It's cool to see this as a general rule. Electricity rates don't change very often, while Gas rates fluctuate quarterly, or sometimes even more frequently, making it difficult to compare cost. I'm in Colorado, and the cost of Natural Gas doesn't *quite* offset the Electricity cost for raw therms output to heat the house, but they're within $30/month of each other as of the last month's billing. They might actually be break even after Xcel kicks in it's quarterly increase for the winter months.

It's not enough value at this point to just rip out something functional just because, but when it comes time to replace the existing unit and I have to foot the bill anyway, a heat pump unit with gas backup seams more and more likely. The writing seems to be on the wall that electricity is the future for residential, and a lot of commercial stuff, regardless of how it's generated. I don't see power generation from NG going away any time soon though.

Seems like in order to make this work, it's likely going to encourage users to input more specific data about themselves to more accurately map requirements. E.g. "Devops" won't really be sufficient when the job requirement lists specifics like Python, CI/CD, etc.

The lawsuit has his parents' names. It's not going to be hard to figure out the kid from the application.

Sensationalism much? The statistical likelihood of this scenario makes it practical fiction. It is never going to happen.

I agree that the privacy threats are real, but let's try to have discussions about it without going immediately to absurd clickbait extremes.

Sure, it's just a map now. But in the self-driving car future, it's going to be slightly more critical.

The guy is a jerk, and deserves what he gets. However as a side note, have you looked up what it costs to dump a truckload of construction trash these days? It might not be astronomical if you have the budget for a home improvement project, but it's definitely not "miniscule" in my neck of the woods.

Not likely. People understand what e-waste is. It's just far easier, and many times a lot cheaper, to toss it in the trash bin than try and figure out how to properly dispose of it.

If there was a bin for e-waste like there is for recycling and trash in many places, you'd have a lot less e-waste mixed into landfills with general trash. Not sure what you'd do with it, but at least it would be pre-sorted.

You get to learn something today.... "the motor is attached directly to the shaft" is just plain wrong. EV's have differential gears just like every ICE car, unless there are 4 motors, one per wheel. And even then, there might be some gearing or disconnect involved. There might not be a transmission, but there are still mechanical elements and gears/bearings/etc. involved.

No doubt, EV's have far fewer mechanical parts than an ICE engine, but they still have a lot of parts!. And while electrical components tend to last longer than mechanical components as a general rule, it's not an *exclusive* rule. Electronics can fail and wear out over time as well.

As for motor replacement cost? Used Tesla motors right now are $3-5K. A use 3.0 ecoboost, common in a lot of Fords as an example, is $4-6k. There's not *that* much difference there, and I'd argue you'll pay a lot less to replace the ICE than the EV just because there are so many more mechanics available to do the job. EV's are also still relatively new, and their long term reliability and cost is still being determined. Very few have reached their EOL for battery packs, so that replacement cost and hassle hasn't even hit the general market in any volume yet to determine a reliable cost.

Disclaimer: I own both ICE and EV vehicles. I like them both for various specific reasons. TBH, the ROI/Cost on each of them is pretty close. The EV was far more expensive than the ICE, but it's way cheaper to operate. The ICE is more expensive to operate, but it's a quarter the monthly payment that the EV is. And I can use it in more long-distance scenarios without the hassle of figuring out go-juice issues.

Buy what you need, and debate all you want. (after all, this is the internet) But there are still a ton of unknowns about the future of EV's, other than the singular fact that they are here to stay.

Why would you even publish this? It's just giving someone who shouldn't get the time of day, the time of day, just so you can get more clicks? Bad Slashdot.

It's somewhat impressive that there are still people with these super low UID's still lurking on /. after all these years. (:

It says right on the homepage:

        the xonsh shell

~ It is pronounced zonsch ~

Either way, it's still terrible name.

>Do you believe rehabilitation is impossible or do you want revenge?

I don't believe that someone who commits mass murder can be rehabilitated, no. It isn't about revenge; it's about public safety.

Someone once pointed out that hoping a rapist gets raped in prison isn't a victory for his victim(s), because it somehow gives him what he had coming to him, but it's actually a victory for rape and violence. I wish I could remember who said that, because they are right. The score doesn't go Rapist: 1 World: 1. It goes Rape: 2.

What this man did is unspeakable, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. If he needs to be kept away from other prisoners as a safety issue, there are ways to do that without keeping him in solitary confinement, which has been shown conclusively to be profoundly cruel and harmful.

Putting him in solitary confinement, as a punitive measure, is not a victory for the good people in the world. It's a victory for inhumane treatment of human beings. This ruling is, in my opinion, very good and very strong for human rights, *precisely* because it was brought by such a despicable and horrible person. It affirms that all of us have basic human rights, even the absolute worst of us on this planet.

This is precisely why I lost all interest in Oculus the instant I heard that it had been acquired by Facebook.

The phone is just a small part of the puzzle for an investigation. You can't blow something up with *only* a phone. You have to move around, communicate across public networks, and physically acquire elements. Sure, having the data on a phone with documented communications might be handy, but it's not strictly necessary for any investigation of physical activity. Saying it is, is just being lazy.