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If the females in India — where the society is, if anything, only more "patriarchal" than in the US, with the sex disparity growing — are achieving such results, then whatever is holding American ones back, can not be "patriarchy".

On that matter, the statistics among in chess offers a similar proof — the far more "patriarchal" societies of Eastern Europe and China, where women are still expected to look pretty and cook dinner — have many more prominent female players than the US does...

Whether the Feminism and the endless dollars spent on "womyn studies" in various colleges are to actually be blamed, these endeavors certainly have not helped matters.

This is the salient point. The algorithms are customized to the individual, so YouTube, Google, Facebook and other social media platforms are echo chambers.

    So when the guardian writes:

The Guardian found that "the algorithm was six times more likely to recommend videos that was damaging to Clinton than Trump, and also tended to amplify wild conspiracy theories about the former secretary of state."

One must ask, to who? Who is the user that is getting served up this content, and what have they been doing online?

It would be absolutely stunning if a Google company was an overall net negative to the Clinton campaign. Alphabet (Google parent company) Chairman Eric Schmidt worked closely with the Clinton campaign and created the company "The Groundwork" for the purpose. With deep knowledge of the algorithms used by Google and YouTube and a slew of engineers from the companies, The Groundwork has direct ties into the backend at Google.

Claiming that YouTube was manipulated to shill for Trump (overall) would be like claiming that William Randolph Hurst's papers were shilling against his favored candidates. It just doesn't make any sense at all.

Sorry but horseshit, Google is trying to push their political narrative. Look at Steven Crowder who has had NO TROUBLE finding tons of advertisers for his channel...did you see what ads google was running before he was demonitized? Shit like gay cruises...on a conservative Christians channel!

Google knows exactly how to make sure that advertisers will scream and they use that knowledge to demonitize. Its like running ads for pork sausage on a Muslim's channel, sure its a legit ad but does anybody think its a good match for the product? But seriously what do you expect when their former CEO was actively spending millions to put Hillary in the white house and rig search results to make Hillary look good is it any surprise they are trying to silence those that do not fit the narrative?

Steven Crowder met with Google and talks all about it on the recent Joe Rogan podcast, if anybody wants to learn more about how one sided Google is I'd urge them to watch the podcast.

Does anyone know HOW the data leave the car? If a vehicle doesn't have OnStar, even as an option, then how? WiFi? Special radio band? (Cellular ain't cheap [25 GB?!] and the manufacturers don't own any cellular towers.)

He needs to write it down on a yellow sticky note stuck to his monitor. Obs. Good enough for the operations manager Jeffrey Wong, good enough for him. https://qz.com/1181763/hawaiis...

most, especially non-Americans, don't have guns and have never handled one

Funny you should toss that in there. Lately America keeps getting compared to more "progressive" European nations, especially the nordic ones. It might be surprising to you that Norway actually practices conscription. On average a Norwegian probably has much more experience with firearms than an American.

America also hits the charts hard with the number of guns per capita and generally gets railed on for that. But, as with many statistics, there are other ways of looking at the data that are more meaningful when determining how many people actually own guns and have experience with them.

I really wanted to see if I could find NERF gun ownership stats for various countries, but I couldn't find a source.

You don't follow world news do you.

China built 25,000km high speed rail in 5 years, through deserts, glaciers, mountain ranges, forests, how many km have the Germans built?

Chinese trains have become so good that Germany's Deutsche Bahn wants to buy them.
According to DW columnist Frank Sieren, the railway can no longer afford to give preferential treatment to German companies.
http://www.dw.com/en/sierens-c...

Chinese train technology rolls into Germany
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/w...

China is on track to build high-speed rail in just about every corner of the world
https://qz.com/292321/china-is...

France and Germany now have to team up to compete with China

France-Germany rail merger aims to take on China
http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/2...
The deal aims to counter China's growing clout in global rail markets. Beijing stepped up its efforts in 2015 by merging two big companies into state-backed giant CRRC, which describes itself as "the world's largest supplier of rail transit equipment."

You and lynwood are both wrong then, because those numbers were from before 2017.

If 2017 was included, which it wasn't Euro GDP will be higher, because the growth was higher and the us dollar tanked 17% against it. The difference in 2016 was less than those amounts.

Smarter people than you clearly realise the value of a currency affects the economy...Show why you think it doesn't, if you want a Nobel prize that is.
You are not just completely naive but willfully ignorant if you think currency values don't affect employment (and also migration/population if you want to be a pedant.). You think the US is doing better because of Trump, or because it's currency dropped against everyone.
Even stupider people (RWNJ) know it's true, how come you still don't?

According to this summary of the article, it was a local disease that was responsible for the "cocoliztli", not one brought over by Europeans.

No sarcasm intended

You are not 110010001000, are you?

His objection (sincere or sarcastic) was not the diminishment of anonimity, but simply the alleged illegality.

they accept cash. Cash = anonymity

Not quite... Many taxi companies keep record of where each ride originated and ended. And many (most?) take at least a picture of the passenger, if not a video of him. Such video-equipment is a booming business.

Of course, Uber and others are doing it too. Get used to it — with very few exceptions, whatever can be legally perceived, can also be legally recorded...

Last time a developer deleted his NPM packages and broke the Internet.

https://qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-by-deleting-a-tiny-piece-of-code/

This time the Internet didn't care when the admins deleted the wrong NPM packages. Progress?

I don't know about moron - I happen to know very well about those mining centres in Iceland and Sweden for example. I do like my facts a bit sourced though.

The country accounts for more than two-thirds of the world’s processing power devoted to bitcoin mining.

(from 4 days ago)

https://qz.com/1172632/chinas-...

These mining companies started making contingency plans earlier this year to move their operations to other countries. I do not see a sudden drop of 66% of the hash rate, no.

A Beijing-based mining firm told Quartz in November that it is scouting for backup options in Sweden and Canada for the tens of thousands of mining machines it currently operates in Xinjiang

(from the same article)

Amazon doesn't have too much house brand stuff; but one assumes that its margins on some of what it sells are higher than on the rest; so it could consume its own advertising space by promoting that; or encouraging purchases on Amazon rather than elsewhere.

They could do that yes, but if they decided to go that route they'd be handing chips over to competitors like Google who have no qualms about selling ad space on these devices. The echo is the most popular device of its kind currently and I assume Amazon's plan is to keep it that way. Keep in mind they can and very likely still do advertise themselves on the platform, but I can see no reason why they'd want to close off the ad ecosystem entirely. I mean, if someone's looking for services that Amazon doesn't provide, like a restaurant or a dentist, if they can't serve ads for nearby restaurants and services they're essentially throwing out money.

The way I look at Amazon's strategy as someone with a business background (though I'm not a marketing specialist) on the retail side is that they don't want to be seen as picking favorites. See the thing is that you're not quite correct about Amazon not having house brands. They own a wide variety of brands already that most people don't even realize are owned by them, because they haven't slapped their name on them. In addition there are several companies (mostly clothing companies, also listed in the above link) that only sell items via Amazon and have no other online presence anywhere and are all incorporated in the same address in Delaware. While these are not directly owned by Amazon, it's very likely that these too are 'covert house brands' hidden behind holding companies. The intent behind hiding the house brands is quite clear: Amazon wants to be seen as a neutral marketplace where you have a lot of options. If they only advertised products and brands that they own directly it would make the marketing of these covert brands impossible, as well as give up the game as it would highlight to consumers what these brands are, and this is not desirable for Amazon in the current position.

'Pay no heed to the man behind the curtain' is the way Amazon's brand management works on the retail side and they're quite successful at it. This decision fits perfectly with that strategy.

As a currency its a complete failure so far.

I was doing some research and some companies are trying to make it work as an inventory tracker.

Every time I see the tech in practice, it seems to be easily replaceable by a secure database, which appears to have all the features of blockchain except the supposed anonymity, and a secure database doesn't have problems like a 51% attack, nor the ridiculous time per transaction or cost per transaction problems.

Seems like blockchain so far is workable as a very expensive type of unregulated gambling.

There's a lot of places thinking about using the blockchain for land ledgers. The trouble with land ledgers is a lot of people and groups need access but it's really hard to keep track of and keep everything updated, especially in less developed countries. The blockchain solves this by making the information both widely accessible and trustworthy. Best part is land doesn't change hands much so you don't have the scalability issues of bitcoin.

If I've said it once.... I've said it a hundred times.

Our technology is evolving faster than our species.

• 
  Suicides of teen girls in the USA are up due to cell phones and social media.
  Cell phones are killing our necks.
  In addition to carrying a personal tracking device, governments are using and abusing any and all technology to spy on citizens
  The Sun could wipe out our power grid with a direct hit from a geomagnetic storm, and utilities aren't doing anything to mitigate the risks.
  5 Countries are destroying the ocean with plastics and covering the earth with asbestos.
  And let's not forget about the Doomsday clock and Nuclear Weapons. We still have a cold war posture that could end badly.
  We have governments with cheap gene editing tools CRISPR/CAS9 working to make designer pets that glow in the dark and super biological weapons
  Video Game Addiction is rampant
  The Internet is a Pandora's box of garbage and porn, bad behavior are shaping your minds through YouTube and other video streaming sites.
  The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. There will be a tipping point and this will lead to global unrest.

We can truly say it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. If we could all just grow up and use our technology for good, but we can't. Just like light and dark, yin and yang, the good of technology is always accompanied by the evil dark side.

My prediction for 2018 is that AI and machine learning are going to be applied to hacking. AI's will be trained to write code to exploit all things and the exploits will be endless. Humans won't even be able to understand the exploit code as the AI software churns them out. Further I predict human cloning will happen this year and that China/Russia/North Korea will test some pretty nasty hacks on Americas Banks, Stock Market, Telecommunications, and/or gas/electric/water. I also predict that US drug usage will continue to increase (opioids, weed, alcohol) and the life expectancy will continue to decrease and suicide rates will continue to increase. I also predict that based on an increased energy in the atmosphere that storms will continue to grow in intensity. I also predict there will be a war in North Korea due to an error in a rocket test hitting a US ally. Further I predict Russia will take over another ex-Russian republic and China will continue to flex it's military muscle.

7 billion people on the planet. Technology everywhere, and we still can't figure out to behave and share.

I was watching TV with a little child and she was horrified by the war videos on the news and she asked me, "Why is there war? Why are they fighting?"

My answer, "Because, Sharing is hard."

To all reading this, in 2018 do a better job of sharing, loving your neighbor, and using less plastic.

Happy New Year!

America is not authoritarian. You may want to look up what the word means.

"Authoritarianism is a form of government characterized by strong central power and limited political freedoms." Check. "Juan Linz's influential 1964 description of authoritarianism characterized authoritarian political systems by four qualities: Limited political pluralism," (Check.) "[...] A basis for legitimacy based on emotion, especially the identification of the regime as a necessary evil to combat "easily recognizable societal problems" (Check.) "Minimal social mobilization" (Check.) "Informally defined executive power with often vague and shifting powers." (Check.) ... you were saying?

Russia is openly authoritarian, and does not pretend otherwise.

That's not at question currently, but thanks for handwaving.

Bubble + North Korea hacking and theft + loss of confidence probably all play a roll

North Korea Hacking War on Bitcoin Exchanges Is Part of “Biggest Global Sting”

The bankruptcy of a bitcoin exchange has been blamed on North Korean hackers, prompting concerns for the cryptocurrency’s future. Around $72 million worth of bitcoins were stolen from the South Korean exchange Youbit in April, before a second more recent cyber heist forced the exchange to shut down on Tuesday. Cryptocurrency exchanges from neighboring South Korea—which account for 15 to 25 percent of world bitcoin trading—appear to be the main target of the hackers, with the country’s largest exchange platform, Bithumb, hacked in July. Other Seoul-based bitcoin exchanges, including Yapizon and Coinis, have also been the target of cyber thieves suspected of being from North Korea this year.

Bitcoin exchange collapses after second cyber attack in a year

Bitcoin fails its test as a haven in times of global turmoil

North Korea bitcoin WARNING: Kim regime hacking cryptocurrency to fund nuclear weapons

I'm assuming it's more cheerleading for law enforcement at taxpayer expense, similar to trading cards except not as useful (since you could use those as a bookmark.

"ALERT: Police are in danger... Never mind, other police on the SWAT force saved the day! Thanks to the armored vehicle and infrared technology, they caught the fugitive drug dealer who was armed with a knife!"

(For anyone upset that I'm not virtue signaling about police safety, I'll remind you it's never been safer to be a cop than now and there are many other worse-paid, more dangerous jobs we don't pretend are heroes.)

Check with your insurance company if you're so worried. https://qz.com/230055/car-insu...

You're technically true on all points, but you're missing some details:

The peering provider had upgraded to switch toward comcast with a higher bandwidth network card and asked comcast to do the same to their switch.

This, by itself, was not newsworthy because this is what they had done in the past. What was different was that Comcast refused (source 1, source 2).

Also of note is that Netflix tried to get ISPs to join their Open Connect program, where Netflix would install servers within Comcast's own network (at no cost to Comcast) so the switches wouldn't need to handle the traffic, but Comcast refused (source 1, source 2).

Netflix was trying to deal with its growing data usage as inexpensively as possible. Without the above details, though, it looks like they were trying to do so at Comcast's expense. IMO Comcast was in the wrong here because Comcast's customers were the ones paying for the network/data, but again, that's just my opinion.

Have you ever heard of Zimbabwe? These things that you say "have value" - they only do while the government/economy that backs them has power. When they lose their value, you're back to trading in assets, like gold. Gold's value will not fluctuate against the other currencies of the world nearly as much as a currency backed by a government that has lost power, and it will still be useful as a trading commodity.

GP's post is more akin to burying your money in various places in a field, and then forgotten where you've buried it.

Damn that kimchi would be good, if only I could find it!

https://qz.com/286213/the-char...

Yes, pity for you that he is right. China LOVES to trumpet when it does something "good" in one little corner, but ignores all the "bad" it does everywhere else. Living there for 6 years, you get used to seeing how Beijing will use a singular, small initiative to claim it is doing something - and continue to not apply that initiative in 95% of the country.

For example, China claims that air pollution is getting much better. But independent measurements show a drastic difference. Go to Ningbo in the summer. Wonder why the official temperature is never over 44, even though your calibrated thermometer shows 46 or 47? Because if the official temperature is 45 or higher, then factories must have air conditioning installed. So thus, the official temperature never is above 44 - even if outside it is well above that.

Wrong, as is the summary. Solar and wind (even unsubsidized) are now the cheapest energy source in the world.

Maybe the editors at qz should check their own website before approving articles, unless of course they aspire to become Slashdot editors.

Oh please, you need to name names rather than just hysterically shriek about Democrats. Remember, this state did vote for Mitt Romney and Scott Brown of all people. Now admittedly, they wouldn't vote for Roy Moore, but really, who would?

And besides, remember this failure? No wait, wait, you're still too busy generating hot air. But hey, at least Texas can use it.

Well for one thing, they're not necessarily the loners they were thought to be.

I'm sure people still buy DVDs. But measuring a strict binary -- "Did you rent or purchase physical video media in the last year?" -- they set themselves up to report a strange number, since that includes all the people who bought 1 video. Or 2 videos. These are people who have, for all intents and purposes, switched to something else.

In any case, TFA tells the real story, with video sales dropping from $12 billion per year to under $6 billion per year in just 7 years.

Remember how some websites were faster than others?

YES, actually. Netflix error message blames ISP for slow streaming service

Netflix was effectively extorted by Comcast:

Despite purchasing transit on all available routes into Comcast’s network that did not require direct or indirect payment of an access fee to Comcast, the viewing quality of Netflix’s service reached near-VHS quality levels. Faced with such severe degradation of its streaming video service, Netflix began to negotiate for paid access to connect with Comcast. Netflix and Comcast eventually reached a paid agreement. Within a week of that agreement, viewing quality for Netflix streaming video on Comcast’s network shot back up to HD-quality levels.

Rolling back Net Neutrality means it's open season on this shit starting up again.

Is that the kind of internet you want? One where ISPs can say "it would be a shame if something happened to your website. A real shame.", and they are forced to pay up, even though customers already have service agreements with said ISPs paying for that bandwidth?

An internet where ISPs (who are also cable providers...) can disadvantage streaming services in favour of their own offerings?

And if websites are forced to pay more for "equal footing", who do you think the costs get passed on to?

I heard ZERO indictments of him about his political leanings

https://qz.com/1055466/the-alt... basically calls him a liar when he denies being 'alt right'.

Then there are the suspicious string of articles all basically going, "Damore is an alt-right [hero|martyr]":
https://www.theguardian.com/co...
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
https://www.recode.net/2017/8/...
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
https://www.vox.com/culture/20...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.newsweek.com/who-ja...
http://nymag.com/selectall/201...

Maybe that was just because there was too much material to get to boring stuff like that in his 15 minutes of fame.

No, it's because his political leanings are by all accounts very much aligned to the people trying to demonise him, hence the multitude of articles trying to position him with the people they don't like.

I hesitate to say 'conspiracy' but it sure as fuck doesn't look like independent and honest reporting to me.

We already have a stark illustration of what ISPs look like without net neutrality, e.g. Portugal: https://qz.com/1114690/why-is-...

... because I read Damore's memo and found it to be perfectly reasonable.

James Damore was asked to provide feedback after attending a diversity event at Google; he provided feedback, and then like the crazy nutcases of the Communist Revolution in China, the "feminist" SJWs used that feedback to identify Damore as a prime candidate for destruction in their Cultural Revolution.

Here comes that narrative thing again. Those who demanded and successfully had Damore fired are in the end, not the least bit interested in equality. They want ultimate authority based upon their ideology. The problem of course is that ideologues do not stop. Ideologues, upon getting one concession granted, are emboldened and demand the next step toward whatever their utopia state is.

Today it is elimination of a person who does not agree with their ideals. Tomorrow we start to look like France, who is making it illegal for a man to talk to women. https://qz.com/1106465/a-new-f... Or making it illegal to employ slender women as models https://blog.lawinfo.com/2015/... She must take a test that proves the has a Body Mass Index of 18 or higher. If you have a woman working for you with less, you are fined and imprisoned.

The question that must be asked is that if women are equal to men in all ways, why must we have a plethora of laws to protect them?

The answer of course, is not that women are inferior to men, but that there are female ideologues who demand that women look and act as they demand and use men as the villains in all cases. In the end, if women were dominated by men, they are just trading that for being dominated by misandrist females.

Good luck Google. Today you have made a move Chamberlain would have been proud of, well done, now go back and wait for our next demand.

This is the kind of prediction you don't really want to be correct about. Would have liked to see some more technical explanation, but from a little googling I see there is a 32 year cycle of slowing which the scientists think might be due to mantle and crust sticking together more, which would also mess up the magnetic field a bit. I had no idea this was a thing. There are various other causes according to wikipedia apparently such as the Indian ocean earthquake which redistributed mass. So I wonder whether there would be any impact from water that melts from arctic ice. People living at the intersection of tectonic plates tend to think about this stuff.
Two links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://qz.com/1133304/as-eart...

How do we raise the cost of CO2 naturally? Well, for one it is going to rise as we keep using it up. The price goes down naturally with increased technology and economy of scale.

In other words, you propose doing nothing, except for the one thing (fixing nuclear regulations) that might annoy those anti-nuclear liberals. The problem with this of course is that most fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground, which won't happen naturally.

It's actually worse than that because most articles that explain how "most fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground" haven't even considered clathrates / methane hydrates, a new CO2-emitting fuel source that is now being explored.

So why not the Republican climate change solution?

I agree, nuclear regulations need improvement in the USA, particularly to facilitate GenIVs and Molten Salt Reactors - offering higher safety at lower cost, but hindered by the current regulatory regime.

But solar energy with no subsidies has already become cheaper than coal near the equator. Look up Swanson's law - the Moore's law of solar. It's hard to imagine solar panels ever being useful during cloudy Canadian winters, but solar in the south plus nuclear in the north makes a lot of sense.

If it's no better than a fingerprint, then why is it needed?

One out of 50,000 people have similar enough fingerprints to you to unlock your phone, only one out of 1 million people have similar enough faces to unlock your phone. Also FaceID works if you're wearing gloves. So, it's better in at least some ways.

And it is worse than a fingerprint: twins can't fingerprint-unlock each others' phones. Hell, even non-twin adult siblings can face-unlock the same phone. And you can only put one face in the phone, so no, they didn't do it by putting both faces in the phone.

In your link they trained it on both faces. You can only calibrate one original face, but every time it fails to recognize a new face and then you input your passcode then it will add the new face data to the training set. And that's probably exactly what the Vietnam group did with the 3D mask, kept inputting the passcode until it would recognize the mask as the person.

Got a citation for this? There's a mode that requires "attention" (e.g. open eyes), but it is not the default.

That's bullshit, you're completely wrong, stop getting all your info from Breitbart.

https://support.apple.com/en-u...

Seriously, does the fact that Apple exists bother you so much that you feel the need to manufacture lies on the internet, and then desperately hope that noone will call you on your bullshit?

If it is no worse than a thumbprint, then why is it news?

If it's no better than a fingerprint, then why is it needed? And it is worse than a fingerprint: twins can't fingerprint-unlock each others' phones. Hell, even non-twin adult siblings can face-unlock the same phone. And you can only put one face in the phone, so no, they didn't do it by putting both faces in the phone.

Also, FaceID doesn't work if you're unconscious.

Got a citation for this? There's a mode that requires "attention" (e.g. open eyes), but it is not the default. Without that setting being enabled, your iPhone X will unlock if your eyes are closed. Now, if you're just sleeping, rather than being unconscious, you might wake up when someone manipulates your hand to unlock your phone using your fingerprint, but will you wake when they hold the phone in front of your face without touching you?

It seriously took 10 seconds to completely destroy your argument

Except that you didn't, really.

maybe try harder next time

Maybe you should.

China does have a large campaign to install solar energy and move to electric cars.
https://qz.com/1072643/electri...
Recently, India’s road transport minister Nitin Gadkari quite bluntly made the government’s intentions clear. “We should move towards alternative fuelI am going to do this, whether you like it or not,” Gadkari told India’s automobile lobby group, SIAM, on Sept. 07. “And I am not going to ask you. I will bulldoze it.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Solar power in India is a fast developing industry. As of September, 2017 the country's solar grid had a cumulative capacity of 14.77 GW.[1] India quadrupled its solar-generation capacity from 2,650 MW on 26 May 2014 to 12,289 MW on 31 March 2017. The country added 3.01 GW of solar capacity in 2015-2016 and 5.525 GW in 2016-2017, the highest of any year, with the average current price of solar electricity dropping to 18% below the average price of its coal-fired counterpart.
India's initiative of 100 GW of solar energy by 2022 is an ambitious target, since the world's installed solar-power capacity in 2017 is expected to be 303 GW.

It's all about Organized Mafia https://qz.com/889524/the-us-s...

You are suggesting wind and solar at the scale required to equate to 50 nuclear plants in a country with limited real estate like Japan?

If only Japan were near the ring of fire and could tap into geothermal energy. If only Japan were a nation with a large amount of coastline and able to easily tap into on and offshore wind energy a la Scotland.

If only.

They've actually, sort of officially, decided that you are correct and constantly changing them is a bad idea. I totally agree.
https://qz.com/981941/the-us-s...

> Does anyone remember the person that deleted the small JavaScript file and brought down so many big sites because they were loading it from his site instead of having a copy on their own site? I think it was to justify text. It was only a couple of lines.

You're recalling the npm package called left-pad (alternate write-up here). The author was Azer Koçulu (Slashdot might botch his Turkish surname, apologies for that).

Who said wind is cheaper? Quote please?

Wind and solar are cheaper than coal in Australia.
Wind is cheaper than coal in India.
Wind directly competes with coal on price.

... and now for an opposing view:
News Flash: Wind is not cheaper than coal.

https://qz.com/849256/how-to-m...

Per capita is quite a useless measurement when looking at technological conversion rate. You need to start with the existing pool of what it is you are changing rather than the number of people.

You bring up an interesting point -- it's not clear in either country how many (if any) EV sales are actually displacing cars in the existing pool as opposed to being net new sales to new drivers.

Ballpark numbers here suggest that in the U.S. sales growth is less than 1% annually (we'll call it 2.7 million to be generous), while in China it's around 7-8% (making it in the neighborhood of 13 million). According to this, last year there were about 160,000 EVs sold in the U.S. and about 350,000 in China. That means that about 6% of net new car sales in the U.S. were EVs, while only about 2.5% of China's were.

So measuring per capita for new drivers, our EV sales are still over 2x China's.

Of course, the other way you could look at all this is that the numbers are vanishingly small in any event (160,000 is one twentieth of one percent of the 270 million cars in the U.S., and 350,000 is one tenth of one percent of the 190 million cars in the U.S.), and so these statistics are noisy enough to be essentially useless for showing any long-term trends. But that's just another way to come to the same conclusion that the article is badly misleading at best.

There are five SAE accepted levels of autonomy:

Level 0: No self driving features
Level 1: Some driver assistance
Level 2: More driver assistance
Level 3: Conditional autonomy
Level 4: Nearly autonomous.
Level 5: Completely autonomous.

When will it get here? Dates range from 2017 (Ol' Musky) to 2026 (president of IIHS) and beyond, from people in the know.

Every bit of driver assistance I think is a good thing, but Level 5 - true autonomy - is still a ways off, it seems to me.

found online, not vouching for its accuracy

Independent verification of FBI Anon claims

1995: Martin Indyk, Dennis Ross, Izaac Herzog, and an unidentified Israeli representative meet to discuss the possibility of Bill Clinton pardoning Marc Rich in exchange for Rich funding the PLO, a Muslim terrorist organization committed to Israel's destruction.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/p...

Qatar would buy a stake in Marc Rich's company Glencore after his death, and Qatar and Glencore would operate in concert afterwards.

2000: Marc Rich associate Michael Steinhardt controls the DLC and Progressive Policy Institute.
http://www.deepcapture.com/200...

2003: George Soros and Morton Halperin placed John Podesta as founding head of the Center for American Progress.
http://www.discoverthenetworks... https://archive.is/Gb2FV

Under Podesta's watch, unknown persons placed accused Hamas fundraiser Faiz Shakir as Vice President of the Center for American Progress and chief editor of Think Progress. In 2011 Faiz Shakir and Wajahat Ali produced the report "Fear Inc." smearing national security analysts and political activists who oppose the Muslim Brotherhood, including liberal Muslims.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fp... https://archive.is/tOxwC

Online rumors have attempted to connect the art trading of John Podesta's brother Tony Podesta with Qatari art purchases of works by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons who have been hosted by Qatar Museums.
http://qz.com/764975/qatars-oi...

The Podesta Group lobbyied for Qatar Petroleum in 2013.
https://www.desmogblog.com/201...

2004: The Awan brothers begin employment in the US Congress and will work under Robert Wexler, Xavier Becerra, Gregory Meeks, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and others before they are exposed as a spy ring in 2017.
http://www.politico.com/story/...

2005: Unknown persons placed Emad Shahin and Juliette Kayyem in the Dubai Initiative which produced propaganda to promote the Muslim Brotherhood using the name and reputation of Harvard University.
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvar...
Emad Shahin was convincted in absentia of aiding Hamas and Iran to overthrow the Egyptian government.
http://emadshahin.com/?p=1839
https://news.vice.com/article/...
Juliette Kayyem advocated for Qatari state television network Al-Jazeera and wrote "The War On Terror Is Over" to discourage continued resistance to al-Qaeda.
https://www.boston.com/bostong...
https://www.boston.com/bostong...

2005: Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal paid Georgetown University $20 million to continue hosting John Esposito's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, which was originally founded in 1993 with a grant from PLO board member Hasib Sabagh

Which is another way of saying that the original factory touch id sensor is the only one that can access a particular secure enclave.

No. That is saying something else.

Replacement sensors are unable to access it.

Actually they *are* able to and that is why Apple disables them as explained here.

"Apple says this error is the result of a security procedure that checks whether a Touch ID sensor in the home button—which enables fingerprint recognition—has been tampered with. “If iOS finds a mismatch, the check fails and Touch ID, including for Apple Pay use, is disabled,” Apple explained in a statement. “This security measure is necessary to protect your device and prevent a fraudulent Touch ID sensor from being used.”"

If the "secure enclave" really is secure then whether the TouchID sensor is "fraudulent" or not is irrelevant. But no, the secure enclave can be defeated by the interface to it so as Apple has explained they disable it for security measures.

And finally, it doesn't send that (irreversible) hash anywhere - it stores it internally in the Secure Enclave, so it wouldn't even matter if they *where* scanning other faces.

Why do you think it stores it in the "secure enclave" when it is scanning? Why do you think it would need to store it at all?

More to the point the data that it does store is not simply a hash. A hash can be used for comparison but not for machine learning that it does to keep up with gradual changes like ageing, hair, growing a beard, etc... As we know from the Error 53 responses, the Secure Enclave cannot be trusted which is why Apple disabled phones with replaced TouchID sensors:

“If iOS finds a mismatch, the check fails and Touch ID, including for Apple Pay use, is disabled,” Apple explained in a statement. “This security measure is necessary to protect your device and prevent a fraudulent Touch ID sensor from being used.”

http://qz.com/1082191/an-earth... :(

Manufacturers have been trying to automate the job for decades, with little success so far.

Maybe not quite there yet, but it's coming

like Uber, Lift and the rest of the "gig" economy pushed by big tech companies, this has gotten swallowed by the race to the bottom. Quartz.com had an article this past week showing that listening is up but revenue is down:
https://qz.com/1071783/apple-m...
revenue is down because people are getting subscriptions for which lawyers and tech companies are taking most of the profit leaving those who actually build, create and do work with crumbs....
lather, rinse, repeat industry to industry....