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Was something planted in Stallman's case? Blowing his quotes out of proportion isn't the same thing as planting evidence. I suppose a better analogy is being on your second strike and doing some minor crime to get your third. Some would argue people on two strikes should keep their head down.

Furthermore his quotes are pretty fucking creepy.


Twisting a quote into a different meaning is a lie, and pretty similar to planting evidence. You are saying two strikes, and then we have license to make up a third to take you out.


Selam G wrote that Stallman considered that Minsky's victim was actually willing.

That's not "planting evidence" in a legal sense because sure, that's not evidence at all. Mainly because it isn't true and it's easily verifiable. But in this context, by these people, it has been taken as actual evidence against Stallman. I guess that's the rationale behind the analogy.


It's called "libel".


It sounds like the key fob did work as others pointed out. However I'm sure there are still lots of unfinished things. When I was out in Chicago with my buddy late last year I got to drive the updated Model S and I noticed the windshield wipers wouldn't come on automatically whenever it rained. After digging through the menu we found a thing that said said something like "feature coming soon" for automatic wipers. Kinda sucks to not have feature a lot of very entry level luxury-ish cars have. Overall the tech is cool and I bet they offer a lot more future functionality through patching. Just feels like they are always in a rush to launch to get some cash in the door and they go with "that will do for now" as the solution.

I hear they got a patch out around last new years to finally address this.


It's only Model S with AP2 that had that problem: the original S and the AP1 S both shipped with working automatic wipers on day 1.

But yes, that's the kind of thing you should expect from Tesla... just like you should expect that the missing-but-common feature of backup-lines on the backup camera to be retroactively added 3 years after the initial cars shipped. Yin and yang.


Yea he has the AP2, thanks I forgot what it was called. Sadly that is the kind of thing I'd expect and it completely understandably takes away from the value of their products. Everyone has their own equation for what makes sense and I'm sure some are fine with these issues too. Good thing we have a free market with many options :-).


When I first got my S, if you left the windshield wipers on the automatic setting, and it had rained in the recent past, when you unlocked the car and opened the door, the wipers would activate once and throw water on you.

Mercedes, which uses the same wiper system, had the same bug.

The difference is that Mercedes never fixed those cars. Tesla did.

So yes, there are issues. But it's not a straight win for either Tesla or non-Tesla. It's just different.


Yea I mentioned that as well in my prior post, that tesla does patch and like I said everyone has a different equation to decide what they want.


Seriously dude? People fuck up all the time, it doesn't mean the company doesn't take security seriously. Furthermore taking something seriously and being successful at your serious undertaking are different things.


I've been doing these security steps every single time since rentals got bluetooth. Every rental unless it's brand new has dozens of people's contacts and other data in it.


You have no idea how many developers I've wanted to hit in the testicles with a baseball bat for crying my ear off to use redis, mongo, etc... anything but mysql. Really you want to take our 99% relational data (billing/invoicing, crm, etc...) and put it in a key store? You're fucking retarded.

What I found is that I can browse the posts here in the AM and then by noon they will be asking me for whatever landed on the front page here. I just laugh and tell them to go back to work.


What does ZFS have to do with this? This is like any other properly executed backup. You may as well call it "defeating having your day ruined by keeping proper backups". Granted I do like ZFS and I've literally been doing this for ages, backing up my KVM guest images to ZFS SAN the KVM host can access to save the snapshot and the KVM guest can't access at all.

However this can be done a million different ways. It's just a backup not accessible to the affected system... I do the same thing with my bare metal OSX machines (macbook, macpro, etc...) they use time machine to backup to Netatalk shares, those shares are image files which again get backed to the ZFS SAN. So even if the time machine share was encrypted I'd have a copy of the image holding the share from X days ago.


> What does ZFS have to do with this?

Presumably ZFS is immune from CryptoLocker. CryptoLocker can only compromise NTFS 'computers'.


Fancy!


Repair, weight, suspension and deployment seems like the hardest issues to tackle.

The tarp would ideally need to be reflective, like a white roof on modern buildings. The rain issue is the easiest one to solve, since the tarp could be slightly perforated to allow drainage.

I wonder if a permanent structure over the lake would be easier than a tarp? Like literally building a roof.

Either way the balls seem like a solid approach.


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