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In my mind, the whole thing that turned this into a soap opera was Musk's knee jerk responses on Twitter.

Had he come back with a more measured response (like OXO did with Quirky) and just politely pointed out the inaccuracies of the article and made his same offer of "We'll provide a car to any journalist to do the same test and see what happens", I don't think we'd be discussing this right now.
"Mr. Straubel said Tesla did not store data on exact locations where their cars were driven because of privacy concerns, although Tesla seemed to know that I had driven six-tenths of a mile “in a tiny 100-space parking lot.” While Mr. Musk has accused me of doing this to drain the battery, I was in fact driving around the Milford service plaza on Interstate 95, in the dark, trying to find the unlighted and poorly marked Tesla Supercharger. He did not share that data, which Tesla has now posted online, with me at the time."

That bit is particularly curious. Is being able to spring a "gotcha" on a reporter for publishing a "fake" review preferable to sharing the info with the reporter so that, if malicious intent is suspected, the reporter knows that Tesla knows exactly what the facts are?

The problems for Tesla here seems to be that the batteries don't like the cold (unsurprising this may be) and that the Supercharger network is still sparse at this point in time. Regardless of whose spin you buy, those points remain, and are good to know.
I picked two up (well they're not kids, they're in their late 20s) and they've been working with me ever since. Can't wait until they move out, but at least they learned some electronics!
Same here. Since you really can't take notes while driving, I would have used some in-car video as a form of notetaking and nothing else.
I wonder if Tesla customer support recorded the calls.
I think we should use legal remedies here. Mob rule is not an appropriate way of resolving this, and I suspect that once the company realises how unpopular (radioactive?) this will be in PR terms they will reconsider. Also, EU trademark courts are sensibleish
> ... and lots of energy.

Unfortunately, much of that energy is thermal... (-.-;)
Well, let's remember, Musk didn't start recording so much until the TopGear thing happened.
Or are Tesla spokespeople and product gurus totally clueless?

Not entirely, but if your product has a known (tiny) glitch, and a reporter calls up with something that sounds like that glitch, what are you going to do? One obvious choice is tell them it's a tiny glitch of no consequence and hope you're right. In the best case scenario (tiny glitch), responses like "Oh, dear, it sounds like our car is underperforming" leave a bad impression too.
Drinking water != drinking a semi-nutricional mix with uncertain (and most possibly bad) long-term implications and fantasising I have superpowers, from super-concentration to curing dandruff and long-term eye diseases in 4/9 days of trying it (while feeling like the "million dollar man")...

I can get by on a power-mix like that for months. Maybe years. Heck, I can get of just Big Mac and Coke, or Beer and Tomatoes for months.

But the medium and long term health effects? I seriously doubt they would be any good, and wouldn't believe any random internet post without a proper study, from a reliable source, with at least 10 people and a control group.

The "cured dandruff, lost weight, increased mental capacity and cured eye-disease"? You can find similar and bolder claims in BS new-age groups touting Orgone, Pyramid Power, Spiruline and what have you. They are a dime-a-dozen.

That this takes the form of "science" (with basic vitamins, proteins and stuff taken into account) doesn't mean much. Much of the perpetual machine etc folklore also take the form of science.

(Not to mention these posts could be the first steps in a viral marketing effort to start selling the thing. Next step: the same mix on sale).
I suggest you learn the situation before making ignorant, unfounded comments.
Not to take away the point from the first line, but I'm pretty sure robots are coupled with some sort of software to make them work.
I'm in Las Cruces, 3 hours south of Albuquerque (where I used to live, hence my name). Not too many SW jobs down here, but the few there are are very good.
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Arch here, works fine. I had this issue for a 2 day period and did report it but it seems to have been fixed since then. You might want to try again.

There are many bug reports from non-Ubuntu users on GitHub and they all seem to get first-class support. Valve is pretty good about helping with that kind of stuff, they've even helped debug a few WINE bugs.
... and "not in U.S.", 'cause it's interesting to see what proportion of readers couldn't participate in the poll...
Basically, the zone apex (example.com) has to point to an IP address (a DNS A record). The problem with some AWS services (e.g. S3, Elastic Load Balancers, Cloudfront) is that you don't have a static IP address to point to because as scalable services, you are hosted over many servers which can change at any time. If you host your DNS on Amazon Route53, you can take advantage of Alias records, which are exclusive to Amazon. Basically, an alias record lets you point example.com at a resource (S3 bucket, load balancer), and Amazon will periodically look up the current IP address and return it when that record is looked up. These records are served with a relatively short TTL to allow for constantly-changing IP addresses.
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That's an interesting idea. What if, culturally, we get tired of rapid change? In many ways, this has happened before. After Zheng He returned with the Chinese trading fleet, a change in leadership caused China to turn back in in itself for centuries. The ships were burned in the docks. After a fashion, the Middle Ages in Europe was step-back from progress for several hundred years. Islamic culture is currently in the middle of an event like this right now. (Yes, controversial. I'd be happy to share my thoughts on why if anyone asks.) Lots of contributing reasons add in to these events, but the net result is the same.

It's not impossible that we could see a regression again that takes a long time to recover from in the future.
Had the reporter ignored Tesla's advice, the review would have been tainted. It's either "do what Tesla says, they're the experts" or "I'm doing to do my own thing sgainst Tesla's advice, invalidating all conclusions in this article." The journalist chose the former.
#1 seems a UX problem, not a tech problem. Clearly Tesla's fault, but nothing that will endanger the company.

#2 has been denied by Tesla. I'm not saying I believe them, but right now both sides say something different happened at that key point.
Don't buy a cheapo Chinese ODB2 adapter because it won't work with the 1 Mbps bus on the Tesla. I tried already.
That's fair, they might see it on the news if nothing more important was going on that day. But that's still press coverage, not a stop, and it's likely to backfire when the ad comes on saying, "But how much does Mr. Smith really care about Georgia?"

The more general point being that the dynamics of campaigning would be fundamentally different, such that none of the lines that are currently drawn will matter (and of course that's good thing).
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> So this all comes down to what customer service might or might have not said over the phone.

Exactly, that is what I get out of it too. And that is probably conveniently unverifiable. Tesla really should repeat the trip with the same parameters as much as possible. Common sense dictates that if they waste power the way indicated that they should run out of juice and if they are conservative and follow the normal procedures that you could expect to observe when using any vehicle with a power source that depletes with use (which is all of them, including gasoline) that they should be able to complete the trip without a problem.

When driving in the North somewhere I came upon a sign that said 'no gas for 200 miles'. I had a half tank of fuel but I still drove back to the last town to make sure the tank was full. It seemed only prudent. In an electric vehicle with limited range and with a limited support infrastructure it would be folly to leave for a trip on a leg with an indicated range below the known distance to the next fuel source and to not know exactly where those sources are relative to the car and the planned route.
google maps/streetview shows the milford stop in detail - take a good look and explain to any reasonable person how can anybody miss the tesla charging station - and then driving half a mile doesn't seem possible...maybe possible if you mistakenly drove into the trucking lane, and had to circle around...maybe 5 times over and over?
If women don't CHOOSE to be with men like this, then either A) women are with men like this, but not by choice, or B) women aren't with men like this, by choice.

So which is it, Amy?

If most women don't go for men like this, then most relationships aren't like this.

But then why would a profit-seeking company spend the dollars on a video that portrays people like this?

You yourself implied (I think) in a recent tweet, that this company was disregarding ethics to appeal to a mass audience.

"@DanielAmitay well no point in asking THAT, since avg corporate ethics is clear for all to see. :) q: do they KNOW what they're doing?"

If most women aren't like this, who's the company's marketing aimed at? A tiny minority?

And by the way, when did I ever say it wasn't "me"? I'm not claiming any moral high-ground here.

I never said women shouldn't be the way they are.

If I'm upset, it's just because I happen to lose out in today's culture.

But I never said (or even implied) that the culture should change. The culture is what it is and I am what I am, and I just have to deal with that.
Wow this guy's budget is $750-$1,000. Seems like he's probably looking for this guy: http://www.webkingusa.com/
Hey now, farms are places too.
Well in this case it would seem that they lost a user and cut their burn rate at the same time. I'm not sure Disqus would see this as a net loss.
http://blog.stcredzero.com/post/43108099779/tesla-ny-times-w...
There is a good chance that the vehicle stores that data for a limited time, not that it is posted through telemetry. If they are snooping on their cars (all of them, that is) then they have other problems. Fleet cars are also routinely fitted out with vehicle tracking systems, sometimes for insurance purposes.
Except he doesn't quote them verbatim and never provides the name(s) of the people he was talking to.

Well, he can't provide all possible data all at once in the original article.

Since your post, he has said who he was talking to: http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/that-tesla-data-w...
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Balanced uses the same tokenization and vaulting for bank accounts as for cards so there's no way to pull the unencrypted data via the API.

Could someone grab the tokens and charge the bank accounts? Absolutely, the same as with any payment processor.

From the Wikipedia page on ACH "the consumer has 60 days upon notification to dispute a transaction in his statement" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Clearing_House (not that I've personally tried this)
I have AMD Radeon+Arch, and it works perfectly.
I agree. If you subtract Musk's twitter posts and the few inflammatory sentences in his rebuttal to the review, I think he did a fine job of defending himself and pointing out that the reviewer was trying to push the limits of the battery (as the reviewer should). Musk should have simply made the point that no average person would have ended up towing their car.

It would be like if I complained about my new Android not making it past 3 hours of web browsing and then HTC slams me for running 15 background tasks and only charging the phone to 85% the night before. The point remains that these batteries are not the greatest.

Musk comes across as too defensive and a bit of a jerk. I understand he probably has PTSD after the other publication screwed him, but get over yourself. Most people just accept bad reviews and move on.
The answer is very simple: Brody is lying about what Tesla told him, just like he's told many other lies in his article and in the rebuttal.

Putting it into a "he said / she said" is a smokescreen.

The car might be a lemon but the idea that Tesla told him to run the heater to charge the battery is beyond credulity.

This is not exactly the first time the NYT has told lies for ideological reasons. The paper does it regularly, and really, the idea that it (or any paper in america) is an "unbiased" media is quaint.

The difference is, Elon Musk is willing to stand up to them and call them on it, so they are obfuscating.
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It really is crappy. I fall offline all the time, with no explanation. At least I know I'm off, though - the guy who sits next to me continues to appear available on his machine, but is offline to the rest of us. It's a nightmare.
>Is being able to spring a "gotcha" on a reporter for publishing a "fake" review preferable to sharing the info with the reporter so that, if malicious intent is suspected, the reporter knows that Tesla knows exactly what the facts are?

Yes, if it helps us spot liars who are so far behind the times they don't realize we have the technology to catch them in their lies.
Carbon tax? I'm not talking about pollution here. I'm talking about geopolitics. If the cost of maintaining a fleet of ships in the Persian Gulf was fully factored into the cost of oil imported from the middle east, you think it's be close to the price we pay for it now?
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jareau has the right idea, go to www.balancedpayments.com - create a test marketplace and hit the "Pay a seller" button on the left hand side. Enter their bank account details and an amount and you're done.

For a production account it's exactly the same process except you'll need real money in your account :)
Related Columbus, OH post:
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Can you provide a source for your last point there?
Ouch. Defending VB in this case really speaks poorly of 3D printers.
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I think you'd be interested in a story from LWN[0] and the presentation that was given at linux.conf.au[1]

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/536538/

[1] http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux.conf.au/2013/ogv/Linux_Gami...
> Mr. Musk not only apologized, he said the charging stations should be 60 miles closer together and offered me a second test drive when additional stations were built.

How interesting is that! Mr. Musk himself, noting his own perceived deficiency in Tesla's charging station network. Whether or not this is an admission of guilt, it certainly is quite interesting he would immediately offer a follow up test drive after additional stations had been built. Fast forward to Musk's blog post and it seems he's completely changed his attitude: now the fault is entirely with the journalists; now Tesla is the victim of an ill-intentioned agenda on the part of the New York Times...
You don't have to do that. It's just the test framework they are using alongside HTTPretty in their examples.

You can just as easily use the traditional unittest.TestCase methods:

self.assertEqual(HTTPretty.last_request.querystring, "whatever")
self.assertEqual(HTTPretty.last_request.method, HTTPretty.GET)

That is what I do in my tests.
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Canonical is based in London UK. Ubuntu makes extensive use of python scripting (I believe Shuttleworth used Python for his original Thawte software). Perhaps they would be prepared to provide evidence statements if approached?
Not sure. I left the US and switched to an iPhone right before Google Wallet went live so my only experience with using it (Google Checkout/Google Wallet) is via a web browser. For that, the option is present during checkout, not in the settings. As far as I know, the option has never been in the settings.
The tit-for-tat details here don't matter. The story is simply, "The Tesla lost a ton of range overnight, unexpectedly. Tesla said it would come back after an hour of low-power charging." Is that true? Clearly the former statement is true but the latter is not. The only question is whether Tesla gave the reporter bad advice, or whether the reporter lied because he wanted to sabotage the test.

Given Tesla's focus on the tit-for-tat details, which I take to be a strategy of distraction, I suspect that someone at Tesla did indeed make a mistake--probably a high level PR employee with no expert familiarity with the car in cold conditions. Tesla's HQ is located in California, where the weather stays nice and warm, all the time.
Honestly, my concern is that something like the GIMP will take over in the open-source CAD space, and stymy efforts for making something as useful and powerful as Solidworks. We've seen this happen before--let's try to avoid it.
That's a valid point. The Mac App Store doesn't keep inventory. They don't first buy the apps wholesale and then resell them. They just list the apps, just like Amazon does for physical products in the Amazon Marketplace.

I do have to say I don't like to buy from the Amazon Marketpkace, I prefer to buy fromm Amazon directly (and that was the scenario I was referring to.)
This is more interesting than the headline might imply.
Any kind of consumption will ultimately reduce the available range, you don't restore by removing joules from a pack

It's entirely possible that the amount of energy you can get out a battery depends on its current temperature, and that by sitting around to let it slowly warm up, the total power you can get out of it would be faster than if you tried to pull it all out as fast as possible.
Fantasizing wildly, I hope this is a step towards one day releasing Steam for Android. (Perhaps when Intel Android devices finally arrive?). I imagine that the next generation of mobile GPUs must have pretty close performance to desktop graphics chips from not too long ago - there must be a huge back catalogue that could be deployed if games could be ported relatively easily.
Because it's nearly impossible to prove a negative.
Both Pidgin and Adium log IRC out-of-the-box, by default.
It's a sad world we live in when "sitting in the shade" is called a crime - and imply that it's bad people aren't getting 'caught' for such trivial things.

I mean, if we're talking about absurdity of points, you are saying that a single travelling poor man sitting in the shade is something that is worthy of invoking the power of the federal government to combat.
A strong defense which I found convincing, especially because the effort required to disprove it is now more significant than "Any of you guys ever hear of this Jeff Nelson? Me neither." At the time (with zero information) I thought that on balance he was likely to be inflating his claims.

Also, because I was annoyed at all the unfunny, low-effort jokes posted in the comments on the linked G+ page, which felt like piling-on, I confess that I'm pleased at the turnabout. Good twist.
From the developer or the client? I have little sympathy for clients who are given countless opportunities to pay their bills and yet keep ignoring them.
> Basically changing the system will favor one party.

What it will do is favor states that aren't swing states. Which is the large majority of both states and electoral votes. Texas would be a huge winner in a transition to the popular vote because it has so many people in it, and is currently almost completely ignored in Presidential politics. Most of the South is in the same boat.

And as I'm looking at the map right now, let me point out something extraordinarily dangerous about the current system: Florida has the largest number of electoral votes of all the swing states, and demographically it's full of retirees who don't live in the same zip code as their children or grandchildren.

Even if you're an arch conservative cotton farmer in Alabama, how does it help you that decisions about whether we send your children to college or to war are unjustifiably disproportionately influenced by a bunch of retired Giuliani-era East Coast elites with no connection to the future? Wouldn't you at least want to be able to cast your own vote and have it mean something, rather than blindly assuming that newly Floridian retired state employees from Jersey and Queens will necessarily have interests that coincide with your own?
I would think "successful automaker" is the more obvious trait...
Only the technicians know, and they're not allowed to tell customers.
Incorrect. He blames the car, not the charger stations. If he wanted to review the stations, he wrong the wrong article.
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take a good look and explain to any reasonable person how can anybody miss the tesla charging station

It was dark (5:45pm), on an I-95 rest stop during rush hour. That parking lot was likely jammed with cars and pedestrians moving around, it's perceivable that someone not familiar with the area could miss it (based on my experience trying to find air pumps at various rest stops).
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I meant from Tesla's point of view. They need to sell cars more than they need to expose liars. Assuming the reporter was told they didn't have exact data, and assuming the reporter did slant the story to paint as negative a picture as possible, does this back and forth gain Tesla back enough desirability/credibility to offset the additional loss of face from the extremely slanted initial report?
This is a great result for anyone advocating privacy on the Internet (even if you're not Canadian). We're at a critical juncture for establishing legal norms right now - decisions about the laws that govern how we conduct ourselves online are going to echo for decades.
A vile costs less than $1 per hit and a fraction of that price for someone "in the family". You can only move so much though since it's not a habit.

Several factors favor a small source of distributors. Ergot is dangerous to work with, it's a difficult synthesis, and the overhead costs of making 1,000 hits and 1,000,000,000 is essentially the same.
The biggest mistake Elon made in his response was to dump all that data and to attempt to tear apart each part of the review. This means that the rebuttals now involve taking pieces of that and disproving them in the aim of disproving Tesla's entire argument.

Tesla should have posted nothing more than a single line statement saying that Broder left the last charging station for a 65 mile trip with 32 miles on his range meter.

Tesla had the opportunity to define the territory of this argument very narrowly. Because Tesla placed everything on the table in the response, this has become a case of he-said, she-said.
I think the thing with cars and laptops is that people understand that they don't know how to make them. Cars are big, and when I open the hood of an older car (before the nice, clean plastic emblazoned with the manufacturer's logo to keep me away from the engine), I knew I couldn't do what someone else had done. Likewise, laptops are small - I can't possible build that. But them someone looks at the output of Word or PowerPoint, and can't tell what makes a web page so different. They can make their screen look like a website, so how hard could it be?
The Judy Miller incidents directly refute your assertion that they don't deal in controversies (and arguably gossip). Arguing that they don't do those things at all, except when they do, isn't very convincing, and your conclusion is a non-sequitur at any rate. "Many other occasions!"