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  1. Re:Rich people realizing they can't spend it all on The $100B Bet: The Meaning of the Vision Fund (economist.com) · · Score: 2

    'The Money Store' was largely funded by the DuPont family. Nice job redistributing the wealth, whoever pulled that one off.

    Old money people are unbelievably stupid and helpless. If you did even a little searching, you could find many formerly rich families.

    3 generations removed from the person that made the money, and you are pretty much guaranteed _metric_ room temperature IQs. e.g. The Kennedy family, the Bush family, the DuPont family, the Hunt family, the Rockefeller family, the Hilton family, the other Bush family (of Anheuser-Bush) etc etc etc.

    Granting some family are so rich, they can't waste the money fast enough. Those fortunes last until the get an active investor, moron, heir.

  2. Re:Tesla smashed into starbucks on Days After A Fiery Crash, a Tesla's Battery Keeps Reigniting (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    First: Not me.

    Second: No he isn't, he's worried about 'drive by wire' calling that 'electrical failure' is a reading comprehension fail. Given the history (look into the software in Toyota's that has been examined in some detail...ignore the 1 week NASA look) software is exactly what he should be worried about.

  3. Re:Phone internal storage! on IBM Bans Staff From Using Removable Storage Devices (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Per IBMs stated policy. Removable storage is the problem. Phone internal storage is still allowed at IBM as it's 'not removable'.

  4. Re:Lost Productivity on IBM Bans Staff From Using Removable Storage Devices (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    First link after 'Ernie singing'...https://hakshop.com/products/usb-rubber-ducky-deluxe

    'Mythical', yeah right.

    Once the rubber ducky has rooted the computer you install a regular USB drive to exfiltrate data.

    BTW don't buy that rubber ducky. You can reprogram many old thumb drives into one. A further search will turn that up for you.

  5. Re:Lost Productivity on IBM Bans Staff From Using Removable Storage Devices (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    'From it' is easy. There is an example upthread.

  6. Re:Not surprising at all, and not a "Tesla Problem on Days After A Fiery Crash, a Tesla's Battery Keeps Reigniting (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, my damn cat chewed up a 1S pack wiring and shorted it. I was lucky the house didn't burn.

  7. Re:and reporting levels on Leaf | Prius | Volt ? on Days After A Fiery Crash, a Tesla's Battery Keeps Reigniting (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Gadgetified cars have smart cruise control, auto emergency braking and lane assist. So yes they have 'autopilot' and have the sense to name it appropriately.

  8. Re:Battery swaps on Days After A Fiery Crash, a Tesla's Battery Keeps Reigniting (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    There are people rebuilding wrecked (and flooded) Teslas.

    The battery can come out, but is not remotely designed to be 'swapped'. It's many bolts, plus coolant lines and contacts (that break if not perfectly aligned when the car is lowered onto the pack).

    Beware: spend any time on the rebuilding Teslas channel and Tesla will be off you list.

  9. Re:The desperate schmucks... on Days After A Fiery Crash, a Tesla's Battery Keeps Reigniting (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is when you physically damage a cell, shorting the layers, it will often catch fire. There is pretty much nothing you can do about it.

    Take a charged LiPo cell outside and drive a nail through it.

  10. Re: Tesla smashed into starbucks on Days After A Fiery Crash, a Tesla's Battery Keeps Reigniting (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually I do. A 1960 with push button shift. Didn't have a park gear that you could use (it was in the trans, but the 'linkage' never engaged it.

  11. Re:Tesla smashed into starbucks on Days After A Fiery Crash, a Tesla's Battery Keeps Reigniting (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    I would NEVER get into an airplane who's software was developed by the car industry. NEVER.

    When the car industry adopts the FAA's commercial aviation software validation process, I'll consider it.

  12. Re:Tesla smashed into starbucks on Days After A Fiery Crash, a Tesla's Battery Keeps Reigniting (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Two hydraulic circuits plus a cable e-brake.

    It's not foolproof, but it has no single point of failure.

    Using VW as an example? All that proves is you buy SHITTY cars. Water cooled VWs have always sucked balls, never more than today. Even my German relatives have finally admitted that VW is on the 'never again' list. If you know Germans, you know that didn't come easy.

  13. Re:Tesla smashed into starbucks on Days After A Fiery Crash, a Tesla's Battery Keeps Reigniting (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    It will take at least 20 years for the data to be in.

    Right now, drive by wire cars are still relatively new. Sure their are stats, but they are _easily_ manipulated. e.g. Tesla safety stats.

    Personally, I'll consider drive by wire when the car makers bring their dev efforts up to FAA standards. None have a history of pure competence.

  14. Re: No driving in Federal Prison on Days After A Fiery Crash, a Tesla's Battery Keeps Reigniting (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Ship has sailed, time to jump on the euphemism merry go round, like the 'tards.

  15. Re:Lost Productivity on IBM Bans Staff From Using Removable Storage Devices (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You can reprogram a large number of flash drives to make a 'Rubber Ducky'. Don't pay the people $50, that's for chumps.

  16. Re:Lost Productivity on IBM Bans Staff From Using Removable Storage Devices (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That's not how a Rubber ducky works.

    Windows loads the keyboard driver, the device starts 'typing' commands from an attack script.

  17. Re:I can't even imagine... on Apple Scraps $1 Billion Irish Data Center Over Planning Delays (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Every city needs a 'Star Wars Museum'!

    Paris has lots of mostly empty buildings. They should just push aside the clutter and let Lucas use the Louvre.

  18. Re:Idiocy versus deliberate espionage? on IBM Bans Staff From Using Removable Storage Devices (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    'flesh drive'...I don't even want to know what that is.

    IBM has spent the last 20+ years teaching their employees to be ready to jump at a moments notice.

    Full-time/contractor isn't much of a distinction. Only fools are loyal to those that have no loyalty to them.

    If IBM wants data security, they better get to work epoxying up USB ports. Still won't work.

  19. Re: They should be on Young Chinese Are Sick of Working Long Hours (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    14 weeks. Must be a slow job market.

    At least when they said 'happy to have a job', I assume the GP told them, 'Yep, I do have a job. I start tomorrow.'

  20. Re:Lost Productivity on IBM Bans Staff From Using Removable Storage Devices (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    What happens when you insert a device that tells the system it's a keyboard?

  21. Re:Lost Productivity on IBM Bans Staff From Using Removable Storage Devices (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    If they did _exactly_ the same thing, they just told you that you need a brand new spectrum analyzer, I'm sure they're cheap.

    You'll just have to 'sit ass', watch TV and scratch balls till the new instrument arrives.

  22. Phone internal storage! on IBM Bans Staff From Using Removable Storage Devices (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    You phone's internal storage is good enough for all your industrial espionage needs anyhow.

    Has anybody written a 'Rubber Ducky' app for Android yet?

  23. Re:Time to get beyond blood alcohol levels on Researchers Say a Breathalyzer Has Flaws, Casting Doubt On Countless Convictions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    WTF?

    Bullshit. They've gone way past testing for impairment. They're pushing for 0.05 now...the 'medical definition' of drunk is 0.15. Yes I realize the AMA eventually rolled over, but they made their point first. Your judgement goes to _shit_ at about 0.15, up till there, slower reactions.

    If 0.05 is, by definition, unable to drive, then 70 years old is, by definition, unable to drive.

    And yes, if you're massively hungover, odds are you are still 0.10. Monday morning is actually a fairly big time for DUI accidents/busts. All the serious alchies are going to work with hangovers + 'leftovers'. The really bad ones will have started the day with a hair of the dog.

  24. Re: Not a fan of the death penalty but... on States Turn To an Unproven Method of Execution: Nitrogen Gas (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm still taking: being chased off the cliffs of Dover by a hoard of topless models.

    Except I'm going to let them catch me.

  25. Re:Male Pattern Baldness on Potential New Cure Found For Baldness (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No, He had his early bald spot covered, then ran out of money.

    The island looked kind of like a nylon brush.