres will sit on 600 acres? Me thinks this company has invented more than just a new electric car design.

The problem is the summary mentions two different claims for the size of the factory and the land it's supposed to be build on, but only gives one source (for the second set of numbers). Her's one for the first.

They are not estimating 1500 deaths because of Fukishima.

https://www.inverse.com/articl...

As noted in the title, the panic caused by the mass evacuations etc (e.g. moving people from hospitals) may have caused 1500 deaths.

Of course there are few (I think there may be a couple if I recall from workers in cleanup?) from radiation.

And of course 15,893 (wikipedia) deaths from the tsunami and earthquake.

Moral of the story is that even poorly designed and implemented power plants are less dangerous to your health than poorly sited and implemented housing. Spend the money on where and how people live to protect them from tsunamis and earthquakes. Then, maybe, spend money upgrading your nuclear facilities.