Yes, I know. I saw the misquote myself. And others. Al Gore is the perfect person to misquote because of all his shenanigans. When he puts out mind rot like "an inconvenient truth" who can blame those who misquote him on purpose? I surely can't.

Burning Man is now a sold out event. Has been for the last three years. Even though you have to pay $650 for a ticket to camp out. And now these $650 tickets are given out in a lottery system. There must be free alternative events? Anybody keeping a list?

I too despise facebook. But I have a way of making them pay. I created an account with them. My one and only account with them is only used for sites needing oAuth. I wonder how long it will be until facebook bans me for using them in such a way.

Has slashdot decided to start republishing tabloid stories from the grocery lines?

Living in a commune? Isn't that about the same as living with our current "gov". I think that is how Thomas Jefferson or Benjamin Franklin would see are current system. Everybody working for the state doing nothing useful.

Good point. About the only time our government was helpful was when they had been oppressed. When they were actually trying to protect themselves. Since then they have been the oppressors.

I'm sure the Obama administration will continue to state a glass of milk has more radiation in it than what is escaping from Japan. Oh yes, and that nobody has died from nuclear poisoning. Then he will take off his jacket and bring out a napkin in each hand to wipe the imaginary sweat from his face and say we need more nuclear power to fight global warming. (While sending coal to the rest of the world and subsidizing their coal plants.)

Anything for the cancer called "our government" to spread a bit more. How long until it destroys the host and itself with the host?

I have not wanted to receive anything via mail in over two decades. I'd be ok with paying them to stay home and stay out of trouble. Now if we could pay our politicians to stay at home...

It would be great if more people did not use facebook and twitter. Hopefully The Doctor will help influence more people to break free and live in the real world.

You have some valid points but it's more a matter of changing your perceptions than a problem with the car. Your first point about charging 4 times to cover 550 miles is valid. However you'd only have to charge more than once while on your trip for a total of about 30 minutes if there was something strange going on. Maybe you ought to mention why you feel the need to charge 4 times? Why do you think 72F is too warm? You realize the cars are made to work in Southern California where he lives and where the temperatures routinely are over 100F. So what made you think 72F is too warm for the car? I share your driving speed preferences and perhaps like to drive a bit faster than you. The Tesla car gives amazing neck straining torqued out acceleration at any speed up to about 130mph. Because of it's low center of gravity due to the battery packs people end up looking for curves to take because it feels so good. So when you say 62 to 81mph is too fast I can only assume you left out a qualifier. Perhaps what you meant to say was too fast for optimal efficiency. Despite the Tesla being the best aerodynamic car on the market and second best in the history of cars you still must take into account how aerodynamic drag increasing exponentially as the speed goes up. Take a BMW out and drive it at 55 and then drive it at 155. You'll notice you get about 1/3rd the mileage or even less at 155. It's physics. As for needing to charge your car in a European winter every 50 to 100 miles. Sure. If you say parked it outside and only drove a mile to 3 miles per day you might have to charge it every 50 to 100 miles. The Tesla keeps the battery packs and such at a working temperature and this drains the batteries slowly. Unlike a gas vehicle. So this may make the car unacceptable in a few strange cases or to the luddites looking for reasons to avoid change. By the way the judge declared Top Gear manufactured the lies but threw out Tesla's lawsuit because it was unclear how much financial damage resulted in the outright lies. I don't know about you but I don't start out a long trip without feeling up my gas tank, especially when the gas light is on, like the NY Times author did. I think Tesla should have blasted the NY Times harder because there are still some nutters out there that apparently don't get what happened.

Good point. I first tried to fine tune the kernel buffer settings to make the most out of them as you described. However the disk light would still go on far too often and my first concern was not use the disk. So to save the SSD I moved the whole home directory to a RAM disk. (And kept the kernel buffer settings too.) I like this setup so much I've made it my default on all systems regardless of SSD or no SSD.

Citation needed? The manufacturers typically tell you. For instance here http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820239045 it states "Budget-minded gamers and enthusiasts will benefit from the lower price of Kingston’s new HyperX 3K SSD. This solid-state drive combines premium 3000 program-erase cycle Toggle NAND with the second-generation SandForce controller" So it gets only 3% of the authors most optimistic graph! Kind of funny article actually. Like the mad scientist doing lots of good math but overlooking the most obvious information the ding bat brought along for comedy plot complications sees in a flash. I wrote a tutorial yesterday on how to make a ram drive on linux so as to avoid using your fancy fast flash drive. It can be found here: https://ioconnor.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/tutorial-on-automatically-moving-home-to-ram-drive-and-back-on-startup-and-shutdown/

Tesla motors does not deny the fact their batteries can be bricked. They say they have done much to prevent it from happening yet you can destroy the battery pack in much the same way you can destroy a motor if you attempt to run it with no oil. Because the battery pack is composed of many cells both in parallel and in series it is impossible to just unplug it. The pack will always be using power because the cells are in parallel. And because they are in parallel they will always die out if left alone. It is not a problem though in most cases. You must use the car in the way it was designed to be used. Likewise with a normal automobile you must take into account oil, timing belts, water pumps, etc.. Bricking is possible. Know the problems and know how to work around them.