Tesla has a secret – wanna see?

Seems a Tesla owner & hacker named Jason Hughes has been investigating the Tesla Model S operating software, found something interesting, & decided to share it in this cheeky tweet:

@elonmusk @teslamotors #tesla I know your secret. SHA256 of best part: 5fc38436ec295b0049f186651ebba5fd55e8d7b81eb61cbd00d3f1bf18dd9c81

— Jason Hughes (@wk057) March 4, 2016

So, what is the secret, & why is a string of gibberish the, “best part”?

Actually, it's gibberish only to human eyes – soon after, this was posted on a Tesla Motors Club discussion thread:


Check the "Result" at the tight hand end
Credit: Tesla Motors Club

P100D? Well, a P85D was a performance version of the Tesla Model S with dual motors (i.e. 4WD) & 85 kWh battery. P90D is similar, but with a larger 90 kWh battery. So a P100D is ...

More:
http://electrek.co/2016/03/04/tesla-os-hacker-model-s-p100d/ / Tesla discontinued Model S 85 kWh battery pack automaker’s next battery upgrade company offers the battery packs highest most energy capacity electric cars on the market cryptic message Elon Musk best clue next improvement higher-end version Model S secret tweet notorious Model S hacker Jason Hughes Tesla community salvaging two Tesla Model S battery packs massive energy storage system off-grid residential solar installation Tesla stationary energy storage products latest project hacking operating system salvaged Model S posts tidbit information Tesla car thread Tesla Motors Club TMC forums information TMC tweet Tesla CEO Elon Musk cryptographic hash functions TMC members trial and error hash cracker decoded value original hash string is P100D hacking Model S Tesla working 100 kWh battery pack performance dual motor Model S references P100D firmware badges badge getting close to release significant 11% increase capacity 90 kWh pack introduced Tesla last year 8% increase battery capacity Tesla industry every year translate increased capacity range full charge energy density improvements add more cells current Model 90D can travel 288 miles single charge performance version Tesla P100D releasing 100D version EPA rated range over 300 miles option Model X 70D 90D P90D Tesla hacker automaker car software /

Wired's best line

At the bottom of a Wired post entitled:

“Never Mind Trump. The Internet Wants to Watch What’s Behind Him”

This:

‘Correction at 9:58 a.m. on 3/09/2016: Due to an oversight involving a haphazardly-installed Chrome extension during the editing process, the name Donald Trump was erroneously replaced with the phrase “Someone With Tiny Hands” when this story originally published.’

See the Wired article at:
http://www.wired.com/2016/03/chris-christie-marginal-media/?mbid=nl_3916

Gizmodo had something to say:
http://gizmodo.com/wired-keeps-publishing-trump-stories-with-its-someone-w-1763771660

More about text-swap extensions:
http://www.wired.com/2016/03/political-chrome-extensions-donald-trump/ / installed the Drumpfinator famous Chrome extension launched John Oliver Last Week Tonight replaces Trump with Drumpf ancestral name appears in your browser wanted understand appeal extensions why emerged cultural force install extensions replace Trump’s name your drunk uncle at Thanksgiving actual Trump quotes every time his name appears remove any mention of him whatsoever beyond Trump target text-swap extensions started about five years ago means scrubbing away celebrities’ names news feed change millennials snake people scrub any reference Hillary Clinton Kim Kardashian substitute list of words suggested xkcd Randall Munroe Witnesses these dudes I know allegedly kinda probably install an extension replace whatever words you like swap extensions jokes that you play on yourself something clubby anti-Trumpness installed Chrome extension share Facebook Twitter something inherently fun culture-jammy seeing ridiculous phrases reprinted staid fonts Wall Street Journal New York Times joke grows old anti-Trump extension installed on their browser someone with tiny hands candidate’s famed defensiveness finger-length production team phrase meta-gag let it through correction delighted Internet personal joke very public Dan Sinker Internet prankster who wrote the extension Chrome extension installed Chrome extensions powerful pop up in odd contexts reporting of election results browser window see the world is totally changed disorienting had the extension turned on inundated information distracting trivial see the world through Drumpf-colored glasses exerting control seemingly chaotic world inundated information distracting trivial hated media phony objectivity just call things as they really are urge to see the world through Drumpf-colored glasses our error wasn’t viewed so kindly by Trump fans unfair institutional bias candidate insinuations microphallus pernicious thing Chrome extensions create a fantasyland your own beliefs biases reflected back at you people at opposite ends of the ideological spectrum inhabit different worlds get their news from different sources band together different like-minded social circles process information in different ways text-replacement extensions filtering out editing anything you might disagree with comfort amuse yourself political social cultural protest John Oliver launched the Drumpfinator Trump won twelve state primaries or caucuses Chrome extensions preaching to the choir preaching to the preacher /

Jon English 1949 – 2016

Jon English – rock star, singer-songwriter, actor – British by birth, Australian by education & habit.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-10/australian-singer-jon-english-dies-at-age-66/7235366

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_English / Jonathan James Jon English 26 March 1949 – 10 March 2016 Australian singer songwriter All Together Now star dies age 66 performer Jon English died aged 66 complications of surgery well known his work music television on the stage roles Judas Iscariot Jesus Christ Superstar 1970s Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance Gilbert & Sullivan agent talent representatives Ambition Entertainment his passing surrounded family members four children wife Carmen sister Janet brother Jeremy other close family members hospitalised unexpected ill health his management postponed shows Tamworth Dubbo scheduled surgery Robert Rigby manager record label sudden death shocked everyone Jon was truly an Aussie rock legend news come very big shock family friends expecting routine operation complications unfortunately passed away midnight close friend musician Simon Gallaher text message partner middle of the night very heavy heart message absolutely devastated send you my love born Hampstead London 1949 came to Australia parents siblings age of 12 immigrant lead role Bobby Rivers 1991 television sitcom All Together Now cast Judas Jesus Christ Superstar toured show Australia and New Zealand recorded four albums songs Handbags and Gladrags Hollywood Seven Turn the Page first number one hit songwriting successes theme song television miniseries Against The Wind Six Ribbons number one hit great sadness A public service celebrating his life is set to be held /

George Martin 1926 – 2016

Credit: uncut.co.uk

Many regarded him as the fifth Beatle, although he tired of being known as, “the Beatles producer” – & he achieved many things both before & after the Beatles, including more than 50 number one hit records.

Without George Martin, the world may never have come to know the Beatles. Their music would have been very different.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-09/george-martin-the-beatles-producer-dies/7233938

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Martin / George Martin The Beatles Apple Records John Lennon Paul McCartney Ringo Starr Richard Starkey George Harrison recording studio engineer record producer /

HoverDock for Apple Watch & iPhone

Credit: Gadget Flow

Neither of these docks actually hover, but below the aluminium ring, they are black & curved in such a way that, from most angles, they appear to hover, as in the image above. Also, because they do not actually hover, & are in fact rubberized below the aluminium ring, they will stay where you put them on your desk or nightstand, which may be for the best.

Both docks incorporate a winder in the aluminium part which can be used to adjust the length of your existing Apple charging cable.

HoverDock for iPhone

http://www.appleworld.today/blog/2016/3/3/make-your-iphone-float-and-your-lightning-cable-vanish-with-the-hoverdock



HoverDock for Apple Watch

http://the-gadgeteer.com/2016/03/08/hoverdock-for-apple-watch-review/#more-194848

Manufacturer website

For Apple Watch
http://www.just-mobile.com/hoverdock-apple-watch.html#.Vt_y8JOGORs

For iPhone
http://www.just-mobile.com/hoverdock-iphone.html#.Vt_yuJOGORs / Apple Watch stand charge easily display on my desk cable it comes with HoverDock by Just Mobile low-profile charging stand integrated support Apple Watch magnetic charging cable doubles bedside alarm clock HoverDock very simply designed well made Apple Watch dock unibody aluminum block dimensions 1.36″ high 3.7″ diameter very lightweight 3.7 oz top lightweight plastic soft to the touch hollow center centre HoverDock comes apart re-assemble Apple charging cable inside front HoverDock feed through Apple charging cable slot inside hollow room cable wound inside you get the ideal length cable wrapping cable snap on the bottom half of the dock spins easily adjust cable length make the cord a bit shorter if needed Apple charging cable is already so long bottom of the dock rubberized feel doesn’t slip off the desk magnetic part of charging cable stands up stay put Apple Watch docks goes into nightstand mode clock show bigger numbers date displayed underneath magnetic charging portion cable stays put hidden back of the watch Apple Watch model you aluminum base Just Mobile HoverDock nightstand desk Apple Watch cable charge Apple Watch dock very convenient alarms set Apple Watch Just Mobile sleek attractive minimalist charging dock iPhone low-profile design smartphone upright charged case podium comes tiny clip ccommodate variety of cases HoverDock hides Lightning cable appearance stand iPhone vertically review notifications unibody aluminum disc HoverDock hollow soft-touch plastic body interior Lightning cable management system accessible through removable plastic and rubber base cable not included HoverDock elegant charging solution reduce cable clutter works with iPhone 5 5s 6 6 Plus 6s 6s Plus /

Vanished! Surprising things missing from ancient art

Charcoal drawings in Chauvet Cave, over 30,000 years old
Credit: Bradshaw Foundation

Look at the image above – many animals – horses, bison, rhinoceros, but typical of so much art, over thousands of years, in many ancient cultures – no plants.

Also largely missing from the art of ancient cultures is the colour blue. While paintings from Ancient Egypt are a famous exception, blue appears rarely in ancient art. Art, here, includes the written. E.g., “blue” is not mentioned once in the writings of Homer. No blue skies, nor seas. Seas, apparently are “wine-dark”!

Different aspects of these phenomena at the links below:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2016/03/02/vanished-the-surprising-things-missing-from-ancient-art/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2976405/Could-ancestors-blue-Ancient-civilisations-didn-t-perceive-colour-didn-t-word-say-scientists.html

https://www.dunnedwards.com/colors/specs/posts/the-history-and-science-behind-the-color-blue / look back across the history of art things go missing interesting things ancient people word describe color of the sky blue argument colleagues podcast broadcast essay William Gladstone British prime minister 1860s 1880s 1890s Gladstone Homer-philiac loved Homer Homer’s tales read obscure poet’s use of color words Iliad Odyssey Gladstone every instance Homer using color describe blacks whites reds, yellows greens blue it was nowhere to be found Homer skies aren’t blue seas aren’t blue wine-dark blue eyes immortals Tim Howard reporter Gladstone’s essay linguist scholar ancient texts Guy Deutscher Gladstone’s right there is just no word that describes the color blue in Homer’s poems no blue philologist Lazarus Geiger ancient Chinese texts South Asia’s Vedic poems old Icelandic sagas Western Bible ancient classics no or barely any use of blue why no blue explored different theories most plausible sky ancient people didn’t pay it much attention no need distinguish it own descriptive color colour and place ubiquity invisible blue paints invented Egypt blue descriptor buy sell newest missing thing ancients even more basic plants cave paintings Palaeolithic artists drew draw drawing 40,000 years ago hundreds of them Spain France plants galloping horses rippling reindeer cattle rhino animals eat animals chase worship animals lived on plains in forests ate plants no convincing image of grass landscape imagery deer leafy leaf bush leafy things Palaeolithic art bushes trees biologist painter Tony Hopkins sketching rock art no truly ancient representation of plants cave art stays plant free 5,000 years after the end of the Palaeolithic era beginnings of agriculture in the Middle East commerce pops into view explanation animals more vivid more alive animals birth coupling reproduction plants more mysterious narrative fetish nobody drew a plant on a cave wall single image possible plant carved on a bone found cave Gironde region of France dates back 15,000 B.C. convincing picture specific potentially identifiable flower four possible blossoms passable impression sprig bilberry crowberry four blossoms flowers sleepy birds mouths open convincing picture plant birds heads necks ancient ancestors ate berries fruits gathered grass bedding animals foraging forests meadows mountains gathered hunted hunter gatherer hunters hunted sacred walls gatherers gathered very curious omission /

Ray Tomlinson, inventor of email, dies aged 74

Ray Tomlinson
Credit: channel24.pk

Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of email has died aged 74. The first email was sent between two networked computers, which were physically side-by-side in 1971.

He also chose the “@” symbol as a separator in an email address, after it had fallen into disuse.

Famously, after demonstrating his new creation, Ray Tomlinson told a colleague, "Don't tell anyone! This isn't what we're supposed to be working on."

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/07/ray-tomlinson-email-inventor-and-selector-of-symbol-dies-aged-74

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-07/email-inventor-ray-tomlinson-dies-aged-74/7225748

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Tomlinson / Ray Tomlinson dead dies inventor of email dies aged 74 Ray Tomlinson father godfather email employer Raytheon Company 74 true technology pioneer email early days of networked computers Ray Tomlinson Cambridge Massachusetts office suspected heart attack tech world cult hero 1971 invention program ARPANET Internet's predecessor allowed people to send person-to-person messages other computer users on other servers inventing email putting the @ sign on the map Ray Tomlinson inducted Internet Hall of Fame 2012 his work changed the way the world communicates accomplishments he remained humble kind generous originally from Amsterdam New York school Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute MIT working research and development company Bolt Beranek and Newman Raytheon BBN Technologies email breakthrough program changed the way people communicate business personal life biography Internet Hall of Fame website Tomlinson email started household word receiving worldwide recognition for his achievement 2000 received George R. Stibitz Computer Pioneer Award American Computer Museum honors Webby Award International Academy of Digital Arts and Science Innovation award Discover magazine Eduard-Rhein Cultural Award /