At least do a little digging if you're going to call BS. From the article:

So, this isn't some "in 5-10 years" battery technology we'll never see. This is stuff that has already been coming off the assembly line by the thousands, meaning that they've been able to accurately gauge the actual costs involved in manufacturing. Moreover, their pedigree is pretty good. One of the co-founders for this company was a co-founder over at A123, which many of us already recognize as another player in this space. This isn't their first time getting up and running with battery manufacturing.

Which is to say, these are people with a proven track record of research and manufacturing experience in this field, they already have an assembly line up and running, and they've already placed around 10,000 of their products in the field for testing. You're welcome to call BS, but I'm inclined to disagree.

I'd prefer a "Retract Comment" button that kept the comment there but changed the formatting in some way to indicate I no longer stood by it. When (not if) I say something stupid, I deserve to be called out on it and the ensuing conversations deserve to have my post there in order to preserve their context, but I also deserve a chance to learn from my mistake and to help others use my mistake as an opportunity to learn. Removing my post removes the context for later posts and deprives others of an opportunity to learn from my stupidity.

There have been countless times here on Slashdot when I've unknowingly said something that was inaccurate and have had a thoughtful post correct me with the right information. Sometimes they're snarky, sometimes they stick to just the facts, and sometimes they blow me out of the water with vitriol, but regardless of how they do it, when they point out that I got something horribly wrong, I'd love to be able to retract my post so that the focus gets put on theirs, especially in cases where I was up-modded before I was corrected.

AC gets ads by default. It's the product. Registered users can disable ads, and I should hope that everyone on Slashdot has the sense to not give websites anything other than their e-mail address for spam. For me, it all just goes to websitename@spam.mypersonaldomain.com, so who cares if they have my e-mail address, since I'll blackhole them if they decide to abuse it anyway.

Hmm...do I believe the Anonymous Coward on Slashdot, or my friend who has worked for most of his professional career as a high school teacher and department head in Texas and regular voices an opinion that directly contradicts the AC's?

To hear my friend talk about it, yes, the unions do have plenty of power, since there are a number of lousy teachers that the administration would love to be rid of but they can't do jack until they have a paper trail of problems stretching back for years, as well as a history of remediation steps aimed at helping the teacher to improve that have ended in failure. Maybe the unions aren't as powerful as, say, in New York, where they apparently have rooms dedicated to teachers sitting around doing nothing because they can't fire them, but suggesting the Texas unions have zero power? Utter nonsense.

The only idiot here is the one who apparently doesn't realize that MacKeeper has as much to do with Apple as Flash has to do with Microsoft.

Apple responded by doing a full audit of code checked in around the time that the NSA claims they successfully infiltrated Apple. The most publicized outcome of the audit was the fixing of the notorious "goto fail" bug that looked innocent but would have allowed an attacker with knowledge of its presence to listen in on communication between two parties.

Maybe it's mostly intended for intersections where traffic comes to a stop for a light or sign and then pedestrians get to go? The major danger for those intersections is that the driver simply doesn't think to check for a pedestrian in the first place, since pedestrians aren't usually there anyway. Instead, the driver will pull up to the intersection and won't see the pedestrian, will look towards oncoming traffic to see whether they're clear to turn/cross, and then will advance into the intersection, putting the pedestrian in danger.

A bulbed intersection/curb extension would ensure that the pedestrian was visible to the driver as they were coming to a stop, rather than requiring them to be proactive in checking for the pedestrian. I could see how that sort of thing could drastically improve the safety for pedestrians, though those accidents would only ever be slow speed to begin with, so I'm not sure how much of a concern it is.

But yeah, for moving traffic, I have no clue how this helps. People could be standing at the bulb for all sorts of reasons, whereas stepping into the street is a clear indication that you intend to cross (and in many cases has legal weight to it, as you said). Giving people less room to cross means the drivers have less room to react.

This. Switch to something other than your ISP. Anything other than your ISP. If you want to go free, GMail is probably the best one out there, but if you're willing to go for-pay (and you really should!), consider this my +1 for FastMail.

FastMail has done a great job of growing with me as my needs have changed. I switched from GMail about a year ago, and I was up and running with all of my contacts, archived mail, and my new e-mail addresses within a few hours of starting my trial (and most of that time was just watching it live as it imported my archived mail, which was fascinating to watch, since they animate them as they're coming in). A few weeks later, I added my own domain names and had it take over e-mail for them, and they were automatically able to manage the DNS for those domains for me to get everything set up correctly. Most recently, I switched to a family account a few days ago since I'm getting married next month, and they were able to painlessly get my migrated over from my personal account. Everything still works exactly as before, and they even prorated my previous payment and applied it towards my new account. They have an incredible web app that works across all devices, and they've recently added native apps for the various mobile OSes.

Seriously, these guys are absolutely stellar. And I'd hope they would be, since for-pay e-mail is all they do. They don't try to shove other services or ads down your throat. They just do e-mail. Well, e-mail, calendars, and contacts, but you know what I mean, plus and the calendars and contacts support full syncing between your devices too, which is pretty awesome. Oh, and they're the guys developing JMAP as an open source replacement for IMAP.

Anyway, they offer a free trial (I don't think they even ask for payment info up front, but don't quote me on that; I do know they won't charge you automatically when the trial runs out). Strongly recommend trying them out.

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I'm a little unclear why the "actually" is there to start off your post. I agree with everything you said, and nothing you said contradicts what I was saying, as far as I can tell. Did I miss something? If I implied that they had successfully negotiated new deals with every artist, then for that, I do apologize, since that was not my intent. I was merely trying to state that there was no opt-in and that new negotiations have been taking place.

[citation needed], because from the reporting I've heard, they negotiated new deals with the record labels. That's why it's getting reported that a lot of music from iTunes is still missing from Apple Music. They didn't opt anyone in without their permission.

You seem to have the Chinese confused for the North Koreans. You'll be better off if you learn the difference. One, we take seriously. The other claims they've got the cure to AIDS, some forms of cancer, and Ebola from a drug they devised from ginseng.

Turns out DDG also has triggers. For instance, type in an address and add the word "map", and it'll provide an inline map in the results from an open mapping source. Even so, I think !gm is what I'll probably end up using, since Google Maps is still the best.

No worries. And thanks again for cluing me in to something of which I was previously unaware. Always nice to learn something new.

Before anyone tries to cut you down by suggesting you're confused and that fair use is a copyright concept, I'll provide this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair use (U.S. trademark law)

Which is to say, I'm glad I decided to do a quick search before shooting off a reply, since I was about to tell you that fair use applies to copyright, not trademarks. I never knew that there was also a fair use doctrine for trademarks as well.

There's money to be made without doing targeted advertising. You can have "dumb" ads that simply try to match the right ads with the right search terms, without regard for who the user is or what information you might be able to collect about them. Google used to operate that way, before they realized they could track users and thus charge more for their ads since they were better targeting them at specific users. DDG was founded for the sole purpose of rolling back the clock on that sort of thinking.