blu ray rips are nothing compared to the original blu rays in quality, when you project them on a large screen.
My rips are identical. At least, the test frames I've screenshotted and compared were pixel-identical. Sounds like FUD, or just over-compressed rips designed for torrenting, but I'm an old guy and that strange magic confuses me.
Mine was a bit different. Most of the controls in the car worked by cables that worked in both directions. Good to know it's unlikely to work on other cars though.
There are many kinds of automatic transmissions, of varying quality as you might expect. I find that for moderating downhill speed without riding the brakes mine works fine, but then I think it has a separate radiator to help shed the heat from that.
I do wish dual-clutch "roboshifter" automatics would come downmarket. Best of both worlds but I've only seen them on the M5 and GTR.
Doesn't seem that odd to me. You react to touching something hot before any signal reach the brain. That's almost the definition of a reflex vs reaction.
I agree on playing the discs. I have a BluRay drive only because I like ripping them myself. The only BluRay I've ever watched from the disc is the Doctor Who 50th anniversary thing, because I wanted to check out the 3D on my TV and I don't know how to rip that properly.
Maybe it's my connection, but streaming just seems second-rate to me. I'll stream stuff when I just want something to listen to while I do stuff around the house, but not to pay full attention to. Sadly, I fear it's just a matter of time before heavily-DRMd streaming becomes the only legal format. Well, if they one day decide to stop taking my money, what can I do?
I'll always prefer the disc, so I can feel like I paid for my BluRay rip. I don't like streaming much - I want a real file on the filesystem on my HTPC, with instant seeking and so on.
For stuff to watch once, I still like Netflix by mail, but sadly Netflix doesn't - they seem determined to abandon the business.
If you lose the power assist on your brakes, they change how they work qualitatively. You have to push the pedal all the way down to do anything, and you have to modulate the pressure on the pedal without moving it, very different from how power brakes work. (I had a 240Z once, no power brakes, and it's not the sort of learning experience I'd have liked to do the hard way.)
Yes, brake-by-wire started with Rolls Royce in the late 90s IIRC, and is still rare, but gradually becoming more common. Infiniti sells a car with steer-by-wire, and might be brake-by-wire too (cause why not at that point), but I'm not sure.
Brake overheating is a real problem, and something not properly taught in drivers ed IMO. I remember lip service to "don't ride the brakes", but not given the emphasis it deserved.
All the cables in the car from the HVAC sliders to the gas pedal were the same style of "concentric cable" - no idea what they're really called, but the kind where a stiff wire slides through a stiff sleeve, allowing push and pull with one thing to route through the body.
Indeed. You either do your job acceptably, or you don't. Some people still have "on-call" jobs. I've had an RSA token to carry (next to the one I carry for my bank), and I've needed to carry my badge and smart card reader. *shrug* Being near a useful computer with a useful internet connection seems like the thing to worry about; carrying some token seems small.
Ahh, I don't care so much if someone hack my Amazon account (but then I don't have a store). Amazon does a pretty good job of making it hard for someone to use my CC unless they're shipping to me, and worst case it's a chargeback.
I'm sure there's something less important in the vast multiverse than commenting of HuffPo... give me a minute...
Pendantry on/.? Hehe. Something in the throttle body - the part the hoses connect to, was stuck. There may have been a sprung butterfly valve inside, but it wasn't the cable or pedal. But it was the kind of cable assembly one can push on, not just pull, thankfully.
I hope not. I've bumped that button a couple of times in the past few years on my car.
You want to try "shift to neutral" first. That's what they teach in driver's ed, and it's the best general purpose answer. You don't want to lose power steering and power brakes (most people have no clue how to drive without power brakes). You really don't want the steering to lock.
You want "shift to neutral" to work, always, in a hurry. You want "turn the car off" to be harder, as in traffic an accident is likely to follow that.
Indeed. Pushbutton ignition doesn't bother me at all. The shift-by-wire and throttle-by-wire elements I find more troubling. I've had a mechanical throttle stick - hooked my foot under the gas pedal and lifted, problem solved. I've also had a problem with a mechanical transmission where I couldn't get it out of gear (not a clutch problem, since you can always pop into neutral without a clutch), and that freaked me out.
But my current car has an automatic shift level that AFAIK isn't mechanically coupled to anything. So "shift to neutral" requires computer cooperation in a scenario where we've started with the control computer losing its shit.
There are well understood ways to isolate these kinds of failures, but we've seen that we can't depend on car designers using them. Hopefully the manufacturers will all get onboard with basic fault isolation (e.g., no matter how hard the software that's sets throttle position crashes, the software that responds to "shift to neutral" must be unaffected), before some series of crashes prompts a law.
You act like there's more than 1-2 sites you actually care about security for. I care about my primary bank/broker account, and a bit about my other checking accout. The rest? *shrug*
Federated two-factor ID is a great idea though. We'll never get it in the US,I think, as we resist government-managed IDs, and we've been unable to reach a consensus without government intervention.
Hey, if you want to log into work, you're going to need something work-issued to do that. If you want cash from the bank, you're going to need something bank-issued to do that (as today). What else do you care about?
But why would you care about "every web page there is"? I care about my work login (well, I don't but some sysadmin does and I comply), and my bank login. For the rest, proper fraud protection against unauthorized CC use covers me if ever needed.
And don't get me started on "three strikes and you're locked out", the main reason companies moved away from that was that they were drowning in people who are too stupid to remember their passphrase and weigh down support in an attempt to get access again. If you ever worked in IT in a halfway sizable company, you know what I mean.
Right, because you required a 47-character passphrase that changed every 20 minutes. A 4-digit PIN that's good for life, people can remember.
Note TFA is about sys admins training users, not what we can do as users ourselves.
Do cell phone companies still charge for text messages? I used to get charged for every message, as I never had a plan that included any, but T-Mobile just converted my plan to unlimited everything.
I chose my primary broker/bank because they had good 2-factor auth - wouldn't trust significant money with a bank that didn't. And for a non-financial account - who cares?
No, the solution is not strong passwords. The solution will never be strong passwords. If your security requires passwords stronger than a 4-digit PIN (enough that a few guesses before lock-out won't get an attacker anywhere), you're doing it wrong.
There are many off-the-shelf two factor solutions today. Choose one. My company badge goes into a smart card reader - awkward, but secure. You can put soft tokens on company-issued PCs/Laptops/whatever, and if the solution is any good it will be: * Seamlessly transparent to the user, other than the one-time setup for a new device. * Fully secure with a 4-digit PIN
WTF are people thinking, still going on about strong passwords in this day and age?
Stock is ownership of a thing with intrinsic value. What more can you ever have? A gold coin in your pocket, or a record in a database, either way you have ownership of a thing of value.
A chicken sandwich is a bit different, as it's perishable, That's the problem with currency, of course - if you can eat it or build a house from it, it's likely a bit awkward for the purpose of mediating barter.
I think formal proofs aren't that interesting myself, but the attention of enough experts will get the job done. Code eventually does mature if you take it seriously, and I've personally seen large codebases go for years with no known or reported bugs. For something like this I'd add a huge bug bounty just in case though.
Wait, aren't lefties supposed to be open-minded and tolerant and accepting? I guess except towards Republicans, those guys aren't human (sarcasm)...
The left has been about marching in ideological lockstep for at least a decade now. There was about a decade of transition around 2000 between the right being the group where you had to believe a specific, exact list of things or be an unperson, and the left taking that role.
The right gave it up, as the churches began, very gradually, losing power and influence over the right as the Venn diagram between fiscal and social conservatism started showing gradually more distinction between the two, and because many, many churches hit the rocks financially and nearly collapsed. Now churches are all about acceptance of members with any lifestyle as long as you're willing to sit through the sermon, and the right is a mix of fiscal-cons and so-cons who have to tolerate, even accept, one another to have any hope of political success.
Meanwhile, the left has become the "concern Olympics", racing with one another to jump on any statement that diverges even slightly from the One True Way and condemn it as a way of showing you're one of the enlightened. Or was that too cis-normative?
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blu ray rips are nothing compared to the original blu rays in quality, when you project them on a large screen.
My rips are identical. At least, the test frames I've screenshotted and compared were pixel-identical. Sounds like FUD, or just over-compressed rips designed for torrenting, but I'm an old guy and that strange magic confuses me.
Mine was a bit different. Most of the controls in the car worked by cables that worked in both directions. Good to know it's unlikely to work on other cars though.
There are many kinds of automatic transmissions, of varying quality as you might expect. I find that for moderating downhill speed without riding the brakes mine works fine, but then I think it has a separate radiator to help shed the heat from that.
I do wish dual-clutch "roboshifter" automatics would come downmarket. Best of both worlds but I've only seen them on the M5 and GTR.
Doesn't seem that odd to me. You react to touching something hot before any signal reach the brain. That's almost the definition of a reflex vs reaction.
I agree on playing the discs. I have a BluRay drive only because I like ripping them myself. The only BluRay I've ever watched from the disc is the Doctor Who 50th anniversary thing, because I wanted to check out the 3D on my TV and I don't know how to rip that properly.
Maybe it's my connection, but streaming just seems second-rate to me. I'll stream stuff when I just want something to listen to while I do stuff around the house, but not to pay full attention to. Sadly, I fear it's just a matter of time before heavily-DRMd streaming becomes the only legal format. Well, if they one day decide to stop taking my money, what can I do?
I'll always prefer the disc, so I can feel like I paid for my BluRay rip. I don't like streaming much - I want a real file on the filesystem on my HTPC, with instant seeking and so on.
For stuff to watch once, I still like Netflix by mail, but sadly Netflix doesn't - they seem determined to abandon the business.
Fair enough. I'm still not sure I care, but then I've never tried out Amazon customer service in that way.
If you lose the power assist on your brakes, they change how they work qualitatively. You have to push the pedal all the way down to do anything, and you have to modulate the pressure on the pedal without moving it, very different from how power brakes work. (I had a 240Z once, no power brakes, and it's not the sort of learning experience I'd have liked to do the hard way.)
Yes, brake-by-wire started with Rolls Royce in the late 90s IIRC, and is still rare, but gradually becoming more common. Infiniti sells a car with steer-by-wire, and might be brake-by-wire too (cause why not at that point), but I'm not sure.
Brake overheating is a real problem, and something not properly taught in drivers ed IMO. I remember lip service to "don't ride the brakes", but not given the emphasis it deserved.
All the cables in the car from the HVAC sliders to the gas pedal were the same style of "concentric cable" - no idea what they're really called, but the kind where a stiff wire slides through a stiff sleeve, allowing push and pull with one thing to route through the body.
Indeed. You either do your job acceptably, or you don't. Some people still have "on-call" jobs. I've had an RSA token to carry (next to the one I carry for my bank), and I've needed to carry my badge and smart card reader. *shrug* Being near a useful computer with a useful internet connection seems like the thing to worry about; carrying some token seems small.
Ahh, I don't care so much if someone hack my Amazon account (but then I don't have a store). Amazon does a pretty good job of making it hard for someone to use my CC unless they're shipping to me, and worst case it's a chargeback.
I'm sure there's something less important in the vast multiverse than commenting of HuffPo ... give me a minute ...
Pendantry on /.? Hehe. Something in the throttle body - the part the hoses connect to, was stuck. There may have been a sprung butterfly valve inside, but it wasn't the cable or pedal. But it was the kind of cable assembly one can push on, not just pull, thankfully.
I doubt there's ever been a car where the brakes lacked the power to overcome the engine, Brakes are strong. The problem comes with brake-by-wire.
I hope not. I've bumped that button a couple of times in the past few years on my car.
You want to try "shift to neutral" first. That's what they teach in driver's ed, and it's the best general purpose answer. You don't want to lose power steering and power brakes (most people have no clue how to drive without power brakes). You really don't want the steering to lock.
You want "shift to neutral" to work, always, in a hurry. You want "turn the car off" to be harder, as in traffic an accident is likely to follow that.
Indeed. Pushbutton ignition doesn't bother me at all. The shift-by-wire and throttle-by-wire elements I find more troubling. I've had a mechanical throttle stick - hooked my foot under the gas pedal and lifted, problem solved. I've also had a problem with a mechanical transmission where I couldn't get it out of gear (not a clutch problem, since you can always pop into neutral without a clutch), and that freaked me out.
But my current car has an automatic shift level that AFAIK isn't mechanically coupled to anything. So "shift to neutral" requires computer cooperation in a scenario where we've started with the control computer losing its shit.
There are well understood ways to isolate these kinds of failures, but we've seen that we can't depend on car designers using them. Hopefully the manufacturers will all get onboard with basic fault isolation (e.g., no matter how hard the software that's sets throttle position crashes, the software that responds to "shift to neutral" must be unaffected), before some series of crashes prompts a law.
You act like there's more than 1-2 sites you actually care about security for. I care about my primary bank/broker account, and a bit about my other checking accout. The rest? *shrug*
Federated two-factor ID is a great idea though. We'll never get it in the US,I think, as we resist government-managed IDs, and we've been unable to reach a consensus without government intervention.
Hey, if you want to log into work, you're going to need something work-issued to do that. If you want cash from the bank, you're going to need something bank-issued to do that (as today). What else do you care about?
But why would you care about "every web page there is"? I care about my work login (well, I don't but some sysadmin does and I comply), and my bank login. For the rest, proper fraud protection against unauthorized CC use covers me if ever needed.
And don't get me started on "three strikes and you're locked out", the main reason companies moved away from that was that they were drowning in people who are too stupid to remember their passphrase and weigh down support in an attempt to get access again. If you ever worked in IT in a halfway sizable company, you know what I mean.
Right, because you required a 47-character passphrase that changed every 20 minutes. A 4-digit PIN that's good for life, people can remember.
Note TFA is about sys admins training users, not what we can do as users ourselves.
Do cell phone companies still charge for text messages? I used to get charged for every message, as I never had a plan that included any, but T-Mobile just converted my plan to unlimited everything.
I chose my primary broker/bank because they had good 2-factor auth - wouldn't trust significant money with a bank that didn't. And for a non-financial account - who cares?
This "long password" bullshit again?
No, the solution is not strong passwords. The solution will never be strong passwords. If your security requires passwords stronger than a 4-digit PIN (enough that a few guesses before lock-out won't get an attacker anywhere), you're doing it wrong.
There are many off-the-shelf two factor solutions today. Choose one. My company badge goes into a smart card reader - awkward, but secure. You can put soft tokens on company-issued PCs/Laptops/whatever, and if the solution is any good it will be:
* Seamlessly transparent to the user, other than the one-time setup for a new device.
* Fully secure with a 4-digit PIN
WTF are people thinking, still going on about strong passwords in this day and age?
Indeed, all of that is true. And gold's intrinsic value is tiny compared to it's value today.
So if you want to own something of intrinsic value, own the means of production, not some BS like gold.
Stock is ownership of a thing with intrinsic value. What more can you ever have? A gold coin in your pocket, or a record in a database, either way you have ownership of a thing of value.
A chicken sandwich is a bit different, as it's perishable, That's the problem with currency, of course - if you can eat it or build a house from it, it's likely a bit awkward for the purpose of mediating barter.
I think formal proofs aren't that interesting myself, but the attention of enough experts will get the job done. Code eventually does mature if you take it seriously, and I've personally seen large codebases go for years with no known or reported bugs. For something like this I'd add a huge bug bounty just in case though.
Wait, aren't lefties supposed to be open-minded and tolerant and accepting? I guess except towards Republicans, those guys aren't human (sarcasm)...
The left has been about marching in ideological lockstep for at least a decade now. There was about a decade of transition around 2000 between the right being the group where you had to believe a specific, exact list of things or be an unperson, and the left taking that role.
The right gave it up, as the churches began, very gradually, losing power and influence over the right as the Venn diagram between fiscal and social conservatism started showing gradually more distinction between the two, and because many, many churches hit the rocks financially and nearly collapsed. Now churches are all about acceptance of members with any lifestyle as long as you're willing to sit through the sermon, and the right is a mix of fiscal-cons and so-cons who have to tolerate, even accept, one another to have any hope of political success.
Meanwhile, the left has become the "concern Olympics", racing with one another to jump on any statement that diverges even slightly from the One True Way and condemn it as a way of showing you're one of the enlightened. Or was that too cis-normative?