Why would I ever buy a Volt when, for the same price, I can get a VW Passat TDI (different version for us US folks) that gets comparable fuel economy and way more interior space?
(figured from Edmunds.com) MSRP
Volt: $39,145
Passat TDI: $25,995
5 year average cost per mile
Volt: $0.54
Passat TDI: $0.55
True Cost To Own
Volt: $40,244
Passat TDI: $41,095
The Passat has 50% more trunk space, more per-passenger volume, seats 5 instead of 4 in the Volt, doesn't require a home charger, and (despite being a much larger car) is faster 0 to 60. There is almost no quantifiable metric that makes the Volt look like a good idea, and taken together (performance, price, utility) it just seems like only brain-dead folk would opt for the Volt.
Why do you think they shut down the Volt plant for a few weeks? VW is adding people at their Passat plant in Tennessee to boost production. You tell me which car makes more sense?
Arrest != conviction. The man in question was wrongfully arrested (for a fine that he had already paid).
Correct arrest != conviction, but he was arrested on use of a deadly weapon obstruction of justice convicted on "lesser charges" as part of a plea deal. As part of the plea deal he was ordered to pay a monthly fine, but fell behind and a warrant was issued because he was not fulfilling the obligations of his plea deal. He quickly paid the fine, and here's where all the screw ups begin.
But yes, in this case, he was arrested AND convicted.
In 1998, seven years before the incidents at issue, peti- tioner Albert Florence was arrested after fleeing from police officers in Essex County, New Jersey. He was charged with obstruction of justice and use of a deadly weapon. Petitioner entered a plea of guilty to two lesser offenses and was sentenced to pay a fine in monthly in- stallments. In 2003, after he fell behind on his payments and failed to appear at an enforcement hearing, a bench warrant was issued for his arrest. He paid the outstand- ing balance less than a week later; but, for some unex- plained reason, the warrant remained in a statewide computer database.
So he was previously arrested for obstruction of justice and use of a deadly weapon and convicted of "lesser offenses" as part of a plea deal. He did commit a crime; I'm pretty sure that's what you agree to when you plead guilty.
It seems like there are two separate issues here: first the strip search for anyone, which I don't like as much as you and second, the bring into jail anyone, which I'm not sure applies in this specific instance. I don't see it as a violation of his rights that he was brought into jail, considering the information at hand.
Our school district has a similar system. And I regularly get emails forwarded by the teacher from the class volunteer (since only the teacher is allowed access to the class email list).
Why are all the "it is already done" stories getting down-modded and all the "can't do it because of poor" stories getting up-modded?
Read this page and then note the "au" in the URL, not also the prices in Austalian dollars. It is clearly targeted to Australia and it highlights 4G capability.
It doesn't look that way to me. It reads:
Ultrafast wireless. Full speed ahead. Designed with next-generation wireless technology, the new iPad with Wi-Fi+4G connects to fast data networks around the world.
iOS (and I guess Android) have another layer of passcode lock that's more secure than the 4-digit PIN, though it requires a bit more work. They're basically passwords (or pass phrases?) and while they're a pain, they are supposedly much stronger than the PIN.
How does this thing fix that?
It doesn't. They basically say that if there's a tough passcode, it might take so long as to be not worth guessing.
Dicksinson acknowledges that users who set longer passcodes for devices can in fact make the devices far tougher to crack. “The more complex the password, the longer and harder it’s going to be to access the phone,” he says. “In some cases, it takes so long to brute force that it’s not worth doing it.”
Weren't we reading just two weeks ago about how the FBI utterly failed in cracking an Android phone's gesture lock, and had to go demanding Google to help them?
That's actually referenced in the article, probably a case of a long/strong passcode.
Dicksinson acknowledges that users who set longer passcodes for devices can in fact make the devices far tougher to crack. “The more complex the password, the longer and harder it’s going to be to access the phone,” he says. “In some cases, it takes so long to brute force that it’s not worth doing it.” That may have been the situation, for instance, in one recent case involving the phone of Dante Dears, a paroled convict accused of running a prostitution ring known as “Pimping Hoes Daily” from his Android phone; The FBI, apparently unable or unwilling to crack the phone, asked Google to help in accessing it.
8-4 or 9-3, close enough. Although if you are driving the roundy-round NASCAR, you've got your left hand at 8, right hand at 10 and your right elbow at 2. You turn left for three hours in a big, heavy car and see how comfortable it is.
I've been hearing 9 and 3 for at least a decade now, so I'm not sure how this is news. If you know you're going to crash, by all means don't lock out your elbows in a death grip on the steering wheel. At racing school, I was taught (if you know you're going to crash), to cross your arms on your chest (think Egyptian mummy style).
It's much much much more simple than that. Be usable, have a massive pile of good applications.
No, it has to be more than that. Hey, use Linux. Ok, so I can get the same thing I have and know now, but I have to learn how all these new programs work?
Some people call it a "killer app", but Linux on the desktop really needs something that makes people want to switch. Apple had all those iPhones and iPads that drove people to OS X. What does Linux have that will make normal people switch?
Hint: software freedom is not the answer to the above.
Sure, sonic booms are (more than just) annoying, but that's not why we're highly unlikely to ever see supersonic commercial flight again.
The problem is that supersonic flight requires too damned much fuel for too little gain.
That's the whole point of the research, to find out how to fly faster, with less fuel. From the fine article (the MIT release):
They found that smoothing out the inner surface of each wing slightly created a wider channel through which air could flow. The researchers also found that by bumping out the top edge of the higher wing, and the bottom edge of the lower wing, the conceptual plane was able to fly at supersonic speeds, with half the drag of conventional supersonic jets such as the Concorde. Wang says this kind of performance could potentially cut the amount of fuel required to fly the plane by more than half.
Cutting fuel requirements by half and cutting drag by half, that's pretty good. Really, the headline is wrong-- they weren't out to remove sonic booms, but how to use and modify an old biplane design that reduces sonic booms to make a more fuel efficient supersonic design.
It was an Interior Checkpoint, which is the "third layer" of border patrol. The checkpoint in question it only about 10 or 20 miles from the US-Mexico border, just to the east of El Paso, situated on a stretch of I10 that has very few alternate routes.
I'm not sure about the legality or Constitutionality of these checkpoints, but if I were setting up a third layer to catch people that have slipped past the first two, this seems like a really good spot to do so.
No highways to the east get any closer to the border until you get down to the tip of Texas near Big Bend Ranch State Park. I10 past El Paso parallels the US-Mexico border for 60-80 miles. The checkpoint is located just where I10 turns into the interior of Texas; the perfect place to catch people that snuck across the border where it parallels I10 and are traveling east.
I've been through that border checkpoint probably more than half a dozen times. I've never seen any drugs dogs out, however.
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If Chromebooks sold for $199 and still had reasonable build quality, would that seem like a value to you?
No, because I already have a laptop and an iPad. Go for first-mover advantage with your next product.
It isn't connected.
Why would I ever buy a Volt when, for the same price, I can get a VW Passat TDI (different version for us US folks) that gets comparable fuel economy and way more interior space?
(figured from Edmunds.com)
MSRP
Volt: $39,145
Passat TDI: $25,995
5 year average cost per mile
Volt: $0.54
Passat TDI: $0.55
True Cost To Own
Volt: $40,244
Passat TDI: $41,095
The Passat has 50% more trunk space, more per-passenger volume, seats 5 instead of 4 in the Volt, doesn't require a home charger, and (despite being a much larger car) is faster 0 to 60. There is almost no quantifiable metric that makes the Volt look like a good idea, and taken together (performance, price, utility) it just seems like only brain-dead folk would opt for the Volt.
Why do you think they shut down the Volt plant for a few weeks? VW is adding people at their Passat plant in Tennessee to boost production. You tell me which car makes more sense?
Edmunds has a nice calculator for comparing what you'd save on gas vs. the cost of a newer car: http://www.edmunds.com/calculators/gas-guzzler.html
Makes it easy to see that, in most cases, it doesn't really make sense.
Arrest != conviction. The man in question was wrongfully arrested (for a fine that he had already paid).
Correct arrest != conviction, but he was arrested on use of a deadly weapon obstruction of justice convicted on "lesser charges" as part of a plea deal. As part of the plea deal he was ordered to pay a monthly fine, but fell behind and a warrant was issued because he was not fulfilling the obligations of his plea deal. He quickly paid the fine, and here's where all the screw ups begin.
But yes, in this case, he was arrested AND convicted.
He wasn't convicted.
He didn't commit any crime.
Not entirely true. From the Court brief:
In 1998, seven years before the incidents at issue, peti- tioner Albert Florence was arrested after fleeing from police officers in Essex County, New Jersey. He was charged with obstruction of justice and use of a deadly weapon. Petitioner entered a plea of guilty to two lesser offenses and was sentenced to pay a fine in monthly in- stallments. In 2003, after he fell behind on his payments and failed to appear at an enforcement hearing, a bench warrant was issued for his arrest. He paid the outstand- ing balance less than a week later; but, for some unex- plained reason, the warrant remained in a statewide computer database.
So he was previously arrested for obstruction of justice and use of a deadly weapon and convicted of "lesser offenses" as part of a plea deal. He did commit a crime; I'm pretty sure that's what you agree to when you plead guilty.
It seems like there are two separate issues here: first the strip search for anyone, which I don't like as much as you and second, the bring into jail anyone, which I'm not sure applies in this specific instance. I don't see it as a violation of his rights that he was brought into jail, considering the information at hand.
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Our school district has a similar system. And I regularly get emails forwarded by the teacher from the class volunteer (since only the teacher is allowed access to the class email list).
Why are all the "it is already done" stories getting down-modded and all the "can't do it because of poor" stories getting up-modded?
I guess speculation trumps evidence.
I don't care about the unibrow, but I have to admit I thought Paul Vixie would look more dashing.
I'm not sure why, but I pictured him as a cross between Indiana Jones, Flash Gordon and Dilbert.
Prior art!
Dear Sony,
What the fuck, dude?
Sincerely,
Long-time (and increasingly becoming former) customer
Read this page and then note the "au" in the URL, not also the prices in Austalian dollars. It is clearly targeted to Australia and it highlights 4G capability.
It doesn't look that way to me. It reads:
Ultrafast wireless. Full speed ahead. Designed with next-generation wireless technology, the new iPad with Wi-Fi+4G connects to fast data networks around the world.
As a comparison, look at http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/ and http://www.apple.com/au/ipad/features/ Notice the big difference when talking about wireless? There's a gigantic 4G LTE on the default and no 4G LTE on the AU page.
I believe these two options in iOS will make it a bit more secure
1) Strong passcode option (alphanumeric and more than 4 characters)
2) Delete all data after 10 incorrect passcode attempts
Probably strong passcode option, but I'm guessing that this is done at a low enough level to bypass that other feature of iOS.
We need versions of the android OS and apple iOS that are designed from the ground up to be secure. Full drive encryption would be a good start.
Like NSA's SE Android?
iOS (and I guess Android) have another layer of passcode lock that's more secure than the 4-digit PIN, though it requires a bit more work. They're basically passwords (or pass phrases?) and while they're a pain, they are supposedly much stronger than the PIN.
How does this thing fix that?
It doesn't. They basically say that if there's a tough passcode, it might take so long as to be not worth guessing.
Dicksinson acknowledges that users who set longer passcodes for devices can in fact make the devices far tougher to crack. “The more complex the password, the longer and harder it’s going to be to access the phone,” he says. “In some cases, it takes so long to brute force that it’s not worth doing it.”
Weren't we reading just two weeks ago about how the FBI utterly failed in cracking an Android phone's gesture lock, and had to go demanding Google to help them?
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/03/14/2222229/fbi-tries-to-force-google-to-unlock-users-android-phone
That's actually referenced in the article, probably a case of a long/strong passcode.
Dicksinson acknowledges that users who set longer passcodes for devices can in fact make the devices far tougher to crack. “The more complex the password, the longer and harder it’s going to be to access the phone,” he says. “In some cases, it takes so long to brute force that it’s not worth doing it.” That may have been the situation, for instance, in one recent case involving the phone of Dante Dears, a paroled convict accused of running a prostitution ring known as “Pimping Hoes Daily” from his Android phone; The FBI, apparently unable or unwilling to crack the phone, asked Google to help in accessing it.
Their status page is located here: http://browserquest.mozilla.org/status/
It shows population, distribution of players.
Us Brits...
We Brits! For god's sake man, use the Queen's English!
8-4 or 9-3, close enough. Although if you are driving the roundy-round NASCAR, you've got your left hand at 8, right hand at 10 and your right elbow at 2. You turn left for three hours in a big, heavy car and see how comfortable it is.
I've been hearing 9 and 3 for at least a decade now, so I'm not sure how this is news. If you know you're going to crash, by all means don't lock out your elbows in a death grip on the steering wheel. At racing school, I was taught (if you know you're going to crash), to cross your arms on your chest (think Egyptian mummy style).
It's much much much more simple than that. Be usable, have a massive pile of good applications.
No, it has to be more than that. Hey, use Linux. Ok, so I can get the same thing I have and know now, but I have to learn how all these new programs work?
Some people call it a "killer app", but Linux on the desktop really needs something that makes people want to switch. Apple had all those iPhones and iPads that drove people to OS X. What does Linux have that will make normal people switch?
Hint: software freedom is not the answer to the above.
Sure, sonic booms are (more than just) annoying, but that's not why we're highly unlikely to ever see supersonic commercial flight again.
The problem is that supersonic flight requires too damned much fuel for too little gain.
That's the whole point of the research, to find out how to fly faster, with less fuel. From the fine article (the MIT release):
They found that smoothing out the inner surface of each wing slightly created a wider channel through which air could flow. The researchers also found that by bumping out the top edge of the higher wing, and the bottom edge of the lower wing, the conceptual plane was able to fly at supersonic speeds, with half the drag of conventional supersonic jets such as the Concorde. Wang says this kind of performance could potentially cut the amount of fuel required to fly the plane by more than half.
Cutting fuel requirements by half and cutting drag by half, that's pretty good. Really, the headline is wrong-- they weren't out to remove sonic booms, but how to use and modify an old biplane design that reduces sonic booms to make a more fuel efficient supersonic design.
SWIFT is a co-operative society under Belgian law, which its shareholders own and control
Just in case you didn't think global capitalism and corporations were significant, here's a good reminder.
It was an Interior Checkpoint, which is the "third layer" of border patrol. The checkpoint in question it only about 10 or 20 miles from the US-Mexico border, just to the east of El Paso, situated on a stretch of I10 that has very few alternate routes.
I'm not sure about the legality or Constitutionality of these checkpoints, but if I were setting up a third layer to catch people that have slipped past the first two, this seems like a really good spot to do so.
No highways to the east get any closer to the border until you get down to the tip of Texas near Big Bend Ranch State Park. I10 past El Paso parallels the US-Mexico border for 60-80 miles. The checkpoint is located just where I10 turns into the interior of Texas; the perfect place to catch people that snuck across the border where it parallels I10 and are traveling east.
I've been through that border checkpoint probably more than half a dozen times. I've never seen any drugs dogs out, however.
I've been to this Texas border stop several times myself, and have never seen any dogs.
It must have been one of the changes as a result of SXSW.
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE iPAD!?!