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  1. Re:Socialism works on Was Venezuela's 5-Day Blackout Caused By Cyberattacks -- or Wildfires? (apnews.com) · · Score: 0

    Oh dear, another ignorant right-wing cunt that things Nazism (national socialism) is a kind of socialism.

    He no doubt thinks that The People's Democratic Republic of North Korea, is a democracy too.

  2. What everyone is missing on Tufts Expelled a Student For Grade Hacking. She Claims Innocence (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The university's side is not told here. The university will not reveal information to TechCrunch. So all we have here is the expelled student's version of events. It would be very strange indeed if it didn't suggest her innocence when she's the only person telling the story.

  3. You nearly lost me at "greeted by a salesperson". You really did lose me at "negotiate".

    These are the things most people hate about buying a car.

  4. Congratulations, you just created a market in Tesla dockable tablets. Now thieves have a reason to smash car windows and steal them.

  5. Re:Future Business Case Study on VW Says the Next Generation of Combustion Cars Will Be Its Last (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Many countries said they were going to ban incandescent lightbulbs, and gave a series dates for different kinds. And guess what? They kept to those dates.

    It's not naive to point out government deadlines at all. Whilst they might be dropped, they are usually not.

  6. Re:Future Business Case Study on VW Says the Next Generation of Combustion Cars Will Be Its Last (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    So if that's what matters, you could just buy an engine. You don't need the rest of the bike.

    But in reality it's having this machine that you sit on and transports you around, that you can weave round corners and traffic by leaning.

    I can tell you now that when people drive electric cars they usually find them more fun than ICE cars, not less.

    I can't speak for electric motorcycles because I haven't ridden one. But it's probably the same.

  7. Re:Future Business Case Study on VW Says the Next Generation of Combustion Cars Will Be Its Last (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't imagine? Then that's a limitation on your imagination, not the technology.

  8. Re:Future Business Case Study on VW Says the Next Generation of Combustion Cars Will Be Its Last (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Because putting a deadline on it causes the car companies and the consumers to start considering it now. Having a deadline means that most people will have changed over before the deadline.

  9. Re:Future Business Case Study on VW Says the Next Generation of Combustion Cars Will Be Its Last (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Guess what. Most people never encounter -35 degrees. And if they did, their diesel would be freezing anyway.

    Let me deal with your next comment. Yes there are ways of dealing with diesel freezing, There are also ways of dealing with cold batteries - its called preheating the battery.

  10. Re:Future Business Case Study on VW Says the Next Generation of Combustion Cars Will Be Its Last (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Many countries have set a deadline by which no more new ICE vehicles can be sold. It tends to be either 2030 or 2040. But in truth by then there will be no consumer demand for them anyway. And manufacturer that is not switching it's focus to EVs, is committing suicide.

  11. Re:Mobile ad blockers on YouTube Will Remove All Pop-up Annotations on January 15 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    iPhone does have ad-blockers for web content.

  12. Fundamentally, your question is "Can the absence of action be a crime?". And the answer is yes.

  13. Re:Just delete Elon's twitter account on Robyn Denholm Takes Over the Reigns of Tesla From Elon Musk (reuters.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Delete Trump's first.

  14. How would you know Musk's tweet is incorrect?

  15. Re:Why do they think that on James Murdoch In Line To Replace Musk As Tesla Chairman, Says Report [Update] (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no one like Musk, but probably the best parallel is Steve Jobs - for better and worse.

  16. Here's the difference. Apple has examples of every single model that runs iOS. So they can be 100% sure.

  17. Re:Big Surprise! on Apple Removes Facebook's Onavo Security App From the App Store (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter if they own up to doing it when it's against Apple's rules for developers.

  18. Re:How did it collect data on other apps? on Apple Removes Facebook's Onavo Security App From the App Store (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't. Onavo only sets up a VPN for the iOS Safari browser. So it'll redirect browser based web apps (i.e. not downloaded from the app store) via their servers where it can be sniffed. But real apps (downloaded from the app store) are not redirected, and cannot be sniffed.

  19. Re:Obvious or pointless stupid waste of time? on UK Wants An Electric-Vehicle Charger In Every New Home (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    Outdoor ones come in both wired and plugin versions. It's purely a preference.

  20. No 6 month old iPhone has ever been bricked by an update.

  21. You're good for 5 years or so with a new iPhone before an OS comes along that it can't use. If you cant afford to update your phone at lease every 5 years, you're nowhere near wealthy. So you fit the correlation nicely.

  22. That's because you can't afford them.

  23. What? You think sports cars and yachts just look good and aren't actually a pleasure to use too?

  24. Re: And ppl want Tesla to go to CHina? LOL on Tesla Sues Employee Alleged To Have Stolen Gigabytes of Data (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    It's pump priming. And it's worked. Everyone will benefit from the switch to EVs.

  25. Re:Neo-Euro colonialism on Facebook Ordered To Explain Deleted Profile (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no whoosh. Even if the EU had complete control over everything Facebook did, they'd still have no control over America. It's simply a dumb idea.