There's nothing much to doubt. The evidence is always the same: "our web server logs show scrapers originating from IP addresses owned by someone who didn't pay us."
The Verge article is a little clearer. 100,000 threads pilfered over the past year with scraping! Oh no!
(See also: the actual legal filing. I have to admit the headings sound a little unstable.)
VW was smart enough not to keep any records of when Winterkorn was informed of the problem and allowed it to continue:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.houstonchronicle.c...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fbu...
I also remember reading around the time that the scandal broke that Martin Winterkorn was smart enough to not be too specific when he instructed engineers to find a way to make the cars pass emissions within budget or they'd be fired, and that he didn't care how they did it.
Interesting story, I also heard from an engineer at GM who was involved in testing VW's diesels to find out how they were passing emissions with what seemed to be far fewer tradeoffs than any other manufacturer. They didn't figure it out because the cars would go into cheat mode on their testing equipment, and unless you did kind of hybrid dyno run/emissions test to show that power was reduced during the emissions test, or an on-road rolling emissions test to show that real-world emissions were higher (the type that unveiled the cheating) it would be incredibly difficult to find out that the cheat mode even existed.
Probably something like a printer ink scenario, but possibly even more expensive, and with a limited shelf life.
It may be possible to get cheap refill kits from Aliexpress that work well apart from some extraneous "FREE XINJIANG" output.
They haven't touched the person ultimately responsible, Martin Winterkorn, just as they won't touch Zuck.
Just you wait—they're way more over-represented they are in subreddit moderators... and in the accelerationist movement.
"Actually" read them? Are there a lot of people running around purporting to have read TSR novels, or to have credentials that require doing so?
More specifically I'd bet the expenditure to revenue ratio of the technology is unprecedented, in a bad way.
I think one obvious bright line should be never force people to prematurely decommission a productive asset. You should be able to drive your old truck for as long as it runs. At very least efficiency standards and energy source mandates should only ever apply to new-kit.
An example of how this can go wrong can be seen in the trucking industry - they're keeping grandfathered-in trucks (or at least the powertrains from trucks) from the late-00's and earlier on the road to avoid buying new trucks or new truck engines, leading to massively increased pollution indefinitely. Not rebuilding a vintage truck engine for the umpteenth time could be seen as "prematurely decommissioning a productive asset."
There are no real downsides to saying the 2026 version is 26 and the 2126 version is 126. It's just [year - 2000]; you can even imagine this is release 026 rather than 26. Personally I'd worry more about what happens in the year 3000 when they have to release version 1000.
Moreover—these are just version numbers, imitative of dates, rather than actual date fields. It's not like someone is going to be charged for unpaid bills because their iOS version number was accidentally parsed as being in the past. Take your damn pills, grandma!
Yep this is the fundamental, unavoidable problem that Google wants to not only gloss over, but distract from. AI + Capitalism = Dystopia.
And yet you registered on Slashdot. Curious.
All his other mistakes pale in comparison to the time he not only thought this shit but said it out loud:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstor...
France probably thought he might flee from justice to the US under the current administration which has shown a lot of sympathy to cryptocurrency-adjacent criminals.
Storage doesn't necessarily mean batteries, but we have to weigh whatever's needed for storage against all the fossil fuels that will need to be mined and burned for decades while we wait for new nuclear power plants to hopefully make it all the way to producing electricity.
We have the technology to make superconducting intercontinental power lines right now, net-positive fusion power is barely crossing the line from science fiction to early lab experiments. I'd put my money on the Wires in Cold Tubes.
50 years if you try to re-power it with nuclear, maybe 5-20 if you try to re-power it with renewables.
Surprise due today. Also the rent.
