To make things easier for readers, I will summarize what you've said here, paragraph by paragraph:
1) To see if driving over the speed limit is a good idea, you should test it out. If you get into a dangerous situation, and you don't die, then the speed limit is too slow, and it is fine to drive that fast all the time. 2) I sure as hell think so. 3) There are some places where the speedlimit is too fast. The speedlimit should be lowered in these places if they "really want to be safe". I will continue going my usual speed, because if I were to go slower I wouldn't get places fast enough. 4) Most of the time, bad things don't happen. If we all drive faster, the sole benefit will be that we all get places 2 minutes sooner. The downside is that more people will get hurt, and more cars will get banged up. I am OK with that. I forgot to mention that more people will get killed as well... but I am also OK with that, if it means I can get someplace 2 minutes faster. 5) I use my comfortably fitting seatbelt to be sure that when I crash because of speeding, I won't be killed, just maimed.
There is no law that makes 2 vehicals, side by side in the same lane illegal. Proof of this fact can be seen in wide right hand lanes that allow drivers to make a right and not be hampered by everyone who is going forward.
In your state that may be true. In Idaho it's illegal to drive a vehicle side-by-side with another vehicle unless there is a lane dividing marker between the two vehicles. I know a person who was cited and ticketed in an accident because she passed stopped traffic on the right in one of these "widened right hand turn areas" you speak of, passing though a "don't block this intersection" area as she did so, and someone making a left hand turn though the "don't block" area hit her car. She fought it, and the law was pulled out, and she lost, because she wasn't driving in a marked lane. Sure it was wide enough, and the city built the street with the widened area intentionally to allow this to happen, but it isn't legal to drive there.
Why would they do that? "They" already survey accidents as they happen from new,improved "stealth" black helicopters that are invisible to the naked eye and make no sound.
I think the box you are talking about is the box that tells your airbag when to, um, deploy? And it monitors your speed and braking so that, um, it doesn't go off when you're going 5 miles an hour a parking lot and you stop suddenly?
Our software's been using web "services" (SOAP calls) for all of its client/server interaction for about 3 years. Of course it doesn't require.NET. On the minus side, we had to choose a platform to build our service server on top of, and we chose IIS (our system also uses ASP and a few other IIS technologies.) If.NET supported both Apache and IIS, guess what we'd be rewriting the server code using...
... and MS knows it. Why would any company want to tie its flag initiative to a ship that has a history of being torpedoed by security holes and flaws? Apache has none of this bad history, and many companies are turning to it as a better webserver solution. Well so is MS.
I think you're talking about laserdiscs, not VCDs. Laserdiscs require a special player, you can't burn/copy them, and they used to be quite spendy I assume your school got them though some kind of grant or something... I remember someone trying to pawn them off on our school as well. Not quite the same as VideoCDs... which can be used in any classroom that has a PC with a CD-ROM drive, can be copied by any computer with a CD-RW drive, and therefore are more reasonable to use.
Actually, no audio player at this time can be cross platform in.NET, because even MS's FCL doesn't include facilities for sound playback. You have to make system calls directly of the system's APIs, which obviously differ from platform to platform.
I don't know what Phonic's using GTK for. I suspect it's even one step further removed from being a true.NET app... maybe the Ogg decoding's written in.NET, but the audio playback's definitely not and the UI may not be either?
But "legal" Tetris there are more than 2 types of pieces. I would venture to say that if you are only given the rectangle and square pieces, you can't possibly lose. The proof's alot easier too.:)
I thought/. readers had quit complaining about that already, because it takes longer to write out a complaint message than to quickly sign up with bogus information if you like, or your own personal bio if you don't.
Not that it bothers me when people complain, because I usually complain about things myself.
I don't think Wessler's saying that the recipient gets to keep the 10 cents. I think it would be more like the famous "email tax," and it would go to something like the Post Office instead, until the tax charge was reversed by the recipient.
Yes, the order is language specific. In some locales the day number comes first in the xx/xx/xx notation. Also note that it is proper English to state the date as Thursday, 4 July, 2002. You'll often see that notation used on newspapers and on television news. I'm not quite sure why they use this format... I don't know for sure, but I think English may be one of the few locales that commonly put the month first, so the news organizations may be trying to be more "international."
Personally, I think Bush's Department of Homeland Defense is going to be a complete crock if nothing is done about this and other computer security issues.
What are you talking about? It's already a complete crock anyway, and is well on its way to becoming two complete crocks.
Very cool. Funny how that doesn't cost $6000, isn't it? I also find it funny that shops who make use of this sanely-priced tool probably *still* charge you $55 to have your engine's codes downloaded.:)
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Yes, it has a strategy, but if you have perfected the strategy it all boils down to a game of chance, with random odds. It might be a good test for your computer's random number generator but that's about it. (And this happens to be the case on both Linux and Windows, except on Windows you have the added risk that your computer might crash while you're playing.
The original point of the article was that smaller shops can't cough up $6000 for that scanner. All they need is the data for the codes, which could be easily obtained by one resourceful person and shared around the community. The fact that the data's bottled up in a $6000 contraption which makes graphs is not really the point.
Hell, if rather than having a check engine light, the car itself just had a readout that showed a log of valve cloggings and electronic malfunctions, I could probably figure it out for myself, buy the part at the parts store, and put it in. But then again that would end this little circle of "pay me and I'll tell you what part is broken" wouldn't it?
I suppose I've just been to too many automotive shops (the $60/hr ones) where they charge me a full hour to hook my car up to a cable for 10 minutes... and then still can't fix the car properly, $500 and several parts later. Codes or not, the best mechanics I've been to never had scanners, and just knew the cars and the problems that they have as they progress though their lifetimes. Think of how much better they'd be if they could have the car tell them what it "thinks" the problem is.
I personally think I shouldn't have to pay $55 for this... because I think you shouldn't have to pay $6000 for that dumb scanner in the first place (times however many of them you have.) The problem is that mechanics are getting ripped off because this equipment they use is so rare.
How hard would it be to connect one of these $6000 machines to a PC with some kind of cable connect? You could have the PC generate every possible code sequence, over the line, then watch the results on the scanner and renter the results into the PC. Viola, the database is yours. Now reverse that connector so the PC can detect the codes, and for the price of whatever cable and port you need to hook up, the (hopefully free) cost of a 486, and a little programming for your UI, you've got yourself an equivalent scanner. And then you can start charging me what that service is actually worth (next to nothing) and make bank because people will actually start having the money to fix thier car everytime the mystery "check engine" light comes on.
An endless roster of security holes allows cyber-thieves to fill up their buffers with credit-card numbers and corporate secrets.
As "neat" as it would be if my Apache logs indicated someone was trying to do a buffer overflow on me using credit card numbers, I think some poor Newsweek reporter got nailed by buzzword overload and just started spewing gibberish.
Maybe next cyber-theves should start using the text of MSNBC articles on buffers.
The cute girl at the checkout counter who totally digs on you might be making a mistake as well, thinking that you have stinky feet rather than knowing the truth... that you use the foot powder on your dog's feet to cure a medical condition. After you leave the store, you call your friend and tell him you think George Bush is an ass and shouldn't be president.
Which situation is more likely to happen to you?... the girl at checkout counter doesn't agree to go out with you when you ask, or the FBI comes banging on your door because they misinterpreted your phone conversation to be about bombing the White House?
Time for a reality check. Try as we may, no one here is Martin Luther King or Einstein. And even if one of you were... think about the size of the public eye that would be on you anyway as one of these people. You'd probably be in the tabloids just as often as the FBI would listen to your fricking phone. So the government likes to watch... so do we, and who the hell cares?
No, because SUV-driving-cell-phone-talking people drive erratically enough and fast enough anyway that they could probably keep within range of one... and in true "Undercover Brother" style, they wouldn't spill thier drink either, although the drink would be a 48oz Starbucks and not orange cola.
Heck, in high school we were told we couldn't launch balloon projects anymore (you know, where you'd put a note on it and ask the finder to call you and let you know where it ended up at) because the environmentalists said some sea critters mistook the deflated balloons for fish, ate them and choked to death.
I once mistook one of your ballons for fish, ate it, and *nearly* choked to death. Either that, or I was eating some food at Applebee's.
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To make things easier for readers, I will summarize what you've said here, paragraph by paragraph:
1) To see if driving over the speed limit is a good idea, you should test it out. If you get into a dangerous situation, and you don't die, then the speed limit is too slow, and it is fine to drive that fast all the time.
2) I sure as hell think so.
3) There are some places where the speedlimit is too fast. The speedlimit should be lowered in these places if they "really want to be safe". I will continue going my usual speed, because if I were to go slower I wouldn't get places fast enough.
4) Most of the time, bad things don't happen. If we all drive faster, the sole benefit will be that we all get places 2 minutes sooner. The downside is that more people will get hurt, and more cars will get banged up. I am OK with that. I forgot to mention that more people will get killed as well... but I am also OK with that, if it means I can get someplace 2 minutes faster.
5) I use my comfortably fitting seatbelt to be sure that when I crash because of speeding, I won't be killed, just maimed.
He never said he was in a traffic jam. This happens to me in 60mph traffic all the time. Then again, it's not my life these people are peddling.
There is no law that makes 2 vehicals, side by side in the same lane illegal. Proof of this fact can be seen in wide right hand lanes that allow drivers to make a right and not be hampered by everyone who is going forward.
In your state that may be true. In Idaho it's illegal to drive a vehicle side-by-side with another vehicle unless there is a lane dividing marker between the two vehicles. I know a person who was cited and ticketed in an accident because she passed stopped traffic on the right in one of these "widened right hand turn areas" you speak of, passing though a "don't block this intersection" area as she did so, and someone making a left hand turn though the "don't block" area hit her car. She fought it, and the law was pulled out, and she lost, because she wasn't driving in a marked lane. Sure it was wide enough, and the city built the street with the widened area intentionally to allow this to happen, but it isn't legal to drive there.
Why would they do that? "They" already survey accidents as they happen from new,improved "stealth" black helicopters that are invisible to the naked eye and make no sound.
I think the box you are talking about is the box that tells your airbag when to, um, deploy? And it monitors your speed and braking so that, um, it doesn't go off when you're going 5 miles an hour a parking lot and you stop suddenly?
Our software's been using web "services" (SOAP calls) for all of its client/server interaction for about 3 years. Of course it doesn't require .NET. On the minus side, we had to choose a platform to build our service server on top of, and we chose IIS (our system also uses ASP and a few other IIS technologies.) If .NET supported both Apache and IIS, guess what we'd be rewriting the server code using...
... and MS knows it. Why would any company want to tie its flag initiative to a ship that has a history of being torpedoed by security holes and flaws? Apache has none of this bad history, and many companies are turning to it as a better webserver solution. Well so is MS.
I think you're talking about laserdiscs, not VCDs. Laserdiscs require a special player, you can't burn/copy them, and they used to be quite spendy I assume your school got them though some kind of grant or something... I remember someone trying to pawn them off on our school as well. Not quite the same as VideoCDs... which can be used in any classroom that has a PC with a CD-ROM drive, can be copied by any computer with a CD-RW drive, and therefore are more reasonable to use.
You need to move your opening tag up to the beginning of your post. It's not displaying correctly in Netscape 4.7.
But... but... but I...
Oh yeah, you're right.
Actually, no audio player at this time can be cross platform in .NET, because even MS's FCL doesn't include facilities for sound playback. You have to make system calls directly of the system's APIs, which obviously differ from platform to platform.
.NET app... maybe the Ogg decoding's written in .NET, but the audio playback's definitely not and the UI may not be either?
I don't know what Phonic's using GTK for. I suspect it's even one step further removed from being a true
But "legal" Tetris there are more than 2 types of pieces. I would venture to say that if you are only given the rectangle and square pieces, you can't possibly lose. The proof's alot easier too. :)
I thought /. readers had quit complaining about that already, because it takes longer to write out a complaint message than to quickly sign up with bogus information if you like, or your own personal bio if you don't.
Not that it bothers me when people complain, because I usually complain about things myself.
I don't think Wessler's saying that the recipient gets to keep the 10 cents. I think it would be more like the famous "email tax," and it would go to something like the Post Office instead, until the tax charge was reversed by the recipient.
Yes, the order is language specific. In some locales the day number comes first in the xx/xx/xx notation. Also note that it is proper English to state the date as Thursday, 4 July, 2002. You'll often see that notation used on newspapers and on television news. I'm not quite sure why they use this format... I don't know for sure, but I think English may be one of the few locales that commonly put the month first, so the news organizations may be trying to be more "international."
Personally, I think Bush's Department of Homeland Defense is going to be a complete crock if nothing is done about this and other computer security issues.
What are you talking about? It's already a complete crock anyway, and is well on its way to becoming two complete crocks.
Very cool. Funny how that doesn't cost $6000, isn't it? I also find it funny that shops who make use of this sanely-priced tool probably *still* charge you $55 to have your engine's codes downloaded. :)
Yes, it has a strategy, but if you have perfected the strategy it all boils down to a game of chance, with random odds. It might be a good test for your computer's random number generator but that's about it. (And this happens to be the case on both Linux and Windows, except on Windows you have the added risk that your computer might crash while you're playing.
Either that, or revise the title and the writeup so that it's actually correct. How many ads did you sell today?
The original point of the article was that smaller shops can't cough up $6000 for that scanner. All they need is the data for the codes, which could be easily obtained by one resourceful person and shared around the community. The fact that the data's bottled up in a $6000 contraption which makes graphs is not really the point.
Hell, if rather than having a check engine light, the car itself just had a readout that showed a log of valve cloggings and electronic malfunctions, I could probably figure it out for myself, buy the part at the parts store, and put it in. But then again that would end this little circle of "pay me and I'll tell you what part is broken" wouldn't it?
I suppose I've just been to too many automotive shops (the $60/hr ones) where they charge me a full hour to hook my car up to a cable for 10 minutes... and then still can't fix the car properly, $500 and several parts later. Codes or not, the best mechanics I've been to never had scanners, and just knew the cars and the problems that they have as they progress though their lifetimes. Think of how much better they'd be if they could have the car tell them what it "thinks" the problem is.
I personally think I shouldn't have to pay $55 for this... because I think you shouldn't have to pay $6000 for that dumb scanner in the first place (times however many of them you have.) The problem is that mechanics are getting ripped off because this equipment they use is so rare.
How hard would it be to connect one of these $6000 machines to a PC with some kind of cable connect? You could have the PC generate every possible code sequence, over the line, then watch the results on the scanner and renter the results into the PC. Viola, the database is yours. Now reverse that connector so the PC can detect the codes, and for the price of whatever cable and port you need to hook up, the (hopefully free) cost of a 486, and a little programming for your UI, you've got yourself an equivalent scanner. And then you can start charging me what that service is actually worth (next to nothing) and make bank because people will actually start having the money to fix thier car everytime the mystery "check engine" light comes on.
I really liked this comment from the article:
An endless roster of security holes allows cyber-thieves to fill up their buffers with credit-card numbers and corporate secrets.
As "neat" as it would be if my Apache logs indicated someone was trying to do a buffer overflow on me using credit card numbers, I think some poor Newsweek reporter got nailed by buzzword overload and just started spewing gibberish.
Maybe next cyber-theves should start using the text of MSNBC articles on buffers.
The cute girl at the checkout counter who totally digs on you might be making a mistake as well, thinking that you have stinky feet rather than knowing the truth... that you use the foot powder on your dog's feet to cure a medical condition. After you leave the store, you call your friend and tell him you think George Bush is an ass and shouldn't be president.
Which situation is more likely to happen to you?... the girl at checkout counter doesn't agree to go out with you when you ask, or the FBI comes banging on your door because they misinterpreted your phone conversation to be about bombing the White House?
Time for a reality check. Try as we may, no one here is Martin Luther King or Einstein. And even if one of you were... think about the size of the public eye that would be on you anyway as one of these people. You'd probably be in the tabloids just as often as the FBI would listen to your fricking phone. So the government likes to watch... so do we, and who the hell cares?
I believe you. You might want to try defragging, it often makes recursing your folders quicker and less painful for your file system.
No, because SUV-driving-cell-phone-talking people drive erratically enough and fast enough anyway that they could probably keep within range of one... and in true "Undercover Brother" style, they wouldn't spill thier drink either, although the drink would be a 48oz Starbucks and not orange cola.
Heck, in high school we were told we couldn't launch balloon projects anymore (you know, where you'd put a note on it and ask the finder to call you and let you know where it ended up at) because the environmentalists said some sea critters mistook the deflated balloons for fish, ate them and choked to death.
I once mistook one of your ballons for fish, ate it, and *nearly* choked to death. Either that, or I was eating some food at Applebee's.