Hybrids/electrics break this. Those guys in the Prius that weigh another 1000 lbs over what my Miata weighs shouldn't get a pass on this. If they do, I'll consider actively working on shoehorning a motorcycle engine under the hood and a battery behind the seat.
the gas tax is going away as cars get more efficient. Yes yes, raise the tax you say and you can make it up.
What about non-gas cars? Used to be so niche a segment as to not matter but very quickly it's going to be a significant portion.
Plan ahead and make it a 'use' tax (and frankly I had use taxes, terribly regressive). Maybe have a minimum free usage of say 20k miles; tax anything over that.
The gas tax is nothing but a crude tax on miles driven coupled by vehicle weight. Big vehicles usually get lower mileage and do more damage...hence they pay a higher tax than a motorcycle which gets 10x the mileage of a semi.
The odometer combined with vehicle registration is all we need to accomplish this. No privacy implications at all.
Every time I bring up the "Use the odometer" statement, I get a rash of comments saying "That doesn't properly account for the edge case".
I didn't even click on the link and knew it was some fag linking xkcd. It's not clever. It's not funny. Just the subject containing something about RNG, with a link under it and not even a short, useless, one sentence post shows the kind of unoriginal, uninspired, idiot is making the post.
It was funny to read when it came out. It's even funny when clicking on the Random button on the site and seeing it. It's NOT funny when someone links to it from a one-sentence post and thinks they're so fucking clever to have discovered xkcd.
You probably still use lmgtfy and think you're so damn clever.
It means in real life, you're an unoriginal hipster doofus.
Got anything to do with sanitizing inputs to a SQL database, etc.? Link to Bobby Tables. Got a nerd-project slow-ass turing machine? Like a minecraft logic circuit from redstone? Link to the one where it's some guy alone in the world making a computer out of rocks. Got a story about password security or encryption? Link to the one where they beat the password out of the guy with a wrench.
Fuck off. You're not clever.
Co-mingling entertainment and car controls seems like a bad idea to me. I think I'd want anything that controls the car to be linked to only a pedal or button of some kind.
There is a HUGE gulf between "monitoring" and "control". Monitoring could very safely be put into an infotainment system, assuming that read-only of all the inputs can be set in a sane fashion. I'm unclear if CAN has this ability, OBD2 does not.
There are legitimate reasons to have NDA in place. I worked on a project for a large jeweller, and had access to shipping data.
Let's just say some items rely on security through obscurity , and if I revealed the data, it would expose them to crime,and force them to use more secure (and expensive) shipping, making their products less competitive, and more expensive for Joe Average who wants to buy an engagement ring for his sweetheart.
I had to give up on that requirement. The CVT is still 100 times better than any slushbox. Finding a hatchback that also has a stick is like finding the holy grail it seems.
uhm.... The Mazda 3 and Ford Focus both still have the third pedal as an option, and that's just off the top of my head. Now if they're on the lot... that's another story entirely.
Nissan's way of hitting that lower price point is to use cheaper batteries than get more like 85-90 mile range. I have had my Nissan Leaf for about 4 months and I adore it. Not that many people need to drive more than 80 miles in a day. And even with a 250 mile range, road trips are not feasible in the near future regardless of what Elon Musk tells you.
Out of curiosity, how cold are the winters where you are at? Heat is hard to come by, and generating it off of the battery is supposedly to put a huge dent in the range.
No, that's the true American Dream, not that drivel they fed you in school. The true American Dream is not "work hard, play by the rules, you'll leave something better for your children," it's "Con other people into working hard and generating revenue, then keep the revenue for yourself."
Hard work only gets you ahead if what you work hard at is screwing over people who do actual work.
While it is tragically ugly, I have seen stupider looking cars on the road... the Cube comes to mind, as does the PT Cruiser....
The PT was one of those flashes-in-the-pan that had a style shelf life of about 2 years... I recall being mildly impressed with it when it was released, around the same time as the Prowler.
The Cube (Qube? can't remember...) yeaaaah.... that's not so attractive as it is shocking. In a bad way.
Indeed. I was trusting the NSA to backup all my data, and now they cannot even find their own emails. I guess I'll have to do my own backup, after all.;-)
Spoken like a true moron -- I'm the freakin' admin, and I spent 15+ years as a developer. If I have it open, it's because I use it constantly.
This is the stuff I use to do my job, and rebooting because someone has no idea of what's going on but thinks a reboot will make the problem go away has always been a stupid idea.
Usually it's some idiot doing tech support who knows far less than I do who is suggesting it. Just because some half-wit at the service desk has that as the first item on his checklist doesn't make it the right choice.
You are speaking as a developer, not someone who has come through the support ranks.
As someone who *has* up from support, your opinion is, quite frankly, ludicrous: Support often doesn't get the documentation to sort out what could be causing stupid problem [x], because "that doesn't happen in our test environment...", which often doesn't reflect the reality of a machine that someone actually *uses*.
Computers do stupid things, often caused by poor decisions from someone that uses them. Software does stupid things, often caused by poor decisions from someone that wrote it. Dumping on tier 1 support because they don't have sufficient tools or information to understand the entire scope of what they've been asked to support is not helping solve the overall problem of "all software has bugs" or "software companies don't do sufficient [x] for their support reps", where [x] is any combination of the following: documentation, training, testing, tool provisioning.
If all of the steps were done right for everything (support who knows what they're doing, with sufficient tools to support software that is properly tested and well documented), I'd agree: Rebooting is the hail mary of a tech that doesn't want to fix the problem. In my experience, very few, if any of those are true. This goes doubly for the desktop OS stuff I've had to support.
People who really care about cockpit entertainment will go through the trouble to have aftermarket equipment installed. This was true 40 years ago and it's the same today.
There are damn few aftermarket in-dash head units I consider well designed enough to put in a vehicle. Wake me when the majority pull their heads out of their collective asses and recognize that tiny buttons suck, touchscreens suck MORE, and that occasionally I wear gloves when inside the car.
I have ONE job when I'm in the driver's seat: Driving. Anything that helps me focus on that more is a win. Having to look down at a stereo to figure out where the hell the function I want to use is does NOT do that. There have been a handful of double-din units that succeed at this. Despite the disparaging comment, most factory head units are designed with the idea that someone may want to use it without having to look at it.
Everything I'd read previously claimed it was a true series hybrid, apparently I'm mistaken.
GM hasn't done much to counter this perception for sure. It's not in their interest to say "Well, yeah, it's our version of a Prius". Doesn't sound nearly as sexy then.
I assume some people much smarter than I have basically made the determination that a series hybrid is not the way to go, but I'm at a loss to explain why that is. If someone knows an answer to this, I'd love to hear it.
Magnesium dust is flammable. You have some dust when you print. Not a deal breaker, but a hurdle.
On top of this, Magnesium that's on fire is a gigantic PITA to put out is my understanding. Navy protocol at sea for something that's made of it and on fire: dump it overboard.
Show me an actual shipping storage array that is linux at it's core.
All of Synology's stuff uses Busybox, which is generally backed by a Linux kernel. Their wiki article seems to back this idea. Small player, I know, but great hardware for the SMB that needs an iSCSI NAS for their first few pieces of VM infrastructure.
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Hybrids/electrics break this. Those guys in the Prius that weigh another 1000 lbs over what my Miata weighs shouldn't get a pass on this. If they do, I'll consider actively working on shoehorning a motorcycle engine under the hood and a battery behind the seat.
the gas tax is going away as cars get more efficient. Yes yes, raise the tax you say and you can make it up. What about non-gas cars? Used to be so niche a segment as to not matter but very quickly it's going to be a significant portion. Plan ahead and make it a 'use' tax (and frankly I had use taxes, terribly regressive). Maybe have a minimum free usage of say 20k miles; tax anything over that. The gas tax is nothing but a crude tax on miles driven coupled by vehicle weight. Big vehicles usually get lower mileage and do more damage...hence they pay a higher tax than a motorcycle which gets 10x the mileage of a semi. The odometer combined with vehicle registration is all we need to accomplish this. No privacy implications at all.
Every time I bring up the "Use the odometer" statement, I get a rash of comments saying "That doesn't properly account for the edge case".
I didn't even click on the link and knew it was some fag linking xkcd. It's not clever. It's not funny. Just the subject containing something about RNG, with a link under it and not even a short, useless, one sentence post shows the kind of unoriginal, uninspired, idiot is making the post. It was funny to read when it came out. It's even funny when clicking on the Random button on the site and seeing it. It's NOT funny when someone links to it from a one-sentence post and thinks they're so fucking clever to have discovered xkcd. You probably still use lmgtfy and think you're so damn clever. It means in real life, you're an unoriginal hipster doofus. Got anything to do with sanitizing inputs to a SQL database, etc.? Link to Bobby Tables. Got a nerd-project slow-ass turing machine? Like a minecraft logic circuit from redstone? Link to the one where it's some guy alone in the world making a computer out of rocks. Got a story about password security or encryption? Link to the one where they beat the password out of the guy with a wrench. Fuck off. You're not clever.
http://xkcd.com/1053/
Guess you're not one of today's 10000. Thanks for playing.
Co-mingling entertainment and car controls seems like a bad idea to me. I think I'd want anything that controls the car to be linked to only a pedal or button of some kind.
There is a HUGE gulf between "monitoring" and "control". Monitoring could very safely be put into an infotainment system, assuming that read-only of all the inputs can be set in a sane fashion. I'm unclear if CAN has this ability, OBD2 does not.
There are legitimate reasons to have NDA in place. I worked on a project for a large jeweller, and had access to shipping data. Let's just say some items rely on security through obscurity , and if I revealed the data, it would expose them to crime,and force them to use more secure (and expensive) shipping, making their products less competitive, and more expensive for Joe Average who wants to buy an engagement ring for his sweetheart.
"Industrial grade diamonds". Check.
ECC keys are shorter than RSA keys. 256 ecc is like 3072 rsa bits.
It's not the length but how you use it?
I had to give up on that requirement. The CVT is still 100 times better than any slushbox. Finding a hatchback that also has a stick is like finding the holy grail it seems.
uhm.... The Mazda 3 and Ford Focus both still have the third pedal as an option, and that's just off the top of my head. Now if they're on the lot... that's another story entirely.
Nissan's way of hitting that lower price point is to use cheaper batteries than get more like 85-90 mile range. I have had my Nissan Leaf for about 4 months and I adore it. Not that many people need to drive more than 80 miles in a day. And even with a 250 mile range, road trips are not feasible in the near future regardless of what Elon Musk tells you.
Out of curiosity, how cold are the winters where you are at? Heat is hard to come by, and generating it off of the battery is supposedly to put a huge dent in the range.
No, that's the true American Dream, not that drivel they fed you in school. The true American Dream is not "work hard, play by the rules, you'll leave something better for your children," it's "Con other people into working hard and generating revenue, then keep the revenue for yourself."
Hard work only gets you ahead if what you work hard at is screwing over people who do actual work.
You need to find better employers.
While it is tragically ugly, I have seen stupider looking cars on the road... the Cube comes to mind, as does the PT Cruiser....
The PT was one of those flashes-in-the-pan that had a style shelf life of about 2 years... I recall being mildly impressed with it when it was released, around the same time as the Prowler.
The Cube (Qube? can't remember...) yeaaaah.... that's not so attractive as it is shocking. In a bad way.
Next the robots will want to unionize.
naa.. the current unions will say that the robots need to pay dues.. and since they work all shifts, it's more like 3 or 4 workers.
I thought the physics of this kind of stuff favored being closer to the equator? Why would you move north of Canaveral?
Indeed. I was trusting the NSA to backup all my data, and now they cannot even find their own emails. I guess I'll have to do my own backup, after all. ;-)
Comedy gold.
If you do not want to be monitored, don't make phone calls, don't email, don't IM, don't Text. Nobody is forcing you to do any of that.
Yep. My paycheck is also conjured from the ether too.
Spoken like a true moron -- I'm the freakin' admin, and I spent 15+ years as a developer. If I have it open, it's because I use it constantly.
This is the stuff I use to do my job, and rebooting because someone has no idea of what's going on but thinks a reboot will make the problem go away has always been a stupid idea.
Usually it's some idiot doing tech support who knows far less than I do who is suggesting it. Just because some half-wit at the service desk has that as the first item on his checklist doesn't make it the right choice.
You are speaking as a developer, not someone who has come through the support ranks.
As someone who *has* up from support, your opinion is, quite frankly, ludicrous: Support often doesn't get the documentation to sort out what could be causing stupid problem [x], because "that doesn't happen in our test environment...", which often doesn't reflect the reality of a machine that someone actually *uses*.
Computers do stupid things, often caused by poor decisions from someone that uses them. Software does stupid things, often caused by poor decisions from someone that wrote it. Dumping on tier 1 support because they don't have sufficient tools or information to understand the entire scope of what they've been asked to support is not helping solve the overall problem of "all software has bugs" or "software companies don't do sufficient [x] for their support reps", where [x] is any combination of the following: documentation, training, testing, tool provisioning.
If all of the steps were done right for everything (support who knows what they're doing, with sufficient tools to support software that is properly tested and well documented), I'd agree: Rebooting is the hail mary of a tech that doesn't want to fix the problem. In my experience, very few, if any of those are true. This goes doubly for the desktop OS stuff I've had to support.
People who really care about cockpit entertainment will go through the trouble to have aftermarket equipment installed. This was true 40 years ago and it's the same today.
There are damn few aftermarket in-dash head units I consider well designed enough to put in a vehicle. Wake me when the majority pull their heads out of their collective asses and recognize that tiny buttons suck, touchscreens suck MORE, and that occasionally I wear gloves when inside the car.
I have ONE job when I'm in the driver's seat: Driving. Anything that helps me focus on that more is a win. Having to look down at a stereo to figure out where the hell the function I want to use is does NOT do that. There have been a handful of double-din units that succeed at this. Despite the disparaging comment, most factory head units are designed with the idea that someone may want to use it without having to look at it.
Could we contain this radiant flux for later use, in some sort of storage device? I'm thinking of something much like a capacitor.
Well played, Mr. Brown... well played...
This leads to the question "Why are you using handbrakeGUI when you could use the CLI?
Everything I'd read previously claimed it was a true series hybrid, apparently I'm mistaken.
GM hasn't done much to counter this perception for sure. It's not in their interest to say "Well, yeah, it's our version of a Prius". Doesn't sound nearly as sexy then.
I assume some people much smarter than I have basically made the determination that a series hybrid is not the way to go, but I'm at a loss to explain why that is. If someone knows an answer to this, I'd love to hear it.
You may be interested in reading this little gem concerning the Volt: http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2010/10/gm-admits-chevy-volts-gasoline-engine-can-power-the-wheels-so-is-it-still-special.html
That sounds a lot like EVE General Discussion to me.
My understanding of Eve was that the microtransactions were just for avatar appearance. Has this changed?
will soon be reclassified as the dumb schmuck who ran out of ink.
Hey, I LIKE my roadster... was that thunder?
Magnesium dust is flammable. You have some dust when you print. Not a deal breaker, but a hurdle.
On top of this, Magnesium that's on fire is a gigantic PITA to put out is my understanding. Navy protocol at sea for something that's made of it and on fire: dump it overboard.
Does Red Hat or Apple support a 10 year old OS? Do any open distros do this?
RHEL has a 13 year support window. https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/
Show me an actual shipping storage array that is linux at it's core.
All of Synology's stuff uses Busybox, which is generally backed by a Linux kernel. Their wiki article seems to back this idea. Small player, I know, but great hardware for the SMB that needs an iSCSI NAS for their first few pieces of VM infrastructure.