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The problem is that virtually all those things could harm, interfere with, or annoy human activity.

In the context of how to respond and if possible disabled a weaponized remote controlled aircraft, I think being dead or seriously wounded also interferes with human activity. These proposals aren't-I didn't get the impression at least-meant to be implemented and operated persistently, but applied into purpose-built apparatuses to disrupt a hostile remote controlled aircraft.

That's a context I'm willing to trade having my phone work for a moment if there's a DJI Phantom dropping bombs over Boston (I beg humor for the hip-hop hyperbole) being taken out of commission before someone gets hurt.
One griefer with a website that offers exploding drone swarms to a given target? 'Most people' isn't everybody, and it only takes one. And the website could be anonymous (bitcoin anyone?)
A pointer is absolutely a type in rust.

let i: u32 = 1;

let p_imm: const u32 = &i;

Look at the const u32 in the type position.

The rust book even refers to const and mut pointers as types.
Sorry, that part I understood. Your comment said something else. There are no moving goalposts, at least not in a way that matters.
Does this provide Mobile App testing? Or only browser testing?
Sorry to hear you've had such bad luck with Linux. I started a few years back with about ten Linux distros on two (previously Win) laptops. (Before that, ran an iMac until its screen failed and Apple wouldn't replace it.)

The first few months with Linux were fun as I played around and discovered what I could and couldn't do to wreck an install. Zero hardware-related problems.

And then I put multi distros on this generic i-5 box. And left them alone. Zero cares for years. All hardware covered. Xubuntu 18.04 boots from my SSD in under 5 seconds.

I suppose you might have given up at just the time all those problems were going away.

Stick with one of the Ubuntu flavors, or Linux Mint, or MX17, and the likelihood, these days, is that there'll be few problems. Unless, of course, Linux won't run some needed software.
if he didn't have name recognition but talked in the same dickwad style he would be banned from commenting here
> But you can never do any work on it without risk.

What risk is that?
Directed energy with automated tracking.
> Theoretically, through some sort of a private equity venue. Just like any other private company.

I'm curious how this will work if you hold TSLA in retirement accounts (all of my TSLA is in a Roth IRA).
Maybe he is counting on shorters in need of cover to absorb most selling pressure?
do you know him?
I wouldn't say "evil" either. I just think some of the short sellers have motivations beyond straight financial business modeling.
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It’s on the same level as IP theft of any kind since you cause some loss of revenue and investment, now what portion of piracy results in a financial loss is a different story but it’s not 0.

Look at it this way if I steal your trade secrets and clone your product after you spent R&D money on it I’ve essentially “stolen” both a part of your revenue and your investment.

Music, film and games cost money to develop and produce pirating them does incur a financial penalty and that does fall under the common definition of theft.

However as far as Apple goes if you buy a copy of their OS you can easily consider that acceptable since EULA restrictions on the usage can be ethically counter argued.
In this age, if a spouse dumps you for overworking to secure the future in these increasingly uncertain times, they probably weren't a keeper anyway. There's a lot of magical thinking going around, and I'm not defending Amazon's culture here, but having gone through a divorce for exactly the above reasons, yeah, we were both better off in the long run instead of trying to reconcile our divergent belief systems (and these days we're friends).
> also a monumental dickwad

I admit that I've never scrutinized his actions very closely, but I've never gotten that impression. Would you be willing to elaborate on why you feel that way?
>Is it possible/financially doable to make charging mostly a thing of the past with a standard replaceable battery pack? Tesla 3 gets 9, Prius uses 5 etc. You got to a charging station and they swap your batteries out for fully-charged ones if available, and charge if not.

The problem with swapping is that switching out a battery is not at all the same as switching out a gas tank. Batteries degrade over time, and with various different usages (lots of fast charging, high heat) can degrade much more severely. You would have to have some kind of system that grades the battery being turned in and credits/debits the account based on its condition. On top of that it's just not necessary. A full charge from 20% is less than 30 mins at a 100kw charger.
The public won't get to participate.

It's already partly to this point. The general public can participate in a meaningful way, so long as they start to scrimp and save directly out of school.
Elon fashions himself a super hero: Batteries to Australia and Puerto Rico, A pledge to fix Flint's water quality and a submarine to rescue the boys in the cave.

Super heroes rock when they really do super things, but Elon flew off the handle with the last one when he called the master diver a pedophile all because his idea wasn't the one they used.

Having someone at the helm that is volatile like this is bad for a public company, but a private company would be able to shrug off embarrassing events such as these much easier.

Elon might be doing it to save his job.
Interesting. Bloomberg's Sebastian Boyd said:

Incidentally, Tesla has a free-float of 127.5 million shares. At $420 a share, that would cost you $53.6 billion. The company already has net debt of of $8.8 billion and an adjusted net leverage ratio of 13 times. Were it to be bought in a management-led LBO, a back-of-the envelope calculation would give it a leverage ratio of over 90 times, worse on a trailing 12-month basis. You can't run a company on math like that.

So, either it's happening based on persuasion and belief (with Saudis as rumoured) or it's an attack against shorts and a bluff in which case SEC's rule 10b-5 might come into play and then... In any case, interesting.
Most of these can be countered by having hundreds if not thousands of cheap, fast and autonomous drones launching grenades from high or very low altitude. The swarm can loose a couple because of a fishing net or anti-air flak, but they can try another attack vector, loose a couple because of shotgun and try something else again.
Of course, but everything he says implies he has the funding. Announcing this before funding is in place (the most crucial piece of this puzzle) would be incredibly irresponsible.
I would imagine that defensive sensor drones would be the first priority. You really need to detect enemy drones and having a swarm of sensor drones able to follow potential targets would be really good. Radar and microphones are going to be interesting when applied to drone detection.

Once the target is detected, a rather large cheap swarm deployed on the attack vector to block projectiles and intercept the enemy drone would probably make the most sense. The drones can absorb the hits and blow up when they reach their targets.

ECM-based solutions do seem to have problems with also taking out the good guys equipment and capabilities.
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I guess there is a fundamental difference in how we see the commons. I take the view that it is not simply “there” as a first come first serve basis, but rather something we have an equal right to, the basis from which private property must be derived. Locke started here.

But I think the breathing thing is actually a good retort. Where do the principles meet...

I guess in the case the differenence is between drinking from the well and pissing in it. It might very well be safe, but certainly not nice
"Lest this comes off as a diatribe against mistake theorists, I should clarify that, being one, I have absolutely no idea how else you can build a stable society, and I stopped following Naomi Wu after she posted Jason Koebler's address on the internet. That's doxxing, and doxxing is wrong."

I would ask whether you extend the same policy towards VICE and stop following them entirely after they knowingly put a source at risk? It seems to me that she faces far more danger than Koebler does as a result of that exchange.

"My inner conflict theorist asks: who should win here? Are they?"

Well you have people using MASSIVE capital and national resources to obliterate the safety of an almost entirely powerless person who they use for clicks on their website. And then you have that person responding in literally the only way they can.

So yeah, I feel like it's pretty clear who should win here. One party exploited the other first. One party is operating with massively more power. One party is not vulnerable to personal information posting (doxxing doesn't just include addresses and names!) from a harassment campaign. One party kept on working like normal, while the other suffered blacklisting.

People can make this a grand debate ideals from their ascetic judgment of the situation, but all they're doing is supporting the powerful corporation who exploited, endangered, doxxed, and blacklisted a vulnerable person in a foreign country who has no recourse.
Thanks for the link, looks good.
It's Wall Street and there would be rumors if someone was shopping the largest LBO ever. It's not like there are a lot of places you can go for this service, Tesla isn't going to back out on the deal because it leaked your bank has met with Elon.
Have you seen his tweets in just the past month or two?

He's called a rescue diver a pedo and cried "fake news" when journalists have questioned Tesla's financials.
By my count, there have been 25 US Government (including NASA) launches and 38 other launches - about 40% US Government, 60% other.

Ref: https://www.spacex.com/missions
Infringement != theft
That wouldn't be the worst idea in the world considering the cost of spaceflight to begin with and the duplicate work they're undoubtedly doing.
Except for the multiple times in the past that Apple would update something and my laptop wifi would get flaky for months on end till the fixed it again. Yup "just works."
I am a marketing consultant (So a little different) but I am extremely picky about clients. I only want to promote good products.
They had a single address space, tasks were more like threads in a modern system.

The MIT/LMI/TI ones didn't take interrupts, the microcode needed to poll the interrupt register at suitable points.
That's an announcement from the CEO of Tesla. The details are still forthcoming but there is no greater source.

$66B is inaccurate, Tesla would only need to buy from the shareholders that wish to sell at $420.
Wouldn't that assume that every short seller would lose $420 per share? They probably purchased their shorts at like ~$350 per share, so they'd only stand to lose 420-350=$70 per share, correct?
This thought occurred to me as well. And if this really all is a bluff to raise the share price, and to buy his company a couple extra months of runway, it would be the marketing manipulation crime of the decade.

I'm talking Enron level stuff, where Musk gets sent to jail.

"Enron Musk" has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?
I'm disappointed that it took this long for an article on a Homebrew vulnerability to turn into Apple bashing.
In the beforetimes of podcasts, there was a series of CDs under the "...On Comedy" umbrella that were extended interviews about the mechanics of comedy, and they did one with Jerry: https://www.amazon.com/Jerry-Seinfeld-Comedy/dp/B00005LN3K
Tesla has also received a substantial amount of government support, including state and federal EV rebates for buyers of its cars (roughly $300 million), an extremely large handout from the state of Nevada ($1.3 billion), a large handout from New York ($1 billion), handouts from US Government ($500 million), carbon credits ($520 billion as of 2015). Collectively, Tesla's government support actually exceeds the government's bailout of Ford by several orders of magnitude...

GM and Ford were propped up by the government during the Great Recession to protect tens of thousands of jobs. Both companies have since repaid those loans...though GM discharged much of its loan through bankruptcy.
That's not Amazon's fault. That's the rage of the incompetent lashing out at the most convenient target rather than focusing on bettering their own situation. And yeah, Amholes are a thing, just stay away from the Amholes (hell I once punched one after he intentionally shoved me and the way he backed down when he realized I was ready to beat him to a pulp was priceless), but I don't personally buy into the current agenda of punishing nerds for being nerds that seems to be in vogue these days.
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They tried to hire me once (I'm a guy). They turned me off when they said they were looking for gamers. I'm not a gamer, but I'm really interested in problems like distributed consensus between untrusted clients and things like that.

Oh well... Monoculture is a big problem.
Other drones, obviously.

Whoever has more money to purchase and deploy drones wins. Same as it's always been.
I was thinking the same thing.

Usually his tweets send stock down, this one sent it up but may be in violation of SEC rules.

I imagine shareholders must be getting pissed whenever he goes off on a Trump like tirade on Twitter.
Huge shorts positions give strong insensitive to pay for sabotage or other real harm to the company.
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Either that or he has realized that the focus on consistent profitability over the next 1-2 years will significantly impact the company's long term prospects.
> Tesla has also received a substantial amount of government supporting, including EV rebates for buyers of its cars.

All automakers are eligible for this support...if they build electric cars. Ford and Tesla are the only automakers to have never declared bankruptcy. These are tiresome arguments that hold no water.
Seems like an overwrought technicality that also ignores fair use. Isn’t the problem with violating copyright distribution, anyway?
SEC has a rule for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEC_Rule_10b-5 and https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rule10b5.asp#ixzz5NWNPZ...

Examples of offenses that would violate rule 10b-5 would be: executives making false statements in order to drive up share prices ... interestingly, it's as serious as ... or a company hiding huge losses or low revenues with creative accounting practices.
Dart excommunicated server side dart. If I were someone who has already been let down once by that decision and is already frustrated by the extremely lackluster library story for server side dart, why should I use dart?

Flutter is the only reason. I don't care about mobile. Hell, if they take android to flutter-only, it'll finally give me the fire to switch to iOS. I been meaning to anyways.

I'm happy that Bracha got out of there. What a shame such a bright man's work has been so foully steeped in Google nonsense.
I'd love to have a true Lisp or Smalltalk OS.
Sure, but they didn't start from zero. If you sold short at $350 the amount to cover is $70. Options are also a common way to hedge, so it's really hard to say what the total loss would be.
I'm not an expert, but wouldn't they have to sniff the four-way handshake for that to work? This new attack specifically doesn't do that.
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> implementing them physically has you rely on things like the RAM model

Not at all. In fact, electronic circuitry is quite similar to "LC style" programming, for example we can think of both as a sort of "pipeline for data to flow through".

On the other hand, Turing machines, RAM machines, etc. aren't particularly well suited to being implemented electronically. We end up introducing clock signals, addressing schemes, etc. and it all ends up very complicated, slow and power hungry. I think the only reason we put up with it at all is because electronics, especially ICs, are so incredibly small and fast to begin with, that these inefficiencies aren't too noticable at the human scale.
Not sure I agree with the dupe-flag. The other post was about the Saudi deal and then got changed. So the discussion there is fragmented.
Yeah I mean it's certainly subjective and I aligned the numbers to fall at 10 degree boundaries. But that's roughly where I fall. Anything above freezing and I'll usually prefer a sweater with a light jacket to a full winter coat.
Is it bad that I want to go make a wardriving setup again?
Actually, given the way many private corporate prisons are operated, a lower occupancy rate directly results in profit. The state is obligated to maintain the prisons at something like a 90%+ fill rate. If they fall below that, the state has to pay multi-million-dollar dines. Arizona recently faced this, paying out $3 million for not providing enough prisoners to one of their private prisons. It provides a monetary disincentive toward granting parole or shorter sentences... probably not a great idea.
You would own shares in a private fund that would own Tesla shares.
Without requiring analysis, the Bob Einstein episodes are the purest representation of fundamental comedic concepts in the whole series.
I know at least a couple of hackers who cracked other people's wifi, and used a yagi to not just crack their their closest neighbour but someone a bit further away (for safety).

Last time I ran the numbers an ISP default pattern password for ISPs around where I live (assuming perfect randomness within the ISP's pattern) was like $70 on Google Cloud GPUs (with half that on average).

And if your wifi has a default pattern SSID, then it probably has a default pattern password.

$70 is not atrociously high cost for a "last mile" security hop.

And if you have a botnet already then it's free.

These are people who would crack your wifi for the lulz (and have the stolen capacity to do it), get your house raided because they hack companies from behind your Internet connection...

... and then are stupid enough to when they hack and get access to a sensitive government database run a search for their own fucking name... and members of their family.
I agree with your assessment. It seemed clear that Tesla was cutting back investment in new supercharger locations and maybe even service centers to reach profitability. I can't say that now felt like the best time for that kind of slowdown to me.
On reading sibling comments, I note that there's an important counter-analogy which I neglected to mention: Many things do have minimum exposure levels below which they are safe. Various medicines, for example - an appropriate dose is good for you, overdosing will kill you.
Where did you get this number from?
Honestly I think he has a mental deficiency, so I try to give him an enormous benefit of the doubt. He's clearly on the spectrum.
Tight laser beams are limited by diffraction. Kilometer wide laser beam on wave length 308mn will have diameter around 15 millions meters on 4 light year distance. Meter wide beam will have diameter 15 billions meters, all other things being equal.

I can't, right now, estimate probability of breaking the silence, though.
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The US government gets to define racism, if legal requirements to employ a precisely calibrated ratio of whites, women, blacks, and latinos are any guide. This is America, after all, and that’s what freedom means.
Hong Kong IMO is 100x more fun than Seattle. Better food, better transit system, better shopping, better everything but air quality IMO.
Google has three classes of shares: A, B and C. A shares get one vote, C shares get none and B shares get 10 votes. Brin, Page, Schmidt own all the B shares. [1]

For FB, Zuck holds a class of shares where each of his counts as 10 vs. the common shares.[2]

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/052215/goog-or...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/20/shareholders-wont-force-zuck...
https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOS1013.pdf

> 2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions.
A. Preinstalled and Single-Copy Apple Software License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this
License, unless you obtained the Apple Software from the Mac App Store, through an automatic download or under a volume license, maintenance or other written agreement from Apple, you are
granted a limited, non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a
single Apple-branded computer at any one time. For example, these single-copy license terms apply to
you if you obtained the Apple Software preinstalled on Apple-branded hardware.

(...)

> J. Other Use Restrictions. The grants set forth in this License do not permit you to, and you agree not to,
install, use or run the Apple Software on any non-Apple-branded computer, or to enable others to do so.

(...)

If you're not going to abide by the license, you're essentially running "pirated" software.
I’m thinking of it like Facebook is a book (well, a journal that’s a compendium of everyone else’s writing). You’re only allowed to read from it while Facebook holds the book and turns the pages for you. If you pick up the book and turn the page yourself, you’ve taken possession of the book, which is theft since they didn’t give you permission.
Clearly you haven't met the Saudis
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Why don't you like the guy? I am always surprised that people could have a net negative opinion on someone who is trying hard to push technology forward in multiple directions.

I agree this move is brilliant, and could be a huge competitive advantage when self-driving bad press liability kicks in.
I like the idea, but clicking on your site, I have no idea what's going on. You are putting up a lot of info, and none of it is relevant. Your formula, is quite frankly, shit. You just wanted to look clever.

In short, I don't think the site gives me what I want - the ability to check if the guy yelling "Buy now" has a proven track record.
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I can also add a solid reason to build a hackintosh:
There is a systemic, as yet unresolved issue that a non trivial percentage of users are experiencing with the iMac Pro and 2018 refresh Macbook Pro.

While unproven, it seems related to the T2 chip and it causes kernel panics in certain cases. There is a lengthy thread on the apple support community about this[1], and Ive worked with an apple engineer off and on for a few weeks to gather information about my system.

The symptoms are a kernel panic occurs when the system is allowed to sleep overnight with certain OS options enabled. The panic also occurs when the TB bus is loaded down or daisy chained and accessed by an application. So far there is no fix but ways to decrease the kernel panics.

The affected users appears to be anyone with an iMac Pro or 2018 macbook pro. I happen to have both of the affected products, but fortunately my macbook pro is not having this issue. In my case, I was able to turn off things like powernap, unlock with apple watch, and some other energy saving functions, but I dont want that to be a permanent configuration. I still get crashes when using applications that access the TB bus as well.

[1]https://discussions.apple.com/message/33728078
Could charge the batteries in the desert and ship them.
Hackintosh, for when you want MacOS for all the wrong reasons. Throw that hardware compatibility and stability out the window.
Clicking (doc) leads me back to the landing page.

These bullet points are exciting but where is the docs? Examples? Anything?