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Comment Re:Will they be subjected to their own rules? (Score 1) 12

IP infringement is the name of the game on the Google Appstore, filled with copycats and straight rip-offs any cursory check would pick up before allowing publishing.

It's not illegal to make and sell a similar product with a similar name. Retail stores are filled with them. This doesn't make the App Store good, it isn't, it's crap. But it also means that they don't have any duty to prevent those apps from existing. They may chase them off the store if enough people complain, but only because people are complaining and it's cheaper than some other approach.

Comment Re:Ford EV? (Score 1) 117

Reading the tea leaves, it sounded like the market for a full-size electric pickup is comprised of individuals who seemingly suffer from terminal range anxiety. So Ford is rumored to be relaunching the F-150, except on the new universal platform and also as an EREV - it's supposedly gonna have a generator on board.

Ford didn't even make the version of the F-150 Lightning which should have existed. The tradesman version didn't offer the big battery as an option! You could only get the fully loaded model with it. This is presumably because they couldn't get enough batteries to sell all the models which should exist, so they reserved the big packs for the most expensive models, since nobody would buy those models without the big battery.

Comment Re:Terrible feature (Score 1) 117

Let me spell it out very plainly because you donâ(TM)t get it.

Instead, you plainly proved that you don't get it.

At no point do I want the electric company to commandeer the power in my car to reduce my range.

This functionality is good for both V2H and V2G. If you don't want to do V2G, don't! You can still do V2H. If these acronyms confuse you, then you aren't sufficiently educated to participate in this conversation. If they don't, then your comment is inexplicable.

Comment Re:Terrible feature (Score 1) 117

A cheap $500 generator isn't going to fully power most houses

I got a 7.6kW generator for $550. It's just open frame and loud AF. If you have gas heating appliances it's more than adequate, if not then it isn't.

You'll also need a generator interlock installed if you want it to actually power the house instead of running extension cords to a few appliances.

To do a legal permanent install, yeah. But you physically could turn off the main breaker, connect a generator to a branch circuit (perhaps on a sub-panel) and run the important things in the house that way. Lock out the main breaker (with an actual lock, preferably) and turn off any unneeded circuits for safety. Use a breaker at the inlet panel sized for the branch circuit wiring. I have nothing like this connected, but I do know for a fact that it's a viable strategy if you don't get carried away with what you try to run.

Comment Re:Terrible feature (Score 1) 117

It works the same way, you need to buy and install additional equipment to do the cutoff if you want to do V2H. These days there's hardware which can live between the meter and panel that does it, so it doesn't physically require a new panel — though it may statutorily if your locality hasn't caught up to reality. But if the system is designed correctly (which is a big assumption and probably unwarranted given that we're discussing Ford) you can also use the same functionality to run a jobsite without needing more equipment.

Comment Re:Great feature (Score 1) 117

I've never understood this V2H for load shifting - it makes no sense when you actually think about the additional cycles you are putting the vehicle battery through.

It doesn't work like you think it does. A rack of quality batteries is expensive. Doing a 10-20% cycle on your vehicle doesn't wear the battery like a full cycle does. A battery which can do 5,000 full cycles might be able to do 20,000 partial cycles or more.

Comment Re:Is it another car or actually a truck? (Score 1) 117

So would ye olde Subaru Symmetric AWD, though.

Too bad they're practically all CVTs now, you have to buy a pissed off one to get a transmission that won't implode.

Off roading isn't really environmentally destructive if you stick to the trails. It's the clown asses who take all the little shortcuts who do the harm. Those guys really are assholes.

Comment Re: RCE Execution pathway (Score 1) 117

The biggest boys who buy the most servers provision them via netboot, which is why it's on. You are not the biggest, so you have to turn it off. Me neither, so I also have to turn it off.

But this is a good old buffer overflow fail, so this is some 90s shit they could have caught with analysis tools, and it's really not because the manufacturers leave PXE boot on. It's because components of UEFI BIOS are apparently written by amateurs.

Comment Re: Not all AI models take a lot of RAM (Score 1) 35

Anyone can see from the tone of your post that your opinion of Apple is based purely on emotion, an nothing else.

That's what a stupid fuck might think based on their Apple worship.

I have loads of experience with Apple. That's why I despise them now, that and their sucking Trump's cock with a golden icon donation on the international stage. Feel free to pay them to abuse you and shit on our country.

Comment Re:Antibiotics are going out..... (Score 1) 44

It's going to get cheaper because, as you say, it will go onto a mass produced pre-prepped chip which will be loaded by machines. Humans will only have to take the samples and the machine will do most of the prep work. But my thought is that it won't get a lot faster because it takes time for the reactions to occur.

Comment Re:Antibiotics are going out..... (Score 1) 44

maybe bacteriophage (viruses that target bacteria) are the immerging technology. They are also useful in therapy for certain kinds of cancer.

Yeah, but it costs tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars and weeks of study to do that. You have to study which phage will work before it's deployed, and this is inherently expensive and time consuming. It will presumably get cheaper, but it probably can't get much faster.

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