Perfection isn't required, it just has to be better than the current "private browsing" modes. It would prevent a lot of mass surveillance and corporate tracking. Should break geolocation nicely too.

Tesla claims 3000 cycles for their batteries. That gives a theoretical life for the car of 900,000 miles (300 miles, 3000 charges) and they have tested up to 750,000 miles with about 85% capacity remaining, so it looks reasonable.

Of course, that assumes you do full cycles every time. You can get significantly more life with only 10 or 20% over capacity.

Electricity is a basic utility for most people. They can't live a reasonable life without things like electric lighting and refrigeration. More over the economy would suffer greatly if the true cost of electricity was reflected in the price that industry pays.

That's why almost all sources of electricity are heavily subsidised. The question is which ones do we want to encourage, and the answer isn't coal.

The UK has had this kind of thing for many years. The electricity company provides special outlets that it can switch on and off remotely. They switch on when energy is cheap at night. People connect water heaters to them, and then keep the water in an insulated tank for use during the day. Some people connect other stuff to them as well, like EV chargers.

So what you are saying is that a small battery pack, a few kilowatt hours, would really improve the situation. Such packs are quite cheap - used 24kWh EV packs go for a few k bucks. Like solar panels, the price is falling fast.

Energy companies have a choice. They can sit in their arses and wait to die, or they can try to find solutions to these problems. If I were them I'd be calling up Elon Musk today and asking to discus ways of building grid scale batteries. 50MW batteries have been deployed in Japan for a few years now, so the technology is coming and they can either benefit from it themselves or miss out and find that individuals have installed them at home already.

Batteries are not the only solution. There are options. They are not easy, do-nothing options, but that's the way of the world. Evolve or die.

What they are saying is that they want to keep generating dirty, polluting electricity because it is profitable and easy for them. Unfortunately that has costs for society and the rest of the economy, so we are going to have to transition away from it.

Old browsers can still use the non-HTTPS site. I think covering 90% of users with HTTPS is a worthwhile improvement.

It sounds a lot like chronic fatigue. Something breaks and your body just doesn't deliver energy to the muscles properly any more, including the brain. As well as being tired you can think straight and become forgetful. There is no way to fix it.

The 6502 may have run at a little under 1MHz, but it was efficient. Most instructions were one or two cycles and they did a lot. It's actually a really fun processor to write for because it's both a nice architecture and very challenging to get the most from.

That's how Steve Jobs always presented new iPhones. Faster, thinner, longer battery life, one or two major new features. The major new features no one else has part seem to have gone, and while faster the 6 is in most common operations about the same as a Nexus 5. Battery life is about the same. So they cling to being slightly thinner.

I had a funny thought. The only other product I can think of that is obsessed with getting thinner is condoms.

Last I heard they were admitting to nine reports of bending, but the reality is we don't have a true figure at this time. It was the same with the antenna problems. They denied many people had them but eventually fixed it anyway with a free bumper.

I imagine somewhere in Apple's labs they are testing strengthened cases

The problem seems to be twofold. Firstly it's weaker than average for a high end phone, and people probably associate metal with being stronger than plastic so expect more from it. It's also a big change from the pervious model.

Secondly phones made of other materials return to their original shape much more easily. Of you look at most of the images of iPhones that were bent in people's pockets the bend is slight. Other phones recover from that, the iPhone 6 remains bent.

Sure, although even now it isn't the most expensive in Europe. The cost will be high for a while, and Germans seem to accept that. Change costs money, but the end result is worth it.

It's reducing the amount of coal burnt: http://energytransition.de/201...