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  1. Re: Car software is terrible on Software Is Eating the Auto Industry (strategyanalytics.com) · · Score: 1

    Try a Tesla. It just works.

  2. Re: Safety recalls, and feature changes on Software Is Eating the Auto Industry (strategyanalytics.com) · · Score: 1

    Bear in mind that it was not just surfing, but the worm was actually on the wifi. How many wifis do u hook up to, other than ur home? We only use our home and I setup so as we are not broadcasting out on out street.

  3. Re: Not good news on Software Is Eating the Auto Industry (strategyanalytics.com) · · Score: 1

    Chill out. For example, on Tesla, u can kill ota of both WiFi and 3/4g. I'm sure others will follow suit soon enough.

  4. Trump will get how many years for... on Samsung Chief Jailed For Five Years For Bribery and Perjury (koreaherald.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Treason?

  5. tired of ppl wanting intel world to out self. on 'US Intelligence Agencies Should Put Up Or Shut Up With Kaspersky Rumors' (csoonline.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The last thing that the intelligence world wants to do is tell every tom, dick, and harry out here how it spies on other nations and how it catches ppl/organizations.
    I am amazed at all of the idiots calling for NSA to out themselves for what they do LEGALLY.
    Even now, look at what is going on with trump investiation. Trump/family/admin continue to make a statement that is a lie. So, NSA will release a peice of evidence that refutes those lies, along with offers up another clue. Now, why do they not simply dump all of their data on ppl like Trump, Pence, Bannon, etc for their treason? Because to do so, would allow Russia and China to figure out how we spy on their spies and then get around us. That would be a disaster. The best thing that happens is when these top nations have inside information about POLICY/WHY, but not about the HOW. This has prevented a number of wars. But, once a nation like China get the HOW, then it will lead from this China's cold war with the west, to a full blown hot war, which could lead to nukes.
    REAL BAD IDEA.

  6. yeah, samsung has lost it on Samsung TV Owners Furious After Software Update Leaves Sets Unusable (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, at this time, I gave up on Samsung since $ for $, they are expensive and really have not only QA issues, but bad marketing. My TV actually has the ability to control the tuner, but samsung has elected to not allow that. Why? Because they charge a great deal more for that.
    At this time, we are looking at going to Vizio.

  7. huh. So, what nations have gotten rid of their nationalism?

  8. fucking idiots like you do not read or understand history. NAZIs were socialist in name only. They were a FAR RIGHT group, even by Hitlers words.

  9. baloney.
    When all nations are no longer in a cold/hot war and all contribute equally, then it is fine.
    BUT, with China in a major cold war with the west ( and winning it on the economic front), it makes little sense to NOT take some pride.
    As it is, ALL NATIONS display their flags. It seems like AMerica tends to be the one hit over the head for doing what everybody else is doing.

  10. The American flag is put on with stars forwards. That way, it is 'not in retreat'. Of course, these days, not sure that is the case.
    However, the flag will be replaced with whatever nation the suit owner has. Canadian flag for Canadian owner. etc. etc. And right now, that suit is targeted to NASA.

    Also, the connections tend to be on the lower left-hand side.

    Finally, look again at that material. I think that it is type of pleather, perhaps the same stuff that is now in tesla seats. If so, it is VERY strong and very rip/cut safe. In fact, the 'pleather' in Tesla only comes in white and black at this time, so, I really think that is the case.

  11. Seriously, this should allow for nanobots and better spying gear.

  12. if that is a 4 star, then things are bad on Popular Weather App AccuWeather Caught Sending User Location Data, Even When Location Sharing is Off (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, accuweather is about the WORST forecast going.
    Only idiots or some robot would mod them up to a 4 star.

  13. Re:bullshit on Supreme Court Asked To Nullify the Google Trademark (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    ahhh, There is your problem.
    You have never talked with Steve Ballmer or Donald Trump.

  14. Re:Just stopped sending money to eff on EFF Honors Chelsea Manning, an IFEX Leader, And TechDirt's Editor (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    treason IS crimes against the state. Whistle blowing is reporting illegal (or sometimes immoral) actions that others (and might include self) did.
    Snowden is the PERFECT example, since he did BOTH. He whistle blew when he was reporting about the spying on Americans by NSA employees. These were individuals that were up to no good, and NSA was not doing anything to stop it.
    However, he continued and described legal operations the the NSA is SUPPOSED to be doing. That was treason.

    Petraus is NOT treason. He passed classified information to a fellow officer (and his mistress) who did not pass it around. She did NOT have security clearance for it. His intentions was not to harm America. It was simply trying to carry on a conversation with his lover. HUGE mistake. He should have gotten more punishment than what he got (100K fine, busted in rank so lower retirement, and probation; nice, but he should have had SOME amount of jail time since a grunt would have gotten it).
    So what secrets did ollie north share with the world that he was not supposed to do? None that I know of. All he did was follow reagan's criminal orders. All of reagan's admin should have had prison time, but not for treason.

    And manning is guilty of treason because he simply dumped everything, regardless if legal or not. His issues was NOT legality, but wanting to hurt America. He is the VERY DEFINITION of a traitor.

  15. Re: Just stopped sending money to eff on EFF Honors Chelsea Manning, an IFEX Leader, And TechDirt's Editor (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes and no. The information about spying on Americans was good. That was whistleblowing. The problem is that he went on to tell where else we we're at outside of America. From America's POV, those were legal operations. We had permission from every single nation that he announced except for his discussion on spying on Russia, and China. Obviously, those were not approved by their governments. And yes, we even had permission to spy on Brazil from certain groups. Why did they all approve? Because nearly all of it was about terrorism. We have stopped a number of attacks in Europe. Snowden was good, up until he talked about legal operations. At that moment, he became a traitor.

  16. Re: America needs to stop buying from Chinese boat on A Global Fish War is Coming, Warns US Coast Guard (usni.org) · · Score: 2

    I have heard about this from 2 of my friends that work on fishing boats in our EEZ (2 ppl normally; 1 checks sanitary conditions, the other is supposed to check catch and keep legal ; they tell some horrible stories ). Google will produce a lot for you
    But this is pretty good, but talks about China's action all around rather just American water. And yes, China deploys driftnets in our waters on way out.
    our real issue is that coast guard is severely undermanned since we send too many to the middle East. Now, trump wants to gut coast guard even more to give money to ice , which is just plain stupid. Illegal aliens can be solved just by phasing in e-verify. In the mean time, America's waters are being gutted by China.

  17. America needs to stop buying from Chinese boats on A Global Fish War is Coming, Warns US Coast Guard (usni.org) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Seriously, what is going on, is that Chinese boats come across the pacific filling up, and then sells in America. This is what allows them to then sell fish DIRT CHEAP at home. The worst part is, that not only do they do their legal limits on the way over, but then fill up again, with fish from American waters that they do not have a license for.

    The only way to stop this is to prohibit their selling in America, or importing from Canada/Mexico if China sells there. Then no more licenses for CHinese boats to be in American economic zone.
    As it is, they are fishing our waters and destroying these faster than their own.

  18. Re: Just stopped sending money to eff on EFF Honors Chelsea Manning, an IFEX Leader, And TechDirt's Editor (eff.org) · · Score: 2

    Not only have I contributed for years to eff, and contributed OSS, but used to belong to aclu. I am a believer in supporting first amendments and whistle blowers. In fact, I support Snowden for when he blew the whistle on individuals spying on Americans, that was good. But he became a traitor when he told Russia, China, n. Korea, AQ, Taliban, etc how we spy on them. That later part made him a traitor.

  19. Just stopped sending money to eff on EFF Honors Chelsea Manning, an IFEX Leader, And TechDirt's Editor (eff.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Seriously, whistleblowing and treason can appear similar at times. Both release info on behavior that they have issues with. However, a whistleblower will make sure that classified legal actions are protected. Treason is when classified legal actions are released and was meant to simply harm the nation. Both Manning and Snowden are traitors. Manning never was upset about actions that he released. He was upset that he did not fit into the military. As such, manning simply dumped anything and everything. He is a traitor.

  20. Interesting and weird on Wisconsin Lawmakers Vote To Pay Foxconn $3 Billion To Get New Factory (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Why are the GOP happy to give 3 billion subsidy to Chinese companies, but then scream about a .5 B loan to Tesla?

  21. Re: If it doesnt have on Hyundai To Build a 300-Mile-Per-Charge Electric Car (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong. At this time, Leasing an ice vehicle is smart, vs buying one. They are about to plummet in resale vale due to EVs.

  22. Rubin should have built the google phone that he was backing when there. Basically, it IS possible to make a phone out of components, but, Rubin approached it wrong. Really too bad. In the end, I think that Android will lose out simply because overseas will decide to no longer carry android, even on the phones sold here. And at that time, it will be too late.

  23. First off, one thing I have seen over the decades is that women, in general, are better at multitasking than men. Likewise, men , in general, maintain a stronger focus. As such, men tend to do better at coding than women. By the same token, women are better at management, going from low all the way up to VPs, since they will handle a number of different task at the same time ( ceo typically have to focus on a single issue and solve it).
    Secondly, there are 2 issues with my first point. Many women/men break these molds . Plenty of women that can focus, and men that multitask. In addition, we do NOT know the reason for this. Is it genetics or training. It really could be either way.
    third, the diversity issue has nothing to do with being conservative or not. Diversity programs are simply a program to capture top ppl that traditionally would not jump into that position. If they put quotas on it, then you have an issue. But just having a diversity programs by itself is NOT an issue, and esp not a political issue.

    fire suit on.

  24. Please mod parent up. on New Work Suggests That P Is Not Equal To NP (arxiv.org) · · Score: 1

    While p=np would have enabled a large number of interesting solutions, this is probably far more important to the world. So, please mod parent up.

  25. Re: this is why Tesla is going to be HUGE quickly on Nissan Won't Build Its Own Electric Car Batteries Anymore (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, several weeks ago, must said that Y would be based on 3, so there is some doubt about whether wires will be roboticly installed.
    Of course, the normal approach at any good company with good ppl, is do the right thing and ask for forgiveness rather than permission and have to do the wrong thing. :)