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  1. Re:Duh ! on EU Car Makers Manipulating Fuel Efficiency Figures · · Score: 1

    Not to mention using some ultra light oil like a 0w20 (maybe cut it with some mineral sprits) where you have only enough in the sump so the engine can develop oil pressure.

  2. Re:So can we have the list of things to do? on EU Car Makers Manipulating Fuel Efficiency Figures · · Score: 1

    So something like weatherstripping so when the door closes it overlaps the panel behind it slightly. while that won't do much as there is a giant gap in the front of the vehicle that needs to be sealed up it may help some. The grill to let air flow through the radiator is a bitch to work around and the best solution seem to be to make them as small as possible. Air flowing through the vehicle makes for some real poor aerodynamics.

  3. They got nothing on Car & Driver on EU Car Makers Manipulating Fuel Efficiency Figures · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A few years back I remembered reading an article from car and driver about them winning a MGP competition put on for the original Honda Insight. The games they played make the cheating going on here seem like the work of petty amateurs. Of course that was for fun and bragging rights for the magazines that participated so excessive bending of the rules was to be expected. If interested I suggest reading the article "How We Won the Insight Fuel-Economy Challenge. Without Cheating. Much". I am surprised that the car manufactures in the EU also don't try lowering the oil level so that it barely covers the oil pickup tube when running thus keeping the crank from hitting the oil in the sump or have most vehicles gone over to a dry sump setup. Also if they are going to disconnect the alternator why not also disconnect the water pump and replace it with an electric one like the drag racers do? Granted it won't work for an extended period of time (the electric racing ones are fairly low volume) but I would imagine the vehicle would survive the test track with it.

  4. I prefer tau day on 10 Ways To Celebrate International Pi Day · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I prefer tau day as it gives me an excuse to get 2 pies instead of just one.

    For the record I only know pi out to 5 significant digits 3.14159

  5. Sounds like a movie on Kali Linux, Successor of the BackTrack Penetration Testing Distro, Launched · · Score: 3, Funny

    Penetration testing with a Raspberry pi, sounds like a movie to me.

  6. Re:The "know" absolutely nothing. on Facebook Knows If You're Gay, Use Drugs, Or Are a Republican · · Score: 1

    Yes she does in most cases look like a boy but there are a few (not many) pictures where she doesn't. I suppose that is probably due to the makeup and cloths though.

  7. Re:The "know" absolutely nothing. on Facebook Knows If You're Gay, Use Drugs, Or Are a Republican · · Score: 1

    Hey a few pictures I have seen of Ann Hathaway she is attractive but it isn't very consistent. Then again I like women with very fair skin and dark hair.

  8. Re:Cultural bias much? on Facebook Knows If You're Gay, Use Drugs, Or Are a Republican · · Score: 1

    Now what about people who are into Milli Vanilli like one of my co workers who collected a bunch of memorabilia once they were outed thinking he could cash in some time in the future. I too wondered why the Wu Tang Clan and Shaq were still relevant, especially since I hear radio commercials with Shaq pitching the Icy Hot patch which indicates he is washed up.

  9. Re:Knows and Presumes are not the same thing on Facebook Knows If You're Gay, Use Drugs, Or Are a Republican · · Score: 1

    They would probably pay good money for advertising that is 10% accurate. At this point the accuracy of targeted advertising over random advertising (broad cast over TV for example) is like using an improved cylinder choke instead of cylinder bore in a shotgun.

  10. Re:Moist Nuggets on Defcad.com Wants To Be the Google of 3D-Printable Guns · · Score: 1

    Unless the supply of those all of a sudden vanishes or you want one of the better or rarer ones that will probably never happen. You would probably be able to print one up for less than a "U.S. Rifle, 7.62mm, Model of 1916" or even a really nice Finnish M39 but for a run of the mill M44 or M91/30 the material cost of a 3d printed one would be more than the cost to buy one from the store.

  11. Re:Not true. on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 1

    What part of "don't stop across or past the line" is so hard to understand? If you're not sure it's clear then don't pull out in the first place. That's the whole point of the lines - so you stop a safe distance back, and when you start moving the people behind you can reasonably expect you to keep moving.

    Given some people's need to drive the biggest fucking vehicle they can find some times it is necessary to pull farther forward to see the oncoming traffic before making a turn because of the person with the H2 they are using to haul their groceries home in. This also happens because of people who drive giant trucks, mini vans, and SUVs, where someone who is driving a sedan only ends up seeing body panel out their window when looking for oncoming traffic.

  12. Re:Just disable Javascript on Canadian Newspaper Charging $150 License Fee To Publish Excerpts · · Score: 1

    Simple answer is it gives them cover. I see this frequently in the industry in which I work. Customers will pay my company a fairly large sum of money to have someone show up on site for a day or 2 and setup or do some trivial thing. In the end is buys the customer someone to point the finger at if something goes wrong.

  13. Re:if it's all about women's protection... on EU To Vote On Proposal That Could Ban All Online Pornography · · Score: 1

    but when you look at the bending and twisting of legal interpretations by The Powers That Be

    Given how the powers that be look when clothed I don't think I want to see them doing this under this context.

  14. Re:Fundamentally Flawed on Chrome, Firefox, IE 10, Java, Win 8 All Hacked At Pwn2Own · · Score: 1

    Then why am I investigating how to secure various systems using either SELinux or AppArmor for work?

  15. Re:24 - 28GB per month? on ISP Trying Free (But Limited) Home Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    Well my house streams all of the TV now through netflix, hulu, the individual channel's sites, etc. Given that this is becoming more common it wouldn't surprise me if people are streaming the equivalent of 5-6 720p movies a month, I know my household easily exceed that. Then add in the windows updates, other software updates, general browsing, working from home, and my downloading of large public data sets (GIS data) and I fall in the heavy user category.

  16. Re:Not an EA fan but on SimCity 5: How Not To Design a Single Player Game · · Score: 1

    will I still be able to play it in 20 years? I still pull out Civ 2 from time to time, as well as other games from the early-mid 1990s

    Damn it now I just feel old.

  17. Re:Why would intel want to? on Why Can't Intel Kill x86? · · Score: 1

    And in our office we still have some of those laser jets that get used from time to time as a backup printer. They are yellowed as hell but they just don't die. One even has some paper folded up and wedged into one of the doors to keep it shut but it still works.

  18. Re:Profitability? on Don't Want a Phonebook? Give Up Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    You only get one phone book a year? I usually only get 1 large one a year but then I end up getting 3-4 smaller ones from various companies.

  19. Re:Other uses for phone books on Don't Want a Phonebook? Give Up Your Privacy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Backstops for BB gun and air rifle targets. Why should I pay money for those when I get several free ones each year and they stop as many or more shots as the rubber or plastic ones that cost money, especially the large entire metro area ones that come about once a year.

  20. Re:Reminds me of this story on Microsoft: the 'Scroogled' Show Must Go On · · Score: 1

    It wasn't as simple as that. I remember reading about that (it was all over the local paper as target is based in the Twin Cities) and it seems that the product that tripped the switch was the switch from scented to unscented body lotion as this is a fairly common thing to happen as pregnant women's noses become more sensitive.

  21. Re:Local officials will sell everybody out on $100 Million Student Database Worries Parents · · Score: 1

    Not in the school district I live in. About a decade back they got levy approved for maintenance and building projects (never specified what was to be built beyond another elementary school which was needed) and shortly there after the inflatable structure over some sports fields appeared, and the track/football field was redone with nicer bleachers, a new high tech track surface, better lighting, new score boards, additional out building, etc. I don't have a problem with parents or students raising or spending their own money for their pet project I do have a problem with schools spending my tax dollars on some pet project that doesn't increase educational outcomes. It all started with the new high school was built and they had the nicest newest sports equipment so over the course of the next decade the other 3 high schools had their stuff upgraded to the newest stuff even if the old stuff still worked.

  22. Sounds like robotics class in college on AirBurr UAV Navigates By Crashing Into Things · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That sounds similar to the approach that some took in my robotics class in college except those robots drove around on wheels and didn't fly. There hopefully is more brains in these things if they are mapping out their environment by doing so but the 64k we had to work with even allowed some some rudimentary mapping ability.

  23. Re:Local officials will sell everybody out on $100 Million Student Database Worries Parents · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yet there is always money for inflatable covered sports fields, to acquire the newest gadget, golden parachutes for failed administrators, excessive numbers of administrators and other non teaching staff, all expenses paid trips to go to conferences in other states, and all sorts of fringe benefits for superintendents. The best teacher I had in high school used a slide projector and chalk boards and that was in the '90s. If someone could explain to me how smart boards, teachers having iPads, teachers having laptops, or any other silly gadgetry in the class helps students learn I am all ears. From what I have seen it may help initially because of enthusiasm but after a few years the results go back to where they were. Please explain why a school needs a Principal, 2 or 3 vice principals, a disciplinary administrator or 2, a staff of 5 to 10 emotional counselors/therapists, 5 to 10 career counselors, multiple secretaries for the administration to support the bureaucracy and on and on. Add in things like the competition for having the best sports equipment and fields and the need to acquire the shiniest new gadgetry and it becomes hard to say schools are under funded and not just poorly managed. Cut all that other crap and if the school is still short on money then come talk to me until then figure out how to manage my tax dollars properly.

  24. Re:Strongly Disagree on $100 Million Student Database Worries Parents · · Score: 1

    In my high school there were only a few teachers that actually knew their subject matter and I could probably count them on a single hand. The rest basically were useless with a good number actually causing more harm than good with their incompetency. All of this was in the best school district in a state that at the time was one of the best states for education in the nation. The worst was the 9th grade science teacher who couldn't form a rational though and had some truly bizarre experiments that when properly analyzed didn't show the effect that she was trying to demonstrate. It was an earth sciences class and the worst was the baking soda volcano which is fine for 2nd graders but for high schoolers is a giant waste of time and only reinforces bad information. The good teachers were the auto/metal shop teacher, the wood shop teacher, the AP Comp Sci teacher, the AP euro/humanities teacher, and the calculus teacher.

  25. Re:Paywalled into obscurity - try this thread inst on Man-Made Material Pushes the Bounds of Superconductivity · · Score: 1

    Hell even if they can't figure out how it works the simple fact that if it did work (in only one direction so go DC power) would mean they would have more money than god in fairly short order. This seems to smell of those stories you hear that are usually 4th or 5th hand of someone who invented a carburetor in the 40s, 50s, 60s, or 70s (In about 10 years you can add the 80s to that list) and put it on some big pig of a car and it got between 100 and 500 mpg and produced as much or more power than it did originally. The usual cited trip is LA to Las Vegas or NY to LA without having to buy any gas. Then some oil sheik, oil company exec, auto company exec, government agency either bought the patent (it would now be expired, so go find the damn thing and start making it), stole the device, or disappeared the inventor.

    Actually come to think of it that company probably did fold because of the '08 financial crisis as their Ponzi scheme probably collapsed.