Massive security breach with official response saying nothing was compromised...

Unofficially they've purchased credit monitoring for all staff...

This has been a very bad year for corporate security world wide!

And you can always replace an ICE's battery... People will bring a battery to you even! Or bring jumpers.

Replaceable and refillable will always win.

Qybixxx

I've heard of companies investing in Tesla cars, but they all say they have contingencies in place to replace the batteries every few years.

Read.

Understand.

Then know that I'm only motivated by the desire to get what I can USE..

Qybixxx

Cell phone batteries are designed with multiple cells to reduce the full cycle count from charging cycles but they are still worthless after 400-450 cycles. As a guy that replaces Apple and Samsung batteries everyday, I tell people to watch that cycle count like a hawk. As the cells naturally degrade the cycle count will accelerate suddenly. Sell the phone or buy a new battery when that happens so that you can avoid the worst of it.

And no battery is immune to that horror.

Qybixxx

You all might laugh and pretend that you know more than me, but a well known customer at my computer store was spitting bullets when he looked into that "8yr/150,000 mile" "warranty". He was still going to be paying for the privilege of replacing the battery and he had only been using the car as a daily driver for 3 years at that point. He was boiling mad!

But the issue I'm getting to here is that there are three fast charging stations in the town that customer lives in and they are always busy with people spending hours waiting for a charge that is equivalent to 30 seconds of pumping gasoline. 30 seconds at the pump or hours and hours and hours and hours of charging... I've made my vote for now.

However; EV companies could lease me a battery with a number of complimentary hot swaps and solve that issue immediately!

Imagine! Driving up to the swap queue, tapping your BatteryBiz Express card, opening the boot, and in mere seconds driving away with a fully charged battery!

And for people who say charge it at home; I looked at what it would cost to add a charging station to my previous house. I was thinking of purchasing a hot tub and if I was going to upgrade the incoming electrical I might as well shoot as many birds as I could with the same bullet. After three quotes from electricians and a quote from the local utility company I bought a 120V portable hot tub and called it a day.

I still say it's not time for EVs yet... But it will be if they just do it right!

Qybixxx

Even if it had 1,000KM a charge you'd still be an idiot to buy one:

Sure 1,000KM would sound like a lot and you could drive to work and back how many times? Maybe even not worry about charging between cities and hotel rooms! But in two years when the battery starts to fail, then what? We all know the idiots who are trying to sell their 2-4yrs old Tesla's for this very reason. Every single person I have ever met with a Tesla says the same thing for two or three years and then stops using it after four because the batteries cost too much to replace and at that point are garbage.

No one should buy one until you can open the back of the vehicle and replace the battery like you can swap propane tanks; at Walmart or other retailers.

Lease me the battery for all I care - just make it hot swap enabled!

Qybixxx

I love my Mac Mini's! Just mount a little cage behind the tv and wire up the hdmi! Only issue with it has been lack of 3d support on my latest tv but the 4k modes look awesome on it. Add external firewire, USB3, or NAS and now you can play anything you've got in your library. Probably all fit behind the wall mount for your tv just like mine does.

Do they count as toys? I know this isn't Fetlife, but I figure adult toys should count too!

Blender is mostly for 3d animation, but it does have it's own video editor built in. Added bonus that you can animate things like callouts, thought clouds, etc... Added bonus that the community for Blender seems massive.

QYbix

So true dood...

The idea that people, or even children, need to be shielded from topics that surround us everyday in reality is ludicrous. The jury is STILL out on whether violent games cause violent behavior but if my experience can be humbly included it does not. It's a choice people gleefully want to take away from us for no other reason than exercising power over us.

Turning the world Micky Mouse does not help anyone and simply annoys me. I am reminded of a quote from Demolition Man:

Edgar Friendly: That's right. You see, according to *Cacteau's* plan. *I'm* the enemy. Because I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, freedom of choice. I'm the kind of guy who would sit in the greasy spoon and think "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the big rack of Barbecued spare ribs with the side order of gravy fries?" I *want* high cholesterol. I want to eat bacon, butter and buckets of cheese alright? I want to smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinatti in a non-smoking section. I wanna run around naked with green jell-o all over my body reading a Playboy magazine. Why? Because maybe I feel the need to okay pal? I've *seen* the future, you know what it is. It's made by a 47 year-old virgin in gray pajamas soaking in a bubble bath, drinking a broccoli milkshake and thinking "I'm an Oscar-Meyer Wiener". You wanna live on top, you gotta live Cacteau's way. What he wants, when he wants, how he wants. Your other option: come down here, maybe starve to death.

Qybixxx

I live in Canada and I was worried for a second there that I would have to start actively supporting creationists in the US! How else can the United States be made to fail? Can we out produce them? No. Can we out inovate them? Not yet... But we can out educated them! And by sabotaging the US education system we foreigners can force the once mighty United States to crash down like a house of cards.

Do you see the Chinese teaching their children worthless garbage? No. Good!

Do you see the Americans teaching their children worthless garbage? YES! GOOD!

All is right with the world!

Qybix

I so did that on purpose... Reign/rein/rain... Sorry to rein on your parade...

Qybix

I am so tempted to kiss the guy! Linux can't have this type of _OBVIOUS_ audio sabotage at the kernel level if we expect game developers to ever make their products available on Linux. Linus NEEDS to reign this in, we just can't afford it. He is 110% right.

Keep the helm firm, man! That's exactly what we need!

Qybix

http://www.sott.net/article/228583-Scientists-cure-cancer-but-no-one-takes-notice

The people researching this cure are outraged that big-pharma refuses to help them, especially since it seems to be 100% effective even against cancers that are leathal... No human trials yet, but lots of recorded history for the drug and all point to it being safe and effective.

Qybix

Religions cannot coexist. It is impossible. Eventually the leaders of each religion will realize that the only way to make more money or control more people is to destroy the other religions. There is no religion without the greedy and intolerant wanting to be in control of everything they see.

Even the bible itself is a great example of this; why did god throw the devil into hell? Because god didn't want to share his toys. Greed is the foundation of religion and the very reason that these people want intolerance enforced on all; so that no one can question their domination.

Without greed being the entire equation, there would be no need for intolerance.

Qybixxx