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  1. Re:That's what I love with modern society on Tesla Is Prohibiting Commercial Drivers From Using Its Supercharger Stations (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Not if every spot offered a charger instead of just one in the corner.

  2. Re:There's a reason for the model we have on Tesla Is Prohibiting Commercial Drivers From Using Its Supercharger Stations (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Possibly, although they may not be keen on people driving by getting a free charge and not even coming in to the store. Also, at least around here the business owner typically doesn't own the property, so someone else owns the parking lot. Also possible they would do something like parking validation, like free charge with purchase.

  3. Re:That's what I love with modern society on Tesla Is Prohibiting Commercial Drivers From Using Its Supercharger Stations (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Laundromats manage to make it work.

  4. Re:There's a reason for the model we have on Tesla Is Prohibiting Commercial Drivers From Using Its Supercharger Stations (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Who said anything about giving it away for free? And the restaurant doesn't have to pay anything, they just lease the space to whoever wants to sell electricity to car owners there.

  5. Re:That's what I love with modern society on Tesla Is Prohibiting Commercial Drivers From Using Its Supercharger Stations (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They are not stopping anyone from charging the cars, they are just stopping them from 'abusing' (as defined by them) particular charging stations. If you left your car parked in front of the diesel pump for half an hour after filling the tank, the gas station would be within their rights to say 'you cannot fill up here anymore'

  6. Re:How very Google of them on Tesla Is Prohibiting Commercial Drivers From Using Its Supercharger Stations (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You simply CANNOT have enough fast chargers around to reasonably accommodate everyone

    It might be possible if we let go of the 'gas station' model for distribution. For instance, what if all the other parking lots for restaurants, shopping centers, etc. had charging ports at every spot? Sure it will take some time to build out, but not impossible.

  7. And this is not an advertisement on Space Is Not a Void (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    For a compendium of the thoughts of writers of fiction.

  8. Re:What what? on Space Is Not a Void (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    we wouldn't have the computer era without the space race, or memory foam mattresses or velcro or insulin pumps or LCD displays or photovoltaic cells.

    This is a fallacy, you are assuming these things would not have been invented otherwise. A dubious conclusion, the work done leading up to these was already done without the space race.

  9. Re:In this thread on Star Wars: The Last Jedi Has Critics In Raptures (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Or you could just fly into the target system and drop some of the widely available rocks on them. There's really no need for extremely expensive weapons platforms. In my imagination, it is really impossible to defend a large target like a planet which can't dodge or hide. The only defense is to build space habitats in unknown locations.

  10. Re:Cable is dead on T-Mobile Is Becoming a Cable Company (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Check Snopes, the Portugal example is false.

  11. Re:May emit showers of sparks on Why Is Anime Obsessed With Power Lines? (atlasobscura.com) · · Score: 2

    It is probably a future iteration of the same thing Apple was doing when the throttled all the iPhones with old batteries. The equipment is designed to work only when fed the power from the whole ship, then gets throttled when it detects it has less than that amount of power.

  12. Re:Hiring brogrammers who push out real talent on Ask Slashdot: Biggest IT Management Mistakes? · · Score: 1

    You sound pretty toxic to me. It isn't fraud to use a vague term in a vague way as a marketing tactic. By all means, blow the lid off this scam.

  13. Re:Don't be like Equifax on Ask Slashdot: Biggest IT Management Mistakes? · · Score: 1

    Chef? Car mechanic? Caregiver?

  14. Re:Don't be like Equifax on Ask Slashdot: Biggest IT Management Mistakes? · · Score: 2

    And there is no reason a person cannot acquire those skills outside an undergraduate degree program.

  15. Machine learning algorithm on AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We're All Screwed (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "machine learning" is already so overused that it is essentially meaningless. Translation here: they used a computer program

  16. Re:Planet hunting is nice- on Google's Machine Learning Is Analyzing Data From NASA's Kepler Space Telescope (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    You are assuming press coverage is proportional to time spent. It is possible a large majority of the time is spent looking over near Earth space, just doesn't get headlines.

  17. Re:Win... then lose, then social change on After Automating Order-Taking, Fast Food Chains Had to Hire More Workers (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    Recently in China I discovered that a lot of places are using payment apps like WeChat to automate the whole interface like you describe. You sit down at the table, or walk up to the stall, and scan a QR code. The selection and all the options appear on your smartphone. (i.e. the payment app is a platform). You pick out what you want and pay, and here comes your stuff. A lot of the vending machines work the same way. There is even a chain of coffee places (42 Coffee) which are just a QR code and a slot facing the street.

  18. The parent said "the game should be banned"

  19. Incidentally, I read an interesting book called "Why Things Bite Back" which in part talked about how football injuries have gotten worse as they add more safety equipment. The idea was that armor induces players to take risks they would not with simple leather pads.

  20. All this means is you can order the English-speaking Alexa in those countries. (Or Japanese or German). So if you speak Chinese you'll have to look at the various Chinese-speaking devices available.

  21. The other financial markets already have tons of techniques for making large sells without tipping your hand and getting picked off by front runners, just ask anyone dealing with institutional brokerage. The problem with BTC is, the ledger is public, so if a whale starts moving a large wallet into lots of smaller ones people will know. If I was holding BTC I would definitely want to start breaking it up into lots of smaller wallets just as a precaution. Maybe this whale is getting some professional financial advice and doing just that.

  22. Because they can't officially establish audience numbers and this charge higher rates for the ads.

  23. Re:Wait, what? on Facebook and YouTube Are Full of Pirated Video Streams of Live NFL Games (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I am not watching in part because of the permanent brain damage to the players. I don't to be associated with paying guys to screw up their brains for my entertainment. And the rest is because of the ads.

  24. Termination under the contract on Yahoo Sues Mozilla For Breach of Contract -- So Mozilla Counter Sues Yahoo (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    A lot is redacted, and IANAL, but it seems like Yahoo et al don't believe Mozilla had the right to terminate the contract and Mozilla does. i.e. the contract itself included the option to terminate under certain conditions.

  25. Ah headlines, you got me again on New Evidence Points To Icy Plate Tectonics On Europa (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    There isn't any new evidence. Just a simululation confirming the possibility.