I believe that the problem is the hopolophobes can't stand the idea of people being armed for their own defense.
No, what I believe is that 90% of humans are complete and utter morons, who can't be trusted with a firearm. They are irrationnal, moody, have mental problems (depression, mood swings, anxiety, are religious nuts, etc.)
Having a firearm at home is ok with me, but carrying it everywhere is a bad idea.
I don't know where you live, but if I lived somewhere where I would need a weapon on me at all times to feel safe, I would move out of there as soon as I could.
In fact I'm in my mid forties and so far I've never been in a situation where I needed a firearm on me. And nobody I know (friends, family, coworkers) ever talked to me about a time in their lives when they used, needed or would have needed to have a firearm on them to save their lives or get out of a bad situation.
Still, a lot of them (including me) have firearms at home for hunting, or target shooting. So we're not anti-guns wackos.
Not even that. I have keyless entry/start on my car. My key fob always stays in my pocket, I just push a button on the handle to open, and another on the dash to start. The battery runs out maybe once every 2 years. I've never once wished it could be "easier" by bringing a phone into the mix.
You have to push a button on the handle? How quaint! I just have to grab the handle and as soon as my fingers touches the inside of the handle the door unlocks.
The first couple of times it's not natural (you grab an pull too fast and it's still locked) but now I'm used to the quarter second wait before pulling it and it's great.
When I grab the driver side's handle it only unlocks this door, when my girlfriend grabs the handle on the passenger's side (she also has a keyfob in her purse) it unlocks all doors. So I don't even have to unlock the door for her...
Expensive, but they'll be good for a LONG time now... My hope is to get 4 years out of them before they need replacing, time will tell how that works out.
4 years is a long time? For a device of this price?
You can watch your Netflix content without the use of a VPN just fine.
Not when "you're not at home" means you're in another country.
When I'm in Europe for business trips, it would be great if I could catch up on my series on Netflix instead of watching boring shows on local TV in languages I don't understand.
But no, Netflix won't allow me to use the service I paid for.
Wake me up when those autonomous cars can handle these simple situations that can occurs in real life (not those edge cases with blowing tires and running kids):
1- Heavy rain 2- Unmarked lanes (because they never had markings, or because they fade away every winter like here in Canada) 3- Snow. Lots of snow. Like 1 foot. With ice under it. 4- Getting stuck in snow, and having to do a pendulum maneuver to get out (regular occurence for me... much easier with a manual car) 5- Freezing rain. Making sure that all those sensors are given a good 1/2" of ice on their surfaces.The car can drive itself, but it sure can't scrape the ice... you'll have to do it. 6- Gravel roads. 7- Parking. Not parallel parking. Parking at the mall. 8- Camping roads.Getting to an from your camping spot, in a national park for example. 9- Hand signaling from a police officer, or from a benevolent stranger in an emergency situation. 10- Construction zones, with temporarily driving in the wrong direction, against traffic.Or just dodging cones and sandbags without hitting a bus;-)
These are rather simple things that, for me, the Google car can't cope with. But I might be a little behind the news so correct me if I'm wrong.
4) The power of the few snowballs and they eventually own the entire planet and all means of production, and the rest live in misery on whatever pittiance is allowed them or is outright exterminated via automated weaponry.
If they own every mean of production, and the rest of the world lives in misery, who will buy what they're producing?
I can't understand the logic behind this (it's complete and utter nonsense), but you're probably right. Except the derivative work, I don't think you can be sued for a derivative work that you don't distribute to anyone and that only you can see. But I could be wrong.
The fact that they can pretend that I accepted an EULA just by sending a HTTP request is complete bollocks.
And seriously, I didn't make a copy of the document, THEY sent me a copy of the document which I stored locally.
Just like THEY print a copy of a newspaper, they give the copy to me, and I store it locally (in the bird's cage of course, the only useful thing you can do with those free newspaper).
Again I think that you're right, but it's a sad state of affair and it will be (it's already) the death of the world wide web.
I request a document, you send it to my computer, for free (if it's not behind a paywall of course).
Now when it's on my computer, I can do whatever I want with that document. I can delete it, I can edit it, I can keep only parts of it, and then display the result on my screen. You sent me the document, your control of it ends there. I can't republish it or use part of it in another publication of course, but apart from that, as long as it stays on my computer, you have no control as to what I'll do with it.
With an adblocker, I can also choose which content I want to download on my computer. The page asks me to get an ad from another server, I can choose not to fetch that content. It's only some instructions in the document asking me to get some content from another server, I can refuse that data. Nobody can force me to transfer data I don't want on my computer, I'm paying for the electricity, bandwith, hdd space and cpu.
It's like those free newspaper in the subway. I can take one, and throw it in the fire before having read it. I can take a pair of scissors and cut away all the ads before reading it. I can take a pen and write anything I want on it, altering the content. I can cut out every word or letter and glue them on another sheet of paper to make it say what I want. What difference will it make to this newspaper's publisher? They can't know what I'm doing with it, he doesn't care, the advertisers have already paid their share for appearing in it, without knowing if anyone would see the ads.
It should be the same on the web, advertisers should pay their share for their ad to appear on the web page. The web page publisher can guarantee that the necessary code is in place to display the ad. He can't guarantee that the user asking for the page and displaying it on his screen will display the ad.
Why does it work for paper publications but they can't accept this same principle on the web?
Send me the document, put ads in it, and I'll do what I want with it. Simple.
If you want money, put it behind a paywall and see if your content it good enough to attract paying readers.
Not really. It's easier to search on Google, but 20 years ago if someone's crimes or stupidities where big enough to make it on newspaper, it was forever available to anyone who took the time to search those newspaper's archive or even perusing through their local library's newspaper archive on microfilm.
But I'm also taking into account my friends and members of my family. And I know for sure that none of them are currently looking to buy an EV soon, because they're too expensive and they're not practical for now.
In 5 to 10 years I know for sure that it will be a completely different situation, the EV will evolve and we'll have a better charging infrastructure in place (a swappable battery packs standard across all manufacturers? That would be cool).
But for now the EV market is in it's infancy and it's a very limited niche market. They're so expensive, not a lot of families with kids can afford them. Maybe in the US you have higher salaries and the list price are lower so it makes more sense, but up here in Canada it's much harder to justify it.
The leaf costs at least 18000$ more than a my current 7 passenger SUV, a Dodge Journey, (I'm comparing base prices before taxes). If I do 18000km a year, it will take more than 10 years worth of gas expenses to amortize the price difference. 18000$ buys a LOT of gas. Maybe if you take into account oil changes and other maintenance it drops down to 8 or 9 years but still. And the leaf is still only a subcompact. Apart from the Tesla Model X (which is very small and outragously priced) there are no SUV or minivan or even a family EV on the market.
And before you comment about how an electric car needs almost no maintenance, let me tell you that in my 25 years of driving, having owned about 15 cars of all makes and models, both used and new, some had up to 200,000km on the clock, the most maintenance intensive parts of any of those cars has been the suspension, brakes, steering, electrical (switches, modules, main computer, heater controls) and body (rust, dings, etc.). Since those parts are the same on EV, they'll fail as often as on gas cars.I've never had any major engine or transmission repair, ever.
Yes but my 80 miles bi-weekly trip is stretching the range of the Leaf.
Renting is an option, but you need to plan in advance your trip, make a reservation, get the loaner and bring it back home, pack it, and on the return trip you have to unload it at home and give it back. When a lot of families will have an electric car, good luck trying to rent the SUV or minivan in summer when everyone will try to get them at the same dates.
We often decide to go camping at the last minute for the weekend, depending on the weather and if the kids want to and nobody is sick. If we have to rent it's impossible to organise the trip at the last minute.
Like I responded to another comment, the Leaf is the cheapest electric car right now (and at 40,000 CDN$ it's double the price of my brand new 7 passenger SUV). So I don't know what other electric car I could use as an example... It's already too expensive for me and it's only a subcompact car. The Tesla is 100,000 CDN$, I don't know anyone who could afford it.
You're not representative of the majority of people. Doing only 300 miles a month is really and outlier compared to the rest of the population.
So maybe the Leaf is ticking all the checkboxes for you, and it's great that it works for your particular needs.
But I do a little more than 1000 miles a month, which is very little mileage if I compare to what I was doing about 10 years ago (which was about 3000 miles a month!).
Every 2 weeks I have to do and 80 miles trip friday night and sunday night. How can I do that on a Leaf, especially in winter then the Leaf has about a 50 miles range?
And we love camping, and we have 4 kids. And we want to explore while camping, not always going to the same place. Which means 500 to 1000 miles trips, one way. With 6 passengers, luggage... and maybe soon a pop-up camping trailer. How can I do that in an electric car that costs 20,000$ brand new (the price of our current car that can do all this).
So you see that electric cars are, for now, useful for a niche market. We'll see in 10 years, maybe I'll be able to buy an electric car that fit my needs (and that I can afford), but I'm not holding my breath.
electric cars will be more desirable than gas cars (cheaper to "fill", quieter, etc.)
Cheaper to fill, yes. But I'm not waiting 8 hours, or even 1 hour at those ultrafast charging stations, when I can refill my car in 5 minutes so it can go 400 miles without another refill.
And I'm seriously doubting any range claim on those electric cars in winter. The Nissan Leaf, which as a claimed 100 miles range, has only a 50 miles range in winter conditions. That sucks, a lot. Heating a car is much more energy intensive than cooling it, and when it's -30C outside your battery is going to empty very fast.
So, no, electric cars is currently not more desirable than a regular car, for me anyway.
Maybe the next generation of the one after that will become more desirable, but for now if someone gave me a Tesla I would sell it as soon as I could to buy a gas car.
What I don't understand is that this checkbox is not always visible for me.
When it appears it's always checked, but a lot of times (like today) I don't even see the option, and I see the ads.
Is it a bug?
Since I often browse Slashdot at work (shh!! don't tell the boss!) I don't want those shiny ads on my screen. The boring green & white screen looks like our internal document format from afar...
You have to unlock your phone, start the banking app, login into the app*, click on the withdrawal button, choose the amount, get the code, scan the code on the ATM, and get your cash.
Wow! It's so much simpler and faster than inserting my card into the atm, punching my 5 digit PIN, clicking on the 20$ or 40$ (or whatever amount) fast withdrawal button, and getting my cash.
* I don't know how you do that for your bank's app, but mine asks for the 16 digits of my banking card, and a password. It takes a long time to enter...
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"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Sincerely,
Your (smelly) Neighbor.
I believe that the problem is the hopolophobes can't stand the idea of people being armed for their own defense.
No, what I believe is that 90% of humans are complete and utter morons, who can't be trusted with a firearm. They are irrationnal, moody, have mental problems (depression, mood swings, anxiety, are religious nuts, etc.)
Having a firearm at home is ok with me, but carrying it everywhere is a bad idea.
I don't know where you live, but if I lived somewhere where I would need a weapon on me at all times to feel safe, I would move out of there as soon as I could.
In fact I'm in my mid forties and so far I've never been in a situation where I needed a firearm on me. And nobody I know (friends, family, coworkers) ever talked to me about a time in their lives when they used, needed or would have needed to have a firearm on them to save their lives or get out of a bad situation.
Still, a lot of them (including me) have firearms at home for hunting, or target shooting. So we're not anti-guns wackos.
iPhone 8 will require fingerprint, retina scan, 57 digit passcode, DNA sample, and Tim Cook's voice passcode for access.
You forgot the stool sample.
Not even that. I have keyless entry/start on my car. My key fob always stays in my pocket, I just push a button on the handle to open, and another on the dash to start. The battery runs out maybe once every 2 years. I've never once wished it could be "easier" by bringing a phone into the mix.
You have to push a button on the handle? How quaint! I just have to grab the handle and as soon as my fingers touches the inside of the handle the door unlocks.
The first couple of times it's not natural (you grab an pull too fast and it's still locked) but now I'm used to the quarter second wait before pulling it and it's great.
When I grab the driver side's handle it only unlocks this door, when my girlfriend grabs the handle on the passenger's side (she also has a keyfob in her purse) it unlocks all doors. So I don't even have to unlock the door for her...
Expensive, but they'll be good for a LONG time now... My hope is to get 4 years out of them before they need replacing, time will tell how that works out.
4 years is a long time? For a device of this price?
You can watch your Netflix content without the use of a VPN just fine.
Not when "you're not at home" means you're in another country.
When I'm in Europe for business trips, it would be great if I could catch up on my series on Netflix instead of watching boring shows on local TV in languages I don't understand.
But no, Netflix won't allow me to use the service I paid for.
Wake me up when those autonomous cars can handle these simple situations that can occurs in real life (not those edge cases with blowing tires and running kids):
1- Heavy rain ;-)
2- Unmarked lanes (because they never had markings, or because they fade away every winter like here in Canada)
3- Snow. Lots of snow. Like 1 foot. With ice under it.
4- Getting stuck in snow, and having to do a pendulum maneuver to get out (regular occurence for me... much easier with a manual car)
5- Freezing rain. Making sure that all those sensors are given a good 1/2" of ice on their surfaces.The car can drive itself, but it sure can't scrape the ice... you'll have to do it.
6- Gravel roads.
7- Parking. Not parallel parking. Parking at the mall.
8- Camping roads.Getting to an from your camping spot, in a national park for example.
9- Hand signaling from a police officer, or from a benevolent stranger in an emergency situation.
10- Construction zones, with temporarily driving in the wrong direction, against traffic.Or just dodging cones and sandbags without hitting a bus
These are rather simple things that, for me, the Google car can't cope with. But I might be a little behind the news so correct me if I'm wrong.
Companies hate their employees. Labor costs are a barrier to higher profits. Employees are treated as liabilities.
Yes, but someday they'll realise that their former employees where also their former customers...
4) The power of the few snowballs and they eventually own the entire planet and all means of production, and the rest live in misery on whatever pittiance is allowed them or is outright exterminated via automated weaponry.
If they own every mean of production, and the rest of the world lives in misery, who will buy what they're producing?
Tomaz Stolfa says there is "unexplored potential in blending conversational interfaces with rich graphical UI elements."
Rich graphical UI elements, like ads?
The obvious is that birds have limited intelligence and can't understand why it's a bad idea to fly near a landing strip.
Drone operators should be smart enough to understand that...
I can't understand the logic behind this (it's complete and utter nonsense), but you're probably right. Except the derivative work, I don't think you can be sued for a derivative work that you don't distribute to anyone and that only you can see. But I could be wrong.
The fact that they can pretend that I accepted an EULA just by sending a HTTP request is complete bollocks.
And seriously, I didn't make a copy of the document, THEY sent me a copy of the document which I stored locally.
Just like THEY print a copy of a newspaper, they give the copy to me, and I store it locally (in the bird's cage of course, the only useful thing you can do with those free newspaper).
Again I think that you're right, but it's a sad state of affair and it will be (it's already) the death of the world wide web.
I request a document, you send it to my computer, for free (if it's not behind a paywall of course).
Now when it's on my computer, I can do whatever I want with that document. I can delete it, I can edit it, I can keep only parts of it, and then display the result on my screen. You sent me the document, your control of it ends there. I can't republish it or use part of it in another publication of course, but apart from that, as long as it stays on my computer, you have no control as to what I'll do with it.
With an adblocker, I can also choose which content I want to download on my computer. The page asks me to get an ad from another server, I can choose not to fetch that content. It's only some instructions in the document asking me to get some content from another server, I can refuse that data. Nobody can force me to transfer data I don't want on my computer, I'm paying for the electricity, bandwith, hdd space and cpu.
It's like those free newspaper in the subway. I can take one, and throw it in the fire before having read it. I can take a pair of scissors and cut away all the ads before reading it. I can take a pen and write anything I want on it, altering the content. I can cut out every word or letter and glue them on another sheet of paper to make it say what I want. What difference will it make to this newspaper's publisher? They can't know what I'm doing with it, he doesn't care, the advertisers have already paid their share for appearing in it, without knowing if anyone would see the ads.
It should be the same on the web, advertisers should pay their share for their ad to appear on the web page. The web page publisher can guarantee that the necessary code is in place to display the ad. He can't guarantee that the user asking for the page and displaying it on his screen will display the ad.
Why does it work for paper publications but they can't accept this same principle on the web?
Send me the document, put ads in it, and I'll do what I want with it. Simple.
If you want money, put it behind a paywall and see if your content it good enough to attract paying readers.
If you're doing it from your mom's basement (like any self respecting slashdoter should) the signal will not be powefull enough to get outside.
we enjoyed that right until google came up
Not really. It's easier to search on Google, but 20 years ago if someone's crimes or stupidities where big enough to make it on newspaper, it was forever available to anyone who took the time to search those newspaper's archive or even perusing through their local library's newspaper archive on microfilm.
Of course I'm talking about my situation.
But I'm also taking into account my friends and members of my family. And I know for sure that none of them are currently looking to buy an EV soon, because they're too expensive and they're not practical for now.
In 5 to 10 years I know for sure that it will be a completely different situation, the EV will evolve and we'll have a better charging infrastructure in place (a swappable battery packs standard across all manufacturers? That would be cool).
But for now the EV market is in it's infancy and it's a very limited niche market. They're so expensive, not a lot of families with kids can afford them. Maybe in the US you have higher salaries and the list price are lower so it makes more sense, but up here in Canada it's much harder to justify it.
The leaf costs at least 18000$ more than a my current 7 passenger SUV, a Dodge Journey, (I'm comparing base prices before taxes). If I do 18000km a year, it will take more than 10 years worth of gas expenses to amortize the price difference. 18000$ buys a LOT of gas. Maybe if you take into account oil changes and other maintenance it drops down to 8 or 9 years but still. And the leaf is still only a subcompact. Apart from the Tesla Model X (which is very small and outragously priced) there are no SUV or minivan or even a family EV on the market.
And before you comment about how an electric car needs almost no maintenance, let me tell you that in my 25 years of driving, having owned about 15 cars of all makes and models, both used and new, some had up to 200,000km on the clock, the most maintenance intensive parts of any of those cars has been the suspension, brakes, steering, electrical (switches, modules, main computer, heater controls) and body (rust, dings, etc.). Since those parts are the same on EV, they'll fail as often as on gas cars.I've never had any major engine or transmission repair, ever.
Yes but my 80 miles bi-weekly trip is stretching the range of the Leaf.
Renting is an option, but you need to plan in advance your trip, make a reservation, get the loaner and bring it back home, pack it, and on the return trip you have to unload it at home and give it back. When a lot of families will have an electric car, good luck trying to rent the SUV or minivan in summer when everyone will try to get them at the same dates.
We often decide to go camping at the last minute for the weekend, depending on the weather and if the kids want to and nobody is sick. If we have to rent it's impossible to organise the trip at the last minute.
Like I responded to another comment, the Leaf is the cheapest electric car right now (and at 40,000 CDN$ it's double the price of my brand new 7 passenger SUV). So I don't know what other electric car I could use as an example... It's already too expensive for me and it's only a subcompact car. The Tesla is 100,000 CDN$, I don't know anyone who could afford it.
The Leaf is the only affordable electric car right now, so it's the best example I could use.
I'm sorry but up here in Canada the Tesla is 100,000$, I can't afford a luxury car like that.
Even the Leaf is not a really good deal, at 40,000$ it's double the price of my brand new 7 passenger SUV...
All other electric cars are more expensive.
You're not representative of the majority of people. Doing only 300 miles a month is really and outlier compared to the rest of the population.
So maybe the Leaf is ticking all the checkboxes for you, and it's great that it works for your particular needs.
But I do a little more than 1000 miles a month, which is very little mileage if I compare to what I was doing about 10 years ago (which was about 3000 miles a month!).
Every 2 weeks I have to do and 80 miles trip friday night and sunday night. How can I do that on a Leaf, especially in winter then the Leaf has about a 50 miles range?
And we love camping, and we have 4 kids. And we want to explore while camping, not always going to the same place. Which means 500 to 1000 miles trips, one way. With 6 passengers, luggage... and maybe soon a pop-up camping trailer. How can I do that in an electric car that costs 20,000$ brand new (the price of our current car that can do all this).
So you see that electric cars are, for now, useful for a niche market. We'll see in 10 years, maybe I'll be able to buy an electric car that fit my needs (and that I can afford), but I'm not holding my breath.
electric cars will be more desirable than gas cars (cheaper to "fill", quieter, etc.)
Cheaper to fill, yes. But I'm not waiting 8 hours, or even 1 hour at those ultrafast charging stations, when I can refill my car in 5 minutes so it can go 400 miles without another refill.
And I'm seriously doubting any range claim on those electric cars in winter. The Nissan Leaf, which as a claimed 100 miles range, has only a 50 miles range in winter conditions. That sucks, a lot. Heating a car is much more energy intensive than cooling it, and when it's -30C outside your battery is going to empty very fast.
So, no, electric cars is currently not more desirable than a regular car, for me anyway.
Maybe the next generation of the one after that will become more desirable, but for now if someone gave me a Tesla I would sell it as soon as I could to buy a gas car.
I don't think you understand what free speech means.
The only acceptable limitation to free speech is when it put others in danger (like shouting Fire in a crowded place).
Other than that, you can say what you want. Anything goes.
And people in their forties are "old folks"??? WTF??? It's a microagression, I'm triggered by that, You should have a consequence! /sarcasm
What I don't understand is that this checkbox is not always visible for me.
When it appears it's always checked, but a lot of times (like today) I don't even see the option, and I see the ads.
Is it a bug?
Since I often browse Slashdot at work (shh!! don't tell the boss!) I don't want those shiny ads on my screen. The boring green & white screen looks like our internal document format from afar...
The World Wide Web existed long before there was any ad and paywalls.
It was much smaller, but still was very fun to use because it was full of fun pages maintained by hobbyists, for free.
So yes we were a bunch of freeloaders, using pages set up by freegivers (is that a word?)
Now 99% of the web is boring blogs, advertising, and other boring content (like movie tie-ins) that everyone tries to monetize.
I hate that word: monetize
It sums up everything that's wrong with the Internet today.
You have to unlock your phone, start the banking app, login into the app*, click on the withdrawal button, choose the amount, get the code, scan the code on the ATM, and get your cash.
Wow! It's so much simpler and faster than inserting my card into the atm, punching my 5 digit PIN, clicking on the 20$ or 40$ (or whatever amount) fast withdrawal button, and getting my cash.
* I don't know how you do that for your bank's app, but mine asks for the 16 digits of my banking card, and a password. It takes a long time to enter...
Never saw them???
In fact I can't see any ads anywhere. Is my internet broken?