That may be true of the eGolf but some hybrids charge differently. The Volt for example does not charge beyond 80% when plugged in, leaving a 20% cushion for regenerative braking.

They do? Then the automakers who guarantee their batteries for 8 years are surely screwed.

And/or all the 2011 Leaf/Volt/etc. sold 5 years ago must be dead on the side of the road by now.

Seriously, when are the /.-ers here going to stop spewing nonsense as if it were facts?

The irony behind this industrial automation is that it was supposed to improve our lives. Due to invention, innovation and automation we were all supposed to be driving flying cars by now, and have personal robots to do chores. But somewhere capitalism went haywire and instead our capacity to consume is on the downswing due to low wages and unemployment/underemployment, so instead we get to look at all the fancy things we can't have.

Something has to give. What worries me is the lack of consensus on how to fix the problem. We just may lose a generation by arguing over the macroeconomic fixes necessary.

NYTimes, among others. It's gotten bad. They kind of came all at once, and the message is similar. Many start off with "I used to be a Bernie supporter, but..."

The study I saw shows that even in the dirtiest coal-burning states, total CO2 from an electric vehicle is roughly equivalent to a 40 MPG gasoline automobile.

That's actually a very good result, it shows that converting fleets today to electric power would reduce their carbon footprint, even if the grid does not get cleaner. But coal is rapidly getting phased out in favor of natural gas and renewable energy, so that "40 MPG" equivalent is going to improve over time.

You're confusing it with SSLv3, which was still used by Win XP, IE6, Java 6, ancient Androids maybe. I can't think of anything that depends on SSLv2 and would be in common use today.

SSLv2 has been obsolete for decades. Both should be turned off--the bare minimum for secure sites is TLS v1.0, and PCI DSS requires all older protocols to be disabled, if you need such certifications.

Absolutely. It was shockingly easy to setup on my home network. Once I configured OpenWRT with an IPv6 tunnel, and initialized ip6tables, autoconfiguration kicked in, all the devices on my home network, including mobile devices, configured IPv6 on their own and everything just worked.

The article seems to be about misconfigured routers, unrelated to any problems with IPv6 itself.

I'd like to start running IPv6 everywhere. My darned ISP isn't provide it natively, yet, and we don't have it on our work network. As far as I can tell nothing stands in the way of deploying IPv6 except laziness and incompetence.

The certificates from Lets Encrypt (and other commonly used cheap providers) are "domain validated", which is the lowest rung of site certificate. These are perfectly okay for everyday use on Internet sites that don't process highly sensitive data.

The best consumers can do is demand extended validation certificates for their banking sites, and each time you connect to your bank's site verify you are using an EV certificate.

Exactly that, in my experience.

You and I, and the OP, won't be subject to any attacks behind our NAT firewalls because we're all too careful to fall for any phishing scams or malware links.

Our coworkers, family and friends, on the other hand... they'll call us and say "hey my machine is acting funny" no matter what kind of firewall they are behind.

Yep, but for that you need ipv6 anyway. Which doesn't help the "ipv4 is fine 'cause we have NAT" folks.

There's an easy fix for those who trust nobody and nothing: Unplug from the Internet.

Those who think NAT is such a great idea... have you had to support VPN tunnels between networks with overlapping private subnets? It gets messy fast.

Universally unique addressing is a GOOD thing. For those concerned about the security of private networks, well, you have to know what you're doing. And even with ipv4 a lot of internal addresses leak out anyway. (Look at SMTP envelopes for one).

I've been trying, it's a bit of a struggle.

Getting my home network on IPv6 was the easiest part. My provider (not Comcast) was no help whatsoever, so I set up a tunnel from HE. Works great. Only time I had to tweak was when my IPv4 endpoint changed addresses, then I login to HE and update my tunnel. The rest of my home network all fell into line, even the mobile devices (iphones mostly) picked up an ipv6 address and use it, but it can be hard to tell since iOS only displays ipv4 info on the wifi settings page.

At work, I don't manage the corporate network, and don't see it moving to ipv6 anytime soon. That's not a barrier for me, except for testing perhaps, though I may be able to configure a tunnel at work as well.

I'm trying to move some of our public sites over, but our data center is handled by a large managed services provider, and they've been dragging their feet for two months on my request to provision ipv6. I don't think they get many requests for it, and I'm not at all sure they know quite how to do it.

It's frustrating to say the least.

around 1988. The hardware was a Sun 3 (Motorola 68020 CPU), the console ran SunView (I think we installed X11 later). Shortly after that I began dabbling in Minix on an 8086 machine at home, later installed Coherent on a 386. Didn't try Linux until I bought a distro from SLS, it had 0.99pl14 and the box came with about 30 floppy disks.

On my next job I was an AIX admin. It was another 10 years before I was working with Linux full time.

Sorry, but you are incorrect. Greece reported a nearly 2 billion euro surplus in 2014, without taking interest payments into account. http://www.wsj.com/articles/greece-misses-target-on-budget-surplus-1421244654

If their debt were wiped out today they would keep that money and need no further bailouts. Better yet they could go back to the Drachma and manage their currency with a combination of monetary and fiscal policy, just like every other sovereign nation in the developed world.

You can't oversimplify the Greek situation as "socialism". There are plenty of examples of countries that are doing fine economically with policies that embrace social spending. The Greek situation is far more complex and involves politics and the Euro as much as anything else.