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  1. call an ambulance on Man Says Tesla Autopilot Saved His Life By Driving Him To the Hospital (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't risk wrecking or running over people on your way to the hospital. Call an ambulance. Even if it is expensive, if you can afford a $100K car you can afford to call an ambulance.

  2. They are informative.

    You don't have to do everything the keywords say to conform to the standard.

  3. Re:the CO2 improvements are minor at best on VW Has Emissions-Cheating Fix Ready, Says Report (pressherald.com) · · Score: 1

    > False. This fix does not substantially affect mileage.

    What fix? This is not a fix. It doesn't actually bring the car into compliance. If gas cars were allowed to exceed emissions then they also would be more efficient.

    > Gassers make just as much particulate, but it's of the most hazardous type, which means their particulate emissions are actually worse than diesel.

    That's only true of direct injected gas engines. This is why I said "depending on the car you compare to". Either way, gas cars, even DI ones, are within the legal limits. These Diesels are not, even after the fix.

    > Gasoline also has to be refined more than diesel

    This isn't true anymore. Diesel is a highly refined product now also. Clean emissions requires clean and homogeneous input fuel and that means more processing.

    > Gasoline engines are shit for the environment.

    As are Diesels.

    > You know that battery electrolyte isn't recycled, right? It's just disposed of and then replaced.

    When? Look at the study on 15 year old Priuses, they virtually all have their original batteries. The battery isn't highly recyclable (yet), but the savings on fuel more than makes up for it. You're barking up the wrong tree here. Hybrids are a net win, even with the material of the battery accounted for.

    > But I live in the boonies, so I would still have to do most of my driving on liquid fuel. And they are also quite expensive, to boot.

    Not everyone is you. And in the US (which this article is about) Diesels aren't cheap either. Oh yeah, and they've been cheating too. They're not going to get cheaper when they add the equipment needed to conform to emissions regulations.

    > My prior car was a 300SD, which was a bit better on mileage and which ran on a more environmentally-friendly fuel.

    That car is a rolling smog bank and you are trying to talk about how your input fuel was renewable? Seriously, have you looked at the emissions standards it was required to conform? They were a joke in the US and a double joke in Europe. It's far filthier than its contemporary gas cars and really bad compares to any modern car of any sort.

  4. the CO2 improvements are minor at best on VW Has Emissions-Cheating Fix Ready, Says Report (pressherald.com) · · Score: 1

    Diesel engines emit 15-20% more CO2 per unit volume (liter/gallon) of fuel burned because the fuel contains more energy/carbon.

    And once the companies stop cheating, the fuel economy of the Diesel just isn't all that much better than a turbo gas engine.

    Why put up with extra NOx and particulates (depending on the car you compare to) to save such a small amount of CO2? Just get a gas hybrid and do better all around. Or a plug-in hybrid like the Volt where you can do most of your driving burning no liquid fuel at all?

  5. reports are it's no fix on VW Has Emissions-Cheating Fix Ready, Says Report (pressherald.com) · · Score: 1

    That the cars will still emit 200% of legally mandated NOx levels.

    http://www.thetruthaboutcars.c...

    Only the newest vehicles with the urea injection (2015 and newer) will make it to the legal levels.

    So if you bought a "clean Diesel" based upon VW's bogus claims, remember what they did to you next time you're out buying.

  6. It is an expression of them.

    You cannot prevent distribution of the facts. That's why I said he should make his own representation of the facts and distribute that.

    But you don't have a clear cut right to redistribute someone else's copyrighted expression of the information.

    I've seen his videos, he only shows a small section of the schematic. He should just redraw that section himself and use that in his video. It's easy.

  7. it can't be for distributing copyrighted materials on Man Who Teaches People How To Repair Their MacBooks Alludes To Apple Lawsuit (gamerevolution.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This guy has a massive pariah complex, and great job feeding it, slashdot.

    It appears the guy is using Apple-copyrighted schematics. If he wants his youtube videos to stay up it's really simple to just not put them in the video. Just draw your own representation of the part of the circuit you are working on and put that up.

  8. this is not true at all on Activision Abuses DMCA To Take Knock Indie Game Entirely Off Steam · · Score: 1

    It is clear that ORION makes its gun geometry by cutting up models from Activision games and rearranging them. They are stealing assets, as they have done with previous games.

  9. Re:Great news for a fossil fuel free Sweden... on Sweden Tests World's First Electric Road For Trucks (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    No, not every advanced nation has an electric grid for its trains except the US.

    Sure, there are many electric trains, even freight trains. But many countries still move friend with diesel-electric locomotives. That includes every country in North and South America, India, China, Australia and many many more.

    It is disappointing the US doesn't have more electrified passenger rail.

  10. there are hybrid locomotives on Sweden Tests World's First Electric Road For Trucks (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is where to put the energy. The amount of energy recovered from a large train is just too large to store. So hybrid locomotives are used for switching, where the amount of energy is smaller.

    Trains don't need additional power to climb grades, they just slow down. To go the same speed would requires not just more energy (fuel or electricity input) but more powerful electric motors to turn that energy into torque. And they just don't have those bigger motors. If they did, they'd just bring along a bigger generator and then again still have no need for the electrical input. Because in a freight train a lot of the ability to put down power relates to the weight of the locomotive, as more weight means more friction on the rails. So if you're going to make the locomotive heavier, why not just do it with more fuel, more prime mover and more generator?

    Passenger trains usually hail the same cars every day. So those cars can have the motors in them and the locomotive (if present) just converts fuel to electricity. In that case, you have enough grip and power already, so removing the prime mover and generator can make it a lot more efficient. But since freight trains just drag different collections of cars each day, it has to do all the work.

  11. It doesn't matter that it's burned in on Apple Says iOS Kernel Cache Left Unencrypted Intentionally, Nothing To Worry About (loopinsight.com) · · Score: 1

    The key is burned into the processor, but you can employ the key in the processor to decrypt it. Just as the boot code decrypts the kernel cache, you can use the hardware to decrypt it for your own nefarious ends.

    It just means you have to do the decryption on the device.

    So the original writer was correct in that this encryption didn't stop all observers, just casual ones. Anyone who could get a significant jailbreak on a device could decrypt the kernel caches.

  12. yes, that's correct on Tesla Model S Floats Well Enough To Act As a Boat, According To Elon Musk · · Score: 1

    It allows them to sell their car for $7500 more without suffering the reduction in sales that would come with the customer paying $7500 more.

    That's a subsidy to Tesla.

    What did you think it is? The point of the program is to increase EV adoption by making the cars cheaper to acquire. How could you not see that as a subsidy benefiting Tesla (or any EV seller)?

  13. making the world a better place on Open and Rich Co-exist But Don't Mingle So Much (scripting.com) · · Score: 1

    Right. It was always about the money. Always.

    Even if you thought otherwise, I'm sure the other businesspeople in your company were in it for the money.

    You didn't got to SF to be poor, right?

  14. Re:No, there's no difference. on Netflix Blocks Many IPv6 Users Over Geolocation Difficulty · · Score: 1

    The problem isn't that the IPv6 packets can't be geolocated. The problem is that geolocating them doesn't tell you where the user is because the HE net VPN can be connecting to anywhere.

    Netflix requires proper geolocation now, so they are blocking these addresses.

  15. yes, but someone already did that on Researchers Turn Smartphone Vibration Motor Into Microphone To Spy On You (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    So these researchers didn't bother with it.

    http://www.gmanetwork.com/news...

    Instead they created a ridiculous hack that involves opening your phone and *not* just putting a microphone inside!

  16. No, there's no difference. on Netflix Blocks Many IPv6 Users Over Geolocation Difficulty · · Score: 1

    A VPN is a tunneling service. Same thing. Both make your packets originate from somewhere else, and that's why geolocation doesn't work. That's why they block those.

    I don't know what you mean by "read the article". I read the slashdot summary. And it doesn't match up with what is actually in the source material. The source material says the problem is due to using HE's VPN.

    BTW, I'm a user on an ISP with native IPv6 and I don't have problems connecting and watching shows.

  17. they're blocking VPNs on Netflix Blocks Many IPv6 Users Over Geolocation Difficulty · · Score: 1

    HE's IPv4-IPv6 offering is a VPN.

    They're blocking VPNs.

    I don't love that they are blocking VPNs, but that's all this is. Direct IPv6 connections will work fine.

  18. this kind of thing is usually a DDoS on Apple Offers No Explanation for 7-Hour Outage (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When companies have outages like this and don't want to talk about it it's usually a DDoS.

    They don't want to brag they can be DDoSed nor do they want to help pump up the group who did it. They don't want to give any info which is feedback about how well it worked either so the attackers can tune their attacks or gauge their chance of success if it was a dry run.

  19. it was already tried on DVD Release Delays Boost Piracy and Hurt Sales, Study Shows (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Soderbergh/Cuban did it.

    http://www.cnet.com/news/soder...

    There's no word on what the outcome was.

    I do agree that there are so many logistical difficulties to seeing movies in the theaters that a large swath of the potential market is excluded by the Hollywood practices.

    For two adults you're basically talking about $70+ to see movie if they have to get a sitter for the kids.

    On the other hand, family movies are cleaning up on this. Make a movie the adults can see with the kids and the family saves money by just sending 2 kids to the theater for $20 instead of getting a sitter. And it goes into the theater and studios' pockets.

  20. EPA fuel economy already includes charging losses. It is "wall to wheels".

    So 7.9 miles/ Per day. If you leave the car in the sun all day. Less in the winter.

  21. is this copyrighted? on Google's 'Project Magenta' Art Machine Composes Its First Song (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    If the monkey selfie isn't copyrighted (in the US at least), is this? Are creative works by computers copyrighted?

  22. except for Tesla they aren't that heavy on Scientists: Electric Vehicles Produce As Many Toxins As Dirty Diesels (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And they also cut down on brake dust by using regenerative braking as much as possible.

    I think there's some room to move here, to ensure EVs are better on particulates.

    Maybe we have to discourage the purchase of 6,000lb Teslas and instead encourage the purchase of 3600lb LEAFs and Bolts.

    This thing that particulates being widely considered the most harmful form of air pollution is also new to me. They're a serious problem for sure, but I think other trace emissions like NOx are still quite significant. And that's all ignoring CO2.

  23. Those GPS satellites were put up. There was no requirement for rocket recovery to make that happen.

    What this does is make launches cheaper.

    How does that affect me?

  24. Steam/Valve are not accepting Bitcoin on Steam Computer Gaming Network Now Accepting Bitcoin (fortune.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bitpay is. Valve will continue to accept only actual money. Bitpay will provide a service (for a fee) of turning your bitcoin into the actual money that Valve demands.

  25. I'm not sure why it's such a big deal. While CO2 heat pumps are new-ish, they aren't groundbreaking.