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  1. Re:Getting pretty decent for road trips. on EPA Confirms Tesla's Model 3 Has a Range of 310 Miles (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    There are cars out there that go 500 miles on a tank. We own four cars. My wife's Mazda CX-5 gets about 400 miles on a tank due to good mileage. My Chevrolet SSR gets about that too due to a huge tank but definitely not due to good mileage. My Miata and my FJ cruiser each go about 300 miles on a tank.

  2. Re:Impressive on EPA Confirms Tesla's Model 3 Has a Range of 310 Miles (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    I have no idea how "that guy" comments so much as it seems he spends his whole life in the car. Hopefully he's not posting while driving.

  3. Re:Most of us do things legit on Coinbase Ordered To Report 14,355 Users To the IRS (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Security trading platforms have to report this information to the IRS. Go find a stock broker that doesn't. Your employer also reports your income to the IRS. There's an argument for privacy in terms of *what* you do with your money, but the laws are pretty tight in terms of reporting *how much* you make.

  4. Re:The gig is up! on Coinbase Ordered To Report 14,355 Users To the IRS (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If they mined the coins, their basis is not the closing price on the day of mining, but rather the amount they spent for electricity and the amortized cost of the hardware. I have no idea why the user should have to do any of this, though. Every other securities trading platform in the world keeps track of this stuff, reports it to the IRS, and sends the customer a consolidated statement. No idea why it would take a court order to get coinbase to do this

  5. Whether this is good advice or not, I am not qualified to say. However, there are enough cases out there where people *do* mix personal and professional lives that we can look at the *distribution* of the *consequences* of this and draw conclusions about how various demographic groups are treated.

  6. Re:I don't understand on A Supreme Court Case This Week Could Change US Digital Privacy Standards · · Score: 1

    There isn't enough detail in the article or summary. But it *seems* that what they did was, once they had a suspect, they went to the phone company to see if he was in the vicinity of the robberies. if they had reason to suspect him, they probably could have gotten the warrant if they needed it. So this may create an interesting legal outcome but probably has no practical implications. If you commit a crime and the police have reasonable suspicion, they may not have to get a warrant, but they're still going to use your location data as part of their case against you. The reason we care about a warrant is an alternative scenario where the police have no leads and ask the phone company who was in the area and then somehow use that information in an abusive way. However, it also seems reasonable that the police may want to know who was in the area so they can ask if you saw anything. If a serious crime happened and I was in the vicinity, I would *want* the police to be able to talk to me. Maybe I saw something and didn't realize it was important.

  7. Re: "No reasonable expectation" on A Supreme Court Case This Week Could Change US Digital Privacy Standards · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how I feel about this particular issue, but if you decide on a life of crime. 1) Don't turn your phone off during a robbery. Leave it at home. Claim it as an alibi. See my phone was home. 2) Use a burner during the actual crime. 3) Maybe neither of us is cut out for a life of crime.

  8. Re:OMG on Flat Earther Plans To Launch Homemade Manned Rocket (apnews.com) · · Score: 2

    I assume you haven't RTFA. He has actually done something similar before. And it's not really a rocket. It's shaped like a rocket but he's basically going to launch himself into the air with a jet of steam and parachute down. The vehicle will crash. It's not really impressive other than having built it from scrap. The project itself has nothing to do with flat earth.

  9. Re: Doesn't believe in science... on Flat Earther Plans To Launch Homemade Manned Rocket (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    You would tell because you know that other places (i.e.Asia) exist but you can't see them due to the curvature.

  10. Re:It's like I was telling them on Massive US Military Social Media Spying Archive Left Wide Open In AWS S3 Buckets (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Yes, that is what I meant. Oops. Thanks.

  11. Re:It's like I was telling them on Massive US Military Social Media Spying Archive Left Wide Open In AWS S3 Buckets (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The US government is a huge, sprawling democracy. There are some networks that actually contain things vital to national security. Those are usually entirely air-gapped and secured by the best people that the government has. After that, we have every other government function from motor vehicle registrations to lame intelligence-gathering operations like this one. Those are *very* unlikely to have competent people working on them.

  12. Re:It's like I was telling them on Massive US Military Social Media Spying Archive Left Wide Open In AWS S3 Buckets (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    As opposed to where? Completely disconnected from the Internet? Because AWS ("the cloud") is certainly a better choice than something you have to secure yourself.

  13. Re:I'm amazed it took this long to notice on Windows 8 and Later Fail To Properly Apply ASLR (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Many times, these features are disabled in debug builds. But even if ASLR were on, in many application domains, I doubt anybody would notice.

  14. Re:You gotta keep 'em separated on New Samsung Video Demos Linux on Galaxy Smartphones (liliputing.com) · · Score: 1

    The reason to do this isn't about cost. It's about reducing context-switching time.

  15. Re:wrong problem... on US Airports Still Fail New Security Tests (go.com) · · Score: 1

    And back then you didn't need a ticket to go through security. So the airports tried to be places that people actually wanted to come. They encouraged you to bring your family along or even come in for food/shopping as if they were a mall. Those days are gone and now they just settle for selling $4 bottles of water to a captive audience.

  16. Re:wrong problem... on US Airports Still Fail New Security Tests (go.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been through the Israeli airport and their screening is basically the same as a US airport except that you also get interrogated. Well unless you have a letter that says you are a nice person. They certainly have better trained screeners and there are probably additional non-visible measures. In the end it's really hard to tell what things are by looking at them or xraying them and it doesn't take a lot of disguise if you really are determined to bring a prohibited item.

  17. Re:Try police work not phone unlocking on iPhone Encryption Hampers Investigation of Texas Shooter, Says FBI (chron.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the standard answer here on /. is posting it early in the conversation is a guaranteed ticket to a +5, but it certainly seems outdated. There was a time when planning/committing crimes involved actual human interaction. Meetings in back rooms, things like that. Now you can do all of the planning via your phone and, in many cases (i.e financial fraud) carry the whole thing out electronically. So there is way less physical evidence these days than there used to be. Obviously with a shooting you have to do reconnaissance and other activities that leave a physical trail. But this is becoming much smaller by comparison. Sure it used to be that a phone was used to setup a meeting where the real conspiracy occurs. Now you do all the planning via WhatsApp or whatever.

  18. Re:In the meantime, this stalls AMT/ME on Google Working To Remove MINIX-Based ME From Intel Platforms (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    This works fine if you have a desktop machine or server that never moves. It's a useless mitigation for laptop users who can't always use networks that they fully control

  19. Re:Lots of Problems With That Statement on Google Working To Remove MINIX-Based ME From Intel Platforms (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Intel actually asked Tennenbaum to make Minix changes for them as part of the project. They very well may be running stock Minix.

  20. Re: Why not compute hash locally? on Facebook To Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is why you have to upload the images, I presume. If they see your account abusing this feature, they can easily purge their database. I'm sure somebody has a fabulous job monitoring this. I just with they had waited a few years until I needed a retirement gig.

  21. Re:Gibberish much? on The Disappearing American Grad Student (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Right and unless all of the students and instructors are from the same country (unlikely), the advantage that a student gets in one class will be more than offset by the disadvantage in other classes. So if you have a foreign TA who is hard to understand, it sucks, but it sucks equally for everybody and you aren't getting good value for your education money. It doesn't suck in a way that explains the abundance of foreign students.

  22. Re:Gibberish much? on The Disappearing American Grad Student (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So the premise of this post is that the US students couldn't understand the foreign accents but somehow all of the foreign students (for whom English was a second language) could magically understand it since students from Beijing have a magical ability to understand English spoken with an Indian accent or something like that?

  23. Re:Who buys TVs anymore? on Ask Slashdot: Can Smart TVs Insert Ads Into Your Movies? (gigaom.com) · · Score: 2

    I have an LG Smart TV with the magic remote and it's way better than any of the setups suggested here. The magic remote works just like a mouse. I use Amazon Streaming, YouTube, Skype (occasionally) and it's really a pleasant experience. Single remote for everything. No fussing.

  24. In any event, the world was a very different (and more hostile) place back then and there are certain things that were sensible at the time but not now. That's different than something that should be morally reprehensible regardless of the time and place.

  25. Well if the century were only a few seconds old, it would be really easy to have the discovery of the century.