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  1. Re: Guess I just never paid attention on Tesla Gigafactory Begins Production (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    If you're paying enough taxes to make a difference in that rich man buying a car, then you're rich enough to buy a car, too. The bottom half of earners pay *very* little tax.

  2. Re: Cheaper than wind? on World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You're comparing the cost of an entire power plant against just the fuel cost without delivery or shipping or operation or cleanup of another and that is more fair than the article?

  3. Re:PLEASE...make a sports car again!! on Tesla 'Easter Egg' Makes the World's Fastest Car Even Faster (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The S4 is cheaper, but more practical? The model S seats 7 has a trunk up front, and gets an equivalent to 93 mpg in electricity cost, if you're not using a supercharger. But I agree with you, the acceleration is fine for daily driving on an S4, was just pointing out that the Tesla is in hypercar territory, not family-hauler territory.

  4. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Tesla 'Easter Egg' Makes the World's Fastest Car Even Faster (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    It's hard to go 0-60 when you're starting at not-0. I strongly suspect it will, like almost all launch control programs, be available only prior to launch.

  5. Re:PLEASE...make a sports car again!! on Tesla 'Easter Egg' Makes the World's Fastest Car Even Faster (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Mid 5 to mid 4 0-60 times. You're off by a couple seconds. http://www.zeroto60times.com/v...

  6. Re: The console advantage. on Sony To Debut Two New PlayStation 4 Consoles Next Month, Says WSJ (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You either re-bought the games, or you're lying. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Ps3+on+ps...

  7. Re:Illusions on Researchers Discover How To Fool Tesla's Autopilot System (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, like this car that crashed into a painted tunnel scene: https://i.imgur.com/mOTHgnfl.j... People make mistakes. Machines make mistakes, because people made the machines. It's good to improve the machines through testing like this, but let's be honest: the time when the machine is the better driver is fast approaching, especially considering the number of distracted drivers there are on the road.

  8. Re: bunch of lazy sobs on GitHub Is Undergoing a Full-Blown Overhaul As Execs and Employees Depart (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When I moved to working from home, I became more productive. If you suck at self management, I suppose there would be a problem, but I don't. My boss tells me that I regularly turn out 1.5x to 2x what he expects from any employee, and some weeks 3x, and I very rarely put in more than 40 hrs/wk. I'm approachable to all my coworkers, so they can still use me as a resource. They just message me in jabber, and then I either answer them there, on the phone, on a video call, or with a screen share depending on what makes sense, but it doesn't break my train of thought the way someone walking up does. I wouldn't go back to working in an office unless I had no choice. I don't like unnecessarily wasting my time in a car, risking my life on the drive, wasting my company's time on idle chatter, wasting my money on lunch out or more of my time on packing one. I like actually getting to see my kids grow up, and being able to support my autistic son in therapy. And I like being the best at my job. All of that means I work from home.

  9. Congressional saary on Why 6 Republican Senators Think You Don't Need Faster Broadband (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    I know of very few places in the country that require much more than median household income to live, so let's adjust Congressional salaries to be pinned to median income.

  10. Re:So when are they making something we can AFFORD on Tesla Unveils the Model X · · Score: 1

    Yep, nothing new in the electric market since the mid 1800's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... They came first, which means it's old news and no one should iteratively improve it, only look for new things.

  11. Re:So when are they making something we can AFFORD on Tesla Unveils the Model X · · Score: 1

    The primary ingredient, Lithium, is only about 4x as expensive as pure iron. It's not actually all that expensive. You're totally right, though, I'm sure that Tesla will die as soon as we have an economic downturn, like the one we've been in since the company launched.

    I'm afraid that the limited market for the resources and the batteries will not make it feasible to ever mass produce cheap batteries.

    So are most automotive executives, and most investors, which is why it hasn't happened. It takes someone with the vision *and* the capital to make a revolution happen.

  12. Re:This was a pretty exciting photographer release on Apple Product Event Highlights · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What about the NSA-approved always-on spy mode?

  13. Re:iBore 6.0 on Apple Product Event Highlights · · Score: 1

    I would be seriously impressed if you could break a high end phone screen with your finger.

  14. Re:Welcome to the Group! on Ask Slashdot: Advice On Enterprise Architect Position · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If the time has come for the general to pick up a rifle, the war is lost. You should not be thinking in single-system mode. You should be able to trust your minions and underlings to do what they're paid to do, which is follow your direction. Read-only access is a great ask, since it ensures that any changes made are documented, and therefore repeatable.

  15. Re:Why no wheels? on Off-Grid Home Ecocapsule To Hit the Market This Year · · Score: 1

    Did you try clicking and dragging left / right? That turns it each direction. When you let go, it stops turning so you can get a better look. Granted, it's not as good as being able to open / close, but it is interactive.

  16. Re:Not Evil on Google Will Block Access To Its Autocomplete API On August 10 · · Score: 1

    Menu > Settings > Manage Search Engines > Click on the option you want. You can't make it much easier than that without cluttering the UI.

  17. Re:nothing new under the sun on Affair Site Hackers Threaten Release of All User Data Unless It Closes · · Score: 1

    The government is willing to take as much money as you're willing to give them in the interest free loan that is overpayment of taxes with the intention of a bigger return. When you file your taxes in the beginning of the following year (what most people call "filing their return"), is when it matters, because then you could be getting back more money / paying less taxes than you are legally required to, and that's when Uncle Sam begins to get peeved.

  18. Re:nothing new under the sun on Affair Site Hackers Threaten Release of All User Data Unless It Closes · · Score: 1

    Filing as "single" when you're married is flat out tax fraud, and you're subject to fines up to $250,000 and years of imprisonment, so I doubt that is a common method of filing. http://www.avvo.com/legal-answ...

  19. Re:Holy Jebus on Elon Musk: Faulty Strut May Have Led To Falcon 9 Launch Failure · · Score: 2

    That's, of course, why every strut they tested failed in exactly the same way, including all those on the successful launches as well, and not that they had to test an 'enormous' number of them to find one that failed in the same way. Or perhaps it was the other way around.

  20. Re:It's not just audio triangulation on Elon Musk: Faulty Strut May Have Led To Falcon 9 Launch Failure · · Score: 1

    Using multiple sources helps to cut down on that as you look at the one meter areas from each sensor and find the overlapping areas, which are likely much smaller than one sq m.

  21. Re:nothing new under the sun on Affair Site Hackers Threaten Release of All User Data Unless It Closes · · Score: 1

    Married filing separately isn't the same as filing single. That's why there are three columns. Note the following is straight rates, no deductions.

    Say a man makes $80k and his wife makes $150k. Single he pays $15856.10, and she pays $35175.60. Total together is $51031.70
    They get married, they pay $51804.20. Which is $772.50 more.
    They file separately and he pays $16023.35 and she pays $37452.10, with a total of $53475.45. That's $2243.75 more than when they were single and $1671.25 more than filing jointly.

    The only way that it makes sense to file separately is if you're going to move all the family's deductions to the higher paid person's taxes to get an overall lower rate, and if the changes more than pay for the accountants and potentially lawyers. So, I'm afraid you're wrong, there are definitely ways that married people could end up paying more, but really only if they make enough to actually pay taxes in the first place.

  22. Re:Wouldn't apply to Netflix on Netflix Hoping For Free Network Access From ISPs · · Score: 1

    But simply having their application return the same amount of traffic as it downloads would be cheaper for them to implement, since it would only be a few lines of code, and it would resolve the bandwidth mismatch at the peering point. It would hurt the users a bit as they tried to figure out why their video quality is suffering as the ISPs network chokes out.

    It's a completely valid technical solution to an artificial problem, because it points out that by not balancing the traffic you're benefiting the ISP. Since almost all the traffic is downstream to the users, they can focus on providing higher downstream speeds without having to deliver higher upstream speeds. This enables bigger numbers on their advertisements. "50 mbps SUPER SPEED ULTRA FAST FAST* (*2 mbps upload)".

  23. Re:Recommended supplementary curriculum for HFA? on Interviews: Ask Dr. Temple Grandin About Animals and Autism · · Score: 1

    Purchased The Spark on this recommendation, and I'll read it through when it gets here. Much appreciated! I'll also continue to try to tie things into his interests more closely, though his primary interest is video games, and we *have* to limit that for everyone's sanity. I bought him some circuit builder starter kits and a couple other tinkering things and will continue to work with him to help him find more interests. Glad to hear of your work, I'm sure we'll all benefit from it in times to come.

  24. Re:Recommended supplementary curriculum for HFA? on Interviews: Ask Dr. Temple Grandin About Animals and Autism · · Score: 1

    Having read her page, she offers a lot of solid advice to parents of children regarding their emotional well-being, growth and therapeutic methods. I don't necessarily think that she *will* have an answer, but given the opportunity to ask a question, I felt it prudent to ask the question that - if answered - would be most likely to improve his life the most. For the most part, he's only in school to continue improving his socialization, we do a lot of at home learning with books and explanations, questions and field trips so he gets real world association with what he's learning. But I want to make sure that I'm providing the best to him that I can. When we were awarded custody from his mother, the judge said that he had the "worst behavior [she'd] seen in [her] 20 years on the bench" and our primary focus with the schools and therapists has been resolving that, and he's made astounding progress (from a violent outburst 3-4 times per day, lasting hours per episode) to once a week or less for less than an hour, in 9 months. But during that same time period, his typical education has not progressed as much and we know he's often bored, and we want to make sure that we're working hard to help him there, too.

  25. Re:Wouldn't apply to Netflix on Netflix Hoping For Free Network Access From ISPs · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that netflix should make their applications return random garbage from the customer's machines to their servers in an equal amount used to deliver the video, so that the ISPs have an equal amount of traffic going back to netflix? This doesn't sound like it will end well for the ISPs which dedicate a lot fewer channels to upstream. Perhaps netflix should enable it for a couple weeks to show the ISPs what "fair trade" traffic would look like.