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randominionon Tesla reports first quarterly profit in more than three years

Speaking of savings, it's funny how no one is including safety in this breakdown of cost.

The Model S/X are considered some of the safest vehicles on the planet, even breaking testing equipment, while I'm not convinced you'd do as well in that 20 year old del a Sol (or any older vehicle for that matter).

And once you start dealing with kids and safety, it becomes even more important.

randominionon Stack Overflow Outage Postmortem

I can tell you how.

A shitty Belkin KVM in certain configurations can allow this to happen.

There's a bug which keeps generating chr(32) characters when you activate the keyboard shortcut (scroll lock twice), and try to switch to another machine.

It will keep pumping out those spaces on whatever fields was selected at the time, so if you take your time before you switch back, you are going to be in for a lot of fun.

Haven't read the link yet, but wanted to share this sooner than later.

randominionon The FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Webcam

No he's right, several apps listen in on your conversations for advertising purposes. Tons of similar stories can be found online.

The FTC just made an announcement about SilverPush, an example of such software:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2016/03/ftc-i...

randominionon The FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Webcam

I use vinyl cling material to cover up the cams, but what you described is much better and exactly what I want. Got any pics?

randominionon Snowden: FBI obscuring crucial details in Apple case

I love how people keep going back to him being a defender of state's rights, but conveniently forget about cases such as the Bush vs Gore recount, where he specifically took away the state's right to recount, with some disastrous consequences

And there are other examples as well.

People want/like to think of him as a defender of the Constitution. Great. But consistent, he never was.