Do actually follow the link. Don't worry; there is a great big picture with a few words, so you don't have to read much.
The very first thing you should notice is that this is about more than property values. This is also, and perhaps primarily, about hate for technology and technologists. The black-and-white image of Levandowski's house doesn't say "so and so is pricing you out of your neighboorhood." It says:
Anthony Levandowski is building an unconscionable world of surveillance, control and automation. He is also your neighbor.
So at this point we should be all done soft-pedalling these people (a la this submission) as good but misguided folks in fear of "impact on the San Francisco Bay Area economy," or whatever. These are neo-luddite libtards fomenting hate and using surveillance to intimidate individuals.
So we're propagandists here. Poasting our propaganda. To influence world politics on behalf of the State Department.
o_O
Also, wtf is wrong with US ski resorts that they don't have tackle-gangs lining the slopes to prevent injuries? Our resort operators are just using landscaping and safety barriers to avoid paying sacrificial slope guards. Greedy capitalists.
The doomsday clock accumulates the new fears of western elites like some sort of alarmist meme flypaper.
In truth, the doomsday clock represents exactly that set of things you should not worry about. The thing that will actually blow up our world will be deliberately excluded from the list because that thing will enjoy the highest degree of political immunization. Right up until it all goes pear shaped.
One, now extinct, vegan subspecies will be trumpeted throughout the western world as evidence of our foolish diets and a as crucial imperative our which we must wrap our public policy. Vegans and warmists have a fresh new outlier to cite. The fact that it appears to be an evolutionary dead end will be discounted or ignored.
Primitive humans throughout the world manufactured vast quantities of weapons; one of the best and most ubiquitous indicators of human habitation are deposits of stone tips for projectiles or spears. Those weapons weren't used to kill plants or carcasses. They were used to hunt fresh meat or fight other humans or both. Which is it?
We all know the answer. Yet we must play these games, foisting our bullshit one each other, trying to support the hipster, metro-sexual malcontent anti-anything-bigger-than-a-hobby-farm world view.
I'm going to a gun range today. When I'm done I'm going to get a burger. So fuck you and your extinct vegan hobbits.
I'm afraid you've revealed a degree of ignorance here that discredits whatever opinions you may have about C++. C++ provides template specialization, which permits distinct, parallel implementations based on template parameter type. Foo<double> and Foo<int> need not share implemenations.
C++ templates have been used very successfully in libraries that involve co-variant types and sophisticated algorithms. See OpenCV for a popular and widely used example. Templates are endemic among the fundamental types of that library and the C++ API has displaced the now deprecated C API because the C++ language itself and our contemporary cadre of C++ compilers are handling these use cases just fine.
So please stop bad-mouthing things you don't understand.
Since the usual "appointed by Bush" is conspicuously absent, I'm going to hazard a guess and say this one is a Clinton appointee. Yep, appointed in 1998 by Bubba.
That large group of people are the ones at fault here.
AMD/ATI has never attempted to even approach NVidia's commitment to make hardware run well with Linux. Yet you people keep buying their hardware. The small cost savings of AMD has always been enough to get even regular Linux desktop users to buy their stuff despite their chronic indifference to anything other than Windows.
The best thing that could possibly happen at this point is for gamers to ignore people like you and buy Steambox compatible hardware, meaning not AMD, in large quantities. Then, maybe, at long last, at least fifteen years too late, that fucking company will finally step up and deal with the problem.
Linus not withstanding, NVidia has provided me with up-to-date, stable, performant Linux drivers for their hardware without fail for almost twenty years. Recently, NVidia has invested even more effort and collaborated with Valve to capture the Steambox platform. If this Debian based, open gaming platform succeeds we all have NVidia to thank. NVidia has EARNED this outcome, and people like you, with your sad-sack AMD crap need to reconsider your behavior.
But you won't. Nope. Instead, you'll download Steambox and try to run it on your Windows-only video hardware, watch it catch on fire and the bitch up a fucking storm all over the Internets about how Steambox is a giant POS.
If Steambox succeeds it will have to be despite you god damned AMD buyers, as always.
So yeah, I bought a 3TB drive from Best Buy today for archival purposes, not caring less if they put it on sale Friday, and I noticed a tent — a god damned tent — just outside the entrance. Some fuckwit is actually camping outside a Best Buy to be first in line.
There will be a reckoning. Keep printing Ben; lets make this implosion every inch of whatever it is they mean by `American Exceptionalism.'
Sounds like the vendor building the system had a favorite hammer and decided that a rather traditional database problem looked like a nail.
It was the Medicare folks that imposed MarkLogic over the objections of the prime contractor. Calling Medicare a "vendor" is a bit of a stretch. Like non-IT staff calling themselves "customers" of IT in a corporation, as if they have a choice of IT departments.
Another sore point was the Medicare agency’s decision to use database software, from a company called MarkLogic, that managed the data differently from systems by companies like IBM, Microsoft and Oracle. CGI officials argued that it would slow work because it was too unfamiliar. Government officials disagreed, and its configuration remains a serious problem.
The CGI argument was that it would slow work. I have absolutely no doubt about that. Every NoSQL system is it's own distinct thing with unique APIs, protocols, conventions, quirks, etc. This is fine when you are dealing with a limited group of good developers that can be expected to rapidly climb a learning curve. This is not fine when you are the top contractor in a herd of contractors, populated by a vast number of mediocre programmers that last learned anything new in the late 90's.
In that case the correct choice is to select the most ubiquitous technologies. A boutique NoSQL XML-base is not appropriate, even if it is excellent, which MarkLogic may be. I don't know. I just know CGI was 100% correct in objecting to it. CGI's fault in this case was its failure to win that argument.
Not that it matters much. The project was doomed in any case — political agenda driving pie-in-the-sky requirements using crony contracting — Fucked at birth, as they say.
Conditions change. Every 18-24 months a new node appears — 22nm is the scale of contemporary shipping devices. As features shrink their behavior changes and new data is needed. There are applications that need to know error rates to compute how much mitigation is required.
Yet that's the actual, accurate score. I don't see why the actual score can't be reported?
There is no analytical basis to explain exactly how 5.1 is less safe than 5.4 and the analysis makes no such claim. If the NHTSA allowed manufacturers to abuse the figures by claiming these fractions are meaningful then the rating system would lose credibility. Ultimately manufacturers might game the system to amplify a meaningless fraction.
Tesla had this explained to them and Tesla ignored it. Now the NHTSA has had to get official on their asses and tell them to stop. This is Tesla's own fault, whether the fanbois like it or not.
Or a four year old rips the cord running around in an airport. Or it's dark and you accidentally the phone while plugged in. Or the cat does it for you despite your great care. Etc., etc...
This is a useful and appropriate application of induction. Stop being a dick about it.
legislators don't know enough... nor do they have the training and experience
Congress doesn't run the day-to-day of the Federal government. Congress has never been, is not now, and will never be, competent to do things like implement a new function of government. That is WHY we have an Executive branch. Keep that in mind as you listen to Carney, Obama and the rest try to blame Congress for this debacle, and the many, many debacles yet to come.
The Congress we have today did not vote for Obamacare, does not support Obamacare and will not be taking responsibility for Obamacare, which they could not do even if they wanted. So if a successful Obamacare outcome depends on congressional good-will then Obamacare is deeply fucked.
You'd think they would have told us before October 1... They were either ignorant, incompetent or in denial.
None of the above. The correct characterization is "indifferent." They knew full well what was happening. The evidence is clear.
Yet they did not hesitate to foist this on the nation because they are hell-bent on implementing their agenda. Next year as the employer mandate approaches and tens of millions get part-timed, cancelled and foisted onto the various and sundry healthcare.govs they won't deviate from their agenda then either. As the sick and costly indulge their undeniable, uncancellable and unlimited health plans and bankrupt the insurance system for everyone they will also not deviate from their agenda. As all of the above accelerates healthcare cost inflation and blows a DOD size hole in the Federal budget via individual subsidies, medicaid refugees, etc. they will still not deviate from their agenda.
That's what submitting to statist, paternal government is like. That's what you voted for.
I switched! Yes, I did. OMGITSOCOOL!!!1 But the Kay Dee Eee is so busy. Too busy for me. But at least it composites. Not like that Mint+Mate stuff. I got AMD but those drivers suck so I got NVidia after I tried the Intel driver on my laptop and the graphics were good but I could not get fast frames so I put in the NVidia 743 Ti X v2 and IT. WAS. SO. FAST. but then the dual heads would not work and I had to make the xorg.conf thing from a poast but it worked so do You Want To Buy My AMD card? it's really good but the X stuff LOL not so great. Zypper is weird and I like debs more but hey it works and the RPMS don't have any stinky Unity LOL that is some major fail and now I have the LXDE with openSuSE and it's nice with fluxbox BUT remember don't try rat poison I couldn't use that one LOL it had no themes and it covers my whole backgrounds WTF??. The LXDE isn't over busy like the KDE buzzz buzzz buzzzz in my HEAD with all those BUTTONS omg and tabs EveryWhere like wtf I need two mice just to configure this thing. BTW what is Akonadi?? It's trying to get my PIMS? and I had to remove it but now I get errors when I start the KDE but that's ok because I use LXDE LOL. Oh yeah and Klipper. But I tried it cuz some body on SlashDOT told me OPENsuse is for grownups and I was like YEAH that's me way grownup in fact I'm old and can't see good so use BIGGER FONTS please kthx. Can someone tell me what AKANODI is?? oh and Nepomuk. There are MILLIONS of pages on how to remove Nepomuk and Akanodi and I think I need to get them off my OPeNsuse fast or my memory and stuff will be gone..... is it OpenSUse or OPenSUSE or Opensuse or OpensusE or OPENSUSE or openSuse or what? wtf is akanodi? come on guys what is it for? google doesn't know and that's weird because google know everything and all I can find is how to remove it but someone said it would mess up my OPenSUse and I like it so I don't know what to do??????? oh right I already removed it this morning gawd its so hard to remember what I did back then but I remember it tried Kali last night and wow that is creepy its got all this cr4ckzor stuff for breaking passwords which is good because I forget them a lot so yea, just don't get spooked by the black theme and all but yeah try openSUse because I did and I did it before you noob LOL and its good stuff.
Don't turn this simple, natural reality into a problem by preventing fires until you have a giant pile of fuel that inevitably erupts into a biblical disaster.
Since it's supposed to burn, we don't need early detection to make putting it out easier. So put away the satellites; the Department of the Interior can just not expand by another $63 kabillion in the name of "fighting" forest fires with a space program so they can "respond" to the site of some hapless rural leaf burner with a squad of jack-booted enviro-thugs.
Sorry if your vision of the perfect home is a mountain mcmasion embedded in a sylvan paradise. That's just how it is here on Earth where wood eventually burns. Clear the perimeter or risk losing it to the next natural and necessary forest fire.
"They" won't let you clear the perimeter to protect your property? Enviro-statists suck; stop voting for them. "They" banned controlled burns and other forest management? Enviro-statists suck; stop voting for them.
Australia just elected a government on an unapologetic anti-carbon tax platform.
France has thousands of truckers shutting down the major roads protesting carbon taxes, and the people support them widely.
Japan is all done indulging carbon caps; reality has imposed itself and they have other priorities now.
I don't know whether our CO2 is going to Venus the Earth. And neither do you. What I am absolutely certain of is that we're going to find out — people will not subject themselves to energy poverty and they are no longer in doubt about the consequences of carbon caps and carbon taxes.
There are environmentalists advocating ethanol fuel from corn?
It was sold to the public as "clean energy." Some of the most culpable are apologizing for their advocacy.
If it was all a front for Big Corn or whomever — the otherwise noble green agenda co-opted to serve narrow interests — one must wonder which parts of our contemporary `green' agenda are also misplaced.
Or not. When the policies prove a mistake the enviro-statists will assign blame to someone else while advocating the next bad idea.
if they can use their unique locations to provide points of presence for services like Netflix or Amazon video to cache content locally or something along those lines.
That is exactly what this is about. Netflix and Youtube are 50% of all US internet traffic now. These Sears properties are numerous and right in the middle of neighborhoods where the data consumers live. Network operators can offload huge amounts of peering traffic by caching bulk data close to clients.
These properties are all near major roads in urban areas that can supply sufficient power and run fiber without much drama, but the fact is they don't need bullet-proof power or network service to stream bulk data; when a local cache drops out clients can be temporarily served by more distant servers.
So the tax has been in place for 48 years but only recently caused manufacturers to drop these product lines....?
That doesn't actually make sense. Here is something that does;
Light trucks are now tallied as cars in the fleet average for the purposes of CAFE fuel economy regulation. Manufacturers can't make historical quantities of these vehicles because they hurt they average too much, so they've reduced production. Naturally, prices climb due to lack of supply.
Light trunks are low margin products for budget conscience buyers, so as prices climb buyers vanish, some heading to used car lots. Manufacturers can see the writing on the wall for light trunks and they're pulling out.
"Because of the new CAFE guidelines, the most fuel-efficient segment for pickup trucks, the small ones, aren’t going to be available in the U.S. market." — John Krafcik, president and chief executive officer of Hyundai Motor America
You may indulge some high-minded socialist fantasy, but the millions of muppets your side takes its support from are exactly this kind of feral animal, and you know it.
Are you folks really that scared of what electrics will mean for the future of your beloved gas autos?
No, not at all. I wish there were affordable electrics available about the size of the Model S. I wish the Volt hadn't been a fraud.
I have two issues. First, Tesla has put "electric car" and "fire" into the headlines about every 10 days now. Lithium Ion batteries are prone to this behavior and we're seeing the consequences, as opposed to NiMH in millions of hybrids that are not erupting into flame after a fender bender.
Doesn't matter if gas cars burn too. Doesn't matter if nobody is hurt. The only thing that matters is that Tesla's cars are melting into slag heaps and creating a very bad perception. If you doubt this then you're naive and there isn't enough common ground remaining for us to converse; you can stop reading now. You'll get it after enough fires, some inside integral garages. You'll get it after the first mortality.
Second, I just can't stand the Slashdot group-think about this. If some manufacturer comes along with a product that can't tolerate minor damage without a fire then they are going to create a perception about this technology the will persist for decades. Pretending otherwise with blind, slavish advocacy will not help.
The standard must be high. It must be high and the advocates need to expect that it is attained. Otherwise you're creating a joke; late night hosts will ridicule, politicians will grandstand and adoption will take many, many years longer than it should.
All we get around here though is lickspittle fanbois, exaggerating the dangers of gas vehicles, downplaying the dangers of lithium ion systems and the incidents they're causing and belligerently ignoring the fact that the public is rapidly associating Tesla, and electric cars with fire.
Boeing had problems with their lithium ion system in the 787. They grounded the fleet and kept it grounded till it was solved. Now the plane is back in service with thousands of passengers climbing aboard every day with no concern. Why shouldn't that be my expectation of Tesla? Why isn't it yours?
Appealing to suspect authorities and irrelevant consumer reviews does not impress. Tesla one of many fair-haired and highly subsidized boys of our government; it wouldn't surprise me in the least to learn that Tesla's cars get pencil whipped through with zero resistance from the direct reports of NTSB political appointees acutely aware of the politics of all this. One day the government is the tool of the corporations, leashed to profits by regulatory capture... the next I'm supposed to swallow its analysis as though it were gospel. The collective Slashdot is a severe schizophrenic.
Consumer reports smashed exactly zero Model S cars into obstacles, so I'm not sure what relevance their conclusions are to this discussion, except to muddy the water.
Telsa is for-profit car manufacturer selling prestige cars to the 1% using heavy government subsidies on both ends. It is not your friend. It is not noble or sacrosanct. And if Telsa is the reason pure electrics become permanently associated with battery fires it will be a tragic.
I choose not to adopt the fanboi blinders. Do as you will.
I know there is absolutely zero tolerance for anything not pro-Tesla around here, but "Good design tesla"....? really?
I mean, maybe the car could just not have battery or whatever it was that shorted out so close to the perimeter of the vehicle, and particularly the front end of the vehicle, that it can't survive a small collision with a trailer hitch without erupting into a lithium fire.....
Sorry, sorry.... I know. It's just that my bosses an Exxon need me to spread a certain amount of FUD to get my check signed.
The stats used include the entire US fleet, including every neglected, run down, ancient, fire prone junker on the road with their untold accumulations of poorly done repairs, low quality replacement parts and ill-considered modifications. A legitimate comparison would consider only new manufacture gasoline cars.
That's not what we have here. What we have here are Tesla advocates advocating. Nothing more.
Recalls due to manufacturing defects that cause car fires have happened many times. Here is one for the Honda Fit from June of this year.
There have been three Telsa Model S fires during the past five weeks. If the feds failed to look into this, no matter how much you don't happen to like it, they would be derelict.
Slashdot Mirror
Do actually follow the link. Don't worry; there is a great big picture with a few words, so you don't have to read much.
The very first thing you should notice is that this is about more than property values. This is also, and perhaps primarily, about hate for technology and technologists. The black-and-white image of Levandowski's house doesn't say "so and so is pricing you out of your neighboorhood." It says:
Anthony Levandowski is building an unconscionable world of surveillance, control and automation. He is also your neighbor.
So at this point we should be all done soft-pedalling these people (a la this submission) as good but misguided folks in fear of "impact on the San Francisco Bay Area economy," or whatever. These are neo-luddite libtards fomenting hate and using surveillance to intimidate individuals.
So we're propagandists here. Poasting our propaganda. To influence world politics on behalf of the State Department.
o_O
Also, wtf is wrong with US ski resorts that they don't have tackle-gangs lining the slopes to prevent injuries? Our resort operators are just using landscaping and safety barriers to avoid paying sacrificial slope guards. Greedy capitalists.
The doomsday clock accumulates the new fears of western elites like some sort of alarmist meme flypaper.
In truth, the doomsday clock represents exactly that set of things you should not worry about. The thing that will actually blow up our world will be deliberately excluded from the list because that thing will enjoy the highest degree of political immunization. Right up until it all goes pear shaped.
Yes, since 50 years now. Just noticing?
One, now extinct, vegan subspecies will be trumpeted throughout the western world as evidence of our foolish diets and a as crucial imperative our which we must wrap our public policy. Vegans and warmists have a fresh new outlier to cite. The fact that it appears to be an evolutionary dead end will be discounted or ignored.
Primitive humans throughout the world manufactured vast quantities of weapons; one of the best and most ubiquitous indicators of human habitation are deposits of stone tips for projectiles or spears. Those weapons weren't used to kill plants or carcasses. They were used to hunt fresh meat or fight other humans or both. Which is it?
We all know the answer. Yet we must play these games, foisting our bullshit one each other, trying to support the hipster, metro-sexual malcontent anti-anything-bigger-than-a-hobby-farm world view.
I'm going to a gun range today. When I'm done I'm going to get a burger. So fuck you and your extinct vegan hobbits.
If it isn't, a template will not work.
I'm afraid you've revealed a degree of ignorance here that discredits whatever opinions you may have about C++. C++ provides template specialization, which permits distinct, parallel implementations based on template parameter type. Foo<double> and Foo<int> need not share implemenations.
C++ templates have been used very successfully in libraries that involve co-variant types and sophisticated algorithms. See OpenCV for a popular and widely used example. Templates are endemic among the fundamental types of that library and the C++ API has displaced the now deprecated C API because the C++ language itself and our contemporary cadre of C++ compilers are handling these use cases just fine.
So please stop bad-mouthing things you don't understand.
Since the usual "appointed by Bush" is conspicuously absent, I'm going to hazard a guess and say this one is a Clinton appointee. Yep, appointed in 1998 by Bubba.
You are screwing a large group of people
That large group of people are the ones at fault here.
AMD/ATI has never attempted to even approach NVidia's commitment to make hardware run well with Linux. Yet you people keep buying their hardware. The small cost savings of AMD has always been enough to get even regular Linux desktop users to buy their stuff despite their chronic indifference to anything other than Windows.
The best thing that could possibly happen at this point is for gamers to ignore people like you and buy Steambox compatible hardware, meaning not AMD, in large quantities. Then, maybe, at long last, at least fifteen years too late, that fucking company will finally step up and deal with the problem.
Linus not withstanding, NVidia has provided me with up-to-date, stable, performant Linux drivers for their hardware without fail for almost twenty years. Recently, NVidia has invested even more effort and collaborated with Valve to capture the Steambox platform. If this Debian based, open gaming platform succeeds we all have NVidia to thank. NVidia has EARNED this outcome, and people like you, with your sad-sack AMD crap need to reconsider your behavior.
But you won't. Nope. Instead, you'll download Steambox and try to run it on your Windows-only video hardware, watch it catch on fire and the bitch up a fucking storm all over the Internets about how Steambox is a giant POS.
If Steambox succeeds it will have to be despite you god damned AMD buyers, as always.
So yeah, I bought a 3TB drive from Best Buy today for archival purposes, not caring less if they put it on sale Friday, and I noticed a tent — a god damned tent — just outside the entrance. Some fuckwit is actually camping outside a Best Buy to be first in line.
There will be a reckoning. Keep printing Ben; lets make this implosion every inch of whatever it is they mean by `American Exceptionalism.'
Happy Holidays.
Sounds like the vendor building the system had a favorite hammer and decided that a rather traditional database problem looked like a nail.
It was the Medicare folks that imposed MarkLogic over the objections of the prime contractor. Calling Medicare a "vendor" is a bit of a stretch. Like non-IT staff calling themselves "customers" of IT in a corporation, as if they have a choice of IT departments.
Another sore point was the Medicare agency’s decision to use database software, from a company called MarkLogic, that managed the data differently from systems by companies like IBM, Microsoft and Oracle. CGI officials argued that it would slow work because it was too unfamiliar. Government officials disagreed, and its configuration remains a serious problem.
The CGI argument was that it would slow work. I have absolutely no doubt about that. Every NoSQL system is it's own distinct thing with unique APIs, protocols, conventions, quirks, etc. This is fine when you are dealing with a limited group of good developers that can be expected to rapidly climb a learning curve. This is not fine when you are the top contractor in a herd of contractors, populated by a vast number of mediocre programmers that last learned anything new in the late 90's.
In that case the correct choice is to select the most ubiquitous technologies. A boutique NoSQL XML-base is not appropriate, even if it is excellent, which MarkLogic may be. I don't know. I just know CGI was 100% correct in objecting to it. CGI's fault in this case was its failure to win that argument.
Not that it matters much. The project was doomed in any case — political agenda driving pie-in-the-sky requirements using crony contracting — Fucked at birth, as they say.
what we already know
Conditions change. Every 18-24 months a new node appears — 22nm is the scale of contemporary shipping devices. As features shrink their behavior changes and new data is needed. There are applications that need to know error rates to compute how much mitigation is required.
We're not all just making web pages out here.
Yet that's the actual, accurate score. I don't see why the actual score can't be reported?
There is no analytical basis to explain exactly how 5.1 is less safe than 5.4 and the analysis makes no such claim. If the NHTSA allowed manufacturers to abuse the figures by claiming these fractions are meaningful then the rating system would lose credibility. Ultimately manufacturers might game the system to amplify a meaningless fraction.
Tesla had this explained to them and Tesla ignored it. Now the NHTSA has had to get official on their asses and tell them to stop. This is Tesla's own fault, whether the fanbois like it or not.
you're a ham-fisted clod
Or a four year old rips the cord running around in an airport. Or it's dark and you accidentally the phone while plugged in. Or the cat does it for you despite your great care. Etc., etc...
This is a useful and appropriate application of induction. Stop being a dick about it.
legislators don't know enough ... nor do they have the training and experience
Congress doesn't run the day-to-day of the Federal government. Congress has never been, is not now, and will never be, competent to do things like implement a new function of government. That is WHY we have an Executive branch. Keep that in mind as you listen to Carney, Obama and the rest try to blame Congress for this debacle, and the many, many debacles yet to come.
The Congress we have today did not vote for Obamacare, does not support Obamacare and will not be taking responsibility for Obamacare, which they could not do even if they wanted. So if a successful Obamacare outcome depends on congressional good-will then Obamacare is deeply fucked.
You'd think they would have told us before October 1... They were either ignorant, incompetent or in denial.
None of the above. The correct characterization is "indifferent." They knew full well what was happening. The evidence is clear.
Yet they did not hesitate to foist this on the nation because they are hell-bent on implementing their agenda. Next year as the employer mandate approaches and tens of millions get part-timed, cancelled and foisted onto the various and sundry healthcare.govs they won't deviate from their agenda then either. As the sick and costly indulge their undeniable, uncancellable and unlimited health plans and bankrupt the insurance system for everyone they will also not deviate from their agenda. As all of the above accelerates healthcare cost inflation and blows a DOD size hole in the Federal budget via individual subsidies, medicaid refugees, etc. they will still not deviate from their agenda.
That's what submitting to statist, paternal government is like. That's what you voted for.
I switched! Yes, I did. OMGITSOCOOL!!!1 But the Kay Dee Eee is so busy. Too busy for me. But at least it composites. Not like that Mint+Mate stuff. I got AMD but those drivers suck so I got NVidia after I tried the Intel driver on my laptop and the graphics were good but I could not get fast frames so I put in the NVidia 743 Ti X v2 and IT. WAS. SO. FAST. but then the dual heads would not work and I had to make the xorg.conf thing from a poast but it worked so do You Want To Buy My AMD card? it's really good but the X stuff LOL not so great. Zypper is weird and I like debs more but hey it works and the RPMS don't have any stinky Unity LOL that is some major fail and now I have the LXDE with openSuSE and it's nice with fluxbox BUT remember don't try rat poison I couldn't use that one LOL it had no themes and it covers my whole backgrounds WTF??. The LXDE isn't over busy like the KDE buzzz buzzz buzzzz in my HEAD with all those BUTTONS omg and tabs EveryWhere like wtf I need two mice just to configure this thing. BTW what is Akonadi?? It's trying to get my PIMS? and I had to remove it but now I get errors when I start the KDE but that's ok because I use LXDE LOL. Oh yeah and Klipper. But I tried it cuz some body on SlashDOT told me OPENsuse is for grownups and I was like YEAH that's me way grownup in fact I'm old and can't see good so use BIGGER FONTS please kthx. Can someone tell me what AKANODI is?? oh and Nepomuk. There are MILLIONS of pages on how to remove Nepomuk and Akanodi and I think I need to get them off my OPeNsuse fast or my memory and stuff will be gone..... is it OpenSUse or OPenSUSE or Opensuse or OpensusE or OPENSUSE or openSuse or what? wtf is akanodi? come on guys what is it for? google doesn't know and that's weird because google know everything and all I can find is how to remove it but someone said it would mess up my OPenSUse and I like it so I don't know what to do??????? oh right I already removed it this morning gawd its so hard to remember what I did back then but I remember it tried Kali last night and wow that is creepy its got all this cr4ckzor stuff for breaking passwords which is good because I forget them a lot so yea, just don't get spooked by the black theme and all but yeah try openSUse because I did and I did it before you noob LOL and its good stuff.
Lates.
It's supposed to burn.
Don't turn this simple, natural reality into a problem by preventing fires until you have a giant pile of fuel that inevitably erupts into a biblical disaster.
Since it's supposed to burn, we don't need early detection to make putting it out easier. So put away the satellites; the Department of the Interior can just not expand by another $63 kabillion in the name of "fighting" forest fires with a space program so they can "respond" to the site of some hapless rural leaf burner with a squad of jack-booted enviro-thugs.
Sorry if your vision of the perfect home is a mountain mcmasion embedded in a sylvan paradise. That's just how it is here on Earth where wood eventually burns. Clear the perimeter or risk losing it to the next natural and necessary forest fire.
"They" won't let you clear the perimeter to protect your property? Enviro-statists suck; stop voting for them. "They" banned controlled burns and other forest management? Enviro-statists suck; stop voting for them.
Australia just elected a government on an unapologetic anti-carbon tax platform.
France has thousands of truckers shutting down the major roads protesting carbon taxes, and the people support them widely.
Japan is all done indulging carbon caps; reality has imposed itself and they have other priorities now.
I don't know whether our CO2 is going to Venus the Earth. And neither do you. What I am absolutely certain of is that we're going to find out — people will not subject themselves to energy poverty and they are no longer in doubt about the consequences of carbon caps and carbon taxes.
There are environmentalists advocating ethanol fuel from corn?
It was sold to the public as "clean energy." Some of the most culpable are apologizing for their advocacy.
If it was all a front for Big Corn or whomever — the otherwise noble green agenda co-opted to serve narrow interests — one must wonder which parts of our contemporary `green' agenda are also misplaced.
Or not. When the policies prove a mistake the enviro-statists will assign blame to someone else while advocating the next bad idea.
if they can use their unique locations to provide points of presence for services like Netflix or Amazon video to cache content locally or something along those lines.
That is exactly what this is about. Netflix and Youtube are 50% of all US internet traffic now. These Sears properties are numerous and right in the middle of neighborhoods where the data consumers live. Network operators can offload huge amounts of peering traffic by caching bulk data close to clients.
These properties are all near major roads in urban areas that can supply sufficient power and run fiber without much drama, but the fact is they don't need bullet-proof power or network service to stream bulk data; when a local cache drops out clients can be temporarily served by more distant servers.
So the tax has been in place for 48 years but only recently caused manufacturers to drop these product lines....?
That doesn't actually make sense. Here is something that does;
Light trucks are now tallied as cars in the fleet average for the purposes of CAFE fuel economy regulation. Manufacturers can't make historical quantities of these vehicles because they hurt they average too much, so they've reduced production. Naturally, prices climb due to lack of supply.
Light trunks are low margin products for budget conscience buyers, so as prices climb buyers vanish, some heading to used car lots. Manufacturers can see the writing on the wall for light trunks and they're pulling out.
"Because of the new CAFE guidelines, the most fuel-efficient segment for pickup trucks, the small ones, aren’t going to be available in the U.S. market."
— John Krafcik, president and chief executive officer of Hyundai Motor America
at least not sane ones
You may indulge some high-minded socialist fantasy, but the millions of muppets your side takes its support from are exactly this kind of feral animal, and you know it.
If anyone knows the background on this
Election coming up. Maduro is buying votes.
I'm pretty sure this isn't going to get a fair shake here on Slashdot.
About 75% of the readers will go apoplectic and started bleeding from the ears when they hit the "capitalism" part.
So yeah, let the hate-fest begin.
Are you folks really that scared of what electrics will mean for the future of your beloved gas autos?
No, not at all. I wish there were affordable electrics available about the size of the Model S. I wish the Volt hadn't been a fraud.
I have two issues. First, Tesla has put "electric car" and "fire" into the headlines about every 10 days now. Lithium Ion batteries are prone to this behavior and we're seeing the consequences, as opposed to NiMH in millions of hybrids that are not erupting into flame after a fender bender.
Doesn't matter if gas cars burn too. Doesn't matter if nobody is hurt. The only thing that matters is that Tesla's cars are melting into slag heaps and creating a very bad perception. If you doubt this then you're naive and there isn't enough common ground remaining for us to converse; you can stop reading now. You'll get it after enough fires, some inside integral garages. You'll get it after the first mortality.
Second, I just can't stand the Slashdot group-think about this. If some manufacturer comes along with a product that can't tolerate minor damage without a fire then they are going to create a perception about this technology the will persist for decades. Pretending otherwise with blind, slavish advocacy will not help.
The standard must be high. It must be high and the advocates need to expect that it is attained. Otherwise you're creating a joke; late night hosts will ridicule, politicians will grandstand and adoption will take many, many years longer than it should.
All we get around here though is lickspittle fanbois, exaggerating the dangers of gas vehicles, downplaying the dangers of lithium ion systems and the incidents they're causing and belligerently ignoring the fact that the public is rapidly associating Tesla, and electric cars with fire.
Boeing had problems with their lithium ion system in the 787. They grounded the fleet and kept it grounded till it was solved. Now the plane is back in service with thousands of passengers climbing aboard every day with no concern. Why shouldn't that be my expectation of Tesla? Why isn't it yours?
Appealing to suspect authorities and irrelevant consumer reviews does not impress. Tesla one of many fair-haired and highly subsidized boys of our government; it wouldn't surprise me in the least to learn that Tesla's cars get pencil whipped through with zero resistance from the direct reports of NTSB political appointees acutely aware of the politics of all this. One day the government is the tool of the corporations, leashed to profits by regulatory capture... the next I'm supposed to swallow its analysis as though it were gospel. The collective Slashdot is a severe schizophrenic.
Consumer reports smashed exactly zero Model S cars into obstacles, so I'm not sure what relevance their conclusions are to this discussion, except to muddy the water.
Telsa is for-profit car manufacturer selling prestige cars to the 1% using heavy government subsidies on both ends. It is not your friend. It is not noble or sacrosanct. And if Telsa is the reason pure electrics become permanently associated with battery fires it will be a tragic.
I choose not to adopt the fanboi blinders. Do as you will.
Good design tesla.
I know there is absolutely zero tolerance for anything not pro-Tesla around here, but "Good design tesla"....? really?
I mean, maybe the car could just not have battery or whatever it was that shorted out so close to the perimeter of the vehicle, and particularly the front end of the vehicle, that it can't survive a small collision with a trailer hitch without erupting into a lithium fire.....
Sorry, sorry.... I know. It's just that my bosses an Exxon need me to spread a certain amount of FUD to get my check signed.
stats for normal cars
The stats used include the entire US fleet, including every neglected, run down, ancient, fire prone junker on the road with their untold accumulations of poorly done repairs, low quality replacement parts and ill-considered modifications. A legitimate comparison would consider only new manufacture gasoline cars.
That's not what we have here. What we have here are Tesla advocates advocating. Nothing more.
Recalls due to manufacturing defects that cause car fires have happened many times. Here is one for the Honda Fit from June of this year.
There have been three Telsa Model S fires during the past five weeks. If the feds failed to look into this, no matter how much you don't happen to like it, they would be derelict.
The grownups are stepping in now. Deal with it.