And when driving on ice, I'm not likely to get past second gear anyway, making the question of engine braking mostly moot. I think the fastest I've ever run on mixed snow and ice was maybe thirty or thirty-five on an interstate-grade four-lane highway with essentially nobody else on the road. My experience was similar there—steer, do not touch the brakes under any circumstances, and let the engine slow you down over the course of hundreds of feet, and remember that you will not be able to steer quickly. Pretend you're steering a boat, or perhaps a ballistic missile....
I have had similar experiences. However, I've had ABS save my butt a few times.
Iodine is IP over DNS. Since it is actually the DNS protocol (and not just using the DNS ports), it might not be susceptible to Deep Packet Inspection. However, it could presumably still be detected.
Run your VPN over port 80 and 443 let them block those as well. They may as well just switch it all off at the mains and be done with it.
Well, as other posters have pointed out, Iran is using Deep Packet Inspection, so they don't care about port numbers, just about the type of data that's being sent. I'm kind of surprised that according to some posters, they aren't blocking ssh.
... KOTOR series on consoles, they come out with this PC-only MMO....
Up until reading your comment, I literally had no idea it was on consoles. I only ever knew about it on PC. I haven't played it though. I had a roommate who was hugely into PC gaming and Star Wars, so KOTOR was his idea of the perfect game.
I moved a few months ago, and now whenever my phone can see my AP but not get GPS, it puts me in the wrong place. I don't mind having my SSID/MAC in the database, but I'd like to be able to update it with the current location.
DPSS pump for UV lasers for fine-feature photolithography.
Mount in x/y plotter for cnc marking of wood or papercutting.
Drilling vias in polyimide for flex PCB's.
Pump for adjustable-wavelength dye laser.
I could probably come up with another 20 legitimate uses if I felt like it, but I just mentioned those because I've used 1-10W lasers for all those things.
but none of the uses you listed would involve a handheld 1W laser. That's the question. What would be a legitimate use of a handheld 1W laser?
Nobody seems to have mentioned what this fuel will give off when it is burned. If it still produces nasty greenhouse gases then it doesn't solve any problem that matters.
But if it uses organic matter from plants, those plants have already pulled carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, making it "carbon-neutral".
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times[emphasis mine] to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
--Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution
Poor guy. I guess sooner or later he's going to have to learn how to manage his memory and understand how the underlying physical hardware works. That must be a real toughie for anyone who learned to "program" in the Java/C# world.
Yeah, clearly PHK doesn't knows anything about memory allocation. (Except for the malloc library he wrote for FreeBSD...)
Maybe he should RTFM.
I don't have a FreeBSD system at hand, but I wouldn't be surprised if the malloc page was written by PHK.
Postgres doesn't have a "just give me a damn database" option
$ createdb myDBName
Now I have a new db. Was that really hard? Well, it only works because I am a valid PostgreSQL user. For completeness, I'd also need to do something like:
$ sudo -u postgresql createuser theraven
Actually, the sudo part of this is not required if I am a user that is allowed to create users, but assuming a fresh PostgreSQL install from a standard package.
I agree. The createdb and createuser command line tools for PostgreSQL make that super easy.
Mythbusters added dimples (like on a golf ball) to a car and got a rather noticeable (iirc, about 10%) improvement in gas mileage. I would be interested to see if that could be implemented on a production car.
Don't get me wrong, the work they do is great, but Télécoms sans frontières is a first-responder disaster relief organisation. You need to be on call for extended periods, and you need to be able to get on a plane and be on-site within 48 hours. Plus, you need to be expert in the particular systems they're using.
Again: I love these guys and what they do. I'd be volunteering for them already if I didn't live in an inconvenient location (South Pacific). But they are emphatically not appropriate for an aid-tourist.
Why not try them? They had been focusing primarily on Mexico and Central America with a secondary focus on Africa. Couldn't hurt to drop them a line and see what activities they have going on.
Correct. Materials that are light and strong are expensive. That's why a typical light airplane costs 10 times what a typical sedan costs.
Ground vehicles carry extra weight to handle impact by other vehicles.
Incorrect. Ground vehicles weigh more because materials that are light and strong are too expensive to build cars from. There are few people who can afford a $250,000 car. That's why cars are built from steel and iron and aircraft are built from aluminum, titanium and composites.
There are many expensive high-end sports cars made from aluminum, titanium and composites for performance reasons, and they have no trouble meeting safety regulations.
indeed, the Smart proved that a car can be light and still get a 5 star crash rating.
Hand in your geek card. Vacuums do not "suck". They (non-perfect vacuums) push; they just push less hard.
yes, and when in, for instance, a planetary atmosphere, that causes a pressure by the outside atmosphere to be higher than the pressure inside the region holding the partial vacuum. Thus, a net force inward, i.e. "suck".
but I put it in a linux box with no net connection. I also have my contact info on my usb stick that I use at work. I lose things a lot and have been very grateful when somebody emailed me and said they had my stick. Now the OS autorunning sticks is a terrible idea, that is blocked at my company by domain policy (on Windows workstations).
... unlike Chrysler and GM. Between automaker loans and clean-energy, get-off-oil money, there's got to be something to help Tesla out.
Failing that, guys, make cars people can afford. You make a bad ass Roadster. Now make a RegularCar, that I can buy for 75k, and I'll have one in the driveway tomorrow.
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And when driving on ice, I'm not likely to get past second gear anyway, making the question of engine braking mostly moot. I think the fastest I've ever run on mixed snow and ice was maybe thirty or thirty-five on an interstate-grade four-lane highway with essentially nobody else on the road. My experience was similar there—steer, do not touch the brakes under any circumstances, and let the engine slow you down over the course of hundreds of feet, and remember that you will not be able to steer quickly. Pretend you're steering a boat, or perhaps a ballistic missile....
I have had similar experiences. However, I've had ABS save my butt a few times.
Instead of dropping one, merge them. Blogger and Blogspot for example.
Iodine is IP over DNS. Since it is actually the DNS protocol (and not just using the DNS ports), it might not be susceptible to Deep Packet Inspection. However, it could presumably still be detected.
Run your VPN over port 80 and 443 let them block those as well. They may as well just switch it all off at the mains and be done with it.
Well, as other posters have pointed out, Iran is using Deep Packet Inspection, so they don't care about port numbers, just about the type of data that's being sent. I'm kind of surprised that according to some posters, they aren't blocking ssh.
you can also use ssh to provide a generic SOCKS proxy:
ssh -D 1234 some.host.example.com
then just tell your apps to use a SOCKS proxy of localhost, port 1234
There are plenty of SOCKS wrappers for apps that don't have SOCKS code built in.
... KOTOR series on consoles, they come out with this PC-only MMO....
Up until reading your comment, I literally had no idea it was on consoles. I only ever knew about it on PC. I haven't played it though. I had a roommate who was hugely into PC gaming and Star Wars, so KOTOR was his idea of the perfect game.
I moved a few months ago, and now whenever my phone can see my AP but not get GPS, it puts me in the wrong place. I don't mind having my SSID/MAC in the database, but I'd like to be able to update it with the current location.
There is no legitimate use.
DPSS pump for UV lasers for fine-feature photolithography.
Mount in x/y plotter for cnc marking of wood or papercutting.
Drilling vias in polyimide for flex PCB's.
Pump for adjustable-wavelength dye laser.
I could probably come up with another 20 legitimate uses if I felt like it, but I just mentioned those because I've used 1-10W lasers for all those things.
but none of the uses you listed would involve a handheld 1W laser. That's the question. What would be a legitimate use of a handheld 1W laser?
Nobody seems to have mentioned what this fuel will give off when it is burned. If it still produces nasty greenhouse gases then it doesn't solve any problem that matters.
But if it uses organic matter from plants, those plants have already pulled carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, making it "carbon-neutral".
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times[emphasis mine] to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
--Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution
The overwhelming majority of users run Windows and don't have multiple monitors. It makes no sense to optimize for the few at the expense of the many.
even if one is stuck with Windows (I have to use it at work), why would somebody actually do graphics work on a single monitor?
Lanham, MD. The floor swayed, didn't hear anything. A few ceiling tiles fell.
Poor guy. I guess sooner or later he's going to have to learn how to manage his memory and understand how the underlying physical hardware works. That must be a real toughie for anyone who learned to "program" in the Java/C# world.
Yeah, clearly PHK doesn't knows anything about memory allocation. (Except for the malloc library he wrote for FreeBSD...)
Maybe he should RTFM.
I don't have a FreeBSD system at hand, but I wouldn't be surprised if the malloc page was written by PHK.
hehe, WTFM :-D
Postgres doesn't have a "just give me a damn database" option
Now I have a new db. Was that really hard? Well, it only works because I am a valid PostgreSQL user. For completeness, I'd also need to do something like:
Actually, the sudo part of this is not required if I am a user that is allowed to create users, but assuming a fresh PostgreSQL install from a standard package.
I agree. The createdb and createuser command line tools for PostgreSQL make that super easy.
I'd rather a drive fail suddenly without warning if the alternative is "slowly and silently corrupting data until somebody notices it....
What about SSD "Time Warp" type errors?
Seriously, does anyone here on Slashdot need their summary dumbed down that far?
Hey, at least it's accurate for once.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a history of providing legal assistance in GPL violation cases.
Mythbusters added dimples (like on a golf ball) to a car and got a rather noticeable (iirc, about 10%) improvement in gas mileage. I would be interested to see if that could be implemented on a production car.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who had never heard of them.
Another useful geeky aid organization: Télécoms sans frontières
Er, no.
Don't get me wrong, the work they do is great, but Télécoms sans frontières is a first-responder disaster relief organisation. You need to be on call for extended periods, and you need to be able to get on a plane and be on-site within 48 hours. Plus, you need to be expert in the particular systems they're using.
Again: I love these guys and what they do. I'd be volunteering for them already if I didn't live in an inconvenient location (South Pacific). But they are emphatically not appropriate for an aid-tourist.
I stand corrected.
Why not try them? They had been focusing primarily on Mexico and Central America with a secondary focus on Africa. Couldn't hurt to drop them a line and see what activities they have going on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geeks_Without_Borders
Good luck!
Another useful geeky aid organization: Télécoms sans frontières
Correct. Materials that are light and strong are expensive. That's why a typical light airplane costs 10 times what a typical sedan costs.
Incorrect. Ground vehicles weigh more because materials that are light and strong are too expensive to build cars from. There are few people who can afford a $250,000 car. That's why cars are built from steel and iron and aircraft are built from aluminum, titanium and composites.
There are many expensive high-end sports cars made from aluminum, titanium and composites for performance reasons, and they have no trouble meeting safety regulations.
indeed, the Smart proved that a car can be light and still get a 5 star crash rating.
the vacuum tries to suck the car backwards
Hand in your geek card. Vacuums do not "suck". They (non-perfect vacuums) push; they just push less hard.
yes, and when in, for instance, a planetary atmosphere, that causes a pressure by the outside atmosphere to be higher than the pressure inside the region holding the partial vacuum. Thus, a net force inward, i.e. "suck".
but I put it in a linux box with no net connection. I also have my contact info on my usb stick that I use at work. I lose things a lot and have been very grateful when somebody emailed me and said they had my stick. Now the OS autorunning sticks is a terrible idea, that is blocked at my company by domain policy (on Windows workstations).
... unlike Chrysler and GM. Between automaker loans and clean-energy, get-off-oil money, there's got to be something to help Tesla out.
Failing that, guys, make cars people can afford. You make a bad ass Roadster. Now make a RegularCar, that I can buy for 75k, and I'll have one in the driveway tomorrow.
75k is a Regular Car? I can buy a house for that.