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I could live with the low range if the darn thing could be 'filled' from empty in the same amount of time it takes to fill my diesel (which, incidentally, has more than double the range of an S, and rarely dips below 40 MPG).

If I'm not mistaken, the fastest charging method for a Tesla is using one of the Superchargers (assuming they're available in your area - the nearest one to me is more than 1200 miles away), which still takes at least an hour to get an 80% charge... and that's assuming no lines at the "pump."

An hour waiting is bad enough, but if there's 2 people in front of me... that's 3 hours before I can get back on the road. Fuck that shit, I gots places to be.

You can swap batteries in half the time it takes to fill a car with gasoline. Standard for all Model S. You're welcome.
http://vimeo.com/68832891

Yea, you can leave the video links out, I don't bother with them.

Anyway, I have a few questions: What do they do with the batteries they swap out? Do they go straight to the landfill, or are they recharged and swapped into someone else's Tesla? Assuming the latter, if they swap a bad pack out of someone else's car and stick it in mine, what's my legal recourse when there's an issue? Also, how would such a proprietary system benefit the adoption of EVs in general? Seems to me Tesla may be trying to set themselves up a monopoly.

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I could live with the low range if the darn thing could be 'filled' from empty in the same amount of time it takes to fill my diesel (which, incidentally, has more than double the range of an S, and rarely dips below 40 MPG).

If I'm not mistaken, the fastest charging method for a Tesla is using one of the Superchargers (assuming they're available in your area - the nearest one to me is more than 1200 miles away), which still takes at least an hour to get an 80% charge... and that's assuming no lines at the "pump."

An hour waiting is bad enough, but if there's 2 people in front of me... that's 3 hours before I can get back on the road. Fuck that shit, I gots places to be.

You can swap batteries in half the time it takes to fill a car with gasoline. Standard for all Model S. You're welcome.
http://vimeo.com/68832891

Ass Hole Google added me to Google Plus. By deleting it, it deleted the video as well. So have another place: https://vimeo.com/74143850
Ready in about an hour.

http://vimeo.com/18279777

http://cr.yp.to/talks/2010.12.28/slides.pdf

(Bernstein on Elliptical curve cryptography.)

As an BMW enthusiast I was quite shocked on news about new Z series being collaboration between BMW and Toyota...

You shouldn't be. Great cars happen when Toyota collaborates.

google "baseband exploit" http://vimeo.com/25806106 Also, there is something called STK or simtoolkit ( a gsm standard protocol). Big business like banks can make deals with carriers to run apps securely with the sim card. It isn't used so much in the usa but the capability is there. The way the sim card gets programmed via specially formatted sms with the proper keys etc.

If you can own the baseband you can own it all: http://vimeo.com/25806106

Alas the NY Times seems intent on making sure nobody reads the story and has put your link behind a login page too.

Here's the video at least. Not the down-ressed YouTube version included in the NYT article, but the original HD version posted by the National Park Service.
http://vimeo.com/73310936

http://vimeo.com/50020343

Same here, it's an unholy mess. But this direct link should work fine: http://vimeo.com/72228503

http://vimeo.com/68859229 eDavid - nuff said.

I think lab-grown meat is the future. For quite a lot of people, meat is just too tasty to be given up completely. At the same time, it is an environmental disaster, with the United Nations estimating that animal farming has a greater effect on climate change than ALL of the worlds transportation (that is, cars, trucks, trains, ships and airplanes) combined. Some even say it's responsible for 51% of greenhouse gases emissions. Additionally, factory farming causes billions of animals to suffer, which is highly unethical. Lab-grown meat avoids both problems.

Until we can buy lab-grown meat, we should still go Veg, but once lab-grown meat is available, the abolishment of the mass factory farming is much more realistic.

second attempt....

I find it curious that he didn't mention this or this at the end, given that they're both about a year old and both flirt with death and/or the halting problem in order to offer better debugging features.

Oh, forgot the link: Lexus is irksomely self-satisfied about theirs, describing it in hyperbolic tones that would make you think nobody had ever woven a circular structure before; but it is a pretty neat looking example...

It's a funny topic to try to google for pictures/video of: you've got your home knitting enthusiasts, with lovingly refurbed Legare 400s that appear to have been stolen from around 1880, ( a modern version is available, from New Zealand for some reason), your inscrutable Chinese industrial machinery suppliers, with even more inscrutable comments from would-be buyers in textile-producing parts of the world, and finally your "supercar" puff pieces, with industrial designers talking about aerospace technology in order to boost the perceived value of cars produced (with a very few, largely promotional, exceptions) by entirely different methods.

No robot doctor discussion is complete without mention of short-film "Dr. Easy".

The guy is simply pushing himself so hard he's almost escaping The Matrix.

The real result is here linked from the press release page. There is a citation to the refereed journal in the pressrelease.

http://vimeo.com/68311221

What the article probably argues for is that correlation of units on Antarctica, and Australia are well correlated. The number of linkages for India seem to be fewer, but other geologic features elucidate that history pretty will, It begins about 165 MYA, but this latest reconstruction dates the split of the rest as much more recent, about 35 MYA. I assule that the magnetic anomaloies in the sea floor shown in the video are well dated, but the innovation is the correlation of terraines. Before there was more uncertaintly of how the pieces we have today were connected. Now that picture might be much more constrained, as the video suggests. We will have to wait and see if the conclusions hold up. I haven't tried to get to the journal article, I expect it to be behind a paywall, and hence not available for detailed reading. All I expect to see is the abstract.

Add to that that the whole problem with gangs will be never ending so long as there is this prohibition on some drugs. Take out the profit and most gangs would dissipate. Worked for Portugal.

http://vimeo.com/32110912

Legalization eliminates the need to go full on KGB, Stasi, Pol Pot, or what have you, and besides, bringing in military solutions will not solve anything. It will just exacerbate the arms race and make the violence worse. Plus, every encroachment on civil liberties we're experiencing, has its roots in the drug war. Prohibition is destroying America.

Err, dunno how to say this, but that wasn't an analogy** - there was an actual dude agitating quite angrily while waving around a thinly disguised weapon. I'd be a hell of a lot more worried about him doing someone else harm than I would some ordinary guy plinking targets at a gravel pit.

Either way, I made no absolutes, merely questions. ;)

** Here's a bit of video from that event. Note that it's the 'clean' version, likely taken by one of the strikers.

When is google maps going to have this? I want to trace where my house was back then.

Google???

I would have been happy just to have the Summary link to the actual map instead of something several clicks removed.

The actual story is HERE
and a video of the breakup is here

Why do posters link to things that are simply Click-Frauds for some advertiser campaign? And why do editors let them?

In searching for the actual new map of Gondwana, the researchers in the article have this video of three continents separating.
http://vimeo.com/68311221

http://vimeo.com/15480619

Movi (which this guy was apparently inspired by, he says so in the youtube clip at least) has an example movie shot by Vincent Laforet at Vimeo. http://vimeo.com/62917185 (He's the guy that shot the first 5D mk 2 video as well.)

The Movi system is for professional use though, and it costs $15k so it's not exactly for people to play around with.

If you want to understand more about why a gimbal system is so cool then look at the behind the scenes video from the Movi demonstration as well: http://vimeo.com/63357898.

Movi (which this guy was apparently inspired by, he says so in the youtube clip at least) has an example movie shot by Vincent Laforet at Vimeo. http://vimeo.com/62917185 (He's the guy that shot the first 5D mk 2 video as well.)

The Movi system is for professional use though, and it costs $15k so it's not exactly for people to play around with.

If you want to understand more about why a gimbal system is so cool then look at the behind the scenes video from the Movi demonstration as well: http://vimeo.com/63357898.

You can't make these sorts of shots with a tripod.

1) No kids.. Dad has way too much time on his hands.
2) Wife is a Librarian and makes a good clamp when needed.
3) was bored one day and decided to make something with that $3000 printer the wife got him at XMAS.

This is cool but man are we going to be inundated with every novelty item that is 3d printed now? This is neat but the Lego Turing machine was IMO cooler

"safely land using thruster boots instead of a parachute" Completely incorrect. According to the article and video, the suit will use not one, but TWO parachutes. As for the boots, they are not really "Iron Man" type thrusters, but simply for ensuring a smoother parachute-assisted landing (and probably mainly to look cool): From the article: "The other main function of the diver’s gyroscopic boots will kick in as he nears the surface of the Earth and he fires off his miniature in-built aerospike thrusters to gently descend to the ground for a feet-first perfect landing. " This is AFTER both parachutes have deployed. It seems like window dressing to me.

Apple pursued lawful tax evasion, so it is acceptable. It does not matter if Apple use exploited labor to achieve their goals, harmful DRM, (lawfully) evade taxes, and not thank their biggest customer (USA) by establishing a larger manufacturing presence. http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/activate/2011/09/201194144739197637.html http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/activate/2011/09/20119994239791675.html Apple are not much different from Walmart, who harm US national interests by their practices: http://vimeo.com/52359213 Consumers do not care. Ideally, a well informed populace would take Apple and any other corporate entity who harms US interests to tasks. They could boycott, organize protests. Instead, consumers reward this behavior, so why should Apple not do whatever it wants?

The Vimeo link in the story somehow became broken, the correct link is as follows:

http://vimeo.com/66004524

Dunno if the link was bad for anyone else, but here's the actual vimeo link.

https://vimeo.com/59693471

This land is mine

Exactly, which is why microwave and other manmade RF transmissions simply can't be ignored. Their general ubiquity and 'need' by society are major hurdles to turning one possible factor off to see if the problem gets better. Yes, it is now known that pesticide residue was contaminating the corn syrup used to feed the bees; that was one factor identified. Other factors were/are are a fungal infection that bees in Australia spread; they were sold all over the world to beekeepers who would distribute them and the fungus they were carrying.

The 'FUD' is still up for dispute, and it seems that the communications industry would want their (possible) part to be buried; microwave and other RF transmissions apparently scramble a bee's sense of direction and/or cause enzymatic disruptions. There seems to be more science behind this than the wireless carriers want the public to know about. This video changed the way I look at the entire wireless industry - http://vimeo.com/54189727 --And for those of you that have no problem plastering a cellphone right up to your head, would you feel as safe putting your head right up to your microwave oven? Probably not.

Obviously cops want to be able to sit in a nice warm control room with a bag of donuts all day watching people on cameras, rather than going out on the streets.

What? You mean like the TSA? (probably NSFW)

I should add that this is not the same as what Iron Age farmers practiced. If they had used these techniques, then the Sahara would not have turned into a desert in the first place.

Here's a video that explains how this process works. And another one that shows another method for desert recovery.

the whole notion of a people having to justify their right to be in a land they inhabited continuously for over 3000 years is pretty immoral

https://vimeo.com/50531435

It looks like he made one of the more basic pieces of software shown by Bret in this video from a year ago: http://vimeo.com/36579366 Check out his more advanced content creation demo @29:10 in this video.

The idea is good, but not new : http://vimeo.com/36579366 (Bret Victor's Inventing On Principle)

I don't know about the spreading of falsehood part, but destroying families and doing far more harm than good -- that's fact.

Glenn Greenwald debated GWB's drug czar on the question of whether the US should legalize all drugs. http://vimeo.com/32110912 Greenwald identified the following costs, all of which we pay due to the drug war, all of which would go away if reason prevailed, and challenges prohibitionists to address why these costs are worth it. Listen closely to Portugal's experience with decriminalizing all drugs (evaporation of the following costs, slight increase in usage rates of some drugs (but less of an increase than neighbor countries during the same time period), a DROP in usage rates of drugs among young people, reduction in the spread of HIV etc, returning people who use drugs to the productive economy rather than making them burdensomely unemployable, acceptance of the police as a helpful organization rather than an enemy, which leads to the police being able to actually investigate real crime).

If you are unable to address those costs with evidence based information, we will know your opinion is based on mere personal dislike for drugs and drug users, i.e., moralizing, fear mongering, and prejudice:

1. The US is the world's largest prison state on a per capita basis AND on an absolute basis. We hold 25% of the world's prisoners despite having only 5% of the world's population.

2. The War on Drugs is undeniably racist. All ethnic groups use drugs at essentially equal levels, but certain minorities comprise the greatest number by far of those convicted.

3. Economic costs in the 100s of billions and yet no reduction in drug use.

4. Drug war has spawned the privatised prison industry.

5. The erosion of civil liberties experienced in the last 40 years has been rooted in the drug war.

6. Militarization of the police force which turns it from an organization community members will trust for help, into one which is feared and deemed an enemy. This hinders solving crime.

7. International resentment to the US based on US demands that other countries criminalize their population and take on what are seen as unnecessary social and economic costs.

8. Extreme violence due to the fact that in a black market, only criminals will participate and criminals use violence to secure market share ("you don't see Budweiser and Heinken shooting each other over territory").

9. Drug war breeds contempt for the law, because millions of people use drugs, even frequently, without any consequences at all (depending on one's demographic profile).

10. The drug war destroys the lives of the very individuals the government claims it wishes to help because as felons, they become unemployable. So while imprisoned and after release, such people are unable to provide for their families and being separated from families is highly corrosive to families.

Oh boy, what rubbish. Let's address some of your points:

1. You failed to show a correlation between drug prohibition and incarceration. Do we have substantially more people in jail *because* of the war on drugs? If so, prove it.

2. It doesn't matter that everyone consumes drugs at the same level (to be proven, where is your source?). What matters is who deals and distributors said drugs. I highly doubt that as many white people distribute drugs as other ethnic groups and it makes perfect sense to dish out longer jail time to distributors than users. So what are you really complaining about here?

3. There is a reduction (on a gross-level, not net), but the population is increasing and drug distributors are better funded than people enforcing the law. Are you implying that ineffective drug enforcement means we should give up altogether? Sex trade and child labor is on the rise too, should we stop trying to curb those crimes too?

4. I'm not going to argue for/against this.

5. I'm sure terrorism had n

I don't know about the spreading of falsehood part, but destroying families and doing far more harm than good -- that's fact.

Glenn Greenwald debated GWB's drug czar on the question of whether the US should legalize all drugs. http://vimeo.com/32110912 Greenwald identified the following costs, all of which we pay due to the drug war, all of which would go away if reason prevailed, and challenges prohibitionists to address why these costs are worth it. Listen closely to Portugal's experience with decriminalizing all drugs (evaporation of the following costs, slight increase in usage rates of some drugs (but less of an increase than neighbor countries during the same time period), a DROP in usage rates of drugs among young people, reduction in the spread of HIV etc, returning people who use drugs to the productive economy rather than making them burdensomely unemployable, acceptance of the police as a helpful organization rather than an enemy, which leads to the police being able to actually investigate real crime).

If you are unable to address those costs with evidence based information, we will know your opinion is based on mere personal dislike for drugs and drug users, i.e., moralizing, fear mongering, and prejudice:

1. The US is the world's largest prison state on a per capita basis AND on an absolute basis. We hold 25% of the world's prisoners despite having only 5% of the world's population.

2. The War on Drugs is undeniably racist. All ethnic groups use drugs at essentially equal levels, but certain minorities comprise the greatest number by far of those convicted.

3. Economic costs in the 100s of billions and yet no reduction in drug use.

4. Drug war has spawned the privatised prison industry.

5. The erosion of civil liberties experienced in the last 40 years has been rooted in the drug war.

6. Militarization of the police force which turns it from an organization community members will trust for help, into one which is feared and deemed an enemy. This hinders solving crime.

7. International resentment to the US based on US demands that other countries criminalize their population and take on what are seen as unnecessary social and economic costs.

8. Extreme violence due to the fact that in a black market, only criminals will participate and criminals use violence to secure market share ("you don't see Budweiser and Heinken shooting each other over territory").

9. Drug war breeds contempt for the law, because millions of people use drugs, even frequently, without any consequences at all (depending on one's demographic profile).

10. The drug war destroys the lives of the very individuals the government claims it wishes to help because as felons, they become unemployable. So while imprisoned and after release, such people are unable to provide for their families and being separated from families is highly corrosive to families.

you put your weed in there.

Someone here's not gonna get your reference.

I'm pretty certain you would love this debate Glenn Greenwald had with GWB's drug czar. If you want to see the drug war eviscerated in the most plain and eloquent terms possible, this is it:

http://vimeo.com/32110912

The Q&A session is definitely worth watching too as GG in no uncertain terms, but with great skill, points out that his opponent is just flat evil.

Or like this.

Leigh is a weasel but he probably didn't know he was publishing 'the' key because Assange told him it would expire in hours. Also Leigh is typically technically incompetent Guardian hack.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_diplomatic_cables_leak#September_2011_release_of_unredacted_cables

On 25 August 2011, the German magazine Der Freitag published an article about it,[62] and while it left out the crucial details, there was enough to allow others to piece the information together. The story was also published in the Danish newspaper Dagbladet Information the same day.[64] By 1 September, the encrypted Cablegate file had been decrypted and published by a Twitter user, and WikiLeaks therefore decided to publish all the diplomatic cables unredacted. Their reasoning, according to Glenn Greenwald in Salon, was that government intelligence agencies were able to find and read the files, while ordinary peopleâ"including journalists, whistleblowers, and those directly affectedâ"were not. WikiLeaks took the view that sources could better protect themselves if the information were equally available.[6] The archive includes 34,687 files on Iraq, 8,003 on Kuwait, 9,755 on Australia, and 12,606 on Egypt.[65] According to The Guardian, it includes more than 1,000 cables containing the names of individual activists, and around 150 identifying whistleblowers.[66]

Leigh disclaimed responsibility for the release, saying Assange had assured him the password would expire hours after it was disclosed to him.[67] The Guardian wrote that the decision to publish the cables was made by Assange alone, a decision that itâ"and its four previous media partnersâ"condemned. The partners released a joint statement saying the uncensored publication put sources at risk of dismissal, detention and physical harm,[68] while other commentators have agreed with WikiLeaks' rationale for the release of unredacted cables.[6][69] Leigh was nevertheless criticized by several commentators, including Glenn Greenwald, who called the publication of the password "reckless", arguing that, even if it had been a temporary one, publishing it divulged the type of passwords WikiLeaks was using.[6] WikiLeaks said it was pursuing pre-litigation action against The Guardian for an alleged breach of a confidentiality agreement.

All of which raises the question of why Assange didn't make a session key for Leigh. Then if you'd need Leigh's copy and the Leigh's key to decrypt. Publishing the encrypted archive and then giving the key to someone as clueless as Leigh is morally not that far off just releasing the information unencrypted. In fact look at what Assange did when someone somewhere worked out how to decrypt - he published the unencrypted archive.

And look at this

http://vimeo.com/38670049

about 36 minutes in

Transcript here

http://wlstorage.net/file/cms/Folder%202/7.%20Assange%20Adjudication%20for%20publication.pdf

And on the Ofcom site

http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/enforcement/broadcast-bulletins/obb213/obb213.pdf page 112

Mr Assange: No, thereâ(TM)s no row going on about redactions at all....There was a group of reports where although they were not really intelligence informants there were sort of hotline tips...something called threat reports comprised one in five of the Afghan War Logs and so we held them back for a line by line redaction...But what we didnâ(TM)t do was redact one in five lines, putting black marker through it, we just removed them, and so it looked like we hadnâ(TM)t redacted everything but in fact we had

Neither was I until I saw this video by PhD Comics, about three months before Higgs discovery: http://vimeo.com/41038445. I checked with some physics PhD friends and they confirmed that it is an implication of the Standard Model. Protons, for example, are systems of quarks moving around each other, and quarks like electrons have zero volume. In some cases two different fundamental particles can be at exactly the same point in space. (However "different" and "point" and "space" and even "be" is defined by the SM.)

It's the craziest thing. Like when you remember something from a dream, say a car, and know the car wasn't made of anything solid, you can look at anything in reality and know it's essentially the same thing here.

For anyone still interested in Star Wars, Adywan's ESB:Revisited is due out in a couple of months. A preview with comparison to the crappy Blu Ray is here (switch on HD).

One rather impressive changelog so far.

These aren't original preservation attempts, rather new Special Editions or, more accurately, what the Special Editions should have been.

I've been doing a lot of reading on dietary topics, and it is quite amazing how many opinions about our dietary needs are based on nothing but opinion or the opinions of other people. Even the scientific results can be mis-interpreted or looked at in so many ways that you can seemingly show whatever you want from these studies.
There's a ton of stuff out there, like the book "Good Calories Bad Calories" that covers it in depth, but watch this video by Dr Peter Attia. I think it sums it up pretty well. The limits of scientific evidence and the ethics of dietary guidelines -- 60 years of ambiguity

I've been following the Primal Blueprint lifestyle for a few months, and the effects have been pretty amazing.

You mean something like this:
http://vimeo.com/46304267
?

Not a car, but the RYNO is a pretty cool one-wheeled motorbike (direct link to video - main riding segment starts 3 minutes in). As far as I can tell, it uses an active balancing system rather than a gyroscope. It featured on Slashdot back in 2011. Back then production was expected sometime in 2012 and the eventual cost was expected to be $3,500-$4000 (with pre-production models going for $25,000!). Production "begins January 2013" according to the website, so maybe you'll be able to buy one soon :o)