General gas stations don't, no, but I have more places to get 100+ octane than if I were to try and get CNG or Propane here.
Now, I run the 93 octane for daily driving, and the 100 octane program only on track days or days I feel like cutting loose a bit:)
I've got a 2001 VW Jetta Wolfsburg, 1.8T. It has a 1.8L inline-four cylinder turbocharged engine.
Factory, my vehicle came with 150hp/153tq and had about 7psi of boost pressure.
I installed an APR (www.goapr.com) chip, which modifys the air/fuel ratio (actually a bit more rich when under load than the stock map), spark, timing and boost level. After the chip I was pushing 15-16psi of boost, and on 100 octane gas mode (I normally rode on 91/93 octane modes) it pushed about the same boost but had significantly more advanced timing.
On 93 octane, my vehicle with a chip alone was 215hp/247tq to the flywheel. Dyno testing showed these numbers to be about accurate.
So, for 800 (I paid for the more expensive chip and selectable programs, an additional charge) I netted 65hp and 94ft-lb of torque.
Now many would say that I'm going to blow my engine, blah blah. Well, I know for a fact that my engine is well built. completely forged factory internals, cast iron block, 7 main bearings and a moderate (9.3:1) compression ratio. I also know that the stock head and cam profiles are more than well suited for additional gains (5v/cylinder technology rocks). I also know through datalogging (thanks VAG-COM; http://www.ross-tech.com) that my AFR, timing, and knock are all MORE than acceptable. I've been so confident, that I've also been spraying a 75-100 shot wet kit as well. I've also pushed 22 psi on this little Walnut-sized turbo that it came with (damn K03S). I also have done several other modifications, but these aren't really important in this discussion.
So, while my experience was simply an uncorking of limitations installed so that the 1.8T which was cheaper than the VR6, wouldn't outperform it's 6 cylinder brother, I do know that most "chips" don't do much good.
But there are certainly platforms where performance chipping is well worth the money, and is an essential first-mod.
Problem with that, is that, I don't download music. I don't. I hardly listen to music, and when I do, provided I consider the album to be worthy of the heavily overinflated price the media companies want, so as to keep them in new Lear Jets yearly, then I buy it. I buy DVDs, if I consider what the DVD has to be worthy of the price.
I don't download illegal music (not anymore; and not for legal reasons. Most music out there is pretty crappy now). Since I don't download music, I sure as hell don't think I should have to pay an additional fee so that I can *listen* to a bunch of crusty songs, with the occasional decent one, without the capability of listening to said song in the manner in which I choose. Now, if they offered the capability to burn CDs or backups without charge, then it wouldn't be a bad deal.
But in no way related to charges or fees should a service be "opt-out". If the students want the service, on an individual basis, the university should set up a way to provide the students with legal access at a discounted rate. That way, the university absolves liability by providing the availability of legal services, and the students get to choose whether or not that service is worth their and their parent's hard earned money.
And I'll be damned if I'm going to pay a "tax" on my internet service because Joe Bob Dumbass wants to feel good about downloading. He wants to feel "good" let him pay.
On the off chance that it IS enacted, hopefully they'll use better tape that the TSA does at airports.
One of my work boxes had the same TSA "security checked" sticker over the lock for 5 flights. It didn't break apart upon opening, and went right back on when I closed it. Interestingly enough, the checkers didn't remove the old one or anything. They simply put a new one on the seam of the case...
Hmm, cable modem on a residential style network = no dedicated port.
Though, generally the cable modem has a MAC and is linked to your account.
So theoretically,
IP -> MAC -> Cable Modem -> Account -> You
IP spoofing and MAC spoofing would have more than enough doubt to make to prosecutable, IMHO.
IANAL.
Seeing as SCO can prove just about diddly, I don't think the RedHat Legal Code Change team will have much to do.
The cards are being called SCO. Bluff time is over.
I have insight on both sides of this bit. I was a student and a computer administrator at my local school, from 96 to 2000 when I was in school.
Thankfully, for the most part, I (and the help of my colleagues/fellow students) were able to ward off the association of hackers = bad.
In fact, during middle school and my ninth grade year, whenever a teacher would have a computer issue, myself or another student were generally called instead of the local tech support people, which were relatively non-existant at the time. I even had to crack a Mac password a few times for a few different teachers, and my computer activity was never really monitored anymore than anyone elses...
This "reputation" sort of carried into high school, where I applied for and got a job working half the day for the school district, and half the day actually going to school. We had started to have higher-up administration want to go down the path of "security through fear" but thankfully, we as the "tech team" found better alternatives.
I setup challenges for the local "hax0rs" and security types to try and break through my security on a separate, non-connected machine. The program was a great response; we had a reward for a successful "hack" (which I'm happy to say was never claimed), and security issues were relatively minor. Through encouragement of proper use and reporting of security flaws in a helpful manner, we never had a single issue. Students would bring any security issues they found to us, and we'd correct them. No BS about "you were hacking, so thanks but you're getting suspended" or anything like that. Thankfully, we've got a relatively technologically-adept school district. Things have changed a bit since I've left, but from what I understand there haven't been any MAJOR incidents such as the example in the article. And no one ever said anything about my having 2600 there:)
Now, our teachers were for the most part definitely behind the curve compared to the students. Our computer science teacher was seriously, and I'm dead serious, one day ahead of her students. She would read and re-learn the material and teach it the next day.
I love how Novell "snuck into the copyright office and filed these copyrights" and that it is a desparate measure.
Not wholly unlike a software company that relies on a business model of litigation, huh?
Nice. One investor just asked that if Linux does remove these files, should they be infringing, would SCO remove Samba and other GPL products.
They basically said, no, we won't remove them.
80 lines of code, and 43 header files the supposedly touch almost every Linux application out there.
And they just said a $150,000/per CPU violation of DMCA in using Linux, in their letters.
I guess I'm at a few million with my house...
Yes, but it's much messier, generally associated with sickness, and is all the more unpleasant.
So, I'm not seeing why Microsoft is against this. I thought these were the hallmarks of their product?
Oh yeah. You know it. The Internet was our gift to the UK after beating them in the revolution?
WTF are you on? The Internet is a global communications tool; not a private club we let people in and shut them out when we don't like them.
What is up with idiots saying "screw them" on this? Great way to fostger international peace and harmony; but cutting them off and saying "fuck off blokes". Geez... I wonder what the response would be if France were cut off for a bit....
"Hey, I hear Ford Explorers used to rollover a lot"
"Most people have refrigerators."
What was the ring fault they had lapsed on fixing the previous time, and who's responsible for maintenance on an international line within no clear national boundary (if indeed it failed in the ocean)
Last time I checked though, there were no laws forbidding one to "hang out" with people of a bad nature, just as there are no laws against filesharing copyright-legal media. Problem is, UoF is "enforcing" a law that doesn't exist. Just as I shouldn't receive a speeding ticket and defensive driving for driving my car legally, or owning a car in the first place.
And I'm more than old enough to not have to worry about getting punished by parents for who I associate with;)
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General gas stations don't, no, but I have more places to get 100+ octane than if I were to try and get CNG or Propane here. Now, I run the 93 octane for daily driving, and the 100 octane program only on track days or days I feel like cutting loose a bit :)
E.T. no longer phones home. He uses ICQ.
Pretty much what he said.
I've got a 2001 VW Jetta Wolfsburg, 1.8T. It has a 1.8L inline-four cylinder turbocharged engine.
Factory, my vehicle came with 150hp/153tq and had about 7psi of boost pressure.
I installed an APR (www.goapr.com) chip, which modifys the air/fuel ratio (actually a bit more rich when under load than the stock map), spark, timing and boost level. After the chip I was pushing 15-16psi of boost, and on 100 octane gas mode (I normally rode on 91/93 octane modes) it pushed about the same boost but had significantly more advanced timing.
On 93 octane, my vehicle with a chip alone was 215hp/247tq to the flywheel. Dyno testing showed these numbers to be about accurate.
So, for 800 (I paid for the more expensive chip and selectable programs, an additional charge) I netted 65hp and 94ft-lb of torque.
Now many would say that I'm going to blow my engine, blah blah. Well, I know for a fact that my engine is well built. completely forged factory internals, cast iron block, 7 main bearings and a moderate (9.3:1) compression ratio. I also know that the stock head and cam profiles are more than well suited for additional gains (5v/cylinder technology rocks). I also know through datalogging (thanks VAG-COM; http://www.ross-tech.com) that my AFR, timing, and knock are all MORE than acceptable. I've been so confident, that I've also been spraying a 75-100 shot wet kit as well. I've also pushed 22 psi on this little Walnut-sized turbo that it came with (damn K03S). I also have done several other modifications, but these aren't really important in this discussion.
So, while my experience was simply an uncorking of limitations installed so that the 1.8T which was cheaper than the VR6, wouldn't outperform it's 6 cylinder brother, I do know that most "chips" don't do much good.
But there are certainly platforms where performance chipping is well worth the money, and is an essential first-mod.
Problem with that, is that, I don't download music. I don't. I hardly listen to music, and when I do, provided I consider the album to be worthy of the heavily overinflated price the media companies want, so as to keep them in new Lear Jets yearly, then I buy it. I buy DVDs, if I consider what the DVD has to be worthy of the price.
I don't download illegal music (not anymore; and not for legal reasons. Most music out there is pretty crappy now). Since I don't download music, I sure as hell don't think I should have to pay an additional fee so that I can *listen* to a bunch of crusty songs, with the occasional decent one, without the capability of listening to said song in the manner in which I choose. Now, if they offered the capability to burn CDs or backups without charge, then it wouldn't be a bad deal.
But in no way related to charges or fees should a service be "opt-out". If the students want the service, on an individual basis, the university should set up a way to provide the students with legal access at a discounted rate. That way, the university absolves liability by providing the availability of legal services, and the students get to choose whether or not that service is worth their and their parent's hard earned money.
And I'll be damned if I'm going to pay a "tax" on my internet service because Joe Bob Dumbass wants to feel good about downloading. He wants to feel "good" let him pay.
On the off chance that it IS enacted, hopefully they'll use better tape that the TSA does at airports.
One of my work boxes had the same TSA "security checked" sticker over the lock for 5 flights. It didn't break apart upon opening, and went right back on when I closed it. Interestingly enough, the checkers didn't remove the old one or anything. They simply put a new one on the seam of the case...
Hmm, cable modem on a residential style network = no dedicated port. Though, generally the cable modem has a MAC and is linked to your account. So theoretically, IP -> MAC -> Cable Modem -> Account -> You IP spoofing and MAC spoofing would have more than enough doubt to make to prosecutable, IMHO. IANAL.
Well, I gotta say. You certainly proved *your* worth with your oh-so-eloquent bit of prose there...
Seeing as SCO can prove just about diddly, I don't think the RedHat Legal Code Change team will have much to do. The cards are being called SCO. Bluff time is over.
"Routers For Meds" Program. Each wireless router is good for one name-brand prescription or three generics.
Just how long does it take for a monk to manually write out a copyright notice these days... :)
I have insight on both sides of this bit. I was a student and a computer administrator at my local school, from 96 to 2000 when I was in school.
:)
Thankfully, for the most part, I (and the help of my colleagues/fellow students) were able to ward off the association of hackers = bad.
In fact, during middle school and my ninth grade year, whenever a teacher would have a computer issue, myself or another student were generally called instead of the local tech support people, which were relatively non-existant at the time. I even had to crack a Mac password a few times for a few different teachers, and my computer activity was never really monitored anymore than anyone elses...
This "reputation" sort of carried into high school, where I applied for and got a job working half the day for the school district, and half the day actually going to school. We had started to have higher-up administration want to go down the path of "security through fear" but thankfully, we as the "tech team" found better alternatives.
I setup challenges for the local "hax0rs" and security types to try and break through my security on a separate, non-connected machine. The program was a great response; we had a reward for a successful "hack" (which I'm happy to say was never claimed), and security issues were relatively minor. Through encouragement of proper use and reporting of security flaws in a helpful manner, we never had a single issue. Students would bring any security issues they found to us, and we'd correct them. No BS about "you were hacking, so thanks but you're getting suspended" or anything like that. Thankfully, we've got a relatively technologically-adept school district. Things have changed a bit since I've left, but from what I understand there haven't been any MAJOR incidents such as the example in the article. And no one ever said anything about my having 2600 there
Now, our teachers were for the most part definitely behind the curve compared to the students. Our computer science teacher was seriously, and I'm dead serious, one day ahead of her students. She would read and re-learn the material and teach it the next day.
Make that 6.01% down, a total of 1.13/share at current time.
I love how Novell "snuck into the copyright office and filed these copyrights" and that it is a desparate measure. Not wholly unlike a software company that relies on a business model of litigation, huh?
Nice. One investor just asked that if Linux does remove these files, should they be infringing, would SCO remove Samba and other GPL products. They basically said, no, we won't remove them.
80 lines of code, and 43 header files the supposedly touch almost every Linux application out there. And they just said a $150,000/per CPU violation of DMCA in using Linux, in their letters. I guess I'm at a few million with my house...
Dr. Seuss is rolling in his grave right now because of that...
Yes, but it's much messier, generally associated with sickness, and is all the more unpleasant. So, I'm not seeing why Microsoft is against this. I thought these were the hallmarks of their product?
I'm guessing they wouldn't know the difference....
If it were the latter, I bet she could write out a formula showing the declining rate of erection possibiility.
Oh yeah. You know it. The Internet was our gift to the UK after beating them in the revolution?
WTF are you on? The Internet is a global communications tool; not a private club we let people in and shut them out when we don't like them. What is up with idiots saying "screw them" on this? Great way to fostger international peace and harmony; but cutting them off and saying "fuck off blokes". Geez... I wonder what the response would be if France were cut off for a bit....
Wow. What an insightful post.
"Hey, I hear Ford Explorers used to rollover a lot"
"Most people have refrigerators."
What was the ring fault they had lapsed on fixing the previous time, and who's responsible for maintenance on an international line within no clear national boundary (if indeed it failed in the ocean)
And drive chains. Don't forget about that...
Last time I checked though, there were no laws forbidding one to "hang out" with people of a bad nature, just as there are no laws against filesharing copyright-legal media. Problem is, UoF is "enforcing" a law that doesn't exist. Just as I shouldn't receive a speeding ticket and defensive driving for driving my car legally, or owning a car in the first place.
;)
And I'm more than old enough to not have to worry about getting punished by parents for who I associate with
Dear God I understood that...
"Hello, I'd like the number to a decent psychologist. Right. Oh I understand. No medications. A psychiatrist then, please."
Yeah, I was kind of actually wondering when the next SCO Days Of Our Lives installment was due...
About the only thing that could describe SCO's Legal Tactics better:
own3d.