It's probably more expensive, but has anyone seen that pedal-plane game? (You fly a plane around a course - The twist is that you have to pedal it to keep flying!)
Indoor hockey. I was OK at that, but it was endless amusement. Indoor soccer. Bouncy ball, NO out-of bounds - INSANE. "Deathball" - Someone in one of my classes introduced it. WEIRD combination of soccer and handball. More insane than anything but dodgeball.
I wonder how many customers will try the "Click and run" apps (Many popular opensource packages there) and decide that they are extremely happy with them, minimizing the need to install Winblows software.
I'm not sure about the European and Canadian DAB systems, but the main contender for the US DAB system is iBiquity's IBOC.
http://www.worlddab.org/dab/whatis.htm#Question7 - Essentially, it's been agreed (probably due to FCC regs and lack of spectrum) that DAB in the US will share the FM and AM spectrum regions. The nice thing about IBOC is that it can coexist with an FM signal on the same channel. (It takes advantage of reserved spectrum space in the channel sidebands - Since it's a digital system, they can use much lower power (approx. 20 dB down = 1/100 the power) and hence meet FCC restrictions on power in those sidebands yet obtain LONGER range) I've seen the design documents for the system, and it's impressive what they've done/how they've done it.
The problem with this approach is that it results in much more stringent transmitter requirements. (Which is what I'm working on at my current job)
Just the area around the helicopter's flight path will be shut down. Still, that's quite a good chunk of the city.:) But it's nowhere near close to everything.
Maybe not aluminum foil, but if you ever bothered to look at a suspension bridge instead of sitting here flaming people, you'd notice that in most cases the cables are sheathed by something (Looks like some form of pipe, but I can't tell for sure.) Whatever it is, it would be sufficient to block UV from reaching any Kevlar inside.
Unless someone has forgotten their car charger (Unlikely - My car charger is often the one thing I remember, as it's always in my car), there is no need for the FreeCharge.
The FreeCharge is good for those who will be going where there is no power - Like on camping trips. Businesspeople don't need it - They can bring their "brick" wall charger and plug it in at the hotel.
If it is, 12 poor DSL subscribers have likely lost their connection for a few hours... I wonder if they even know that they are victims of the Slashdot Effect?
If it was the 4-speed electronic (A604, later called the 41TE or TH), no wonder... Usually Chrysler was known for excellent engineering (This has changed since the DCX merger - The incompatibilities of German management with an American company have destroyed almost all of what was once good about Chrysler), but the A604 was one of Chrysler's biggest blunders ever. Throughout its life, it's been plagued with problems. Chrysler solved the early problems, but new ones seem to have other ones.
Good news is that a lot of the problems with the 604 aren't major - Incompetent mechanics (AAMCO, for example) will often prescribe a rebuild, for a problem that would be $50 to fix with proper diagnosis.
Chrysler's other automatic tranny design (A413/A670/31TH - All the same internals, slightly different housings) is regarded as nearly indestructible, a point proven by its popularity with Chrysler hot-rodders (http://www.thedodgegarage.com/) - Racers won't *touch* the 604, tho.
Sadly, Chrysler isn't what it once was, even a few years ago, thanks to Daimler.
Honda's new hybrids may look great for them, but overall, it's feel-good policy and marketing.
Unlike Honda, American manufacturers are actually addressing the issues of environmental impact, not making it look like they are when they're not.
Few people are going to buy the Civic HEV or the Insight. In 2-3 years, GM will probably have as many hybrid electric city buses as Honda has sold subcompact hybrids. I believe GM's estimates were that converting one large city to hybrid buses would save more fuel and reduce emissions more than *thousands* of Honda subcompacts. Why?
Because the buses are much larger (need the boost in fuel economy more), and run much more often (Hours on end, as opposed to a Honda owner commuting 15-60 minutes each way to work and running errands around town.)
Ford is taking a similar approach, although oriented slightly more towards the consumer - Their first hybrid release will be the Escape HEV, I believe slated for a 2004 release. If there's any class of consumer vehicle that can benefit from the mileage improvements of a hybrid, it's an SUV... This is evident in the fact that for the past 2-3 years, the HEV competitions in this country have had rule changes from custom "concept" bodies (Insight), to using an existing SUV chassis and making it into something that doesn't guzzle gas like a fratboy chugs cheap beer.
To be economical, the savings of increased fuel economy have to be great - i.e. the cars are driven a LOT, and fuel costs become significant.
In addition, the article mentioned that the car could not refuel at normal gas stations - This isn't a problem for buses and fleet vehicles. (Fleet vehicles are the most likely ones you'll see running on propane or CNG. I know my school had a decent number of propane/CNG vehicles. This is because they were driven around all the time, BUT never strayed more than a few miles away from "home base")
Buses are the best example, though... I believe GM is focusing on buses for their initial hybrid electric projects. One of their spokespersons basically said that converting a single fleet of city buses (For a large city, such as NYC) to hybrid technology would remove more harmful pollutants from the air than over 100,000 compact passenger cars. (Maybe not quite that much, but it was a pretty large number...)
There was once a game (I think based on Unreal) called Nerf Arena Blast - From what I heard, it kinda sucked, but it's an example.
Then there is Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force. Quake 3 engine, and no gore. Plus I don't think we're going to have to worry about our kids picking up a photon torpedo launcher in imitation of the game for a LONG time.
There are probably others. Except for RTS games like Warcraft/Starcraft, FPS are the only other popular games for LAN parties.
It's a buffer overflow originated by a hostile Gopher server.
Just as dangerous, unless you block all Gopher sites using your firewall preferences. As I said before - It's not the legit links (Of which almost none still exist) that are the problem, it's the hostile servers whose links are displayed identically to HTTP links.
I'm guessing that the attack doesn't even involve contacting a Gopher server, it is likely to be a buffer overflow attack in the URL. (I'm guessing that it's a relative of previous URL BO attacks that both NS and MSIE were vulnerable to.)
It's just as newsworthy as bogus HTTP URLs rooting your system were. Because these gopher links look just like HTTP links unless you look at your browser's URL display. Most of us, including myself, don't bother looking unless we have reason to be suspicious. (Like any link in a/. post)
The gopher URL is most likely bogus to begin with. Processing the URL is what roots you, not connecting to the actual Gopher site. i.e. you need a proxy that filters out all Gopher links from the HTML to keep them from ever reaching your browser (Just like the only way to protect Outlook from some classes of worms is server-side filtering)
Corporate controlled fire departments? You have to be joking. You think an occasional 30-minute response time is bad... I don't even want to think about what FDs would be like if they were commercial and privatized. 30 minutes would still be an exception - But exceptionally fast instead of exceptionally slow. Such things are the trend in corporate America. And would you take a care to guess one of the possible causes of slow response times? I suggest you take a look earlier in this thread and you'll see where I'm going.
I've never heard of a fire department "holding a city for ransom" - Hell, probably 50-75% of all firefighters are VOLUNTEERS. The government provides the equipment, not the salary.
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Although that requires a large amount of space in an outdoor setting.
Good points there. Although it might also lessen the objections to "non-conventional" exercise.
:)
I now remember the name. I've played it once at the local movie theater. Interesting game.
I like it because I love flying.
It's probably more expensive, but has anyone seen that pedal-plane game? (You fly a plane around a course - The twist is that you have to pedal it to keep flying!)
Well, maybe not most popular in DDR's case, but it's a craze catching on quick...
DDR meets Quake... Run, run, catch up to the mong with your flag!
Dodgeball in middle school/HS was fun.
The other three games I liked:
Indoor hockey. I was OK at that, but it was endless amusement.
Indoor soccer. Bouncy ball, NO out-of bounds - INSANE.
"Deathball" - Someone in one of my classes introduced it. WEIRD combination of soccer and handball. More insane than anything but dodgeball.
I wonder how many customers will try the "Click and run" apps (Many popular opensource packages there) and decide that they are extremely happy with them, minimizing the need to install Winblows software.
Gamecompatibility scares me, though.
www.lindows.com doesn't mention Wal-Mart at all... In fact, they only mention preview releases.
If this were real, the people that make Lindows would have the news pasted all over their website.
I'm driving to Walmart today to see if I can check one of these 'puters out.
Yes, it's possible. In fact, I think there was once talk about a possible MP3 buffer overflow in the ID3 code. It was found and fixed quickly.
Nonetheless, it's impossible for a "universal" JPEG virus to ever exist. It would affect one or two specific viewer programs, at most.
Also, since the JPEG format has a very specific rigidly predefined algorithm, it should be easy to check the code for buffer overflow vulnerabilities.
I think supercavitation is pretty much only applicable in liquids...
You can probably use neat tricks to reduce drag a lot in a train anyway. (But a lot of them have already been used in high-speed trains.)
It's usually cheaper (and faster, even over short distances, like DC to NYC) to fly than to fly.
In fact, it's often faster and cheaper to HIRE A LIMO and drive! (This is despite I-95 traffic)
I'm not sure about the European and Canadian DAB systems, but the main contender for the US DAB system is iBiquity's IBOC.
7 - Essentially, it's been agreed (probably due to FCC regs and lack of spectrum) that DAB in the US will share the FM and AM spectrum regions. The nice thing about IBOC is that it can coexist with an FM signal on the same channel. (It takes advantage of reserved spectrum space in the channel sidebands - Since it's a digital system, they can use much lower power (approx. 20 dB down = 1/100 the power) and hence meet FCC restrictions on power in those sidebands yet obtain LONGER range) I've seen the design documents for the system, and it's impressive what they've done/how they've done it.
http://www.worlddab.org/dab/whatis.htm#Question
The problem with this approach is that it results in much more stringent transmitter requirements. (Which is what I'm working on at my current job)
Just the area around the helicopter's flight path will be shut down. Still, that's quite a good chunk of the city. :) But it's nowhere near close to everything.
Maybe not aluminum foil, but if you ever bothered to look at a suspension bridge instead of sitting here flaming people, you'd notice that in most cases the cables are sheathed by something (Looks like some form of pipe, but I can't tell for sure.) Whatever it is, it would be sufficient to block UV from reaching any Kevlar inside.
Unless someone has forgotten their car charger (Unlikely - My car charger is often the one thing I remember, as it's always in my car), there is no need for the FreeCharge.
The FreeCharge is good for those who will be going where there is no power - Like on camping trips. Businesspeople don't need it - They can bring their "brick" wall charger and plug it in at the hotel.
Maybe Kevlar - Much lighter than steel, and stronger.
But expensive...
If it is, 12 poor DSL subscribers have likely lost their connection for a few hours... I wonder if they even know that they are victims of the Slashdot Effect?
If it was the 4-speed electronic (A604, later called the 41TE or TH), no wonder... Usually Chrysler was known for excellent engineering (This has changed since the DCX merger - The incompatibilities of German management with an American company have destroyed almost all of what was once good about Chrysler), but the A604 was one of Chrysler's biggest blunders ever. Throughout its life, it's been plagued with problems. Chrysler solved the early problems, but new ones seem to have other ones.
Good news is that a lot of the problems with the 604 aren't major - Incompetent mechanics (AAMCO, for example) will often prescribe a rebuild, for a problem that would be $50 to fix with proper diagnosis.
Chrysler's other automatic tranny design (A413/A670/31TH - All the same internals, slightly different housings) is regarded as nearly indestructible, a point proven by its popularity with Chrysler hot-rodders (http://www.thedodgegarage.com/) - Racers won't *touch* the 604, tho.
Sadly, Chrysler isn't what it once was, even a few years ago, thanks to Daimler.
Honda's new hybrids may look great for them, but overall, it's feel-good policy and marketing.
Unlike Honda, American manufacturers are actually addressing the issues of environmental impact, not making it look like they are when they're not.
Few people are going to buy the Civic HEV or the Insight. In 2-3 years, GM will probably have as many hybrid electric city buses as Honda has sold subcompact hybrids. I believe GM's estimates were that converting one large city to hybrid buses would save more fuel and reduce emissions more than *thousands* of Honda subcompacts. Why?
Because the buses are much larger (need the boost in fuel economy more), and run much more often (Hours on end, as opposed to a Honda owner commuting 15-60 minutes each way to work and running errands around town.)
Ford is taking a similar approach, although oriented slightly more towards the consumer - Their first hybrid release will be the Escape HEV, I believe slated for a 2004 release. If there's any class of consumer vehicle that can benefit from the mileage improvements of a hybrid, it's an SUV... This is evident in the fact that for the past 2-3 years, the HEV competitions in this country have had rule changes from custom "concept" bodies (Insight), to using an existing SUV chassis and making it into something that doesn't guzzle gas like a fratboy chugs cheap beer.
Two reasons: Expense and infrastructure.
To be economical, the savings of increased fuel economy have to be great - i.e. the cars are driven a LOT, and fuel costs become significant.
In addition, the article mentioned that the car could not refuel at normal gas stations - This isn't a problem for buses and fleet vehicles. (Fleet vehicles are the most likely ones you'll see running on propane or CNG. I know my school had a decent number of propane/CNG vehicles. This is because they were driven around all the time, BUT never strayed more than a few miles away from "home base")
Buses are the best example, though... I believe GM is focusing on buses for their initial hybrid electric projects. One of their spokespersons basically said that converting a single fleet of city buses (For a large city, such as NYC) to hybrid technology would remove more harmful pollutants from the air than over 100,000 compact passenger cars. (Maybe not quite that much, but it was a pretty large number...)
I wonder - Would some FPS games be acceptable?
There was once a game (I think based on Unreal) called Nerf Arena Blast - From what I heard, it kinda sucked, but it's an example.
Then there is Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force. Quake 3 engine, and no gore. Plus I don't think we're going to have to worry about our kids picking up a photon torpedo launcher in imitation of the game for a LONG time.
There are probably others. Except for RTS games like Warcraft/Starcraft, FPS are the only other popular games for LAN parties.
It's a buffer overflow originated by a hostile Gopher server.
Just as dangerous, unless you block all Gopher sites using your firewall preferences. As I said before - It's not the legit links (Of which almost none still exist) that are the problem, it's the hostile servers whose links are displayed identically to HTTP links.
I just found a site with more details. Turns out that a hostile server has to be set up.
? lang=fi
So it is a valid remedy.
The site's URL (It's all over this story, but for good measure...) - http://www.solutions.fi/index.cgi/news_2002_06_04
Because legit gopher sites that already aren't the problem.
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It's bogus trap Gopher sites (Or likely merely URLs) that are.
I'm guessing that the attack doesn't even involve contacting a Gopher server, it is likely to be a buffer overflow attack in the URL. (I'm guessing that it's a relative of previous URL BO attacks that both NS and MSIE were vulnerable to.)
It's just as newsworthy as bogus HTTP URLs rooting your system were. Because these gopher links look just like HTTP links unless you look at your browser's URL display. Most of us, including myself, don't bother looking unless we have reason to be suspicious. (Like any link in a
The gopher URL is most likely bogus to begin with. Processing the URL is what roots you, not connecting to the actual Gopher site. i.e. you need a proxy that filters out all Gopher links from the HTML to keep them from ever reaching your browser (Just like the only way to protect Outlook from some classes of worms is server-side filtering)
Corporate controlled fire departments? You have to be joking. You think an occasional 30-minute response time is bad... I don't even want to think about what FDs would be like if they were commercial and privatized. 30 minutes would still be an exception - But exceptionally fast instead of exceptionally slow. Such things are the trend in corporate America. And would you take a care to guess one of the possible causes of slow response times? I suggest you take a look earlier in this thread and you'll see where I'm going.
I've never heard of a fire department "holding a city for ransom" - Hell, probably 50-75% of all firefighters are VOLUNTEERS. The government provides the equipment, not the salary.