FBI Guy says, "The FBI confirmed that it would not tell Apple about the security flaw exploited in the hack, partly because the law enforcement agency does not know how it works." [And they won't tell either, so whatever they do with it is their own business. Wah.]
Thanks for keeping us all safe by violating Federal Law!
The person who did the work/put in the time isn't going to see anything from the money that goes to a scientific journal or textbook publisher. As someone who's written a textbook, I can tell you that very few authors are paid based upon the sales of that textbook.
And scientific journals? The authors/researchers were paid before the paper was even submitted to the journal.
CORRECTION: We scientists (and he taxpayers that usually pay for our work) pay THREE TIMES for it. Plus, we exert effort FOR FREE to the publishers – BY LAW.
1. Write a proposal for funding –US Federal law prohibits of using research funding for these efforts. It is on our own personal dime.
2. Win a grant, which pays for you & your students to do the work (on the public dime)
3. Write a manuscript to share the results with the world – US Federal Law prohibits the use of Federal funds for write-up. It is on our own personal dime.
4. Submit it to a rapacious for-profit scientific journal – any owned by Elsevier – for review- / referee-ing.
5. Referees are other scientists in your field, again legally required to perform the service unpaid.
6. If accepted, Your second $$ outlay comes in the form of "page charges." Yes, you pay them to publish you work – once it's deemed important by the 'FREE' referees for the journals.
7. The article might be printed, but is more likely to be in the form of a PDF, one that that the authors are these-days required to submit in electronic form, following stringent guidelines. The scientific authors essentially do the page-layout. Again for FREE.
8. The publishers charge your institution tons of money for subscription to the journals, whether it is in-print, or simply a PDF
Scientific publication charges are a huge, multi-level scam. At one time, it did cost them money to print and mail paper copies of journals. These days, they have outsourced almost every aspect of the labor required to produce a Scientific Journal Article, but somehow, mysteriously, their prices keep going up far faster than inflation.
It is no wonder that sites like J-Stor, Research-Gate, Sci-Hub, and others are popping up all over the place.
Personally, even though I have access to basically any journal known (at my large University), I go to Research-Gate simply because it takes 1/10th of the time to access the article I am seeking. My Uni has already paid for access, so I have a limited license to make a copy, but the big publishers make it an absolute, time-consuming pain in the ass to get a PDF of a given article. (Most of which I trash after glancing-through, as titles and abstracts are frequently inadequate.)
I absolutely LOVE my Microsoft subscription-based access to my own (Copyrighted at their moment of creation) documents! I love it. I can never live without Microsoft Office Products!
They cost nominally the same as any Windows-running laptop, once you factor in all of the "extra" software that you need to achieve an equivalent level of functionality.
And in any case, Apple computers tend to last 5-8 years, not the 2-3 years of your typical Dell.
Please: Compare the cost of ownership, not the initial sticker price.
I have a 12-year-old Mac that is still doing its job just fine. (Home media server.)
Apple has the potential to be the new microsoft: a bloated corpse that is just carrying on via inertia. They DO however still have time to buy their way out of the mess they are in. BUT their NIH syndrome (and arrogance) may be their downfall... as they never invented shit. They always stole it, refined it, and repacked it.
Actually, Apple has a long history of either licensing the IP that they see will become important, or of developing it themselves. The mouse + GUI? Xerox PARC management saw it as worthless, and were happy to sell all rights to the Steves. That was not stealing—It was business.
The thieving? That is what MS has always done. Their "Corporate Marketing" department has always been far bigger that their R&D department.
See most any history book for a description of the details.
And yeah, water is the biggest enemy of UHV systems. Aside from grad students who don't wear gloves, that is...
Oh, just yesterday, a nice Nature article came out regarding room-temperature observation of 'square ice', stabilized by its encapsulation between two 1-ML sheets of graphene, which also kept the water from ruining the vacuum.
doi:10.1038/nature14295
Although I don't believe their 'multiple scattering' mention regarding the EELS work – in a sample 5 atomic layers thick?!? – it's a decent paper nonetheless.
"Water is a polar molecule, after all. (That was not a pun.)" H(sub 2)O Water is Polar, but not all Water is H(sub 2)O. At the Femtosecond time level, Hydrogen and Oxygen form all sorts of short-lived combinations, some more polar than others.
OK, fine, nit-picker. Quantum fluctuations.
... and others at Berkeley are using RIXS.... Guo's endstation is called Wet-RIXS, which _is_ a pun, because keeping the Water samples from leaking into UHV is quite a task.
Can you please define your acronym? I am too lazy to type "www.lmgtfy.com/RIXS".
And yeah, water is the biggest enemy of UHV systems. Aside from grad students who don't wear gloves, that is...
Gotta get dem grants, am I right? Where is some kind of useful application for this? Anything? I'm listening. Too bad "science" nowadays means writing pieces of science fiction for some big wig who'll throw money at you instead of you know, actually inventing something useful or innovating. Actual innovation is now punished with lawsuits and copyright infringement notices.
Agreed.
This is precisely the reason that I am getting out of "science" completely.
I have grown tired of being an intellectual leader, only to suffer intellectual rape at every turn.
As that Eisenstein Guy said, "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing that I know."
My neighbor has noticed this phenomena ten years ago.
When he was drunk and was peeing in the middle of the parking lot, he noticed that splashes do resemble pattern, as shown in scientific article.
Scientific article also says that water is "...simultaneously present in all six symmetrically equivalent positions". My neighbor noticed he peed all over his shoes and splashes where everywhere.Spot on match description of quantum behavior.
Opportunity to nab a Nobel price lost. Again.
He should drink more.
Also, snowflakes are usually hexagonal in morphology.
Water is a polar molecule, after all. (That was not a pun.)
It is completely ignorant and wrong-headed in most every way imaginable.
Other Commenters have noted the decade+ work of others on this.
Let us go further back in time. Every object has a wavelength (and a limit on precise knowledge of its velocity). It also has a limitation on the precision with which one can determine its location. Yes, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
Everything is a cloud of probability with regards to its exact position. Quantum Mechanics does not disappear in the continuum regime. The reality is that such effects are drowned out by other signals, or are imperceptible at the macro (or even micro) scale.
Oh, FFS, just use Wikipedia and look up "wave-particle duality".
Thomson did it with the electron. Einstein did it with the photon. I did it with the phonon. And apparently, per Comments above, Gerald Pollack did it with water – a HUGE hadron-mass (molecule of three atoms).
About 10 years ago, some company that had provided "one laptop per child" were caught recording videos of mutual masturbation between way-under-aged teens.
Such industries attracts pedos, just like clergy, juvenile prisons, homes for deaf boys, and so on.
Those of us who saw this coming. . . We kept our mouths shut, for Cassandras are punished, rather than thanked.
But Edison was still an asshole, even without killing elephants.
Whoa! Thanks for the correction.
This is how we pick the nits of 'uncorrected claims of knowledge' (AKA bullshit or mistakes) from our collective consciousness.
And yes, I wholeheartedly agree, again, that Edison was an utter and complete asshole.
I still regret, decades later, that my 8-year-old self believed the propaganda, and thought of him as an idol. It was a private sentiment, but regardless, I am now going to throw up into my own mouth just a little.
There won't be purchase "power", but rest assured the demand will very much still be there.
Supply is abundantly made available thanks to brilliant advances in several areas of engineering from biological to robotic/automation technology "freeing" humanity to pursue something, for the time being and sadly foreseeable future it is poverty and social exclusion. Unfortunately suicide rates too.
How that demand without purchasing "power" would eventually be "acquired" or satisfied by basic necessity to live without suffering, would be the interesting side of the hypothetical story.
Most suburban back-yards are of sufficient area for a family to grown their own food. And chickens.
So, OK, people would have to buy a new shovel once in a while. Big deal. It is easy to make your own, especially when that 'supply-heavy' curve makes sheet metal super-cheap. Oh, or anyways, shovels themselves. Buy one, and you are set for 20 years. If made by robots, and with an over-supply, such purchases will be trivially cheap.
Even in the hearts of the largest cities in the world, "roof-top farming" is taking off.
The cycle of capitalism requires that demand must always increase, otherwise there are no profits to be had.
In Australia, international mail is intercepted and destroyed, often as biased just because it has a Nigerian stamp. So if denting Nigerian scams is legal, who says they are not inspecting the mailbag going to Middle East? Too bad the senders addresses are elected members (congress-critters) all interested in joining Bin Drinkin University. Nothing like creating misunderstandings
I have had my ideas, conceived and proposed by me, STOLEN from me by staff of the various three-letter US Agencies, who are bound BY LAW to keep such things secret.
Instead, they proposed my ideas as their own. They got promotions. The ideas become "Program Secret" –way more exclusive than "Top Secret". That means jail time for talking about them, even if you had no knowledge of this misappropriation of YOUR concepts and self-identified critical needs of the US DOD. That is, you are hushed, but without ever being warned about such. I have no idea of the ITAR or not-ITAR classification of the ideas that I myself generated, developed, and presented with the expectation of funding for such work — That is the job of Program Managers –to pay people with good ideas to make them reality.
Sputnik showed the USSR to be way ahead of the USA. China's moon-base will do the same. Hey guys, do you need any help?
I am looking right at you Paul Eremenko of DARPA, who stole my proposed ideas on [REDATCED-1]. You violated Federal Law by usurping credit for the ideas that I proposed to you, knowing, myself, at the time, that you were bound by law to keep such ideas secret, and to fund and promote those who supplied the 'great ideas'.
I am also looking directly at you, Dr. Daniel Green of DARPA, who also stole another set of my ideas, despite being, at the time, at ARO or NRO, and being bound by Government Secrecy Laws to NOT disclose what any private individual shared with you. ALL Program Managers are bound by this legal requirement, but you instead chose to thieve someone's good ideas – a person who trusted in their own government for protection from bandits such as yourself. The concept I shared concerned [REDACTED-2]. You stole credit for it, you asshole.
For those not in the know, "REDACTED-1" indicates self-organizing swarms of tiny satellites. By using GPS, and good time-keeping, they can determine their relative positions dynamically, resulting in an incredibly large 'synthetic aperture' for extra-terrestrial observation, or of anything on the ground (with ultra-high resolution, while remaininginvisible to most terrestrial space-facing radar systems. Known locations = known phase differences of received signals. Do the math.
For Daniel Green, a long-time fan of heterogeneous integration, but without any ideas ever coming out of his own mind — Dan used my ideas, concepts, and material to gain himself a position as a DARPA Program Manager. Was there ever a little thank-you, or even any response to my many emails to Dr. Daniel Green over the years? Nope. None. A small "thank you" of funding might have sufficed, you fuck-head.
Both of these fuckers have multi-million dollar (annual budgets) – actually $10M's – for Program Ideas that they stole from me, in contravention to US Law for the Government Employees they were at the times of IP theft. The electronic-communications trail is very long, making it impossible to ignore.
What is it I am asking? Do I still want to be a DARPA Program Manager? NO. No fucking way. I will go through the interview process another time, only to have my best ideas harvested by the thieves at DARPA. At my first interview with DARPA, one PM told me (at lunch), "We steal ideas." Boy howdy, do they ever!
Dear China and Russia, I am open for business. My only requirement is that I be paid up-front. (The US Government has 'intellectually raped' me enough times that I do no
In fact, the thing about Tesla is not revolutionary technology but how they made something people want to buy. Before Tesla, EV were all about fuel economy, ecology, urban areas and mid-range smaller cars, cars for responsible adults. Tesla said "fuck that" and made a big, expensive toy that can also be used as a vehicle.
Um, Tesla has been open from its inception (a decade ago?) that their first model would be top-end, the second model would be high-end, and the third model would be mid-high range.
That is exactly how it has played out – as promised. How many mega-corps can you name that keep promises on such a long-range time scale?
If you want a tiny car, buy a SMART. They have been available in vending machines since 1999 (at least in Germany). BMW has recently followed this up with a similarly tiny hybrid in recent years.
Slashdot Mirror
FTA:
FBI Guy says, "The FBI confirmed that it would not tell Apple about the security flaw exploited in the hack, partly because the law enforcement agency does not know how it works." [And they won't tell either, so whatever they do with it is their own business. Wah.]
Thanks for keeping us all safe by violating Federal Law!
Hardly a field. It covers two Northern US States. That is why it's named the Bakken Formation.
The person who did the work/put in the time isn't going to see anything from the money that goes to a scientific journal or textbook publisher. As someone who's written a textbook, I can tell you that very few authors are paid based upon the sales of that textbook.
And scientific journals? The authors/researchers were paid before the paper was even submitted to the journal.
CORRECTION: We scientists (and he taxpayers that usually pay for our work) pay THREE TIMES for it. Plus, we exert effort FOR FREE to the publishers – BY LAW.
1. Write a proposal for funding –US Federal law prohibits of using research funding for these efforts. It is on our own personal dime.
2. Win a grant, which pays for you & your students to do the work (on the public dime)
3. Write a manuscript to share the results with the world – US Federal Law prohibits the use of Federal funds for write-up. It is on our own personal dime.
4. Submit it to a rapacious for-profit scientific journal – any owned by Elsevier – for review- / referee-ing.
5. Referees are other scientists in your field, again legally required to perform the service unpaid.
6. If accepted, Your second $$ outlay comes in the form of "page charges." Yes, you pay them to publish you work – once it's deemed important by the 'FREE' referees for the journals.
7. The article might be printed, but is more likely to be in the form of a PDF, one that that the authors are these-days required to submit in electronic form, following stringent guidelines. The scientific authors essentially do the page-layout. Again for FREE.
8. The publishers charge your institution tons of money for subscription to the journals, whether it is in-print, or simply a PDF
Scientific publication charges are a huge, multi-level scam. At one time, it did cost them money to print and mail paper copies of journals. These days, they have outsourced almost every aspect of the labor required to produce a Scientific Journal Article, but somehow, mysteriously, their prices keep going up far faster than inflation.
It is no wonder that sites like J-Stor, Research-Gate, Sci-Hub, and others are popping up all over the place.
Personally, even though I have access to basically any journal known (at my large University), I go to Research-Gate simply because it takes 1/10th of the time to access the article I am seeking. My Uni has already paid for access, so I have a limited license to make a copy, but the big publishers make it an absolute, time-consuming pain in the ass to get a PDF of a given article. (Most of which I trash after glancing-through, as titles and abstracts are frequently inadequate.)
The real reason is to close the analog hole and add DRM to even your headphones.
While also charging you more for headphones.
Please, never quote or link to www.infowars.com.
It's a website for nut-job conspiracy 'theorists.'
I absolutely LOVE my Microsoft subscription-based access to my own (Copyrighted at their moment of creation) documents! I love it. I can never live without Microsoft Office Products!
Or maybe, perhaps I am suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.
They cost nominally the same as any Windows-running laptop, once you factor in all of the "extra" software that you need to achieve an equivalent level of functionality.
And in any case, Apple computers tend to last 5-8 years, not the 2-3 years of your typical Dell.
Please: Compare the cost of ownership, not the initial sticker price.
I have a 12-year-old Mac that is still doing its job just fine. (Home media server.)
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/24...
Jeans and black shirt. But then, how many industries exist based on copying Apple's design chops?
LOL. Totally.
TFA also said that this guy's company claims to be on a path to take down Tesla Motors head-on, too.
And why did the CNBC talking-heads keep referring to it as his company –while simultaneously showing said company's public share price?
Apple has the potential to be the new microsoft: a bloated corpse that is just carrying on via inertia. They DO however still have time to buy their way out of the mess they are in. BUT their NIH syndrome (and arrogance) may be their downfall... as they never invented shit. They always stole it, refined it, and repacked it.
Actually, Apple has a long history of either licensing the IP that they see will become important, or of developing it themselves. The mouse + GUI? Xerox PARC management saw it as worthless, and were happy to sell all rights to the Steves. That was not stealing—It was business.
The thieving? That is what MS has always done. Their "Corporate Marketing" department has always been far bigger that their R&D department.
See most any history book for a description of the details.
Who is this guy, and how or why does his opinion constitute "News for Nerds"?
You missed the point of my Comment entirely.
And yeah, water is the biggest enemy of UHV systems. Aside from grad students who don't wear gloves, that is...
Oh, just yesterday, a nice Nature article came out regarding room-temperature observation of 'square ice', stabilized by its encapsulation between two 1-ML sheets of graphene, which also kept the water from ruining the vacuum.
doi:10.1038/nature14295
Although I don't believe their 'multiple scattering' mention regarding the EELS work – in a sample 5 atomic layers thick?!? – it's a decent paper nonetheless.
"Water is a polar molecule, after all. (That was not a pun.)"
H(sub 2)O Water is Polar, but not all Water is H(sub 2)O. At the Femtosecond time level, Hydrogen and Oxygen form all sorts of short-lived combinations, some more polar than others.
OK, fine, nit-picker. Quantum fluctuations.
... and others at Berkeley are using RIXS. ... Guo's endstation is called Wet-RIXS, which _is_ a pun, because keeping the Water samples from leaking into UHV is quite a task.
Can you please define your acronym? I am too lazy to type "www.lmgtfy.com/RIXS".
And yeah, water is the biggest enemy of UHV systems. Aside from grad students who don't wear gloves, that is...
You did it for the phonon? I wasn't aware any of those that did the early work with phonons from the 1930s were still alive...
I was about 100 years too late to the party. Ah well...
Gotta get dem grants, am I right? Where is some kind of useful application for this? Anything? I'm listening. Too bad "science" nowadays means writing pieces of science fiction for some big wig who'll throw money at you instead of you know, actually inventing something useful or innovating. Actual innovation is now punished with lawsuits and copyright infringement notices.
Agreed.
This is precisely the reason that I am getting out of "science" completely.
I have grown tired of being an intellectual leader, only to suffer intellectual rape at every turn.
As that Eisenstein Guy said, "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing that I know."
My neighbor has noticed this phenomena ten years ago.
When he was drunk and was peeing in the middle of the parking lot, he noticed that splashes do resemble pattern, as shown in scientific article.
Scientific article also says that water is "...simultaneously present in all six symmetrically equivalent positions". My neighbor noticed he peed all over his shoes and splashes where everywhere.Spot on match description of quantum behavior.
Opportunity to nab a Nobel price lost. Again.
He should drink more.
Also, snowflakes are usually hexagonal in morphology.
Water is a polar molecule, after all. (That was not a pun.)
PLEASE: Don't click the click-bait article.
It is completely ignorant and wrong-headed in most every way imaginable.
Other Commenters have noted the decade+ work of others on this.
Let us go further back in time. Every object has a wavelength (and a limit on precise knowledge of its velocity). It also has a limitation on the precision with which one can determine its location. Yes, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
Everything is a cloud of probability with regards to its exact position. Quantum Mechanics does not disappear in the continuum regime. The reality is that such effects are drowned out by other signals, or are imperceptible at the macro (or even micro) scale.
Oh, FFS, just use Wikipedia and look up "wave-particle duality".
Thomson did it with the electron. Einstein did it with the photon. I did it with the phonon. And apparently, per Comments above, Gerald Pollack did it with water – a HUGE hadron-mass (molecule of three atoms).
Ignore the click-bait article.
James Clapper said. The shortened timeline has had "a profound effect on our ability to collect, particularly against terrorists,"
Huh? What?
Is it "terrorists" that are the primary users of encryption?
Dear Jimmy Clap: "[Citation Needed]"
More CO2 means higher average atmospheric temperatures. That, in turn, means a greater capacity for the air to hold water.
The end result is that it rains less.
Plants need water.
RFID tags use the energy from the reader to provide a RF response. This seemingly useless project is not exactly some breakthrough.
Yes.
Further, don't forget that battery-less AM radio from Heath-Kit (TM) that you built in the 1970s.
Also, Tesla's "wireless electricity distribution system" – from long before any of us were born.
About 10 years ago, some company that had provided "one laptop per child" were caught recording videos of mutual masturbation between way-under-aged teens.
Such industries attracts pedos, just like clergy, juvenile prisons, homes for deaf boys, and so on.
Those of us who saw this coming. . . We kept our mouths shut, for Cassandras are punished, rather than thanked.
And so history repeats itself.
Except that the electrocution of the elephant was unrelated to Edison, or Tesla, or the war of currents.
Check wikipedia :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But Edison was still an asshole, even without killing elephants.
Whoa! Thanks for the correction.
This is how we pick the nits of 'uncorrected claims of knowledge' (AKA bullshit or mistakes) from our collective consciousness.
And yes, I wholeheartedly agree, again, that Edison was an utter and complete asshole.
I still regret, decades later, that my 8-year-old self believed the propaganda, and thought of him as an idol. It was a private sentiment, but regardless, I am now going to throw up into my own mouth just a little.
There won't be purchase "power", but rest assured the demand will very much still be there.
Supply is abundantly made available thanks to brilliant advances in several areas of engineering from biological to robotic/automation technology "freeing" humanity to pursue something, for the time being and sadly foreseeable future it is poverty and social exclusion. Unfortunately suicide rates too.
How that demand without purchasing "power" would eventually be "acquired" or satisfied by basic necessity to live without suffering, would be the interesting side of the hypothetical story.
Most suburban back-yards are of sufficient area for a family to grown their own food. And chickens.
So, OK, people would have to buy a new shovel once in a while. Big deal. It is easy to make your own, especially when that 'supply-heavy' curve makes sheet metal super-cheap. Oh, or anyways, shovels themselves. Buy one, and you are set for 20 years. If made by robots, and with an over-supply, such purchases will be trivially cheap.
Even in the hearts of the largest cities in the world, "roof-top farming" is taking off.
The cycle of capitalism requires that demand must always increase, otherwise there are no profits to be had.
In Australia, international mail is intercepted and destroyed, often as biased just because it has a Nigerian stamp.
So if denting Nigerian scams is legal, who says they are not inspecting the mailbag going to Middle East?
Too bad the senders addresses are elected members (congress-critters) all interested in joining Bin Drinkin University. Nothing like creating misunderstandings
I have had my ideas, conceived and proposed by me, STOLEN from me by staff of the various three-letter US Agencies, who are bound BY LAW to keep such things secret.
Instead, they proposed my ideas as their own. They got promotions. The ideas become "Program Secret" –way more exclusive than "Top Secret". That means jail time for talking about them, even if you had no knowledge of this misappropriation of YOUR concepts and self-identified critical needs of the US DOD. That is, you are hushed, but without ever being warned about such. I have no idea of the ITAR or not-ITAR classification of the ideas that I myself generated, developed, and presented with the expectation of funding for such work — That is the job of Program Managers –to pay people with good ideas to make them reality.
Sputnik showed the USSR to be way ahead of the USA. China's moon-base will do the same. Hey guys, do you need any help?
I am looking right at you Paul Eremenko of DARPA, who stole my proposed ideas on [REDATCED-1]. You violated Federal Law by usurping credit for the ideas that I proposed to you, knowing, myself, at the time, that you were bound by law to keep such ideas secret, and to fund and promote those who supplied the 'great ideas'.
I am also looking directly at you, Dr. Daniel Green of DARPA, who also stole another set of my ideas, despite being, at the time, at ARO or NRO, and being bound by Government Secrecy Laws to NOT disclose what any private individual shared with you. ALL Program Managers are bound by this legal requirement, but you instead chose to thieve someone's good ideas – a person who trusted in their own government for protection from bandits such as yourself. The concept I shared concerned [REDACTED-2]. You stole credit for it, you asshole.
For those not in the know, "REDACTED-1" indicates self-organizing swarms of tiny satellites. By using GPS, and good time-keeping, they can determine their relative positions dynamically, resulting in an incredibly large 'synthetic aperture' for extra-terrestrial observation, or of anything on the ground (with ultra-high resolution, while remaininginvisible to most terrestrial space-facing radar systems. Known locations = known phase differences of received signals. Do the math.
For Daniel Green, a long-time fan of heterogeneous integration, but without any ideas ever coming out of his own mind — Dan used my ideas, concepts, and material to gain himself a position as a DARPA Program Manager. Was there ever a little thank-you, or even any response to my many emails to Dr. Daniel Green over the years? Nope. None. A small "thank you" of funding might have sufficed, you fuck-head.
Both of these fuckers have multi-million dollar (annual budgets) – actually $10M's – for Program Ideas that they stole from me, in contravention to US Law for the Government Employees they were at the times of IP theft. The electronic-communications trail is very long, making it impossible to ignore.
What is it I am asking? Do I still want to be a DARPA Program Manager? NO. No fucking way. I will go through the interview process another time, only to have my best ideas harvested by the thieves at DARPA. At my first interview with DARPA, one PM told me (at lunch), "We steal ideas." Boy howdy, do they ever!
Dear China and Russia, I am open for business. My only requirement is that I be paid up-front. (The US Government has 'intellectually raped' me enough times that I do no
In fact, the thing about Tesla is not revolutionary technology but how they made something people want to buy. Before Tesla, EV were all about fuel economy, ecology, urban areas and mid-range smaller cars, cars for responsible adults. Tesla said "fuck that" and made a big, expensive toy that can also be used as a vehicle.
Um, Tesla has been open from its inception (a decade ago?) that their first model would be top-end, the second model would be high-end, and the third model would be mid-high range.
That is exactly how it has played out – as promised. How many mega-corps can you name that keep promises on such a long-range time scale?
If you want a tiny car, buy a SMART. They have been available in vending machines since 1999 (at least in Germany). BMW has recently followed this up with a similarly tiny hybrid in recent years.