You are full of shit my friend. I started my career on typewriter which were nothing less than computer screens on paper. I experienced the ascii terminals, the graphics terminals, the modern displays on CRT all sizes and flat displays and I am having two physical displays right now and I would take a third and a fourth without any problem and eye strain. Back in the old days, we were writing simple piece of software with simple interactions and well defined input/output access. The world has changed for the better, the proof being people are ready to pay good money for interactive and smart pieces of hardware and good software. I am very sorry for you, but personally I do not regret anything of the past. I'm old and I enjoy the wonderful gadgets we can imagine, build and have today, including multiple screen displays to work efficiently with many document and testing environments at once.

Want a chocolate medal for the single monitor performance back in the good old days? Ever used punch cards as well? Or paper typewriter as a terminal?

BTW, I should say that the medical profession in my country and province, yep Quebec, Canada, is asking the government to legalize euthanasia for patients with dementia without any other legal authorization -since these patients cannot agree or not with their own life termination- in order to reduce healthcare costs and grab an hand on what these will leave behind depending if they have family or not. So, at the end, it will be totally pointless to make any efforts to live longer. They don't want you as soon as you are no longer productive and require some healthcare you have paid for you entire life.

Anyway, what's the point of living longer because you are skinny and 'healthy' but unaware of your last 20 years because you got dementia?

If you have fun driving your car, you are probably a contributor to make the roads dangerous today. There is much more people dying on roads these days than in any war or wars combined. So, thinking a self-driving car would be more dangerous than the bunch of kids having fun driving too fast, not paying attention to the road, etc is pretty much an uninformed statement from your part. And on the other hand, there is a lot of people who haven't any fun driving, they even often are subject to road rage, in particular in heavy traffic with a lot of people trying to get the best and making it actually worse.

For the price tag, I would say once you scale something the price tag tends to drop pretty fast.

Lastly, an autonomous and self-driving car doesn't decide when and where you go, you still decide. Obviously you haven't yet assimilate the concept.

I wonder how you got a modup point, it seems you have read the article at all. It is not about Tesla's batteries at all. It is about the idea, whatever batteries or anything else you are talking about to take you off the grid. Tesla's batteries are just accessory in the discussion and the author just don't give a fuck about whom is providing you favorite energy reservoir. The idea to go off the grid is just plain stupid, the self-sufficient idea as well. This thing doesn't scale well it is something for the happy few with deep pockets, the exact customers people like Musk are after. It doesn't do anything to help solving a global problem. In fact, just do the math and count the number of solar panels, small windmills needed and their efficiency compare to large scale windmills, large solar panel farms, etc. Going of the grid is basically a survivalist thing something for believers in the zombie apocalypse. That is what the article is about.

Yeah! Geeks are overrated. However, as a nerd I would say you simply have to target the database instead of trying to confuse the detector. Once you very private characteristics will have been stolen, you will be in deep trouble.

Most stupid comment ever. If you expect to effectively propoagate spyware, you don't pick a narrow and very specialized piece of software as a vector.

Exactly! The hiking/camping justification for the product is simply idiotic. And even if the weight ratio would be in favor of this product, what are we talking about here? Carrying in the woods massive amounts of alcohol? Unless you want to be totally drunk in the woods, I don't really see the point of this product supposed to target hikkers and campers.

Boring marketing BS.

Avionics software isn't open and it doesn't prevent it to be subject to regulations. It is part of the certification for an airplane. The same thing holds for cars.

I'm sorry, but auto manufacturers have a point. Not anyone is competent to reprogram embedded car software. Unfortunately, bugs can be deadly. How would you feel about, say, 10% of the cars on the road running custom software by the next door kid?

Cars are killing much more people than guns. In fact, I would go further than the auto manufacturers. Nobody should be allowed to drive a car. How many people on the roads shouldn't have even a driver's license at all? A lot. And you are ready to see those people hacking their own car software? No way!

On another hand, look at Cat Stevens, he can be Cat and Yusuf at the same time. So Quantum Music must be correct.

Hey, do not complain. We are on /. after all. This site has became mainstream and nerds are a minority now.

The mandatory Nikola Tesla's plug.