NeutronBoy

It's the other side of the same 'openness' coin. You can chose to set up your own mail server. You can chose not to deliver email from other mail servers if you want.

> I think you missed the entire point of the parent. Who cares about the resale value of the house? What you should care about is if it's a good rental or not. In the 'burbs, you'll have more stable families, people who care a bit more about their house, people looking for longer term places to raise a family in a good neighborhood, and you can get some great tenants.

It really depends. In Australia, tax concessions and negative gearing often mean making an operating loss on your rental is preferable, as you can deduct those losses from any other taxable income sources.

> In the blog post, Tesla reiterates that customers are required to agree that the system is in a "public beta phase" before they can use it

I absolutely disagree with this, and it should not be used as a 'get out' clause from Tesla. If you work with non-technical people on technical issues on a day to day basis you'll understand why - non-technical people literally don't understand what stuff like this means. They'll read it, then say 'Oh but they installed it in my car anyway so it must be safe', and use it anyway.

"Uber's revenue is greater than its expenses, if you exclude a number of expenses"

> I am hoping I can still get a "dumb" panel the next time I need a new TV (which is hopefully never).

Protip: when you go to buy one, don't go to consumer electronic retailers - if you find a commercial electronic wholesaler (e.g. one that sells equipment for businesses), you'll find heaps of dumb TVs that are basically giant computer monitors. Same panels, better warranty, and nothing in them except a panel and a bunch of input ports.

Businesses often use these in reception areas, operations rooms, etc.

It's probably signatures of the construction workers who worked on that section, rather than graffiti.

> With respect to the car that is discussed in the blog post that led to yesterday’s news (more on the blog post below), the suspension ball joint experienced very abnormal rust. We haven’t seen this on any other car, suggesting a very unusual use case. The car had over 70,000 miles on it and its owner lives down such a long dirt road that it required two tow trucks to retrieve the car. (One to get the car to the highway and one to get it from the highway to the service center.) When we got the car, it was caked in dirt.

I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt in this post, but a dirty car has nothing to do with a rusty ball joint. Dirt doesn't cause rust. It means, as they note, the owner lives on a dirt road. The two tow-trucks line is such a red-herring - nothing to do with the issue at hand.

Do you have a citation for that? (genuinely curious - I tried to find a list of what an 'acceptable period' for lifetime would be but couldn't find one, for any goods). I know Apple products have a 12 month warranty, but are subject to at least a 24 month warranty/guarantee given the 'reasonableness' test. I'd find it hard to believe that a reasonableness test would find that a $500 iPhone is expected to function for 2 years, but a $150,000 luxury vehicle is only expected to function for 12 months.

In many countries the warranty period isn't binding - the product is entitled to repair as for as long as the 'expected lifetime' of the product.

For a luxury car like a Model S, you'd be well within that period still, especially given that they're being described as 'premature failures'.

> The safety regulator is examining the Model S suspension — the springs, joints and other components that connect a car to its wheels — for possible defects that could be causing premature failures.

Also, the last thing Tesla need at the moment is cars failing just outside the warranty period and then not repairing them - as noted, it just highlights their lack of support network and lack of general repairability at the moment.

Also, the advent of broadband and routers now mean networking is literally plug and play, not spending 2-3 hours trying to either set up a DHCP server, or assign static IPs and trying to figure out why it's not working, only to find out that someone mistyped it.

I wonder what the consequences for refusing to sign the NDA would be? Under consumer law, they would still be responsible for fixing your car, especially if it's a safety issue.

Probably about 4 times per year on a long weekend, my mates and I still get together in someone's warehouse or garage and have a 3 day LAN. There's normally between 15-20 people, and we play a mix of CS:Source, Warcraft 3 custom maps, AoE, Dota 2, and whatever else the fashion is at the time. A recent one has been Spintires, which is a blast with 4 people!

That said, the amount of sleep and the quality of the food we eat has definitely improved in the last 15 years or so - no more fast food for all meals.

I'm also considering my position on 'www', now that we have new GTLDs (I have been in favor of naked URLs).

nike.com is obviously a website

nike.shoes isn't - especially depending on the context.

At least www.nike.shoes is recognisable as a URL

Well you gotta start your platform somewhere!

I really hope this gets off the ground. I really like the direction Mozilla (and ex-Mozilla teams) takes on a lot of projects - this, Firefox OS, etc. They just seem to have trouble moving from the initial concept stage into a 'production' mindset for much of their work.

No I've disabled all of that. It's literally sucking down updates at the maximum capacity of the internet link. Previously the behaviour was to do this, but when the connection was active with other stuff it would throttle the updates back.

I agree. What it really needs is an 'example' page, or a walkthrough of how/what you'd use it for.

I just spent 10 minutes reading the docs and I'm not sure I get it. Is it like Owncloud? disapora*? ITTT? Is it an interface to mirror all my content from other social media sites, and interact with them? You say I can use it to authenticate with sites - is it an OpenID provider? Something something blockchain? All of the above?

This page explains a little bit [1], but a walkthrough or video or screenshots or something would help immensely

[1] https://urbit.org/posts/vision/

Awesome talk - I'm about halfway through and a bunch of it is going over my head, but the presentation is spot on - the presenter is clear, passionate, not reading directly from his slides, and you can tell that he absolutely knows and is confident in his understanding of the content.

I've actually seem the same thing recently - updates will soak up all available bandwidth, to the point where web browsing is basically impossible.

The T4xx and the X2xx lines have been pretty much the go-to for corporate IT over the last decade. Solidly built, upgradable (except for perhaps the bleeding-edge models), and heaps of spare parts around if needed.

This will apply to a lot of technologies - of course X is slower than Y if you don't optimise your app to take advantage of the features and architecture of X.

What that means in terms of RDS vs Aurora, I'm not sure. But would be great to hear what your outcomes are!

At that point (identify fraud) there's very little you can do short of not allowing password resets. Even if you have a human customer support rep to verify your identity prior to resetting a password, you can just send your forged identity documents.

That's a bit extreme. You could just put a passcode on your phone?

Availability zones are different from regions. You can be in multiple AZ's within the Sydney region still.

Hugo on S3 with Lambda to generate posts.

In the first few paragraphs of the article it mentions

> The project, however, failed completely and development had to reset. More than three years late Microsoft released Windows Code Name 'Longhorn' as Windows Vista.

Is this incorrect, or not the full story?

edit: less confrontational

I mean, they outline them in their fineprint. Amazon doesn't consider the unavailability of 1 EC2 availability zone an outage because their position is that you should be architecting around that. 2 or more AZ outages in the same region and it'll show up on their status page IIRC.

There's a story behind it - apparently there was a better response from consumers with annual pricing. People often didn't understand the concept of a one-off fee for a web service, and got confused between the once-off and the recurring options

> Right now, users pay a one-time signup fee that grows by a fraction of a penny with each new signup. At the moment, this fee is $10.55. Pinboard also offers archiving accounts, which cost $25/year. Users who upgrade after joining Pinboard can deduct the signup fee from the first year of archiving.

> Under the new scheme, basic Pinboard accounts will cost $11/year, while archiving will continue to cost $25/year.

> My main reason for making the change is so that I don't have to keep explaining how pricing works. An astonishing number of people already believe that they're paying annually for Pinboard. Others accuse me of baiting and switching them when they upgrade to archiving and get a renewal notice. Note how much easier it is to describe the new policy than the old one.

https://blog.pinboard.in/2014/11/new_pricing_policy/

For high income earners, this is a benefit - novated leasing of cars is a popular way to reduce your tax bill.

For low income earners? I wouldn't call it a positive exactly...

> This is going to sound amusing at best, but would you mind defining what it means to boot?

I imagine that most of the time would be in mocking some/all of the hardware interfaces to present to the VM, and running your init processes (and all that entails for whatever OS you're running).

A common issue I've seen is websites treating a period in email addresses differently. All discussion about standards aside, the fact is

* To Gmail, firstname.lastname@gmail.com and firstnamelastname@gmail.com are the same.

* To a website like Paypal, they are different. So it will allow multiple signups with the 'same' email address.

I just had to troubleshoot this for my parents, who have separate Paypal accounts, but tied to the same email account.