"They" is the one guy who received the leaked original source code, and literally told nobody except the users of his private server of its existence. And there are no indications he planned to ever tell anyone else, since it was running well enough that he had been adding mods, like entire new classes. And he was a reddit mod who had even added references to it to the automatic shadow ban list. He could instead have secretly re-leaked the code any time during those six years, such that he could have had plausible deniability now by claiming that he used the re-leaked code. But he didn't.

The posted video had frames dropped and speeded up to make the fire more of an explosion than simple fire.

Edited video posted a day before the self driving event and the earnings calls makes it suspicious.

The previous incidents of "spontaneous combustion" turned out to have debris strike, and bullet fired from the back seat into the battery pack.

This is a win-win scenario for the anti-Tesla activists. Any one taking pains to debunk it can be painted as a fan-boi. And by the time truth comes one no one would care, no news outlet will give the final report the same prominence these initial edited videos get.

A clip of CCTV footage showing a car coming aflame, that's what we have. No certainty that it is even a Tesla, no indication as to why or how it caught fire, but plenty of people are apparently excited to jump the gun. Arson, previous accident, and tampering have yet to be ruled out, but we still get to hear from idiots on how they won't be buying Teslas because of things they don't know?

Among other things, this is a great example of why social media should never be reported on. It just amplifies idiocy.

"Burst into flames" =/= "explode"

He's just a frothing libertard, rocking backwards and forwards muttering about "gubmint".

Do something about the voting system, and more importantly: about the voting fraud.

Living in a banana republic seem not to pain any american, strange.

I will admit to not having a lot of experience doing anything at "Apple Scale" on AWS. My experience has been that if you do it well; use things like docker, rightscale etc; its not hard to move an application between AWS and Azure. I doubt it would be hard to migrate an application to any of the other significant vendors either.

Sure you have 'lock-in' if don't do any of your own abstraction of EC2 and start installing stuff on AMIs with no containerization etc and you'll have lockin if you go full kool-aide and build you entire application around AMI/EC3/S3. The lockin issue a problem for organizations that don't put any real architecture or engineering into their solutions. I suspect Apple has people with both the talent and foresight to navigate around that particular dead fall.

"To hear about an Single Electric Car Fire across the globe, seems to show how much safer electric car technology is compared to IC Cars."

I don't think that's a clear comparison. The difference in the number of ic versus ev vehicles on the road is huge. My guess is we will see more of these as ev vehicle use increases. Im sure we will just consider it acceptable risk, just like fires with other products.

Even if self-driving cars are 100% safe it will be still years and years before enough people can afford them to make a difference to driving fatalities.

Iceland is not that cold (it is nicely warmed by the gulf stream, people claim in Reykyavik it is rarely below 0C). But when the vikings discovered it, it was still covered with glaciers from the last 'ice age'.

No they don't. That kind of investigation will cost them money, and the last thing they want is for every accident to cost them more money than it needs to. Tesla owners will just be all covering the cost of the investigation then.

It's also extremely complex so that taxes can be used as a bargaining tool every election.

But I don't TELL my car to be dangerous, people just accept them for what they are. If I tell my car to be dangerous, then I am opening myself up for all kinds of legal trouble. Predetermination is the difference between manslaughter and first degree murder and has huge connotations for legal responsibility.

Plausible. The Norse word for "Iceland" is "Island"! (note that they pronounce the "s" in that word).

But the Norwegian word for ice is "is", so in Norse, "island" literally means iceland, not island. Their word for island is øy.

etymology.com says it's named for ice-choked fjords. https://www.etymonline.com/sea...

First, without government there is no capitalism. There is no property over more than you can hold your immediate hand over. There are no enforceable contracts. There is no money and hence no capital.

Secondly, I have a soft spot for libertarianism. As I see it, the libertarian "solution" (with a lot of caveats) is that nobody would be allowed to do something that infringes someone else's property rights. So either the atmosphere is privately owned - in which case I wish you good luck to stop your CO2 molecules from entering my piece of atmosphere - or is it communally owned. In that case, we need to come up with a way to manage that limited resource, unless it falls victim to the tragedy of the commons. And the most libertarian way I can come up with would again be putting a price on using that limited resource - and a sufficiently high price to make sure it is not overused.

That's interesting. Have her parents been deported yet?

Would she want to stay here if her parents are deported for overstaying their visas?

Or do you think that anyone that overstayed their visa should get a pass if they have kids?

It does show how inefficient the system is that they could overstay their visa, yet stay in the system (working and paying taxes) without being caught.

Windows has never been setsy. This is just MS acknowledging this particular aspect of reality.

I haven't read the article, but some of the behaviors referenced in the summary have more to do with effectively "cheating" in the grants process by not treating confidential information as confidential. It is common to get to review your competitor's proposals, but there is an explicit understanding that you won't use that information to your own advantage or to help your friends in an unfair way. The "shadow labs" issue is also this kind of problem, where the US PI is basically acting as a front for a group in China but not disclosing this appropriately, basically a form of scientific outsourcing that most US scientists would consider inappropriate. This is especially sticky when patient data or medical ethics are involved, since they are regulated differently in China. If the researchers were dismissed, it is my expectation that they had stretched this so far that they were violating explicit policies, not just vague scientific ethical standards. There is an element of culture clash, but there are many aspects of scientific culture that are really matters of scientific ethics.

You're going around and compiling a list of only the worst drivers and buying them all a Tesla are you?

Clearly you have never driven in places with snow. Even when the plow the roads the remaining gravel and frost is enough to hide 70% of the lines.

You don't have the details of the situation. Yes, I know this is /. but TFS doesn't mention the important part. The server wasn't running reverse-engineered code.

Shortly before NCsoft shut it down, someone contacted a guy who was involved in the CoH community, and leaked him a copy of the source code (with the soon-to-be-released except-it-never-was Issue 24 beta stuff), including a copy of the game database. It seems that the devs used a single database for both NPC/mission information and live player characters, and possibly also the player payment information too! What would you do if that happened to you? Find a way to leak it to others with plausible deniability, or sit on it?

So guy gets a server running in a few months, but keeps it quiet. If people try to leak its existence, he goes up the chain of invites to issue bans to whoever invited him and he invited. He also maintains his wall of silence by being a reddit mod, even adding private server references to the subreddit's automatic shadow ban list. During this time he starts adding his own mods, so the "we need to keep it quiet until it's working right" arguments don't hold. There were attempts to reverse engineer the protocol (something called Paragon Chat), but that was basically chat-only, and guy would poach devs from that project, keeping it from getting anywhere.

Finally someone manages to leak the existence of the private server, and the fecal matter hits the rotary impeller. This leads to the original (i24) code and eventually a redacted database being released. Oh yeah, about that database. For some reason the guy never saved the original leaked copy of the database, so all he had was one that only worked with his own code mods. This all has been in only the past few days, but the eventual goal is to un-fuck the database so that it can work with the original Issue 24 code.

The "I like the rest of you have been lied to" quote in TFS refers to someone discovering that a leaked copy of the original source code had been used to run a private server for almost six years!

Federal law protects the ability of employees to organize.

Ah...but a walkout to 'protest something ' is not trying to organize into a union, and I believe all of that activity is supposed to occur outside normal business hours, right?