So just to be clear, I asked when has Google shut down a service and you responded with Google shutting down a feature (SMS notifications) of a service (Calendar) and then crowed victory? What a stupid dick you are.

It has been argued by many that the reason Tesla has opened their patents up is that they realize they can never dominate the car market, and if you use Tesla's patented technology without substantial reworking you're going to be strongly motivated to buy your batteries from Musk's gigafactory. It's also been suggested that he didn't open up any patents that were truly ground-breaking; every major player has competing technologies. What he did was add incentive to standardize on the technologies he did release, which would be good for everyone — but mostly for him. I'm not shaking my fist, or anything, but let's not imagine that he did this out of the goodness of his heart. He's trying to run profitable corporations here.

The difference is, Musk did not show you a battery swap. He didn't show you anything that could be faked, because he didn't show you anything.

If you had a salient objection to my argument, you would have made it, instead of posting that bullshit anonymously.

It's actually not even my argument, I got it off John McElroy at Autoline, and who knows where he first heard it. Maybe it's bullshit. But if there really are adhesives holding in the battery pack in at least some of the cars out there, that would explain why customers are going to have to make an appointment to make a battery swap for the foreseeable future. They've got to check your serial number and figure out if your battery swap is going to take thirty seconds, or three hours.

That should be "80 bits"...

Gnu C "long double" is 16 bytes long and most decidedly does not fit into 80 bytes.

That depends on which shard you're playing on. If you're playing on the North American shard, you've got very high annual fees to pay, and they go to figures in government. If you're playing on e.g. the South American shard, for the most part yes, they still have somewhat traditional thieves' guilds, and they are highly regional.

Because it's been "about to open" for over a year?

Actually you can, it's called economies of scale, and it's how basically everything cheap became cheap. Whether or not Tesla can achieve those kinds of economies of scale is a different question, but keep in mind that I can buy a $35 computer that is orders of magnitude more powerful than what once was the fastest computer in the world.

Nobody has ever used the battery swap station, but Tesla has been collecting credits they've been selling to other automakers. That's how they've been staying afloat: getting credits for something they've never demonstrated to the public. Driving a car behind a curtain and claiming that a battery has been swapped is not the same as a demonstration. That's the kind of dog and bullshit show that you pull out when your demonstration isn't ready.

They only actually have to manage the swap in five minutes to qualify for the credits, not 90 seconds. But there are a crapload of connectors and there's rumored to be adhesives involved, at least on early cars. But we haven't seen swap one yet.

Not that I know of. It's a good option for cars, too. Kodi makes a dandy car interface. The last piece for home theater kind of fell into place recently when all the pieces became available to watch Netflix on Linux, that's a deal-breaker for many otherwise.

I won't buy Android anything [anymore] until there's a bootloader and at least one AOSP build. Obviously, I suggest the same policy to anyone.

You wouldn't happen to know if that 4V max screwdriver is powered by an 18650 would you? if so I might consider buying one

That is not nice. My guess is this guy is really good, got lucky job-wise and is working his ass off. The question is why is this amount of money not enough? That is what he needs to fix and he also needs to be prepared to have a 30-50% salary cut and be able to survive it.

Sadly, it sounds like it. If so, then this person is screwed...

That is risky. From a security POV, SDN is an absolute nightmare. And while that has been clear to actual security experts for a long time, it seems to get harder to ignore for management in the recent past. My point is that we could actually see a regression back to "one cable, one logical network link", because other things are unable to give you a perimeter or any kind of zone-separation.

Of course, SDN could turn out to be secure and even NSA-proof, but who really believes that?

If that where the case, then the only thing he could do is to hope to keep his current high salary as long as possible. A switch is not going to get him what he earns now for a long time, if ever.