Key word being "licensed" not "made available for free". If you look at the licensing terms it becomes very one sided on Tesla's part and no major company would even think of doing it, hence a common open standard was made. If you want a read, this is straight from the fine print:

        A party is "acting in good faith" for so long as such party and its related or affiliated companies have not:

        -asserted, helped others assert or had a financial stake in any assertion of (i) any patent or other intellectual property right against Tesla or (ii) any patent right against a third party for its use of technologies relating to electric vehicles or related equipment;

        -asserted, helped others assert or had a financial stake in any assertion of (i) any patent or other intellectual property right against Tesla or (ii) any patent right against a third party for its use of technologies relating to electric vehicles or related equipment;

        -challenged, helped others challenge, or had a financial stake in any challenge to any Tesla patent; or

        -marketed or sold any knock-off product (e.g., a product created by imitating or copying the design or appearance of a Tesla product or which suggests an association with or endorsement by Tesla) or provided any material assistance to another party doing so.

You missed his joke. He's talking about rooting the characters who are robots, and we're on a tech forum....

This requirement most likely won't be in the Enterprise version which is pretty much what all major businesses run. Same with a lot of the telemetry being turned off. Microsoft knows where majority of their revenue comes from. Consumers are just along for the ride because the businesses keep Microsoft going.

Seriously they left off Vista which was one of the worst and then Windows 8.0 with it's Metro interface was right up there with ME. Who made this poll?

News for nerds? Yup, leveraging the effects on a technological platform in certain ways
Stuff that matters? Very much so as it is an attempt by a government agency to circumvent means of independent auditing and verification.

So I'd very much say this is a story that belongs here on /. even if it did get picked up by other news agencies.

So only Android/IOS means you're either testing your mobile provider or your wifi's capabilities. That leaves out a large chunk of people.

Seems to be Boeing's new motto.

Assuming you don't need to run both simultaneously (which is sounds like based on the premise) why not have a system that can let you swap hard drives, be it via a physical switch between two PCIe SSDs, or physically via a caddy (Just don't lose it!). You're basically using the same system at that point and keeping your data physically separated. At that point you would have to have a persistent firmware based infection to be able to have your other data compromised.

I think the poster is looking at that statement wrong. " and over time the functionality of the product will decrease".

Anytime I have not done updates on Sonos it just prevents *new* features, but it does not take away old ones. As long as you leave the controller and units on the same version you'll have the same level of functionality you always did unless a 3rd party changes their integration method. In which case you could lose access to that service, but that is because the Sonos would have required an update to fix integration anyway.

If you use it for things like local music on a NAS or PC, you'll be fine if you stop where you are, but the product will not "cease to function".

Oh wow, this makes me laugh. I own quite a few rentals and I guarantee if you tried to negotiate like that I'd have no problem not renewing your lease and finding someone else while simultaneously raising the rent. It's not as hard to find someone to replace you as you may think.

Now if you were a good tenant and not a dick about things, I wouldn't raise your rent, but I also won't be making "substantial improvements" as you think you deserve.

I think what really bothers me about this is we're happily tearing down any support nets in the US and instead relying on the goodwill of strangers. This really leans more towards "the rich get richer" because they continue to hoard their money as rather than their tax dollars working towards the welfare of all people for basic needs, people now have to rely on others' post tax dollars if they're lucky.

This is the march towards a pure capitalist society which I think it's going to have it's own host of issues and really pushes the "I got mine, screw you" mentality, rather than trying to help all people in times of need.

(Posting again as myself and not accidentally AC)

Honestly it comes down to what you end up using it for. I have an older 360 that I mainly use for media right now and occasionally gaming. The ability to upgrade to a XB1 which has backwards compatibility for most games I play, coupled with both a 4K video player and a UHD-BD drive for $299 is very tempting. Most new UHD drives cost way more than that (I know price will come down).

That being said, as a casual gamer and more media consumer, this hits my sweet spot.

That's a little pedantic. This is a US-centric site. It should be assumed unless otherwise stated.

Does Photos allow you to geotag and display maps as easily as Picasa? One of the things I really liked about that was that I was able to put location tags on all of my travel photos and then have a nice map of where I have been. I hope they don't lose or hide that feature.

... it does wonders for altering one's behavior.