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And it will be ever thus? Experimental work is already underway printing biological materials such as arteries and organs. As time goes by, the capability of 3D printers for complex materials will only increase.
The "investigation" part may be BS to justify creating a database of driver's behaviors. They know who belongs to what license plate. They know vehicle make and model which gives them an idea of your income. And they know where you are at any given time of day. What's to keep them from selling this information to data brokers?
Telsa's sales are a drop in the bucket compared to most makes. Are the dealers afraid that the majors are going to copy Tesla's model and cut them out of the business?
Guy I know commutes with a Leaf to work. Loves the electric benefits but says he can't keep the heat on in this bastard cold winter without the risk of running out of juice. He bundles up and braves it, but I gotta wonder, the battery must get hot anyway during operation; why can't they pump some of that into the cabin? I've also heard comments that some hybrids have that problem too -- to get decent heat, you have to run the engine.
While I'd love to think that the world will be post-scarcity anytime, the fact is the human brain evolved over millions of years of scarcity and this is what we're stuck with. Even if all the technical tools were in our hands, we automatically revert to schoolyard politics. There is power in having more than the next schlub, and power in keeping stuff from him. Unless we re-engineer the human brain, this is how it's going to be.
wbr1 writes: It seems abundantly clear now that Dice and the SlashBeta designers do not care one whit about the community here. They do not care about rolling in crapware into sourceforge installers. In short, the only thing that talks to them is money and stupid ideas.
Granted, it takes cash to run sites like these, but they were fine before. The question is, do some of you here want to band together, get whatever is available of slashcode and rebuild this community somewhere else? We can try to make it as it once was, a haven of geeky knowledge and frosty piss, delivered free of charge in a clean community moderated format.
Don Hewitt, who I believe created 60 Minutes, died in 2009. Since then, it seems that the shift has been largely to interesting puff pieces with little of the old confrontational stuff they built their reputation on. My wife and I continue to watch but it's at least partly out of habit. They also pad their shows a lot with older material, and the digital TV guide calls it a "new show" even when it's mostly reruns. Smells like old fashioned corporate backsliding.