That's a ridiculous interpretation, because the stated goal of the design is to be censorship resistant and private, both which which preclude what you imply China would want.
My initial thought was to allow individual nodes on the network to, for example, block DDOS attacks. You can't have a viable network without any control mechanisms, because it has to be resistant to bad actors. Bad actors can be people trying to censor or people trying to deny you service or attacking your systems.
In the Leaf, if you charge all the way up and there is some battery degradation, the display will show less than the full 12 bars of capacity. A few people have managed to lose a bar or two.
It will be different in other EVs, but having driven a few they all seem to have plenty of data on the battery available. When I get my Leaf serviced they also give me a report on the battery. There is also an app (LeafSpy) that talks to a Bluetooth OBD-II dongle that can give you precise information on the Leaf battery, and I've seen similar ones for other vehicles.
As such I think there is actually far less to worry about than with an ICE car. No exhaust, no catalytic converter/emissions, no belts, no radiator, no oil, no gearbox, no spark plugs, no fuel pump, no fuel injectors etc. It's much easier to check that there are no surprises or expensive repairs looming.
Most, if not all EVs, won't let you discharge the battery below safe levels. For example, the original Leaf had a 24KWh battery, but you could only actually use about 22KWh of energy from it at most. Then the car would shut down and prevent you doing any damage. Naturally the remaining battery % and range displays were calibrated to account for that.
Older Leafs have a special 80% charge mode that stops charging at, you guessed it, 80%. It was called "long life mode". The newer ones don't have it, Nissan realized that it was pointless. In fact, those taxi firms I mentioned have been doing multiple rapid charges every day, followed by a 100% charge over night.
I actually miss the 80% charge option, simply because when you charge to 100% the regen doesn't work for the first few kilometres. I like having the regen on high as you can pretty much drive with just the accelerator, rarely needing to use the actual brake. The new Leaf, due in September, takes that to the next level with a "one pedal mode" that will bring the car to a full stop if you come off the gas completely.
EV batteries last the lifetime of the car anyway. By the time the battery is worn out, the car will have fallen apart around it.
Taxi companies have Leafs with over 200k miles and >80% remaining. Some Tesla owners are over 400k with the same.
If you can get a home charger and the range is okay, used EV, especially a Leaf, is a great cheap car. Maintenance is low, fuel costs are low, and the buy price is ridiculously low.
I know I've defended Poettering in the past, but lately I've come to think that he is a right pillock. systemd badly needs somehow who understands security and who can get these issues the attention they deserve.
The only thing it really lacks is the speedo in front of the driver. Other cars are similar, like the Mini with the speedo in the centre. With an EV you get much less feedback about your speed though, due to having no engine noise or big variation in torque as you move up and down the gear ranges. The design of the Leaf speedo is brilliant in that respect.
A tacho wouldn't really make sense on an EV. It would just show a linear increase with speed, as most just have a fixed reduction gear. Effectively it's a speedo with a different scale.
Maybe the closest equivalent in an EV is the power meter.
The interior is well designed, spacious like a Japanese car and with lots of storage spaces. The videos people are posting show it's well made, better than the S and X. It's clean and simple, easy to maintain and attractive.
The display is a daylight readable anti-reflection coated. The screens in the S and X don't have issues with readability.
To be fair, it doesn't greatly deminish the usefulness of smart guns if magnets and other equipment are needed. Chances of a kid figuring it all out, or an attacker bothering to bring that stuff just on the off-chance they grab your gun are pretty low.
Smart guns need to be evaluated statistically, not with fantasy scenarios. If it makes the chance of accidental injury/death 70% lower while only reducing effectiveness by 5%, it's probably with doing. If it's more like 30/30 then I imagine it won't be acceptable to a lot of people.
In most European countries you have to use reasonable force. If they are unarmed, if they try to leave when discovered, you can't try to kill them. You can't even attack them, you have to let them go, even if they are carrying your stuff.
In most developed countries it's very rare for burglary to involve violence. Thieves generally try to avoid meeting the owner, for their own safety, but if they do they are usually unarmed.
What is it about the US that makes it so dangerous? Other countries have high gun ownership...
Would be interesting to see a study comparing the results of "hard nosed" don't-give-a-shit VPs to ones who feel a small amount of compassion. I have a feeling that the latter would ultimately do better.
The problem with Gab is that it's filtering doesn't deal with most important use cases.
You can block users and keywords. How does that help you when a mob is coming at you, or a troll keeps making new accounts? How does it help when someone doxxes you?
Some people like 4chan, but at least on there most posts are anonymous. On Gab your account gives the trolls a target.
Doesn't really make sense because you only see stuff from people you follow on your Twitter feed. Okay, they might re-tweet stuff from others, but presumably you follow them because they have similar taste or post interesting stuff.
I find Twitter has a lot less random bullshit than Facebook, for example. And the people I follow post interesting stuff.
Actually, there are limits on the loudness of concerts and clubs in the EU. They are still really loud, but the level has been set where it's judged that occasional exposure won't damage your hearing. And staff working there must be provided with protection, e.g. ear plugs.
It's about striking a balance. In the case of loud music, it's the reason everyone has to go there and the hearing damage can be effectively managed, with protection available for staff. Smoking is something that only a minority enjoy, and which there is little we can do it mitigate the damage from, especially for staff who can't avoid long term exposure without wearing heavy air filtration masks.
"the increased concentration of toxicants from SHA over background levels poses an increased risk for the health of all bystanders"
(SHA = Second Hand Aerosol)
Ignoring the annoyance of people vaping in confined areas, it comes down to the health benefit to the smoker vs. the health damage done to people forced to breath their second hand vapour.
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That's a ridiculous interpretation, because the stated goal of the design is to be censorship resistant and private, both which which preclude what you imply China would want.
My initial thought was to allow individual nodes on the network to, for example, block DDOS attacks. You can't have a viable network without any control mechanisms, because it has to be resistant to bad actors. Bad actors can be people trying to censor or people trying to deny you service or attacking your systems.
In the Leaf, if you charge all the way up and there is some battery degradation, the display will show less than the full 12 bars of capacity. A few people have managed to lose a bar or two.
It will be different in other EVs, but having driven a few they all seem to have plenty of data on the battery available. When I get my Leaf serviced they also give me a report on the battery. There is also an app (LeafSpy) that talks to a Bluetooth OBD-II dongle that can give you precise information on the Leaf battery, and I've seen similar ones for other vehicles.
As such I think there is actually far less to worry about than with an ICE car. No exhaust, no catalytic converter/emissions, no belts, no radiator, no oil, no gearbox, no spark plugs, no fuel pump, no fuel injectors etc. It's much easier to check that there are no surprises or expensive repairs looming.
Most, if not all EVs, won't let you discharge the battery below safe levels. For example, the original Leaf had a 24KWh battery, but you could only actually use about 22KWh of energy from it at most. Then the car would shut down and prevent you doing any damage. Naturally the remaining battery % and range displays were calibrated to account for that.
Older Leafs have a special 80% charge mode that stops charging at, you guessed it, 80%. It was called "long life mode". The newer ones don't have it, Nissan realized that it was pointless. In fact, those taxi firms I mentioned have been doing multiple rapid charges every day, followed by a 100% charge over night.
I actually miss the 80% charge option, simply because when you charge to 100% the regen doesn't work for the first few kilometres. I like having the regen on high as you can pretty much drive with just the accelerator, rarely needing to use the actual brake. The new Leaf, due in September, takes that to the next level with a "one pedal mode" that will bring the car to a full stop if you come off the gas completely.
EV batteries last the lifetime of the car anyway. By the time the battery is worn out, the car will have fallen apart around it.
Taxi companies have Leafs with over 200k miles and >80% remaining. Some Tesla owners are over 400k with the same.
If you can get a home charger and the range is okay, used EV, especially a Leaf, is a great cheap car. Maintenance is low, fuel costs are low, and the buy price is ridiculously low.
Standards like CHAdeMO and CCS allow the vehicle to tell the charger what voltage to produce and query the maximum available current.
The chargers use switch mode power supplies too convert AC to DC with high efficiency. They can produce a wide range of voltages.
Maybe some of them could be used for CCTV. The cheaper cameras user coax.
systemd does have many benefits. What is needed is a fork, that by virtue of being so much better eventually becomes the primary version.
I know I've defended Poettering in the past, but lately I've come to think that he is a right pillock. systemd badly needs somehow who understands security and who can get these issues the attention they deserve.
The only thing it really lacks is the speedo in front of the driver. Other cars are similar, like the Mini with the speedo in the centre. With an EV you get much less feedback about your speed though, due to having no engine noise or big variation in torque as you move up and down the gear ranges. The design of the Leaf speedo is brilliant in that respect.
A tacho wouldn't really make sense on an EV. It would just show a linear increase with speed, as most just have a fixed reduction gear. Effectively it's a speedo with a different scale.
Maybe the closest equivalent in an EV is the power meter.
Most of the AV companies offer a free, stand alone scanner that doesn't need installation. Grab a couple of those and run them periodically.
The interior is well designed, spacious like a Japanese car and with lots of storage spaces. The videos people are posting show it's well made, better than the S and X. It's clean and simple, easy to maintain and attractive.
The display is a daylight readable anti-reflection coated. The screens in the S and X don't have issues with readability.
I don't have any numbers, I'm describing the methodology.
I'm not surprised that the most high tech, all electric, legacy free car is the most popular on a tech news site.
To be fair, it doesn't greatly deminish the usefulness of smart guns if magnets and other equipment are needed. Chances of a kid figuring it all out, or an attacker bothering to bring that stuff just on the off-chance they grab your gun are pretty low.
Smart guns need to be evaluated statistically, not with fantasy scenarios. If it makes the chance of accidental injury/death 70% lower while only reducing effectiveness by 5%, it's probably with doing. If it's more like 30/30 then I imagine it won't be acceptable to a lot of people.
In most European countries you have to use reasonable force. If they are unarmed, if they try to leave when discovered, you can't try to kill them. You can't even attack them, you have to let them go, even if they are carrying your stuff.
In most developed countries it's very rare for burglary to involve violence. Thieves generally try to avoid meeting the owner, for their own safety, but if they do they are usually unarmed.
What is it about the US that makes it so dangerous? Other countries have high gun ownership...
Would be interesting to see a study comparing the results of "hard nosed" don't-give-a-shit VPs to ones who feel a small amount of compassion. I have a feeling that the latter would ultimately do better.
What advantages does FreeBSD have for desktop use? I've used it on servers for decades but always used Linux for desktop.
The problem with Gab is that it's filtering doesn't deal with most important use cases.
You can block users and keywords. How does that help you when a mob is coming at you, or a troll keeps making new accounts? How does it help when someone doxxes you?
Some people like 4chan, but at least on there most posts are anonymous. On Gab your account gives the trolls a target.
Doesn't really make sense because you only see stuff from people you follow on your Twitter feed. Okay, they might re-tweet stuff from others, but presumably you follow them because they have similar taste or post interesting stuff.
I find Twitter has a lot less random bullshit than Facebook, for example. And the people I follow post interesting stuff.
Gonna need citations for both of those rather extraordinary claims.
Actually, there are limits on the loudness of concerts and clubs in the EU. They are still really loud, but the level has been set where it's judged that occasional exposure won't damage your hearing. And staff working there must be provided with protection, e.g. ear plugs.
It's about striking a balance. In the case of loud music, it's the reason everyone has to go there and the hearing damage can be effectively managed, with protection available for staff. Smoking is something that only a minority enjoy, and which there is little we can do it mitigate the damage from, especially for staff who can't avoid long term exposure without wearing heavy air filtration masks.
The World Health Organization says that passive vaping is probably bad for you: http://www.who.int/fctc/cop/co...
"the increased concentration of toxicants from SHA over background levels poses an increased risk for the health of all bystanders"
(SHA = Second Hand Aerosol)
Ignoring the annoyance of people vaping in confined areas, it comes down to the health benefit to the smoker vs. the health damage done to people forced to breath their second hand vapour.
Why would I give a fuck whether the guy burns out after he tripled my money?
Well, the stats say that that you would probably make more money if there was a woman on the team. The reason why is just speculation.
Great attitude, by the way, really showing the humanity towards your fellow human beings there.