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• On the post: Feds Probing Tesla For Lying About EV Ranges, Bullshitting Customers Who Complained

  

  Graham J ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2023 @ 05:58am

  Nah

  I'm not surprised they would dissuade customers from service visits, seeing as they would accomplish nothing and the car is working as designed. The range displayed next to the battery icon is the EPA-rated mileage times the percentage battery remaining. It's inaccurate because the government-mandated EPA ratings are inaccurate. Estimating battery charge level is also deceptively complicated and is not linear. If you tap on that icon you'll get battery percentage instead which is pretty accurate and which most people go by. Also if you navigate to a location you'll get an extremely accurate range based on temperature, elevation, wind etc. Don't believe the rage.

• On the post: ‘The Day Before’ To Become ‘Dayworld’ After Trademark Opposition From Calendar App Maker

  

  Graham J ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2023 @ 08:01am

  Guy that made a mobile app?

  Could have provided more information about the complainant. Here’s the app: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/thedaybefore-days-countdown/id991283955

• On the post: Details Leak On Apple's Secret $275 Billion Deal With The Chinese Government

  

  Graham J ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2021 @ 05:27pm

  Details leak?

  There's no new information here.

• On the post: Drone Operator Sues North Carolina Over Its First Amendment-Violating Surveyor Licensing Laws

  

  Graham J ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2021 @ 02:32pm

  Streisand much? Rather that drawing attention to the fact that any idiot with a drone can do surveying, shut up and hope no one notices.

  First Amendment seems like a stretch but last time I checked photography from any altitude was fair game.

• On the post: Drone Operator Sues North Carolina Over Its First Amendment-Violating Surveyor Licensing Laws

  

  Graham J ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2021 @ 02:28pm

  Re: heyy

  they all do

• On the post: Content Moderation Case Study: Facebook Removes A Picture Of A Famous Danish Mermaid Statue (2016)

  

  Graham J ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2021 @ 05:37pm

  hehe

  boobs

• On the post: The TikTok Oracle Grift: Insiders Admit They Went Hunting For A Tech Company The President Liked

  

  Graham J ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2020 @ 10:04am

  National insecurity

  I couldn’t agree more that this has nothing to do with national security but my bigger concern is that issues that actually are important are handled similarly. How many deals of this nature took place with respect to real security issues? I shudder at the thought.

• On the post: You Don't Own What You Buy Episode 9,000: Philips' Light Bulbs Lose Functionality

  

  Graham J ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2020 @ 01:41pm

  Re: no thanks

  That doesn't make you crazy, it makes you a Luddite.

• On the post: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible; Naughty Kids In Wuhan Edition

  

  Graham J ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2020 @ 08:53am

  Re: Re: Actually

  That isn't a counterargument to Wikipedia being effective moderation at scale. It is, despite the occasional skirmish.

• On the post: You Don't Own What You Buy Episode 9,000: Philips' Light Bulbs Lose Functionality

  

  Graham J ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2020 @ 01:40pm

  Wrong title

  The title is not correct. The bulbs have the same functionality they always did.

  Still it's lame Phillips has decided to "focus" on the newer device, as if tweaking the codebase for the old one would be that onerous.

• On the post: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible; Naughty Kids In Wuhan Edition

  

  Graham J ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2020 @ 11:46am

  Re: The problem isn't the moderation

  And then tell people to side load apps made by whoever that haven't been checked with Google's scanner (assuming they use Android)? That solution may be easy, but it isn't good.

• On the post: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible; Naughty Kids In Wuhan Edition

  

  Graham J ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2020 @ 11:43am

  Actually

  Guess you haven't heard of Wikipedia.

• On the post: There Are Many Reasons To Be Concerned About The Impact On Press Freedoms In The Assange Indictment

  

  Graham J ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2019 @ 04:05am

  It’s not just that

  I think you’re missing something here. Conspiracy is always performed by doing legal things. You can commit conspiracy just by talking to someone, yet we don’t complain that charges infringe on our right to speech.

  Conspiracy is a hard charge to make stick precisely for this reason.

• On the post: Prisons Switch Device Providers; Render $11.3 Million Of Inmate-Purchased Music Worthless

  

  Graham J ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2018 @ 09:46am

  Bend over

  So now when inmates bend over it's the music industry that's giving it to them up the behind. Big Bubba down the hall is no doubt jealous.

• On the post: Tech Journalists Keep Completely Missing The Point Of Cord Cutting

  

  Graham J ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2017 @ 07:55pm

  Wrong reasons for being right

  Karl, I agree that such comparisons are all wrong, but it’s not for the reasons you state. Sharing passwords and piracy aren’t the reason cord cutting can’t be compared to cable nor the reason it’s cheaper, it’s that it allows us to simply have less and pay less.
  
  Many people simple don’t want a million channels for $100/month. Now we don’t have to.

• On the post: Twitter Suspends Popehat For Writing About Violent Threats He Received From Another Twitter User

  

  Graham J ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2017 @ 10:11am

  Re:

  The threat wasn't made on Twitter.

• On the post: Twitter Suspends Popehat For Writing About Violent Threats He Received From Another Twitter User

  

  Graham J ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2017 @ 10:10am

  Re:

  I'm guessing Twitter doesn't want to be the one deciding which phone numbers people are ok with being given out to millions of people.

• On the post: Twitter Suspends Popehat For Writing About Violent Threats He Received From Another Twitter User

  

  Graham J ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2017 @ 10:09am

  > Twitter confirms that it's the posting of someone else's info that got him into trouble
  
  So the headline should have been "Threat victim doxes someone on Twitter, gets temporary suspension"

• On the post: How Hulk Hogan & Peter Thiel Almost Made Sure That The Story Of R. Kelly's 'Cult' Stayed Unpublished

  

  Graham J ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2017 @ 09:48am

  Which publications?

  It's a pity DeRogatis won't out the publications avoiding this story. If they are doing so because of the cost of losing a lawsuit then the solution is to make it more expensive to avoid these types of stories. That means voting with our wallets/clicks and tying this behaviour to reputation.

• On the post: Police Unions Head To DC To Ask New President, Attorney General To Stop Making Cops Respect The Constitution

  

  Graham J ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2017 @ 09:20am

  Re:

  Trump: "One of the fundamental rights of every American is to live in a safe community."
  
  You: "Fake rights are the language of the left looking to expand the government at the expense of the citizen."
  
  Your interpretation is nonsensical. Trump (who I doubt has ever been accused of being a lefty) is clearly using this language to justify scaling back government regulation over the police.

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