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Well, it's a fully reliable and performant car, but it's also a project. Here is one recent pic, it's a good angle though :) If it looks like the rear bumper is slightly askew, it is; the prior one was warped somehow, this is a replacement pull from the local yard, and I haven't adjusted it yet. paint is quite dead but mostly intact with one burn-through on the D/S door, body is straight, down to one oil leak at the turbo. interior is rough but functional,

AC needs H-valve replacement (part included) and probably compressor seals, sunroof needs regreasing but it works. also needs new cruise switch and turn signal combo switch. new rear springs, new engine dampers, control arms rebushed, brakes good, engine awesome, trans great and has been serviced. New ignition lock. P/S door lock bad, D/S windows F and R don't roll down probably door wiring. Fresh rubber and good spare. Some spare parts, some tools including valve adjustment wrenches. Turbo (from a 1985 300TD or something like that) leaks oil from diaphragm and return, but I rebuilt it with a new impeller+shaft and 360 degree stainless thrust collar. All other oil leaks appear to be fixed, all fuel leaks solved (the return lines are a PITA). Needs PS pump replaced for noise, I have one apart on my bench right now with the rebuild kit but my Audi has taken precedence :) New trunk seal, replaced some interior parts with darker pieces, arm rests not yet replaced but I pulled them. Replaced obliterated factory tan windlaces with some pretty good black ones. VDO boost and volt gauges added tastefully. Crappy JVC bluetooth stereo correctly installed, new speakers with fader bypass. New window switches. Needs seat switches, they function but are funky. New Bosch blower motor. One rear caliper was funky, replaced. Factory Bilsteins still working great. Only upholstery damage is a little bit to D/S shoulder area (cracking started last year.) Tan MB-TEX. Zero rust. Undercoating good (even patched a couple holes in it with a rust-oleum product, heh.) Good battery. ISTR replacing the alternator, too. Original reproduction owner's manual, year-correct, 1 corner missing :) SEL headlights with new doors. Front wheel bearings done. Clear corners by Magneti-Marelli, same as the factory orange ones, with orange lamps in. All interior and exterior lights working. Antenna works correctly, highly unusual...

I should have most of the receipts for this stuff.

If that's too much project-nature to deal with, I am not surprised. There's a lot of merit to buying a nicer car. If you're still interested, I'll let it go quite reasonably. I'm not expecting to get my money out of it. My plan was to recover all the wood pieces with leather and foam, pretty much all of them are shot. I need to make a trip to the yard here shortly to see if they want to put a 6.9 block into my '92 F250 (also pictured) so I'll see if they have a climate control trim while I'm there :) Clearly I'm not looking to bullshit anyone, either. I just want to sell it for approximately what it's worth, and move on. It's a solid car, though. I wouldn't hesitate to drive it across the country at full highway speeds without doing more than checking the tire pressure and the oil level. The turbo spools up FAST and makes a solid 12.5 psi (stock 11, this is about the limit without adjusting the fuel system... best to have a pyrometer before doing that) under full load. It jumps right up to 11.5 any time you're on the throttle, though. Steering feel is better than my A8, and it soaks up the smallest bumps even better, though the bigger bumps come through more. Cooling system is absolutely 100%.

I could yak about this car all day :) But yes, as you surmise, I have steadily improved it since getting it, and everything I've done has been done by the book, correctly torqued, etc etc

Since he asked let me add a question myself: now that CyanogenMod is in bedsheets with M$....

CyanogenMod isn't in bed with Microsoft. You're thinking of Cyanogen Inc., which commercializes CyanogenMod and includes MS services, but CyanogemMod doesn't align with any single provider, and can be used with Google, Amazon or FDroid app stores, or no app store at all.

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BTW. I actually find the Microsoft Arrow Launcher quite good.

That would be .539957 https://www.google.com/search?...

"Oh, it must be a Google Fiber city."

Bingo.

And I have no doubt that this service will only be available in areas of those cities where google fiber is available.

https://fiber.google.com/citie...

As a matter of fact, it is! Well, Atlanta is, and Dunwoody is part of Atlanta. Technically it's own municipality, but "inside the perimeter" of I-285, so it's part of the greater metro area. Also, there's this: https://fiber.google.com/citie...

For better results just use a $0.10 Bic pen. Then just reseal, call it good, and don't even bother fucking with the shit lock.

Why do all of those have to be a function of the journal?

They don't but the functions still have to happen in some form or fashion and there are issues yet to be universally worked out in a standard way. Right now the publishers do a lot of this stuff but if you want to take the publishers out of the picture you need to figure out how to distribute that work and pay for it in a way that still makes sense, both economically and logistically.

Publishers talk about all of their costs ... but I've yet to see a for-profit publisher who's actually given a breakdown of what their costs are.

Here you go. RELX (formerly Reed Elsevier PLC) is a publicly traded company and as such their financial statements are available. They publish The Lancet, Cell, Gray's Anatomy, and more through their Elsevier division. For the record, Elsevier has profit margins that would make Apple blush (around 37% NET) which explains a lot of this discussion.

https://groups.google.com/foru... mentions dial-up issues. Is anyone else seeing this? I would test it, but I don't have a copper phone line anymore to try it with my dial-up modems. :(

Is it me or are there way less comments lately on /.?

"Oh, it must be a Google Fiber city."

Bingo.

Remind me why competition among public utilities is bad again?

Is it better to vote for an idiot like Trump (idiot) or an un-endicted felon like Hillary Clinton (Benghazi, mail server)? One is too dumb to be trusted and the other one is too dumb.

We need a real candidate!!!!!! I would vote for them over these two dimwits.

Is it better to vote for an idiot like Trump (idiot) or an un-endicted felon like Hillary Clinton (Benghazi, mail server)? One is too dumb to be trusted and the other one is too dumb.

We need a real candidate!!!!!! I would vote for them over these two dimwits.

Is it better to vote for an idiot like Trump (idiot) or an un-endicted felon like Hillary Clinton (Benghazi, mail server)? One is too dumb to be trusted and the other one is too dumb.

We need a real candidate!!!!!! I would vote for them over these two dimwits.

It really shouldn't work.

The plaintext version of slashdot uses http 301 (moved permanently), which causes the browser to simply skip connecting to the plaintext version the next time and connect directly to the redirected https URL.
Google.com however, uses http 302 (moved), which does not cause this caching to occur, and will work just fine for this purpose.

If Slashdot had used the "Strict-Transport-Security" header as well, your browser should categorically refuse to connect to the plaintext version (after your first connection) until the expiry date has been reached (usually quite a few weeks into the future)

If you can use http://slashdot.org/ the same way you use http://google.com/ your browser has security issues.

So I always start by connecting to Slashdot, because it's not https. Now I'm going to have to find a different non-https web site.

Slashdot should still work fine for that. When you type "slashdot.org" into your browser it goes to the HTTP site first and gets redirected to the HTTPS version. The coffee shops, etc., will intercept that first request and do their thing there. You won't get the redirect until you actually make a connection to http://slashdot.org./

Personally, I use http://google.com/ for that same purpose. It has redirected to HTTTPS for quite some time now, but it still works fine, for the same reason.

Not all fingerprints/watermarks are in header data. There are many papers on transformation-resistant watermarking - which survive the "analog hole" by embedding the watermark into the visual or audio signal: https://scholar.google.com/sch...

I live in New England, haven't owned a car in roughly a decade and have been commuting 20 minutes each way every day for work by bike in addition to whatever other daily transportation i need, and own/use snow tires for said bicycle. I also own a nice road bike which gets ridden on weeknight group rides and weekends. I started out on a $350 hybrid I bought from REI on special, and it lasted me several years and thousands of miles, until I decided I wanted something better.

So yes, I do actually know what I'm talking about. And incidentally, Minnesota has more bike commuters per capita than many much warmer locations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

There have been dozens of studies over the years showing that riding a bicycle for transportation, even slowly, brings health benefits over people who sit in their cars for transportation: https://www.google.com/search?...

Oh, and which is it? Everyone flying along so fast they'll fatally injure pedestrians they smack into? Or people who "toddle around with their heartrate under 100bpm so slow it doesn't do them any good"? Hmm?

Please, save the "you want to put grandma on an iceberg" crap. I wasn't advocating forcing people onto bicycles. I'm saying driverless cars aren't going to fix problems with congestion and pollution.

even without a sim card you should get wifi and use NTP.

This is the answer, though you may need a rooted phone and a third party app like ClockSync to make it happen (claimed accuracy '~1-20ms'):
https://play.google.com/store/...

To be fair https://play.google.com/store/.... All indications are people are fully aware of the google store and what is available. For Yandex to be default is something Yandex needs to negotiate with phone sellers and Russian Telecoms rather than with Google. Likely if the Russian government wants change, they need to produce a Government internet search engine based around publicly defined algorithms and make it the legal default, likely all countries should do pretty much the same thing. The huge bias in everything, the spin that Google can load into search responses, is huge and should be challenged, it is very unhealthy for free speech and the internet. The effective reaction to that should not be half hearted or buried in psychopathic privatised profit greed. For equal access under a defined set of search algorithmic rules, it needs to be publicly managed and set as the required default for all countries, each to their own, what each end user chooses to do beyond that is their own choice. Likely a combination of search and directory browse.

Or just buy a cheap tablet, install Timely or My Alarm Clock and mount it on the wall

Total cost: About $50-$70
Total headache: None

Or just buy a cheap tablet, install Timely or My Alarm Clock and mount it on the wall

Total cost: About $50-$70
Total headache: None

https://www.google.com/search?...

What is boring about an atmosphere of a planet that contains iron in it? Venus's atmosphere is fascinating - it contains vastly more material diversity than Earth's, stratified into its different layers. Near the surface the harsh conditions extract metals as gaseous chlorides and fluorides, out of surfaces that appear as if molten rock - probably things like kimberlites and carbonatites - flowed like rivers. Most of the atmosphere is dynamically stable, like Earth's stratosphere, although the middle cloud - the habitable layer - has some degree of convection, like a mild version of Earth's troposphere. Near the poles there's a crazy freaky looking storm, although we have no clue at this point at what layers, if any, it'd be hazardous in and at what layers, if any, it'd be safe in. Lightning on Venus appears to be at least as common on Earth, but it's... weird. We're having trouble interpreting the data we've gotten so far, which has led to weird theories such as lightning bolts hundreds of kilometers long (probably not) to electrostatic "traps" that echo static from lightning around the planet, to layers of the Hadesphere that deliver a static shock to objects descending through them. But lightning flashes have never been observed, so it may not exist in the upper layers at all. Venus has crazy stratified winds that rotate much faster than the planet, leading to a "day" that's nearly an Earth week near the equator but only two days at 70 degrees latitude and even shorter the further toward the poles you go. The velocities are highly stratified by altitude, leading to great potential for wind energy. The atmosphere holds tons of mysteries still, like whether the "night glow" is real and if so what it is, or what it is that makes up the "mystery UV absorber" that soaks up most of the UV light in Venus's upper atmosphere (a benefit Martians could only wish for)

Not boring at all. It's one of if not the most interesting atmospheres in the solar system.

It would be possible to have a habitat descend below the lower cloud deck (indeed, the lower cloud layer appears to be somewhat uneven in thickness and may have gaps altogether) for short periods, wherein one could see the ground with their own eyes. Yet at the polar vortex the sky clears up at such a low height that a high colony could potentially see the stars. The ground is accessible by probes, and looks to be quite a mineral wealth - but the real life is in the clouds. Not only to fuel industry, but basically you're living in a floating Garden of Eden over Hell: vast amounts of space to live in (unlike a pressure vessel on Mars, which due to how heavy pressure vessels are, will always be very space limited), always temperate, tons of sunlight to fuel the growth of whatever tropical plants one desires, and easy buoyancy to lift a lot of them. Space on a scale that a popular recreational activity might be indoor skydiving onto the safety netting. You can even step outside and touch the atmosphere with your bare skin (just not for too long). Feel an alien wind.

For impersonal reasons, a colony there is not just appealing from the perspective of a no-mining-needed industrial basis, but also from a science basis; there's far more scientific reason to have humans on Venus than on Mars. And not just because we know far less about our "evil twin" than we do about Mars. On Mars, it makes basically no difference if you leave a robotic probe sitting around recharging its batteries in the weak sunlight while it awaits commands. You can't do that on Venus's surface. You have limited time on the surface with each dive before you have to rise to cool down and recharge; latency really does matter.

https://www.google.com/search?...

A Muslim is a practitioner of Islam. Islamist is akin to talking about a Christian doing something.

Regardless of how Common Core is portrayed by the advocates, it IS a methodology of teaching that requires students to adhere to that methodology.

If that wasn't the case, you wou;dn't be seeing this. or this or this or this.

Etc. Etc. Etc.

Regardless of how Common Core is portrayed by the advocates, it IS a methodology of teaching that requires students to adhere to that methodology.

If that wasn't the case, you wou;dn't be seeing this. or this or this or this.

Etc. Etc. Etc.

Regardless of how Common Core is portrayed by the advocates, it IS a methodology of teaching that requires students to adhere to that methodology.

If that wasn't the case, you wou;dn't be seeing this. or this or this or this.

Etc. Etc. Etc.

I'm decidedly pro-gun, but I think we have to be careful with that line of argument. What happens if you cherry-pick the most violent regions of those other countries and shut them down? I don't actually know, but I suspect that the bulk of their violence (including gun violence) also happens in a few bad areas and that their statistics would drop, putting the US back toward the top of the list.

It should also be noted, though, that statistics measuring rates of firearms homicides are inherently biased from the outset. What we should be measuring is rates of homicides (and attempted homicides) with any weapon. Draconian gun control laws do actually reduce the number of guns in the hands of the populace, and therefore do reduce gun deaths... but that really doesn't matter at all to everyone who gets stabbed or beaten to death instead of shot. Now, there's an argument that the presence of guns increases the total homicide rate, and that's an argument worthy of discussion. (However, I haven't seen any compelling evidence that it's correct, and if you plot the nations of the world on a graph of gun ownership rates against homicide rates, you'll find no correlation.)

Maybe you'd like to click some of these links - https://www.google.com/search?...

Authors of trash fiction and Hollywood have instilled the belief that homicide rates were extremely high in the "wild, wild west". Facts are, there have been hundreds of gunfights in Hollywood, for every real-life gunfight in the American west.

In modern day Hollywood, there have been billions of deaths in space by violence. In reality, how many humans have died in space? And, none by violence.

http://libertarianstandard.com...

In Abilene, Ellsworth, Wichita, Dodge City, and Caldwell, for the years from 1870 to 1885, there were only 45 total homicides. This equates to a rate of approximately 1 murder per 100,000 residents per year.
In Abilene, supposedly one of the wildest of the cow towns, not a single person was killed in 1869 or 1870.
Zooming forward over a century to 2007, a quick look at Uniform Crime Report statistics shows us the following regarding the aforementioned gun control “paradise” cities of the east:

DC – 183 Murders (31 per 100,000 residents)
New York – 494 Murders (6 per 100,000 residents)
Baltimore – 281 Murders (45 per 100,000 residents)
Newark – 104 Murders (37 per 100,000 residents)

Just something to keep in mind when you see crap like "If nuclear powerplants were merely as safe as they are advertised to be, there should have been a major failure right then". Hey clueless, the cores haven't melted. Yet. They are losing their heat removal capacity over time as less and less water surrounds them. When they do get hot enough, they will melt their containers, and we will have a chernobyl-style release. Not exactly the same as chernobyl, because there's no graphite to burn. Instead the particulate radioactive isotopes and actinides (and plutonium, yay!) will be propelled into the atmosphere via hydrogren explosions. There's also a hell of a lot more uranium and plutonium on site since some clever laddie beancounter got the used fuel rods containment pools located above the reactors.

Fukushima hasn't completely melted down, yet. If it doesn't it will because we (the planet) threw everything we have at it.

And then there's exhibit B:

12mSv/h is slightly more than one red square, no where near an orange one. This makes the highest level of radiation detected, in the cloud of vented gas from inside the containment vessel about 30,000 times less than those at chyernobyl, and only for a very very brief period involving very short half life elements.

The radiation level has since fallen back way down, especially since managing to resubmurge the spent fuel. The reaction has also slowed to about 1/2000th of it's original rates in the reactors, making a melt down extremely unlikely at this point.

So there you have it. The Slashdot elite consists of two posters with opposite viewpoints. Sure, I might have missed someone or some article, but if there were a bunch of people claiming the meltdown didn't happen, I'm sure, I'd have seen them.

If you're on Android, you can use Greenify to prevent apps like Facebook from daemonizing. That way, you can access it when you want it, but prevent it from draining your battery and siphoning your data when you're not using it. As for preventing unwanted data sharing, XPrivacy is quite good; it let's you feed certain apps fake GPS data, blank camera data, silent microphone data, etc. to prevent them from accessing unwanted data without the app itself knowing. Note that both Greenify and XPrivacy require root though.

It's OK because real SEO experts know that Google have been using PigeonRank all along.
OK maybe not, but I would not be slightly surprised that Google is manually "crowd" ranking, for at least the first few pages of the top search requests in every region.

Prove yourself: condom

I thought it wasn't theft unless something physical was stolen. Did you mean to say copyright infringement?

Captcha: wrongly

It's always impressive when the trolls master object permanence.

https://www.google.com/search?...

Geez is it hard to use Google these days? https://www.google.com/search?...

Yes, Michael "Hockey Stick!" Mann.... Others say it was global. And if you dig, you'll also find the Little Ice Age was generally global as well.

A program for the Apple ][ that was, IIRC, advertised as "All the programs you will ever need, for just $595?" I believe it was an interview-driven database-query generator or something like that. Wikipedia points me to this review in Byte. In reality most reviews of the program were lukewarm.

There will always be idiots, badly reported incidents and outright lies to make you angry. It's all part of the push-back against feminism.

I'd take you more seriously, if you weren't part of your problem. I googled your nym and feminism. In return, I got a number of "anti-feminist" rants similar to the above.

Most people simply don't care about toxic masculinity, men-only schools, lazy adult game programmers, etc. But we do care to some extent when we're lumped under a derogatory label, here, "anti-feminists" just because we don't care enough about your pet issues.

I too think there is push back against feminism. But I don't think the push back is unwarranted.

Historians would disagree with you. But what would they know? They're probably, as you say, "Dumericans."

Challenge accepted

Given that he was behind the purge of traditional 4chan, this is just another placement of a SJW.

Cubic inches?! So this isn't a project intended to be looking beyond the borders of one country?

-Matt

It's a secret ploy to force all those millions of non-imperial-units-aware challengers to use Google:
https://www.google.com/search?...

Someone call the antitrust department!

https://www.google.com/search?...

We already have Tony Stark :)

Once you start incorporating Congress into the story your fairy tale falls apart. The best parts of Clinton's governance was the Republican congress that controlled spending and the growth of government.

And yet they completely tanked with Bush Jr.

You can thank the Clinton administration for Enron, and the internet bubble. On the other had Democrats in Congress blocked reform of the mortgage industry that the Bush administration tried to pass to head off the meltdown that occurred and badly damaged the economy.

You can thank Reagan and the Republican senate for Enron and the banking meltdowns. Bush Sr didn't try to pass any legislation, in fact, I don't recall any such thing. Under Bush Jr, when the Reps had both houses of congress, they failed to push any bill through even though supposedly the Bush Jr white house asked for it 17 times. Somehow that sounds Fox newsish, considering all the other crap they pushed through.

The internet bubble was a separate thing that may or may not have had a government cause. I'd argue likely not, except for the "no tax" bit in 97 or whenever that was passed.

And working two jobs? Thank Obamacare.

You are smoking crack. The two jobs bit has been around for at least 2 decades.

Before Obamacare it was becoming common for even fast food jobs to offer healthcare benefit.

Fast food jobs are specifically restricted to under 32 hours excepting managers if they have insurance. Even Walmart does this and has prior to ACA.

After Obamacare that pretty much stopped and lots of full time jobs in the economy turned into part time jobs to get around Obamacare's taxes, penalties, and regulations. Companies shut down expansion plans to stay under the limits. And who brought Obamacare? 100% Democrat created and passed.

Your description of events in the 1960s is more than a little confused as well.

Don't get me wrong, ACA was the right concept, horrible implementation. Single payer is the way forward, or you are advocating to leave people dying in the streets.

Can't take time away from licking your corporate master's boots to use their search engine, huh? Here, I'll help you:

Sadly, there's no LMGTFY for Scholar.

Snark aside, it's rather hilarious that none of the hits for that search say what the GGP said.

Here's a link to Google Maps showing the buoy. Yeah, you'd have to be pretty dumb not to be suspicious it might have something to do with the adjacent nuclear power plant (zoom out to see how close it is to the buoy).

Can't take time away from licking your corporate master's boots to use their search engine, huh? Here, I'll help you:

Sadly, there's no LMGTFY for Scholar.

Google Image search of "birdstrike aircraft": https://www.google.com/search?...

Now explain to all those birds that they should have been deflected around the aircraft.

One word: Taxi. There are numerous examples of schoolbus yellow cars if you googled them. For the most part, it's not common.

I agree, this so-called bill is a grandstanding POS of the face of it and very likely not legal. Politicians who waste everyone's time and money putting forth legislation that a layman can tell is not legal, should be found guilty of malfeasance https://www.google.com/#q=malf... at the very least, and if the cost is high enough a greater felony. These people are supposedly professionals and very likely a lawyer so their understanding should be greater than the average person, not less like they seem to demonstrate on a regular basis.

About that Ghostery...

https://www.google.com/search?...

I've long-since moved away and use uMatrix. It's completely open and, unless I'm missing something in the code (I've checked the source - I'm pretty sure), there's nothing amiss there. It's got a bit of a learning curve but it's slight and easily doable. If I can learn it, I'm sure you can. You can then get rid of anything and everything on a site. It's pure whitelist-based.

I like to describe it as being akin to an old-school software firewall except limited to just your browser. However, as you can import and export both rules and settings, it makes it very portable. It's really nice and means you don't need to use NoScript and all the rest. Basically, unless you intentionally change it then anything not explicitly allowed is blocked. Once configured, it makes a handy tool. I've given my settings and custom rules sets to people before to get them started. I have the backup/import process sort of automated and mirror copies to a couple of private places online.

It's the same guy that makes uBlock origin, I've emailed 'em a couple of times. They won't even accept donations, put it that way. You can see his GitHub page here:
https://github.com/gorhill/uMa...

You can actually do a lot of what you can do with uMatrix by just using uBlock. On top of that, he also makes another extension called HTTP Switchboard. For the most part, all three are very similar but have slightly different goals and slightly different interfaces. At this point, I've been quite happy with his work. Just to be on the safe side, I sometimes remember to grab copies of the source that way, if things go south, I've got a way to fork from before things went south or the option to keep using the older versions.

All-in-all, there are tools out there that you can place a degree of trust in. It may take some research. I've no idea why you'd take my word for it but, if you want, my word is given that I both trust the uMatrix and uBlock code and author, for the time being, and am happy with the results. The best thing is that you can not rely on my word and just check the source yourself.

I think it's important to note that I'm actually a bit skeptical. I can, and do, set up Wireshark or push things through a hardware firewall and check the logs for suspicious activity. I can say, with a reasonable degree of certainty, that I've never seen any unexpected or suspicious traffic which can be traced to either of those two applications. I have not examined or made much use of the third program, HTTP Switchboard, so I will not opine on it except to say that, at this point, I've no reason to distrust it because of having used his other applications and finding them performing as advertised and only as advertised.

Here's a link to the source for all of his projects:
https://github.com/gorhill

Again, I only offer much of an opinion on the two and, as always, I encourage others to research and find their own solutions. In the case of Ghostery, specifically, you'd probably be better served seeking an alternative. For that, and to replace NoScript as there's no reason to run both, I recommend uMatrix. It even does HTTP referrers and whatnot. You can utilize blocking via HOSTS file inclusions and import them from multiple sources. I find them both quite handy, reliable, and trustworthy.