Thank you! I was thinking I was the only one who knew that it's been possible for years elsewhere.. Now, getting my dad to shell out the $x a month for the sci-fi channel, when I was the only one in the house watching it was harder.. but I eventually succeeded and we got every channel we wanted that we now have on some_expensive_cable_package we have, but it was 25% of the cost of what we're paying now (we don't watch that many).
If only that satellite receiver hadn't died, we'd likely still be doing it.
I was about to say "I don't see why a set of all sets that do not include themselves is difficult", but then I tried to think of a set that DID include itself, which is an impossibility (or requires placeholders and is still infinitely recursive).
:) Ok, we pretty much agree on all points then. I thought you were attempting to imply that the only time the HSD system got power was by charging off of excess power generated by the engine, and never off of the energy recaptured by the motor from the deceleration.
And yes, I knew the B-Mode thing, I don't know how beneficial it is (sometimes I worry that it might be causing damage, but I figure that they wouldn't provide such a thing at high speeds were it dangerous to the car), but if given the chance I'll usually try and do most of my stopping with either letting off the gas, or if needed putting in B mode.. I knew that it wasn't entirely for just burning off excess energy as waste.;)
I wonder though about the MG2/MG1 always being used thing: I've heard this (what you said) before, but sometimes on the screen I'm sure I've seen power from the engine to the distributor to the wheels, but no flow either direction to the battery/iconified motor. Perhaps I'm also not remembering this correctly, I almost never look at that screen anymore. I was shocked one day relatively recently when I had a FULL battery, as opposed to the green but with one bar less than full that is most common..
Either way, I get pretty nice mileage, and I love my car and wouldn't consider owning any other. Even if it's not 'economical', I didn't buy it for that. (though the math in this article is somewhat bogus, you can't compare a new car vs. an existing car that runs fine, it doesn't make sense. Plus, he compares it against cars that aren't equivalent to the Prius in size nor features included, so it doesn't make any sense at all. *End rant*)
Regenerative braking: by drawing power from MG2 and depositing it into the battery pack, the HSD can simulate normal compression braking while saving the power for future boost. The Prius has a special transmission setting labelled 'B' (for Brake), that takes the place of a conventional automatic transmission's 'L' setting for engine braking on hills. If the battery is full, the Prius switches to conventional compression braking, drawing power from MG2 and shunting it to MG1 to drive the engine rapidly forward. The regenerative brakes in a HSD system absorb a significant amount of the normal braking load, so the conventional brakes on a Prius are undersized compared to brakes on a conventional car of similar mass.
I was going to try and correct you by typing all that out myself, considering I own a Prius, but I got lazy;) (also, I originally had MG1 and MG2 confused when I wsa typing it up, I went there for confirmation that I was right, found out I had them backwards, and then just found the section I wanted to type up anyway).
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your assertion that the Prius doesn't have regenerative braking? It would be rather silly to pull all power from just running the engine harder than needed, that wouldn't give any fuel benefits at all (except for being able to use a smaller engine for acceleration, I guess, even though it would cause highway mileage to suffer). Considering I can quite easily get 55+ mpg on the highway, it's not suffering too much.;)
The hybrid batteries (at least on the Prius) are NiMH, which are also rather recycleable, and you get 8 year warranty on it. I'm assuming Toyota is pretty confident that they'll last at least that long, otherwise they wouldn't be offering it.
wtf? I have yet to see a mass-produced hybrid be a plug-in hybrid. ALL electricity in the car is generated by the car, it's recapturing braking energy.
I must admit, it carried a lot more weight when handed out on a sheet of paper. I have no idea why he posted it like he did, instead of using a PDF.. The guy has some good ideas, but sometimes his implementation of them is less than thought through. Just let it be known.. if you go to any of his seminars, he WILL spend HOURS after lunch ranting against powerpoint. You can probably leave at lunch and not lose anything.
Notepad. Or word, or vi or whatever. Why do you need a 'presentation' app? Why do you want to dumb down your content like that? Provide MORE content, by writing it up and handing it out. Let people view it as they want to, instead of making you lead them from step to step. Those who go faster will be dragged down to the speed of your speech. If they doze off for a few words, then the entire slide may be ruined (unless you're insulting their intelligence by reading everything on the slide to them?), whereas if they had something in front of them they could read back and see what they missed.
www.edwardtufte.com has a huge rant against powerpoint. Not because it's capitalist, but because it's demeaning and insulting, and he argues can be directly linked to the recent shuttle explosion. I don't agree with some of his points, but conceptually I think his ideas are sound. I can read. I bet everyone in any presentation you're likely to give can as well. Why read to them what they can read for themselves, faster than you can speak it out loud?
For all but the simplest of 'presentations', provide some actual data.. don't just read an abbreviated mess of bullet points of summaries of summaries.
You're always talking to an intermediary. The problem comes from what you told the computer you wanted to talk to. in one, you told it you want to talk to IAmNotGoingToStealYourMoney.com, and in the other you wanted it to talk to AwesomeBank.com. Just because IANGTSYM.c is nice enough to forward your traffic on, doesn't mean that it's "in the middle", your traffic has already reached its destination, and because you told it to go there, there's nothing that can be done to prevent it (well, except two channel, I guess).
A true man-in-the-middle, like we both mentioned, requires someone router hijacking.. since that really is in the middle of
You --> Your Destination
(as opposed to
You -> Your Destination -> The place you really wanted to go to)
Once you initially connect for the first time to "AwesomeBank.com", you store the SSL cert. If it CHANGES, then you know you have a problem.
It I think affirms the part of accountability. I want to make sure that my govt. isn't screwing me (fines etc) by writing manipulated code
I haven't read many of the comments here, so if this has been said I apologize. I'd worry more about a faulty/tampered physical sensor, than anything else. If a radar gun / breathalyzer / whatever has a faulty set of sensors, no amount of software can fix that problem.
Likewise, what's to say that it wasn't broken/misadjusted.. and then fixed before your trial (if you ask to see the unit)? The only way to guarantee this is to force the unit to not be touched, except under YOUR supervision, the second the unit clocks you as speeding and the cop presses a button saying that he's following you. If he doesn't press the button, he can't pull you over. Then you take the box with you. Extreme? Of course.
What if they ARE writing manipulated code.. and just show you the out of date/non-manipulated version (think: voting machine scandals of the past election, modifying the code hours before an election..), or if it depended on the compiler, which depended on compiling against itself, opening it up to that famous hack of having the compiler trojan every program, and trojan itself to install the trojan.. where does your paranoia end?
It's all possible. Open sourcing it does nothing, unless you have control over the device to be used against you in all cases. So, what do we do.. hand out cards of breathalyzer OS's, and require it to be PK signed and certified to be "the correct OS", and insert the code in to the breathalyzer ourselves before we blow in to it? Who's to say it's even going to use our code? hmm, can't trust that either..
I hate breathalyzers. I don't drink, but I shouldn't be arrested for knowing this and refusing the indignity of blowing in to a tube to prove my innocence. Though, I've always wanted to do it just for the sake of saying I did. Heh.. Mild hypocrisy there, I guess. I just don't want to be forced in to doing it, with the assumption that I was guilty until proven innocent, such that if I refuse to prove my innocence, that's obviously an admission of my guilt, and I get arrested right on the spot. That's BS, and that's not "American", whatever that means. But it is.. since that's the way it works here. Bah. [/rant]
I was with ya until this comment: I don't think you're describing it correctly.
Man-in-the-middle implies that your communication is going to destination A, via intermediaries B, C, and D. Phishing, and what you describe, implies that for some reason you've been tricked in to setting your end destination as D, who will eventually go to A for you, but you addressed it wrong. Yes, I guess this person is technically "in the middle" of the chain of where you WANT to go, but if you had been smart about saying your correct destination, D would have no way to work unless they were able to hijack your stream the first time and every time thereafter to inject their own cert (I guess only the first time matters, since if they have your info once they can fuck you over royally.. but if it's not the first time you'll get a cert error).
Phishing is NOT man in the middle. It's just social engineering to get people to think that D really is A. This is why anything that matters, you type it in yourself. But, most people don't know to do that, I'm afraid.
The fact that they haven't yet indicates that they aren't so sure then, doesn't it? If it would be in their benefit, why is the government forcing them in to it?
I actually only opened up this article to see if someone else mentioned OKCupid. I've met several people from there and their matching algorithms work extremely well. It's never turned in to anything that major, but I blame that more on the fact taht it seems the people I match well with tend to live > 400mi from me.
the key must be inside the car for it to turn on, and the brake must be depressed for it to do so, as well. The likelihood of a child pressing the brake AND the power button at the same time is pretty low. The transmission is electronically controlled, it'd be pretty hard to get it out of park without the key.
And yes, the car has four zones for detecting the key: inside, driver's door, passenger door, and trunk door. and it only activates the unlocking/turn on mechanism appropriate for the zone the key is in.
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Strange, I just converted from gaim to trillian, as Trillian does my IRC, yahoo, and AIM messaging without any issues.
Issues I had with Gaim (win32): Font support was crap. I blame this on GTK/Win32, making it near impossible to change the program's default fonts.
When docking/undocking the laptop, occasionally gaim would flip out and suck 99% cpu for 10seconds->10 minutes (longest I ever let it run), the time varied.
I disliked the interface for the accounts, I much prefer Trillian's 'connection bar' at the bottom to give me a quick view of what I'm on. Not one 'sign on' button, and then needing to find the 'auto-login' option in the system tray to actually do what I want..
Trillian seems to handle metacontacts slightly better, in my mind. I can't really put my finger on why though, it just feels nicer.
And there's manual overrides, I would assume. My car (Prius) has door handles that are touch sensitive. Once they detect someone touching it, it sends out a very very low range (i.e. it won't work on the other side of the car) radio signal to try and find out if I have the electronic key in my pocket. If I do, it unlocks.
If the electronic key is dead, there's a tiny mechanical key built in to it to open the door. Then you put the entire key unit in to the dash, and it uses induction to gkive it enough power to tell the car that it really is the right key, and you can now press your power button and start the car.
If the key isn't dead, then you just continue leaving it in your pocket, the radio signal does all the work for you, and you just press the power button, no fishing around in pockets needed.
That depends on the compiler, the architecture, the pragmas, and the variables around it. doing short,long,short (Assuming 32bit system, short=16, long=32bit) will often lead to 12 bytes of memory. doing short,short,long will fit in 8. Some systems don't give a crap about memory alignment (since there's no significant penalty for unaligned memory access) so they'll also give 8 in the first case.
Furthermore, arrays will ALWAYS be the correct size, memory alignment absolutely cannot happen, that I know of (at least in C languages). So it's not only for disk/wire compatibility.
I saw this before, I read the comments before suggesting it. I don't know if this company is legit or not, but the idea seems interesting.
I think this is the closest you'll get to a conversion kit. Hybrid gas-electric vehicles require a vastly different transmission, onboard computer, massive batteries, and likely a lot of engine work to make it stop and start when the vehicle is not in motion. In short, look at around 12k+ if it's even possible and the parts are widely available.. which they aren't.
But most other jabber servers can connect to each other automatically. His 22 user jabber server can talk to and get talked to by every other jabebr server I've used (except google talk). No configuration is necessary. I can start my own, tomorrow, and it JustWorks.
The article shows a picture (I've read it now) and it doesn't look transparent. While that doesn't mean it can't be, my hope for this material has suddenly shot down quite a bit.
Especially since it doesn't yet handle temperature very well. Hmm.. not a good material for a spaceship, I'm thinking.
You have no f'in clue what the hell you're talking about, do you?:)
My bluetooth radio is always on. That doesn't mean I'm discoverable. What it means is that things have to know I'm out there before they'll attempt to try and connect with me (This means that I'm paired). If you actually have a dependence upon being always discoverable, I'd like to hear it. Otherwise, there's no reason for it, imho.
I don't even think I can make my phone always discoverable..
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Thank you! I was thinking I was the only one who knew that it's been possible for years elsewhere.. Now, getting my dad to shell out the $x a month for the sci-fi channel, when I was the only one in the house watching it was harder.. but I eventually succeeded and we got every channel we wanted that we now have on some_expensive_cable_package we have, but it was 25% of the cost of what we're paying now (we don't watch that many).
If only that satellite receiver hadn't died, we'd likely still be doing it.
I'll register the 'dot' TLD and give slashdot one for free..
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I was about to say "I don't see why a set of all sets that do not include themselves is difficult", but then I tried to think of a set that DID include itself, which is an impossibility (or requires placeholders and is still infinitely recursive).
(\x x x)(\x x x)
:) Ok, we pretty much agree on all points then. I thought you were attempting to imply that the only time the HSD system got power was by charging off of excess power generated by the engine, and never off of the energy recaptured by the motor from the deceleration.
;)
And yes, I knew the B-Mode thing, I don't know how beneficial it is (sometimes I worry that it might be causing damage, but I figure that they wouldn't provide such a thing at high speeds were it dangerous to the car), but if given the chance I'll usually try and do most of my stopping with either letting off the gas, or if needed putting in B mode.. I knew that it wasn't entirely for just burning off excess energy as waste.
I wonder though about the MG2/MG1 always being used thing: I've heard this (what you said) before, but sometimes on the screen I'm sure I've seen power from the engine to the distributor to the wheels, but no flow either direction to the battery/iconified motor. Perhaps I'm also not remembering this correctly, I almost never look at that screen anymore. I was shocked one day relatively recently when I had a FULL battery, as opposed to the green but with one bar less than full that is most common..
Either way, I get pretty nice mileage, and I love my car and wouldn't consider owning any other. Even if it's not 'economical', I didn't buy it for that. (though the math in this article is somewhat bogus, you can't compare a new car vs. an existing car that runs fine, it doesn't make sense. Plus, he compares it against cars that aren't equivalent to the Prius in size nor features included, so it doesn't make any sense at all. *End rant*)
Regenerative braking: by drawing power from MG2 and depositing it into the battery pack, the HSD can simulate normal compression braking while saving the power for future boost. The Prius has a special transmission setting labelled 'B' (for Brake), that takes the place of a conventional automatic transmission's 'L' setting for engine braking on hills. If the battery is full, the Prius switches to conventional compression braking, drawing power from MG2 and shunting it to MG1 to drive the engine rapidly forward. The regenerative brakes in a HSD system absorb a significant amount of the normal braking load, so the conventional brakes on a Prius are undersized compared to brakes on a conventional car of similar mass.
;) (also, I originally had MG1 and MG2 confused when I wsa typing it up, I went there for confirmation that I was right, found out I had them backwards, and then just found the section I wanted to type up anyway).
;)
I was going to try and correct you by typing all that out myself, considering I own a Prius, but I got lazy
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your assertion that the Prius doesn't have regenerative braking? It would be rather silly to pull all power from just running the engine harder than needed, that wouldn't give any fuel benefits at all (except for being able to use a smaller engine for acceleration, I guess, even though it would cause highway mileage to suffer). Considering I can quite easily get 55+ mpg on the highway, it's not suffering too much.
The hybrid batteries (at least on the Prius) are NiMH, which are also rather recycleable, and you get 8 year warranty on it. I'm assuming Toyota is pretty confident that they'll last at least that long, otherwise they wouldn't be offering it.
wtf? I have yet to see a mass-produced hybrid be a plug-in hybrid. ALL electricity in the car is generated by the car, it's recapturing braking energy.
There's a date on the document every time that EULA shows up. if it's been modified and that date hasn't been updated, then something else is fishy.
no, they replied to a troll. Click 'Parent' and realize that slashdot's indenting of these things is wrong and confusing.
I must admit, it carried a lot more weight when handed out on a sheet of paper. I have no idea why he posted it like he did, instead of using a PDF.. The guy has some good ideas, but sometimes his implementation of them is less than thought through. Just let it be known.. if you go to any of his seminars, he WILL spend HOURS after lunch ranting against powerpoint. You can probably leave at lunch and not lose anything.
Notepad. Or word, or vi or whatever. Why do you need a 'presentation' app? Why do you want to dumb down your content like that? Provide MORE content, by writing it up and handing it out. Let people view it as they want to, instead of making you lead them from step to step. Those who go faster will be dragged down to the speed of your speech. If they doze off for a few words, then the entire slide may be ruined (unless you're insulting their intelligence by reading everything on the slide to them?), whereas if they had something in front of them they could read back and see what they missed.
www.edwardtufte.com has a huge rant against powerpoint. Not because it's capitalist, but because it's demeaning and insulting, and he argues can be directly linked to the recent shuttle explosion. I don't agree with some of his points, but conceptually I think his ideas are sound. I can read. I bet everyone in any presentation you're likely to give can as well. Why read to them what they can read for themselves, faster than you can speak it out loud?
For all but the simplest of 'presentations', provide some actual data.. don't just read an abbreviated mess of bullet points of summaries of summaries.
You're always talking to an intermediary. The problem comes from what you told the computer you wanted to talk to. in one, you told it you want to talk to IAmNotGoingToStealYourMoney.com, and in the other you wanted it to talk to AwesomeBank.com. Just because IANGTSYM.c is nice enough to forward your traffic on, doesn't mean that it's "in the middle", your traffic has already reached its destination, and because you told it to go there, there's nothing that can be done to prevent it (well, except two channel, I guess).
A true man-in-the-middle, like we both mentioned, requires someone router hijacking.. since that really is in the middle of
You --> Your Destination
(as opposed to
You -> Your Destination -> The place you really wanted to go to)
Once you initially connect for the first time to "AwesomeBank.com", you store the SSL cert. If it CHANGES, then you know you have a problem.
It I think affirms the part of accountability. I want to make sure that my govt. isn't screwing me (fines etc) by writing manipulated code
I haven't read many of the comments here, so if this has been said I apologize. I'd worry more about a faulty/tampered physical sensor, than anything else. If a radar gun / breathalyzer / whatever has a faulty set of sensors, no amount of software can fix that problem.
Likewise, what's to say that it wasn't broken/misadjusted.. and then fixed before your trial (if you ask to see the unit)? The only way to guarantee this is to force the unit to not be touched, except under YOUR supervision, the second the unit clocks you as speeding and the cop presses a button saying that he's following you. If he doesn't press the button, he can't pull you over. Then you take the box with you. Extreme? Of course.
What if they ARE writing manipulated code.. and just show you the out of date/non-manipulated version (think: voting machine scandals of the past election, modifying the code hours before an election..), or if it depended on the compiler, which depended on compiling against itself, opening it up to that famous hack of having the compiler trojan every program, and trojan itself to install the trojan.. where does your paranoia end?
It's all possible. Open sourcing it does nothing, unless you have control over the device to be used against you in all cases. So, what do we do.. hand out cards of breathalyzer OS's, and require it to be PK signed and certified to be "the correct OS", and insert the code in to the breathalyzer ourselves before we blow in to it? Who's to say it's even going to use our code? hmm, can't trust that either..
I hate breathalyzers. I don't drink, but I shouldn't be arrested for knowing this and refusing the indignity of blowing in to a tube to prove my innocence. Though, I've always wanted to do it just for the sake of saying I did. Heh.. Mild hypocrisy there, I guess. I just don't want to be forced in to doing it, with the assumption that I was guilty until proven innocent, such that if I refuse to prove my innocence, that's obviously an admission of my guilt, and I get arrested right on the spot. That's BS, and that's not "American", whatever that means. But it is.. since that's the way it works here. Bah. [/rant]
I was with ya until this comment: I don't think you're describing it correctly.
Man-in-the-middle implies that your communication is going to destination A, via intermediaries B, C, and D. Phishing, and what you describe, implies that for some reason you've been tricked in to setting your end destination as D, who will eventually go to A for you, but you addressed it wrong. Yes, I guess this person is technically "in the middle" of the chain of where you WANT to go, but if you had been smart about saying your correct destination, D would have no way to work unless they were able to hijack your stream the first time and every time thereafter to inject their own cert (I guess only the first time matters, since if they have your info once they can fuck you over royally.. but if it's not the first time you'll get a cert error).
Phishing is NOT man in the middle. It's just social engineering to get people to think that D really is A. This is why anything that matters, you type it in yourself. But, most people don't know to do that, I'm afraid.
The fact that they haven't yet indicates that they aren't so sure then, doesn't it? If it would be in their benefit, why is the government forcing them in to it?
I actually only opened up this article to see if someone else mentioned OKCupid. I've met several people from there and their matching algorithms work extremely well. It's never turned in to anything that major, but I blame that more on the fact taht it seems the people I match well with tend to live > 400mi from me.
the key must be inside the car for it to turn on, and the brake must be depressed for it to do so, as well. The likelihood of a child pressing the brake AND the power button at the same time is pretty low. The transmission is electronically controlled, it'd be pretty hard to get it out of park without the key.
And yes, the car has four zones for detecting the key: inside, driver's door, passenger door, and trunk door. and it only activates the unlocking/turn on mechanism appropriate for the zone the key is in.
Strange, I just converted from gaim to trillian, as Trillian does my IRC, yahoo, and AIM messaging without any issues.
Issues I had with Gaim (win32):
Font support was crap. I blame this on GTK/Win32, making it near impossible to change the program's default fonts.
When docking/undocking the laptop, occasionally gaim would flip out and suck 99% cpu for 10seconds->10 minutes (longest I ever let it run), the time varied.
I disliked the interface for the accounts, I much prefer Trillian's 'connection bar' at the bottom to give me a quick view of what I'm on. Not one 'sign on' button, and then needing to find the 'auto-login' option in the system tray to actually do what I want..
Trillian seems to handle metacontacts slightly better, in my mind. I can't really put my finger on why though, it just feels nicer.
I dunno. I use both, still.. but prefer trillian.
And there's manual overrides, I would assume. My car (Prius) has door handles that are touch sensitive. Once they detect someone touching it, it sends out a very very low range (i.e. it won't work on the other side of the car) radio signal to try and find out if I have the electronic key in my pocket. If I do, it unlocks.
If the electronic key is dead, there's a tiny mechanical key built in to it to open the door. Then you put the entire key unit in to the dash, and it uses induction to gkive it enough power to tell the car that it really is the right key, and you can now press your power button and start the car.
If the key isn't dead, then you just continue leaving it in your pocket, the radio signal does all the work for you, and you just press the power button, no fishing around in pockets needed.
This is configurable. go to about:config and filter on the phrase 'keyword'. I happen to not like this feature so much, so I disabled it.
That depends on the compiler, the architecture, the pragmas, and the variables around it. doing short,long,short (Assuming 32bit system, short=16, long=32bit) will often lead to 12 bytes of memory. doing short,short,long will fit in 8. Some systems don't give a crap about memory alignment (since there's no significant penalty for unaligned memory access) so they'll also give 8 in the first case.
Furthermore, arrays will ALWAYS be the correct size, memory alignment absolutely cannot happen, that I know of (at least in C languages). So it's not only for disk/wire compatibility.
I saw this before, I read the comments before suggesting it. I don't know if this company is legit or not, but the idea seems interesting.
I think this is the closest you'll get to a conversion kit. Hybrid gas-electric vehicles require a vastly different transmission, onboard computer, massive batteries, and likely a lot of engine work to make it stop and start when the vehicle is not in motion. In short, look at around 12k+ if it's even possible and the parts are widely available.. which they aren't.
But most other jabber servers can connect to each other automatically. His 22 user jabber server can talk to and get talked to by every other jabebr server I've used (except google talk). No configuration is necessary. I can start my own, tomorrow, and it JustWorks.
That's why he shouldn't have to.
The article shows a picture (I've read it now) and it doesn't look transparent. While that doesn't mean it can't be, my hope for this material has suddenly shot down quite a bit.
Especially since it doesn't yet handle temperature very well. Hmm.. not a good material for a spaceship, I'm thinking.
You have no f'in clue what the hell you're talking about, do you? :)
My bluetooth radio is always on. That doesn't mean I'm discoverable. What it means is that things have to know I'm out there before they'll attempt to try and connect with me (This means that I'm paired). If you actually have a dependence upon being always discoverable, I'd like to hear it. Otherwise, there's no reason for it, imho.
I don't even think I can make my phone always discoverable..