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  1. Telemetry is pretty standard on all vehicles nowadays. Tesla just has more sensors. There's no privacy violation in tracking the battery usage of a vehicle. There may be a violation if you download their telemetry without their permission, but this is obviously a car Tesla supplied. There is no reason to believe Tesla did anything to tweak these vehicles from stock.

    You're FUDding all over. Stop.

  2. Re: Management by conspiracy theory on Elon Musk Emails Employees About 'Extensive and Damaging Sabotage' By Employee (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Espionage is not sabotage, though. It's a big leap to go from someone stealing secrets, then getting hired at a competitor, and using those secrets; to a corporation hiring a corporate saboteur to undermine a competitor. The company has plausible deniability in the first case, but not the second.

    If it's sabotage, it's much more likely to be an employee who spent their life savings shorting TSLA at 10x leverage.

  3. Re: Management by conspiracy theory on Elon Musk Emails Employees About 'Extensive and Damaging Sabotage' By Employee (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's more than that. Short sellers - unlike traditional stockholders - can lose more money than they invested. And worse in this case, is that short squeezes are slow moving monstrities. It's easy for even institutional investors to end up throwing good money after bad in order to preserve their short positions.

    This wouldn't just be greedy people who don't want to miss out on profit. This would also be greedy people who are going to be ruined.

  4. Re: Management by conspiracy theory on Elon Musk Emails Employees About 'Extensive and Damaging Sabotage' By Employee (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You think it's insignificant that 1 in 32 cars sold would be luxury EVs?

  5. Re: Management by conspiracy theory on Elon Musk Emails Employees About 'Extensive and Damaging Sabotage' By Employee (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Telling stockholders before the public... isn't that insider trading?

  6. What makes Tesla struggle is they thought they could design a much more automated assembly line. They made plans based on being able to perform much more of the work without humans. The idea was to apply software agility to the assembly line, iterating rapidly and developing something better than everyone else. But like many agile projects, the end is hard to see and harder to get to by simply tweaking and tweaking. At least in a short time frame.

  7. Re: A common refrain from Musk on Elon Musk Emails Employees About 'Extensive and Damaging Sabotage' By Employee (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Which is why I just bought some TSLA. The problems they have are all problems of inexperience, which will slowly disappear. Musk keeps his promises, as long as those promises don't have a date attached. The basic business model (essentially being the Apple of automobiles) is very promising.

  8. Nintendo did the same shit on The Supreme Court Will Decide If Apple's App Store Is a Monopoly (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    NES cartridges were a design patented by Nintendo. It has been reported that premium games ($50) had a $15 fee paid to Nintendo for the use of the patented cartridge. How is that any different?

    Yes, Tengen existed and worked around the patent, just as jailbreakers can work around the iPhone lock down.

  9. Re: The mining problem on Apple's App Store Officially Bans Cryptocurrency Mining (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Running a miner surreptitiously while playing a game which already taxes your machine is just not the right use case. Running a miner on a webpage while you're reading an article instead of showing ads is totally reasonable.

  10. Re: ..waiting for the other shoe... on Comcast Says It Isn't Throttling Heavy Internet Users Anymore (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're running email over TLS, they can't tell it's email. If you're not running over TLS, then you've got more pressing issues. These types of assessments are plain FUD.

  11. To be clear, I'm talking about Linux DESKTOPS. No one runs Mac servers so comparing Mac security to Linux server security is worthless.

  12. You're smoking crack if you think the typical Linux desktop has whole disk partitioning.

  13. Re: were you ever a kid ? on YouTube Videos From Some High-Profile Channels Have Disappeared (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, kids get into shit. Most of us choose to watch our kids, know their friends' parents, and blame ourselves when there's a failure. You seem to think that YouTube should pick up where you failed as a parent.

  14. Re: 110010001000 is an error on The 'World's Worst' Smart Padlock Is Even Worse Than Previously Thought (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    That might have far more to do with alarm systems than locks.

  15. Re: This might have saved the kid in the mini-van. on iOS 12 Will Automatically Share Your iPhone Location With 911 Centers (phonedog.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you'll find that if you include the entire country, Uber response times are longer than 18 minutes on average.

  16. Re: Consolidating what is already going on ... on President Trump Directs Pentagon To Create New 'Space Force' Military Branch (defensenews.com) · · Score: 1

    The chances of that not happening again with the move to space is pretty much nil.

  17. Re: I'm sorry, does this surprise you? on YouTube Videos From Some High-Profile Channels Have Disappeared (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unattended viewing by a child is the problem. Not YT's filtering and categorization. Once you have kids, you really need to fucking grow up and take responsibility for yourself and your family, and not try to blame the world for your own inadequicies as a parent.

  18. Maybe seasoned Mac users might understand that the system drive needs to be encrypted, bT anyone coming from Linux or Unix is going to find that behavior extremely surprising. On Linux, one encrypts the home folder only in the vast majority of cases. Under normal desktop use, everything not in your home folder is open source, so encrypting is would be kind of insane.

  19. Re: Does Windows Explorer do it differently, or Li on macOS Breaks Your OpSec by Caching Data From Encrypted Hard Drives (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    All modern filesystems (HPFS+, NTFS, ext4) support metadata. The issue isn't with the filesystems, it's with the tools and apps built on top. Most importantly, each FS has its own way of reading/writing metadata, so no cross platform tools can readily take advantage.

  20. Re: Percent does not mean what you think it means on Diversity At Google Hasn't Changed Much Over the Last Year (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    In other words, Google has demonstrated their past racism while suggesting they've hit their peak on women.

  21. Percent does not mean what you think it means on Diversity At Google Hasn't Changed Much Over the Last Year (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    When the summary is corrected for mathematical reality, the numbers are:

    Women: +0.3%
    Asians: +4%
    Blacks: +4%
    Latinos: +3%

    Percent != Percentage Points

  22. Re: Actions are all that matters on 'Netflix and Alphabet Will Need To Become ISPs, Fast' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, and I'm sure your "communist" nation has vast regions of low population areas with competing local and national interests. Europeans are pretty clueless or myopic on this topic.

  23. Re: Actions are all that matters on 'Netflix and Alphabet Will Need To Become ISPs, Fast' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm currently in the process of planning a move when my lease is up because I'm sick of the U-Verse monopoly. Maybe your view of the world is a bit dated.

  24. Re: Libertarian whackjobbery on 'Netflix and Alphabet Will Need To Become ISPs, Fast' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    So first mover advantage should compel ISPs to rollout in underserved areas, right?

  25. Re: ..waiting for the other shoe... on Comcast Says It Isn't Throttling Heavy Internet Users Anymore (cnet.com) · · Score: -1

    Good. My Grandma shouldn't be paying $40/month to check her email and subsidize your Netflix subscription.