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  1. Re:The problem is user error. on Drivers Need To Forget Their GPS · · Score: 1

    Well, she had to ask the GPS to put gas in.

  2. Re:Uh... let me think about it on Drivers Need To Forget Their GPS · · Score: 1

    And she had to stop to put gas in at least a couple times. Not to mention she passed border checkpoints, while unmanned and with open barriers, still quite hard to not see.

  3. Re:Cable is still copper and some areas have old on Grandma's Phone, DSL, and the Copper They Share (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    According to this page http://www.copper.org/applicat... you are right. And the rime frame matches exactly. I should turn my geek card in. Last time I was out digging cables was back in 2004.

  4. Re:What year is this? on Grandma's Phone, DSL, and the Copper They Share (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, Wii is SD (480 vertical pixels) and the stream for that is 2.1Mbps. (1.75Mbps of data + the overhead). As to the arguments about things worth watching in SD, you are all right, good stories can be watched in SD, but NTSC resolution to me is just too little vertical resolution for letterbox (from 480 original vertical pixels only 308 go to the movie). I would prefer PAL (576 vertical points original, so 370 go to the movie), not to mention all the non-square pixel issues that anamorphic formats create.

  5. Re:Cable is still copper and some areas have old on Grandma's Phone, DSL, and the Copper They Share (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, I literally mean cables laid down back in late 1890s and early 1900s

  6. Re:Cable is still copper and some areas have old on Grandma's Phone, DSL, and the Copper They Share (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    In most areas I know, phone cables are lead with oiled paper insulation...

  7. Re:What year is this? on Grandma's Phone, DSL, and the Copper They Share (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a lie. How do I know that? The HD Netflix streams require 8Mbps each (5.8Mbps data rate + packet and transport overhead). And SD is not worth watching.

  8. Re:So it begins on UK Wants Authority To Serve Warrants In U.S. (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    What do you mean? You Americans pushed out the red coats back in 1783.. Took a good 233 years. I guess that should be enough..

  9. Really? on Grandma's Phone, DSL, and the Copper They Share (hackaday.com) · · Score: -1

    Really?!? Really ?!?! Really Timmy????? This article would have been in place on the front page of ./ in 1999. Check your clock, it is 2016 right now.

  10. I prefer blackhole routes you insensitive clod. Better yet, use a proper firewall. You know, those guys can just type IP addresses in there, and with HOSTS you are hosed. Not to say that now malicious scripting is served from inline javascript in the HTML itself. There is no HOSTS file that will help you with that. Only a deep packet inspection firewall and a mangling proxy (like privoxy if it is still alive) can help here. You need to carve out portions of the HTML itself. Also go read and implement all STIGs relevant to your operating system, device and browser. You will soon see that certain things don't work, but info isn't much leaked. And at the end of the day - just reach for the power button. That is the only sure way the device isn't leaking anything about your.

  11. Re:Correction on Whatsapp Will Become Free, Companies Can Pay To Reach Users (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    As it has always been. I've never met a single person who had to pay for whatsapp.

  12. Re:"Messaging service"? on Whatsapp Will Become Free, Companies Can Pay To Reach Users (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I prefer (wechat) you insensitive clod. It is much better than mugcatalog and whatapp and viber and all the ilk. And ./ does not support Chinese characters in 2015

  13. Re:It's always been free for me on Whatsapp Will Become Free, Companies Can Pay To Reach Users (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Same for me. It has always been free. Used it for over 3 or 4 years and never had to pay a dime, and I don't even get those messages about extending.

  14. Re:Facts would be welcome on French Drug Trial Leaves One Brain Dead and Five Critically Ill (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is the company?

  15. Re:System working as planned. on French Drug Trial Leaves One Brain Dead and Five Critically Ill (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    None will be left brain dead, but most will be left Walking dead.

  16. Re:Normally I side with the EFF, BUT on EFF: Cisco Shouldn't Get Off the Hook For Aiding Torture In China (eff.org) · · Score: 2

    Good, there is no place for religion in a civilized world.

  17. Re:Data while sleeping? on AT&T Brings Back Unlimited Mobile Data To Lure TV Subscribers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    22GB are about 8 hours of Netflix in HD, that is like 3.5 movies this days. Or about watching only one episode of two series each week, and that is not counting other internet use. So with other use, use get like 2 movies and only one episode of only one series each week. Count me disgusted.

  18. Re:Ah, cry me a protectionist river on The Dirty Truth About 'Clean Diesel' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    VW Golf 2010 (North American engines). Range on a single tank of gas vs diesel - 380 miles vs 730 miles, you are right, it is about 2 times. However this assumes flat driving at 55mph. Once you start adding hills and speeding at 75mph the gas engine range decreases much more than the diesel engine range (because of the high low rpm torque of the diesel).

  19. Re:Ah, cry me a protectionist river on The Dirty Truth About 'Clean Diesel' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I call bollocks. Where are you getting those figures, out of your behind? Though those seem to be UK Jukes, considering you have 3 engine options? Well, North American Jukes are 3750 miles or 3 months. https://owners.nissanusa.com/c... SCHEDULE 1 (more severe operating conditions), every 3,750 miles or 3 months, whichever comes first Use Schedule 1 if you primarily operate your vehicle under any of these conditions: Repeated short trips of less than 5 miles in normal temperatures or less than 10 miles in freezing temperatures Stop-and-go traffic in hot weather or low speed driving for long distances Driving in dusty conditions or on rough, muddy, or salt-spread roads Towing a trailer, or using a camper or car-top carrier Nissan insists you always qualify for schedule 1 if you live in a city. case rested

  20. Re:Snarky solution on The Dirty Truth About 'Clean Diesel' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually your use would qualify. You do have a registered non-profit for your scout group, right? But only when your are towing the camping equipment and the canoes you should be able to use the truck.

  21. Re:Ah, cry me a protectionist river on The Dirty Truth About 'Clean Diesel' (nytimes.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    All the small engine Japanese compact and subcompact cars these days. E.g. Nissan Juke - 3500 miles or 3 month, whichever comes first. A lot of the new Hondas and Suzuki's too. 1.4L 4cyl turbo, 188bhp, 28mpg on the highway running over 3200 rpm at 65mph. The inside of the tail pipe is covered with heavy sooth, because you know, turbo cars have to run rich, so the temps stay low. 3.5 quarts/liters of oil, 4 liters of coolant. Don't compare with European engines. The older VW 2.5 5cyl atmospheric engine with 168bhp was built to last. 9 quarts/liters of oil and 12 liters of coolant was built to last, and was doing 36mpg on the highway at 2400 rpm 65mph. The new VW 1.4 TSI ... not so much (lasting). It will wear out years before the 2.5 engine of the Mk VI golfs. And it does have sooth, just put your finger inside the tailpipe and look at what sticks to the sides. A car should not be scrapped well before 600k. It is planned obsolescence. And yes. getting 3 cars over a period of 15 years is much more harmful to the environment than driving a single car for 15 years.

  22. Re:Ah, cry me a protectionist river on The Dirty Truth About 'Clean Diesel' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is reasonable for a car built in 2000. Even cars built into 2010 had good, reliable gasoline engines. I'm talking about new cars. They aren't built to last. They are built with planned obsolescence, primary of the engine block. It may be anecdotal too, but the cylinder head wall of old Audi engines is about 15mm, and made of steel/cast iron and the compressions is not very high, and the engine cover is metal too. The cylinder head wall of new cars is about 4mm of aluminum, nowhere near as good coolant distribution channels, the engine cover is made of plastic. You can drive an old Italian or USSR made carbureted car for 1m miles, not so much for the new turbo charged gas engines made of what is basically cheese. With a diesel engine, you can't go that cheap, yet; they need to be a bit more robust to contain the higher compressions, and they still build them with high quality metallurgy, that is the point I'm trying to make.

  23. Re:Ah, cry me a protectionist river on The Dirty Truth About 'Clean Diesel' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, the population is growing in unsustainable rate. We are 7 or 8 B now. This planet and only sustain 3B in the long term with the current consumption pattern per capita. So I strongly support killing smog than 2 degrees warmer planet for every 1/4B if the deadly gas brings the human scourge down to 3-3.5B where everyone will be provided for. In the next 10 years we will be 12B. And we are talking 10+ degrees warmer. We have to start thinking about population control en masse on planetary level. Adding more people is the problem, not the solution.

  24. Re:Ah, cry me a protectionist river on The Dirty Truth About 'Clean Diesel' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I actually drive one of those dead from the get go turbocharged 1.4l gas engines.

  25. Re:Snarky solution on The Dirty Truth About 'Clean Diesel' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a better idea. Forbid truck use by private people. Noone has a valid reason to haul his ass and the little precious snowflake in a body on frame truck based SUV. Just forbid all the Suburbans, Tahoes, Escalades, F150s, 1500s and such. You should only be able to buy and operate a truck if you have a valid business reason, like hauling a generator and an electrical excavator to a construction job. There is absolutely no responsible reason to bring snowflake to school in an escalade.