Yes, the theory is plausible. That does not make it correct. For one thing, diesel engines are totally different in their fuel management from gasoline engines. What works on one is extremely unlikely to work on the other.
Second, reducing fuel surface tension is already very old news. Additives (detergents) already do this and hydrocarbon fuels already have very low surface tension compared to water.
While [plausible, the theory does not stand scutiny. Diesel fuel has very low dipole moments and is not affected by magnetic or electric fields. If it were, the tiny (micron) passages inside a modern CDI injector would ground/neutralize it anyways. This report is particularly bad since they do not record/report any decrease in exhaust temperature, a necessary sign of increased efficiency (work extraction from heat energy).
It is not as if high strength hasn't always been sought after in steels (iron-carbon alloy). INcluding high temperature strength. The usual solution is various nickel alloys starting with the austenitic stainless steels and going up from there (HK-40, HP modified).
Yes, we may yet find some interesting corners on phase diagrams, especially via combinatorial chemistry and high-throughput experiementation. But please do not pretent this search is anything remotely novel.
For many high temperature applications, the usual solution is cold wall designs with refractory (insulating alumina) linings keeping the load bearing steels cool. With or without a (thermal expansion problematic) liner (usually austenitic SS) as a membrane seal.
Have you ever worked with fiber? I have, and it is generally to be avoided. Nasty stuff. But people look upon fiber as if it were some sort of Holy Grail. As usual, the more it is so touted, the less it really is.
The point is the UK has stacks of long copper circuits running everywhere they need to go. This copper can be much better utilised with modern electronics than the primative dedicated POTS circuits. Also keeps the Hysterical Preservation Boards less unhappy than trenching.
The key is to convert neighborhood distribution passive boxes into actives. Cut the links running back to the Central Office and use them for ATM or even xDSL digital circuits. Provide POTS and ADSL from the actives.
Yes, I'm well aware that occupied East Germany and some other countries had huge networks of informants. The problem became dealing with so much humint. But that was known and legal.
Here, the problem the NSA faces is oversight. Even if their activities are only leaked to the minority members of the Congressional Intelligence oversight committees, they face very serious scrutiny, If the leaks make it to the press, the firestorm burns them badly. The fundamental difference is the people still control both the president and Congress and have choices (even if they currently look like tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum). Through them, control of the police/intel services. Who controlled the Stasi? Only the party functionaries who were the heads!
It is easy to keep a secret: tell no-one! Two people can only keep a secret if one or both of them are dead.
Sure, the NSA could try. Maybe even under a legal smoke-screen. The problem is the gag order wouldn't stick. Too many people would need to know, or see the traffic. Somebody, somewhere would leak. Lots of good, anonymous ways. And it is not as if they're comitting treason.
Besides, I don't think this would yield much. Anyone concerned with surveillence should have their cells turned off unless making a call or expecting incoming/gathering txts. More concerned invidividuals will use disposible phones.
While I'm not unsympathetic to ISPs "hog" problem, this was a known cost from long before any unlimited plans were offered. ISPs deliberately chose to offer unlimited plans, figuring (correctly AFAICS) the cost of hogs was lower than the cost of lost sales from more complex pricing plans.
Now that the ISPs have built their customer bases, the cost of hogs becomes irksome. Before I could really decide whether the ISPs are making reasonable claims, I would want to see some measure of bandwidth per customer at various levels and over time.
I strongly suspect the ISPs have been adding customers without commensurant build-out. They're milking their networks and hog slaughtering is yet one more technique.
Of course, nothing requires an ISP to be reasonable. But nor am I totally without recourse. If they cannot provide me with the service I pay for, they I can downgrade from the premium package they cannot deliver. This is much easier than switching ISPs, and probably more costly to their profitability.
samezenpus ought to know better: posting private email is a violation of netiquette. And copyright, however depracated that might be around here.
Since slashdot does not have a "Letters to the Editurd" section, emailers would have no expectation their mail would be posted.
Beyond that, I fail to see anything remarkable in the alleged "hate mail". They represent very legitimate points-of-view even if we do not share them. In all, I see this as a feeble attempt to push hitcount.
On the plus side, it is good to see the editors faithfully reflect their audience: they can be slashtards too!
Why is anyone surprised? Especially that this happen in France? Individual rights (such as privacy, a defense against prejudice) are mostly unrelated to democracy (rule by the people).
The only indiv.right required for democracy to function is freedom of [political] speech. Otherwise, democracy can be frequently hostile to individual rights. In many places, freedom of religion is [would be] rendered moot if democracy (the will of the majority) could have its way unhampered by things like the US and other Constitutions.
In this case, it is a question of the rights of society to peace versus the rights of the individual to privacy. Social rights are highly weighted in France.
I would be extremely leery of any security system that allowed _anyone_ to read passwds unless for verbal authentication. Otherwise, they should be always be cryptohashes.
There are [at least] two sides to every issue. Sure, TELUS might be aqccused of bait'n'switch, even though they did give six+ months of the advertised service. How long should they have given? One year? Forever? Conditions change, and neither buyers nor sellers should be locked in longer than they have agreed. In the case of month-to-month, that looks like one month.
As for ToS violations, it probably contains a clause against running servers. P2P could well be considered a server as well as a user app.
The ultimate content-filter is the recepient. They're the ones insisting on super low false positives, so should be ready to pay the price in false-negatives.
In this respect people vary, and should have some continuous choice (threshold score) between: "I hate spam, filter everything and I don't mind the occasional loss" and "I cannot afford to miss anything, so be careful what you filter". Turning filters on-off is very crude.
I suspect content-based filtering is underutilised because of a historical perception of "high cost". CPU is unbelieveably cheap these days with x2 and x4 CPUs. The problems are small and fit nicely in cache. Bandwidth still costs, but perhaps minimally with early content-based TCP abort.
Ultimately, content-based filtering can also be used to identify spammers and refresh blocklists rapidly if they are still desired.
... as if there weren't enough already! The EU generally has generous social/retirement benefits, but often means tested or offset by other income. Royalties are other income that will save the states money and may even bring in some taxes on royalty income.
Mark Twain didn't understand, so I hardly expect the eurocrats. The purpose of patents & copyright is to stimulate creation. Not provide a revenue stream for his daughters daughters. The creative act has to have some payout in prospect. Even with low rates-of-return, that flattens before 20 years. Which is why patents last about that. Today, I don't think any commercial publishing project with a payout of longer than 5 years would "sell" even with 100 year copyright. So why grant the extra 80-95 years? It _does_not_ stimulate creation.
This yet another case of strong, concentrated interests corrupting legislators/bureuacrats away from sworn-service to the admitedly dilute interests of the people.
However warped or rapacious, spammers are not stupid. They think that GMail is an unblockable address and its mail will get through. They want their "messages" to get through, so they will use it.
Perhaps the GMail mailadmins will try to stop some, but they probably won't get it all. And they too will rely on GMail being "too big to block" for most mail recepients.
This just highlights how the burden of anti-spam efforts often gets transferred to legitimate email senders by simplistic blocking. The unacknowledged false-positive problem. I have seen these come to a sudden stop when the company loses an important order because it false-positived the prospect.
subj says it all. My employers machine isn't locked-down, but might as well be. I keep nothing irreplaceable or even essential on it, given the horrible unreliability of both laptop HDs and our corporate [per]version of MS-win2K. Sure it's slow, but how would I notice? Everything is.
My email files and everything else is on the network. So when it is lost, this is _NOT_ my problem, and usually comes back after a day or three. Beyond that, real work is done with putty into a Linux cluster!
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OK, 2.6.26 is out, and kudos for all the good work. But where is a truly writeable NTFS? Many larger USB drives are shipping with this pre-installed, so true write support is needed in the kernel.
AFAIK, current kernel "write" support does not including creating files or directors (presumably just modifying/appending to existing files).
I've tried ntfsprogs, but not got it to compile x86_64.
Most likely. Cuomo has political aspirations and funding those takes money. He has chosen to alienate free-speech-loving individuals in favor of support from free-speech-hating organizations like the RIAA, MPAA, and BSA.
This is a clear case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater: kiddie pr0n almost certainly is less than 0.1% of USENET alt.bin* traffic. I would think its' value as an investigation lead in finding pervs is actually greater than the damage in distributing it.
This USENET dragnet is like banning all brown-paper envelopes because some contail illegal materials.
Oh? Just why should any Representative be prohibited in any manner from communicating with those they represent and eliciting and hearing their opinions? Just why does the US Congress enjoy the privilige of franking (sending free snail-mail)?
Nancy is smoking some very bad stuff -- worse than Newt!
Oh boy, the US Feds are at it again. Power-grabing J@ck@$$es. This is obviously a case of stalking, and state laws and state district attornies have some prosecuting to do if it should be done at all.
The Feds are going to have a tough battle -- they'll have to _prove_ that Lori violated the MySpace ToS in the absence of a MySpace complaint. MySpace can be brutally cross-examined and serious doubt generated about exactly what the ToS could possibly mean when they are utterly unenforced even by simple, available means ($1 cr.card charge) albeit for some reduction in customer base.
Watch lyin'Lori walk in the face of yet another botched prosecution. So many of these I wonhder if they're not deliberate, to erode liberty.
Ah well, the Bavarians are doing their independence thing, sharply deviating from the Federal Verfassungsgericht. And probably from the EU Charter of Rights and Freedoms. They know it, and are doing it precisely for that effect.
But watch: there will be abuses immediately (cops cannot help themselves, they have a compulsion to "fight crime") and in about 3 years one will be egregious and funded enough to make it to seriously senior courts. Then one of these (especially the EU) will seek to exert its' jurisdiction with a ruling like the US "fruit of the poisoned vine" doctrine.
Odd thing is, the bayricherbeamter are anything but stupid and may even see and desire this.
Thank you. I had thought most of the alcohol effect was osmotic since some yeasts thrive up to about 18%v. Does alcohol work by esterification displacement of the amino bonds?
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Yes, the theory is plausible. That does not make it correct. For one thing, diesel engines are totally different in their fuel management from gasoline engines. What works on one is extremely unlikely to work on the other.
Second, reducing fuel surface tension is already very old news. Additives (detergents) already do this and hydrocarbon fuels already have very low surface tension compared to water.
While [plausible, the theory does not stand scutiny. Diesel fuel has very low dipole moments and is not affected by magnetic or electric fields. If it were, the tiny (micron) passages inside a modern CDI injector would ground/neutralize it anyways. This report is particularly bad since they do not record/report any decrease in exhaust temperature, a necessary sign of increased efficiency (work extraction from heat energy).
Doh! Users always have troubles. Right now so that the Sprint CEO is in an ad hawking their setup service.
Why can't that be automated? :).
It is not as if high strength hasn't always been sought after in steels (iron-carbon alloy). INcluding high temperature strength. The usual solution is various nickel alloys starting with the austenitic stainless steels and going up from there (HK-40, HP modified).
Yes, we may yet find some interesting corners on phase diagrams, especially via combinatorial chemistry and high-throughput experiementation. But please do not pretent this search is anything remotely novel.
For many high temperature applications, the usual solution is cold wall designs with refractory (insulating alumina) linings keeping the load bearing steels cool. With or without a (thermal expansion problematic) liner (usually austenitic SS) as a membrane seal.
The point is the UK has stacks of long copper circuits running everywhere they need to go. This copper can be much better utilised with modern electronics than the primative dedicated POTS circuits. Also keeps the Hysterical Preservation Boards less unhappy than trenching.
The key is to convert neighborhood distribution passive boxes into actives. Cut the links running back to the Central Office and use them for ATM or even xDSL digital circuits. Provide POTS and ADSL from the actives.
Yes, I'm well aware that occupied East Germany and some other countries had huge networks of informants. The problem became dealing with so much humint. But that was known and legal.
Here, the problem the NSA faces is oversight. Even if their activities are only leaked to the minority members of the Congressional Intelligence oversight committees, they face very serious scrutiny, If the leaks make it to the press, the firestorm burns them badly. The fundamental difference is the people still control both the president and Congress and have choices (even if they currently look like tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum). Through them, control of the police/intel services. Who controlled the Stasi? Only the party functionaries who were the heads!
It is easy to keep a secret: tell no-one! Two people can only keep a secret if one or both of them are dead.
Sure, the NSA could try. Maybe even under a legal smoke-screen. The problem is the gag order wouldn't stick. Too many people would need to know, or see the traffic. Somebody, somewhere would leak. Lots of good, anonymous ways. And it is not as if they're comitting treason.
Besides, I don't think this would yield much. Anyone concerned with surveillence should have their cells turned off unless making a call or expecting incoming/gathering txts. More concerned invidividuals will use disposible phones.
Now that the ISPs have built their customer bases, the cost of hogs becomes irksome. Before I could really decide whether the ISPs are making reasonable claims, I would want to see some measure of bandwidth per customer at various levels and over time.
I strongly suspect the ISPs have been adding customers without commensurant build-out. They're milking their networks and hog slaughtering is yet one more technique.
Of course, nothing requires an ISP to be reasonable. But nor am I totally without recourse. If they cannot provide me with the service I pay for, they I can downgrade from the premium package they cannot deliver. This is much easier than switching ISPs, and probably more costly to their profitability.
Beyond that, I fail to see anything remarkable in the alleged "hate mail". They represent very legitimate points-of-view even if we do not share them. In all, I see this as a feeble attempt to push hitcount.
On the plus side, it is good to see the editors faithfully reflect their audience: they can be slashtards too!
The only indiv.right required for democracy to function is freedom of [political] speech. Otherwise, democracy can be frequently hostile to individual rights. In many places, freedom of religion is [would be] rendered moot if democracy (the will of the majority) could have its way unhampered by things like the US and other Constitutions.
In this case, it is a question of the rights of society to peace versus the rights of the individual to privacy. Social rights are highly weighted in France.
I would be extremely leery of any security system that allowed _anyone_ to read passwds unless for verbal authentication. Otherwise, they should be always be cryptohashes.
There are [at least] two sides to every issue. Sure, TELUS might be aqccused of bait'n'switch, even though they did give six+ months of the advertised service. How long should they have given? One year? Forever? Conditions change, and neither buyers nor sellers should be locked in longer than they have agreed. In the case of month-to-month, that looks like one month.
As for ToS violations, it probably contains a clause against running servers. P2P could well be considered a server as well as a user app.
??? who is in favor of murder and mayhem on the High Seas?
Copying might well be unauthorized, but that doesn't make it necessarily illegal let alone murder, mayhem and theft!
I'm tired of the propagandistic exaggeration.
In this respect people vary, and should have some continuous choice (threshold score) between: "I hate spam, filter everything and I don't mind the occasional loss" and "I cannot afford to miss anything, so be careful what you filter". Turning filters on-off is very crude.
To reduce burden, white hats could share (automated network) content-hits, either signatures or sources.
As for graphics, parsing them is indeed difficult, but they are also relatively costly to send, and their presence could be a part of scoring.
Ultimately, content-based filtering can also be used to identify spammers and refresh blocklists rapidly if they are still desired.
Mark Twain didn't understand, so I hardly expect the eurocrats. The purpose of patents & copyright is to stimulate creation. Not provide a revenue stream for his daughters daughters. The creative act has to have some payout in prospect. Even with low rates-of-return, that flattens before 20 years. Which is why patents last about that. Today, I don't think any commercial publishing project with a payout of longer than 5 years would "sell" even with 100 year copyright. So why grant the extra 80-95 years? It _does_not_ stimulate creation.
This yet another case of strong, concentrated interests corrupting legislators/bureuacrats away from sworn-service to the admitedly dilute interests of the people.
Perhaps the GMail mailadmins will try to stop some, but they probably won't get it all. And they too will rely on GMail being "too big to block" for most mail recepients.
This just highlights how the burden of anti-spam efforts often gets transferred to legitimate email senders by simplistic blocking. The unacknowledged false-positive problem. I have seen these come to a sudden stop when the company loses an important order because it false-positived the prospect.
subj says it all. My employers machine isn't locked-down, but might as well be. I keep nothing irreplaceable or even essential on it, given the horrible unreliability of both laptop HDs and our corporate [per]version of MS-win2K. Sure it's slow, but how would I notice? Everything is.
My email files and everything else is on the network. So when it is lost, this is _NOT_ my problem, and usually comes back after a day or three. Beyond that, real work is done with putty into a Linux cluster!
OK, 2.6.26 is out, and kudos for all the good work. But where is a truly writeable NTFS? Many larger USB drives are shipping with this pre-installed, so true write support is needed in the kernel.
AFAIK, current kernel "write" support does not including creating files or directors (presumably just modifying/appending to existing files).
I've tried ntfsprogs, but not got it to compile x86_64.
This is a clear case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater: kiddie pr0n almost certainly is less than 0.1% of USENET alt.bin* traffic. I would think its' value as an investigation lead in finding pervs is actually greater than the damage in distributing it.
This USENET dragnet is like banning all brown-paper envelopes because some contail illegal materials.
Cuomo reveals his colors.
Oh? Just why should any Representative be prohibited in any manner from communicating with those they represent and eliciting and hearing their opinions? Just why does the US Congress enjoy the privilige of franking (sending free snail-mail)?
Nancy is smoking some very bad stuff -- worse than Newt!
The Feds are going to have a tough battle -- they'll have to _prove_ that Lori violated the MySpace ToS in the absence of a MySpace complaint. MySpace can be brutally cross-examined and serious doubt generated about exactly what the ToS could possibly mean when they are utterly unenforced even by simple, available means ($1 cr.card charge) albeit for some reduction in customer base.
Watch lyin'Lori walk in the face of yet another botched prosecution. So many of these I wonhder if they're not deliberate, to erode liberty.
But watch: there will be abuses immediately (cops cannot help themselves, they have a compulsion to "fight crime") and in about 3 years one will be egregious and funded enough to make it to seriously senior courts. Then one of these (especially the EU) will seek to exert its' jurisdiction with a ruling like the US "fruit of the poisoned vine" doctrine.
Odd thing is, the bayricherbeamter are anything but stupid and may even see and desire this.
Thank you. I had thought most of the alcohol effect was osmotic since some yeasts thrive up to about 18%v. Does alcohol work by esterification displacement of the amino bonds?