The difference is, you can't do much to force them to pay up, while they can cut off your internet access (and your livelihood) to get *you* to pay up.

And if you don't do that, but some twats claim you are doing it or their shitty system has a false-positive, you can pay for something you didn't do or lose a vital service.

I'm fine with them doing this. Once they have taken you to court and received a judgement in their favor against you.

The answer is always sharks with lasers.

This is the new media. Clearly label satire; obfuscate native advertising.

I just don't understand why people keep using Windows... I understand the installed base problem but most Windows software has equivalents in other OSs and it's not that hard to learn a new OS.
I've been running Linux and Mac OS for about 10 years on various computers and never installed anti-virus and never worried about virus and never had a problem. I know these are not "perfect" but they are so much better than Windows that I just don't see why people don't switch.

I guess you didn't read the article (or the posts above) which said the delays are caused by manufacturers of structural components not delivering on time... or perhaps that doesn't fit into your ideological rant against "gummt regulation and the environmental weenies".

Because, Slashdot desperately wants to be the new Gizmodo, Engadget, and The Verge. Stay tuned for tomorrow's big posting about another shitty cell phone update.

Would you do it if they were reading comic books about war? Watching movies? Watching 50s movies with John Wayne about war? Reading novels about war? Playing war in the yard? If they started playing cops and robbers in the back yard with the neighbor kids, is it time to haul them off to a Scared Straight session at a prison, to impress upon them the harsh realities of a life of crime?

This whole story is a tale of over-reaction that only seemed to have occurred, because "oh my god, video games!".

Wanting to expose your children to realities beyond those as depicted by popular media is a thoughtful thing to do. Not so much when it's a swift over-reaction to "OMG VIDEO GAMES!".

And, really, the truth seems more to be "freelance journalist does a freelance journalist thing and uses his kids as fodder for more freelance journalism". What do you figure the odds are he'd be doing this and documenting it if, say, he were a flight mechanic or a plumber and there weren't some other benefit besides that to his children?

Trolls are like Bullies. They are whatever you say they are. And what you say they are is whatever you personally have an issue with to promote your personal agenda. (Not "you", but the royal "you").

It sounds, to me, like the father has an issue of his own with discerning reality from fantasy and fiction.

Back in the very old days when I had a software company, we wrote detailed functional specs and used these as the basis for the documentation. It's much easier to go from a good functional spec to documentation than start from scratch. It's also a good test of whether or not the software works as intended.
I don't know if people still do that. It seems most software these days either copies some other product exactly or it's just the whim of the programmer.

I hate to break it to you but Tesla has its head office, design center and factory in California.
SpaceX (another Musk venture) is also in California... not to mention that little company he sold a few years ago, PayPal.
It seems that Musk is already heavily committed to California even if the battery factory goes elsewhere (Reno, Nevada is looking like a good option since they have already done site prep work there).

Incompetence is never good.
Incompetence in collecting and acting on information just means that the wrong people will be targeted and the "bad guys" will be missed.
A powerful, secretive, incompetent organization is the worst of all possible worlds.

Most people put a plastic protector on their iPhones because metal gets permanent dents and the glass front and backs of iPhones break easily. The result is just like the plastic phones from everyone else.