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Comment Prison isn't for that... (Score 1) 274

Prison is meant to be reserved for separating people from society who are dangerous until they're not dangerous any more.

The correct sentence for copyright infringement (which does not demonstrate that the perpetrator is a danger to others), is to 1) pay back the person who was wronged (though that's a civil matter), and 2) a fine or community service of some sort.

Comment Re:Shocking! (Score 1) 171

Utility of being able to drive 500 miles and then 'recharge' in five minutes = lots.

I don't really understand the necessity of this. Realistically, you're gonna be driving at most 70mph, more likely averaging 50-60 over a long journey. You can reasonably do 4 hours before you need to stop for lunch, and another 4 in the afternoon before you're going to want to eat dinner. Both of those meals are gonna take you half an hour.

That means that a range of between 200 and 280 miles is sufficient for pretty much any form of driving save for utter insanity driving all through the night, and frankly, forcing you to stop for half an hour every few during that time I regard as a good thing, not a bad.

That said, I do think the tesla's current ~267mile range (assuming 85->90kWh scales linearly) is a tiny bit on the short side. If they managed to get the thing to 300, that would be pretty much sufficient for all forms of driving.

Comment Re:With stock tires on my local road? (Score 2) 171

Once you get down sub 4-5 seconds everything is about traction, not about power. The fact that the P85D/P90D are four wheel drive means that they have a metric fuck ton more traction than a Camaro. Add to that that the Camaro you're talking about did 4 seconds on 1970s tyres, and you get quite easily to a car with 4 wheel drive and a lot of torque can do 0-60 in 2.8 seconds.

Admittedly that's into the range of current super/hyper cars (a McLaren P1, and The Ferrari The Ferrari will both do around 2.3 seconds), but that's not surprising when the current way that said super/hyper cars generate enough torque to do that is with electric motors.

Comment Re:This is really simple... (Score 2) 267

says the moron who has never been at a company where an employee sued for tens of thousands of dollars because one employee decided to look at porn and another employee was "offended".

That's trivial to deal with - you explicitly write it in the company hand book that looking at porn is banned. When the other person is offended, you quickly nip it in the bud by disciplining the person looking at porn.

As I said - if you don't trust the employees, don't employ them.

For reference, there are some enormous companies out there that don't filter the internet (I work for one). They survive just fine simply by saying "don't be idiots and look at porn at work".

Comment Re:Reasonable Access (Score 4, Insightful) 267

It's entirely reasonable to expect employees to take short brain breaks during the working day. It's entirely reasonable for those brain breaks to be spent on random web pages.

All this comes down to is simply trusting your employees. If you can trust them to get on and do their job, and only take reasonable breaks, then you don't need a filter. If you can't trust them, then 1) your culture is fucked up, fix that, and 2) why the hell are you employing someone so untrustworthy that they don't do their job.

Comment This is really simple... (Score 2) 267

Stop blocking access at all.

Just fucking trust your employees. An environment in which people are overtly not trusted to do their jobs just breeds resentment and in fact employees that can't be trusted. People who feel like they're being treated unreasonably tend to act unreasonably in return.

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