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  1. Re:Pioneered what? on Tesla's Keyless Entry Vulnerable To Spoofing Attack, Researchers Find (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    So to drive your car you just need:

    1. Your smart phone (with enough battery to last your trip) and 2. Connectivity to the internet.

    Nope, can't see any problem there.

    Or...wait for it...use the fob. What? Too many choices?

  2. Re:Pioneered what? on Tesla's Keyless Entry Vulnerable To Spoofing Attack, Researchers Find (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Article was poorly written. The key fob entry method wasn't a Tesla innovation, the alternative, smartphone-based entry system is. According to TFA the problem was only with the fob, specifically the weak encryption used in the Pektron chip used in Tesla's key fob.

  3. You are kidding, right?

  4. Re: Pedant mode ON on Tesla's Keyless Entry Vulnerable To Spoofing Attack, Researchers Find (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you turn the music on without they key? I am craving a Roy Orbison marathon

    That sounds awesome...count me in! Only the lonely...

  5. Re:Pioneered what? on Tesla's Keyless Entry Vulnerable To Spoofing Attack, Researchers Find (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Whatever. Give your horse a carrot, grumpy.

  6. engine
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    noun
    1. A machine with moving parts that converts power into motion.
    synonyms: motor, machine, mechanism

  7. Re:Pioneered what? on Tesla's Keyless Entry Vulnerable To Spoofing Attack, Researchers Find (theverge.com) · · Score: 2
    Apparently Tesla keyless driving is a bit different from what you're referencing:

    TESLA KEYLESS DRIVING

    Keyless Driving is a feature that allows one to power up and drive the Model S without using the factory key fob. In fact the key fob doesn’t even need to be in possession as all you need is a smart phone (with Tesla Model S app installed) and connectivity to the internet.

  8. crap there goes the LTV again on the car loan

    Cool. I'd love a Tesla Model S P100V for half list price...like that's gonna happen....

  9. The Horror! on Tesla's Keyless Entry Vulnerable To Spoofing Attack, Researchers Find (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Omigod, time to short TSLA! :)

  10. Re:Say Goodbye to Privacy! on Nearly Half of American Households Will Own a Smart Speaker by 2019, Study Says (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention they are designed from the start to hear you from all positions in a room, and if possible use microphone arrays to both filter out unwanted noise interference and to track your voice directionally, thereby have the ability to track your location in a room.

  11. Re:Say Goodbye to Privacy! on Nearly Half of American Households Will Own a Smart Speaker by 2019, Study Says (fortune.com) · · Score: 1
  12. Say Goodbye to Privacy! on Nearly Half of American Households Will Own a Smart Speaker by 2019, Study Says (fortune.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not only is Big Brother watching you, he has convinced you to pay for the privilege. For this I give a big Orwellian facepalm.

  13. The letter claims that net neutrality rules "will create significant new costs for consumers" but did not make it clear what those new costs would be.

    That is pure, unadulterated horseshit.

  14. So who put that code in the source?

  15. Hidden from whom? on Scientists Discover Hidden Deep-Sea Coral Reef Off South Carolina Coast (cnn.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    >"This is a huge feature," expedition chief scientist Dr. Erik Cordes told HuffPost. "It's incredible that it stayed hidden off the US East Coast for so long."

    I bet the U.S. Navy knew it was there but wasn't about to let the rest of the world know about it.

  16. Re: Square rod = two dimensions?? on Nanotubes Can Shape Water Molecules Into 'Two-Dimensional Ice' (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    No molecule can be a point.

    An H2O molecule is a bent line.

    An atom can be a point.

    Even atoms are composed of subatomic particles. Only a point can be a point. Quantum mechanics explains that at smaller and smaller scales the properties of particles and waves become enmeshed, their behavior is more statistical than deterministic, and nothing behaves like a static point.

  17. Re:Which fake news? on Americans Don't Think the Platforms Are Doing Enough To Fight Fake News (poynter.org) · · Score: 1

    These are people who would rather be on social media than talk to people face to face. They're never going to check various sources! The only reason why they read news at all is because someone they trust linked them to a story on social media.

    True. But the problem remains that these people are intellectually lazy and trust misinformation provided by untrustworthy sources. They won't change. That reality must be countered, rebutted, and drowned out by actual facts to convince others *before* they can be misinformed by their peers and drawn into their bubble.

  18. Re:Which fake news? on Americans Don't Think the Platforms Are Doing Enough To Fight Fake News (poynter.org) · · Score: 0

    You can't really win when 50% of the population considers one news fake, and the other 50% considers the opposite news to be fake...

    Maybe just let people read different news sources and decide.

    The problem is people have the choice to read what they want to read but aren't reading different news sources to decide what to believe. Instead they are first deciding what they wish to believe, then selecting and reading/viewing media that validates those beliefs.

  19. Time to release a recording of the remarks. Then dump their stock and shun their platform. May the last one to leave Facebook shut the servers down.

  20. You couldn't pay me enough to manage Lotus Notes. It appears there are ways to migrate Notes apps to MS SharePoint, but you can bet it would be a painful, expensive nightmare.

  21. That's fine with me on Tribune Terminates $3.9 Billion Merger With Rival Sinclair (wsj.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    We don't need to expand the Sinclair propaganda network to 72 percent of the public and we don't need a bigger broadcast version of Fox News, so I'm fine with this deal falling apart.

  22. Re:Numbers correct? on E-Waste Mining Could Be Big Business (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, those numbers seem high to me too.

  23. Re:In the US we've pretty much stopped making stee on E-Waste Mining Could Be Big Business (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    According to the World Steel Association's numbers the U.S. is actually the FOURTH largest producer of raw steel at 81.6 million metric tons, which is 4.83% of the world's total production of 1,689 million tonnes. India is #3 (101.4 million tonnes), Japan is #2 (104.7 million tonnes) and China is far and away #1 with 831.7 million tonnes of production. The U.S. beat out Russia at #5 (71.3 million metric tons).

  24. Would You Pay $700, Plus a Monthly Fee, For a Digital License Plate?

    No. Hell no. Absolutely, positively no.

  25. According to Wikipedia, Salesforce Tower is the tallest building in San Francisco and tallest building in rooftop height west of Chicago, but notes that overall it is the second tallest building west of the Mississippi--Wilshire Grand Center in Los Angeles being the tallest building west of the Mississippi.