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Comment Re:Perspective (Score 1) 132

This isn't a whole lot different than the mad rush of Tesla fire stories we saw a couple years ago - every single one had to be reported nationally all of a sudden, even though there are orders of magnitude more car fires every single year from ICE cars.

Exactly. There has been so much talk over the past decade about misleading information on the internet. Traditional media has been misleading people for decades by hacking the human brain's availability heuristic. It's almost impossible to find trustworthy information!

Submission + - Oklahoma man hacked government site to buy cars at auction for $1 (nbcnews.com)

Thelasko writes: Evan James Coker bought vehicles and jewelry in 2019 through web auctions held by the General Service Administration, officials said. The sales are intended to help get rid of surplus materials or items seized by authorities.

His bids were not unusual amounts, in the thousands of dollars, but when it came time to pay, Coker “breached the pay.gov website and falsified the true auction price to $1,” the U.S. attorney’s office said.

Coker was indicted on three counts of wire fraud in March 2023 and pleaded guilty to one count Wednesday, according to court records.

Comment Re:Oh, Please. . . (Score 3, Interesting) 158

That's the biggest load of Malarkey I've ever read!

Far from it in my opinion. I suspect you don't like it because he is not taking a scientific argument, but a philosophical one. It's the same argument as Plato's Allegory of the Cave, and Descartes's Discourse of a Method.

It seem his argument is we're living in a simulation, so it doesn't matter if our software captures something different that what our eyes perceive. Claiming the camera produces a "fake" image will not win this argument, because there is no reality.

To win this argument, it should be stated that the human eye is considered the standard by which all cameras should be measured. This technology does not move closer to reproducing the images the human eye does, but instead moves farther away. By that standard, this technology produces low quality images.

Comment Re: No one would listen to AM in an emergency (Score 1) 262

A replacement for AM broadcast radio would need to be as bulletproof, specifically meaning it is a distributed system that doesnâ(TM)t depend on infrastructure such as the internet that can be compromised. FM radio is a poor option due to its limited range of 20-50 miles in the best conditions. Shortwave has been dead in this country for almost a century (and used mainly AM mode anyhow for scheduled programming).

AM radio is far from bulletproof. Any EM noise makes it unusable. The auto makers want to kill it because it's so fragile, not because it's "bulletproof".

There is a spec for All-digital AM, which has the potential for AM range with the robustness to noise of a digital signal. However, I haven't found much info on it. It at least has the potential to be the bulletproof technology every one is after.

Comment Re: No one would listen to AM in an emergency (Score 1) 262

We're not talking about replacing the stations, only saying that if you want this option, to go Amazon and grab a $20 AM radio and throw it in your glovebox.

Without AM radio built into the car, people will stop listening on a regular basis. If people don't listen on a regular basis, the stations won't make money. If they stations don't make money, they will no longer exist.

Yes, this is about the stations.

Comment How? (Score 1) 78

A few months ago I was stopped at a crossing while a freight train went by. Half of the containers looked like they had been pried open. I have no idea what kind of tool they used to do this, but it was impressive. Those big steel containers were all bent out of shape.

Comment New Console (Score 3, Informative) 45

I found the summary confusing. This isn't another version of the Switch (there are three versions currently, Switch, Switch Lite, and Switch OLED). This is a new console, similar to the Switch, and often referred to as "Switch 2".

The news here is they won't be using an OLED screen for the new console. This can be viewed as a step backwards from the Switch OLED.

Submission + - 'Mother of all Breaches' sees 26 BILLION records leaked (dailymail.co.uk)

An anonymous reader writes: Over 26 billion personal records have been exposed, in what researchers believe to be the biggest-ever data leak.

Likely, the owner of the massive breach will never be discovered but the researchers suggest it could be a malicious actor, data broker, or service that works with large amounts of data.

Initial studies of the data suggest that it does not come from a new breach but is actually a collection of earlier breaches.

Of the 12 terabytes of records, the researchers also note that some are almost certainly duplicates.

Comment Re:The Obvious Solution is Already in the Works (Score 1) 426

The problem with building more chargers is that they aren't used 5 days each week. When people commute to work in gasoline cars, they still need to stop for gas during the week. EV commuters charge at home, and don't use public chargers at all. The problem only exists during certain hours on the weekend.

I call this the "break room microwave problem". 99% of the time, the microwave in an office break room isn't being used. However, between 11:30 and 12:30, there is a long cue, and people get frustrated.

It's hard to make a business case to buy more of something that spends a majority of it's time unused. Perhaps they could do some sort of "surge pricing" like Uber does.

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