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Comment Lost Battle (Score 1) 124

It is 9.7km/kWh, which is indeed impressive. My 2025 Equinox EV is 5.1 km/kWh, but is a much bigger car. My husband's smaller 2017 Bolt EV is rated at 5.7 km/kWh. In the real world, the Equinox actually uses less than the Bolt because of the heat pump.

Marketing was NEVER going to allow units like mi/kWh or km/kWh to be used for flashy new EVs, since those (single-digit!) numerical values would be so much smaller than per gallon figures.

Comment Re: Thank you (Score 0) 81

LPR surveillance is unconstitutional.

No, it is not. There is no such article in the Constitution.

If they want to use LPR information, then make it a warranting process.

Ah, you're implying, the 4th Amendment covers license plates? No, it doesn't — the license is outside in plain sight. If I can legally see it, I can record it.

Now, the very requirement to have the license plate in the first place — that seems quite bogus to me. Not unconstitutional — just wrong. There is no argument for license plates on personal vehicles on the road, that wouldn't also apply to actual persons on the same road...

Comment Re:Thank you (Score 3, Insightful) 81

Double fuck you for trying to sell my freedom for safety, for implying this draconian surveillance is necessary, and for using fear to sell tyranny. Your kidnapping fantasy ignores how police actually work.
Real investigations rely on probable cause, warrants, witness tips, and focused detective work. Not a nationwide dragnet that scans every license plate, logging billions of innocent movements for later scrutiny. And if some cases can't be solved, or solved as quickly, that's an absolutely necessary sacrifice.

This pervasive surveillance creates Foucault's Panopticon: a digital eye that chills free movement and association, breeds self-censorship, invites abuse like tracking abortions or protests, and normalizes state ownership of our data. It doesn't secure borders or safety; it erodes the freedoms that define us. My hope for my children is not that they remain safe but that they remain free.

Comment Re:Vizio is throwing away a great opportunity (Score 1) 64

Imagine if Vizio were to become the first pro-consumer TV.

The MPA member movie studios would probably withdraw their respective streaming services from Vizio's platform on grounds that a user-modifiable free operating system fails to satisfy the "compliance and robustness" rules of whatever digital restrictions management protocol they use.

Comment I doubt most home users have heard of HTPC (Score 2) 64

Seriously who bothers with the crapware built into a tv anyway? Just use it as a dumb screen and attach other devices to it.

First, the user needs to know that "a cheap little computer" exists and can be connected to a TV. Walmart and Best Buy haven't been doing a good job of marketing these to the public. Second, the user needs the spare time to learn to administer yet another computer. Third, the user needs to be satisfied with some services limiting streams to 480p because a desktop computer running Linux and Firefox has a low "integrity level" in Widevine.

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