Ah HAHAHA. Except applying a E-field does not do anything other than make the person selling them some quick cash. Smaller droplets? Sure, that's be great...but if a minor E-field changed the fluid dynamics significantly don't you think they'd be heavily used in other gross-scale operations?
Really...if a simple E-field made fuel easier to atomize or lowered the viscosity it would have...huge implications is countless fields.
Are you kidding or just driving a car from the '70s?
First, spark plugs - standard OEM the-car-came-with-them are good for 100K miles per the owners manual on virtually every car. You're wasting time and money by replacing them at 30k.
Air filter - yes. Should be more like 10-15k actually.
Distributor rotor - what what? You won't find one of those on a car made in the last...oh...15 years. Maybe your mechanic is still charging you for one on your 2005 honda-nissan-ford-whatever but it's a scam.
Check belts - yes. Simple enough to see when they're worn but this isn't 'tuning' anything. It's simply a check.
Ignition/valve timing - again, is your car 30 years old? This is managed by the computer in 100% of modern cars. If the timing IS off, you car is...well to use a word...fucked.
Fluid checks? Fill the washer fluid and make sure the rest is at the level marks.
Battery check? Very few non-sealed non-maintenance-free batteries on the market today. However if you DO have one, you should actually check if somewhat regularly as you will need to top off with distilled water now and then.
And...there IS a lot of solid-state in engines today. Computers and sensors have made HUGE improvements to the durability of engines.
Replace spark plugs? Wires? Those are maintenance items for 100K miles. Computer management for engines has greatly reduced the wear on spark plugs to the point where most people never need to replace them in the time they own the car - which is good since they're often under the intake manifold or dashboard and extremely hard to reach.
Air filter? Sure. Fuel filter? On occasion. I'm not so sure about cleaning the fuel injectors...unless there's a specific problem. What usually happens with most 'reccomended services' is similar to using a sledgehammer to fix a tooth cavity. Hey, let's flush the transmission fluid so the seals can all swell/shrink and require a rebuild in another 5k miles while we're at it!
Check the owners manual - most cars don't even require an oil change more often than 5-6K miles. Heck, some high end cars with synthetics go 12K.
Your car gets better mileage when it's warm because the computer adjusts the fuel mixture and engine timing to optimum when the engine hits operating temperature. Before that, it's programmed to help heat the engine quickly and keep emissions down until that catalytic converters are hot.
Sorry, but you have no idea what you're talking about. 'Ultrasonic impulses'... would be defined as a tendency to be ultrasonic. Cute, but nonsense. You could PULSE ultrasonic waves at something of course.
But regardless, ultrasonic waves won't do anything of the sort for making fuel droplets smaller. Ultrasonic waves will not be able to flow through the injector nozzles and create the microscopic bubbles that someone is implying would help vaporize the fuel. Furthermore, if you DO create cavitation bubbles IN the injector modules you may wind up doing severe damage to it. That sounds like fun eh?
While i applaud the ability to suspend disbelief and honestly investigate something there's still logic and basic physics which do a good job of governing reality. If there really was such a simple way to increase mileage don't you think car mfgs would be jumping to install it on their huge SUV's for free instead of selling them for half price?
What i want to see is a webcam that snaps pictures (or video but probably getting too heavy for the PIC and t-flash card and this can host them. Would make a handy, cheap, and pseudo-throwaway security setup.
Unless Apple is *deceptive* then go scratch. No one has a RIGHT to an open cellphone/computer/whatever. Granted I think EULA's are predatory, restrictive, extreme, and generally should be given exactly zero legal weight if the 'least common denominator' customer is unable to understand it in full.
I love it when software or a website aimed at young teenagers has a 10+ page EULA or TOS that takes a law degree to understand.
At a guess, he means it would be more like what happened to ebay. Everyone hopped on board and now you're stuck with millions of auctions for essentially useless garbage.
Apple works VERY hard to give users a complete experience and filter out as much 'trash' as possible. The caveat to that is, someone has to decide what's trash. Granted Apple's ideal is the opposite of fleabay - fewer but better products instead of many MANY items of any quality - because they sell themselves as a premium provider/service.
And yes, it sucks that they locked down the platform and then lock OUT anything that competes with their service. But...it's their platform. They built it from scratch so who are we to tell them they can't control it as they please?...or at least try to. They won't win that battle and, as long as Apple doesn't take on MAFIAA tactics (al la MP3 DRM + lawsuit frenzy), they'll either open up or we'll have to listen to news reports of "OMFG Applez == failz ZOMG ZOMG" or something equally eloquent:)
There, saved you some typing for next time:) Apple is just about as fierce in protecting it's image as the IOC is their copyright, disney it's characters, and mattell the loving barbie.
Just wait until someone adapts android for a jailbroken iPhone.
Fan-boyism aside, I can't take any smartphone/PDA device seriously if it doesn't have a full keyboard. Granted I'm a business-biased techie geek type but still... Anything that's all touch screen is a toy in my opinion. And yes, the iPhone is a nifty toy.
The G1 looks great but is totally useless to me today (lack of exchange support).
Well i'm not sure how big x.org is compared to ebay/pp but...you're right. The online consumer is VERY fickle. It woudln't take much for a mass exodus to another site. Craigslist is...well...a bit flooded with spam in the bigger cities but they're working on that.
Someone else will come out of nowhere with a better buesiness model and ebay will be a wiki page in history.
HP laid off ~25k in aftermath of the EDS-HP merger. You figure when two huge companies combine and have a total somewhere around 300k employees there's going to be some redundancy.
Not only that, but just about any time companies merge there's lay-offs or at least attrition reduction in the workforce. Mergers generally revolve around economy of scale. It doesn't take twice as many SysAdmins to double the size of your exchange environment for example.
Still, it sucks. The stockholders win, senior mgmt generally wins...the rest of the 25k people get severance and the shaft. Just because I know how and WHY it happens doesn't mean it's a good thing...much less the right way to treat people. ok/rant
Hell, perhaps you wanted to foster open discussion ABOUT the possible 2016 Olympics in Chicago. Imagine that?
Even that doesn't mean his use is 'unacceptable' as it's a relevant active site that pre-dates the copyright. He clearly says he's not affiliated nor is he selling products that violate their copyright. I'd support him making money off the site even. The IOC just simply flexes it's lawyers to protect anything they think might be theirs, could be theirs, should be theirs, or hopefully will be theirs.
It's yet another example of big business doing whatever they please and expecting to get away with it. It's unacceptable and I hope they get smacked down hard. Heck, i'm tempted to register year multiples of 4).com by the hundreds and point them all a big discussion board about where the Olympics should be held...then tell the IOC to piss off when it becomes the primary discussion board for where the Olympics should be held going forward.
Just wait till they embed RFID tags in license plates. Seriously, it can't be THAT long till it happens.
Hell, they can sell it as an easy replacement for EZPass...
I... still think the whole thing is a bad idea... who watches the watchers? Why, more corrupted oversight committees...which provide cushy jobs for those with zero interest in contributing to society, zero skill but a good connection to someone in charge.
Yes and no. You can ALWAYS file suit. period fucking dot.
However immediately following the companies lawyers will file a motion to dismiss based on the binding arb clause. YMMV at that point but a judge CAN order binding arbitration.
That's because federal laws were passed requiring that protection. Since then, credit cards have reduced most liability from the mandated $50max to zero as part of competing with other CC companies.
They can get away with it because 1) they're huge 2) they have lots of lawyers 3) they generally don't actually enforce that clause 4) no one normally reads these fucking things (who can at 2500 pages?) and 5) no one has made a point to stand up to big business and say 'fuck off' - people are generally lazy
What I find funny is some companies not only have/had a binding arbitration contract clause, but state what jurisdiction you must sue^^^start binding arbitration in AND that if you DO choose to sue them you agree to pay them a 'penalty' of xyz dollars and then drop the case for binding arb.
They may have changed it since but I remember reading that and it was pretty much when I stopped using PP. Also didn't help with their douchy poaching money from accounts or other practices...
Niven's known space is an easy example, some pournell quoted by someone else as well. The Gripping Hand and Mote in Gods Eye are part of the CoDominium Future History series co-written by them both... uses wormholes dependant on gravity wells greated by stars.
Then there's the Honor Harrington series by David Weber. Dahak series uses the premise to a limited degree. You'll find it in The Path of the Fury (weber again) and I believe the bezerker series by saberhagan.
Scratching my head because I know there's more. Many Sci-Fi books use it as a basis because otherwise it makes things TOO easy...and conflict either too impossible or too devastating:)
If your systems are PROPERLY secured. Emphasis added. 'Locking down' a linux box is not properly securing a server. In a high-risk enviornment you take additional steps to protect the integrity of the server. Firewalls, port filtering, proxy, etc. all add layers of security.
Are there day 0 root exploits? Yes. Are there day 0 root exploits that will get past a properly configured firewall, NAT, proxy, etc. all at once? That's not nearly so likely.
Time/cost/usability constraints do often lead to less than optimal security. Those systems, thus, are nor properly secured. Companies use obscurity as a cost cutting method for proper security. Granted it's often easier to use social engineering (or even criminal trespass) to gain illicit access that otherwise appears to be properly approved.
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Ah HAHAHA. Except applying a E-field does not do anything other than make the person selling them some quick cash. Smaller droplets? Sure, that's be great...but if a minor E-field changed the fluid dynamics significantly don't you think they'd be heavily used in other gross-scale operations?
Really...if a simple E-field made fuel easier to atomize or lowered the viscosity it would have...huge implications is countless fields.
Are you kidding or just driving a car from the '70s?
First, spark plugs - standard OEM the-car-came-with-them are good for 100K miles per the owners manual on virtually every car. You're wasting time and money by replacing them at 30k.
Air filter - yes. Should be more like 10-15k actually.
Distributor rotor - what what? You won't find one of those on a car made in the last...oh...15 years. Maybe your mechanic is still charging you for one on your 2005 honda-nissan-ford-whatever but it's a scam.
Check belts - yes. Simple enough to see when they're worn but this isn't 'tuning' anything. It's simply a check.
Ignition/valve timing - again, is your car 30 years old? This is managed by the computer in 100% of modern cars. If the timing IS off, you car is...well to use a word...fucked.
Fluid checks? Fill the washer fluid and make sure the rest is at the level marks.
Battery check? Very few non-sealed non-maintenance-free batteries on the market today. However if you DO have one, you should actually check if somewhat regularly as you will need to top off with distilled water now and then.
And...there IS a lot of solid-state in engines today. Computers and sensors have made HUGE improvements to the durability of engines.
Replace spark plugs? Wires? Those are maintenance items for 100K miles. Computer management for engines has greatly reduced the wear on spark plugs to the point where most people never need to replace them in the time they own the car - which is good since they're often under the intake manifold or dashboard and extremely hard to reach.
Air filter? Sure. Fuel filter? On occasion. I'm not so sure about cleaning the fuel injectors...unless there's a specific problem. What usually happens with most 'reccomended services' is similar to using a sledgehammer to fix a tooth cavity. Hey, let's flush the transmission fluid so the seals can all swell/shrink and require a rebuild in another 5k miles while we're at it!
Check the owners manual - most cars don't even require an oil change more often than 5-6K miles. Heck, some high end cars with synthetics go 12K.
Your car gets better mileage when it's warm because the computer adjusts the fuel mixture and engine timing to optimum when the engine hits operating temperature. Before that, it's programmed to help heat the engine quickly and keep emissions down until that catalytic converters are hot.
Actually by using ultrasound on the fuel line you'd induce cavatation ... and the bubbles could wreak havoc on the injector nozzle.
Sorry, but you have no idea what you're talking about. 'Ultrasonic impulses' ... would be defined as a tendency to be ultrasonic. Cute, but nonsense. You could PULSE ultrasonic waves at something of course.
But regardless, ultrasonic waves won't do anything of the sort for making fuel droplets smaller. Ultrasonic waves will not be able to flow through the injector nozzles and create the microscopic bubbles that someone is implying would help vaporize the fuel. Furthermore, if you DO create cavitation bubbles IN the injector modules you may wind up doing severe damage to it. That sounds like fun eh?
While i applaud the ability to suspend disbelief and honestly investigate something there's still logic and basic physics which do a good job of governing reality. If there really was such a simple way to increase mileage don't you think car mfgs would be jumping to install it on their huge SUV's for free instead of selling them for half price?
What i want to see is a webcam that snaps pictures (or video but probably getting too heavy for the PIC and t-flash card and this can host them. Would make a handy, cheap, and pseudo-throwaway security setup.
It's also $700 for the whole package. Even just the mini-module is $250.
The board in the article is small and cheap enough that you could put them in out-of-the-way places and abandon them.
Unless Apple is *deceptive* then go scratch. No one has a RIGHT to an open cellphone/computer/whatever. Granted I think EULA's are predatory, restrictive, extreme, and generally should be given exactly zero legal weight if the 'least common denominator' customer is unable to understand it in full.
I love it when software or a website aimed at young teenagers has a 10+ page EULA or TOS that takes a law degree to understand.
At a guess, he means it would be more like what happened to ebay. Everyone hopped on board and now you're stuck with millions of auctions for essentially useless garbage.
Apple works VERY hard to give users a complete experience and filter out as much 'trash' as possible. The caveat to that is, someone has to decide what's trash. Granted Apple's ideal is the opposite of fleabay - fewer but better products instead of many MANY items of any quality - because they sell themselves as a premium provider/service.
And yes, it sucks that they locked down the platform and then lock OUT anything that competes with their service. But...it's their platform. They built it from scratch so who are we to tell them they can't control it as they please? ...or at least try to. They won't win that battle and, as long as Apple doesn't take on MAFIAA tactics (al la MP3 DRM + lawsuit frenzy), they'll either open up or we'll have to listen to news reports of "OMFG Applez == failz ZOMG ZOMG" or something equally eloquent :)
There, saved you some typing for next time :) Apple is just about as fierce in protecting it's image as the IOC is their copyright, disney it's characters, and mattell the loving barbie.
And you generally don't hear it today. Apple does all it can to play down that they're another big business.
It's a great big fascade of jeans and t-shirts and shiny gadgets that a $118BB market-cap company hides behind.
Oh, and just to point out how cynical I am ... i'll point out that wealth == power especially when dealing with lawyers and courts.
Just wait until someone adapts android for a jailbroken iPhone.
Fan-boyism aside, I can't take any smartphone/PDA device seriously if it doesn't have a full keyboard. Granted I'm a business-biased techie geek type but still... Anything that's all touch screen is a toy in my opinion. And yes, the iPhone is a nifty toy.
The G1 looks great but is totally useless to me today (lack of exchange support).
Well i'm not sure how big x.org is compared to ebay/pp but...you're right. The online consumer is VERY fickle. It woudln't take much for a mass exodus to another site. Craigslist is...well...a bit flooded with spam in the bigger cities but they're working on that.
Someone else will come out of nowhere with a better buesiness model and ebay will be a wiki page in history.
HP laid off ~25k in aftermath of the EDS-HP merger. You figure when two huge companies combine and have a total somewhere around 300k employees there's going to be some redundancy.
Not only that, but just about any time companies merge there's lay-offs or at least attrition reduction in the workforce. Mergers generally revolve around economy of scale. It doesn't take twice as many SysAdmins to double the size of your exchange environment for example.
Still, it sucks. The stockholders win, senior mgmt generally wins...the rest of the 25k people get severance and the shaft. Just because I know how and WHY it happens doesn't mean it's a good thing...much less the right way to treat people. ok /rant
Hell, perhaps you wanted to foster open discussion ABOUT the possible 2016 Olympics in Chicago. Imagine that?
Even that doesn't mean his use is 'unacceptable' as it's a relevant active site that pre-dates the copyright. He clearly says he's not affiliated nor is he selling products that violate their copyright. I'd support him making money off the site even. The IOC just simply flexes it's lawyers to protect anything they think might be theirs, could be theirs, should be theirs, or hopefully will be theirs.
It's yet another example of big business doing whatever they please and expecting to get away with it. It's unacceptable and I hope they get smacked down hard. Heck, i'm tempted to register year multiples of 4).com by the hundreds and point them all a big discussion board about where the Olympics should be held...then tell the IOC to piss off when it becomes the primary discussion board for where the Olympics should be held going forward.
Just wait till they embed RFID tags in license plates. Seriously, it can't be THAT long till it happens.
Hell, they can sell it as an easy replacement for EZPass...
I ... still think the whole thing is a bad idea... who watches the watchers? Why, more corrupted oversight committees...which provide cushy jobs for those with zero interest in contributing to society, zero skill but a good connection to someone in charge.
Yes and no. You can ALWAYS file suit. period fucking dot.
However immediately following the companies lawyers will file a motion to dismiss based on the binding arb clause. YMMV at that point but a judge CAN order binding arbitration.
That's because federal laws were passed requiring that protection. Since then, credit cards have reduced most liability from the mandated $50max to zero as part of competing with other CC companies.
They can get away with it because 1) they're huge 2) they have lots of lawyers 3) they generally don't actually enforce that clause 4) no one normally reads these fucking things (who can at 2500 pages?) and 5) no one has made a point to stand up to big business and say 'fuck off' - people are generally lazy
What I find funny is some companies not only have/had a binding arbitration contract clause, but state what jurisdiction you must sue^^^start binding arbitration in AND that if you DO choose to sue them you agree to pay them a 'penalty' of xyz dollars and then drop the case for binding arb.
They may have changed it since but I remember reading that and it was pretty much when I stopped using PP. Also didn't help with their douchy poaching money from accounts or other practices...
And from each check they will subtract the cost of a stamp...
Random reference leads to...google...leads to new SciFi books to read! Yay!
P.S. If they suck I'm coming back to complain :)
Niven's known space is an easy example, some pournell quoted by someone else as well. The Gripping Hand and Mote in Gods Eye are part of the CoDominium Future History series co-written by them both ... uses wormholes dependant on gravity wells greated by stars.
Then there's the Honor Harrington series by David Weber. Dahak series uses the premise to a limited degree. You'll find it in The Path of the Fury (weber again) and I believe the bezerker series by saberhagan.
Scratching my head because I know there's more. Many Sci-Fi books use it as a basis because otherwise it makes things TOO easy...and conflict either too impossible or too devastating :)
If your systems are PROPERLY secured. Emphasis added. 'Locking down' a linux box is not properly securing a server. In a high-risk enviornment you take additional steps to protect the integrity of the server. Firewalls, port filtering, proxy, etc. all add layers of security.
Are there day 0 root exploits? Yes. Are there day 0 root exploits that will get past a properly configured firewall, NAT, proxy, etc. all at once? That's not nearly so likely.
Time/cost/usability constraints do often lead to less than optimal security. Those systems, thus, are nor properly secured. Companies use obscurity as a cost cutting method for proper security. Granted it's often easier to use social engineering (or even criminal trespass) to gain illicit access that otherwise appears to be properly approved.
Amazing how much detailed information people willing give out about how 'secure' they are :)