Summer street, winter street, track. They get switched around, traded with friends, etc...
I couldn't care less if they mark them... not a car in the world under $150,000 comes with decent tires, and I'd run tires that came with the car just long enough to get real tires on there.
Damn, I thought you were going to say that maybe these screens would make it possible for me to wake up and find Sharon Stone in a workout outfit in my house...
I know this is just one comment buried in a pile of hundreds, repeating the same thing as many on here, but its worth saying. If you find yourself wondering why someone would pay $13 a month to listen to the radio, I bet you're the same person who asks why someone would pay $13 a month for Tivo since all they're getting is a program guide.
I'll tell you, when the bills come due at the end of the month, the only two I have no issues at all paying are Tivo and XM.
Damn, you had me worried. I'm off to take my technicians class exam in a couple hours... considering I only have a 90% pass rate taking practice tests, I was starting to worry that I might have something like that wrong too!:)
I can't dig up the specific law on it, but I clearly remember reading that its illegal to broadcast anything with the purpose of being received by an unlicensed radio operator, even if they are only listening. (Ie, its not illegal for them to listen, but its illegal for me to transmit something to someone listening who isn't licensed)
Amateur radio regulations explicitly prohibit the use of the radio spectrum for any sort of commercial activity what-so-ever. It also explicity prohibits the transmission of any information in any form of a ciphered form, so SSL, WEP, etc are all illegal on amateur bands. You can't even SSH over a packet radio link.
Federal regulations explicity prohibit "broadcasting" by amateur radio operators, broadcasting being defined as any radio communication intended for reception by the public, unlicensed operators.
The only way I can see this working is if they open up new bands for 802.11 communications that are exclusively for the use of licenced amateur operators, the way they have two extra bands for radio control devices for the exclusive use of amateur operators. That would mean likely more expensive hardware, and I'd wonder exactly how the amateur radio community and FCC would police it.
That ought to be printed on the front page of the NY Times...
Of course the ignorant 50% of the US that voted for our moronic leader, and still think his foreign and economic policies are good for our country probably don't read papers that use words with more than two syllables.
Bah, you chipped S4 owners just get in my way on the race track;-)
Seriously, though, massive power gains are so easy on the S4, its easy to forget its not nearly so easy on most other cars, even other turbocharged cars.
Personally, though, I prefer turning fast and stopping fast to going fast. I've spent hours on end chasing K04'd cars around a race track... the NYT article, unfortunately, leaves out the most important part of tuning a car -- tuning the physical car itself to handle the power its getting.
I to fair, if you're in an office building and can get XM radio, you're almost certainly getting it from a terrestrial repeater, not the satellite. XM (and Sirius) are absolutely directional, and the signals barely penetrate walls.
I get XM fine in my car, and at work (in Boston where according to my SkiFi radio I get nearly full strength terrestrial signal, and no satellite at all, even though I have a south facing window next to my cube).
At home 30 miles outside Boston, I can get a satellite signal with the antenna stuck into any of my south facing windows, but no XM at all anywhere on the other side of my home, which unfortunately includes my living room.
I do *love* XM radio though, but signal-wise its no different than Satellite Tv.
C4 is about 1.4 times more powerful than TNT, but more importantly its got substantially more intial "kick" than TNT... and its that kick that causes the damage in explosive ordinance.
My point is that you don't even need 1000 B29's since weapons have been using much more advanced chemical explosives since well before WWII. Google couldn't find any good references for differences in power between a particular class of conventional explosive and the more commonly used "kilo/mega"ton ratings used in nuclear devices... although I'm sure a little more looking would've turned something up.
While I think you are right -- there would've been radiation in this case, there are a lot of references that do everything but directly state (from the individuals involved, directly -- people like Ted Taylor) that the US developed the ability back in the mid 60's to build low and medium yield nuclear fission devices that produced virtually no radiation and no fallout (using materials around the core to absorb the emitted neutrons, and using a very small amount of fissionable material, so the fuel is fully spent, and none is blown out by the shockwave).
Now, it seems unlikely that that would happen in this case, but if they were (from things I've inferred) to have stored large amounts of coal or something around too large of an amount of processed uranium, and it *accidently* went supercritical and produced a low yield explosion, you could potentially get very little emitted radiaion.
Don't forget, early on in the development of nuclear capabilities, the stuff that had been learned in New Mexico wasn't properly communicated to facilities in other places. Its been well documented that communication problems between those who were researching the physics involved and those building the hardware for processing it (ie, at Oak Ridge) almost led to very bad design decisions that could've resulted in accidental "events".
Salon says: "The Two Towers," the second installment of Peter Jackson's three-film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," is a magisterial caesura. That may be an odd thing to say about a movie that climaxes with one of the most amazing epic battle sequences ever put on film, a movie that, like its predecessor, conjures up new worlds seemingly every time you blink your eyes, a film that keeps dropping wonders into your lap like precious gifts casually given"
What the hell does <i>magisterial caesura</i> mean?
Kartchner Caverns is a perfect example of a case when a state government spent a lot of money and effort researching and protecting a site of significant (in this case) natural importance without disclosing any of the information to the public until the "right" time. In this case, even the fact that the money was being spent, and what it was being spent on was, from my understanding, kept completely secret.
I'm sure there will be people on here screaming that the government has no right to keep the fruits of labor paid for by taxpayers money a secret, but it sounds like NY, just like Arizona, is doing it to protect the sites they have invested a lot of time and energy in.
Sorry, this might be an unpopular view because Linus works there, and all, but no company needs my support if they've got a product I find useful for a price that is competitive with other companies, and I won't waste my money supporting someone else's unsucessful ideas, just because they've got cool technology or cool employees.
All the commercial passengers they could possibly send up at twenty million a pop doesn't come even remotely close to paying for anything -- in fact, it wastes money, because the cost to them is far more than that.
Russia does that for one reason, and one reason only -- that money can help them in the very short term to pay off debts that are due, and can push the actual cost of the flight off even longer, and it provides publicity which clearly they hope will cause NASA to step in and foot the bill for the stuff that they're not getting done (as we've been doing all along).
This space race was lost by both sides before it even started. Killing the ISS would probably be the best thing NASA could do. Maybe our tax dollars and national efforts can do to something that is actually productive. There is little in the way of new technologies being developed for the ISS, and essentially zero science being done on the station because of budget cut backs.
Sad to say it, if they sell a box with those features, thats as easy and convenient to use as my Tivo, my Tivo may be relegated to my bedroom instead of my living room...
I bought a bunch of those as Christmas gifts last year, I think I payed like $18 each or something.
They're cool... its a cloned NES with 30 or so games (plus the ability to start on higher levels, which they count towards that 180). Illegal, but fun for the price. Good gift for gen-x'ers who played those when they were kids.
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Summer street, winter street, track. They get switched around, traded with friends, etc...
I couldn't care less if they mark them... not a car in the world under $150,000 comes with decent tires, and I'd run tires that came with the car just long enough to get real tires on there.
Damn, I thought you were going to say that maybe these screens would make it possible for me to wake up and find Sharon Stone in a workout outfit in my house...
I know this is just one comment buried in a pile of hundreds, repeating the same thing as many on here, but its worth saying. If you find yourself wondering why someone would pay $13 a month to listen to the radio, I bet you're the same person who asks why someone would pay $13 a month for Tivo since all they're getting is a program guide.
I'll tell you, when the bills come due at the end of the month, the only two I have no issues at all paying are Tivo and XM.
Damn, you had me worried. I'm off to take my technicians class exam in a couple hours... considering I only have a 90% pass rate taking practice tests, I was starting to worry that I might have something like that wrong too! :)
I can't dig up the specific law on it, but I clearly remember reading that its illegal to broadcast anything with the purpose of being received by an unlicensed radio operator, even if they are only listening. (Ie, its not illegal for them to listen, but its illegal for me to transmit something to someone listening who isn't licensed)
Amateur radio regulations explicitly prohibit the use of the radio spectrum for any sort of commercial activity what-so-ever. It also explicity prohibits the transmission of any information in any form of a ciphered form, so SSL, WEP, etc are all illegal on amateur bands. You can't even SSH over a packet radio link.
Federal regulations explicity prohibit "broadcasting" by amateur radio operators, broadcasting being defined as any radio communication intended for reception by the public, unlicensed operators.
The only way I can see this working is if they open up new bands for 802.11 communications that are exclusively for the use of licenced amateur operators, the way they have two extra bands for radio control devices for the exclusive use of amateur operators. That would mean likely more expensive hardware, and I'd wonder exactly how the amateur radio community and FCC would police it.
That ought to be printed on the front page of the NY Times...
Of course the ignorant 50% of the US that voted for our moronic leader, and still think his foreign and economic policies are good for our country probably don't read papers that use words with more than two syllables.
Bah, you chipped S4 owners just get in my way on the race track ;-)
Seriously, though, massive power gains are so easy on the S4, its easy to forget its not nearly so easy on most other cars, even other turbocharged cars.
Personally, though, I prefer turning fast and stopping fast to going fast. I've spent hours on end chasing K04'd cars around a race track... the NYT article, unfortunately, leaves out the most important part of tuning a car -- tuning the physical car itself to handle the power its getting.
I to fair? Ugh, mental note, no posting on /. before coffee... I meant "To be fair".
I to fair, if you're in an office building and can get XM radio, you're almost certainly getting it from a terrestrial repeater, not the satellite. XM (and Sirius) are absolutely directional, and the signals barely penetrate walls.
I get XM fine in my car, and at work (in Boston where according to my SkiFi radio I get nearly full strength terrestrial signal, and no satellite at all, even though I have a south facing window next to my cube).
At home 30 miles outside Boston, I can get a satellite signal with the antenna stuck into any of my south facing windows, but no XM at all anywhere on the other side of my home, which unfortunately includes my living room.
I do *love* XM radio though, but signal-wise its no different than Satellite Tv.
C4 is about 1.4 times more powerful than TNT, but more importantly its got substantially more intial "kick" than TNT... and its that kick that causes the damage in explosive ordinance.
My point is that you don't even need 1000 B29's since weapons have been using much more advanced chemical explosives since well before WWII. Google couldn't find any good references for differences in power between a particular class of conventional explosive and the more commonly used "kilo/mega"ton ratings used in nuclear devices... although I'm sure a little more looking would've turned something up.
While I think you are right -- there would've been radiation in this case, there are a lot of references that do everything but directly state (from the individuals involved, directly -- people like Ted Taylor) that the US developed the ability back in the mid 60's to build low and medium yield nuclear fission devices that produced virtually no radiation and no fallout (using materials around the core to absorb the emitted neutrons, and using a very small amount of fissionable material, so the fuel is fully spent, and none is blown out by the shockwave).
Now, it seems unlikely that that would happen in this case, but if they were (from things I've inferred) to have stored large amounts of coal or something around too large of an amount of processed uranium, and it *accidently* went supercritical and produced a low yield explosion, you could potentially get very little emitted radiaion.
Don't forget, early on in the development of nuclear capabilities, the stuff that had been learned in New Mexico wasn't properly communicated to facilities in other places. Its been well documented that communication problems between those who were researching the physics involved and those building the hardware for processing it (ie, at Oak Ridge) almost led to very bad design decisions that could've resulted in accidental "events".
Salon says: "The Two Towers," the second installment of Peter Jackson's three-film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," is a magisterial caesura. That may be an odd thing to say about a movie that climaxes with one of the most amazing epic battle sequences ever put on film, a movie that, like its predecessor, conjures up new worlds seemingly every time you blink your eyes, a film that keeps dropping wonders into your lap like precious gifts casually given"
What the hell does <i>magisterial caesura</i> mean?
Kartchner Caverns is a perfect example of a case when a state government spent a lot of money and effort researching and protecting a site of significant (in this case) natural importance without disclosing any of the information to the public until the "right" time. In this case, even the fact that the money was being spent, and what it was being spent on was, from my understanding, kept completely secret.
I'm sure there will be people on here screaming that the government has no right to keep the fruits of labor paid for by taxpayers money a secret, but it sounds like NY, just like Arizona, is doing it to protect the sites they have invested a lot of time and energy in.
You do realize that the vast majority of useful data that has come out of those deep space probes hasn't been photographs, right?
Sorry, this might be an unpopular view because Linus works there, and all, but no company needs my support if they've got a product I find useful for a price that is competitive with other companies, and I won't waste my money supporting someone else's unsucessful ideas, just because they've got cool technology or cool employees.
All the commercial passengers they could possibly send up at twenty million a pop doesn't come even remotely close to paying for anything -- in fact, it wastes money, because the cost to them is far more than that.
Russia does that for one reason, and one reason only -- that money can help them in the very short term to pay off debts that are due, and can push the actual cost of the flight off even longer, and it provides publicity which clearly they hope will cause NASA to step in and foot the bill for the stuff that they're not getting done (as we've been doing all along).
This space race was lost by both sides before it even started. Killing the ISS would probably be the best thing NASA could do. Maybe our tax dollars and national efforts can do to something that is actually productive. There is little in the way of new technologies being developed for the ISS, and essentially zero science being done on the station because of budget cut backs.
Do not trust content from the BBC. ...
Did it work?
Yes.
No it said Bush has the *brains* of genetically modified corn. *That* explains a lot.
*please* let this not be vaporware...
Sad to say it, if they sell a box with those features, thats as easy and convenient to use as my Tivo, my Tivo may be relegated to my bedroom instead of my living room...
You mean like this?
I bought a bunch of those as Christmas gifts last year, I think I payed like $18 each or something.
They're cool... its a cloned NES with 30 or so games (plus the ability to start on higher levels, which they count towards that 180). Illegal, but fun for the price. Good gift for gen-x'ers who played those when they were kids.
The fact that clearly no one who works at slashdot reads their site, or the fact that 2/3 of the people reading this article don't either.
;-)
FWIW, people, the replies on the story from this morning are better than these.