If he uses Hibernation either a swap partition or a swap file (if you have uswsusp installed) is a requirement. The reason it's usually recommended that swap partitions are to be at least as big as your RAM (more often I hear twice as large as available RAM) is so that when the system is being placed into hibernation, the entire contents and state of RAM can be written to disk before the system powers down.
You mean to tell me that a site hosted on a Pentium MMX 200 can make it to 180+ comments on/.'s front page and not turn itself into a molten glob of burning white hot metal? If they're running their site on MenuetOS, I'm sold!
Technology is supposed to make life easier, not harder.
That may be true, but the current track record of technology is that when it makes things easier for the user it also makes things easier for the hacker.
Don't want a smartphone? All the capabilities stated above could in theory be placed into a relatively small dedicated device that is only used for Authentication purposes. Hell, instead of even having an onboard battery, the device could have a cord that plugs into the POS device and transfers data while receiving power that way.
I personally want something more secure than the Swipe & PIN that my Debit Card uses with the protection that comes with Swipe and Sign that's the current method used by American Credit Card companies. Like I said, Chip and PIN is only mildly more secure than Swipe & PIN and I feel that my proposed method would bring security to a more comfortable level, at least for me.
I still don't like Chip & PIN. It's better than swipe and sign of current credit cards, but it's not much more secure than using a Debit Card at the terminals now, which is Mag-stripe Swipe and PIN here. I'd rather have cards with 2FA. Sure, my idea requires a smartphone with data access, but a business needs some kind of data-line to process credit card transactions now anyway. For my Idea to work replace the card machines with a type that has a keypad and provides NFC or Bluetooth access, or uses a screen to display a QR code; similar to the parent's idea so far... Now the device doesn't even have to be a smartphone... just smartphone like. Smartphones now are capable of using fingerprint readers so a payment device only would need a Camera, NFC radio, Cell Radio (possibly optional, but would make SMS messaging viable), WiFi radio, Fingerprint reader, and a TFT (maybe GPS too...).
My idea goes something like this: POS has rung up all the customer's items and requests payment. POS Pay-Pad Pops up the total and a QR code on the screen and activates the NFC Radio. Customer can either use the NFC or Camera on their device to get the relevant information (Store Name/Number/Location, Total amount due, any other pertinent info), Device then uses whatever data connection it has available (POS NFC, POS Bluetooth, Wi-Fi hotspot, Cell Data, SMS...etc) to send the information to the requisite Authentication company (MC/V/AmEx/Dsc/Store Card Auth; possibly chosen from a menu on device), Authenticator application then requests fingerprint from user to authenticate with. Upon successful authentication a confirmation page would come up where the user can verify all the information received from the QR code / NFC transfer and make sure it's right (the information would not be what was stored from the initial read but received again from the AuthCo to ensure that the data wasn't corrupted in transfer). Re-authenticating by fingerprint confirms the info, hitting a physical button will cancel it. Upon successful second authentication, a one time use pin number would appear on the screen for the user to punch into the POS terminal keypad. When the POS receives the PIN and verifies it against information it just received from the Authentication Company, it accepts payment and marks the transaction complete. The only time this whole scenario would fail is during data outages, which could be mitigated by having a physical card as a backup for performing imprints and manual processing on, which the user can possibly log in their authenticator application.
This is just a thought, but I'm just a dreamer. I hope I'm not the only one.
No, not authorized is a lighter ruling. It means tomorrow congress can pass a law explicitly allowing it, and there would be no problem cuz it wasn't ruled unconstitutional.
Not authorized isn't a lighter ruling, it's a very damning ruling against the NSA, and it's the only ruling that can be made in this case simply for the reason that there was no law on the books where Congress gave authorization for the NSA to operate like this. To put it succinctly: The NSA was ruled to be operating outside the law... which effectively makes them criminals (won't be holding my breath for any actual prosecutions, though).
Now, if Congress goes back and creates a law that Authorizes the NSA to operate in this manner, then the issue can be brought back to court for Judgement to be made on the constitutionality of the law. Then that verdict will hold a more permanent weight on the future of government surveillance and the kind of laws Congress is able to write around it.
It's a reference to the (IMHO unprofessional and tasteless; the Hulk should sue) title graphic that Arse Technica (sic) used for their initial story. Until this post, the only way to get to that image from here is to click the link that goes back to the previous slashdot article, and then click that link there.
It also depends on how many internet users you need to support. For a single person, having a 30/30 or even a 50/5 should be more than adequate for the modern web, where you're not going to notice much of any slowdowns. I have 4 very heavy internet users in my household, including myself, and we were consistently choking on Cox's 50/5. To give you an idea, there are 2 people who like their Netflix, 1 person downloading and uploading class assignments (sometimes very large projects), and 1 person who needs ready VPN access to his employer with VOIP capability as well as does a lot of hobby and Open Source development (me). All 4 of us are also heavy gamers both online and offline (almost every Nintendo System and 3 separate X-box 360's in the house, along with at least 1 computer per person, though if I were inclined to share there'd be 2 computers for 3 of us, plus several 'Bones and networked 'duinoes).
For this I went to Cox's second to best tier which was 100/10 (actual speedtests performed to my personal VPS as well as various speed checkers on the web were reporting in the neighborhood of 130/17). This speed was more than adequate for us, but we found ourselves bumping and jumping the 300GB soft limit almost monthly with various game updates and downloads (If we didn't have the gaming addiction we do, we'd have been fine..and no, none of us do the CoD thing, though I'm getting sick of the roommate's Destiny obsession...) so we have moved to the Top Tier which gives 150/25 and a 400GB soft limit (the same speed tests have been averaging at 132/33, though I'm fairly certain it's just the way I have to run the cables in the crawlspace to get signal to every outlet that's causing the download degradation, and right now I'm renting so it's not really worth it for me to re-run new lines. I'm more concerned with increasing the internal wireless bandwidth by adding a dual-band access point as the router is getting overloaded on its single 2.4GHz band channel trying to support all the devices that are trying to get a piece of it).
No idjit, it's called: Get that chip off your shoulder and focus your resume and your interviews into all about what you can do for that company. It took me 13 fucking years to learn that one myself, and I got absolutely nowhere until a brain injury completely broke the part that had the "victim chip". It also broke the part of my brain that processes fear. The upside, I don't play what-if scenarios to death in my head anymore. I'd say that I realized that it was an exercise in futility... but it's more a switch got flipped where I don't care one way or another anymore. The downside... it's really hard for me to empathize with other people. I can do it, but it takes a lot of effort, now. Another downside is now I have trouble pronouncing larger words and sometimes finding the right words for what I want to convey.
The point here is people are just as able to sense fear as dogs are. If you go into the interview and have a meek attitude or appear too desperate, you're gonna be circle filed in anything but the smaller Mom & Pops (and if you're too bad, even then). If you go in and make a showing like you'd be able to own the position, and it wouldn't be too much skin off your back if you didn't get it, your prospect just shot up considerably. A humble showing isn't going to get you anywhere, and neither is a "shit don't stink" showing. You've gotta show that you've got the cajones to handle anything that comes at you, but the personality that's gonna help those around you to not be completely put off.
Outside lane means the right, slow vehicle lane. Where the Semi's are supposed to be if they're not passing anyone. The law you're talking about only applies to the Inside left hand lane, otherwise known as the hammer lane. If you're just cruising there and you've got a faster vehicle coming up behind you, you have to move over or risk being pulled over.
The really screwed up thing about Georgia: If you're cruising 82 in a 70 in the left hand lane and you've got traffic behind you, you can be ticketed by anyone (municipal, county, or state) for speeding, And get a separate ticket for impeding traffic. If you're doing 80 or less (81 can also be dismissed as reasonable doubt in court without penalty to the officer or municipality/county due to the +/- 1mph error margin given to ALL speed detection devices), municipal and county enforcement can only get you for impeding traffic, though state still has the legal ability to issue both.
Don't like it? Fine no Disney/ABC/ESPN channels for you! And no Marvel or Star Wars titles. And no Muppets while we're at it.
And nothing of value was lost... (I was almost going to say "except for maybe the Marvel movies", but then I realized: outside of their initial theater runs, I've not watched a damn one of them aside from filler noise at friends houses, and I have no desire to.)
What next - don't mourn the passing of your child - in another universe they might be alive? Fat lot of good that does for anyone here - after all, neither their nor their child's doppelganger in another universe would be an exact replica.
Wasn't that the core plot to Fringe? That the entire series wouldn't have existed if a crackpot physicist didn't muck up the balance of things by stealing a different version of his kid from a universe where he didn't die, thus starting an interuniversal war?
On a different note: Is there any character that John Noble has played that wasn't some kind of Crackpot? If not, what does that say for the psyche of Mr. Noble himself?
I know this is an FP troll...but it may not be as off topic to the summary as people, even the troll him/her self, may think (regardless of the horrible grammar). The dipshit spouting this dream is advocating a type of Rockstar Teacher model. That's too much power for one person to have. "The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world." The critical point of having multiple teachers of multiple backgrounds educating children through their lives is so that the child is (theoretically) not exposed to a single point of view in their development. Having this singular person pushing a singular agenda over the minds of millions of children at a time is begging for Oceania to become a reality. In effect, the teacher on the thousands of big screens will be effectively telling millions of children: "Kneel my peasants. I am the King!"
I very well could be a victim of Poe's Law and didn't realize it. Re-reading your post with the knowledge that you were being sarcastic...yeah. It's subtle. Very subtle if you're not paying attention (like I wasn't). Good play.
Is... is that what you're talking about? $1300 for at best a 1.3 GHZ dual-core Intel M (I don't care about "turbo" freq)? Dell has a comparable one for $200 and that gets you a 2.5 GHz dual-core Celeron at worst. The Dell is what fills options 1,2, and 3 above. The Mac breaks 1 & 3. 4 & 5 can most likely be fixed for another $100-400 to pay someone to either rip out 8.1 or skin it to look like XP. You're right in that Apple is Targeting the basic need user. But they're not targeting the basic need user with a limited budget ( the kind of Customer jbolden is talking about above), they're targeting people with more money than sense and a distinct need for "New Shiny"...as they've always done.
And to your last point... Do you really honestly believe that OSX is even CLOSE to XP's interface? The Closest Windows UI that anyone says OSX replicates best is Windows 7, and even then...there's no Start Menu. I've worked with computer illiterate people that had to migrate from XP for one reason or another. The Start Menu has always been critical to the flow they've been comfortable with for 20 years and you wouldn't believe how much teeth pulling was involved to get them to understand the concept of the Aero Taskbar. I mean seriously, have you ever worked with a Windows 9x+ box? Ever? The only MS created interface that even remotely looked or behaved like Mac OS and later OSX was Progman of 3.x fame.
The Tahoe/Yukon hybrid... now there's a definition for useless. Thing didn't get any better mileage than the models that just had AFM and it was unjustifiably more expensive for what you got out of it.
they are in for a surprise on how little you can put in an SUV, though
I dunno about this. My little S-10 Blazer was able to transport a queen futon without much trouble fitting, aside from having to have the window Hatch Open and bungies to secure/flag it so it was legal for transport. My crossover (Chevy Traverse) has just as much volume.....but (un)surprisingly they engineered the freakin thing into an egg-shape that wouldn't let the futon fit in at any angle. Also, having the hatch instead of a gate / window, I wouldn't have been able to let the thing hang out the back either. Piece of crap, I wish I never got the fucker.
Please tell me there's at least someone on this site that didn't take me overly serious? I know there's a lot of people here that have trouble with humor..but, I thought I was being rather blatant myself.
Still haven't proven me wrong. I'm talking about an honest SUV, where they sit with enough ground clearance that I can take a dolley, lie down under the thing and more or less move from front to rear without hitting my head on anything. A Highlander is an SUV. A Nissan Pathfinder is an SUV. An SUV requires a better than delicate drivetrain and suspension to be able to handle moderate off-roading.
CUV's all of 'em. You want an SUV from Ford, nothing smaller than an Explorer, and some of the new ones are getting on the edge of small. Anything smaller than that but bigger than a car is a Crossover. They don't have the drivetrain to survive major offroading like the true SUV's do.
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If he uses Hibernation either a swap partition or a swap file (if you have uswsusp installed) is a requirement. The reason it's usually recommended that swap partitions are to be at least as big as your RAM (more often I hear twice as large as available RAM) is so that when the system is being placed into hibernation, the entire contents and state of RAM can be written to disk before the system powers down.
You mean to tell me that a site hosted on a Pentium MMX 200 can make it to 180+ comments on /.'s front page and not turn itself into a molten glob of burning white hot metal? If they're running their site on MenuetOS, I'm sold!
Ever since the OMG Ponies! incident... Slashdot just hasn't been the same...
Technology is supposed to make life easier, not harder.
That may be true, but the current track record of technology is that when it makes things easier for the user it also makes things easier for the hacker.
Don't want a smartphone? All the capabilities stated above could in theory be placed into a relatively small dedicated device that is only used for Authentication purposes. Hell, instead of even having an onboard battery, the device could have a cord that plugs into the POS device and transfers data while receiving power that way.
I personally want something more secure than the Swipe & PIN that my Debit Card uses with the protection that comes with Swipe and Sign that's the current method used by American Credit Card companies. Like I said, Chip and PIN is only mildly more secure than Swipe & PIN and I feel that my proposed method would bring security to a more comfortable level, at least for me.
I still don't like Chip & PIN. It's better than swipe and sign of current credit cards, but it's not much more secure than using a Debit Card at the terminals now, which is Mag-stripe Swipe and PIN here. I'd rather have cards with 2FA. Sure, my idea requires a smartphone with data access, but a business needs some kind of data-line to process credit card transactions now anyway. For my Idea to work replace the card machines with a type that has a keypad and provides NFC or Bluetooth access, or uses a screen to display a QR code; similar to the parent's idea so far... Now the device doesn't even have to be a smartphone... just smartphone like. Smartphones now are capable of using fingerprint readers so a payment device only would need a Camera, NFC radio, Cell Radio (possibly optional, but would make SMS messaging viable), WiFi radio, Fingerprint reader, and a TFT (maybe GPS too...).
My idea goes something like this: POS has rung up all the customer's items and requests payment. POS Pay-Pad Pops up the total and a QR code on the screen and activates the NFC Radio. Customer can either use the NFC or Camera on their device to get the relevant information (Store Name/Number/Location, Total amount due, any other pertinent info), Device then uses whatever data connection it has available (POS NFC, POS Bluetooth, Wi-Fi hotspot, Cell Data, SMS...etc) to send the information to the requisite Authentication company (MC/V/AmEx/Dsc/Store Card Auth; possibly chosen from a menu on device), Authenticator application then requests fingerprint from user to authenticate with. Upon successful authentication a confirmation page would come up where the user can verify all the information received from the QR code / NFC transfer and make sure it's right (the information would not be what was stored from the initial read but received again from the AuthCo to ensure that the data wasn't corrupted in transfer). Re-authenticating by fingerprint confirms the info, hitting a physical button will cancel it. Upon successful second authentication, a one time use pin number would appear on the screen for the user to punch into the POS terminal keypad. When the POS receives the PIN and verifies it against information it just received from the Authentication Company, it accepts payment and marks the transaction complete. The only time this whole scenario would fail is during data outages, which could be mitigated by having a physical card as a backup for performing imprints and manual processing on, which the user can possibly log in their authenticator application.
This is just a thought, but I'm just a dreamer. I hope I'm not the only one.
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And maybe at some point we'll get the intelligence to develop a hover system that will help us get over those pesky stairs...
No, not authorized is a lighter ruling. It means tomorrow congress can pass a law explicitly allowing it, and there would be no problem cuz it wasn't ruled unconstitutional.
Not authorized isn't a lighter ruling, it's a very damning ruling against the NSA, and it's the only ruling that can be made in this case simply for the reason that there was no law on the books where Congress gave authorization for the NSA to operate like this. To put it succinctly: The NSA was ruled to be operating outside the law... which effectively makes them criminals (won't be holding my breath for any actual prosecutions, though).
Now, if Congress goes back and creates a law that Authorizes the NSA to operate in this manner, then the issue can be brought back to court for Judgement to be made on the constitutionality of the law. Then that verdict will hold a more permanent weight on the future of government surveillance and the kind of laws Congress is able to write around it.
It's a reference to the (IMHO unprofessional and tasteless; the Hulk should sue) title graphic that Arse Technica (sic) used for their initial story. Until this post, the only way to get to that image from here is to click the link that goes back to the previous slashdot article, and then click that link there.
It also depends on how many internet users you need to support. For a single person, having a 30/30 or even a 50/5 should be more than adequate for the modern web, where you're not going to notice much of any slowdowns. I have 4 very heavy internet users in my household, including myself, and we were consistently choking on Cox's 50/5. To give you an idea, there are 2 people who like their Netflix, 1 person downloading and uploading class assignments (sometimes very large projects), and 1 person who needs ready VPN access to his employer with VOIP capability as well as does a lot of hobby and Open Source development (me). All 4 of us are also heavy gamers both online and offline (almost every Nintendo System and 3 separate X-box 360's in the house, along with at least 1 computer per person, though if I were inclined to share there'd be 2 computers for 3 of us, plus several 'Bones and networked 'duinoes).
For this I went to Cox's second to best tier which was 100/10 (actual speedtests performed to my personal VPS as well as various speed checkers on the web were reporting in the neighborhood of 130/17). This speed was more than adequate for us, but we found ourselves bumping and jumping the 300GB soft limit almost monthly with various game updates and downloads (If we didn't have the gaming addiction we do, we'd have been fine..and no, none of us do the CoD thing, though I'm getting sick of the roommate's Destiny obsession...) so we have moved to the Top Tier which gives 150/25 and a 400GB soft limit (the same speed tests have been averaging at 132/33, though I'm fairly certain it's just the way I have to run the cables in the crawlspace to get signal to every outlet that's causing the download degradation, and right now I'm renting so it's not really worth it for me to re-run new lines. I'm more concerned with increasing the internal wireless bandwidth by adding a dual-band access point as the router is getting overloaded on its single 2.4GHz band channel trying to support all the devices that are trying to get a piece of it).
No idjit, it's called: Get that chip off your shoulder and focus your resume and your interviews into all about what you can do for that company. It took me 13 fucking years to learn that one myself, and I got absolutely nowhere until a brain injury completely broke the part that had the "victim chip". It also broke the part of my brain that processes fear. The upside, I don't play what-if scenarios to death in my head anymore. I'd say that I realized that it was an exercise in futility... but it's more a switch got flipped where I don't care one way or another anymore. The downside... it's really hard for me to empathize with other people. I can do it, but it takes a lot of effort, now. Another downside is now I have trouble pronouncing larger words and sometimes finding the right words for what I want to convey.
The point here is people are just as able to sense fear as dogs are. If you go into the interview and have a meek attitude or appear too desperate, you're gonna be circle filed in anything but the smaller Mom & Pops (and if you're too bad, even then). If you go in and make a showing like you'd be able to own the position, and it wouldn't be too much skin off your back if you didn't get it, your prospect just shot up considerably. A humble showing isn't going to get you anywhere, and neither is a "shit don't stink" showing. You've gotta show that you've got the cajones to handle anything that comes at you, but the personality that's gonna help those around you to not be completely put off.
Did you drink Coffee today? Who mows your lawn? Do you eat out at expensive restaurants every lunch?
Yes. But it's ok because it wasn't harvested by a mexican, it was harvested by a civet.
Nobody... I have a car parked out there somewhere, just can't see it.
I eat out almost every night... My wife loves it too. No expensive restaurant required.
Outside lane means the right, slow vehicle lane. Where the Semi's are supposed to be if they're not passing anyone. The law you're talking about only applies to the Inside left hand lane, otherwise known as the hammer lane. If you're just cruising there and you've got a faster vehicle coming up behind you, you have to move over or risk being pulled over.
The really screwed up thing about Georgia: If you're cruising 82 in a 70 in the left hand lane and you've got traffic behind you, you can be ticketed by anyone (municipal, county, or state) for speeding, And get a separate ticket for impeding traffic. If you're doing 80 or less (81 can also be dismissed as reasonable doubt in court without penalty to the officer or municipality/county due to the +/- 1mph error margin given to ALL speed detection devices), municipal and county enforcement can only get you for impeding traffic, though state still has the legal ability to issue both.
Don't like it? Fine no Disney/ABC/ESPN channels for you! And no Marvel or Star Wars titles. And no Muppets while we're at it.
And nothing of value was lost... (I was almost going to say "except for maybe the Marvel movies", but then I realized: outside of their initial theater runs, I've not watched a damn one of them aside from filler noise at friends houses, and I have no desire to.)
What next - don't mourn the passing of your child - in another universe they might be alive? Fat lot of good that does for anyone here - after all, neither their nor their child's doppelganger in another universe would be an exact replica.
Wasn't that the core plot to Fringe? That the entire series wouldn't have existed if a crackpot physicist didn't muck up the balance of things by stealing a different version of his kid from a universe where he didn't die, thus starting an interuniversal war?
On a different note: Is there any character that John Noble has played that wasn't some kind of Crackpot? If not, what does that say for the psyche of Mr. Noble himself?
I know this is an FP troll...but it may not be as off topic to the summary as people, even the troll him/her self, may think (regardless of the horrible grammar). The dipshit spouting this dream is advocating a type of Rockstar Teacher model. That's too much power for one person to have. "The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world." The critical point of having multiple teachers of multiple backgrounds educating children through their lives is so that the child is (theoretically) not exposed to a single point of view in their development. Having this singular person pushing a singular agenda over the minds of millions of children at a time is begging for Oceania to become a reality. In effect, the teacher on the thousands of big screens will be effectively telling millions of children: "Kneel my peasants. I am the King!"
For some reason I thought the Highlander was a body on frame. I stand corrected. Thanks!
It's like there's unbridled chaos and anarchy over there... Almost sounds like a warzone.
I very well could be a victim of Poe's Law and didn't realize it. Re-reading your post with the knowledge that you were being sarcastic...yeah. It's subtle. Very subtle if you're not paying attention (like I wasn't). Good play.
New MacBook??
Is... is that what you're talking about? $1300 for at best a 1.3 GHZ dual-core Intel M (I don't care about "turbo" freq)? Dell has a comparable one for $200 and that gets you a 2.5 GHz dual-core Celeron at worst. The Dell is what fills options 1,2, and 3 above. The Mac breaks 1 & 3. 4 & 5 can most likely be fixed for another $100-400 to pay someone to either rip out 8.1 or skin it to look like XP. You're right in that Apple is Targeting the basic need user. But they're not targeting the basic need user with a limited budget ( the kind of Customer jbolden is talking about above), they're targeting people with more money than sense and a distinct need for "New Shiny"...as they've always done.
And to your last point... Do you really honestly believe that OSX is even CLOSE to XP's interface? The Closest Windows UI that anyone says OSX replicates best is Windows 7, and even then...there's no Start Menu. I've worked with computer illiterate people that had to migrate from XP for one reason or another. The Start Menu has always been critical to the flow they've been comfortable with for 20 years and you wouldn't believe how much teeth pulling was involved to get them to understand the concept of the Aero Taskbar. I mean seriously, have you ever worked with a Windows 9x+ box? Ever? The only MS created interface that even remotely looked or behaved like Mac OS and later OSX was Progman of 3.x fame.
The Tahoe/Yukon hybrid... now there's a definition for useless. Thing didn't get any better mileage than the models that just had AFM and it was unjustifiably more expensive for what you got out of it.
they are in for a surprise on how little you can put in an SUV, though
I dunno about this. My little S-10 Blazer was able to transport a queen futon without much trouble fitting, aside from having to have the window Hatch Open and bungies to secure/flag it so it was legal for transport. My crossover (Chevy Traverse) has just as much volume.....but (un)surprisingly they engineered the freakin thing into an egg-shape that wouldn't let the futon fit in at any angle. Also, having the hatch instead of a gate / window, I wouldn't have been able to let the thing hang out the back either. Piece of crap, I wish I never got the fucker.
Please tell me there's at least someone on this site that didn't take me overly serious? I know there's a lot of people here that have trouble with humor..but, I thought I was being rather blatant myself.
Honda CRV = CUV.
Toyota Rav4 = CUV
Still haven't proven me wrong. I'm talking about an honest SUV, where they sit with enough ground clearance that I can take a dolley, lie down under the thing and more or less move from front to rear without hitting my head on anything. A Highlander is an SUV. A Nissan Pathfinder is an SUV. An SUV requires a better than delicate drivetrain and suspension to be able to handle moderate off-roading.
CUV's all of 'em. You want an SUV from Ford, nothing smaller than an Explorer, and some of the new ones are getting on the edge of small. Anything smaller than that but bigger than a car is a Crossover. They don't have the drivetrain to survive major offroading like the true SUV's do.