Like that sleeping guy that the police chased down the highway at 70 mph a few days ago ?
We know very little about that sleeping guy. We do know a lot about Teslas, for example that 30 second warning, and 2 minute to abort auto drive is currently based on torque on the steering wheel. It is something easily defeated at present (not just on Tesla's, look up youtube videos of people stickytaping coke cans to their steering wheel), and would be inactive for something as simple as falling asleep while resting your hand at the bottom of the steering wheel.
30 seconds no input before starting to stop, from 2 minutes before, and never before that ? I don't think that's right and also more variables are involved.
According to the manual the only variables involved that affect the driver is the steering wheel torque and the process is also described. The numbers I found from google search and aren't listed in the operations manual.
They are working on more variables. It's one of the reasons the new Model 3 has a (presently unused) driver facing IR camera, steering wheel torque is a poor and easily defeated mechanism to detect driver attentiveness.
I'm looking forward to Apple turning off iMessage in Australia to make a point.
So is everyone else. Finally we can get rid of that shithouse system that takes over your SMS ability and locks you in to Apple without requiring a convoluted way to switch out.
Btw SMS is incredibly popular in Australia so few people would miss iMessage. You want an example that makes an impact, WhatsApp in Brazil, West Europe, or India would actually have an affect.
Stopping with a carload of boys to charge for 2 hours along the way is... not going to sell cars.
Two things: 1) The outdated idea that it will take 2 hours to charge your car. Even now in under an hour your X would be almost full, and that's not considering the larger superchargers that are going in everywhere. 2) Why do you subject your poor scouts to such a long trip without a break? It's not healthy to be cramped in a car that long, and it certainly goes against all safety recommendations for driving such distances for a driver. If we can take a bus full of kids on a 12 hour road trip stopping several times for lunch for an hour at a time I'm sure your Model X would be more than suitable.
I just remember and old VW commercial advertising its clean desiel cars. And they were making fun of hybrids because they were less cool because they didn’t loud engine noise.
It's interesting seeing car adverts from companies currently, especially in different markets. Driving around Germany listening to the radio and then giving someone a lift with a Dutch mobile phone with Spotify installed:
Smart advert on German Radio summarised: "Times are changing, in the future electric will be the only thing on the market. Buy a Smart Fortwo Diesel while they are still available." Smart advert on Dutch Spotify summarised: "Times are changing, and so are we. Buy a Smart EQ Fortwo Electric today!"
The trick is to do this intelligentally to limit charging to overnight rather than just as people get home. Demand is highest right when people get home. For this we need somewhat intelligent chargers / power supplies because people are inherently lazy.
This. I know someone who recently bought a Mercedes E63 with it's 600bhp because he said he's worried the future of cars means they won't go fast anymore and he wanted to experience some real speed and accelelration on the road.
He was genuinely surprised when I pointed out to him that a Telsa has the same top speed (speed limiter on both) and would smoke his E63 on a dragstrip.
The day you forget to recharge your car at home will be a very bad day the next.
Why? Do you routinely drive >150miles per day?
I'm pretty sure I could forget to charge my electric car all week without any real problem. And there's these things called chargers too. At least if my car is dead at home I can do something about it, unlike with my petrol car where I would need a jerry can and a long walk or call AAA.
I would be more concerned about Mercedes. VW at least seems to have been forced to take the situation seriously. Mercedes CEO's are the ones who have openly declared the ICE car and their business will never go away.
While CO2 is wreaking havoc on the planet's climate, it is still a small fraction of air
Huh? CO2? Who cares about CO2. How about reducing NOx emissions in the city, and reducing PM2.5 and PM10 emissions. CO2 isn't reducing my life expectancy.
Funny story, two of my friends from uni now work in different industries. One is literally a brain surgeon, the other is literally a rocket scientist (guidance systems). The rocket scientist always says "It's not brains surgery" The brain surgeon always says "It's not rocket science"
I make it a point to only ask them about problems at their work when they are both standing next to each other. Hillarity ensues.
If the President DOES sign a bill into law or it gets a Super Majority it can STILL be challenged in court where a Judge(s) can strike the law down on constitutional grounds... where is the "democracy" in that? In a democracy the only power a court needs is interpreting the law enough to find people innocence or guilty... definitely not in finding if the law itself is legitimate or not... that is the job of the "democracy" not the courts!
You were on a roll till you got to there. This is still perfectly in line with Democracy of any form given that the courts need to strike something down on "constitutional grounds", a constitution that was written and is maintained and updated in a democratic way.
definitely not in finding if the law itself is legitimate or not...
That is false by definition. The only way a law is illegitimate is if it is incompatible with the law. It's a correction mechanism to ensure that laws are maintained properly in a democractic system. If you want to throw this out then you can throw out the entire justice system as it is entirely based around the interpretation of law.
If you defend the current goal of smartphones as a time-wasting spy device, you are either invested in it, or unaware of the consequences this has on future generations.
Or maybe I am simply refusing to throw the baby out with the bathwater like every other idiotic knee jerk reaction seems to these days. Why are you still here* on Slashdot?
*Posted from a PC using a browser I'm sure is spying on me, on a network I'm sure is spying on me, to a website that has and endless string of analytics social and tracking scripts embedded provided by third parties who make it their business to spy on me.
Do YOU "share" the porn YOU watch, or just watch it?
Just watch it, but you don't understand the Tumblr system. Blogs there are not usually generic often covering very specific content and catering to every fetish known to man (or woman for that matter). That means when you browse and find something you like the easiest way to get updates on that content is to "follow" the poster of the content.
Resharing is irrelevant. "Following" is not. It's the difference between publishing and consuming content.
To draw a comparison to another social media site by looking at sharing you're effectively doing the equivalent of determining who is friends with whom on Facebook purely by looking to see if someone has posted on someone else's wall rather than actually looking at their friend's list.
But what they did ignore are those people who don't have accounts but still browse the site. I'm sure there's lots of porn figures there and they are likely higher than those willing to create accounts for this purpose.
And perhaps more seriously though the study does specially states that the aforementioned 28% are there largely to browse porn. Which at least suggest while that remaining 72% are not there just for the porn we don't know how much of them still do use the site for it's adult content.
Also quite critically this was a study based on the actual user accounts. Given that you don't need an account to browser tumblr and can just as easily fall down the linked rabbit hole from one blog to the next with and without an account it would stand to reason that the "traffic" associated with porn is far larger than what was covered in the study.
Combined with the fact that users typically are less likely to create an account purely for pornographic purposes I do wonder if the number of Tumblr's "readers" consuming porn is far higher than the number of Tumblr "users" in terms of percentages.
Being facetious. That isn't the same as joking. Windows XP is not a viable platform for an internet connected device. MS actually sell a version of Windows designed for ultra low powered IoT devices in mind. It's called Windows 10 IoT Core. 768MB of RAM, and 3GB HDD space are the actual minimum requirements.
This is also going to ignore that you can get a variety of useful Linux distros to run in that footprint or less.
Of course you can get it from other vendors. That isn't the point. Or rather... that is *exactly* my point.
No matter what you say, you can't refute the fact that the US emissions are down, and the Paris Accord participant nations emissions are up.
Didn't refute it. Just like you can't refute that the USA's emissions per capita is much higher than those of the nearly all the rest of the Paris accord participants, and that you're "better off" than they are while acting like an arse expecting them to foot the bill for your early industrialisation.
In english we call that being "privileged"
And that leaves you with nothing but straw man arguments
You not understanding something doesn't make it a strawman. Try to actually read my words rather than coming up with empty non-existing counters.
Speaking of choking and Paris, they are doing a lot of choking in the smoke in the Paris riots.
Since you don't understand what strawman arguments are I guess I probably need to point out to you that you just came up with a "red herring" fallacy. I'm not surprised.
Apparently the Parisians missed the memo
15000 people started a riot. If you think that's significant then you no nothing about France, it's history, and it's culture for rioting and protests. Frankly the protests back when they announced a proposed privatisation of rail were significantly larger and with bigger impact. Hell the protests about pay cuts at Airfrance/KLM were bigger than this entire debacle. But it didn't make for interesting news internationally because nothing was set on fire. Incidentally...
They sent a wake up call to their government which has just announced a moratorium on the new taxes. You should wake up too.
you don't seem to know what they were even protesting about. A few poor disenfranchised people complaining about the cost of living is not a referendum on climate change, nor is it a wakeup call.
That my friend is another logical fallacy argument, just like all the others you've been making all along. I'd give you a +1 consistent moderation if I could.
I also think we've reached a point where a thousand bucks is more than people want to spend on their "cell phone," regardless of how cool it is. My Samsung Galaxy S5 is long in the tooth, so I just replaced it - With an S7 that cost me $225 CAD.
I don't think I'm alone.
You've never been alone. There's always been a market for older / refurbished unit, as well as non-top tier phones. However you are alone in thinking that this is a new trend or a change. People are just as happy to fork out $1000 for a phone as they were in the past for cheaper top tier devices. The difference is *they don't need to*. What does a Galaxy S9 offer over my S7 (a $750 phone at launch)? There's no big driver to upgrade anymore. Android stopped adding killer hardware and referencing that in upgraded APIs many generations ago. The iPhone likewise, the awesome feature of a talking and expressive poo not withstanding of course.
Apple did actually go a bit thicker on some of their latest phones
Get with the times, the thinnest phones came out in 2015. Pretty much every manufacturer has been producing thicker phones for the past 3 generations (not just the latest one, Apple's thinnest phone was the iPhone 6).
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Like that sleeping guy that the police chased down the highway at 70 mph a few days ago ?
We know very little about that sleeping guy. We do know a lot about Teslas, for example that 30 second warning, and 2 minute to abort auto drive is currently based on torque on the steering wheel. It is something easily defeated at present (not just on Tesla's, look up youtube videos of people stickytaping coke cans to their steering wheel), and would be inactive for something as simple as falling asleep while resting your hand at the bottom of the steering wheel.
30 seconds no input before starting to stop, from 2 minutes before, and never before that ? I don't think that's right and also more variables are involved.
According to the manual the only variables involved that affect the driver is the steering wheel torque and the process is also described. The numbers I found from google search and aren't listed in the operations manual.
They are working on more variables. It's one of the reasons the new Model 3 has a (presently unused) driver facing IR camera, steering wheel torque is a poor and easily defeated mechanism to detect driver attentiveness.
I'm looking forward to Apple turning off iMessage in Australia to make a point.
So is everyone else. Finally we can get rid of that shithouse system that takes over your SMS ability and locks you in to Apple without requiring a convoluted way to switch out.
Btw SMS is incredibly popular in Australia so few people would miss iMessage. You want an example that makes an impact, WhatsApp in Brazil, West Europe, or India would actually have an affect.
Stopping with a carload of boys to charge for 2 hours along the way is ... not going to sell cars.
Two things:
1) The outdated idea that it will take 2 hours to charge your car. Even now in under an hour your X would be almost full, and that's not considering the larger superchargers that are going in everywhere.
2) Why do you subject your poor scouts to such a long trip without a break? It's not healthy to be cramped in a car that long, and it certainly goes against all safety recommendations for driving such distances for a driver. If we can take a bus full of kids on a 12 hour road trip stopping several times for lunch for an hour at a time I'm sure your Model X would be more than suitable.
I just remember and old VW commercial advertising its clean desiel cars. And they were making fun of hybrids because they were less cool because they didn’t loud engine noise.
It's interesting seeing car adverts from companies currently, especially in different markets. Driving around Germany listening to the radio and then giving someone a lift with a Dutch mobile phone with Spotify installed:
Smart advert on German Radio summarised: "Times are changing, in the future electric will be the only thing on the market. Buy a Smart Fortwo Diesel while they are still available."
Smart advert on Dutch Spotify summarised: "Times are changing, and so are we. Buy a Smart EQ Fortwo Electric today!"
The trick is to do this intelligentally to limit charging to overnight rather than just as people get home. Demand is highest right when people get home. For this we need somewhat intelligent chargers / power supplies because people are inherently lazy.
Why wouldn't it be?
This. I know someone who recently bought a Mercedes E63 with it's 600bhp because he said he's worried the future of cars means they won't go fast anymore and he wanted to experience some real speed and accelelration on the road.
He was genuinely surprised when I pointed out to him that a Telsa has the same top speed (speed limiter on both) and would smoke his E63 on a dragstrip.
The day you forget to recharge your car at home will be a very bad day the next.
Why? Do you routinely drive >150miles per day?
I'm pretty sure I could forget to charge my electric car all week without any real problem. And there's these things called chargers too. At least if my car is dead at home I can do something about it, unlike with my petrol car where I would need a jerry can and a long walk or call AAA.
If VW does nothing new
I would be more concerned about Mercedes. VW at least seems to have been forced to take the situation seriously. Mercedes CEO's are the ones who have openly declared the ICE car and their business will never go away.
While CO2 is wreaking havoc on the planet's climate, it is still a small fraction of air
Huh? CO2? Who cares about CO2. How about reducing NOx emissions in the city, and reducing PM2.5 and PM10 emissions.
CO2 isn't reducing my life expectancy.
Guess what? They plug up faster and cause the equipment to fail sooner than if it was there or not.
Errr yeah that's the point.
Doesn't matter that they were serviceable/replaceable.
Errr no you entirely missed the point.
Thanks for the design help, guys. 'Coz us engineers have no idea how to design computers.
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Funny story, two of my friends from uni now work in different industries. One is literally a brain surgeon, the other is literally a rocket scientist (guidance systems). The rocket scientist always says "It's not brains surgery"
The brain surgeon always says "It's not rocket science"
I make it a point to only ask them about problems at their work when they are both standing next to each other. Hillarity ensues.
If the President DOES sign a bill into law or it gets a Super Majority it can STILL be challenged in court where a Judge(s) can strike the law down on constitutional grounds... where is the "democracy" in that? In a democracy the only power a court needs is interpreting the law enough to find people innocence or guilty... definitely not in finding if the law itself is legitimate or not... that is the job of the "democracy" not the courts!
You were on a roll till you got to there. This is still perfectly in line with Democracy of any form given that the courts need to strike something down on "constitutional grounds", a constitution that was written and is maintained and updated in a democratic way.
definitely not in finding if the law itself is legitimate or not...
That is false by definition. The only way a law is illegitimate is if it is incompatible with the law. It's a correction mechanism to ensure that laws are maintained properly in a democractic system. If you want to throw this out then you can throw out the entire justice system as it is entirely based around the interpretation of law.
If you defend the current goal of smartphones as a time-wasting spy device, you are either invested in it, or unaware of the consequences this has on future generations.
Or maybe I am simply refusing to throw the baby out with the bathwater like every other idiotic knee jerk reaction seems to these days. Why are you still here* on Slashdot?
*Posted from a PC using a browser I'm sure is spying on me, on a network I'm sure is spying on me, to a website that has and endless string of analytics social and tracking scripts embedded provided by third parties who make it their business to spy on me.
Do YOU "share" the porn YOU watch, or just watch it?
Just watch it, but you don't understand the Tumblr system. Blogs there are not usually generic often covering very specific content and catering to every fetish known to man (or woman for that matter). That means when you browse and find something you like the easiest way to get updates on that content is to "follow" the poster of the content.
Resharing is irrelevant. "Following" is not. It's the difference between publishing and consuming content.
To draw a comparison to another social media site by looking at sharing you're effectively doing the equivalent of determining who is friends with whom on Facebook purely by looking to see if someone has posted on someone else's wall rather than actually looking at their friend's list.
But what they did ignore are those people who don't have accounts but still browse the site. I'm sure there's lots of porn figures there and they are likely higher than those willing to create accounts for this purpose.
I didnt know
You've been living under a rock?
... are just too shy to admit it.
And perhaps more seriously though the study does specially states that the aforementioned 28% are there largely to browse porn. Which at least suggest while that remaining 72% are not there just for the porn we don't know how much of them still do use the site for it's adult content.
Also quite critically this was a study based on the actual user accounts. Given that you don't need an account to browser tumblr and can just as easily fall down the linked rabbit hole from one blog to the next with and without an account it would stand to reason that the "traffic" associated with porn is far larger than what was covered in the study.
Combined with the fact that users typically are less likely to create an account purely for pornographic purposes I do wonder if the number of Tumblr's "readers" consuming porn is far higher than the number of Tumblr "users" in terms of percentages.
Why don't we just remove copyright protection completely for porn
A good portion of this is simply Tumblr linking to existing pictures online.
then there will be no motivation to create more of it
Please cite an example for where this has worked for anything ever.
Don't know why people think I'm stupid when I suggest that...
The mind that created a problem can't not solve the problem. It's no surprise why you don't know why.
Okay honey, let me go pass a law to make them exist for you.
"Kingston A1000 M.2 2280 480GB PCI-Express 3.0 x2 3D TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SA1000M8/480G"
"Intel Optane M.2 2280 32GB PCIe NVMe 3.0 x2 Memory Module/System Accelerator MEMPEK1W032GAXT"
One has a product name (the single most important component of marketing) called SSD the other has a product name called memory module.
I'm done. You've displayed enough ignroance for one day.
Being facetious. That isn't the same as joking. Windows XP is not a viable platform for an internet connected device. MS actually sell a version of Windows designed for ultra low powered IoT devices in mind. It's called Windows 10 IoT Core. 768MB of RAM, and 3GB HDD space are the actual minimum requirements.
This is also going to ignore that you can get a variety of useful Linux distros to run in that footprint or less.
Of course you can get it from other vendors. That isn't the point. Or rather ... that is *exactly* my point.
No matter what you say, you can't refute the fact that the US emissions are down, and the Paris Accord participant nations emissions are up.
Didn't refute it. Just like you can't refute that the USA's emissions per capita is much higher than those of the nearly all the rest of the Paris accord participants, and that you're "better off" than they are while acting like an arse expecting them to foot the bill for your early industrialisation.
In english we call that being "privileged"
And that leaves you with nothing but straw man arguments
You not understanding something doesn't make it a strawman. Try to actually read my words rather than coming up with empty non-existing counters.
Speaking of choking and Paris, they are doing a lot of choking in the smoke in the Paris riots.
Since you don't understand what strawman arguments are I guess I probably need to point out to you that you just came up with a "red herring" fallacy. I'm not surprised.
Apparently the Parisians missed the memo
15000 people started a riot. If you think that's significant then you no nothing about France, it's history, and it's culture for rioting and protests. Frankly the protests back when they announced a proposed privatisation of rail were significantly larger and with bigger impact. Hell the protests about pay cuts at Airfrance/KLM were bigger than this entire debacle. But it didn't make for interesting news internationally because nothing was set on fire. Incidentally...
They sent a wake up call to their government which has just announced a moratorium on the new taxes. You should wake up too.
you don't seem to know what they were even protesting about. A few poor disenfranchised people complaining about the cost of living is not a referendum on climate change, nor is it a wakeup call.
That my friend is another logical fallacy argument, just like all the others you've been making all along. I'd give you a +1 consistent moderation if I could.
Yeah just like the computer is called the slow adder, because while it computes the user still can't add numbers together quickly.
Seriously who modded up that drivel.
I also think we've reached a point where a thousand bucks is more than people want to spend on their "cell phone," regardless of how cool it is. My Samsung Galaxy S5 is long in the tooth, so I just replaced it - With an S7 that cost me $225 CAD.
I don't think I'm alone.
You've never been alone. There's always been a market for older / refurbished unit, as well as non-top tier phones. However you are alone in thinking that this is a new trend or a change. People are just as happy to fork out $1000 for a phone as they were in the past for cheaper top tier devices. The difference is *they don't need to*. What does a Galaxy S9 offer over my S7 (a $750 phone at launch)? There's no big driver to upgrade anymore. Android stopped adding killer hardware and referencing that in upgraded APIs many generations ago. The iPhone likewise, the awesome feature of a talking and expressive poo not withstanding of course.
Apple did actually go a bit thicker on some of their latest phones
Get with the times, the thinnest phones came out in 2015. Pretty much every manufacturer has been producing thicker phones for the past 3 generations (not just the latest one, Apple's thinnest phone was the iPhone 6).