That's not even a good excuse. You'd still have the video from the altercation starting, and likely the audio from the entire incident, all of which would be admissible in court.
Yes, there is something wrong with plain old VGA. It looks terrible on LCDs compared to any of the digital connections - the quality degradation is unbearable to anyone who can see it, and it's really easy to see.
The cars in metro areas aren't always based in that metro area. Here in New Jersey, in particular, is where I'd think this would be the biggest problem, since there's tons of cars that come from New York and Pennsylvania, with a good number coming from other areas of the megalopolis. Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland and Virginia license plates are very common too, with a good number of Florida plates in the summer and a smattering of the other states all year round. It'd likely be the biggest problem in New Jersey for a single reason - a large portion of those cars are diving through, not staying in the area.
My point is that I don't know if Tesla will be stepping it up quickly enough. They're expecting to build 20k Model S's in the next yer - even assuming they don't ramp up production further at all, which is highly unlikely given their track record, that's about 60k of them on the road by the end of that map's timeline, and most of those will be concentrated in the major metro areas instead of spread across the country fairly evenly like these stations. I have no doubt that the stations in Montana are likely to be empty almost all the time - it's the ones that will be heaviest-used that I'm talking about.
I don't know what the situation is with these supercharger stations, but I'm guessing it's something only Tesla can build due to patents. If that's the case, they'll probably need to ramp up the infrastructure around the cities quicker than they're projecting to do so right now.
Interesting. It seems like they're solving the range problem, but not necessarily the convenience problem. There's about 20 gas stations within 5 miles of where I live, but there won't even be 1 of these supercharger stations. That's not really a problem being at home, but I think it's probably going to be a problem for some people. Not to mention, with 4 to 10 stalls and the charge time, there's a good chance that people are going to be stuck waiting once they get a lot more of these on the road like I hope they do.
That said, these stations look straight out of the future. I wouldn't mind having one in the neighborhood, if they weren't completely unmanned - they're going to get tagged to hell by dumb kids with spray paint.
For example, the only thing on CNN this week was the Jodi Arias trial which to me isn't newsworthy but they did this to hide the fact the administration (e.g. IRS, DOJ, and President) are all involved in various scandals. Fox reported this and barely mentioned the trial, which is how it should be.
I guess you didn't watch CNN at all last week, when all of the scandals first broke, and there was nonstop coverage of it (including about a solid hour of live testimony in front of Congress from Miller) and nearly no coverage of Jodi Arias. Funny how small sample sizes work, eh?
The luxury market comes before the mass market with any sufficiently complex product. By breaking the luxury market, they're paving the way for a mass market to even exist. Think about it this way - Benz was selling "cars" to the luxury market, along with all of the other manufacturers that sprung up around that time, and it took many years for Ford to come along and break the mass market.
It's on Long Island, which means you'd have to cross through NYC in order to get it out to Upstate New York by road. That alone might be impossible - I'm not sure you'd be able to drive it past a certain point on the island, you wouldn't make it to Manhattan, and by the time you're loading it on a boat to get it across to Connecticut or Massachusetts, with an unload there and another loading at the lakes, it might just be cheaper and less error prone to ship it around to the Gulf.
I'd imagine fire by wire would work much better than a normal gun anyway. Almost every non-entry-level paintball gun (i.e. not a Tippmann) is equipped with a fully electronic trigger nowadays, and I can't imagine that it'd be impossible to implement the same type of system on a normal gun. They're just as reliable as the non-electronic paintball guns as well, so the only problem I really see lies in the actual authentication issues rather than just having electronics integrated.
Sorry you got stuck with the shitty startup. I had the opposite experience, where we upgraded from nothing free besides a company dinner every once in a while to a free stocked fridge after our work started to pay off. Eventually moved into a new office, with better chairs, new monitors, ping pong table (half of us are actually competitive players, so a bit less stereotypical than normal haha), at an overall better location...
Decent furniture should last forever, but a lot of what many people have for furniture won't because of the general build quality of some of the large manufacturers. To be honest, on decent furniture, I'd be much happier with a self installed job, since, at least personally, I'd do it in such a way that the electronics unit can be replaced independently of the furniture itself - no glue, no nails, you get the idea.
Of course the card number is on the card itself. You need it for a whole lot of things, ranging from online transactions to ordering pizza. If you can't keep the physical card secure, that's your problem. I'm not so keen on having the bank account number on it, but it follows the same general principal - if someone has physical access to your card, they aren't going to be able to do any worse with that extra information than the card itself. Think about it - it's a debit card attached to a bank account. At least in the US, you can run a debit card as a credit card (requiring a signature instead of a PIN), and it gets processed under credit transaction fees, but it still just draws from the bank account. They aren't going to be able to access other information about the account, like the balance, online or elsewhere without detailed personal information like answers to security questions anyway, so your damage is limited to whatever they charge up in person.
I'm going to take a stab at this, and guess at least #1 a UK thing, because Capital One in the US sends email from their normal domain. The rest still applies though. The other two banks I deal with are regular bank accounts, so the last 4 digits are much less likely to be linked to a full account number, but the presence of links in the email still doesn't sit right. TD Bank doesn't include a link to their site in the email, and they're probably the strongest of the three overall in terms of security for passwords as well.
...that you don't seem to understand. It has nothing to do with the way they use the data. It means only that the communication is being sent encrypted, and is thus not going to be caught by a man in the middle attack. That's it, nothing more.
I was wondering, and you seem to know a bit about them, but why did those two not just run the hell away from them? The second one looks borderline dead by the way it's acting right from the start. I've had serious cases of house centipedes at my apartment, and those little fuckers really do run like hell, even just from the light being turned on.
Methinks you replied to the wrong post, since I was actually defending the US system in the realm of gun control as being more lenient than the majority of the rest of the world...
You're allowed to build homemade guns in the US under the condition that the gun itself would be legal to own anyway (for example, it isn't fully automatic). 3D printers just make it a bit more accessible than crafting it by hand. Apparently, many people in the US just don't know this fact.
Florida makes a good deal of sense. It's a convenient jump across the Caribbean, so it makes sense to have at least some infrastructure in the area. Florida also has a large population and is relatively densely populated - something like 4th and 9th in the nation, respectively.
Wrong. Here's a simplified example for you. There are 10 people in my fictional world. There's only one malady: heart attack. It strikes 10% of the people per year, and costs $100k to treat. Mere mortals like you and I can't just absorb a $100k hit, but we can absorb $10k/year in insurance costs. Everybody throws $10k/year in a bucket and the one guy per year (on average) who has a heart attack gets to take the money out of the bucket and use it for his treatment.
The bucket is an insurance company. You should see that the money that the 9 of us put in there who were healthy that year isn't still sitting there. It got paid out to the guy who wasn't healthy.
In reality, before the reforms passed, many insurance companies were sitting on a loss ratio of 60% all the way up to 110% - which means you were actually paying well under 10k/year (a good deal for you, but probably not going to last long) all the way up to 16k/year (your company is being run inefficiently) for that "10k worth" of insurance, with the rest going to their other expenses, including executive compensation, marketing, fraud prevention, and all of the other extras that aren't directly your health care costs, whether they're necessary or excessive. As it stands, in many other developed countries, the overhead ratio is hovers between 5 and 10%. The fact that many companies in the US had up to 40% of their revenue go out as overhead costs and profits instead of healthcare costs was atrocious, and needed to be fixed. That kind of massive inefficiency can't exist in a system that's clearly broken at least in part because of those high overhead costs. It's not the only problem with the healthcare system, but it's one step in the right direction.
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That's not even a good excuse. You'd still have the video from the altercation starting, and likely the audio from the entire incident, all of which would be admissible in court.
Yes, there is something wrong with plain old VGA. It looks terrible on LCDs compared to any of the digital connections - the quality degradation is unbearable to anyone who can see it, and it's really easy to see.
The cars in metro areas aren't always based in that metro area. Here in New Jersey, in particular, is where I'd think this would be the biggest problem, since there's tons of cars that come from New York and Pennsylvania, with a good number coming from other areas of the megalopolis. Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland and Virginia license plates are very common too, with a good number of Florida plates in the summer and a smattering of the other states all year round. It'd likely be the biggest problem in New Jersey for a single reason - a large portion of those cars are diving through, not staying in the area.
If you can't see that Telsa is planning an emerging sector of the economy right now, you're blind.
My point is that I don't know if Tesla will be stepping it up quickly enough. They're expecting to build 20k Model S's in the next yer - even assuming they don't ramp up production further at all, which is highly unlikely given their track record, that's about 60k of them on the road by the end of that map's timeline, and most of those will be concentrated in the major metro areas instead of spread across the country fairly evenly like these stations. I have no doubt that the stations in Montana are likely to be empty almost all the time - it's the ones that will be heaviest-used that I'm talking about.
I don't know what the situation is with these supercharger stations, but I'm guessing it's something only Tesla can build due to patents. If that's the case, they'll probably need to ramp up the infrastructure around the cities quicker than they're projecting to do so right now.
Interesting. It seems like they're solving the range problem, but not necessarily the convenience problem. There's about 20 gas stations within 5 miles of where I live, but there won't even be 1 of these supercharger stations. That's not really a problem being at home, but I think it's probably going to be a problem for some people. Not to mention, with 4 to 10 stalls and the charge time, there's a good chance that people are going to be stuck waiting once they get a lot more of these on the road like I hope they do.
That said, these stations look straight out of the future. I wouldn't mind having one in the neighborhood, if they weren't completely unmanned - they're going to get tagged to hell by dumb kids with spray paint.
They're editors. Their job is to check it before it's posted. Regardless as to whether the submitter was at fault, they're also at fault.
For example, the only thing on CNN this week was the Jodi Arias trial which to me isn't newsworthy but they did this to hide the fact the administration (e.g. IRS, DOJ, and President) are all involved in various scandals. Fox reported this and barely mentioned the trial, which is how it should be.
I guess you didn't watch CNN at all last week, when all of the scandals first broke, and there was nonstop coverage of it (including about a solid hour of live testimony in front of Congress from Miller) and nearly no coverage of Jodi Arias. Funny how small sample sizes work, eh?
The luxury market comes before the mass market with any sufficiently complex product. By breaking the luxury market, they're paving the way for a mass market to even exist. Think about it this way - Benz was selling "cars" to the luxury market, along with all of the other manufacturers that sprung up around that time, and it took many years for Ford to come along and break the mass market.
It's on Long Island, which means you'd have to cross through NYC in order to get it out to Upstate New York by road. That alone might be impossible - I'm not sure you'd be able to drive it past a certain point on the island, you wouldn't make it to Manhattan, and by the time you're loading it on a boat to get it across to Connecticut or Massachusetts, with an unload there and another loading at the lakes, it might just be cheaper and less error prone to ship it around to the Gulf.
I'd imagine fire by wire would work much better than a normal gun anyway. Almost every non-entry-level paintball gun (i.e. not a Tippmann) is equipped with a fully electronic trigger nowadays, and I can't imagine that it'd be impossible to implement the same type of system on a normal gun. They're just as reliable as the non-electronic paintball guns as well, so the only problem I really see lies in the actual authentication issues rather than just having electronics integrated.
Sorry you got stuck with the shitty startup. I had the opposite experience, where we upgraded from nothing free besides a company dinner every once in a while to a free stocked fridge after our work started to pay off. Eventually moved into a new office, with better chairs, new monitors, ping pong table (half of us are actually competitive players, so a bit less stereotypical than normal haha), at an overall better location...
Exactly. People don't understand that farmer's markets and other sources of fresh produce don't exist everywhere.
Decent furniture should last forever, but a lot of what many people have for furniture won't because of the general build quality of some of the large manufacturers. To be honest, on decent furniture, I'd be much happier with a self installed job, since, at least personally, I'd do it in such a way that the electronics unit can be replaced independently of the furniture itself - no glue, no nails, you get the idea.
Of course the card number is on the card itself. You need it for a whole lot of things, ranging from online transactions to ordering pizza. If you can't keep the physical card secure, that's your problem. I'm not so keen on having the bank account number on it, but it follows the same general principal - if someone has physical access to your card, they aren't going to be able to do any worse with that extra information than the card itself. Think about it - it's a debit card attached to a bank account. At least in the US, you can run a debit card as a credit card (requiring a signature instead of a PIN), and it gets processed under credit transaction fees, but it still just draws from the bank account. They aren't going to be able to access other information about the account, like the balance, online or elsewhere without detailed personal information like answers to security questions anyway, so your damage is limited to whatever they charge up in person.
I'm going to take a stab at this, and guess at least #1 a UK thing, because Capital One in the US sends email from their normal domain. The rest still applies though. The other two banks I deal with are regular bank accounts, so the last 4 digits are much less likely to be linked to a full account number, but the presence of links in the email still doesn't sit right. TD Bank doesn't include a link to their site in the email, and they're probably the strongest of the three overall in terms of security for passwords as well.
...that you don't seem to understand. It has nothing to do with the way they use the data. It means only that the communication is being sent encrypted, and is thus not going to be caught by a man in the middle attack. That's it, nothing more.
They have to make up for thinking The Onion was a real news site and hacking it.
I was wondering, and you seem to know a bit about them, but why did those two not just run the hell away from them? The second one looks borderline dead by the way it's acting right from the start. I've had serious cases of house centipedes at my apartment, and those little fuckers really do run like hell, even just from the light being turned on.
The CIA isn't a part of the DHS.
Methinks you replied to the wrong post, since I was actually defending the US system in the realm of gun control as being more lenient than the majority of the rest of the world...
Where else in the world has more lenient gun laws than the US, that isn't a total shithole?
Seriously, consider what you're saying before you talk next time.
You're allowed to build homemade guns in the US under the condition that the gun itself would be legal to own anyway (for example, it isn't fully automatic). 3D printers just make it a bit more accessible than crafting it by hand. Apparently, many people in the US just don't know this fact.
Florida makes a good deal of sense. It's a convenient jump across the Caribbean, so it makes sense to have at least some infrastructure in the area. Florida also has a large population and is relatively densely populated - something like 4th and 9th in the nation, respectively.
Wrong. Here's a simplified example for you. There are 10 people in my fictional world. There's only one malady: heart attack. It strikes 10% of the people per year, and costs $100k to treat. Mere mortals like you and I can't just absorb a $100k hit, but we can absorb $10k/year in insurance costs. Everybody throws $10k/year in a bucket and the one guy per year (on average) who has a heart attack gets to take the money out of the bucket and use it for his treatment. The bucket is an insurance company. You should see that the money that the 9 of us put in there who were healthy that year isn't still sitting there. It got paid out to the guy who wasn't healthy.
In reality, before the reforms passed, many insurance companies were sitting on a loss ratio of 60% all the way up to 110% - which means you were actually paying well under 10k/year (a good deal for you, but probably not going to last long) all the way up to 16k/year (your company is being run inefficiently) for that "10k worth" of insurance, with the rest going to their other expenses, including executive compensation, marketing, fraud prevention, and all of the other extras that aren't directly your health care costs, whether they're necessary or excessive. As it stands, in many other developed countries, the overhead ratio is hovers between 5 and 10%. The fact that many companies in the US had up to 40% of their revenue go out as overhead costs and profits instead of healthcare costs was atrocious, and needed to be fixed. That kind of massive inefficiency can't exist in a system that's clearly broken at least in part because of those high overhead costs. It's not the only problem with the healthcare system, but it's one step in the right direction.