Lucky. In California it's $230 for 1 MPH over the limit $360 for 15+.
The fees generally amount to about $10 per MPH over the limit, and then another $200-300 for court fees, police pizza day fees, we'll buttfuck you because we can and you'll like it fees, etc. The last ticket I got, for doing 75 in a 65 on the freeway, the actual cost of the ticket was eclipsed by all the bullshit fees they tacked on top of it. Lets not even talk about the traffic school fee. Not the cost of going to traffic school itself, but the $60+ fee for the court ALLOWING you to go to traffic school. I think the whole thing cost me around $450 when all was said and done, just for going with the flow of traffic. I've been driving for over 20 years, never had an accident, but apparently going 75 in light traffic late at night is a grave danger to society.
I don't know what you're eating, but I've never felt my life was in danger while taking a shit. The well-being of others may have been threatened, but never my own...
Let's say I am an ISP and I have a data stream coming through my system. How do I know if the data is encrypted or not? Data is data. Neither IP nor UDP packets have an 'encrypted data' indicator.
It's quite simple: we'll just have to add an additional "encrypted" bit in the header, right after the Evil bit.
What Trump says and what will actually happen are obviously two different things. There are still checks and balances to keep him from running roughshod over human rights by himself. The H1B travesty is real, happening, and can only get worse under Clinton. I'd rather have a redfaced blowhard spouting off nonsense than this slippery bitch plunging the knife in even deeper than it already is. They're both clearly unfit for the job, but Trump entertains me while Clinton makes my blood run cold for multiple reasons.
People on slashdot love to rip on companies who advertise Unlimited but still have caps. "Unlimited should mean Unlimited!" But give Tesla a pass when they bill something that's not Autopilot as Autopilot.
Oh, but it is autopilot. Name a vehicular autopilot system that is designed to allow the operator to engage and then ignore it completely for the duration of the trip, without risk of disaster. Commercial aviation relies heavily on autopilot, but they still employ 2 pilots per flight. Why? Because if there's only one pilot, and he's incapacitated, autopilot simply does not have the same capabilities to get the aircraft home safely. Don't you think they would have axed the expensive pilot positions years ago if the technology existed to allow it? So yes, it is autopilot, but no it's not meant to replace a human.
He decided that since the country's majority ran contrary to his stance, it was a good idea to vacate his position and let someone else lead.
This is what we need in America. Instead of digging in and fighting tooth and nail against the peoples wishes.. just get the fuck out and do it with some dignity. The majority of our politicians are just stubborn children who will never concede defeat or admit to wrongs, no matter how much blood is still dripping from their hands.
. Democracy isn't a Model T. It doesn't just come in one colour.
Contrary to popular belief, the Model T came in more than one color. 5 Colors to be exact. 4 colors were available at various points during the first 5 years of production; Black was not one of them.
The police can't kill people with bombs, they have to use small explosions in shells to speed up a specific projectile, not an accidental one with a bomb, like god intended it to be.
The police shouldn't be in the business of killing people. They're there to apprehend if at all possible, and let the courts decide their fate. The bobbies in London don't even carry firearms, and they get along reasonably well. Why the fuck do American cops need "assault rifles" (heh), tanks, and now remote controlled bombs? This one-sided arms race needs to stop, and we need to take a good hard look at the societal reasons for the violence. We keep killing or incarcerating "bad men", but nobody wants to deal with the reasons how they become this way. Meanwhile, we continue to allow an army grow within our borders that sees all of us as a possible threat. This is not headed in a positive direction.
I know people will become uncontrollably outraged about this, but it's a standoff weapon. Just like a spear, a bow and arrow, an explosive tossed through a door or window, a gun, or even a vehicle employed as a weapon.
This is half a stones throw from sending a JDAM through the roof, or one of those crazy ISIS bomb trucks. At what point do they stop being peace officers and become domestic warriors? This is a terrifying development; We expect to see things like this in Afghanistan or Syria, not Texas. At what point did we go ahead and just put a big X through the "Alive" part of "Dead or Alive"?
Every cheating player should have his account banned. Want to play again? Buy the game again.
Blizzard isn't just banning accounts; they're banning hardware. You can't just buy another copy after being banned and continue what you were doing. This is how it should be done. There is zero excuse for cheating, and the punishment is properly severe.
This death happened in the area of the car Tesla spoke of the test machine breaking during a crush test of a roof, apparently withstanding the weight of 4 cars on its roof. A Trailer moving sideways crushing the car, you would think if the roof was super strong the car would be pushed sideways, instead of going under.
From another story I read, the Tesla was at speed when it hit the trailer that was across the road. Momentum caused the bottom edge of the trailer to shear off the top of the car (and probably the top of the driver) as it passed underneath. It's not like the car was parked and the trailer rolled over it.
There is (was) a massive amount of ground water in the San Joaquin valley. Instead of pumping it and sending it south, they used it for absolutely wasteful agricultural purposes. They've used so much, that the ground has sunken by almost 30 feet in places. So, instead of pumping and using our own water to service the south, we take it from the Colorado. Now that the ground up north has dried up and collapsed so that it couldn't hold the same amount of water even with biblical flooding, the farmers are all crying about it. Well, tough shit, your free ride is over. Maybe you shouldn't try growing rice and almonds in a desert.
As far as desal plants go, who is going to pay for them? They're not quick or cheap to build, and cost quite a bit to run (regardless of power source). The treehuggers won't allow any more nuke plants around here, and we're quickly building ourselves out of any good locations to put them anyway. San Onofre was about as ideal as it gets, and they shut it down.
With regards to conservation, it doesn't really seen to help much. I tore out both front and back lawns last summer, and replaced with low water plants and drip system. My water bill went down maybe 10%. My bill breaks down to about half flat fees, half actual usage. You can drastically cut your water usage and barely see a financial incentive to do so in the end. If they raised the rate per actual unit of water used, and dumped the flat "service" fees, then there would be a much better drive to cut usage across the board. It still would be nice if it'd rain around here some day, though.
Refunds and reporting. You can't issue a refund without the card number. You certainly don't need to store the security code though, and if i remember correctly, you can still push a refund through with an invalid expiration date. The better question is why this information was stored unencrypted, and specifically in-house. When I was tasked with auditing the credit card software my company used, I was appalled by what I found. There was just no way to secure it, so we dumped it and went with an outside vendor, who does all the processing and storage for us on their website. That way, even if something is compromised, it isn't our ass in the wringer. As far as reporting goes, it's beneficial to at least see the last 4 digits so you can tell if someone is doing something shady, like splitting.
Cars kill more people then guns yet we don't "ban" the pictograph of cars.
To be fair, cars don't kill people either. Whether it be guns, cars, or ham sandwiches, people are to blame for their accidental or intentional misuse that leads to the injury or demise of others. As long as we keep blaming inanimate objects for the damage caused, we will get NO WHERE. Gun deaths have been on a downward trend since the 70's, yet more guns are out there than ever, and many states have allowed concealed/open carry. Clearly, the lower number of deaths has nothing to do with removing guns from American's possession, so this needs to be explored as a social cause and see how we can reinforce it.
If your electric grid has regular blackouts, electric cars are the least of your problems. Sounds like a third-world problem to me.
Signed,
a Canadian.
I wouldn't call them regular (yet), but far more than you'd expect from the second most populous city in "the greatest nation in the world", for sure. Don't even get me started on the condition of our roads.. and the sidewalks...!!
In particular, southern Cal is stealing a lot Colorado water and pulling down the reservoirs fast. Instead, coastal Cal up to 200 miles inward should be coming from the ocean. The only way to do that inexpensively is via nukes.
We have enough water here in so cal for reasonable purposes. What we don't need is the nut and rice farming in the central valley that uses an unholy amount of water for produce that just gets exported. Many of us are tearing out our lawns to save water, but it's the agriculture that's unsustainable at the current rate.
Actually, if VW designs these right, they will be charging in the middle of the night. IOW, they will simply use the grossly underutilized grid and power plants from that time.
In addition, this will enable multiple power companies to go ahead and invest into energy plants for you. Hopefully, they will be smart and do nukes so that you can handle your AC loads..
It'll be interesting to see what happens if the night loads begin increasing from many electric vehicles charging. As far as I know, all of the fossil fuel plants here are natural gas. They're supplemented by solar and wind out in the deserts and canyons. Solar is obviously a no go in the dark, and the winds usually die down at night. Residential solar is becoming more widespread, which causes the daytime generation needs to drop, but nighttime to remain the same. I wonder if we'll ever come to a point to where nat gas becomes more relied upon at night than during the day...
This is LA.. there's SCE, DWP and nobody. Neither of them want to invest in anything. They recently shut down our last nuke plant because they botched a renovation, and decided it was just cheaper to dismantle it. Cheaper for them, that is.. Last I heard, ratepayers were going to have to pay over 3 billion to mothball it, but it's still being fought in court. There will probably be no more nuke plants built in southern California, because we do business around here based on fears and feels, not actual science and logic. Ugh.
If you are an adult then you absolutely have chosen to live there. Its a big world and if you just want to stay in one tiny corner of it for your whole life that's fine but don't pretend you had no choice in the matter. If the power is a problem then move or work to fix it. If it isn't a problem then stop complaining about it. Moving isn't really difficult at all if you are motivated to do it. I've moved about every 5 years for the last 25 years and have lived in 4 different states. Not a big problem unless you make it one.
Oh stop moving the goalposts. You were talking specifically about a power outage. 99.9% of the time you'll never need to charge an electric car with a standby generator but it is an option if you need it. If there isn't a power outage (which is most of the time) then it isn't a problem. Buying an gas guzzling, polluting car for the 1 or 2 days a year the power goes out is just poor decision making. That's like buying a 24 foot box truck as your daily driver because you want to haul lumber twice a year. It doesn't make any sense.
I haven't chosen to live here. I've chosen not to move away. For someone like me, it's a lot harder to move away from friends and what little family I have left, as well as my job, network of supplemental job opportunities, etc. My dad moved around quite often because the grass was always greener.. I chose to stop moving with him, because that's not how I want to live my life. I find it interesting that this has gone from my opinion that this area isn't a great spot for an explosion of electric cars, to me saying this is the worst place to live but I refuse to do anything about it. Get real, people. This is a discussion about the drawbacks of electric cars in the land of SCE/DWP, and has nothing to do with me personally.
As far as power outages, my point is that the grid is barely holding together here in the summer months, and they don't seem to do anything to fix it. My power just went out yesterday for ??? reason, and it was only 75. If we start adding more strain to the already iffy capacity, mostly by building more god damn houses and no more stations, but also adding plug-in electric cars by the truckload, nothing good with come of it. This isn't a statement that electric cars are bad, but that the utilities around here have never used their resources wisely, and the consumers are always getting the shit end of the stick. They just raised rates again in the past few months for "the future", and then turned right around and said we're probably going to have blackouts anyway because we store the majority of our natural gas in a rickety-ass old oil field that leaks like a geriatric dog. I'm all for replacing the majority of ICE cars with electrics, but doing so before the infrastructure can fully support them is foolhardy.
Jesus, where in LA do you live? Do you live in the IE or eastern SFV and are saying LA? When I lived in LA 10 years ago I only wished I had central air maybe 10 days out of the year.
West SFV area. It gets bloody hot here. The past 5 years have really seen a ramp up in extreme temps. I think it hit 115 here a couple years ago, 110 for several days at least every year. We certainly don't benefit from any sea breeze. And those Santa Anas...
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It's a posse of trolls. Who'd grown fat and sloppy from the roasting of souls.
Lucky. In California it's $230 for 1 MPH over the limit $360 for 15+.
The fees generally amount to about $10 per MPH over the limit, and then another $200-300 for court fees, police pizza day fees, we'll buttfuck you because we can and you'll like it fees, etc. The last ticket I got, for doing 75 in a 65 on the freeway, the actual cost of the ticket was eclipsed by all the bullshit fees they tacked on top of it. Lets not even talk about the traffic school fee. Not the cost of going to traffic school itself, but the $60+ fee for the court ALLOWING you to go to traffic school. I think the whole thing cost me around $450 when all was said and done, just for going with the flow of traffic. I've been driving for over 20 years, never had an accident, but apparently going 75 in light traffic late at night is a grave danger to society.
I don't know what you're eating, but I've never felt my life was in danger while taking a shit. The well-being of others may have been threatened, but never my own...
Perhaps, if they built a giant flashlight....
Let's say I am an ISP and I have a data stream coming through my system. How do I know if the data is encrypted or not? Data is data. Neither IP nor UDP packets have an 'encrypted data' indicator.
It's quite simple: we'll just have to add an additional "encrypted" bit in the header, right after the Evil bit.
What Trump says and what will actually happen are obviously two different things. There are still checks and balances to keep him from running roughshod over human rights by himself. The H1B travesty is real, happening, and can only get worse under Clinton. I'd rather have a redfaced blowhard spouting off nonsense than this slippery bitch plunging the knife in even deeper than it already is. They're both clearly unfit for the job, but Trump entertains me while Clinton makes my blood run cold for multiple reasons.
People on slashdot love to rip on companies who advertise Unlimited but still have caps. "Unlimited should mean Unlimited!" But give Tesla a pass when they bill something that's not Autopilot as Autopilot.
Oh, but it is autopilot. Name a vehicular autopilot system that is designed to allow the operator to engage and then ignore it completely for the duration of the trip, without risk of disaster. Commercial aviation relies heavily on autopilot, but they still employ 2 pilots per flight. Why? Because if there's only one pilot, and he's incapacitated, autopilot simply does not have the same capabilities to get the aircraft home safely. Don't you think they would have axed the expensive pilot positions years ago if the technology existed to allow it? So yes, it is autopilot, but no it's not meant to replace a human.
He decided that since the country's majority ran contrary to his stance, it was a good idea to vacate his position and let someone else lead.
This is what we need in America. Instead of digging in and fighting tooth and nail against the peoples wishes.. just get the fuck out and do it with some dignity. The majority of our politicians are just stubborn children who will never concede defeat or admit to wrongs, no matter how much blood is still dripping from their hands.
. Democracy isn't a Model T. It doesn't just come in one colour.
Contrary to popular belief, the Model T came in more than one color. 5 Colors to be exact. 4 colors were available at various points during the first 5 years of production; Black was not one of them.
Well, "double plus unlift" doesn't look all that sexy in a headline.
The police can't kill people with bombs, they have to use small explosions in shells to speed up a specific projectile, not an accidental one with a bomb, like god intended it to be.
The police shouldn't be in the business of killing people. They're there to apprehend if at all possible, and let the courts decide their fate. The bobbies in London don't even carry firearms, and they get along reasonably well. Why the fuck do American cops need "assault rifles" (heh), tanks, and now remote controlled bombs? This one-sided arms race needs to stop, and we need to take a good hard look at the societal reasons for the violence. We keep killing or incarcerating "bad men", but nobody wants to deal with the reasons how they become this way. Meanwhile, we continue to allow an army grow within our borders that sees all of us as a possible threat. This is not headed in a positive direction.
I know people will become uncontrollably outraged about this, but it's a standoff weapon. Just like a spear, a bow and arrow, an explosive tossed through a door or window, a gun, or even a vehicle employed as a weapon.
This is half a stones throw from sending a JDAM through the roof, or one of those crazy ISIS bomb trucks. At what point do they stop being peace officers and become domestic warriors? This is a terrifying development; We expect to see things like this in Afghanistan or Syria, not Texas. At what point did we go ahead and just put a big X through the "Alive" part of "Dead or Alive"?
I have met so many Marissa Mayers in my life and every one of them left a horrible taste in my mouth.
Well, next time I suggest merely eating with them rather than simpply eating them.
If someone actually ate the terrible people in this world, wouldn't we all be better off?
Every cheating player should have his account banned. Want to play again? Buy the game again.
Blizzard isn't just banning accounts; they're banning hardware. You can't just buy another copy after being banned and continue what you were doing. This is how it should be done. There is zero excuse for cheating, and the punishment is properly severe.
This death happened in the area of the car Tesla spoke of the test machine breaking during a crush test of a roof, apparently withstanding the weight of 4 cars on its roof. A Trailer moving sideways crushing the car, you would think if the roof was super strong the car would be pushed sideways, instead of going under.
From another story I read, the Tesla was at speed when it hit the trailer that was across the road. Momentum caused the bottom edge of the trailer to shear off the top of the car (and probably the top of the driver) as it passed underneath. It's not like the car was parked and the trailer rolled over it.
I guess people will have to survive just like those dark times before cell phones were invented.
Well, technically, the majority of people who lived before cell phones were invented have not survived at all.
A lot of people in Nevada are opposed to having their state be a nuclear waste dump.
Well, it's a little late for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There is (was) a massive amount of ground water in the San Joaquin valley. Instead of pumping it and sending it south, they used it for absolutely wasteful agricultural purposes. They've used so much, that the ground has sunken by almost 30 feet in places. So, instead of pumping and using our own water to service the south, we take it from the Colorado. Now that the ground up north has dried up and collapsed so that it couldn't hold the same amount of water even with biblical flooding, the farmers are all crying about it. Well, tough shit, your free ride is over. Maybe you shouldn't try growing rice and almonds in a desert.
As far as desal plants go, who is going to pay for them? They're not quick or cheap to build, and cost quite a bit to run (regardless of power source). The treehuggers won't allow any more nuke plants around here, and we're quickly building ourselves out of any good locations to put them anyway. San Onofre was about as ideal as it gets, and they shut it down.
With regards to conservation, it doesn't really seen to help much. I tore out both front and back lawns last summer, and replaced with low water plants and drip system. My water bill went down maybe 10%. My bill breaks down to about half flat fees, half actual usage. You can drastically cut your water usage and barely see a financial incentive to do so in the end. If they raised the rate per actual unit of water used, and dumped the flat "service" fees, then there would be a much better drive to cut usage across the board. It still would be nice if it'd rain around here some day, though.
On storing Credit Card data?
Refunds and reporting. You can't issue a refund without the card number. You certainly don't need to store the security code though, and if i remember correctly, you can still push a refund through with an invalid expiration date. The better question is why this information was stored unencrypted, and specifically in-house. When I was tasked with auditing the credit card software my company used, I was appalled by what I found. There was just no way to secure it, so we dumped it and went with an outside vendor, who does all the processing and storage for us on their website. That way, even if something is compromised, it isn't our ass in the wringer. As far as reporting goes, it's beneficial to at least see the last 4 digits so you can tell if someone is doing something shady, like splitting.
Cars kill more people then guns yet we don't "ban" the pictograph of cars.
To be fair, cars don't kill people either. Whether it be guns, cars, or ham sandwiches, people are to blame for their accidental or intentional misuse that leads to the injury or demise of others. As long as we keep blaming inanimate objects for the damage caused, we will get NO WHERE. Gun deaths have been on a downward trend since the 70's, yet more guns are out there than ever, and many states have allowed concealed/open carry. Clearly, the lower number of deaths has nothing to do with removing guns from American's possession, so this needs to be explored as a social cause and see how we can reinforce it.
If your electric grid has regular blackouts, electric cars are the least of your problems. Sounds like a third-world problem to me.
Signed, a Canadian.
I wouldn't call them regular (yet), but far more than you'd expect from the second most populous city in "the greatest nation in the world", for sure. Don't even get me started on the condition of our roads.. and the sidewalks...!!
In particular, southern Cal is stealing a lot Colorado water and pulling down the reservoirs fast. Instead, coastal Cal up to 200 miles inward should be coming from the ocean. The only way to do that inexpensively is via nukes.
We have enough water here in so cal for reasonable purposes. What we don't need is the nut and rice farming in the central valley that uses an unholy amount of water for produce that just gets exported. Many of us are tearing out our lawns to save water, but it's the agriculture that's unsustainable at the current rate.
Actually, if VW designs these right, they will be charging in the middle of the night. IOW, they will simply use the grossly underutilized grid and power plants from that time. In addition, this will enable multiple power companies to go ahead and invest into energy plants for you. Hopefully, they will be smart and do nukes so that you can handle your AC loads. .
It'll be interesting to see what happens if the night loads begin increasing from many electric vehicles charging. As far as I know, all of the fossil fuel plants here are natural gas. They're supplemented by solar and wind out in the deserts and canyons. Solar is obviously a no go in the dark, and the winds usually die down at night. Residential solar is becoming more widespread, which causes the daytime generation needs to drop, but nighttime to remain the same. I wonder if we'll ever come to a point to where nat gas becomes more relied upon at night than during the day...
This is LA.. there's SCE, DWP and nobody. Neither of them want to invest in anything. They recently shut down our last nuke plant because they botched a renovation, and decided it was just cheaper to dismantle it. Cheaper for them, that is.. Last I heard, ratepayers were going to have to pay over 3 billion to mothball it, but it's still being fought in court. There will probably be no more nuke plants built in southern California, because we do business around here based on fears and feels, not actual science and logic. Ugh.
If you are an adult then you absolutely have chosen to live there. Its a big world and if you just want to stay in one tiny corner of it for your whole life that's fine but don't pretend you had no choice in the matter. If the power is a problem then move or work to fix it. If it isn't a problem then stop complaining about it. Moving isn't really difficult at all if you are motivated to do it. I've moved about every 5 years for the last 25 years and have lived in 4 different states. Not a big problem unless you make it one.
Oh stop moving the goalposts. You were talking specifically about a power outage. 99.9% of the time you'll never need to charge an electric car with a standby generator but it is an option if you need it. If there isn't a power outage (which is most of the time) then it isn't a problem. Buying an gas guzzling, polluting car for the 1 or 2 days a year the power goes out is just poor decision making. That's like buying a 24 foot box truck as your daily driver because you want to haul lumber twice a year. It doesn't make any sense.
I haven't chosen to live here. I've chosen not to move away. For someone like me, it's a lot harder to move away from friends and what little family I have left, as well as my job, network of supplemental job opportunities, etc. My dad moved around quite often because the grass was always greener.. I chose to stop moving with him, because that's not how I want to live my life. I find it interesting that this has gone from my opinion that this area isn't a great spot for an explosion of electric cars, to me saying this is the worst place to live but I refuse to do anything about it. Get real, people. This is a discussion about the drawbacks of electric cars in the land of SCE/DWP, and has nothing to do with me personally.
As far as power outages, my point is that the grid is barely holding together here in the summer months, and they don't seem to do anything to fix it. My power just went out yesterday for ??? reason, and it was only 75. If we start adding more strain to the already iffy capacity, mostly by building more god damn houses and no more stations, but also adding plug-in electric cars by the truckload, nothing good with come of it. This isn't a statement that electric cars are bad, but that the utilities around here have never used their resources wisely, and the consumers are always getting the shit end of the stick. They just raised rates again in the past few months for "the future", and then turned right around and said we're probably going to have blackouts anyway because we store the majority of our natural gas in a rickety-ass old oil field that leaks like a geriatric dog. I'm all for replacing the majority of ICE cars with electrics, but doing so before the infrastructure can fully support them is foolhardy.
Jesus, where in LA do you live? Do you live in the IE or eastern SFV and are saying LA? When I lived in LA 10 years ago I only wished I had central air maybe 10 days out of the year.
West SFV area. It gets bloody hot here. The past 5 years have really seen a ramp up in extreme temps. I think it hit 115 here a couple years ago, 110 for several days at least every year. We certainly don't benefit from any sea breeze. And those Santa Anas...