Goddamn the mods tonight are stupid. He even said "Microsoft" right in his post. How the fuck is that OT when the article is ABOUT Microsoft? Does someone cart you mods in from the loonie bin or what? Jesus.
Oh, and yeah, feel free to mod this -5 Telling The Stupid Mods They're Stupid. I'm suprised/. doesn't have a mod for that yet.
Um... excuse me if this is a stupid question... but if courts across the land, including the supreme-motherfucking-court of your country rule a law as being "unconstitutional"... then how in the hell could it possibly remain in effect!?
Seems stupid. But maybe I just don't understand their laws. It is, after all, all greek to me! *Rimshot*. *Ducks and runs*
Maxis isn't toast yet. SimCity 4 w/ Rush Hour is actually not a bad game. And The Sims, despite not appealing to the same demographic as the rest of the industry usually does, is really a very good game.
As a game developer, i'd say Maxis is actually doing very well for itself. As Maxis being Maxis... yeah, I think they may have lost a little of their creative edge because of EA's meddling. But they still make good games for the time being.
An Egyptian goddess of the underworld who endows justice and truth. She is pictured as a cobra (occasionally winged or crowned), or as a snake with a womans face. (And yes, I know she's sometimes called "Wadjet" but thats just not as cool as "Uadjet";))
Corporate propaganda. False positives were/are common. Damn near anything you put in your mouth could be a problem. Chemicals like mouthwash and toothpaste are obvious problems, but many foods, and almost any sort of fruit you recently ate would cause problems (the fructose turns to alcohol). Not large problems mind you, but they would show up on a test.
Luckilly, theres an easy way around these events known simply as "Wash your damned mouth out with water before you sample", but most people I worked with didn't catch onto that concept very quickly;).
Oh, and one other thing... while I worked with these devices, I never saw any problems with smoke. Almost all of my coworkers smoked, and they never ever had problems with the machines, even if they'd just taken a puff. Of course, the smoke wasn't exactly good for the machine... but it didn't set it off. Maybe it depends on the brand? Oh well.
Don't even try to tell me that tube will be nice and pristing, either. Anyone who's ever played a wind instrument knows there's a lot of spit involved. If everyone has their own mouthpiece, does that mean you have to carry it around with you all day? What do you do when it fell out of your pocket into the urinal, but you have to get home somehow?
Most people leave the mouthpieces (because you get more than one - as many as you want, infact. They're just cheap $0.02 molded plastic pieces) in their cars.
Now change the situation. It's -10 F outside, and you want to start your car to warm it up, then run back inside. That's right, that remote starter you were so thrilled to get for Christmas is useless now.
Yup. Remote car starters are disabled when the interlock is installed. Passing a law making interlocks mandatory would completely kill the remote-starting industry, so I think they'd raise a pretty big fuss about the whole deal.
Its worth noting that the boxes do have a "warmup" mode though. Unfortunatly this is mislabled, because you can't actually warm up your vehicle with it. Most cars have a high and low idle, and when your car dropped from one to the other, the box would think you were driving and demand an immediate retest. Warmup mode should really be called standby, because thats about all its good for. It gives you 30 minutes that you can run into a store without having to shut your car off, or whatever.
Okay, now imagine your battery's low, and you can't get it started on the first few tries. If you're really lucky, the flaky power will cause some odd behavior in the breath analyser, too!
Yup. Well sorta. It was a requirement of the interlock program that your "vehicles electrical system is in proper functioning order" or whatever. Because, as you hinted at, a flakey electrical system could cause problems. The box itself draws very little power, especially when its turned off (fractions of an amp, IIRC). The most common problam was during starting. Kicking an engine over requires a hell of a lot of power to be sucked from your battery... potentially leaving none for other accessories. Meaning that, on some vehicles with low batteries or faulty electrical systems, you were able to successfully complete a sample, but the moment you started the engine, it would draw so much power that the box would reset itself... and instantly give you a warning for starting your car without providing a sample. Fun! (Goddamn did I ever hate working on poorly maintained vehicles...)
They certainly aren't foolproof devices. Infact they were a pain in the ass most of the time, but I suppose thats because the ones that worked properly almost never had to come back for service, so all I usually saw were the problems:P
There had better be a small amount of time that the vehicle can be driven before the test but after you start the car.
You have to provide a sample before you start the car, and then randomly as you're driving (anywhere from 20 to 50 minutes) later.
Cool.. Now when are these reports read? For DUI offenders, it's presumably fairly often. For everyone else...when? When you get your car inspected? These things had better have a pretty big memory.
The devices I worked with were read generally once every 3 months. There were a few rare exceptions where the log would fill before that time though (especially with couriers). Hopefully newer generations of the technology have a larger memory capacity.
Whoa whoa whoa.... So if my battery dies, I'm fucked? No documented repair. This absolutely is only good for DUI offenders, because frankly, it's an unreasonable burden on your average person. I change my own batteries. There are also times when I take the battery off for other reasons. I should just be able to, period. Demanding documentation as to why the battery was removed is simply unacceptable unless there is good cause to believe that I was trying to get around the system.
Not exactly fucked. You can disconnect the battery for 15 minutes without it logging an event (with the boxes I worked with anyways). Thats long enough to switch batteries in most vehicles. Oh, and it takes 3 "power on/off" events before you're called back early. So, while technically discouraged, you could do work on your vehicle about once a month. Yes, it is a pretty bullshit rule, but its just there to try and keep people from fucking with the box.
Easily circumvented. Anyone with a pair of wire cutters and access to a Radio Shack can bypass this.
Yup. Its easy. I could bypass one in about 5 minutes. Problem? You can't hide it. The fastest way - just stripping wires and bypassing the box - is blatantly obvious, because even if you tape it back up, it won't have tamper seals on it (a requirement where I worked). And even when people get creative and just jump to the starter directly, the box logs it as an engine running fault. Too many of those and you're busted. And I know what you're thinking: "just disconnect the box". Doesn't work. You either end up with Power On/Off signals every time you disconnect and reconnect the box, or you get a very suspicious report with almost no 'blows' despite your milage having increased (yes, your milage is tracked, though not electronically).
Mechanically circumventing the box IS possible, but its very difficult and time consuming. Not something a drunk is easilly capable of doing;). (And no, I won't tell anyone how.)
Will cause accidents. If you think cell phones were bad imagine hyperventilating sober drivers passing out at the wheel.
A potential hazard, yes. Luckilly you are given, IIRC, about 3 minutes to provide a sample. So you can easilly wait until you're stopped at a light or otherwise unoccupied. Of course, that relies on the users intelligence, which isn't a great thing to be counting on.
Easily circumvented. Even if you don't like wire cutters, you can fill up a balloon with air to blow for you. ( or another low tech solution devized by the same people who can make a bong out of *anything*
Like I posted earlier above, most newer devices (well the ones I worked with anyways) require you to hum for a few seconds as you provide a sample. This makes mechanical blowing devices a bit more challanging to devise (although, admittedly, still possible). But as the technology evolves, it gets harder and harder to fool it, to the point of being impractical (especially if you have nothing to hide, save your "privacy").
-Most of the newer Interlocks require you to hum for a few seconds while you blow, to prove that you're human (and not an air compressor)
-Even if you started your car with an air compressor, you'd have to get to wherever you were going and back before the machine asked for a resample, or you're screwwed.
Yes, people are creative and can find ways around the technology... but the technology is constantly evolving too. Its a race, really. And having worked with the devices, I know which side my money is on.:)
So maybe its a chunk of a planet that got creamed by a really big rock.
Or, more likely, its a rejected engagement ring on some faraway planet.
Female Alien: Only 10 billion trillion trillion carats?! You OBVIOUSLY don't love me that much if thats all you can afford! Throw it into space, I don't want it!! *stomps off*
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2) The engine internals or drivetrain are too frail. This tends to be far less common (since these parts are usually overengineered), but it does happen, especially on AWD turbo cars with decent sized turbos, like the AWD DSMs from the mid-early 90s (eclipse/laser/etc).
What in gods name are you talking about?? The 4G63 (engine found in DSMs and Lancer Evolutions) is one of the best 4 cyl production engine in the world. Its damn near bullet proof. People slap monster turbos on them and wring nearly 500hp out of em on stock internals. Most of the time its driveline parts that give up the ghost first (especially on AWD models). The 4G63 itself is a legend when it comes to durability.
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...you could have seen the same power increase just by getting a MBC and AFC, instead of paying $400 for a stupid chip.
After all, i'd much rather prompt the girls to play with my tarballs and give my extension a header first (as long as they don't byte). Then they can finger eachother and play with their nodes while I cool off, before we all compile. I won't dev into the core details, but it would involve loading a large driver and lots of fscking and !banging.
(And remember kids: No networking without a firewall!)
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G30rg3_BU5h69: WASUUUUP!!!
France: Aw damneet, 'ow deed he getz in 'ere?
Australia: Oi! One of ewe buggars betta' notta' told 'im tha' passy!
England: Aw now, don't be silly chaps! No one 'ere woulda done a thing like that now!
Russia: *growls*
England: Hey! Wot ewe lookin at me for?
Germany: Ach! Ver ish das admin?!
UN: Hey guys how do buy stuff???
Korea: Bah! Admin is dumb like bowl of noodles! No good for us!
Cuba: Si, and without admin, we stuck with this... loco muchacho.
Afghanistan: Pfft.
Bomb has been planed!
G30rg3_BU5h69 was killed by Afghanistan
G30rg3_BU5h69: WTF!?!? OMFG U R CHETER!!! U SUCK BITCH IMA PWN JOO NOW!!!
Afghanistan: Eep.
Afghanistan was killed by G30rg3_BU5h69
Iraq: Hahaha! George is silly, like little infidel boy!
G30rg3_BU5h69: WTF FAG U WNT SUM 2?!?
Iraq: You cannot touch me! The will of Allah will not allow it!
Iraq was killed by G30rg3_BU5h69
G30rg3_BU5h69: PWWWNEED!!!
PUNKBUSTER: Warning, cheats detected!
G30rg3_BU5h69 was kicked: WMD-Spoofing
France: Haha!
Germany: Haha!
Canada: Haha!
Russia: Haha!
Italy: Haha!
Japan: Haha!
Switzerland: Hey guys, whats THAT?
CONNECTION ERROR: HOST NOT FOUND - #877: Catastrophic Meteor Event
Disconnected.
Exiting game.
Logfile closed, 02/13/04 02:11:32
Yes, I have the tried the mouse gestures in mozilla. They are not at all consistent. You have to "draw" the gesture exactly with sharp edges or it failes to recongnize
Depends on the gesture extension you use. I've found that the "All-in-One" mouse gestures are pretty good. No need for right angles or straight lines, as it bases gestures off of the most prominent movement. So for example, for Down-Right you could draw an "L", or you could draw a curve (like the lower half of a "C") and it would recognize both as being the same thing.
The only thing that I don't like is, as you mentioned, the inability to gesture on a blank page. You can gesture while one is loading, but not if you're still connecting. Kind of annoying, but oh well.
This one might be my ignorance, but I can't get the tabbed browsing to work right on Mozilla. Most of the time it opens new tab for new window but sometimes it will open a new window. Not to mention that the download window always opens a new window
Head over to the Mozillazine forums if you need help with tabs, those guys can know everything;).
Oh, and about the download thing; in this latest release (Firefox 0.8), all downloads are loaded in to a single window/box. No more screwwing around with 90 download windows at once anymore.
And finally, I love that I can close opera and start it later and have all my open webpages restored. No need to temporary bookmarks. Couldn't find this mozilla.
You can do that with a (very popular) extension called Tabbrowser Extensions (sometimes known as TBE). Under Tools -> Options -> Extensions -> Tabbrowser Extensions -> Startup. Theres a section for restoring sessions (and a sub option for tabs) on restart. Oh, and theres also one for restoring your session after a crash - that one is VERY handy.:)
I know you're not likely to switch browsers, but just wanted to post some answers for anyone else with the same questions. Happy browsing!:)
A diet high in anti-oxidants is one easy way to at least limit the damage...
Y'know, I tried drinking some Oxiclean once, but the taste was just horrible. I don't know how anyone could possibly supplement their diets with that disgusting stuff.
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Goddamn the mods tonight are stupid. He even said "Microsoft" right in his post. How the fuck is that OT when the article is ABOUT Microsoft? Does someone cart you mods in from the loonie bin or what? Jesus.
/. doesn't have a mod for that yet.
Oh, and yeah, feel free to mod this -5 Telling The Stupid Mods They're Stupid. I'm suprised
Um... excuse me if this is a stupid question... but if courts across the land, including the supreme-motherfucking-court of your country rule a law as being "unconstitutional"... then how in the hell could it possibly remain in effect!?
Seems stupid. But maybe I just don't understand their laws. It is, after all, all greek to me! *Rimshot*.
*Ducks and runs*
Maxis isn't toast yet. SimCity 4 w/ Rush Hour is actually not a bad game. And The Sims, despite not appealing to the same demographic as the rest of the industry usually does, is really a very good game.
As a game developer, i'd say Maxis is actually doing very well for itself. As Maxis being Maxis... yeah, I think they may have lost a little of their creative edge because of EA's meddling. But they still make good games for the time being.
Uadjet.
;))
;)
An Egyptian goddess of the underworld who endows justice and truth. She is pictured as a cobra (occasionally winged or crowned), or as a snake with a womans face. (And yes, I know she's sometimes called "Wadjet" but thats just not as cool as "Uadjet"
Thats where my vote goes anyways!
The ones I worked with, IIRC, were once every 20-50 minutes.
Corporate propaganda. False positives were/are common. Damn near anything you put in your mouth could be a problem. Chemicals like mouthwash and toothpaste are obvious problems, but many foods, and almost any sort of fruit you recently ate would cause problems (the fructose turns to alcohol). Not large problems mind you, but they would show up on a test. ;).
Luckilly, theres an easy way around these events known simply as "Wash your damned mouth out with water before you sample", but most people I worked with didn't catch onto that concept very quickly
Oh, and one other thing... while I worked with these devices, I never saw any problems with smoke. Almost all of my coworkers smoked, and they never ever had problems with the machines, even if they'd just taken a puff. Of course, the smoke wasn't exactly good for the machine... but it didn't set it off. Maybe it depends on the brand? Oh well.
Its worth noting that the boxes do have a "warmup" mode though. Unfortunatly this is mislabled, because you can't actually warm up your vehicle with it. Most cars have a high and low idle, and when your car dropped from one to the other, the box would think you were driving and demand an immediate retest. Warmup mode should really be called standby, because thats about all its good for. It gives you 30 minutes that you can run into a store without having to shut your car off, or whatever. Yup. Well sorta. It was a requirement of the interlock program that your "vehicles electrical system is in proper functioning order" or whatever. Because, as you hinted at, a flakey electrical system could cause problems. The box itself draws very little power, especially when its turned off (fractions of an amp, IIRC). The most common problam was during starting. Kicking an engine over requires a hell of a lot of power to be sucked from your battery... potentially leaving none for other accessories. Meaning that, on some vehicles with low batteries or faulty electrical systems, you were able to successfully complete a sample, but the moment you started the engine, it would draw so much power that the box would reset itself... and instantly give you a warning for starting your car without providing a sample. Fun! (Goddamn did I ever hate working on poorly maintained vehicles...)
They certainly aren't foolproof devices. Infact they were a pain in the ass most of the time, but I suppose thats because the ones that worked properly almost never had to come back for service, so all I usually saw were the problems
Mechanically circumventing the box IS possible, but its very difficult and time consuming. Not something a drunk is easilly capable of doing
A potential hazard, yes. Luckilly you are given, IIRC, about 3 minutes to provide a sample. So you can easilly wait until you're stopped at a light or otherwise unoccupied. Of course, that relies on the users intelligence, which isn't a great thing to be counting on.
Like I posted earlier above, most newer devices (well the ones I worked with anyways) require you to hum for a few seconds as you provide a sample. This makes mechanical blowing devices a bit more challanging to devise (although, admittedly, still possible). But as the technology evolves, it gets harder and harder to fool it, to the point of being impractical (especially if you have nothing to hide, save your "privacy").
Two quick things.
:)
-Most of the newer Interlocks require you to hum for a few seconds while you blow, to prove that you're human (and not an air compressor)
-Even if you started your car with an air compressor, you'd have to get to wherever you were going and back before the machine asked for a resample, or you're screwwed.
Yes, people are creative and can find ways around the technology... but the technology is constantly evolving too. Its a race, really. And having worked with the devices, I know which side my money is on.
I don't believe you. You're lying.
...crispy, crunchy, or atomized?
So does that mean some diamonds call their friends "Ma' Diggers" ?
*Rimshot*
*Ducks incoming tomatoes and -1 Troll mods*
Carbon + Heat + Pressure = Diamond
So maybe its a chunk of a planet that got creamed by a really big rock.
Or, more likely, its a rejected engagement ring on some faraway planet.
Female Alien: Only 10 billion trillion trillion carats?! You OBVIOUSLY don't love me that much if thats all you can afford! Throw it into space, I don't want it!! *stomps off*
...you could have seen the same power increase just by getting a MBC and AFC, instead of paying $400 for a stupid chip.
Yeah, you're right - that was the easy way out.
;)
After all, i'd much rather prompt the girls to play with my tarballs and give my extension a header first (as long as they don't byte). Then they can finger eachother and play with their nodes while I cool off, before we all compile. I won't dev into the core details, but it would involve loading a large driver and lots of fscking and !banging.
(And remember kids: No networking without a firewall!)
Better?
These booth girls... if i'm new to Linux, will they 'mount' my 'hard drive'? ;)
I'd be sure to try switching to Linux then!
G30rg3_BU5h69 has joined the game
G30rg3_BU5h69: WASUUUUP!!!
France: Aw damneet, 'ow deed he getz in 'ere?
Australia: Oi! One of ewe buggars betta' notta' told 'im tha' passy!
England: Aw now, don't be silly chaps! No one 'ere woulda done a thing like that now!
Russia: *growls*
England: Hey! Wot ewe lookin at me for?
Germany: Ach! Ver ish das admin?!
UN: Hey guys how do buy stuff???
Korea: Bah! Admin is dumb like bowl of noodles! No good for us!
Cuba: Si, and without admin, we stuck with this... loco muchacho.
Afghanistan: Pfft.
Bomb has been planed!
G30rg3_BU5h69 was killed by Afghanistan
G30rg3_BU5h69: WTF!?!? OMFG U R CHETER!!! U SUCK BITCH IMA PWN JOO NOW!!!
Afghanistan: Eep.
Afghanistan was killed by G30rg3_BU5h69
Iraq: Hahaha! George is silly, like little infidel boy!
G30rg3_BU5h69: WTF FAG U WNT SUM 2?!?
Iraq: You cannot touch me! The will of Allah will not allow it!
Iraq was killed by G30rg3_BU5h69
G30rg3_BU5h69: PWWWNEED!!!
PUNKBUSTER: Warning, cheats detected!
G30rg3_BU5h69 was kicked: WMD-Spoofing
France: Haha!
Germany: Haha!
Canada: Haha!
Russia: Haha!
Italy: Haha!
Japan: Haha!
Switzerland: Hey guys, whats THAT?
CONNECTION ERROR: HOST NOT FOUND - #877: Catastrophic Meteor Event
Disconnected.
Exiting game.
Logfile closed, 02/13/04 02:11:32
Just a quick note: Firefox has tooltip URLs now :)
Clicky-clicky!
The only thing that I don't like is, as you mentioned, the inability to gesture on a blank page. You can gesture while one is loading, but not if you're still connecting. Kind of annoying, but oh well. Head over to the Mozillazine forums if you need help with tabs, those guys can know everything
Oh, and about the download thing; in this latest release (Firefox 0.8), all downloads are loaded in to a single window/box. No more screwwing around with 90 download windows at once anymore. You can do that with a (very popular) extension called Tabbrowser Extensions (sometimes known as TBE). Under Tools -> Options -> Extensions -> Tabbrowser Extensions -> Startup. Theres a section for restoring sessions (and a sub option for tabs) on restart. Oh, and theres also one for restoring your session after a crash - that one is VERY handy.
I know you're not likely to switch browsers, but just wanted to post some answers for anyone else with the same questions. Happy browsing!
Hm?
Oooh... Anti-oxidants...