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  1. Re:Mobile repair seems like an awesome service to on Texas Lawmakers Want To Stop Tesla From Fixing Its Own Cars (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    A modern ICE car needs an oil change every 30000km or 18000miles or so. As for your regular maintenance on emissions ... never seen it. It's also not listed in the recommended maintenance manual from my car.

    If you drive it a lot then every few years you may need timing belt done, and every few years spark plugs swapped and injectors checked (though with modern fuels that's also turning into a pointless activity). Otherwise, there really isn't much maintenance in a modern ICE car at all.

    *Note that these recommendations should not be applied to Range Rovers which should be completely dismantled and rebuilt every 5000km or breakdown, whichever comes first.

  2. Re: Ah yes. Good 'ol Texas on Texas Lawmakers Want To Stop Tesla From Fixing Its Own Cars (electrek.co) · · Score: 2

    Not giving a fuck is not the same thing as happily letting someone else fight your battle for you. You're right this is dealership's fault. You're wrong that the big 3 don't give a fuck let alone two.

  3. Re:On simple question... on Nevada Lawmakers Want Police To Scan Cellphones After Car Crashes (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Provide the consistent police practice obviously. The fundamental problem with a system that relies on human observation before fact is that the law can only be applied inconsistently. Kind of like it's only illegal to change lanes without indicating if a police officer sees you.

  4. Re:Actual legislation on Nevada Lawmakers Want Police To Scan Cellphones After Car Crashes (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    one to be handed to the pig-filth

    What you need is to fundamentally fix the societal problems in America that lead to you referring to people who should be there to serve your protection as "pig-filth".

    You're not wrong by the way, but holy shit you treat and are treated by the police in America like the good old Stasi. WTF happened.

  5. Re:Warrantless on Nevada Lawmakers Want Police To Scan Cellphones After Car Crashes (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Why bother? They can just ask the phone company or NSA for a copy.

  6. Re:Going to be a problem either way on Nevada Lawmakers Want Police To Scan Cellphones After Car Crashes (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess we should ban talking to passengers in cars as well then, seeing as there is zero difference.

    There is a major difference, practicality.

    You can pull over on the side of the road and talk with the vehicle stationary. You can't do the same thing for getting a passenger to their destination. We call this a false equivalence. If you want to be safe we should just ban all cars completely, but again there's practicality to consider.

    Be less one-dimensional.

  7. Re:Cop can stand by the side of the road. Every 5m on Nevada Lawmakers Want Police To Scan Cellphones After Car Crashes (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    This law clearly is not about enforcing texting and driving; there is something else going on here.

    You base this on the fact that a manpower heavy and completely ineffective alternative is available? What next, cops shouldn't investigate any accident unless they see it happen in person?

  8. Re:Going to be a problem either way on Nevada Lawmakers Want Police To Scan Cellphones After Car Crashes (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    hands-free call or text?

    There's no such thing as a hands free text. Even trying to use voice based tools to communicate via text message results in you spending more time looking at your phone at the comical attempts at interpreting human speech, it's a health hazard without technical solution.

    For the phone call I agree but that should be somewhat defendable. The phone is functional so is :
    1. a) bluetooth enabled
    b) does the car support bluetooth calling
    2. Does the car have a mobile phone holder on the dash
    Laws against calling in many countries (can't speak for the USA) usually require one or the other in order for the call to be legal.

  9. Re:Never, ever talk to the police. on Wells Fargo Sued By 63-Year-Old Pastor They Wrongfully Accused of Forging Checks (nj.com) · · Score: 2

    The guy's first mistake was thinking he could somehow talk to the police himself and "clear things up". You will never, ever succeed at that.

    In America anyway. In much of the rest of the world the police are not professional thugs.

  10. I suppose that story would be a lot weaker if instead of saying 'arrest' and 'mug shot' it would instead say "they invited me to police station and took picture to compare with one taken at the ATM, but before case went to court, they realized timestamps were mismatched" ;)

    It also would be false. Arrested and imprisoned are not the same thing, and neither is "taking a picture to compare" and "mug-shot + fingerprint". At the time he was in the police station he most definitely was arrested. He couldn't just thank them for their time and walk out. They processed him like anyone they arrest and then released him pending a court case.

  11. Re:Social media at work on Are Online Activists Silencing Researchers of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed you can use social media to radicalise people, but people aren't radicalised *by* social media. They are radicalised by others. Today it's on facebook, tomorrow it's the secret church, the day after it's their community support group (radicalisation prays on the weak).

    You're post was 100% on point, except that you should replace "social media" with "communities". This didn't start with social media, and it won't end with it either.

  12. Re:How about getting your story to be consistent? on 3-5 Degree Rise in Arctic Temperatures Called 'Inevitable' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    we are in the shadows armed to the teeth and one day you will cross that line.

    You are in the shadows. An internet tough guy armed with a keyboard and an internet connection who will do nothing and not matter to anyone.

  13. Re:Consumables? on Solar Panel Splits Water To Produce Hydrogen (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    A catalyst by definition is not used in the reaction. It will only be deactivated through contamination or poisoning.

  14. Re:Consumables? on Solar Panel Splits Water To Produce Hydrogen (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    They don't need to be at all. Actually the very definition of catalyst means it's not consumable in the reaction itself.

    All classic ways of producing hydrogen need all of the above and in the classic ways (Partial Oxidation + shift, or Steam Methane Reforming) the catalysts don't deactivate unless you poison them (hence a SMR has a sulfide removal stage in its feed). The same goes for the adsorbents, while they are there to collect the impurities a typical design includes regeneration to drop those impurities out which is why with traditional hydrogen production in the purification stage the pressure swing adsorbers act like a batch process. As for membranes ... well that's a loaded word and could mean anything.

  15. Re:Potentially our future on Solar Panel Splits Water To Produce Hydrogen (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    a solution like this might turn out to be a game changer, making a hydrogen economy feasible instead of a subsidy-fueled wildly inefficient pipe-dream.

    This would need to scale several orders of magnitude to ever be considered part of the "hydrogen economy". A typical average sized steam methane reformer + shift reactor produces 90,000 Nm^3/h. At the moment this is to the hydrogen economy what solar power was to the electricity market back in the early 90s, nothing more than a novel experiment.

  16. Re:How do you define "take action"?? on 3-5 Degree Rise in Arctic Temperatures Called 'Inevitable' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, Thorium and MSRs scale better than LWRs.

    Based on what? Evidence to date says they barely scale past 2 wind turbines. We have no large scale thorium or MSR reactors in operation to make the claim.

    I'm sure theoretically they do, but let's get them out of the pilot stage before we talk about scaling.

  17. Re:Another example of zoning ruck amok on Chicago To Shutdown Composting Business Because Regulations Don't Cover Worms (blockclubchicago.org) · · Score: 1

    This is another example of how zoning and business regulations in the US have run amok where the default is that something can't happen.

    The default with all zoning laws is that something can't happen. Nuisance has a broad definition. Slight smell coming over? Nuisance. Delivery truck in the street? Nuisance. The Japanese system is somewhat retarded in that it promotes low value slums and poverty without city planning to prevent it by allowing things like residential buildings to be built in industrial complexes naturally keeping land value low while also impacting citizens health.

    There's a lot wrong in the Bay Area with zoning, but absolutely none of it can be fixed by the Japanese system.

  18. Re:Another example of zoning ruck amok on Chicago To Shutdown Composting Business Because Regulations Don't Cover Worms (blockclubchicago.org) · · Score: 1

    Well if it's not (insert all the reasons why something zoned as a landfill transfer station is bad) then you wouldn't care. But all those reasons are precisely why zoning exists, and nuisance has a very broad definition.

  19. Australia is zoned as tight as it can be

    "Australia" is nothing. The zoning restrictions varies greatly from city to city. Local councils are in control of it.

  20. Everyone. Is that the answer you were looking for? No seriously with multi-part compressed files RAR or self extracting RARs are still incredibly popular. The real question is who uses .ACE archives these days since that is what the article is actually about.

  21. Re:systemd on How Debian Almost Failed to Elect a Project Leader (lwn.net) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Whether you like or hate systemd, it must be a pain to deal with all the drama and hate surrounding it when all you want to do is put out a decent distro.

    Actually I highly doubt there's any drama what so ever. Debian made a public technical decision backed with their reasoning and set the project direction as a result. The only "drama" seems to be from users and that is managed by either pointing to the mailing list or the door.

    Just because the project is open source does not make it a people's democracy.

  22. Re:systemd on How Debian Almost Failed to Elect a Project Leader (lwn.net) · · Score: 0

    False. You're suggestion is good except ignores the economies of making it optional. Packages which do depend on systemd do so because the alternate has been dropped or they are looking to expand functionality. Take Gnome for example, one of the few packages that actually depend on systemd. It depends on systemd for power management, event management, and session management. It does so in ways that consolekit is no longer able to.

    So along comes distro project leader making a decision on what to do. The options then become: ./configure

    or ./configure --with-systemd
    Also install consolekit
    Also install a shim if the original project doesn't provide you the non-systemd functionality
    Also you lose a bit of incompatible functionality
    Also you need to maintain the old packages that have been depreciated in favour of systemd

    One of the Red Hat maintainers said it well on their mailing list, you don't maintain 2 packages. You maintain 2 packages and create a management system for selecting between them which is under continuous development due to the changing demands of either original package. At some point you just make a decision and let another distribution fill the gap if needed. /paraphrased.

  23. Re:Social media at work on Are Online Activists Silencing Researchers of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No. Social media doesn't turn people hateful. It simply allows already hateful people to express themselves in an environment where there's low risk of being judged by society and punished.

    I.e. they are just unleashing their suppressed inner arsehole which has always been there.

  24. Re:Why so ugly? on Tesla's New Model Y SUV Hits the Right Note By Playing It Safe (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Style. Brands have distinct style. Some go off the rails (seriously Honda it's a city car not a futuristic battle tank), and some never had any to begin with https://www.google.com/search?...

  25. Re:Are they even pretending any more? on EU Expected To Hit Google with Another Massive Antitrust Fine (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    You neither engaged with my ideas

    I don't think anyone is "engaged with your ideas".

    nor refuted anything I said

    I know, but then I have already determined you're like an anti-vaxxer. Facts won't sway you, that is clear from the absurd figures in your post. That and I posted at like 2am and was on the way to bed.

    Is thegarbz account a script that auto-posts?

    Yes. I am an advanced Google-AI experiment designed specifically to disagree with you. I do however feel I may need to branch out. With your posts turning the Fox and Friends talking points up to 11 it would seem me disagreeing with you would be redundant and no one would notice my brilliance anymore. I have been replaced by people. PEOPLE!