I can tell you don't really understand what's going on with Mr. Limbaugh.... The first thing EVERYBODY needs to understand about him is that he is an entertainer. Though he discusses politics, He's not a pollination. Though he talks about the news he's not a reporter. He is an entertainer, he's not the leader of the republican party or a "pied piper of the right" as he jokes about.
So I find it amusing when folks try to make him into something he's not. So does he.
Which is why the GW advocates should not make "The weather will get bad" pronouncements because they cannot know.
I remember all the "More severe weather" forecasts being made by the advocates back when Al Gore made his movie, problem is, just about every prediction of dire consequences has not happened. Observations have been both exactly the opposite of the predictions, and/or not anywhere as severe as expected.
Problem is though, that the GW advocates need to create some kind of crisis or nobody will care and their addenda cannot go forward, so every hurricane or drought is held up as "Proof" of GW, while the truth is, the weather has always changed over time. The knife cuts both ways though, every time there is an unusually cold winter, we laugh at the GW conferences attendees sloshing though the snow to get to their convention...
I don't listen to all three hours a day, but I've listed to Rush over the last two decades and with few exceptions he hasn't changed positions on much... He does parody stuff, illustrating the logical failings of those who oppose his view, and sometimes this is quoted like he changed position. If you actually listen to the show and not the pull quotes about the show, it's usually obvious what he's doing. Of course, those who intend to defame him, don't really care what he really means.
Still don't believe me? All you got to do is go back and read his books and listen to him for a few hours to know that he hasn't changed all that much....
I wonder how this will affect Microsoft's stock price?
Like layoffs usually do. Short term the price will rise because profits will be up in the short term. Long term is anybodies guess.
But, I'd be quick to point out that this "layoff" is NOT public information, as in it hasn't been announced by the company. Where it makes sense for them to do this, it could be somebody doing a pump and dump scheme with Microsoft stock. So, if you have some mad money in BitCoin that you wanted to take another chance with, feel free to buy Microsoft stock on this, just don't do it with money you need to live on as it could be a planted story to manipulate the stock price.
I didn't say it was a perfect solution, but that it was the only viable one. The alternative is to just ignore borders and let the governments run ram-shod over each other with the companies stuck in the middle. But if a company is "moving" records to avoid having to disclose them, that's quite a bit different. Penalties should be severe and swift if the court finds evidence of doing this after they should have known the data was of interest because this is similar to destroying evidence. In that case. The company would have a choice, go with the severe sanctions of the court, or repatriate the evidence and turn it over.
Perhaps some treaties could be drafted (if they don't exist already) that provide a means for getting evidence from foreign soil using THEIR court system and rules while providing them access to evidence located here though our legal system. That way everybody could protect their laws and still have means of getting evidence from companies and individuals who are over seas.
No, even this is not perfect, but it's a whole lot better than ignoring borders and just trying to steam roll folks into providing foreign data by twisting their legal arms, especially if said data has never bin IN the country.
I was thinking that having stereo input and high bit rates would make the Pi a pretty good Software Defined Radio platform. It might not have though raw compute power to do much in the SDR world, but surely it could do many of the standard sound card digital modes us Amateur Radio operators do. Having the Pi would make a "digital mode" radio pretty cheap to do. Hams like cheap... (well some do..)
I was thinking of pairing the hypothetical audio enhanced Pi with one of the "Soft Rock" SDR radios sold by Tony Parks (KB9YIG)
And seeing if we could get a usable SDR receiver for under $100 and a l low power transceiver for about $150 plus the monitor, keyboard etc.
I believe that Microsoft is right to claim the US government doesn't have jurisdiction over data stored outside of the United States. There simply MUST be a clear distinction maintained over where something is located, or country borders don't mean anything. If law enforcement in one country can force the production of evidence located in another country, then it's a free for all and borders have no meaning.
For instance... Lets say that a country (not the USA) has strict privacy laws about data collected and stored digitally and how it can be used. Lets say that they strictly forbid the sharing of specific kinds of data without written consent from the individual the data is about. If Microsoft operates in that country and collects data from it's users and then receives a court order for data from the USA for data stored in the country with strict privacy laws, what is Microsoft to do? Violate the court order and obey the laws under which the data was collected and stored OR violate the laws of another country? If borders mean ANYTHING, Microsoft must obey the local laws of the countries they operate in. So if the data is not here in the USA, the USA cannot force production of the data though the courts.
I understand that this is rife for abuse because it allows the hiding of criminal evidence overseas where it is beyond direct USA reach, but there are processes to obtain such evidence though diplomatic and international law enforcement channels in place. For Civil litigation, there are ways to work though other countries legal systems (albeit inconvenient and expensive ones). So, where I get there are problems, we really cannot just unilaterally decide we have the authority to demand a company produce data held overseas and force them hand over evidence which is not within our borders.
Finally, there is the "How would you feel if somebody did it to you?" test. Let's say the US was where the data was located and some other country was demanding that the data be sent back to them and felt they could enforce their will within the USA.... Would we not feel offended? I dare say we would.
With the existing LAN connection being USB based, I don't think they will fix this for you anytime soon.
If you wanted to go Fast Ethernet (100BT) then there are loads of options for you at this price point, many which can be had for next to nothing at garage sales if you know what you are looking for. Finding some used router that can run OpenWRT (or other firmware) will serve you much better than a Pi for any application I can imagine where you'd need two Gigabit NICs.
I'd love one with two Ethernet interfaces. Small boards with duel Ethernet seem pretty rare. Anybody know of one?
Just go get a USB Ethernet dongle and a USB hub if you don't have enough ports. The "on board" Ethernet is USB based to start with, so the rate limit of the USB port shouldn't be an issue....
I'm just wondering... Why do you want multiple NIC's? You building a router or firewall? If so, skip the Pi and pick up a cheap router that you can run OpenWRT (or some other distribution). You will be happier. Not that the Pi is a bad choice, I just think you'd get better results for a router/firewall using something else.
But my point that open systems require maintenance remains.... Manufacturers are not out to build things that last longer, just long enough, preferably without maintenance. 100K miles is way past the warranty running out and way past the point where the original owner has sold your average car and moved on. As a manufacturer, what would YOU do? Put something in that lasted forever but required maintenance every 3K miles or it wears out in short order, or go with the maintenance free option that usually makes it to 100K miles? To me, the choice is easy, you go with the reliable option that doesn't require maintenance. It's what your customer wants.
Where I cannot argue with your outline of the F35's faults, we really have no choice but to keep the aircraft in production. The F35 suffers from trying to be to many things, but there are no other options, at least options that are viable.
Not in the least, it works fine, just like my 65 VW bug still runs and I can use it to get to work...Rebuilding the engine and replacing the avionics doesn't change that the airframe design is 34 years old, just like rebuilding the engine in my bug, straightening and painting the fenders doesn't make it a new car.
What I'm saying is that the F-18 is getting old. Both in terms of the average age of the airframes we have and in terms of design limitations imposed by being 30 years old.
The F-22 is about air superiority and it is not built for close air support or other roles envisioned for the F-35. The F-22 is also insanely expensive per unit compared to the F-35. On both accounts, strike the F22 from this list..
The rest are foreign built, so where they may be fully capable for the mission, they are politically impossible to buy. (You'd never get funding for congress to buy any of them.) So strike those..
The F-35 is the only option left, which makes it the "Only game in town" right now..
Where a Tesla has similar components and designs as other cars, the front suspension is going to be totally different than 90% of other sedans it's size. The Tesla Model S is rear wheel drive, which is a departure from the normal front wheel drive for most other cars. I'm sure they omitted the CV joints/boots and half shafts from the front end. So, where the design may be classic, it's not all that common any more.
But more importantly, manufacturers have abandoned the use of grease fittings in most cars decades ago. They never got greased and everything fell apart faster. Not to mention that it is more convenient and maintenance free to have a sealed system. One could argue that sealed systems are less prone to wear because the dust and grit cannot get in and the grease cannot get out, but I'll skip making the obvious point. Go ahead and drill and insert grease fittings if it makes you feel better, just don't try to sell the car to me, I don't want a mess like that.
The F18 is 30 years old, which is like 120 in fighter aircraft years. We flew the F-86 Saber only 20 years, the F-4 phantom flew 20 (as a fighter), and these are the grey beards of the fighter world from the past. The F-18 is a fine platform, to be sure, but like it or not, it's getting really old for what it does.
Is your claim that the airframes are reaching their service life and need to be replaced by new builds, or are you claiming that an aircraft design undergoes some sort of senility independent of remaning service life?
Please explain why, for example, a new build F-15 or F-18, with 21st century enhancements, would be in adequate to do its job today if that is your argument.
Both are true. We have a fleet of aging aircraft which are slated to be replaced so we are not buying new ones, at least not enough of them to keep pace with retirements. Many of the aircraft are reaching the end of their service life and will need to be retired. This is a slow but steady decline in the fleet and requires that you back fill with new equipment to keep the same force readiness levels.
Also, the F-18 is based on a design that went into production in 1980. That is 34 years ago. Yes there have been improvements and bug fixes over the years but that means that the basis of the airframe is generally 30+ years old. We've rewired, re-engined, replaced avionics and even made structural changes since then, but the base of the aircraft is pretty old. The F-18 will be flying for many decades in the reserves or for other countries. Just look at the history of the F-86 or the F-4 phantom. But the problem is about the nature of war and conflicts.
If everybody has the same weapons, prevailing becomes about attrition and tactics. In a conflict, you want/need to have as many advantages as you can and you never know for sure if your tactics are best until the shooting starts. Unless you can clearly demonstrate that the F35 is less effective as a weapon (and I don't think anybody can) we have to take the upgrade, we have to buy F35's, because the F-18's limits which are fundamental to the 30 year old design are going to show and the playing field will be tilted less in our favor.
So on both grounds, we buy the F-35 wars and all...
I see your point, but I don't think we have time to develop anything else.
OK - I'll bite. Why not?
Is there a major war scheduled we don't want to be late for?
Is there an enemy superpower that will outstrip us militarily in a meaningful way if we don't get this plane fielded ASAP?
The youngest of the aircraft it is replacing went into initial production 34 years ago. That's like 120 years old in fighter aircraft years. The F-86 was in fighter service only 20 years. The planned retirement for the aircraft being replaced is fast approaching and extending that date will be expensive (if not impossible as in the AV8B's case). Could we keep flying what we have? Sure, but we are going to pay in logistics costs and readiness problems, not to mention that many of these aircraft are reaching the end of their airframe lives and will be forced into the scrapyard at higher and higher rates as time goes on.
So it's not a hard and fast, date sure, deadline, but a continued decline of readiness and increased maintenance time and attrition for what we are flying now. And it's time to start buying replacements to stay on plan and keep the mission readiness requirements. At this point, the F-35 is the only game in town, so we buy them, warts and all.
Now you can argue that we don't need to be as ready as we are and that we can stand having a fleet that is less available than previously planned, but neither you nor I are in a position to say with authority either way on that question. But this is really just disarmament, albeit a slower version of it.
We really have no viable choice but to fly the F-35 for now so we need these planes in production.....
It was already argued that we could buy other NATO aircraft that are in production. This option is "viable" even if the U.S. Senators prefer to keep the pork at home.
If you cannot get Congress to fund your "viable" aircraft, it's a non-starter to argue for them. Sorry but the reality of the political situation makes doing what you suggest extremely unlikely to succeed and even if you could prove it would be better and cheaper, your idea will never "fly" so why waste time? You can moan about how this shouldn't be the case, how politics shouldn't decide the question all you want (and I may even agree with you), but it won't change the fact that it does.
If you think the guys at the local quickie lube place is going to know what to do with a Tesla, you are nuts. Most of those guys only have experience with changing oil and usually only for as long as they've worked there. You are lucky if they know "rightie tightie, leftie loosie" and don't cross thread the drain plug putting it back in.
I would suggest you just take it to Tesla and pay them the $600/year to do the maintenance you may need.. In the end it will be cheaper than fixing the mess the oil change places will cause you. If you can afford a Tesla, surely you can afford to keep it maintained...
Actually, the serial numbers are generally NOT tracked much beyond being used by the Federal Reserve to verify a bill is valid and properly monetized. Not that a bank couldn't, which is why the rumors are running about the tin foil hat lobby. If you really care or think they do this, just get cash back on your purchases or cash a check at the bank.. No way they can track that.
Excellent point. What on earth do they mean by "hack"?
You give me a Tesla and a box of tools, I can hack the thing in some interesting way. Perhaps I can make it produce toast and keep your coffee warm.... In today's parlance, that would be a "hack" of a Tesla. I saw a story where a guy "hacked" his Prius by adding his own charging circuits to get more distance out of the battery pack, then figured out that he could run most of his home electronics directly from the 200V DC the battery provided. Billed the car as an emergency power supply of sorts, and a large one at that.
Now if they are asking you to hack the security or systems using only the exposed connection points, that's totally a different thing. Some how this is what I think they mean...
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I can tell you don't really understand what's going on with Mr. Limbaugh.... The first thing EVERYBODY needs to understand about him is that he is an entertainer. Though he discusses politics, He's not a pollination. Though he talks about the news he's not a reporter. He is an entertainer, he's not the leader of the republican party or a "pied piper of the right" as he jokes about.
So I find it amusing when folks try to make him into something he's not. So does he.
Which is why the GW advocates should not make "The weather will get bad" pronouncements because they cannot know.
I remember all the "More severe weather" forecasts being made by the advocates back when Al Gore made his movie, problem is, just about every prediction of dire consequences has not happened. Observations have been both exactly the opposite of the predictions, and/or not anywhere as severe as expected.
Problem is though, that the GW advocates need to create some kind of crisis or nobody will care and their addenda cannot go forward, so every hurricane or drought is held up as "Proof" of GW, while the truth is, the weather has always changed over time. The knife cuts both ways though, every time there is an unusually cold winter, we laugh at the GW conferences attendees sloshing though the snow to get to their convention...
Did you hear that on MSNBC? LOL.
I don't listen to all three hours a day, but I've listed to Rush over the last two decades and with few exceptions he hasn't changed positions on much... He does parody stuff, illustrating the logical failings of those who oppose his view, and sometimes this is quoted like he changed position. If you actually listen to the show and not the pull quotes about the show, it's usually obvious what he's doing. Of course, those who intend to defame him, don't really care what he really means.
Still don't believe me? All you got to do is go back and read his books and listen to him for a few hours to know that he hasn't changed all that much....
As I understand Rush... He is actually claiming that "there is no empirical evidence of MAN MADE global warming."
I wonder how this will affect Microsoft's stock price?
Like layoffs usually do. Short term the price will rise because profits will be up in the short term. Long term is anybodies guess.
But, I'd be quick to point out that this "layoff" is NOT public information, as in it hasn't been announced by the company. Where it makes sense for them to do this, it could be somebody doing a pump and dump scheme with Microsoft stock. So, if you have some mad money in BitCoin that you wanted to take another chance with, feel free to buy Microsoft stock on this, just don't do it with money you need to live on as it could be a planted story to manipulate the stock price.
If you cannot beat them, buy them... It's the MBA way...
I've been on both ends of this equation a number of times, never good for morale, unless you are from the buyer side...
I didn't say it was a perfect solution, but that it was the only viable one. The alternative is to just ignore borders and let the governments run ram-shod over each other with the companies stuck in the middle. But if a company is "moving" records to avoid having to disclose them, that's quite a bit different. Penalties should be severe and swift if the court finds evidence of doing this after they should have known the data was of interest because this is similar to destroying evidence. In that case. The company would have a choice, go with the severe sanctions of the court, or repatriate the evidence and turn it over.
Perhaps some treaties could be drafted (if they don't exist already) that provide a means for getting evidence from foreign soil using THEIR court system and rules while providing them access to evidence located here though our legal system. That way everybody could protect their laws and still have means of getting evidence from companies and individuals who are over seas.
No, even this is not perfect, but it's a whole lot better than ignoring borders and just trying to steam roll folks into providing foreign data by twisting their legal arms, especially if said data has never bin IN the country.
I was thinking that having stereo input and high bit rates would make the Pi a pretty good Software Defined Radio platform. It might not have though raw compute power to do much in the SDR world, but surely it could do many of the standard sound card digital modes us Amateur Radio operators do. Having the Pi would make a "digital mode" radio pretty cheap to do. Hams like cheap... (well some do..)
I was thinking of pairing the hypothetical audio enhanced Pi with one of the "Soft Rock" SDR radios sold by Tony Parks (KB9YIG) And seeing if we could get a usable SDR receiver for under $100 and a l low power transceiver for about $150 plus the monitor, keyboard etc.
Ah well, we can dream...
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I believe that Microsoft is right to claim the US government doesn't have jurisdiction over data stored outside of the United States. There simply MUST be a clear distinction maintained over where something is located, or country borders don't mean anything. If law enforcement in one country can force the production of evidence located in another country, then it's a free for all and borders have no meaning.
For instance... Lets say that a country (not the USA) has strict privacy laws about data collected and stored digitally and how it can be used. Lets say that they strictly forbid the sharing of specific kinds of data without written consent from the individual the data is about. If Microsoft operates in that country and collects data from it's users and then receives a court order for data from the USA for data stored in the country with strict privacy laws, what is Microsoft to do? Violate the court order and obey the laws under which the data was collected and stored OR violate the laws of another country? If borders mean ANYTHING, Microsoft must obey the local laws of the countries they operate in. So if the data is not here in the USA, the USA cannot force production of the data though the courts.
I understand that this is rife for abuse because it allows the hiding of criminal evidence overseas where it is beyond direct USA reach, but there are processes to obtain such evidence though diplomatic and international law enforcement channels in place. For Civil litigation, there are ways to work though other countries legal systems (albeit inconvenient and expensive ones). So, where I get there are problems, we really cannot just unilaterally decide we have the authority to demand a company produce data held overseas and force them hand over evidence which is not within our borders.
Finally, there is the "How would you feel if somebody did it to you?" test. Let's say the US was where the data was located and some other country was demanding that the data be sent back to them and felt they could enforce their will within the USA.... Would we not feel offended? I dare say we would.
With the existing LAN connection being USB based, I don't think they will fix this for you anytime soon.
If you wanted to go Fast Ethernet (100BT) then there are loads of options for you at this price point, many which can be had for next to nothing at garage sales if you know what you are looking for. Finding some used router that can run OpenWRT (or other firmware) will serve you much better than a Pi for any application I can imagine where you'd need two Gigabit NICs.
Last I checked there was no RTC (Real Time Clock).
So use NTP. By default debian launches with the -g opt.
Only really of value when you have a network connection, which for embedded problems can be an issue.
I'd love one with two Ethernet interfaces. Small boards with duel Ethernet seem pretty rare. Anybody know of one?
Just go get a USB Ethernet dongle and a USB hub if you don't have enough ports. The "on board" Ethernet is USB based to start with, so the rate limit of the USB port shouldn't be an issue....
I'm just wondering... Why do you want multiple NIC's? You building a router or firewall? If so, skip the Pi and pick up a cheap router that you can run OpenWRT (or some other distribution). You will be happier. Not that the Pi is a bad choice, I just think you'd get better results for a router/firewall using something else.
Agreed, stereo if possible, 48Khz sample rate even better...
Correction... 192 Khz sample rate would be *excellent*....
Agreed, stereo if possible, 48Khz sample rate even better...
But my point that open systems require maintenance remains.... Manufacturers are not out to build things that last longer, just long enough, preferably without maintenance. 100K miles is way past the warranty running out and way past the point where the original owner has sold your average car and moved on. As a manufacturer, what would YOU do? Put something in that lasted forever but required maintenance every 3K miles or it wears out in short order, or go with the maintenance free option that usually makes it to 100K miles? To me, the choice is easy, you go with the reliable option that doesn't require maintenance. It's what your customer wants.
Where I cannot argue with your outline of the F35's faults, we really have no choice but to keep the aircraft in production. The F35 suffers from trying to be to many things, but there are no other options, at least options that are viable.
Not in the least, it works fine, just like my 65 VW bug still runs and I can use it to get to work...Rebuilding the engine and replacing the avionics doesn't change that the airframe design is 34 years old, just like rebuilding the engine in my bug, straightening and painting the fenders doesn't make it a new car.
What I'm saying is that the F-18 is getting old. Both in terms of the average age of the airframes we have and in terms of design limitations imposed by being 30 years old.
The F-22 is about air superiority and it is not built for close air support or other roles envisioned for the F-35. The F-22 is also insanely expensive per unit compared to the F-35. On both accounts, strike the F22 from this list..
The rest are foreign built, so where they may be fully capable for the mission, they are politically impossible to buy. (You'd never get funding for congress to buy any of them.) So strike those..
The F-35 is the only option left, which makes it the "Only game in town" right now..
You cannot be serious....
Where a Tesla has similar components and designs as other cars, the front suspension is going to be totally different than 90% of other sedans it's size. The Tesla Model S is rear wheel drive, which is a departure from the normal front wheel drive for most other cars. I'm sure they omitted the CV joints/boots and half shafts from the front end. So, where the design may be classic, it's not all that common any more.
But more importantly, manufacturers have abandoned the use of grease fittings in most cars decades ago. They never got greased and everything fell apart faster. Not to mention that it is more convenient and maintenance free to have a sealed system. One could argue that sealed systems are less prone to wear because the dust and grit cannot get in and the grease cannot get out, but I'll skip making the obvious point. Go ahead and drill and insert grease fittings if it makes you feel better, just don't try to sell the car to me, I don't want a mess like that.
The F18 is 30 years old, which is like 120 in fighter aircraft years. We flew the F-86 Saber only 20 years, the F-4 phantom flew 20 (as a fighter), and these are the grey beards of the fighter world from the past. The F-18 is a fine platform, to be sure, but like it or not, it's getting really old for what it does.
Is your claim that the airframes are reaching their service life and need to be replaced by new builds, or are you claiming that an aircraft design undergoes some sort of senility independent of remaning service life?
Please explain why, for example, a new build F-15 or F-18, with 21st century enhancements, would be in adequate to do its job today if that is your argument.
Both are true. We have a fleet of aging aircraft which are slated to be replaced so we are not buying new ones, at least not enough of them to keep pace with retirements. Many of the aircraft are reaching the end of their service life and will need to be retired. This is a slow but steady decline in the fleet and requires that you back fill with new equipment to keep the same force readiness levels.
Also, the F-18 is based on a design that went into production in 1980. That is 34 years ago. Yes there have been improvements and bug fixes over the years but that means that the basis of the airframe is generally 30+ years old. We've rewired, re-engined, replaced avionics and even made structural changes since then, but the base of the aircraft is pretty old. The F-18 will be flying for many decades in the reserves or for other countries. Just look at the history of the F-86 or the F-4 phantom. But the problem is about the nature of war and conflicts.
If everybody has the same weapons, prevailing becomes about attrition and tactics. In a conflict, you want/need to have as many advantages as you can and you never know for sure if your tactics are best until the shooting starts. Unless you can clearly demonstrate that the F35 is less effective as a weapon (and I don't think anybody can) we have to take the upgrade, we have to buy F35's, because the F-18's limits which are fundamental to the 30 year old design are going to show and the playing field will be tilted less in our favor.
So on both grounds, we buy the F-35 wars and all...
I see your point, but I don't think we have time to develop anything else.
OK - I'll bite. Why not?
Is there a major war scheduled we don't want to be late for?
Is there an enemy superpower that will outstrip us militarily in a meaningful way if we don't get this plane fielded ASAP?
The youngest of the aircraft it is replacing went into initial production 34 years ago. That's like 120 years old in fighter aircraft years. The F-86 was in fighter service only 20 years. The planned retirement for the aircraft being replaced is fast approaching and extending that date will be expensive (if not impossible as in the AV8B's case). Could we keep flying what we have? Sure, but we are going to pay in logistics costs and readiness problems, not to mention that many of these aircraft are reaching the end of their airframe lives and will be forced into the scrapyard at higher and higher rates as time goes on.
So it's not a hard and fast, date sure, deadline, but a continued decline of readiness and increased maintenance time and attrition for what we are flying now. And it's time to start buying replacements to stay on plan and keep the mission readiness requirements. At this point, the F-35 is the only game in town, so we buy them, warts and all.
Now you can argue that we don't need to be as ready as we are and that we can stand having a fleet that is less available than previously planned, but neither you nor I are in a position to say with authority either way on that question. But this is really just disarmament, albeit a slower version of it.
We really have no viable choice but to fly the F-35 for now so we need these planes in production. ....
It was already argued that we could buy other NATO aircraft that are in production. This option is "viable" even if the U.S. Senators prefer to keep the pork at home.
If you cannot get Congress to fund your "viable" aircraft, it's a non-starter to argue for them. Sorry but the reality of the political situation makes doing what you suggest extremely unlikely to succeed and even if you could prove it would be better and cheaper, your idea will never "fly" so why waste time? You can moan about how this shouldn't be the case, how politics shouldn't decide the question all you want (and I may even agree with you), but it won't change the fact that it does.
If you think the guys at the local quickie lube place is going to know what to do with a Tesla, you are nuts. Most of those guys only have experience with changing oil and usually only for as long as they've worked there. You are lucky if they know "rightie tightie, leftie loosie" and don't cross thread the drain plug putting it back in.
I would suggest you just take it to Tesla and pay them the $600/year to do the maintenance you may need.. In the end it will be cheaper than fixing the mess the oil change places will cause you. If you can afford a Tesla, surely you can afford to keep it maintained...
Oh yea, they do... http://www.wheresgeorge.com/
Actually, the serial numbers are generally NOT tracked much beyond being used by the Federal Reserve to verify a bill is valid and properly monetized. Not that a bank couldn't, which is why the rumors are running about the tin foil hat lobby. If you really care or think they do this, just get cash back on your purchases or cash a check at the bank.. No way they can track that.
Excellent point. What on earth do they mean by "hack"?
You give me a Tesla and a box of tools, I can hack the thing in some interesting way. Perhaps I can make it produce toast and keep your coffee warm.... In today's parlance, that would be a "hack" of a Tesla. I saw a story where a guy "hacked" his Prius by adding his own charging circuits to get more distance out of the battery pack, then figured out that he could run most of his home electronics directly from the 200V DC the battery provided. Billed the car as an emergency power supply of sorts, and a large one at that.
Now if they are asking you to hack the security or systems using only the exposed connection points, that's totally a different thing. Some how this is what I think they mean...
They want to lock out 3rd party shops, jiffy lube, DIYer and make so all work is done at the dealer.
Jiffy Lube for your Tesla? What are they going to do to a Tesla? Change the oil and filter?
I don't care who you are, that there is funny...