I just drove 115 miles yesterday, from West Palm Beach to Miami and back, and I averaged 29.5 MPG in my 2000 VW Passat Wagon 1.8t 5spd. The car is performance tuned and currently has ~30% more horsepower than stock. I drove ~80 MPH with bursts of 85-95 MPH, made a couple of grocery stops and a dropoff at the airport with the engine running. I think this is excellent gas mileage. And I would much rather drive my Passat than a Ford anything, especially an Escape.
This is just a testament to how bad these vehicles really are, when 28 MPG is considered a lot for them. My gasoline-exclusive engine gets better mileage than one of these cars which employ radically-new technology. I equate this to being a waste - put this technology on a car like mine and give me diesel-like 45 MPG. But since the masses will always flock to the big, heavy trucks, I guess it's a step in the right direction. Just don't think it's anything special to get 28 MPG - it's actually low, and you're out of tricks because you have a hybrid and only muster 28 MPG.
> One of the great traffic safety myths is stopping distance. Who cares if your stopping distance is 200 feet or 300 feet?
Personally, I think putting so much emphasis on stopping distance is a mistake. We spend a lot of time teaching drivers that they need to be able to stop before they hit something, and that's not true. You need to be able to STEER to AVOID the accident.
Eh, you need to NOT TAILGATE. You need to increase the space you leave between you and the car in front of you as the speed goes up. Practically nobody in the US does this (as in, zero). So stopping distance doesn't matter, you will still crash into me be it as 50 MPH or 100 MPH, as even your Evo 8 (talk about plugs - I take it that's what you drive?) won't stop in the 5 feet between our two cars.
> to sleep with the lead consultant, catch it on tape, and thus damage his credibility. These guy's never get laid so don't worry about him not falling for the bait.
Ummmmm, yeah - that's the ticket! NOT. Stop projecting.
Seeing how you fools have been talking about his law as if it was one of the 10 Commandments, he stepped in and humbly tried to put an end to this insanity. Probably won't make a difference, as the hype factor is too great to allow it to die.
> Music is the most important part to us, not making money - when the bands see that and the fans see that everyone is happy.
And it goes without saying that you can make a fair living without ripping people off. People like music - they always did and always will. It's a good business to be into. Just don't be greedy like RIAA is with thrir ridiculous pricing. For ultra-serious business-types, it's a bad joke when someone says "what's the difference if you have 100 billion or 150 billion dollars?" But it's not that big of a joke, and if they were more human they would understand what it means - don't be greedy!
As long as the masses continue to buy $18 CDs/$25 DVDs, they will not even consider stopping ripping us off.
"As Slashdot previously reported, the 64-bit series will likely be the lastmajor enhancement to the Pentium 4 line before the introduction of the Pentium D "Smithfield," Intel's first dual-core part, which is slated for next quarter."
This basically verifies that the party you are conversing with knows your password, or something about it (i.e. has a salted hash of your password), _before_ you input your password. One could argue that this is more secure than (poorly-implemented) channel security via PKI as a man-in-the-middle would not have access to the accounts hash table unless the target system was compromised.
Interesting, but there are probably a million such things you can do to further tighten security.
> They can't stop millions of illegal aliens or hundreds of tons of drugs, but they can catch a container of tuner cards?
What are these aliens you speak of, are they a different species from a different planet? And you say they are somehow illegal, too? Oh, you mean non-Americans that don't have the legal right to be in the US. Nice, real nice name for them.
No wonder people around the globe think us to be wacky (at best) - if they ain't from here, goddamit they're aliens! It would be funny if it weren't so fuggin sad...
But your point is not missed. However, you would have to become member of the piracy underground to participate in this hobby - all highly illegal, and a waste of one's time. Much like the people currently ripping off satellite. The problem with this is that, in true American fashion, it's the completely ass-backwards way of going about something - this used to be a right, we let them pull one over us because we are lazy and inept of action (just like they want us to be), and the ones that want this are now committing crimes under the new law to get it; the same energy should have been expended in thwarting these laws from being passed. A vicious circle, which leads to nowhere but insanity.
> Cancel your cable TV subscription and get BitTorrent. Your broadband cost will suddenly be justified.
Uh, if you cancel your cable why would you want to waste your time downloading the same crap over the net? That's like saying sell your Hummer H2, get a hybrid, but start burning fuel in your backyard for no good reason (just to pollute, I guess).
Here's an idea - cancel your cable, get broadband but do not "get BitTorrent." Your broadband will seem free now and you'll have a lot of newfound free time to do something useful with your life. Use it any which way you please - start your own business, make new friends, do something for a worthy cause. Anything's better than vegetating in front of the non-stop ad tube, wasting your life away.
>> Was anyone else sooo annoyed at how much crap they spewed about downloading music last night?
> Yeah, that was annoying. It's almost as if these people, that earn their living by being paid to entertain their audiences, are annoyed when people decide that they like their music, but not enough to pay for it. Pretty obnoxious, expecting to actually get paid for their work. Jerks! Soooo annoying.
The problem I'm having is with a bunch of über-rich executives talking down to me like I'm a thief on national television. I kinda have a problem with that. That whole innocent until proven guilty thing. Doesn't look like you'd know much about that, and our kids sure as shit won't have any idea what that concept was...
I have an idea: invent a non-interactive, one-way medium and attempt to use it to brainwash people into submission. Oh, wait..
P.S. Before you ask (attack?) why I'm mentioning the fact that they are über-rich - what, am I prejudice against rich people or something? The answer is no, I'm not prejudiced, but I just find it that much more insulting that it's a bunch of ultra rich=powerful people doing this. They have this huge enterprise they can leverage to instill what I believe are the wrong ideas/values into the minds of the masses. I equate this to using brute force to achieve an end. It works well, and that's why I'm disgusted at it - in my crazy idea of the world, human beings would be nobler creatures, and our societies would reflect it. The one thing that I dislike almost equally as much are over-zealous individuals who are worried sick about irrelevant issues. Perhaps if you (plural) channeled your energy toward a worthy cause we would live in a better world.
> What is happening is the government is excluding itself from the law and creating infrastructure for it to do as it sees fit without judicial/congressional or representative oversite.
> all remotely personal information stored on a 256bit AES encrypted volume
Unless you run swapless in Windows or only edit these documents with programs that have the secure memory bit set under Linux, this isn't buying you anywhere near as much security as you might think.
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I just drove 115 miles yesterday, from West Palm Beach to Miami and back, and I averaged 29.5 MPG in my 2000 VW Passat Wagon 1.8t 5spd. The car is performance tuned and currently has ~30% more horsepower than stock. I drove ~80 MPH with bursts of 85-95 MPH, made a couple of grocery stops and a dropoff at the airport with the engine running. I think this is excellent gas mileage. And I would much rather drive my Passat than a Ford anything, especially an Escape.
This is just a testament to how bad these vehicles really are, when 28 MPG is considered a lot for them. My gasoline-exclusive engine gets better mileage than one of these cars which employ radically-new technology. I equate this to being a waste - put this technology on a car like mine and give me diesel-like 45 MPG. But since the masses will always flock to the big, heavy trucks, I guess it's a step in the right direction. Just don't think it's anything special to get 28 MPG - it's actually low, and you're out of tricks because you have a hybrid and only muster 28 MPG.
> One of the great traffic safety myths is stopping distance. Who cares if your stopping distance is 200 feet or 300 feet?
Personally, I think putting so much emphasis on stopping distance is a mistake. We spend a lot of time teaching drivers that they need to be able to stop before they hit something, and that's not true. You need to be able to STEER to AVOID the accident.
Eh, you need to NOT TAILGATE. You need to increase the space you leave between you and the car in front of you as the speed goes up. Practically nobody in the US does this (as in, zero). So stopping distance doesn't matter, you will still crash into me be it as 50 MPH or 100 MPH, as even your Evo 8 (talk about plugs - I take it that's what you drive?) won't stop in the 5 feet between our two cars.
It looks like not much has changed - thank God!
Hopefully, this will finally put an end to all this Flash nonsense :)
> to sleep with the lead consultant, catch it on tape, and thus damage his credibility. These guy's never get laid so don't worry about him not falling for the bait.
Ummmmm, yeah - that's the ticket! NOT. Stop projecting.
April 14, 8:49AM: Linux: Linux Can't Kill Windows
April 14, 8:00AM: Adobe Releases Acrobat Client for Linux
=>8-D
Seeing how you fools have been talking about his law as if it was one of the 10 Commandments, he stepped in and humbly tried to put an end to this insanity. Probably won't make a difference, as the hype factor is too great to allow it to die.
> But they're still trying to make a buck charging for the article.
How American.
And how scientific.
>"If no-one responded to junk e-mail and didn't buy products sold in this way, then spam would be as extinct as the dinosaurs."
Wow! These brits are geniuses!
> Music is the most important part to us, not making money - when the bands see that and the fans see that everyone is happy.
And it goes without saying that you can make a fair living without ripping people off. People like music - they always did and always will. It's a good business to be into. Just don't be greedy like RIAA is with thrir ridiculous pricing. For ultra-serious business-types, it's a bad joke when someone says "what's the difference if you have 100 billion or 150 billion dollars?" But it's not that big of a joke, and if they were more human they would understand what it means - don't be greedy!
As long as the masses continue to buy $18 CDs/$25 DVDs, they will not even consider stopping ripping us off.
Perhaps this is what was meant?
"As Slashdot previously reported, the 64-bit series will likely be the last major enhancement to the Pentium 4 line before the introduction of the Pentium D "Smithfield," Intel's first dual-core part, which is slated for next quarter."
> initsix writes...
And the top-geek award goes to....
>>Where do you feel more productive?
:)
>Behind a firewall that blocks port 80
But only for the first day. Then you'll break down and cry (-:
Pimps up, hos down.
This basically verifies that the party you are conversing with knows your password, or something about it (i.e. has a salted hash of your password), _before_ you input your password. One could argue that this is more secure than (poorly-implemented) channel security via PKI as a man-in-the-middle would not have access to the accounts hash table unless the target system was compromised.
Interesting, but there are probably a million such things you can do to further tighten security.
> They can't stop millions of illegal aliens or hundreds of tons of drugs, but they can catch a container of tuner cards?
What are these aliens you speak of, are they a different species from a different planet? And you say they are somehow illegal, too? Oh, you mean non-Americans that don't have the legal right to be in the US. Nice, real nice name for them.
No wonder people around the globe think us to be wacky (at best) - if they ain't from here, goddamit they're aliens! It would be funny if it weren't so fuggin sad...
But your point is not missed. However, you would have to become member of the piracy underground to participate in this hobby - all highly illegal, and a waste of one's time. Much like the people currently ripping off satellite. The problem with this is that, in true American fashion, it's the completely ass-backwards way of going about something - this used to be a right, we let them pull one over us because we are lazy and inept of action (just like they want us to be), and the ones that want this are now committing crimes under the new law to get it; the same energy should have been expended in thwarting these laws from being passed. A vicious circle, which leads to nowhere but insanity.
> Cancel your cable TV subscription and get BitTorrent. Your broadband cost will suddenly be justified.
Uh, if you cancel your cable why would you want to waste your time downloading the same crap over the net? That's like saying sell your Hummer H2, get a hybrid, but start burning fuel in your backyard for no good reason (just to pollute, I guess).
Here's an idea - cancel your cable, get broadband but do not "get BitTorrent." Your broadband will seem free now and you'll have a lot of newfound free time to do something useful with your life. Use it any which way you please - start your own business, make new friends, do something for a worthy cause. Anything's better than vegetating in front of the non-stop ad tube, wasting your life away.
>> Was anyone else sooo annoyed at how much crap they spewed about downloading music last night?
> Yeah, that was annoying. It's almost as if these people, that earn their living by being paid to entertain their audiences, are annoyed when people decide that they like their music, but not enough to pay for it. Pretty obnoxious, expecting to actually get paid for their work. Jerks! Soooo annoying.
The problem I'm having is with a bunch of über-rich executives talking down to me like I'm a thief on national television. I kinda have a problem with that. That whole innocent until proven guilty thing. Doesn't look like you'd know much about that, and our kids sure as shit won't have any idea what that concept was...
I have an idea: invent a non-interactive, one-way medium and attempt to use it to brainwash people into submission. Oh, wait..
P.S. Before you ask (attack?) why I'm mentioning the fact that they are über-rich - what, am I prejudice against rich people or something? The answer is no, I'm not prejudiced, but I just find it that much more insulting that it's a bunch of ultra rich=powerful people doing this. They have this huge enterprise they can leverage to instill what I believe are the wrong ideas/values into the minds of the masses. I equate this to using brute force to achieve an end. It works well, and that's why I'm disgusted at it - in my crazy idea of the world, human beings would be nobler creatures, and our societies would reflect it. The one thing that I dislike almost equally as much are over-zealous individuals who are worried sick about irrelevant issues. Perhaps if you (plural) channeled your energy toward a worthy cause we would live in a better world.
Was anyone else sooo annoyed at how much crap they spewed about downloading music last night?
> What is happening is the government is excluding itself from the law and creating infrastructure for it to do as it sees fit without judicial/congressional or representative oversite.
:)
Excellent dissection! You have a new fan
Maybe now they can focus on finally releasing 2.6.11 ;)
> Can-Spam Increased Spam
Of course! You can SPAM! DUH!
> I'm considering a move to China next year.
Sorry, I stopped reading after that.. Good luck, you'll need it!
> Someday people are going to feel awfully silly that they were worrying about terrorism instead of the warning signs of ecological degeneration.
Some of us already do..
> all remotely personal information stored on a 256bit AES encrypted volume
Unless you run swapless in Windows or only edit these documents with programs that have the secure memory bit set under Linux, this isn't buying you anywhere near as much security as you might think.