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Comment Re:Sounds like a great idea /s (Score 1) 53

by fodder69 (#61002496) Attached to: Navistar, GM, OneH2 Combine Forces For Long-Haul Hydrogen-Electric Trucks

Li-ion failures tend to be runaway burns, I don't recall seeing an explosion involving one. Diesel doesn't burn particularly well and even gasoline does not usually involve large explosions, although it can happen. Not the case with any compressed gas.

Doesn't really matter since economically this is a complete non starter.

Comment Sounds like a great idea /s (Score 2) 53

by fodder69 (#61000906) Attached to: Navistar, GM, OneH2 Combine Forces For Long-Haul Hydrogen-Electric Trucks

By 2024 the Tesla Semi should be in some form of production and hopefully others. As a driver would I rather drive in something with batteries something with a huge fricking BOMB strapped to my truck?

Why go with all of this insane extra infrastructure that is dangerous as F rather than work on pure electrification? YOu need tons of electricity to make the hydrogen and then you have to transport it and turn it back into electricity. The inefficiency and you know BOMBS involved just seem like a really bad idea.

Comment Yes, but getting into an accident isn't contagious (Score 1) 583

Aside from minimizing the impact (you didn't die != everything is great), the issue is that driving 13-101 miles a day isn't contagious to my parents or other at-risk people. The more people have it, the more people they spread it to, and not all of them are under 65.
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AG Barr Says Consumers Should Accept Security Risks of Encryption Backdoors (techcrunch.com) 582

Posted by msmash from the how-about-that dept.
U.S. attorney general William Barr has said consumers should accept the risks that encryption backdoors pose to their personal cybersecurity to ensure law enforcement can access encrypted communications. From a report: In remarks, Barr said the "significance of the risk should be assessed based on its practical effect on consumer cybersecurity, as well as its relation to the net risks that offering the product poses for society." He suggested that the "residual risk of vulnerability resulting from incorporating a lawful access mechanism is materially greater than those already in the unmodified product. [...] Some argue that, to achieve at best a slight incremental improvement in security, it is worth imposing a massive cost on society in the form of degraded safety." The risk, he said, was acceptable because "we are talking about consumer products and services such as messaging, smart phones, e-mail, and voice and data applications," and "not talking about protecting the nation's nuclear launch codes."

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