I don't remember signing a receipt the last time I took delivery of a suitcase of [illegal things]

how is it that Tesla can unleash a "Full Self Driving" algorithm on the public without regulatory review of any kind? I see a tort bonanza the first (inevitable) time they maim/kill a pedestrian or bicyclist.

1) blatantly self promoting slashdot "article"
2) magic....
3) profit!

another great tradition, cast aside.....

>>My Linux boxes much more usable and easy to troubleshoot when there is a problem.

you're missing the point.... for most users, not having the problem in the first place is worth far more than "ease of debugging" after the problem has happened. I run Linux on my own machines, and force it on my teenagers, but never in a million years would I try to pass it off on my elderly parents.

McDonalds eventually gave up counting and settled in at "billions and billions".... how long before Microsoft does the same?

Perhaps we should require an explanation using the "ten hundred" most common words......

Consider this an enthusiastic plug for Randall Munroe's (of XKCD fame) most recent book. "Thing Explainer-- Complicated stuff in simple words"

two possibilities:
    1) you're making it up
    2) you just violated the NDA that you signed

Given that engineers a fond of food, clothing, housing and beer, they needed more funding

Hurricane Sandy in 2012--
a foot of water in the basement and climbing.
Not a pump to be had-- hours of phone calls revealed that I was last in line at the sump pump store; even if I could have gotten a pump there was no electricity.
Realized that we lived on a hill; set up a gravity siphon using 200' of garden hose.

Woke up the next morning to a dry basement, power came back a few hours later.

use it most days; a tool from several millennia in the past
perhaps slightly newer: knife
even newer, but still pretty darn old: pliers

in the ice storm of 1998, we were without power for 10 days. Honda is my friend....

Solar in the ice and snow strikes me as a dicey proposition

TFA makes much of the Tesla battery as a replacement for backup generators.... at 7kWh, it's equivalent to about 4 hours from a low end generator.

Not anything that's going to replace my Honda and it's 20 gallons of gas any time soon.

"reasonably well", which translates to "OK, as long as the files are simple and you don't care what they look like"

Clearly the Times is doing all the work.....