Slashdot Mirror

Pretty excited that http://realtwitter.com/ gets the shout-out in this post (see this tweet for background information). Also excited that Twitter decided to implement this functionality for real.

Who hasn't seen the (usually live) video of long-suffering weathermen standing out there in a shiny wet rainjacket or suit, being blown away (and the godz alone know how the cameramen manage).

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/a...

"Twitter user @gourdnibler captured a Weather Channel reporter struggling to stand upright and seemingly holding onto dear life — until the camera pans out a bit and captures two people casually strolling in the background."

https://twitter.com/twitter/st...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Have you seen creimer's children band video? Holy shit! That video got hundreds of view with 95% coming from outside of the United States and the top three nations are well known for sex tourism. It doesn't surprise me that Slashdot has so many pedobears.

If that was all there was to it, I'd be happy.

Sadly, I have to wonder about the reasons for this given that a Code of Conduct (Control) was implemented. Linus had resisted such nonsense for years. And he faced serious pressure before cracking, so I figure something was up.

Maybe someone from 30 years ago wrote a letter and then scrubbed their social media history, who knows?

(Cross posted from twitter here: https://twitter.com/gehrehmee/...)

Just read Linus' LKML email that he's taking some time off kernel development to "get some assistance on how to understand people’s emotions and respond appropriately".

Good on him. It's an example many of us in tech can learn.

I especially like how he compares this time off kernel development to his time he took off to go work on git. It's important to collaborate with your community, to be a *good person* -- but it's also important from a productivity and efficiency angle.

Investing energy into one's tooling, whether emotional awareness, social skills, communication, collaboration, verbal, written word, or tech/code mechanisms, is critical for anyone trying to be a balanced person that delivers the most they can at the things they care about.

Investing energy into one's tooling, whether emotional awareness, social skills, communication, collaboration, verbal, written word, or tech/code mechanisms, is critical for anyone trying to be a balanced person that delivers the most they can at the things they care about.

This kind of *investment* is all too easily and all too often looked down upon.

It should be celebrated. It should be taught (in post-secondary settings even!). It should be expected.

It should be normal.

CNN deceptively edited a rioter's speech. What she did was call for the rioters to move their rioting.

> Burnin down shit ain't going to help nothin! Y'all burnin' down shit we need in our community. Take that shit to the suburbs. Burn that shit down! We need our shit! We need our weaves. I don't wear it. But we need it.

Citation: https://twitter.com/DeeconX/st...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-8Cn6boqcA

CNN apology:

> We shorthanded sister's quote. Unintentionally gave the impression she was calling for peace everywhere.

Unintentionally my ass.

CNN Cuts Live Interview When Facts About Refugees Are Brought Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Fake protest staged by CNN film crew at London Bridge terrorist attack scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

CNN gets caught red-handed telling their focus group what to say https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

CNN conducts fake interview in parking lot https://www.theatlantic.com/na...

Top 10 Times CNN Reported Fake News https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

CNN reporter's response when asked why CNN hadn't corrected false gun article: "not playing your game man." http://thefederalist.com/2017/...

CNN threatens man into silence with threats of doxxing https://i.redd.it/jyw161j3wntz...

CNN on family leave before and after Trump backed it https://imgoat.com/thumb/e296a...

Media shows why it's so mistrusted after falsified Trump fish-feeding 'story' http://thehill.com/opinion/whi...
CNN: Trump feeds fish, winds up pouring entire box of food into koi pond

The CNN example includes edited video that zooms in on Trump to only show his face and prevents the viewer from seeing what Japanese Prime Minister Abe was doing at a key point of the short event.

Why was Abe edited out? Perhaps because he took his entire box of fish food and dumped it into the pond. Trump followed Abe's lead and did the same seconds later.

But with the zoom edit cutting Abe out, the viewer or reader - with an assist from the caption Â-- is led to believe only Trump dumped his box. The media was not only blatantly overt, but intentional in its deception.

The greatest danger to our nation comes from a free press that chooses sides in the political process. And that has openly and unapologetically taken place.

By Hammurabis symmetry, people issuing false accusations should be treated as if they committed the offense themselves.

For instance, this @Xenis accusation of "death camps" should lead to @Xeni being treated as if she advocated death camps.

Gabish?

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) September 6, 2018

By Hammurabis symmetry, people issuing false accusations should be treated as if they committed the offense themselves.

For instance, this @Xenis accusation of "death camps" should lead to @Xeni being treated as if she advocated death camps.

Gabish?

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) September 6, 2018

By Hammurabis symmetry, people issuing false accusations should be treated as if they committed the offense themselves.

For instance, this @Xenis accusation of "death camps" should lead to @Xeni being treated as if she advocated death camps.

Gabish?

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) September 6, 2018

Indeed. It was only a matter of time. I look forward to the upcoming Musk startups, Giant Lasers Incorporated and Sharks Unlimited.
 

Indeed. It was only a matter of time. I look forward to the upcoming Musk startups, Giant Lasers Incorporated and Sharks Unlimited.
 

from https://twitter.com/sixcolorse... :

If you fall and are unresponsive for a minute the apple watch series 4 will call the emergency number for you. Also sends your info to your emergency contact. AW also can now detect and alert on low heart rate and screen your heart rhythm and alert if it detects a-fib

How much does Apple care about this heart-analysis feature? Here's the president of the American Heart Association to call it "game changing."

You can have my Apple Watch when you pry it off my cold, dead wrist. Literally. :-)

Enjoy

This clip about simple money management from the movie "The Gambler" is finding new life on the Internet. Would be a worthwhile lesson for these young millionaires. https://twitter.com/LebogangMo...

"If we lose our majority its because the election was hacked."

Get ready for it.

Get ready? What are you talking about, he's literally already written that!

Giorgio Maone responded to my post thusly:

The NoScript dev -- not "devs" ;) -- here.

Thank you for your commentary, which is quite to the point except for two details which I'd like to set straight:

• The existence of this vulnerability, let alone its nature, has never been disclosed neither to me or the Tor Browser team. The very first hint I had about it has been this tweet by the ZDNet reporter, sent about one later than Zerodium's one, and noticed even later.
• Based exclusively on that Zerodium's tweet (not a proper bug report, just a innuendo without even a link to a live PoC), the "NoScript team" (just me, actually) scrambled to create a reproducible test-case, dig in NoScript 5 "Classic"'s code base which had not been touched for months*, find the bug, fix it, test the patch, package two new versions (one for the beta autoupdate channel, one for the stable one) and deploy them both in quite less than one hour, real-time while been interviewed by the journalist. In the old days, when I had my own garage bands, our typical rehearsals were much longer -- and pleasant ;)

Thank you for your detailed corrections to my (largely guesswork-based) post. I couldn't ask for a more credible source for them!

(I'm more impressed by your patch-fu now than I was in the first place, btw.)

While I have your attention, I also want to thank you for what you do for us FF users. Without NoScript, I wouldn't feel safe browsing the modern web with anything short of a completely air-gapped PC that had a browser, an OS, and basically nothing else of value installed, so I could take it down to bare metal and reinstall them both, whenever it got infected from rogue scripts - which would likely be every couple of days ...

Giorgio Maone responded to my post thusly:

The NoScript dev -- not "devs" ;) -- here.

Thank you for your commentary, which is quite to the point except for two details which I'd like to set straight:

• The existence of this vulnerability, let alone its nature, has never been disclosed neither to me or the Tor Browser team. The very first hint I had about it has been this tweet by the ZDNet reporter, sent about one later than Zerodium's one, and noticed even later.
• Based exclusively on that Zerodium's tweet (not a proper bug report, just a innuendo without even a link to a live PoC), the "NoScript team" (just me, actually) scrambled to create a reproducible test-case, dig in NoScript 5 "Classic"'s code base which had not been touched for months*, find the bug, fix it, test the patch, package two new versions (one for the beta autoupdate channel, one for the stable one) and deploy them both in quite less than one hour, real-time while been interviewed by the journalist. In the old days, when I had my own garage bands, our typical rehearsals were much longer -- and pleasant ;)

Thank you for your detailed corrections to my (largely guesswork-based) post. I couldn't ask for a more credible source for them!

(I'm more impressed by your patch-fu now than I was in the first place, btw.)

While I have your attention, I also want to thank you for what you do for us FF users. Without NoScript, I wouldn't feel safe browsing the modern web with anything short of a completely air-gapped PC that had a browser, an OS, and basically nothing else of value installed, so I could take it down to bare metal and reinstall them both, whenever it got infected from rogue scripts - which would likely be every couple of days ...

The NoScript dev -- not "devs" ;) -- here.

Thank you for your commentary, which is quite to the point except for two details which I'd like to set straight:

• The existence of this vulnerability, let alone its nature, has never been disclosed neither to me or the Tor Browser team. The very first hint I had about it has been this tweet by the ZDNet reporter, sent about one later than Zerodium's one, and noticed even later.
• Based exclusively on that Zerodium's tweet (not a proper bug report, just a innuendo without even a link to a live PoC), the "NoScript team" (just me, actually) scrambled to create a reproducible test-case, dig in NoScript 5 "Classic"'s code base which had not been touched for months*, find the bug, fix it, test the patch, package two new versions (one for the beta autoupdate channel, one for the stable one) and deploy them both in quite less than one hour, real-time while been interviewed by the journalist. In the old days, when I had my own garage bands, our typical rehearsals were much longer -- and pleasant ;)

* NoScript 10 "Quantum" has been the main branch and the only I focused on since December 2017: it's a complete rewrite and was born unaffected by this bug. NoScript 5 has been kept around so far for the Tor Browser and the others based on Firefox ESR 52, like Palemoon.

I'd like also to add that NoScript 10's code is much simpler, leaner and easier to understand / maintain, and has got a lot more "friendly" eyeballs reviewing it for possible flaws. Therefore I'm quite confident something like this wouldn't go unnoticed that easily. Anyway, I vow to keep fixing whatever security bug is found (either cooperatively or in a hostile and disturbing way, like in this case) as fast as humanly possible, and even a bit faster, like I always did :)

The NoScript dev -- not "devs" ;) -- here.

Thank you for your commentary, which is quite to the point except for two details which I'd like to set straight:

• The existence of this vulnerability, let alone its nature, has never been disclosed neither to me or the Tor Browser team. The very first hint I had about it has been this tweet by the ZDNet reporter, sent about one later than Zerodium's one, and noticed even later.
• Based exclusively on that Zerodium's tweet (not a proper bug report, just a innuendo without even a link to a live PoC), the "NoScript team" (just me, actually) scrambled to create a reproducible test-case, dig in NoScript 5 "Classic"'s code base which had not been touched for months*, find the bug, fix it, test the patch, package two new versions (one for the beta autoupdate channel, one for the stable one) and deploy them both in quite less than one hour, real-time while been interviewed by the journalist. In the old days, when I had my own garage bands, our typical rehearsals were much longer -- and pleasant ;)

* NoScript 10 "Quantum" has been the main branch and the only I focused on since December 2017: it's a complete rewrite and was born unaffected by this bug. NoScript 5 has been kept around so far for the Tor Browser and the others based on Firefox ESR 52, like Palemoon.

I'd like also to add that NoScript 10's code is much simpler, leaner and easier to understand / maintain, and has got a lot more "friendly" eyeballs reviewing it for possible flaws. Therefore I'm quite confident something like this wouldn't go unnoticed that easily. Anyway, I vow to keep fixing whatever security bug is found (either cooperatively or in a hostile and disturbing way, like in this case) as fast as humanly possible, and even a bit faster, like I always did :)

https://twitter.com/StevWork/s...

While major ISPs R jerking-off law-makers to keep monopolies,destroy NetNeutrality,pretend bits are huge/expensive/hard-to-move,U pay through nose while they Rape democracy/#FreeSpeach, countries like S.Korea have Fiber to every door.

Is that clear enough?

I don't see a lot of calls for violence on the #antifa hashtag. Funny enough, most of the posts seem to be opposed to anti-fa (with a few leaning towards violence...

Here's a thought: Antifa is just a boogieman created by Fox News and other right wing media outlets to mask and excuse right wing violence with "Whataboutism".

So you have seen calls for violence on the antifa hashtag.

Antifa is a domestic terrorist organization. Is the Independent a right wing media outlet? What about Politico?

Defending active terrorism and a terrorist group causing thousands of crimes, many of them violent, and over 100 million in property damage within the US alone is a deplorable thing to do.

Discordapp.com, a web-based text and voice chat platform, allows uploading server-specific emojis in Chrome. It used to allow uploading them in Firefox as well until the settings UI redesign in May 2017. Since then, clicking the "Upload Emoji" button has done nothing: no change in the window, no message in the developer console. When this bug was reported on Reddit, on Twitter, and on Discord's feedback forum. The official response out of Discordapp.com's developers for the past 16 months has been that if it works in Chrome, it works. (See this Tweet and this feedback reply.)

Discordapp.com, a web-based text and voice chat platform, allows uploading server-specific emojis in Chrome. It used to allow uploading them in Firefox as well until the settings UI redesign in May 2017. Since then, clicking the "Upload Emoji" button has done nothing: no change in the window, no message in the developer console. When this bug was reported on Reddit, on Twitter, and on Discord's feedback forum. The official response out of Discordapp.com's developers for the past 16 months has been that if it works in Chrome, it works. (See this Tweet and this feedback reply.)

I don't see a lot of calls for violence on the #antifa hashtag. Funny enough, most of the posts seem to be opposed to anti-fa (with a few leaning towards violence...

Here's a thought: Antifa is just a boogieman created by Fox News and other right wing media outlets to mask and excuse right wing violence with "Whataboutism".

How does Elon Musk not get kicked off for calling a guy a pedophile and a "child rapist"? What is the standard? Why isn't it being enforced?

The standard? https://help.twitter.com/en/ru...

1. No targeted harassment (i.e. repeated behavior that causes alarm/annoyance/distress). I think there have been a total of two tweets from Elon Musk in this case, so it hardly seems repeated.

2. No unwanted sexual advances. This clearly wasn't.

3. No promoting violence on the basis of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, religion, age, disability. Musk wasn't promoting violence nor was this one of the protected categories.

4. No hateful display names or profile images.

Elon Musk's tweets clearly haven't broken the Twitter rules. It should be stressed that "11001000100 think the tweets shouldn't have been made" and indeed "most people think the tweets shouldn't have been made" are both very different from "violate the standard"

Facebook, twitter, etc should all (voluntarily) require all users to complete an identity verification process, and then real names should be used as handles.

If you aren't anonymous, then you are far less likely to be a jerk.

Perhaps, but not always ...

In my (unprofessional) opinion, the situation in Iran already amounts to an open war of a unique, non-military type. Trump seems to be openly trying to provoke a revolution in Iran to rid the world of the mullahs that way, solving the underlying problem without the need for any kind of invasion. Economic sanctions to degrade the overall quality of life and undermine the leadership - similar to what was used successfully against NK - combined with direct threats against the rulers released in concert with statements of support for the people.

In my (unprofessional) opinion, the situation in Iran already amounts to an open war of a unique, non-military type. Trump seems to be openly trying to provoke a revolution in Iran to rid the world of the mullahs that way, solving the underlying problem without the need for any kind of invasion. Economic sanctions to degrade the overall quality of life and undermine the leadership - similar to what was used successfully against NK - combined with direct threats against the rulers released in concert with statements of support for the people.

Performance instead of security.

Time to brush up on old jokes?

The same guy made a huge drama when Microsoft bought GitHub:
https://twitter.com/jamiebuild...
https://github.com/Microsoft/w...

- living five adults to a two room apartment

- being told you are constructing utopia while the system crumbles around you

— Anton Troynikov (@atroyn) July 5, 2018

Other than that, yes, google can be biased. But they're a private corporation. They have the same right to be biased as other private corporations like FOX or Breitbart. The First Amendment gives them that right.

I can't believe more people aren't shouting this from the rooftops.

A few people are at least tweeting about it:

Dear @realDonaldTrump: You should read the First Amendment. @Google has the right to, for example, prioritize cute cat videos over weird Alex Jones rants.

If government tried to dictate the free speech algorithms of private companies, courts would strike it down in a nanosecond.

- Rep. Ted Lieu, D-California. August 28, 2018

https://twitter.com/tedlieu/st...

He has a point there.

Doesn't Google have a right to be biased? I don't believe they intentionally are as it's in their interest to make searches relevant to their users, but why shouldn't they be allowed to?

This sounds very much like Trump wants to implement his own Great Firewall. He's attempting to coerce Google and others to implement different algorithms to favor him.

He's coming very close to treading on the First Amendment if he's not already stepping on it.

Trump wanted the FCC to fine Fox News and ban Rich Lowry from TV. Forget that the FCC can't fine Fox for what someone says on their network, this is a very dangerous attitude for a President to have.

Incompetent @RichLowry lost it tonight on @FoxNews. He should not be allowed on TV and the FCC should fine him!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 24, 2015

Rich Lowry is an editor at The National Review which isn't exactly liberal. He simply criticized Trump's debate performance. He may have been harsh, but it's his right to speak his mind.

Boing Boing had a link to the reporter who originally broke the story which actually has useful information - https://twitter.com/amir/statu...

I think it's great you're all hot and bothered for Pelosi, but not all of your people share your attraction for her.

I think it's great you've avoided talking about her twin ding-bat that's been hosting a Chinese spy for years.

Since you obviously follow Donald Trump on Twitter and I don't, you had me at a disadvantage. I had to go find what you were talking about that would have me spitting nails. I found this one about rigged algorithms. This isn't news, I've been using Google+ since it premiered and it's incredibly obvious during each election since it came out. Since we were talking about Obama, media and what Trump said about them, I did find a tweet from a couple of days ago where he mentioned Obama and media in the same tweet. Exactly which one is supposed to have me spitting nails?

You are demonstrating the difference between the rabbid left and the rest of us - and by the rest of us I mean Republicans, Libertarians, Don't Give a Shits, and non-radical Democrats.

I'm giving references and links. - You are not, and putting words into the mouths of others. Just like the press and lawyers attacking Alex Jones but not actually playing clips of him doing what they're accusing him of.
I'm using my real handle which is pointless to dox, I'm not hiding. - You on the other hand are A/C wearing a mask and on the attack like those Anti-First Amendment thugs, Antifa

Honestly I hope Pelosi cleans up and wins again, it's good for the entertainment value. It's California, so whoever wins is likely to a communist who cares more about bathroom politics than making the country work right anyways. Pelosi is good for a laugh and is a poster child for the Walk Away movement. I hope she stays out there.

I think it's great you're all hot and bothered for Pelosi, but not all of your people share your attraction for her.

I think it's great you've avoided talking about her twin ding-bat that's been hosting a Chinese spy for years.

Since you obviously follow Donald Trump on Twitter and I don't, you had me at a disadvantage. I had to go find what you were talking about that would have me spitting nails. I found this one about rigged algorithms. This isn't news, I've been using Google+ since it premiered and it's incredibly obvious during each election since it came out. Since we were talking about Obama, media and what Trump said about them, I did find a tweet from a couple of days ago where he mentioned Obama and media in the same tweet. Exactly which one is supposed to have me spitting nails?

You are demonstrating the difference between the rabbid left and the rest of us - and by the rest of us I mean Republicans, Libertarians, Don't Give a Shits, and non-radical Democrats.

I'm giving references and links. - You are not, and putting words into the mouths of others. Just like the press and lawyers attacking Alex Jones but not actually playing clips of him doing what they're accusing him of.
I'm using my real handle which is pointless to dox, I'm not hiding. - You on the other hand are A/C wearing a mask and on the attack like those Anti-First Amendment thugs, Antifa

Honestly I hope Pelosi cleans up and wins again, it's good for the entertainment value. It's California, so whoever wins is likely to a communist who cares more about bathroom politics than making the country work right anyways. Pelosi is good for a laugh and is a poster child for the Walk Away movement. I hope she stays out there.

After watching a youtube "laRouche" video about the city of London England is not a city in the normal sense but owned by banking groups, I wondered if there was any cross reference with the "Illuminati"

https://twitter.com/StevWork/s...
(see the attached picture of Google search result.)

Please note that the top returns from a google search of laRouche with Illuminati had nothing to do with either.
Almost the entire first page results replaced with what seems completely random results.

SOooooo, if they are 'protecting' us from knowing about these conspiricies, what other information will the Witch family owned and directed corporate Satanic Masters are they hiding. The Deadly Sin of Greed can not explain this, their is more pure damnation slimy evil here.

How do you know it wasn't already over 75% patch rate? Google doesn't seem to need to ask Epic how many have updated in any case:

Google did privately communicate something to the effect that they’re monitoring Fortnite installations on all Android devices(!) and felt that there weren’t many unpatched installs remaining.

Here's another deception. California is about to pass Network Neutrality state-wide w a bill: SB822. So what does the telecom industry do?

If you said lie to panic elderly people, you are correcto!.

From state senator Scott Weiner: "We're now dealing with a straight-up misinformation campaign on our #NetNeutrality bill, #SB822: industry robo-calls to seniors falsely telling them that protecting net neutrality will increase their phone bills by $30. Scaring seniors w lies about their financial security? Gross"

or Donald Trump ? He even states it more plainly than this.

It is clear that our commander-in-chief believes that vaccines causes autism. Despite any evidence. So I don't really worry too much about what some Russian bots are saying when we have real Americans spreading stupid theories.

or Donald Trump ? He even states it more plainly than this.

It is clear that our commander-in-chief believes that vaccines causes autism. Despite any evidence. So I don't really worry too much about what some Russian bots are saying when we have real Americans spreading stupid theories.

LOL back. A lot of us here on Slashdot aren't Americans

And yet somehow pretend that the US plus Canada is Tesla's total market nonetheless - rather than it being a quarter of their market.

One reason is, of course, the absurdly high prices of what is otherwise a pretty unremarkable vehicle.

Highest-polling consumer satisfaction year-over-year of any brand.

...the sales outside of the two countries that provide a significant subsidy are down sharply: https://twitter.com/auto_schmi

Per-country month-by-month sales are mostly a reflection of delivery allocation. You people have been nonstop predicting a Tesla demand cliff ever since it founded - every year, every month. You'd think a broken record would have been right once in all this time.

The Dutch subsidy is disappearing next year

The subsidy in question only concerns commercial buyers. It's a 4% currently, but will go to 22% for the amount of a car's price over €50000. So, say, for an €80000 Model S the tax for commercial buyers (again, reiterating that aspect) goes from €3200 to €8600, or €5200 more expensive. Meaningful, but not dramatic either for someone in the market for an €80000 car; nothing remotely like, say, the HK case (which wasn't just about commercial cars). For a €50000-or-less Model 3 (arriving in NL early next year), it will have no impact whatsoever. For, say, a €60000 well optioned Model 3, it only adds €1800 to the price.

This is your trump card? To overcome the huge annual year-over-year EV demand growth? *snicker*

But the major shift in the interest away from Tesla in Europe is due to new models, real cars from real car manufacturers

*snicker*. Why, yes, cars being produced in tiny volumes are going to totally kill Tesla.

Econoboxen: Maybe it'll be the Hyundai Kona that kills them? Yeah, with global annual production volumes equal to three weeks of Model 3 production (which itself is far from at max), that's totally going to destroy them. Niro? Same. Meanwhile, a number of older econobox models are declining or disappearing. Hey, maybe Leaf can overcome its order-of-magnitude falling behind Model 3 with its new cooling system fixing #Rapidgate! Except, um, the same was said about the E-NV200, and its cooling system is terrible, and only slightly reduces the consequences of #Rapidgate. Here, name your "Tesla killer", go on!

Luxury EVs: What about the (delayed) I-Pace, that car that eats 275 Wh/km@88 kph (Model 3 = half that) but can only charge at 70-80kW at rarer higher power CCS stations for only 30% of its SoC before taper (Model 3 = 50% SoC @ 117kW from current superchargers, more from V3) and only ~45kW from the much more common lower power stations, has no more passenger "area" inside than a Model 3 (just higher) despite laughably pretending that it's X sized because it's a "SUV", has a hilariously awkward nav system and an AP that drives like its drunk, and is only planned at production volumes of (estimates vary) 10-30k per year, with the largest chunk of those going to Waymo, not private buyers? My god, Tesla should fear for its life! ;) E-Tron looks to be in the exact same situation of low volumes and guzzling energy without comparable charge rates, meaning you can't actually use it like... well, a car. Aka, a device you can actually use to drive between point A and point B even if A and B aren't near each other. If it can only take you around your local area, that a neighborhood electric vehicle, and it's at best a second car. The first one in the luxury segment that looks like it will be interesting is the Taycan (though their burn-out-your-cells charge rates are concerning, they at least understand the importance of streamlining), although t

. And I am sure the burn rate is a lot lower now that the production is up to speed.

Are you accounting for the abysmal first pass yield of 14% (https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-hit-model-3-target-by-reworking-thousands-of-cars-2018-8), which requires additional work on upwards of 85% of what is coming off the "ramped-up" production lines?

Are you accounting for the ever-increasing amount of cars waiting for service around the Tesla Jijafucktory?

Are you accounting for the provisions Tesla will have to make for the incoming settlements?

Are you accounting for the cancelled reservations once the customer service and afterservice horror stories overcome the Reality Distortion Field?

Have you seen what a magnificent liability is Tesla's "advanced" software system? https://twitter.com/atomicthum...

Methinks you're not accounting for a bunch of incoming expenses that will again decimate whatever sales increase Tesla can show.

LOL. Why is it that Americans always forget that there's a world outside of America?

LOL back. A lot of us here on Slashdot aren't Americans, and in the world outside of the Soviet Republic of California, demand for Tesla is non-existent.

One reason is, of course, the absurdly high prices of what is otherwise a pretty unremarkable vehicle.

In places like Western Europe, where it is within financial reach of the affluent minority, the sales outside of the two countries that provide a significant subsidy are down sharply: https://twitter.com/auto_schmi...

The Dutch subsidy is disappearing next year, so the "success story" there will closely follow that in HK, where Tesla had a bunch of sales pre-2017, and these went down to practically nil when the HK subsidy disappeared and customers realized at the real price a Tesla isn't a bargain.

But the major shift in the interest away from Tesla in Europe is due to new models, real cars from real car manufacturers that actually have adequate finish and pleasant interior, becoming available this or next year. The demand will fall further when people see the horse carriage that is the Model 3 in real life.

I tried one the other day, and frankly, I liked the dashboard of my Trabant in 1987 better. Compared to the Polski Fiat 125p, M3 is abysmal. Maybe Kalashnikov isn't far off with their electric car, you know.

Model 3 sales are only open to the US and Canada - and I watch even people from there trying to pass the time waiting for their cars every day on the Tesla forums.

It is very interesting that despite the "pent up demand", Tesla has a huge number of vehicles that aren't being shipped to those waiting customers even in the US. Why would that be? Does it have to do with the terrible quality?

It's really frustrating hearing shorts and short-aligned people

Yawn, that "short" thing is really getting old.

without offering evidence to support the claim

How long have the vague accusations of "treason" been unsubstantiated by evidence nor even any plausible details? Two years?

Now, when Trump simply states the obvious — and, indeed, admitted by Facebook themselves — the Left turn back to the most rigorous standards of evidence.

lol, looks like "Amy - Love my job and my Lord and Savior Jeff Bezos" already got her account suspended. https://twitter.com/fc_ambassa...

I mean, they only stored their passwords in plaintext, who could have seen this kind of data breach coming? Their security "was amazingly good" after all! https://twitter.com/tmobileat/...

"drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not," @dril

https://twitter.com/dril/statu...

That's not what you wrote, though. You wrote about "election fraud", now you're trying to pretend it was about "Russia/Trump collusion".

As to the Russia/Trump collusion, that's been personally confirmed by Trump himself. His story on the Trump Tower meeting has gone from "it wasn't about politics" to "it was about politics but I didn't know about it" to "even if I did know about it there was nothing wrong and it wasn't collusion", and his mouthpiece Giuliani has already moved on to "even if there was collusion that isn't illegal".

Why is it that none of Trump's apologists can keep a goalpost still for a solid 24 hours?

Just before died, Seth Rich may have revealed to the police why he didn't also leak the RNC's emails. Unfortunately the DC police still won't turn over the bodycam video, so we'll probably never know.