The TDI was the second diesel engine that VW designed from the ground up as a diesel. The 1.8L high compression engine in the rabits (aka golf to the rest of the world) was a modification of their first diesel engine. At that time most companies were converting gas engines to diesel but VW did it the other way around.
The general rule for diesels is that when they get submerged you don't turn them off. If they can breath and get fuel, let them run since they don't seem to care.
Maybe/. should have a link at the top of every page that will crash a spamers server a day. One just have to be careful that the offending site isn't use banner ads.
I hear its staying cool. If anyone ever finds a way to unfreeze and reattach it, he is going to feel embarrassed when he finds out Disney's frozen body was only a rumor.
I can't write any more as I'm off to take a free IQ test.
This won't help SSL because SSL uses a different type of crypto made of up several parts. SSL can use DES (not DES-3 but a DES-3 engine should be able to do DES). SSL also uses MD5 and SHA which this device can do so maybe that would help some. The chip does not do the public key things that are required for cert signing and inital key exchange. Once the keys have been exchanged the hardware might be able to speed up some of the other bits but the overhead to talk to the card may be more than its worth.
>... will just require that all purchasers of lead pipes undergo psychological profiling prior to the sale
Didn't the Germans already do a very efficient job of this back in about 193[89]? At least kids in the US today aren't getting gassed over the results -- yet.
It can break up a major oil monopoly in just decades. It can break up TPC (the phone company) in just years. It's almost immune to bribes, corruption and interference from congresscritters!
How much would you pay for this wonderful device? The government has paid billions. Other have bought it for hundreds of millions. It can now be your for the low, low price of $70,000,000. Yes, that's less than you lost on your last M$FT stock drop. Buy yours today!
Call 1-800-gvt-bribes to gets yours today (please have your credit card handy)
<small print>Licenses terms: This product may not be compatible with your problem. It is not guaranteed to function at all. This product requires you to have current licenses of W2K</small print>
The roller wheel has been used on cad systems for many years and aircraft controls for 5 decades.
Excel was designed and written for the Mac. As far as I know its the only thing they ever designed. It would not supprise me a bit if excel wasn't deisgned by MS but by some group inside or close to Apple.
I'm not sure the American diet is worse than the rest of the world. In many parts of the world a high fat diet is considered a good thing. I do suspect it is the inactivity that is the real problem. Inactivity results in being isolated from others which can result in way too many times of emotional problems which can result in eating disorders and a circle of problems.
I'm an American living in Australia. I don't see very many fat people here at all. I also see hundreds of people walk by my front door every day. There are more McDonalds per person in Oz than anywhere else in the world and unlike the US you can often see women eating in them. Its hard to find low fat foods here and I expect that some of the local diet would kill far more people if their activity levels were anywhere close to that in the US. I've been wondering if the activity level here is related to the fact that the TV is very, very bad.
I used to use an old 3081 that was rated at about 1 mip. It was much slower than the most pathetic sparcstation I could find with calculations...you could almost hear the bits flip over. It did how ever have a very impressive up time (409968000 seconds at least if not twice that) and it also could move lots of data between devices very quickly. As far as I know the box never had a second of uptime since it was installed.
Of course the management loved ranking machines by MIPS or MIPS/sq ft. The new (at the time) sun 690 (218 mips?) was the best box in the place. It of course did nothing but eat juice till I put usenet on it.
Your assuming that the people in the RIAA have any clue about music. Since I suspect they don't I also suspect that as far as they can tell an MP3 is just as good as digital master. They might be able to tell the differnce between a CD and mpg123/dev/random.
If the RIAA is so good for artitst, then why are there so few live bands playing in the US? Since moving to Oz I've been going to go see live bands at least once a week. Within a ten minute walking distance of my house I have a chose of about 200 live venuses a week. Some of them are on my web page.
Unless Nintendo did something like that, or else got everyone who bought one of their systems to sign a contract saying they'll only buy Nintendo authorized games, they have no right to change anyone a licensing fee.
Is this kind of like my DVD player that will only play licensed DVD's and my CD player that will only play licensed CD's?
Isn't the GPS signal at something like -39dB S/N? I know that is a small fraction of the normal backround noise at the frequencys it uses.
GPS transmits at about 50 baud in the 1.[25] GHz range and does some interesting frequnecy hopping. To find the sats signal you have to know where it is and then fiugre out its doppler shift and its offset into its pseudo random jumping so you can start to look for it. And there are $150 hand held devices that do this on 12 channels at once.
I got this nice little device called a v64jr to allow me to write code for the N64 (I intended to port linux to it but it hasn't happened yet). It can also be used to pirate games. Nintendo recently sued Bung and won.
The solution to this legal crap is for those of us who bought the v64jr to develop code should sue Nintendo in our own class action suit. These big companies lawyers are good at being offensive against the little guy but are clueless about going on the defensive side agasint lots of little guys. The result is the company legal team gets in arguments with the hotshot hired guns and the results that I've personally seen are entertaining.
For details about coding for the N64 see Dextrose.com assuming it comes back up.
I find this kind of story entertaining in a sick sort of way but my take on all these crackpots is that someday one of them will be right and they will get ignored. We've seen it before and well see it again.
I've read about quantum physics since I was about 10. I still don't buy it. I love Dr Feynman's books on sub particle physics made easy. One part I like the best is he makes a statement that any physical law that is complicated in the past has been untrue (early chemistry, astronomy, etc) but then goes straight into some of the most bizarre stuff in modern science. I think he was one of the few scientist that would have gladly thrown away all they knew about a subject if it was replaced by something simple and correct.
My basic problems with modern quantum physics include: 1) Electrons seem to be perpetual motion machines. 2) Does gravity push or pull and how would one prove it? If it pushes that would sure explain why all the Zero G crystal can be duplicated on earth. 3) Speed of light seems to lock down lots of physics. Is it the speed of light or the speed of gravity that is the limiting factor? 4) There always seems to be enough electrons.
I guess I'll be like the rest of the geeks and keep wishing that some one will find some way to get off this rock we call home before I die of old age.
You find a bug that is a security risk and its either: A) a major hole (lets a remote user run any code as root) B) a minor hole (you build a stack frame that may get called one time in a billion only if syslog times out when the moon is full)
Then you can tell the development team which can: A) ignore you B) start working on a quick fix C) start working on complete fix
The bug is like A:A then some script kiddie will find it and make your day worse but things like B:C are a real pain to fix correctly and they may need time to think about the situation and then take corrective measures while discussing solutions that don't open up other holes.
I think they are right in holding back major security holes but when you report the bug you should get a message back saying: "Your bug has a number of security related issues and we feel that telling the world at this time will result in a number of systems being compromised therefore we ask you to please wait till [a date a few days away] before disclosing this to sources that may result in a exploits becoming widely available. We have set up a special open mailing list for this bug at bug76347634@just.a.dot.com."
Most people in Australia live on the coat. With 16,000 miles of coast line where would you live?
The population and size of Victoria (where I live now) is very close to that of Missouri (where I lived before). Victoria has one major city (Melbourne) and three minor ones. Missouri has two major cities (Stl, KC) and 2 minor ones.
Outside of Victoria things tend to get quite sparse. Western Australia is mostly empty and the Northern Territory is so big with so few people it out sources some of its government. It has a population density about 1/3 of Alaska and is about 5/6 of the size.
The population is 18,783,551 (if you trust the CIA fact book) which puts in about the same as New York. New South Wales (where Sydney is) has more people than the state of Washington in 4 times as much area but only 1/4 of that is used.
Melbourne is one of the worlds largest cities as far as area. My map of the greater Melbourne area covers about 100x100 km (60x60 miles). Its spread out like much Tulsa and Indianapolis are but with unexplained over priced land but a useful public transport system.
Everyplace I've worked always seems to have different uses for the little plastic bricks. One place did most prototyping with them. Another used them as model circut boards in a device. The current place uses them to build jigs for plastic engraving as well as some prototyping. I've seen them in laser and chem labs as well.
Sounds a Dr Lan whos class I walked out of a few times...
On his test in C/Unix the question was: What is the shell in unix called?
The "correct" answer was csh. The wrong answers include: /bin/sh sh shell ksh tcsh...
When I posted part of his test to usenet, I was amazing how no one seemed to know the "correct" answers.
When I appealed the grade (he claimed to have given me a C to be nice but siad I deserved a D) I had included printouts of posts from comp.lang.c. When he asked who these people were, I handed him a white book with a blue C on the front and said "one of them wrote this". His comment was they hadn't reviewd the book and would not consider it to help my case.
The professor used to loose my assignments that were emailed to him. Funny, the sendmail logs showed it getting to his server. Why did he only loose stuff from EE/CE students and not CS students...hmmm.
I think I'll write a letter to UMC asking for my money back. Maybe I should get a lawyer to write it:-)
Privacy laws do not cover protecting the professors this way. The professor is getting paid to do a professional job (by the student) and if they are not doing a good job then they deserve the poor public review.
That resulted in a huge split up of somewhere between 20 and 100 compaines. Some didn't make it after the split up.
That would imply a split up by products and I don't think "Office" would be a product but make a comapnie that only does excel
The breakup should also require all of the compaines to not use the M$ name and branding -- except for one product (like Wince) Require that there be no contact between brances except over public web site.
Keep in mind the judge isn't after punishing M$ (as much as I would love to see that) but to ensure that they remain competitve while not destroing the tax base that N$ and its workers provde.
> A more practical alternative would be to have a > supply of frozen pizzas and an oven, or even an > in-house pizzeria. Sounds like a good > excuse to me.
But TEMPEST shielding does not cover pizza smells. This means somewhere someone is spending lots of my tax money on TEMPER (Transient EMitted Pizza Essence Remover)
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The TDI was the second diesel engine that VW designed from the ground up as a diesel. The 1.8L high compression engine in the rabits (aka golf to the rest of the world) was a modification of their first diesel engine. At that time most companies were converting gas engines to diesel but VW did it the other way around.
The general rule for diesels is that when they get submerged you don't turn them off. If they can breath and get fuel, let them run since they don't seem to care.
Maybe /. should have a link at the top of every page that will crash a spamers server a day. One just have to be careful that the offending site isn't use banner ads.
How L Ron's head is doing?
I hear its staying cool. If anyone ever finds a way to unfreeze and reattach it, he is going to feel embarrassed when he finds out Disney's frozen body was only a rumor.
I can't write any more as I'm off to take a free IQ test.
3DES. Your ATM's favorite cypher.
This won't help SSL because SSL uses a different
type of crypto made of up several parts.
SSL can use DES (not DES-3 but a DES-3 engine should be able to do DES). SSL also uses MD5 and SHA which this device can do so maybe that would help some. The chip does not do the public key things that are required for cert signing and inital key exchange. Once the keys have been exchanged the hardware might be able to speed up some of the other bits but the overhead to talk to the card may be more than its worth.
> ... will just require that all purchasers of lead pipes undergo psychological profiling prior to the sale
Didn't the Germans already do a very efficient job of this back in about 193[89]? At least kids in the US today aren't getting gassed over the results -- yet.
>Free Coke (ahem, the liquid not the powder),
A cup a day (on average) with a cost of $.20 and your talking almost $50 per employee per year.
Of course a good high dollar programmers will offten consume 20x that.
One places I worked found it was cheaper to provide coke than water.
It slices!
It dices!
It splits!
It can break up a major oil monopoly in just decades. It can break up TPC (the phone company) in just years. It's almost immune to bribes, corruption and interference from congresscritters!
How much would you pay for this wonderful device?
The government has paid billions.
Other have bought it for hundreds of millions.
It can now be your for the low, low price of $70,000,000. Yes, that's less than you lost on your last M$FT stock drop.
Buy yours today!
Call 1-800-gvt-bribes to gets yours today (please have your credit card handy)
<small print>Licenses terms: This product may not be compatible with your problem. It is not guaranteed to function at all. This product requires you to have current licenses of W2K</small print>
The roller wheel has been used on cad systems for many years and aircraft controls for 5 decades.
Excel was designed and written for the Mac. As far as I know its the only thing they ever designed. It would not supprise me a bit if excel wasn't deisgned by MS but by some group inside or close to Apple.
I'm not sure the American diet is worse than the rest of the world. In many parts of the world a high fat diet is considered a good thing. I do suspect it is the inactivity that is the real problem. Inactivity results in being isolated from others which can result in way too many times of emotional problems which can result in eating disorders and a circle of problems.
I'm an American living in Australia. I don't see very many fat people here at all. I also see hundreds of people walk by my front door every day. There are more McDonalds per person in Oz than anywhere else in the world and unlike the US you can often see women eating in them. Its hard to find low fat foods here and I expect that some of the local diet would kill far more people if their activity levels were anywhere close to that in the US. I've been wondering if the activity level here is related to the fact that the TV is very, very bad.
I used to use an old 3081 that was rated at about 1 mip. It was much slower than the most pathetic sparcstation I could find with calculations...you could almost hear the bits flip over. It did how ever have a very impressive up time (409968000 seconds at least if not twice that) and it also could move lots of data between devices very quickly. As far as I know the box never had a second of uptime since it was installed.
Of course the management loved ranking machines by MIPS or MIPS/sq ft. The new (at the time) sun 690 (218 mips?) was the best box in the place. It of course did nothing but eat juice till I put usenet on it.
Your assuming that the people in the RIAA have any clue about music. Since I suspect they don't I also suspect that as far as they can tell an MP3 is just as good as digital master. They might be able to tell the differnce between a CD and mpg123 /dev/random.
If the RIAA is so good for artitst, then why are there so few live bands playing in the US? Since moving to Oz I've been going to go see live bands at least once a week. Within a ten minute walking distance of my house I have a chose of about 200 live venuses a week. Some of them are on my web page.
Unless Nintendo did something like that, or else got everyone who bought one of their systems to sign a contract saying they'll only buy Nintendo authorized games, they have no right to change anyone a licensing fee.
Is this kind of like my DVD player that will only play licensed DVD's and my CD player that will only play licensed CD's?
Isn't the GPS signal at something like -39dB S/N?
I know that is a small fraction of the normal backround noise at the frequencys it uses.
GPS transmits at about 50 baud in the 1.[25] GHz range and does some interesting frequnecy hopping. To find the sats signal you have to know where it is and then fiugre out its doppler shift and its offset into its pseudo random jumping so you can start to look for it. And there are $150 hand held devices that do this on 12 channels at once.
I got this nice little device called a v64jr to allow me to write code for the N64 (I intended to port linux to it but it hasn't happened yet). It can also be used to pirate games. Nintendo recently sued Bung and won.
Bung has officially stopped selling these things because of a lawsuit and there web site looks like its been hit with an injunction.
The solution to this legal crap is for those of us who bought the v64jr to develop code should sue Nintendo in our own class action suit. These big companies lawyers are good at being offensive against the little guy but are clueless about going on the defensive side agasint lots of little guys. The result is the company legal team gets in arguments with the hotshot hired guns and the results that I've personally seen are entertaining.
For details about coding for the N64 see Dextrose.com assuming it comes back up.
I find this kind of story entertaining in a sick sort of way but my take on all these crackpots is that someday one of them will be right and they will get ignored. We've seen it before and well see it again.
I've read about quantum physics since I was about 10. I still don't buy it. I love Dr Feynman's books on sub particle physics made easy. One part I like the best is he makes a statement that any physical law that is complicated in the past has been untrue (early chemistry, astronomy, etc) but then goes straight into some of the most bizarre stuff in modern science. I think he was one of the few scientist that would have gladly thrown away all they knew about a subject if it was replaced by something simple and correct.
My basic problems with modern quantum physics include:
1) Electrons seem to be perpetual motion machines.
2) Does gravity push or pull and how would one prove it? If it pushes that would sure explain why all the Zero G crystal can be duplicated on earth.
3) Speed of light seems to lock down lots of physics. Is it the speed of light or the speed of gravity that is the limiting factor?
4) There always seems to be enough electrons.
I guess I'll be like the rest of the geeks and keep wishing that some one will find some way to get off this rock we call home before I die of old age.
You find a bug that is a security risk and its either:
A) a major hole (lets a remote user run any code as root)
B) a minor hole (you build a stack frame that may get called one time in a billion only if syslog times out when the moon is full)
Then you can tell the development team which can:
A) ignore you
B) start working on a quick fix
C) start working on complete fix
The bug is like A:A then some script kiddie will find it and make your day worse but things like B:C are a real pain to fix correctly and they may need time to think about the situation and then take corrective measures while discussing solutions that don't open up other holes.
I think they are right in holding back major security holes but when you report the bug you should get a message back saying:
"Your bug has a number of security related issues and we feel that telling the world at this time will result in a number of systems being compromised therefore we ask you to please wait till [a date a few days away] before disclosing this to sources that may result in a exploits becoming widely available. We have set up a special open mailing list for this bug at bug76347634@just.a.dot.com."
I would accept that as reasonable.
I can't surf the net from it yet but I do get plenty of Simpsons on foxtel.
Yes its true! Foxtel is very, very, very cosy with Telstra. For thouse Americans that read this, its the same foxtel that you know about....
Most people in Australia live on the coat. With 16,000 miles of coast line where would you live?
The population and size of Victoria (where I live now) is very close to that of Missouri (where I lived before). Victoria has one major city (Melbourne) and three minor ones. Missouri has two major cities (Stl, KC) and 2 minor ones.
Outside of Victoria things tend to get quite sparse. Western Australia is mostly empty and the Northern Territory is so big with so few people it out sources some of its government. It has a population density about 1/3 of Alaska and is about 5/6 of the size.
The population is 18,783,551 (if you trust the CIA fact book) which puts in about the same as New York. New South Wales (where Sydney is) has more people than the state of Washington in 4 times as much area but only 1/4 of that is used.
Melbourne is one of the worlds largest cities as far as area. My map of the greater Melbourne area covers about 100x100 km (60x60 miles). Its spread out like much Tulsa and Indianapolis are but with unexplained over priced land but a useful public transport system.
Everyplace I've worked always seems to have different uses for the little plastic bricks. One place did most prototyping with them. Another used them as model circut boards in a device. The current place uses them to build jigs for plastic engraving as well as some prototyping. I've seen them in laser and chem labs as well.
Sounds a Dr Lan whos class I walked out of a
...
:-)
few times...
On his test in C/Unix the question was:
What is the shell in unix called?
The "correct" answer was csh.
The wrong answers include:
/bin/sh sh shell ksh tcsh
When I posted part of his test to usenet, I was amazing how no one seemed to know the "correct" answers.
When I appealed the grade (he claimed to have given me a C to be nice but siad I deserved a D) I had included printouts of posts from comp.lang.c. When he asked who these people were, I handed him a white book with a blue C on the front and said "one of them wrote this". His comment was they hadn't reviewd the book and would not consider it to help my case.
The professor used to loose my assignments that were emailed to him. Funny, the sendmail logs showed it getting to his server. Why did he only loose stuff from EE/CE students and not CS students...hmmm.
I think I'll write a letter to UMC asking for my money back. Maybe I should get a lawyer to write it
Privacy laws do not cover protecting the professors this way. The professor is getting paid to do a professional job (by the student) and if they are not doing a good job then they deserve the poor public review.
Didn't the good judge compare M$ to $tandard Oil?
That resulted in a huge split up of somewhere between 20 and 100 compaines. Some didn't make it after the split up.
That would imply a split up by products and I don't think "Office" would be a product but make a comapnie that only does excel
The breakup should also require all of the compaines to not use the M$ name and branding -- except for one product (like Wince)
Require that there be no contact between brances except over public web site.
Keep in mind the judge isn't after punishing M$ (as much as I would love to see that) but to ensure that they remain competitve while not destroing the tax base that N$ and its workers provde.
> A more practical alternative would be to have a
> supply of frozen pizzas and an oven, or even an
> in-house pizzeria. Sounds like a good > excuse to me.
But TEMPEST shielding does not cover pizza smells.
This means somewhere someone is spending lots of my tax money on TEMPER (Transient EMitted Pizza Essence Remover)