ICANN and IANA jointly run the root servers. Announce that any TLD registrar that doesn't provide WHOIS service will no longer be listed, and see how many days it takes the EU to fix their law.
Yes because we've all seen how quickly the EU bends over to the whim of Americans./sarcasm
If there is a conflict between the GDPR and WHOIS, then contrary to popular belief here on Slashdot, this is a flaw in the GDPR.
Why? New time, new law. Something acceptable in the past, not acceptable now and incompatible with some service no one uses anymore doesn't make it "flawed". Specifically take note of the last part. WHOIS is a worthless database full of garbage entries. Hell my own domain's WHOIS entry isn't complaint with ICANN's rules and hasn't been for the past 15 years.
Deep discharging and full charging are hard on batteries
Fortunately there aren't any cars on the market that allow you to do either. Those ratings you hear manufacturers claim are actually quite nice on batteries.
The bottom line is that 100-mile EVs are really quite impractical
Two people at my work drive Twizzys. They have a 60 mile range and the batteries are on a leasing agreement so instantly nullify most of your complaints. Also the most popular EV in Europe with sales properly thrashing Tesla's have a 120mile range. That's NDEC by the way which when compared to the EPA ranges is considered wildly optimistic and you're unlikely to get more than 100miles out of that damn popular car.
Really it's only impractical for an American who measures penis length by car statistics.
That all sounds like a very specific self-referential problem. Just set the registry key to default your ethernet connection as metered and all your problems will disappear and bonus points your objectionable feature becomes less objectionable.
You're welcome.
(By the way, the irony is that every successive feature update has made the automatic update process more flexible and use less data (local download sharing) so the thing you hate is also the one that would drive you to want to update).
Number of people: 5. Cargo volume: Far more than an american sedan because hatchbacks have a huge amount of space in them. Multiple trips, can't say I'm not familiar with the concept. Last time I was at Ikea I took home a couch, massive wardrobe, kitchen table, study table, bookshelf, and 4 chairs, and 2 of those wardrobes known for killing toddlers when not installed correctly. Though that day my wife was unable to sit on the passenger seat and sat behind me instead, and I'm not sure I would have made it up to 180km/h while towing a trailer.
And if I ever need to transport a small car in an american gas-guzzler I would simply call a toe truck. I would be able to afford it with all the fuel I save normally.
But please tell me how much I am inconvenienced. I'm genuinely curious.
What you are saying that I'm changing the goal posts when I address a point you brought up. And your answer is? Yes you can guarantee or no you cannot?
No I'm just pointing out that you responded to my point: Data is used and collected in aggregate. Then you raised a separate question on identifying you. To which my answer remains, data is used in aggregate regardless of how much you move the goal posts around. Go to MS's website and lookup the data that is sent. The telemetry collection is published. And then ask yourself if you will be targeted because of it.
So you acknowledge that given the recent history of Windows updates
Of course. But the only reason you think this is relevant is because you're incapable of following a conversation. One which incidentally never said that MS didn't cause a past BSOD, only that they care about not causing them.
Actually no. I don't acknowledge your statement. There's nothing "recent" about it, and there's nothing specifically "windows" about it. And actually the last update that completely hosed one of my systems was caused by running "apt-get dist-upgrade"
but Google doesn't have the integration to order me my usual toothpaste
So what you value in a device is an on demand shopping system rather than a digital assistant.
I don't either, and that makes us the absolutely worst judge of what people want in terms of digital assistants.
No it doesn't. It only makes us a bad judge if we aren't interested in viewing the target market. Interesting too that your friends all have an Alexa. The only person I know with an Alexa is my sister. It's still in the box though because she already has the little ugly Google puck looking thing in her living room (she won the Alexa). I know a lot of people with the Google assistant though (as in the standalone one).
Funny enough their biggest benefit is the complete integration with Google. So while your idea of an assistant is a purchasing doodad, a lot of other people's idea is the integration into the google ecosystem.
But there's one thing everyone can agree on. No one in their right mind uses Cortana for anything:-)
Google may have a lot of data but Amazon has literally HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE working on just Alexa.
Implying that Google's assistant is just some programmers side hobby? Implying that throwing people at something solves a data set / deep learning problem?
Honestly I fail to see how you got to your conclusion and while I can't find numbers I will eat my hat if Google doesn't have several times the number of people in the deep learning field working on everything from natural language analysis to how to integrate answers together in relevant results as Amazon.
You forget that analysing data and serving up results is their core business, whether in search, in google assistant, or to customers of its advertising business.
Why not just build an idiot detector? By the way, measure the primary variable of interest. No one gives a crap where the driver is sitting, but rather is the driver in control. These cars already have steering wheel sensors.
Funny thing: My car beeps madly if the driver isn't wearing a seatbelt. Last time I picked up my car from the parking service at the airport I got in to discover the passenger seatbelt stretched across and clipped into the driver's seatbelt retainer.
The only thing sadder than the effort idiots go to is the companies which enable them: https://thetikit.com/
Most of the readers of this site understand how well, that is, not well, such a feature works in reality when it comes to dealing with the infinite complexities of driving.
And most of the readers here will understand that the highway is literally the simplest case, that this person didn't cause an accident, that cars have basically autonomously driven themselves down highways for millions of miles, and funny enough that this isn't the first case of this happening. Hell the first case wasn't even a Tesla. I saw this a few years ago on youtube. Strap a bottle to the steering wheel of a Mercedes S class, enable steering assist, and then the guy jumped into the passenger seat to prove his point.
My point is: Most of the readers of this site would be quite comfortable letting a car drive itself on a highway and understand that it is literally one of the least complex scenarios on the road.
In this modern age of hold your hand safety features, why exactly doesn't this thing have a seat weight sensor?
Because putting a sensor in for every idiotic thing idiots can do isn't exactly financially viable, and an idiot sensor doesn't exist. Plus, all you'll do is breed a better idiot as a result.
What's the use case? Overpriced, poor quality food with limited selection for a long sit down meal in favour of getting to your destination faster and having a nice enjoyable meal?
Getting people to change their habits is just another impediment which is exactly why consortium like Ultra-e are pushing the sub 15min fillup in the first place.
So are Tesla mind you. V3 superchargers are going to start at 350kW when they come out. Until then Porche and ABB have beaten Tesla to market. But the real question is, who will be first to market with a car that can charge at that rate? The Mission E comes out in 2019.
Personally I take my time already anyway. Workplace safety drummed in my head to take a break every 2 hours and reset the brain, but the vast majority of people are waay to impatient for that.
So, they got a bunch of people to sign up for 1-year plans, then changed the plan. How's this legal?
It's not. But since this is 'muerika there won't be some government consumer advocacy body fighting the good fight, rather it will be up to a few little guys to take these douchebags to court.
This is something that everyone seems to have forgotten. The red vs blue armies are so quick to shout "Trump is awesome" and "This is not Trump's doing we're lucky we're not at war" to realise what has actually happened:
Its the blue light, not the stressing about peoples thoughts on your current instabookshite, not the being interrupted at 11pm with a work message, not stressing about your mortgage, not worrying if you can survive in the 'gig' economy.
This is a European study not an American study. Very few people stress about any of the above crap over here.
50mpg is not a realistic number for fuel consumption on anything you'd be willing to buy
My 10 year old piece of shit gets 48mpg and it's not a hybrid or diesel. I still have no problem doing 180km/h down the autobahn so it's plenty powerful enough. Maybe you rightwingnutjobs just need to get your head out of your arses.
I like this. It's the "what if we make a better world for nothing" approach. I live in a cold part of the world. I would love it if this place got warmer. But even if I were some arsehole who didn't care about others I would still support reduction in energy use and adoption of clean technology.
Why?
I'm sick of the smell and garbage. Cities smell of diesel and petrol fumes. The scooters tearing down the path leave a cloud in their wake. Garbage bins are overflowing with disposed of bottles of drinking water bought by people who are too precious to use the drinking fountains found everywhere.
If you think man made global warming is a myth there are plenty of other reasons to support a change for the better.
With such a short range, you don't really have much choice but to charge your car every night when you get home
To be clear are you saying that people don't charge their car every night at home? Because that would be a significant difference to observations to date of electric car owners.
Tesla's charge times (except when the supercharger is full and you have to wait behind four or five cars just to start charging, like you do in most of the Bay Area) are actually pretty much in the sweet spot
Not even remotely. The sweet spot it 8-15minutes. The vast majority of road users don't sit down at a restaurant even on long road trips which is also why the vast majority of service stations partner with fast food or deli style restaurants rather than actual meals. Those places which do also offer meals see a very small sale of those compared to the grab and dash options available. 8min is the average time spent on the forecourt in a truck stop service station for a passenger vehicle right now, and 15min is an industry target based on the fact that most people spend less than 20min in the restaurants.
These are incidentally also the target figures of both of the consortium planning fast charging networks within Europe, and the first consortium already has charging stations in place.
At 30 minutes, that isn't possible unless the charger is literally in the parking lot of the restaurant.
The thing about where chargers typically get placed (including Tesla superchargers) is that they are in the parking lots of the restaurants. You see your initial and incorrect assertion is what drives the design basis for picking these locations. People actually DO charge their cars every night. So the majority of fast chargers including Tesla superchargers are in highway locations... in the parking lot of restaurants.
unless charge times drop to almost nothing, there will never be a serious market for cars with only a 100-mile range
The most popular electric car in Europe completely eclipsing the Telsa is the Zoe, and the most popular model has the 22kwh pack with it's whopping 130mile range using NEDC standard, often quoted as being inaccurate and conservative.
I look forward to more children dying in third world countries which have lithium and other rare earths used in the production of batteries and solar cells.
Personally I think we should stick with burning oil. Children dying in the USA from pollution is far more socially acceptable.
Oh and in case you're as stupid as I think you are the above was sarcasm and if you read between the lines I am calling you stupid. So stupid in fact I thought you can't read between the lines and expressly posted it here just so you can't misread my statement.
Feature update downloads that push the satellite Internet connection past the household's monthly data transfer quota and into overage fees.
So turn on metered connection.
Built-in applications, such as Windows Notepad, that cannot preserve unsaved data across an overnight unattended restart.
To be clear you're complaining about data loss from unsaved data over fucking night? Why do you hate your work this much? I mean of all the complaints about Windows I've seen this one a few times and I gotta say, that is petty as fuck!
And you still didn't answer my question, so I'll assume the answer was: "No actually none of the features changes Windows made has negatively affected me, I just like to whine about Windows in the hope of scoring some karma on Slashdot."
Fanboi? No. Fucking thankful? Hell yeah! They have done the world a favour. The "increased productivity" they were advertising when Windows 8 first came out? This is what they were talking about.
Also do you always move goalposts and then cry fanboi when someone calls you out for being wrong? In the words of everyone's least favourite president: "SAD!"
So can you guarantee that any information that MS collects is protected and cannot possibly identify me in any way as to not sacrifice my privacy?
I will only guarantee something if you first guarantee that we keep playing the same sport and that the goal posts don't move around the field randomly to suit your narrative.
Some publicly released updates have BSOD issues
Indeed they have, and now we have a company that has actively held back to try and improve on previous practices and yet all you can do is bitch about it. Good work.
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ICANN and IANA jointly run the root servers. Announce that any TLD registrar that doesn't provide WHOIS service will no longer be listed, and see how many days it takes the EU to fix their law.
Yes because we've all seen how quickly the EU bends over to the whim of Americans. /sarcasm
If there is a conflict between the GDPR and WHOIS, then contrary to popular belief here on Slashdot, this is a flaw in the GDPR.
Why? New time, new law. Something acceptable in the past, not acceptable now and incompatible with some service no one uses anymore doesn't make it "flawed". Specifically take note of the last part. WHOIS is a worthless database full of garbage entries. Hell my own domain's WHOIS entry isn't complaint with ICANN's rules and hasn't been for the past 15 years.
Deep discharging and full charging are hard on batteries
Fortunately there aren't any cars on the market that allow you to do either. Those ratings you hear manufacturers claim are actually quite nice on batteries.
The bottom line is that 100-mile EVs are really quite impractical
Two people at my work drive Twizzys. They have a 60 mile range and the batteries are on a leasing agreement so instantly nullify most of your complaints. Also the most popular EV in Europe with sales properly thrashing Tesla's have a 120mile range. That's NDEC by the way which when compared to the EPA ranges is considered wildly optimistic and you're unlikely to get more than 100miles out of that damn popular car.
Really it's only impractical for an American who measures penis length by car statistics.
That all sounds like a very specific self-referential problem. Just set the registry key to default your ethernet connection as metered and all your problems will disappear and bonus points your objectionable feature becomes less objectionable.
You're welcome.
(By the way, the irony is that every successive feature update has made the automatic update process more flexible and use less data (local download sharing) so the thing you hate is also the one that would drive you to want to update).
Number of people: 5.
Cargo volume: Far more than an american sedan because hatchbacks have a huge amount of space in them.
Multiple trips, can't say I'm not familiar with the concept. Last time I was at Ikea I took home a couch, massive wardrobe, kitchen table, study table, bookshelf, and 4 chairs, and 2 of those wardrobes known for killing toddlers when not installed correctly. Though that day my wife was unable to sit on the passenger seat and sat behind me instead, and I'm not sure I would have made it up to 180km/h while towing a trailer.
And if I ever need to transport a small car in an american gas-guzzler I would simply call a toe truck. I would be able to afford it with all the fuel I save normally.
But please tell me how much I am inconvenienced. I'm genuinely curious.
What you are saying that I'm changing the goal posts when I address a point you brought up. And your answer is? Yes you can guarantee or no you cannot?
No I'm just pointing out that you responded to my point: Data is used and collected in aggregate. Then you raised a separate question on identifying you. To which my answer remains, data is used in aggregate regardless of how much you move the goal posts around. Go to MS's website and lookup the data that is sent. The telemetry collection is published. And then ask yourself if you will be targeted because of it.
So you acknowledge that given the recent history of Windows updates
Of course. But the only reason you think this is relevant is because you're incapable of following a conversation. One which incidentally never said that MS didn't cause a past BSOD, only that they care about not causing them.
Actually no. I don't acknowledge your statement. There's nothing "recent" about it, and there's nothing specifically "windows" about it. And actually the last update that completely hosed one of my systems was caused by running "apt-get dist-upgrade"
but Google doesn't have the integration to order me my usual toothpaste
So what you value in a device is an on demand shopping system rather than a digital assistant.
I don't either, and that makes us the absolutely worst judge of what people want in terms of digital assistants.
No it doesn't. It only makes us a bad judge if we aren't interested in viewing the target market. Interesting too that your friends all have an Alexa. The only person I know with an Alexa is my sister. It's still in the box though because she already has the little ugly Google puck looking thing in her living room (she won the Alexa). I know a lot of people with the Google assistant though (as in the standalone one).
Funny enough their biggest benefit is the complete integration with Google. So while your idea of an assistant is a purchasing doodad, a lot of other people's idea is the integration into the google ecosystem.
But there's one thing everyone can agree on. No one in their right mind uses Cortana for anything :-)
Google may have a lot of data but Amazon has literally HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE working on just Alexa.
Implying that Google's assistant is just some programmers side hobby?
Implying that throwing people at something solves a data set / deep learning problem?
Honestly I fail to see how you got to your conclusion and while I can't find numbers I will eat my hat if Google doesn't have several times the number of people in the deep learning field working on everything from natural language analysis to how to integrate answers together in relevant results as Amazon.
You forget that analysing data and serving up results is their core business, whether in search, in google assistant, or to customers of its advertising business.
Why not just build an idiot detector? By the way, measure the primary variable of interest. No one gives a crap where the driver is sitting, but rather is the driver in control. These cars already have steering wheel sensors.
But they are actually quite easy to fool: https://www.gizmodo.com.au/201...
Funny thing: My car beeps madly if the driver isn't wearing a seatbelt. Last time I picked up my car from the parking service at the airport I got in to discover the passenger seatbelt stretched across and clipped into the driver's seatbelt retainer.
The only thing sadder than the effort idiots go to is the companies which enable them: https://thetikit.com/
Most of the readers of this site understand how well, that is, not well, such a feature works in reality when it comes to dealing with the infinite complexities of driving.
And most of the readers here will understand that the highway is literally the simplest case, that this person didn't cause an accident, that cars have basically autonomously driven themselves down highways for millions of miles, and funny enough that this isn't the first case of this happening. Hell the first case wasn't even a Tesla. I saw this a few years ago on youtube. Strap a bottle to the steering wheel of a Mercedes S class, enable steering assist, and then the guy jumped into the passenger seat to prove his point.
My point is: Most of the readers of this site would be quite comfortable letting a car drive itself on a highway and understand that it is literally one of the least complex scenarios on the road.
In this modern age of hold your hand safety features, why exactly doesn't this thing have a seat weight sensor?
Because putting a sensor in for every idiotic thing idiots can do isn't exactly financially viable, and an idiot sensor doesn't exist.
Plus, all you'll do is breed a better idiot as a result.
People could, longer term, change their habits
What's the use case? Overpriced, poor quality food with limited selection for a long sit down meal in favour of getting to your destination faster and having a nice enjoyable meal?
Getting people to change their habits is just another impediment which is exactly why consortium like Ultra-e are pushing the sub 15min fillup in the first place.
So are Tesla mind you. V3 superchargers are going to start at 350kW when they come out. Until then Porche and ABB have beaten Tesla to market. But the real question is, who will be first to market with a car that can charge at that rate? The Mission E comes out in 2019.
Personally I take my time already anyway. Workplace safety drummed in my head to take a break every 2 hours and reset the brain, but the vast majority of people are waay to impatient for that.
So, they got a bunch of people to sign up for 1-year plans, then changed the plan. How's this legal?
It's not. But since this is 'muerika there won't be some government consumer advocacy body fighting the good fight, rather it will be up to a few little guys to take these douchebags to court.
but, right now, it's just words,
This is something that everyone seems to have forgotten. The red vs blue armies are so quick to shout "Trump is awesome" and "This is not Trump's doing we're lucky we're not at war" to realise what has actually happened:
Two leaders had dinner and smiled at a camera.
And that was it.
At this point, it seems like the anti-trumpers would have been happier with another war or three.
Don't worry, by all accounts that is still coming.
Please, just get F.lux!
Because I have too much karma I'm going to say: Or just update to the latest version of Windows 10 which includes this feature natively :-)
Its the blue light, not the stressing about peoples thoughts on your current instabookshite, not the being interrupted at 11pm with a work message, not
stressing about your mortgage, not worrying if you can survive in the 'gig' economy.
This is a European study not an American study. Very few people stress about any of the above crap over here.
I get 47mpg on my stock standard 10 year old gasoline car. No hybrid drive train, no high efficiency diesel.
*I said 48mpg in a reply above, but that was a rounding error.
50mpg is not a realistic number for fuel consumption on anything you'd be willing to buy
My 10 year old piece of shit gets 48mpg and it's not a hybrid or diesel. I still have no problem doing 180km/h down the autobahn so it's plenty powerful enough. Maybe you rightwingnutjobs just need to get your head out of your arses.
regardless of global warming theories.
I like this. It's the "what if we make a better world for nothing" approach. I live in a cold part of the world. I would love it if this place got warmer. But even if I were some arsehole who didn't care about others I would still support reduction in energy use and adoption of clean technology.
Why?
I'm sick of the smell and garbage. Cities smell of diesel and petrol fumes. The scooters tearing down the path leave a cloud in their wake. Garbage bins are overflowing with disposed of bottles of drinking water bought by people who are too precious to use the drinking fountains found everywhere.
If you think man made global warming is a myth there are plenty of other reasons to support a change for the better.
With such a short range, you don't really have much choice but to charge your car every night when you get home
To be clear are you saying that people don't charge their car every night at home? Because that would be a significant difference to observations to date of electric car owners.
Tesla's charge times (except when the supercharger is full and you have to wait behind four or five cars just to start charging, like you do in most of the Bay Area) are actually pretty much in the sweet spot
Not even remotely. The sweet spot it 8-15minutes. The vast majority of road users don't sit down at a restaurant even on long road trips which is also why the vast majority of service stations partner with fast food or deli style restaurants rather than actual meals. Those places which do also offer meals see a very small sale of those compared to the grab and dash options available. 8min is the average time spent on the forecourt in a truck stop service station for a passenger vehicle right now, and 15min is an industry target based on the fact that most people spend less than 20min in the restaurants.
These are incidentally also the target figures of both of the consortium planning fast charging networks within Europe, and the first consortium already has charging stations in place.
At 30 minutes, that isn't possible unless the charger is literally in the parking lot of the restaurant.
The thing about where chargers typically get placed (including Tesla superchargers) is that they are in the parking lots of the restaurants. You see your initial and incorrect assertion is what drives the design basis for picking these locations. People actually DO charge their cars every night. So the majority of fast chargers including Tesla superchargers are in highway locations... in the parking lot of restaurants.
unless charge times drop to almost nothing, there will never be a serious market for cars with only a 100-mile range
The most popular electric car in Europe completely eclipsing the Telsa is the Zoe, and the most popular model has the 22kwh pack with it's whopping 130mile range using NEDC standard, often quoted as being inaccurate and conservative.
I look forward to more children dying in third world countries which have lithium and other rare earths used in the production of batteries and solar cells.
Personally I think we should stick with burning oil. Children dying in the USA from pollution is far more socially acceptable.
Oh and in case you're as stupid as I think you are the above was sarcasm and if you read between the lines I am calling you stupid. So stupid in fact I thought you can't read between the lines and expressly posted it here just so you can't misread my statement.
Feature update downloads that push the satellite Internet connection past the household's monthly data transfer quota and into overage fees.
So turn on metered connection.
Built-in applications, such as Windows Notepad, that cannot preserve unsaved data across an overnight unattended restart.
To be clear you're complaining about data loss from unsaved data over fucking night? Why do you hate your work this much? I mean of all the complaints about Windows I've seen this one a few times and I gotta say, that is petty as fuck!
And you still didn't answer my question, so I'll assume the answer was: "No actually none of the features changes Windows made has negatively affected me, I just like to whine about Windows in the hope of scoring some karma on Slashdot."
Fanboi? No. Fucking thankful? Hell yeah! They have done the world a favour. The "increased productivity" they were advertising when Windows 8 first came out? This is what they were talking about.
Also do you always move goalposts and then cry fanboi when someone calls you out for being wrong? In the words of everyone's least favourite president: "SAD!"
So can you guarantee that any information that MS collects is protected and cannot possibly identify me in any way as to not sacrifice my privacy?
I will only guarantee something if you first guarantee that we keep playing the same sport and that the goal posts don't move around the field randomly to suit your narrative.
Some publicly released updates have BSOD issues
Indeed they have, and now we have a company that has actively held back to try and improve on previous practices and yet all you can do is bitch about it. Good work.
Now if only it were hooked up to something nice it may be worth listening to.
By the way I'm taking a dig at your choice of sound system, not your choice of Airport. That thing was* just fine.
*It is completely outclassed by the competition these days.