Comment Re:Big deal... (Score 1) 848
I'm ok with that idea. The flip side is you can't do much about it when someone posts something like this (assuming it's all true).
Comment Re:first (Score 1) 130
Snow Crash, right? Good thing he got it before the movie. :)
Comment Re:It's called the key (Score 5, Informative) 1176
Uh, guys... we can probably stop trying to troubleshoot with all the obvious stuff like turning the car off, shifting to neutral, parking brake, etc.
From the article:
A Renault technician had been on the phone with police throughout the chase trying to help but couldn't come up with a solution.
Comment Re:Pathetic. (Score 5, Informative) 841
TFA states that ever since the Top Gear thing, they've put data loggers in all the cars they send to the media
Production vehicies will probably have similar data loggers, but with less data captured
Yep, you got it. From Elon Musk (on Twitter):
"Tesla data logging is only turned on with explicit written permission from customers, but after Top Gear BS, we always keep it on for media."
Comment Re:Pathetic. (Score 5, Insightful) 841
Yeah it was probably a global political conspiracy funded by big oil. Not some dumbass from the NYT that wanted a sensational story instead of another, "yeah it works as advertised."
Comment Re:disposable tech (Score 1) 418
It comes and goes. Lately I've seen a lot more of it. Modding hardware, improving it, fixing things, build your own, etc. The hobby electronics/diy/maker thing is popular right now. As far as trends go, I'd say it's a pretty good one, and I hope it sticks around.
Submission + - Tesla Hits Back Against New York Times' John Broder (teslamotors.com)
SomePgmr writes: "After the notorious, scripted failure of a Tesla on the popular show Top Gear, Tesla Motors has made a practice of enabling all on-board logging for any vehicle given to the media for review. It appears this practice has paid off, as Tesla responds to New York Times' John Broder's review of a Tesla Model S. The summary of log data is pretty damning."
Comment I don't know much about this stuff... (Score 1) 419
Is their engineered seed so much better that it's worth the 300% price hikes?
Comment Re:LMFTFY (Score 4) 246
The best part was the tag, "nodice". I got a laugh out of that... can we make it a recurring thing if we keep getting these?
Comment Re:HWGA (Score 5, Funny) 246
Right now there's a slashdot editor yelling across the office, "See? I tried to tell you this was a bad idea."
Comment Re:Testing blood though the skin viable? (Score 1) 322
NOW we're talking. Do those exist?
It reminds me of this guys project...
http://www.tricorderproject.org/tricorder-mark2.html
Reasons You're Not Getting Interviews; Plus Some Crazy Real Resume Mistakes 246
Yvonne Lee, Community Manager at Dice.com writes,
"Not using standard job titles, not tying your work to real business results and not using the right keywords can mean never getting called for an interview, even if you have the right skills to do the job. I once heard advice to use the exact wording found in the ad when placing your keywords. I think you're even more unlikely to get a job if you do some of the things on this list."
Comment Re:Charging authors is not much better... (Score 1) 61
I assumed that's part of what the $99 is for.
That's not done by cutting corners: the editorial process is thorough, and they use rigorous peer-review.
Comment Re:Can't Go Backwards (Score 1) 736
Some of these make sense. If you're downloading a torrent the bar tells you percentage of bytes received from total, so it never regresses. What changes is the "estimated time remaining". And that's fine... conditions change (peer count, transfer speeds, etc).
The file copy ones used to drive me nuts. If I'm moving files from one source to one destination, you'd think the transfer speeds would be pretty consistent and the time estimates pretty accurate. I can't pretend to know why they used to be so bad, but they do seem better now.
Comment Re:So (Score 4, Insightful) 542
It's here so people can troll. I'm sure anything that mentions religion gets a billion views and comments.
But it is kinda interesting, I guess. The article says it hasn't happened since 1415.
