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  1. No Competition for Tesla whatever... on Porsche Unveils Its First Electric Car · · Score: -1

    According to Porsche, the car when its made will charge faster and go 0-60 faster. Big whoop.

    What nobody seems to get is the astonishing value added by Tesla's Supercharger network.Coast to coast. For Free. Forever.

    Until BMW/Mercedes/Porsche/GM/Ford/whoever can offer that, Tesla is unassailable. It's like they're selling Web Browsers to a world without internet.

  2. Read SlashDot on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Do If You Were Suddenly Wealthy? · · Score: -1

    as though it matters

  3. Re:Since when are HTML & CSS programming langu on The Top 10 Programming Languages On GitHub, Over Time · · Score: -1

    I disagree. They are most assuredly scripting languages for rendering engines/interpreters. Have you any experience with CSS3 and HTML5? I have seen many examples of HTML/CSS that are indistinguishable from "programs". It's a pretty arbitrary position to say they are not programming languages.

  4. its not just industry. go there. drive the countryside. around Bejing every little house in every little burg is firing up coal to cook on and to keep warm. multiply that by m(b)illions, 24/7 and the factories and power almost dont matter.

  5. Drunk on your own kool-aid... on Ask Slashdot: Buying a Car That's Safe From Hackers? · · Score: -1

    Hackers and hacking cars is bullshit. Yes they can do it. As always, anybody with physical access to a device can do anything they want to it; eventually. By physical access, I mean the turds that took over a jeep from ten miles away had access to the car and it's systems before the hack. They had a MAC address or other fixed electronic signature that they could sort out of the billions of signals floating through the air and single out the one data stream as a specific vehicle with a specific vulnerability. They also had specific knowledge that the cars telemetry system was paid up and operating. There is absolutely ZERO chance some dipshit dingdong can take over *your* car w/o days or weeks of preparations and your permission to do it; especially if you don't pay for OTA services.

    Nobody, anywhere can just pick a convo out of a sprint network and say "that's the red jeep up ahead". Only the techno-feebs reporting news believe that.

    This whole thing is just a bunch of feebs trying to scare people and extort money. Yes there are some specific problems with onStar. Its GM. WTF do you expect from the crown prince of clown cars? Hacking has nothing to do with it. Remote Start is a stupid idea that never should have been sold or bought. It's illegal in many states to leave a car running unattended for a *reason*. I don't know how GM gets away with it. But I digress, even OnStar doesn't work unless you pay for it; and why do you need services like that? Your cell phone doesn't work? You can't stop locking your keys in your car or you can't affor a locksmith for the one time you do?

    This is as overblown as all the other hacker mythology. Media hysteria. The lay public thinks Abby Scuito and Timmy McGee can just click a few keys and "crack" any security anywhere; nevermind the incestuous Mr. Robot...in reality nobody can do shit without user stupidity, social engineering and/or physical access to the device being "hacked".

    If you are actually afraid of this, you can take pills for it to calm you down.

    OK, so a few people can, with sufficient expertise and equipment (like 10 people and exactly none of *you*), pop the locks on some VWs and some other some shit like that. I can do that too; with a glass hammer...lots quicker. Steal a car with keyless start or over-ride the ignition disabler? So what? I have insurance and police for that. It's much cheaper than all the bullshit needed to make it impossible(and won't stop it anyway). If someone really wants your car, all they need is a tow-truck.

    Government? Really? You want Carnivore/Echelon/Prism in your car? Then you'll be really secure.

    Get over it. Let the free market take care of itself and please keep Uncle Sam out of car systems.

  6. "oh." You say. " Thumbs Up!" on Samsung Finds, Fixes Bug In Linux Trim Code · · Score: 0

    If this were Windows or OSX, you people would be shitting on it like sick Hogs for weeks on end.

    Instead, several of you call it a triumph of open source!? What a fantasy.

    There have been at least two kernel releases since this cropped up. That means nobody even looked. *Outsiders* had to find it.

    Linus must be rolling over in his grave 'cause sure as shit he's mortified to death.

  7. Re:let's be real for a second on Why Companies Should Hire Older Developers · · Score: -1

    That is the single most arrogant, offensive, bigoted statement I have ever read on this cheese-dick bulletin board.

  8. Re:No. on Is It Worth Learning a Little-Known Programming Language? · · Score: -1

    The reason being is because we need people who are versatile enough to be good with any language.

    Bravo. It's really too bad more managers don't get that.

  9. Bogus Characterization on The Programming Talent Myth · · Score: -1

    You can't teach imagination, creativity, or ingenuity.
    Rockstar programmers have all three, as well as passion( usually).
    Behavior of the 10x programmer is not "toxic" so much as humiliating to those that work with him.
    Time and again, what is obvious to genius is invisible to the drones around him. Constantly challenged to prove these things again and again leads to frustration and finally contempt for co workers which is eventually returned. The principle cause in my experience is often managerial insistence that all coders are equal and replaceable parts. Everyone knows it's a lie, when the chips are down Mr. 10xis everyone's best friend. Nobody likes to admit the truth: other people are smarter...it's not PC

  10. Someone please put a condom on that thing... on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Launches Its First Rocket · · Score: -1

    ...or at least have it circumcised!

  11. Re:Why do they not have the paper as backup? on Crashing iPad App Grounds Dozens of American Airline Flights · · Score: 0

    As to why no paper, 6700 flight per day x 32 Kg = 35,570 metric TONS of useless weight flying around.

    35,570 metric tons PER YEAR [ sorry ]

  12. Re:Why do they not have the paper as backup? on Crashing iPad App Grounds Dozens of American Airline Flights · · Score: 0

    Absolutely nothing would happen in flight. It has nothing to with in-flight operation. In flight they only need it when the plane is broken, and we all know they can't fly broken planes anymore anyway...the "black bags" were all filled with porn magazines anyway.

    As to why no paper, 6700 flight per day x 32 Kg = 35,570 metric TONS of useless weight flying around.

    Its a business, sweetie-pie. Wasted weight = wasted fuel or lost capacity.

  13. Re:Wow ... on Crashing iPad App Grounds Dozens of American Airline Flights · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What part of "App Crashed" didn't you understand?

    The App crashed,not IOS and it didn't come from the app store.

  14. Slashdot posts article about Slashdot? on The Dystopian Lake Filled By the World's Tech Sludge · · Score: 0

    The Dystopian Lake Filled By the World's Tech Sludge.

    When I read that headline Slashdot.org was the only guess I had as to the content.

  15. Re:Don't we already know? - yes we do on NASA-ESA Project Will Shoot an Asteroid To See What Happens · · Score: 0

    The article state the sizes of the objects and the orbit of one round the other. gravity AFAIK tends to remain directly proportional to mass throughout the universe. We know *exactly* what the mass is and since we know the size, we know the density; high school physics stuff. Even if we didn't, this won't tell us a thing about the other 8.6 trillion [undemolished] asteroids. What if it knocks this shit out of orbit and it no longer influences something else which no longer influences something else and blooey the whole fucking Khyber-belt goes sun-bound.

    A mission this pointless can only be the child of a "use-it-or-lose-it" budget mentality.
    Either that, or they're trying to unleash Mothra.

    This kind of screwing around is exactly how Zod gets out of the Phantom Zone, you know...

  16. Why is this news? on Heathrow Plane In Near Miss With Drone · · Score: 0

    It happened in July...Yawn

  17. Because everyone on SlashDot hates Apple? on Why CurrentC Will Beat Out Apple Pay · · Score: 0

    CurrentC will be and also-ran until hacks and stolen data bankrupts one of them.

    FTC/DOJ will be on this for Conspiracy in Restraint of Trade (sooner or later)

    Remember when USA sued Microsoft over Free Browsers { heh it seems pretty clear that was a mistake - How is it now legal for Google not only to embed Browser code in their OS, but to even make it the whole OS... Wow.}

    Apple makes nothing from ApplePay. Zero. Nyet. Nada. Zippo.

    They {CurrentC & Co} did NOT stop taking Visa, MasterCard, Amex et al, they only refused a better way to access them out of GROSS FEAR and inability to compete as well as a urgent need to collect more confidential customer data for parasites to hack and steal.

  18. Most women agree on China Plans Particle Colliders That Would Dwarf CERN's LHC · · Score: 0

    ...it's length, not girth that matters

  19. Re:Why the annoying sound track ? on SpaceX Releases Video of Falcon Rocket's Splashdown · · Score: 0

    That's true, but spaceX is hoping for more than 12 page views.

  20. Nevada is the only candidate on California In the Running For Tesla Gigafactory · · Score: 0

    ...it is the sole source ( as in only ) of Lithium in the United States. The rest of the choices are just head-fakes for negotiation and Texas in particular is a joke where at worst he gets to laugh at the idiots who take their candidacy seriously, and at best the longhorns repent on their policy of institutionalized racketeering. If you want to actually site the thing, study railroad maps.

    Area 51 would be my choice, that would at least meet Calistan's "Proudly built by illegal aliens" mandate.

  21. Even Sheldon Cooper on Can the Multiverse Be Tested Scientifically? · · Score: -1

    knows string theory is bullshit...

    Modern physics and understanding of the Universe is perfectly adequate to calculate trajectories but nothing more.

    The same can be said for pre-Copernican physics.

    As long as Physics continues to confuse Mathematics with reality we'll never get any further than that.

    Modern scholars are not great thinkers, they are politicians.

  22. Re:Dark Matter = Phlogiston on Two Big Dark Matter Experiments Gain US Support · · Score: -1

    I don't need to explain anything. Dark matter is bullshit and you know it, or you wouldn't flame out on a nobody like me.

    BTW: Bitching? I wrote one sentence. You go girl!

    Now go away before I point a Dark Energy Ray-gun at your screen and collapse it into black hole that eats Russia, Ooops. Too late.

  23. Dark Matter = Phlogiston on Two Big Dark Matter Experiments Gain US Support · · Score: -1

    When your theory of the Universe doesn't work, just make shit up until it does.

  24. Kurt Vonnegut on Chinese Company 3D Prints a 2-person Boat · · Score: 1

    reported on the miniaturization of the Chinese people long ago. The pictured boat is likely measured in centimeters, not meters, long Live Bokonon.

  25. This is very old news on Apple Refutes Report On iPhone Threat To China's National Security · · Score: 0

    to anyone that wan't in a coma over the weekend