Comment Here's a thought.... (Score 1) 97
Don't connect critical infrastructure to the internet.
And yes, food safety is critical infrastructure.
Submission + - Sir Patrick Stewart, Dead at 86.
sconeu writes: Sir Patrick Stewart, famous for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Professor Charles Xavier, has died at age 86. He suffered from Alzheimer's disease and Lewy Body Demential.
Submission + - Tesla does not allow people to repair their own vehicles (newrepublic.com)
smooth wombat writes: A decade ago, Rich Benoit bought a used Tesla at auction. The car had been flooded and he thought he'd repair it. When he reached out to Tesla to buy parts, they said no.
“They literally just said no,” he said. “I thought it was going to be a lot easier: ‘Hey, I’ll just buy a battery, put a battery in, put a new motor in, you know, buy some new interior parts.’ They literally said no. I’ve never seen anything like that before, and I think that’s what started the journey for me.”
Benoit’s professional background was in I.T., but this launched a new career in fixing electric cars, and he also runs a now 10-year-old YouTube channel with co-founder Carl Hewitt about his work, called Rich Rebuilds. He says nearly every electric vehicle company has responded the same way Tesla did. So his new career intersected quickly with the right-to-repair movement, which argues that companies shouldn’t be allowed to refuse access to the information and equipment people need to make repairs on the products they’ve purchased.
At least nine states have passed right-to-repair laws—most of them blue, along with Texas and Kansas—and every state has debated similar laws that would require at least some manufacturers to provide the tools people need to make repairs on their products. A federal bill is sitting in the House, waiting for potential consideration in the lame-duck session, but it’s unlikely to rise to the top of Congress’s long to-do list. For Benoit, though, this is about much more than just fixing cars. “This kind of encompasses a larger overarching theory that the corporations own what you have,” he said. “You don’t own anything. You just rent it.”
“They literally just said no,” he said. “I thought it was going to be a lot easier: ‘Hey, I’ll just buy a battery, put a battery in, put a new motor in, you know, buy some new interior parts.’ They literally said no. I’ve never seen anything like that before, and I think that’s what started the journey for me.”
Benoit’s professional background was in I.T., but this launched a new career in fixing electric cars, and he also runs a now 10-year-old YouTube channel with co-founder Carl Hewitt about his work, called Rich Rebuilds. He says nearly every electric vehicle company has responded the same way Tesla did. So his new career intersected quickly with the right-to-repair movement, which argues that companies shouldn’t be allowed to refuse access to the information and equipment people need to make repairs on the products they’ve purchased.
At least nine states have passed right-to-repair laws—most of them blue, along with Texas and Kansas—and every state has debated similar laws that would require at least some manufacturers to provide the tools people need to make repairs on their products. A federal bill is sitting in the House, waiting for potential consideration in the lame-duck session, but it’s unlikely to rise to the top of Congress’s long to-do list. For Benoit, though, this is about much more than just fixing cars. “This kind of encompasses a larger overarching theory that the corporations own what you have,” he said. “You don’t own anything. You just rent it.”
Comment About frackin' time. (Score 1) 105
Users have only been asking for this since Vista...
Comment Re:Wayback Time! (Score 3, Interesting) 109
That "someone" was Maureen O'Gara. She was trying to find PJ's identity, probably to discredit her.
Comment Sooo.... (Score 1) 79
Having actually RTFA for once... I was looking at where Mark was noting his first email address.
I remember those days -- pre internet, so you had to give the route (...!ucbvax!ucscb).
We also had write (and for see as you type, "rite") on our PDP-11/70, and for the life of me, I couldn't understand why I'd use email instead of write. It took a while before I realized the value of asynchronous communication.
But yes, those were the days.
Comment Re:First Post! (Score 1) 79
For those who are too young and missed it, or those who remember it and want to see it in all its glory: https://www.flickr.com/photos/...
Comment Re: First Post! (Score 1) 79
Finally! Someone I can tell to get off my lawn with those hot grits!
Comment Re:First Post! (Score 1) 79
I waited for quite a while. I figured it wasn't necessary. Otherwise I probably would have had a 4 digit ID as well.
Comment Re:Truth behind doublespeak (Score 1) 97
I am shocked, SHOCKED! That AI didn't preserve institutional knowledge.
Comment Re:have your cake and eat it too (Score 1) 28
Only reason I have LI is because I got access prior to public release back in 2003. I got laid off and my manager recommended it.
Comment Re:Get your ass to Mars (Score 1) 29
Don't you watch For All Mankind? Everyone there uses a Zune instead of iThings.
Comment Probably BS (Score 1) 262
But that's what they told POTUS because he'd brag about means and methods.
Comment Reflecting values (Score 1) 81
The Slack exchange from one junior staffer to a friend absolutely doesn't reflect our values or how we operate.
Actually, I'm pretty sure it does.
Comment Re: New Subscription - only $149.99/month (Score 1) 170
Remember, whenever you think you are useless and your job sucks, there's some poor bastard in Germany, who is putting turn signals on BMWs.
