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Comment forget about fitting it to your own car... (Score 1) 151

With that said, you can forget about fitting it to your own car as "TPS's going-to-market strategy is to work with an established tier-one supplier to leverage existing relationships with OEMs as well as existing manufacturing capacity."

Super fucking lame... almost save the world a huge portion of carbon emissions, fail at last hurdle due to greed. Classic Humanoids.

Comment GNU says no? (Score 1) 180

I'm not sure how legally explicit the GNU license is here, but this would definitely be against it's spirit (essentially discrimination in re-distribution, regardless of the reasons should not be allowed)... When I submit open source code to GitHub it does not belong to the US government, it is not an exclusive license.

Looks like the US is going to become more and more segregated from the rest of the world, at their loss, because sci-hub equivalents will just pop up everywhere, this isn't even a US legal issue in this case because it's all fucking open source, talk about shooting yourselves in the foot.

Comment Re:Wish the above summary included safe levels. (Score 1) 174

Likewise, if you stare at high-intensity LED lights for extended periods of time, it can damage your eyes. Imagine my shock.

Yes, but isn't this exactly what we are all doing right now as you read this... chronic exposure is a realistic concern, the same as the effect of low but constant noise levels on hearing loss.

Comment Inching towards... (Score 0) 77

The $1000 item vending machine of the future: Apple.

In 10,000 years, aliens visit a strangely composite rock. Tiny intricate compartments of hydrocarbons and rare earth metals cover the surface almost entirely, the rectangular compartments are in such a formation as to make it infeasibly difficult to usefully recover any of the materials short of throwing them into a star - the alien archaeologists will find that the extinct inhabitants converted 99% of the useful earth material of the planet into these strange little formations - they drew the only possible conclusion: the inhabitants must have had blindingly strong religious connections to these small rectangles to have dedicated all resources and life on their planet into irreversibly manufacturing these small objects before quickly burying them in the ground.

Comment 67 KiB says you are wrong (Score 1) 478

Let me guess: the fucking page was trying to push 1MB of HTML, 2MB of CSS, 5MB of javascript and 10MB of images for each page hit?

That's a pretty fucking terrible guess... anyone who bothered to follow the link would see one of the most spartan sites on the web - then it's just a button (12) and a mouse click (network tab) away to find out that it's a whopping 67 KiB... so no, your completely and utterly wrong. Also serving static content is almost never the bottleneck in any website, pipes are enormous these days and static content is the easiest think in the world to distribute among a cluster.

Comment Define "large" (Score 1) 478

...Analysis has already shown a large number of signatures from outside the UK, including North Korea and Russia.

Last time I checked there were shown to be 25 from Russia... The petition site is far from infallible but this is one of the most signed petitions since the sites inception, and clearly the one with the highest signing rate - Aren't you missing the point.

Comment Re:Auto driving will save lives (Score 1) 159

the AC is on Max cold, the radio is as loud as it goes, and then BAM you are wide awake because you've turned the trunk of a Corolla into an accordion

You were aware enough to try to use loud noises and cold air and you didn't think to pull over... do you think external stimulus replace sleep? was it not obvious to you that your decision to do those things instead of stopping was going to increase your chances of uncontrollably falling asleep?

Comment Re:Auto driving will save lives (Score 1) 159

Better that than dozing off without autopilot.

Do you really think she "dozed off"?

I think it's far more likely she consciously made a decision to rest her eyes while yielding to the autopilot. Tesla's autopilot is not fully autonomous... in which case anything less than pulling over to get some sleep or letting someone else drive is irresponsible.

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