You generally charge them at night, not during peak usage hours. Of course, Californians could also install a solar panel, SolarCity is offering them at no money down.

As someone who lives in the west I would love to see windmills on farmland and solar power installed on rooftops replace dams. Free flowing rivers are an incredible asset, it's not just about fish.

Isn't the basic story that they trade performance for reliability?

When they use energy produced by coal power plants the emissions are roughly equivalent to driving a regular gas powered car. In most places, they range somewhere between an efficient gasoline powered car and a hybrid. There are also emissions involved with the manufacturing and recycling of the car.

Lifecycle analysis shows that electric cars produce 25% less emission than plug-in hybrids that use a drive train similar to the kind you are advocating for.

Environmentalists have always been for more efficient cars but pure gasoline powered cars just aren't necessary. And there are a TON of engineering benefits to an electric car: the center of mass is super low, you double the storage capacity, you get rid of the vast majority of the maintenance cost, and the performance is really phenomenal.

Elon Musk has an infinitely better plan for going to Mars, and best of all, he has the smarts and the resources to do it.

I have as big a nerd-crush on Musk as the next geek, but he doesn't have what it takes to acomplish his "ultimate" goal of setting up a backup for humanity on Mars. Terraforming mars is a few orders of magnitude more difficult than reversing climate change here on Earth.

Der, they killed him:

I guess I shouldn't expect the typical /. commenter to read between the lines.

I was just embroiled in a dispute with someone who is selling security related software that refuses to address key issues with their security model. I think the situation is probably similar here, software engineers that have the best of intentions but simply lack the expertise to properly execute. Most programmers are engineers who are perfectly capable of building out a working system. However, when it comes to security related software, it's not good enough for something to just work, you have to be able to have a deep understanding of how every component interacts with the larger system.

Lol, users don't understand certificates and I doubt that most geeks are capable of managing them.

This has nothing to do with HTTPS, it's the ability for the service provider to spoof the UI of the Javascript PGP client.

There are usable and secure E2E email clients, but they require a separation between the messaging system and the software used to retrieve it. With traditional software distribution, we can rely on reproducible builds and security audits to increase the cost of backdooring software. On the web, each provider can deliver a custom (backdoored) version of their software to the target on demand.

It's in TFA.

This has nothing to do with HTTPS, it's aimed at PGP and OTR clients that are bolted onto web interfaces. The problem is that these interfaces can be spoofed.

It's based on a decade of research, the 90% figure comes from actual behavioral studies in which researchers asked participants to login to their bank accounts and removed the "site-authentication" image.