It makes me think: would polarizing the hull really help with debris like this flying at such high speeds? Nope. Gonners. I think we'll have to work on deflector shields first.
I got an email from Summit Racing on 12/31 about this. Here's their argument against it:
Dear Fellow Enthusiast,
As a SEMA Member Company, we have received an Urgent Legislative Action Alert from the association. You may be interested in this legislative alert and the possible impact it will have on your hobby.
The Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) is a non-profit trade association composed of more than 6,800 member companies involved in all aspects of the automotive industry, from manufacturers to car clubs and race teams.
The SEMA Action Network (SAN) protects your hobby from unfair or unnecessary legislation on national and local levels. Through distribution of information and the collective voice of automotive enthusiasts and businesses, the SEMA Action Network has successfully impacted legislation concerning scrappage laws, equipment standards, registration classifications, emissions regulations, and more.
The following information is directly from SEMA. If you would like to contact the lawmaker, follow the instructions in the alert.
Thank you for your time,
Your Friends at Summit Racing Equipment
Washington lawmakers are drafting a large economic stimulus package to help create jobs and rebuild infrastructure. They want to include a nationwide scrappage program which would give U.S. tax dollars to consumers who turn-in older cars to have them crushed, as a misguided attempt to spur new car sales. The lawmakers need to scrap this idea.
The stimulus package is being drafted right now. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wants to introduce the bill on January 6 and have it approved by Congress by January 20, so that President Obama can sign it into law after he is inaugurated.
Contact House Speaker Nancy Pelosi IMMEDIATELY To Oppose Cash for Clunkers!
Call: 202-225-0100
Click here to send an electronic message: http://speaker.house.gov/contact/
Not too many cars made today get better than that.
My thoughts exactly! I have a 97 Neon (Laugh all you want) modified air intake, Mopar PCM, meticulous maintenance. 42 MPG highway/32 city. I think the mods paid for themselves years ago. I like driving for 400+ miles on a single 10 gallon tank.
I know my sleepless nights were caused by building the data center behind the fake wall in the server room so that I could set up a shell business to handle all of my company's IT outsourcing needs.
THANK YOU! I didn't think about that! While it isn't as clean as just "su" to root, it is much cleaner than "sudo bash" as numerous ACs have pointed out in this thread.
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Personally, my nomination would be still having to edit fstab as root to permanently mount a network share. Mapping a network drive is dead simple in Windows. It should be just as easy on Ubuntu.
Interesting you bring that up. Every time I install Ubuntu or any other flavor of *nix, I look to see if someone made that procedure less torturous.
As for my nomination: I think it would have to be the inability to "su" and run in root mode. I understand the reasoning behind it but stuff like this can get annoying pretty quick:
@make me a sandwitch
@only root can do that
@sudo make me a sandwitch
@OK
Last.FM is so popular that if you aren't familiar with the service, you must be a drooling, knuckle dragging luddite... a step away from churning your own butter.
I agree up to a certain point. I see it all the time: a laptop on a desktop with a mouse and docking station hard-wired to a printer. But the thing is that some of the users who do this also work "impromptu" nights and weekends sometimes from home. So it would be really convenient for them to have the necessities and the tools from work available to them.
Now the users who have the same set-up and yet the laptop sees almost no battery use, they are the ones who would be better off with just a desktop.
No cold-hearted, just Malthusian. There is talk about how technology has stunted human evolution. Technology has also vastly increased the Earth's ability to support human life far beyond what it would be capable otherwise. I'm still kinda riding the fence on the Neo-Malthusian/Cornucopian debate.
True. All I've used Solaris for has been servers and it can be kind-of annoying having to edit the/etc/network/lpp file instead of the old reliable ifconfig route. I guess I'm just set in my ways. If you don't mind, I have to tell some kids to get off my lawn.
That will fix most of the problems you will run into with Solaris. Other than that, it's a solid OS. Why they would put that Network Auto-Magic shit in, I have no clue.
That's exactly what I use it for. Data recovery is what FTK does best. I have other things to defeat encryption. I don't know why I was tagged flamebait for that.
Couldn't they just have their local forensics lab run FTK on it? I mean, it has saved me and those I work for tons of frustration thanks to stuff like this.
The words "Lightning" and "laptop" in the same article... I think I will pass. Who cares if it's high voltage, high frequency. ITS LIGHTNING! Plus 800W is a bit overkill for a laptop eh?
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It makes me think: would polarizing the hull really help with debris like this flying at such high speeds? Nope. Gonners. I think we'll have to work on deflector shields first.
I think spit goes *clunk* at those temperatures.
Terrible idea. Remember: access points act as hubs and have the same limitations. It just isn't as scalable as the "old lab model".
Dear Fellow Enthusiast, As a SEMA Member Company, we have received an Urgent Legislative Action Alert from the association. You may be interested in this legislative alert and the possible impact it will have on your hobby. The Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) is a non-profit trade association composed of more than 6,800 member companies involved in all aspects of the automotive industry, from manufacturers to car clubs and race teams. The SEMA Action Network (SAN) protects your hobby from unfair or unnecessary legislation on national and local levels. Through distribution of information and the collective voice of automotive enthusiasts and businesses, the SEMA Action Network has successfully impacted legislation concerning scrappage laws, equipment standards, registration classifications, emissions regulations, and more. The following information is directly from SEMA. If you would like to contact the lawmaker, follow the instructions in the alert. Thank you for your time, Your Friends at Summit Racing Equipment Washington lawmakers are drafting a large economic stimulus package to help create jobs and rebuild infrastructure. They want to include a nationwide scrappage program which would give U.S. tax dollars to consumers who turn-in older cars to have them crushed, as a misguided attempt to spur new car sales. The lawmakers need to scrap this idea. The stimulus package is being drafted right now. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wants to introduce the bill on January 6 and have it approved by Congress by January 20, so that President Obama can sign it into law after he is inaugurated. Contact House Speaker Nancy Pelosi IMMEDIATELY To Oppose Cash for Clunkers! Call: 202-225-0100 Click here to send an electronic message: http://speaker.house.gov/contact/
Not too many cars made today get better than that.
My thoughts exactly! I have a 97 Neon (Laugh all you want) modified air intake, Mopar PCM, meticulous maintenance. 42 MPG highway/32 city. I think the mods paid for themselves years ago. I like driving for 400+ miles on a single 10 gallon tank.
I know my sleepless nights were caused by building the data center behind the fake wall in the server room so that I could set up a shell business to handle all of my company's IT outsourcing needs.
$ sudo !!
Almost like yelling at the command line... Catharsis is mine!
THANK YOU! I didn't think about that! While it isn't as clean as just "su" to root, it is much cleaner than "sudo bash" as numerous ACs have pointed out in this thread.
Personally, my nomination would be still having to edit fstab as root to permanently mount a network share. Mapping a network drive is dead simple in Windows. It should be just as easy on Ubuntu.
Interesting you bring that up. Every time I install Ubuntu or any other flavor of *nix, I look to see if someone made that procedure less torturous.
As for my nomination: I think it would have to be the inability to "su" and run in root mode. I understand the reasoning behind it but stuff like this can get annoying pretty quick:
@make me a sandwitch
@only root can do that
@sudo make me a sandwitch
@OK
Didn't the founder of VA Linux give this same argument in the documentary "Revolution OS" all those many years ago?
Pretty soon, it could be like a Nexis search and cost an arm and a leg per search [1].
Last.FM is so popular that if you aren't familiar with the service, you must be a drooling, knuckle dragging luddite... a step away from churning your own butter.
Sorry, had to add my own.
I agree up to a certain point. I see it all the time: a laptop on a desktop with a mouse and docking station hard-wired to a printer. But the thing is that some of the users who do this also work "impromptu" nights and weekends sometimes from home. So it would be really convenient for them to have the necessities and the tools from work available to them.
Now the users who have the same set-up and yet the laptop sees almost no battery use, they are the ones who would be better off with just a desktop.
No cold-hearted, just Malthusian. There is talk about how technology has stunted human evolution. Technology has also vastly increased the Earth's ability to support human life far beyond what it would be capable otherwise. I'm still kinda riding the fence on the Neo-Malthusian/Cornucopian debate.
True. All I've used Solaris for has been servers and it can be kind-of annoying having to edit the /etc/network/lpp file instead of the old reliable ifconfig route. I guess I'm just set in my ways. If you don't mind, I have to tell some kids to get off my lawn.
That will fix most of the problems you will run into with Solaris. Other than that, it's a solid OS. Why they would put that Network Auto-Magic shit in, I have no clue.
In other news, a pig has flown so fast that it traveled through time. And later in weather, it is snowing in Hell!
OH MY GOD! Where are my mod points when I need them?!
I hear that shit can blast right through cobalt... exactly once.
Didn't Shatner tell you? Space ships don't have keys!
Your prices are unbelievably reasonable. I'll have to pick up a copy and see for myself.
That's exactly what I use it for. Data recovery is what FTK does best. I have other things to defeat encryption. I don't know why I was tagged flamebait for that.
Couldn't they just have their local forensics lab run FTK on it? I mean, it has saved me and those I work for tons of frustration thanks to stuff like this.
The words "Lightning" and "laptop" in the same article... I think I will pass. Who cares if it's high voltage, high frequency. ITS LIGHTNING! Plus 800W is a bit overkill for a laptop eh?