I certainly agree, but I wonder why this point is even being brought up.
"We'll find ways to let you drive less?" I think most people who have sat on a gridlocked 405 would trade in that experience for a method of travel that still lets them go where they want to go in a reasonable time.
"You can still drive, but it might be an electric vehicle, not an ICE." That's not giving up on cars either, it'd still be driving, but the people doing so would (currently) pay a premium to do that, similar to how they pay a premium on fuel while driving ICE cars.
"You can't drive, you have to give up your car." I haven't heard any proposals to put this into effect. It's not going to happen, I'm not sure it's worth discussing.
I don't think he's trolling. He's right to a certain extent, but is also extremely optimistic. Chargers at every parking spot sounds like a weird pipe dream. And the idea of LA ever being a pleasant place is absolutely ridiculous.
Sure, in certain areas the mass transit system is wonderful, but outside a few major metropolitan areas our mass transit system in the US is lacking.
We're also talking about electric cars here, and in California, while you're covered in major metropolitan areas, outside of that your recharge options are so few as to be almost non-existent. If you have a Tesla, their supercharger network is pretty good, but if you can't use that you're SOL.
You know a Southwest ticket costs about the same as all of the gas you'll need to buy and will bring you to your destination much faster, right?
Only for very long distances. You first have to get to the airport. Unless you live next to it (I don't) that will take a bit of time. More if you take some form of public transit. Then you have to allocate extra time because the airline will give your seat away if you don't show up at least an hour early. The most generous time requirement I've ever seen an airline give is 45 minutes. In no way does "checking in" online mitigate this requirement. Then you have to allocate extra time for security checks. Hey, it's gotten better, but you want another hour on top of this. You have to be really generous with your time cushions, because if you don't give yourself enough time, it's not you'll be a little later, like you would be if you were driving. You're just fucked, and you have to hope that somehow you can endure waiting for eight hours in the airport on standby, looking for another flight. Since they're all overbooked, good luck with that. On the other end, there's the fun time waiting for your luggage to arrive. Some airports are really good with this and you can get in and out with your luggage pretty quickly. Unfortunately I live close to an airport that always has a half hour wait between when the flight lands and the luggage is available on the carousel. Who knows why. Then there's getting a rental car, a process which unreasonably takes forever. I'm hoping that the increased presence of the ride-sharing companies makes it so I never have to do that again. I live in the US, and rare is the case where the place I want to go is next to public transportation, which is pretty shitty almost everywhere in the country. In other countries, YMMV. I certainly wouldn't need a care, or even a taxi in London or Paris, though. 500 miles, maybe. That's the breakpoint for me where it makes sense for me to fly. Since even a short flight is a way to blow 2/3s of a day.
Then maybe they should stop overselling their bandwidth.
There is absolutely no way to do it otherwise except to share bandwidth. Otherwise you are building out dedicated links that will probably sit idle for 90% of the time, and what you get now would cost $1500/month.
"Nothing burger" is already played out? But almost no one uses it. That sucks, I guess I can't start using it. Too bad, it sounded funny. Now SJW, that's a phrase that has been played out for years.
Again, typical of the left. Can't debate the substance of the posts so you respond with labels. You label my post a troll, just like the left freely labels anyone who disagrees with them a racist
You swing in, casting aspersions about a huge number of people you don't know, throwing insults around casually, and then start crying when someone fires back. (Oh my God, he called you a TROLL. How will you survive?). Not to mention the crying over the anticipated moderation of your flamebait trolling. You are the flakiest of the very special snowflakes.
The leftist-run forum exists because they're not happy that Reddit won't ban posts they disagree with, so they created their own forum to do so. This is exactly how the left operates.
Yeah, just like that paragon of sensibility, Conservapedia! D-bags of either side do the same thing, they just pretend they're justified when they do so.
If you think the rich CARE about YOU... It is YOU who are "Nuts" LoL
Yeah, because all rich people are the same. Just like all poor people are the same, all brown people are the same. Are you a member of the Green Party, by chance?
See subject & https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... [slashdot.org] - NoScript's inferior & inefficient vs. hosts (noscript & addons have overheads FAR beyond hosts + operate in slower usermode (vs. hosts in faster kernelmode)). No SINGLE addon does as much (& for FAR less resources), no questions asked!
I like host-based approaches, but what if the website itself serves out the malicious/inefficient/junk JS? I'd like to be open to open a website without its javascript crap firing off, so I feel like I still have to enable NoScript. Worse, I'd like to enable things like googleapis but only if certain websites request them, but NoScript just lets you + or - googleapis completely. IE, if I enable it, then both goodsite.com and badsite.com automatically get to use them, and I don't know any way around that at the moment.
Clearly, the fallback in this case would be the passcode. Did you seriously not consider that?
How many people will remember their passcode when they don't use it all the time? That's the only reason why anyone remembers an unlock code -- they use it. Do you remember the pin number that came with your credit credit? No, not your ATM/credit card; most credit cards come with a PIN so you can access the cash advance limit through an ATM. If you're like me, you might have seen it once, trashed it, and not even remember if you'd seen it. But my bank's ATM PIN I only remember because I use it every other week, and I still only remember that because it's a number that is meaningful to me elsewhere (which isn't very secure).
You're exactly right, of course. In every other civilized nation in the world bribery is a crime. In America, we call it lobbying and that somehow makes it legal.
Bribery is still a crime, but you have to be able to prove it, and proving what was in someone's heart is a tricky proposition.
There is, supposedly, a difference between "Person A gives politician cash in exchange for Politician changing his vote" and "Politician votes a certain way, so Person A gives money to campaign to make it more likely those goals are represented." The former is bribery, the latter is lobbying. But again, it's not easy to tell when one becomes the other, so lots of folks get away with stuff, and donating to a campaign often becomes "gains influence over."
Copyright is a crime against sentient kind as it steals from common culture.
Copyright is a compromise to encourage creation that would not otherwise happen with the end goal being more material released to the public domain than would otherwise have occurred. It's copyright extensions and long copyright terms that are the crime against sentient kind.
"Fighting the good fight"... didn't they just take their toys and go home??
Do you think that the businesses who left Trump's business and technology panels were just taking their toys and going home? When an organization refuses to respect the wishes of its members or works against the interests of the people it was supposed to support, then it ceases to be an organization that should have that support. If those organizations stayed, then they would be allowing their name to be used in support of something they are strongly against. You stay in the hopes of being able to have influence and provide direction, but if you can't, you end up being a tool.
I encourage more to leave the W3C and to found a different organization that's more likely to reflect the interests of the Internet community. They are not necessarily the interests of the large media companies.
it's wealth inequality. Nobody would really care about corruption if they had what they needed.
Many people always want more. More luxuries. More things they don't really need, but they like to have them. Better quality things that they need when they were perfectly capable of affording lower-quality items (like luxury cars). It's not enough to have your needs met, for the corruptable, they just want MORE.
That's how it still is at sane (non-startup) workplaces. They idea is that if you're going to be gone that long and knew it you should already have made arrangements with the project schedule or briefed someone to cover for you in a pinch if something comes up.
And/Or off-hours support, because paying someone to sit in the office to field one emergency after hours in a period of weeks would be absolute madness.
Why? The article ended up being shit. Why should we waste our time on it? Do you have unlimited free time? Are there 80+ hours in each of your days? Do you read everything you come across from start to end?
We can't read everything, it's a shitty use of our time. An informative, well constructed summary should be able to give the jist of an article, and if you're so hyped by it that you really want the details, you can go and read the whole thing. A summary should not be clickbait, it shouldn't tease in the hope that you'll click through and waste 20 minutes of time you'll not get back when you could be doing something a hell of a lot more interesting (like arguing on Slashdot...).
I actually don't use my cellphone much. It's all voice calls or SMS.
I get so many telemarketer calls on my phone now with hacked caller IDs that unless it's a close friend or family in my contact list, I just don't answer the phone now. The Do Not Call list is entirely ignored and there is zero enforcement.
Much as it grieves me to say this, the "beg question" battle is lost and now joins "irregardless" and "partake in" in the list of defeats.
Partake in is certainly lost, but the irregardless fight certainly isn't. I first learned about "irregardless isn't a word" on the comics page in my local newspaper. See, they do teach kids useful lessons! Good ol' Bloom County.
Weird drug fueled screeds that claim the unabomber was right count as "stuff that matters" now? Fuck me.
What's wrong with saying "the unabomber was right?" I guess that somehow it offends your sense of morality and rightness, as if an evil person has to be so evil that he couldn't possibly be right about anything. No one was saying that the unabomber was right to mail bombs to professors, but if you think that's all he ever did, you didn't pay much attention.
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Ah, a flowering Progressive. Pollinated by government and ready to spread invasive seeds.
Most progressives have a dislike of gas taxes because they are inherently regressive taxes and penalize the people who can least afford to pay.
California is already the only state with interstate border guards..
I've driven in and out of California many times; never been stopped, never seen a border checkpoint or anything like that.
You know what makes everyone else "lulz?"
Detroit. What a shit hole.
Detroit hasn't made quality cars for at least 40 years now. Everyone else ate their lunch, and that's kindof how it turned into a shit hole.
Californians love cars and will not give them up.
I certainly agree, but I wonder why this point is even being brought up.
"We'll find ways to let you drive less?" I think most people who have sat on a gridlocked 405 would trade in that experience for a method of travel that still lets them go where they want to go in a reasonable time.
"You can still drive, but it might be an electric vehicle, not an ICE." That's not giving up on cars either, it'd still be driving, but the people doing so would (currently) pay a premium to do that, similar to how they pay a premium on fuel while driving ICE cars.
"You can't drive, you have to give up your car." I haven't heard any proposals to put this into effect. It's not going to happen, I'm not sure it's worth discussing.
Can't tell if serious or trolling.
I don't think he's trolling. He's right to a certain extent, but is also extremely optimistic. Chargers at every parking spot sounds like a weird pipe dream. And the idea of LA ever being a pleasant place is absolutely ridiculous.
Sure, in certain areas the mass transit system is wonderful, but outside a few major metropolitan areas our mass transit system in the US is lacking.
We're also talking about electric cars here, and in California, while you're covered in major metropolitan areas, outside of that your recharge options are so few as to be almost non-existent. If you have a Tesla, their supercharger network is pretty good, but if you can't use that you're SOL.
You know a Southwest ticket costs about the same as all of the gas you'll need to buy and will bring you to your destination much faster, right?
Only for very long distances.
You first have to get to the airport. Unless you live next to it (I don't) that will take a bit of time. More if you take some form of public transit.
Then you have to allocate extra time because the airline will give your seat away if you don't show up at least an hour early. The most generous time requirement I've ever seen an airline give is 45 minutes. In no way does "checking in" online mitigate this requirement.
Then you have to allocate extra time for security checks. Hey, it's gotten better, but you want another hour on top of this. You have to be really generous with your time cushions, because if you don't give yourself enough time, it's not you'll be a little later, like you would be if you were driving. You're just fucked, and you have to hope that somehow you can endure waiting for eight hours in the airport on standby, looking for another flight. Since they're all overbooked, good luck with that.
On the other end, there's the fun time waiting for your luggage to arrive. Some airports are really good with this and you can get in and out with your luggage pretty quickly. Unfortunately I live close to an airport that always has a half hour wait between when the flight lands and the luggage is available on the carousel. Who knows why.
Then there's getting a rental car, a process which unreasonably takes forever. I'm hoping that the increased presence of the ride-sharing companies makes it so I never have to do that again. I live in the US, and rare is the case where the place I want to go is next to public transportation, which is pretty shitty almost everywhere in the country. In other countries, YMMV. I certainly wouldn't need a care, or even a taxi in London or Paris, though.
500 miles, maybe. That's the breakpoint for me where it makes sense for me to fly. Since even a short flight is a way to blow 2/3s of a day.
Then maybe they should stop overselling their bandwidth.
There is absolutely no way to do it otherwise except to share bandwidth. Otherwise you are building out dedicated links that will probably sit idle for 90% of the time, and what you get now would cost $1500/month.
"Nothing burger" is already played out? But almost no one uses it. That sucks, I guess I can't start using it. Too bad, it sounded funny.
Now SJW, that's a phrase that has been played out for years.
Again, typical of the left. Can't debate the substance of the posts so you respond with labels. You label my post a troll, just like the left freely labels anyone who disagrees with them a racist
You swing in, casting aspersions about a huge number of people you don't know, throwing insults around casually, and then start crying when someone fires back. (Oh my God, he called you a TROLL. How will you survive?). Not to mention the crying over the anticipated moderation of your flamebait trolling.
You are the flakiest of the very special snowflakes.
The leftist-run forum exists because they're not happy that Reddit won't ban posts they disagree with, so they created their own forum to do so. This is exactly how the left operates.
Yeah, just like that paragon of sensibility, Conservapedia!
D-bags of either side do the same thing, they just pretend they're justified when they do so.
If you think the rich CARE about YOU... It is YOU who are "Nuts" LoL
Yeah, because all rich people are the same. Just like all poor people are the same, all brown people are the same.
Are you a member of the Green Party, by chance?
See subject & https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... [slashdot.org] - NoScript's inferior & inefficient vs. hosts (noscript & addons have overheads FAR beyond hosts + operate in slower usermode (vs. hosts in faster kernelmode)). No SINGLE addon does as much (& for FAR less resources), no questions asked!
I like host-based approaches, but what if the website itself serves out the malicious/inefficient/junk JS? I'd like to be open to open a website without its javascript crap firing off, so I feel like I still have to enable NoScript. Worse, I'd like to enable things like googleapis but only if certain websites request them, but NoScript just lets you + or - googleapis completely. IE, if I enable it, then both goodsite.com and badsite.com automatically get to use them, and I don't know any way around that at the moment.
let the gull-wing doors hint at what to expect
The Model 3 (unfortunately) doesn't have the gull-wing doors. It's built like a traditional sedan.
Clearly, the fallback in this case would be the passcode. Did you seriously not consider that?
How many people will remember their passcode when they don't use it all the time? That's the only reason why anyone remembers an unlock code -- they use it. Do you remember the pin number that came with your credit credit? No, not your ATM/credit card; most credit cards come with a PIN so you can access the cash advance limit through an ATM. If you're like me, you might have seen it once, trashed it, and not even remember if you'd seen it. But my bank's ATM PIN I only remember because I use it every other week, and I still only remember that because it's a number that is meaningful to me elsewhere (which isn't very secure).
You're exactly right, of course. In every other civilized nation in the world bribery is a crime. In America, we call it lobbying and that somehow makes it legal.
Bribery is still a crime, but you have to be able to prove it, and proving what was in someone's heart is a tricky proposition.
There is, supposedly, a difference between "Person A gives politician cash in exchange for Politician changing his vote" and "Politician votes a certain way, so Person A gives money to campaign to make it more likely those goals are represented." The former is bribery, the latter is lobbying. But again, it's not easy to tell when one becomes the other, so lots of folks get away with stuff, and donating to a campaign often becomes "gains influence over."
Boo hoo. Technology get out of date, and sometimes the replacements have some trade-offs.
But the headphone jack is not out of date. It's still a hell of a lot better than the replacements.
Copyright is a crime against sentient kind as it steals from common culture.
Copyright is a compromise to encourage creation that would not otherwise happen with the end goal being more material released to the public domain than would otherwise have occurred. It's copyright extensions and long copyright terms that are the crime against sentient kind.
"Fighting the good fight"... didn't they just take their toys and go home??
Do you think that the businesses who left Trump's business and technology panels were just taking their toys and going home? When an organization refuses to respect the wishes of its members or works against the interests of the people it was supposed to support, then it ceases to be an organization that should have that support. If those organizations stayed, then they would be allowing their name to be used in support of something they are strongly against. You stay in the hopes of being able to have influence and provide direction, but if you can't, you end up being a tool.
I encourage more to leave the W3C and to found a different organization that's more likely to reflect the interests of the Internet community. They are not necessarily the interests of the large media companies.
it's wealth inequality. Nobody would really care about corruption if they had what they needed.
Many people always want more. More luxuries. More things they don't really need, but they like to have them. Better quality things that they need when they were perfectly capable of affording lower-quality items (like luxury cars). It's not enough to have your needs met, for the corruptable, they just want MORE.
That's how it still is at sane (non-startup) workplaces. They idea is that if you're going to be gone that long and knew it you should already have made arrangements with the project schedule or briefed someone to cover for you in a pinch if something comes up.
And/Or off-hours support, because paying someone to sit in the office to field one emergency after hours in a period of weeks would be absolute madness.
READ IT DIPSHIT
Why? The article ended up being shit. Why should we waste our time on it? Do you have unlimited free time? Are there 80+ hours in each of your days? Do you read everything you come across from start to end?
We can't read everything, it's a shitty use of our time. An informative, well constructed summary should be able to give the jist of an article, and if you're so hyped by it that you really want the details, you can go and read the whole thing. A summary should not be clickbait, it shouldn't tease in the hope that you'll click through and waste 20 minutes of time you'll not get back when you could be doing something a hell of a lot more interesting (like arguing on Slashdot...).
I actually don't use my cellphone much. It's all voice calls or SMS.
I get so many telemarketer calls on my phone now with hacked caller IDs that unless it's a close friend or family in my contact list, I just don't answer the phone now. The Do Not Call list is entirely ignored and there is zero enforcement.
Much as it grieves me to say this, the "beg question" battle is lost and now joins "irregardless" and "partake in" in the list of defeats.
Partake in is certainly lost, but the irregardless fight certainly isn't.
I first learned about "irregardless isn't a word" on the comics page in my local newspaper. See, they do teach kids useful lessons!
Good ol' Bloom County.
Weird drug fueled screeds that claim the unabomber was right count as "stuff that matters" now? Fuck me.
What's wrong with saying "the unabomber was right?" I guess that somehow it offends your sense of morality and rightness, as if an evil person has to be so evil that he couldn't possibly be right about anything. No one was saying that the unabomber was right to mail bombs to professors, but if you think that's all he ever did, you didn't pay much attention.