Musk announced this days ago during a briefing call. BMW and Tesla are already talking. They were just at the plant on Wednesday.

Because Slashdot has such a great history of predicting product success.

So you're saying you would not trade in wasting 1 minutes stopping for gas every couple of days for a single 1/2 hour visit to a battery swap place once a month? You would come out ahead in the scenario.

And what about when you don't post it online?

Example. The local phone company by default posts your name and address to a public directory when you get phone service. This is then replicated to 411.com and whitepages.com and a dozen other sites. I got the local phone company to take it down (which was a HUGE hassle), but it is still mirrored all over the net. It's been 5 years and you can still get my phone number and address by Googling my name even though I never put it up there.

Even if your phone supports 4G, most Telcos do not allow roaming phones to use it because it is not covered by their roaming agreements.

If you take a US Verizon LTE phone into Canada, you will not get 4G even though the networks are identical. The inverse is also true for Bell or Telus phones in the USA.

One exception is Rogers in Canada and AT&T in the USA who have an LTE roaming agreement.

You have the US and it's bill of rights because in 1776 the majority of people didn't want to pay their taxes to England anymore. The american revolution had nothing to do with the second amendment at all.

Neither of these things is "unfortunate". It is not "unfortunate" that hardware from 2005 is still working fine and useful to the user. In fact, it is excellent and what everyone should try to do when they build a piece of kit.

The only "unfortunate" thing about it is the fact that Microsoft stopped applying security fixes to XP.

Disagree. The US got the first amendment right. And you got the second amendment wrong.

Owning a firearm has nothing to do with essential personal freedoms or rights of the individual to exist in a free state. The only justification for it is to protect oneself from infringement on said freedoms, but that can just as easily be done through strong laws and a properly functioning government.

Again, I would point to the US as the prime example of why the second amendment does absolutely nothing to help you secure any of your primary freedoms, since they are being violated ALL THE TIME by your government, but I don't see anyone successfully taking up arms against them.. and I find the concept that citizens with a few guns could hold their own against the american military-industrial complex a bit of a farce to begin with.

All the second amendment gets your country is the highest per-capita gun violence rate in the western world. It hasn't gotten you anything else.

That may be true for some minority of people but I refuse to believe it is true for the majority.

In fact, I feel that if you can't adequately abstract yourself from a game, it may be pointing to other deeper issues that need to be addressed.

It certainly is likely to be a problem with some people, but not the majority. Games are just entertainment, they are not a substitute for life itself. Anyone who quits playing a game because of how it is making them feel as a person is too emotionally bonded to the game and likely has other social issues to look into.

No one is arguing that. What we are arguing is the outdated model where the value of that service is 70% of a books profits in an age where said book has near zero cost of production since it is electronic.

There is a big difference between trolling in a shooter and stealing other peoples stuff in a survival MMO. it's not
"being a dick", it's part of the game - just as shooting your opponent in the back in a shooter is not "being a dick".

Publishers are not "proxys for authors". They are another obsolete industry group fighting the inevitable for their survival, no different than the RIAA.

Assume there is a world where I as an author can contract with a third party for proofreading and editing at a fixed cost, and then "self publish" to Amazon and other eBook providers, without a man in the middle publisher eating up my profits, I can sell the books far cheaper and interact directly with my audience. Many authors are flocking to self-publish nowadays and the number is just going to keep growing.

The threat of repercussions â" say, for example, prison â" might keep them from acting out. Such disincentives do not exist in virtual worlds. Absent a sense of empathy, you're free to rob and kill at will. What we do with this reveals something about us.

Or, it doesn't reveal jack squat because the people know they are playing a video game and thus behave a lot differently than they would if this was real life.

Say there was a bug in VMWare that caused Windows 8 to crash when running inside it (this actually happened). Do you expect Microsoft to provide support for this issue and fix this bug? No of course not - VMWare should fix it.

I don't see why this is any different with OpenStack. RedHat has no idea what you have done to your custom home-grown OpenStack build, how can they possibly support you running their software inside it. If you can prove that the issue is in their software, then they will look at it - but until that point bugger off.

They will not all be charging stations but a lot of them will be.

I love how you are proclaiming that rolling out charging infrastructure (which is actually already widespread in many large cities) is not feasible while completely washing aside the rolling out of hydrogen infrastructure, which is much more cost prohibitive.