Personally, I'm with another poster here. Diesel electric should be investigated for heavy duty applications like Semis and Buses.
General Motors is working on diesel hybrid busses and has sold some in Canada. They're more like todays hybrid cars than a diesel/electric train though. I agree with you, I'd like to see them build busses, semis and even fulls size pickups/SUVs that way.
Never heard there are copies on the streets (and likely online)???
It was online before it was in the theaters. It's been such a big deal (to some people) that there have been many news articles about it, including on Slashdot.
Look, I've already been subjected to the security gropefest a couple times. I'd take the X-ray *any* day over that. In my mind, this is a restoration of some of my rights... I don't have to worry about being fondled.
I'm sure most people would. It's not like they're going to X-Ray only the people who would have been strip searched though, they're doing it to everyone. Maybe if they only did this to people who failed at the metal detector and/or did something else to spook security then they would be subjected to the X-Ray people might have fewer problems with it.
How about this---you leave your car parked unattended in your driveway, so it's okay for me to just walk up and take the engine out? Just because something's unattended doesn't make it OK to tinker with!
You're correct, however the law doesn't always look at it that way. In some states/towns you can be ticketed and fined for leaving your car running and un-attended. As you said, just because it's running and no one is there doesn't mean it's Ok to steal it, but you can still be fined for doing so.
Probably the same way they are in person, via threats to the victem or their friends and/or family. A child, hell even some adults, may not be able to see through a bluff threat that gets the pedophile real information to locate the victem.
I doubt there is anything in the existing contract preventing Alan and the others from releasing their off-hours work as open source.
The last company I worked at (very briefly) had a clause in the contract that stated everything you developed whether on your own time at home on the weekend or at work was owned by the company. If their contract has something simlar they may well be prohibited from releasing anything open source unless given permission by the company which MS, if they bought RH, is hardly likely to do.
Good point, worthy of an insightfull or informative. I would think that's another agrument towards using them in trucks that are often used for towing or hauling heavy loads, or just moving a 5,000+ lb truck.
A diesel electric built along the lines of a locomotive would be interesting.
For those who don't know in this case the diesel engine is basically just an electric generator that powers the electric motor. Because as a generator it can run at a constant speed it's even more efficient than a traditional diesel. It works for trains, I'd guess it would work for cars/trucks/SUV as well. GM/Allison has built buses this way that see a 60% MPG increase vs conventional diesel buses. If a Chevy heavy duty pickup sees a similar increase that would put it near 40 mpg on the highway. Pretty good for a 1 ton truck.
Most of the parents wouldn't have the influence to enforce it in their offices, but some might. Suppose the parent of one of those kids is the CEO or CTO Reed Elsevier with 20,000 employees world wide. Do you think MS wants to risk potentially all of those desktops to save the income on a few licenses in school?
Yeah right, because a Linux advocacy site is going to provide an unbiased review of Windows performance? Even if it were somehow totally unbiased (impossible) no one would believe it coming from Slashdot any more than people believe the reports from MS are unbiased.
Performance tests are intersting but can't really be relied on as a sole measure. It's very easy to change the test to favor one thing or platform over another and setting up "real world" tests is virtually impossible because what is "real world" at one company won't be at another.
The purpose of a resume is to get interviews, and I do get interviews, but then I get "Sorry, we went with another candidate" even for a cashier job at a home improvement chain.
I'm not trying to flame you, but it sounds like you have bigger problems with your interview skills than with your word processor. My brother has the same problem, smart, very technical, decent looking resume, but then turns everyone off in the face to face meeting and can't get hired. Unfortunately for many people, personal charisma is as important as the resume or job skills in actually getting hired.
That is disapointing. I would much rather have seen them do what Microsoft did during the later betas of Win2000, put a Win2000 box online and challenge people to hack it without hiding it behind a firewall. With Win2003/IIS6 and the firewall that's built in you'd think they could make it secure without putting a Unix shield in front...or maybe not, but it would be a better test and more interesting to find out.
I agree, it does (or should) pretty much cut off any horns MS marketing could gain from this.
I disagree. The goal is to test if IIS is secure, not if the web application is secure. A large complex ecommerce site is more likely to have a bug in it's code that can be exploited than a simple basic site that does some minor database queries. The simple site would, in theory, leave fewer security holes to exploit leaving only IIS vulnerabilities.
That assumes the attacker is located in the US and the place they want the victem to send the money is somewhere US authorities have any power. These days you might be better off contacting Homeland Security and spinning it as an attack against the US.
How would you feel if you had to go to every door in your neighborhood, announce at nearly any sort of background check, that 10, 20, 30 years ago you made some huge mistake? Even if you have since been treated, have moved on, and have kids.
And how do you think the victem feels 10, 20, 30 years later? Many of them often have serious emotional problems that scar them for life from the "huge mistake" some piece of shit sex offender made. Should the POS be given a fresh start when the victem can't be?
You'd also have to implement laws requring identification for buying ammunition then. Currently there are very few if any cities that require store owners to log the id of people who buy ammunition.
It also wouldn't help to keep track of the people who cast their own bullets from scrap lead from many sources.
5. you get a log of the conversation. So if you need to go back and check a fact, you can. It's possible to record phone calls too but in IM it's automatic and it's much easier to search text than audio.
In some states it's also illegal to record phone conversations without consent, I don't belive that protection extends to IM conversations. It's not something you usually have to worry about, but if you're IM'ing with your manager having a record of exactly what was said could save your bacon.
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General Motors is working on diesel hybrid busses and has sold some in Canada. They're more like todays hybrid cars than a diesel/electric train though. I agree with you, I'd like to see them build busses, semis and even fulls size pickups/SUVs that way.
Unless it is setup like an old coaster brake on a bicycle. That way even if the motor stops moving the wheel can still turn.
That is totally faulty logic. Just because Apache did something years ago has zero impact on the stability of anything from MS.
Do we have to wait for a 2.0 it to be useful of these new features while apache is already tested?
That may well be true, MS isn't exactly known for stable 1.0 anything releases.
It was online before it was in the theaters. It's been such a big deal (to some people) that there have been many news articles about it, including on Slashdot.
I'm sure most people would. It's not like they're going to X-Ray only the people who would have been strip searched though, they're doing it to everyone. Maybe if they only did this to people who failed at the metal detector and/or did something else to spook security then they would be subjected to the X-Ray people might have fewer problems with it.
You're correct, however the law doesn't always look at it that way. In some states/towns you can be ticketed and fined for leaving your car running and un-attended. As you said, just because it's running and no one is there doesn't mean it's Ok to steal it, but you can still be fined for doing so.
Probably the same way they are in person, via threats to the victem or their friends and/or family. A child, hell even some adults, may not be able to see through a bluff threat that gets the pedophile real information to locate the victem.
Wrong, that still doesn't show intent. That would maybe show means but shows absolutely nothing about intent.
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/08/ 224225&tid=163
Just because the US has more prisioners per capita than some other countries does not mean you are more likely to be a prisioner.
The last company I worked at (very briefly) had a clause in the contract that stated everything you developed whether on your own time at home on the weekend or at work was owned by the company. If their contract has something simlar they may well be prohibited from releasing anything open source unless given permission by the company which MS, if they bought RH, is hardly likely to do.
To bad it can't be installed on any Windows server OS. AVG can't be updated on Win2003 anymore either.
Good point, worthy of an insightfull or informative. I would think that's another agrument towards using them in trucks that are often used for towing or hauling heavy loads, or just moving a 5,000+ lb truck.
For those who don't know in this case the diesel engine is basically just an electric generator that powers the electric motor. Because as a generator it can run at a constant speed it's even more efficient than a traditional diesel. It works for trains, I'd guess it would work for cars/trucks/SUV as well. GM/Allison has built buses this way that see a 60% MPG increase vs conventional diesel buses. If a Chevy heavy duty pickup sees a similar increase that would put it near 40 mpg on the highway. Pretty good for a 1 ton truck.
Dvorak, he'll also sympathize about it using 100% of the CPU as well.
Most of the parents wouldn't have the influence to enforce it in their offices, but some might. Suppose the parent of one of those kids is the CEO or CTO Reed Elsevier with 20,000 employees world wide. Do you think MS wants to risk potentially all of those desktops to save the income on a few licenses in school?
Performance tests are intersting but can't really be relied on as a sole measure. It's very easy to change the test to favor one thing or platform over another and setting up "real world" tests is virtually impossible because what is "real world" at one company won't be at another.
I'm not trying to flame you, but it sounds like you have bigger problems with your interview skills than with your word processor. My brother has the same problem, smart, very technical, decent looking resume, but then turns everyone off in the face to face meeting and can't get hired. Unfortunately for many people, personal charisma is as important as the resume or job skills in actually getting hired.
I agree, it does (or should) pretty much cut off any horns MS marketing could gain from this.
I disagree. The goal is to test if IIS is secure, not if the web application is secure. A large complex ecommerce site is more likely to have a bug in it's code that can be exploited than a simple basic site that does some minor database queries. The simple site would, in theory, leave fewer security holes to exploit leaving only IIS vulnerabilities.
DoubleClick? What does 127.0.0.1 know that it didn't know already?
That assumes the attacker is located in the US and the place they want the victem to send the money is somewhere US authorities have any power. These days you might be better off contacting Homeland Security and spinning it as an attack against the US.
And how do you think the victem feels 10, 20, 30 years later? Many of them often have serious emotional problems that scar them for life from the "huge mistake" some piece of shit sex offender made. Should the POS be given a fresh start when the victem can't be?
It also wouldn't help to keep track of the people who cast their own bullets from scrap lead from many sources.
In some states it's also illegal to record phone conversations without consent, I don't belive that protection extends to IM conversations. It's not something you usually have to worry about, but if you're IM'ing with your manager having a record of exactly what was said could save your bacon.