I would think it's a win / win for all involved. Those who want to get to adult content would have an easier time finding it...
Because finding porn on the internet is currently soooo difficult.
Looking at the spreadsheet from the "Dust to Dust" link, I see the H1, H2, and H3 listed at 4.01, 3.59, and 2.07 $/mile respectively. The article appears to use the 2005 value for the H3 and I don't see why it claims the 2006 values weren't available. Assumptions about expected lifetime aside, this seems to put the Prius in better, but not great, standing.
100k Miles in gas at US prices is about 20,000$. Even assuming some inflation, and that costs for maintenance runs the same as the gas costs, that's only a 50 - 60k$ premium on purchase price. That's only around 100,000$ for a Prius, all told. Where is the extra 200k$ cost coming from? It's even worse than that because you are bad at math.
You'll have negotiating room if (A) you pay in cash,
Why on earth do you think that. Do you really think it's the dealer that's financing your loan? If you take a loan, the dealer gets the whole chunk of cash when the loan is approved. If you finance through the dealer they'll then get an extra bonus for selling you the finance. Dealers couldn't care less how you pay (in fact in the UK, one of the biggest car sellers, Arnold Clark no longer accepts cash. They can then reduce their overheads by spending much less on insurance). Plus, an extra $20 a month for the lifetime headlight fluid replacement service doesn't look as bad as paying $1000 for it up front.
If anything dealers want you to finance with them because it is another chance to screw you over.
Trees aren't a big deal for TV signals though. I know several people that live in remote wooded areas that can get decent TV reception with reasonable antennas that don't extend above the trees.
This is how I have heard you should adjust your mirrors. While sitting in your usual position lean your head to the left until it is almost against the window. Adjust your mirror until you can just see the back corner of your car. As a car passes you while driving, it should become visible in your sideview mirror just as it leaves your rearview and be visible out of the corner of your eye as it leaves your sideview. Seated comfortably with the seat all the way back I have to crank my mirrors all the way out to the maximum but it works.
If you want to see where your car is when backing up, just turn around and look. The back corner of your car isn't going anywhere.
That's sort of like complaining that Tinker Toys or Lego don't come with detailed descriptions of strength of material and molecular dynamics.
But even the dullest kid with minimal physical intuition could be creative with those and figure out how to build something other than what was pictured on the box. Try being creative with electronic components you have no understanding of and you will likely either end up with nothing or worse let out the magic smoke.
Even Joe Sixpack drone should know not to expect Starbucks coffee to be the same as McDonalds coffee. The ubiquity of WinDOS on the PC platform is still no excuse to put ZERO THOUGHT WHATSOEVER into your purchasing decisions. You're a consumer, not a Holstein. Yeah, apparently they should expect McD's to be better.
As an AC points out further up, this vulnerability is not limited to open wireless routers. The exploit is accomplished when the victim visits a website containing some malicious code. The code causes the browser to make a HTTP request to a common default router IP using the default username and password to change the DNS server entries. I would guess that there are a number of people out there that are a lot less security conscious about their non-wireless routers.
Excluding the recent and future pain that Vista may cause them but hey have yet to experience, DRM has simply been a non-issue to most people. I know that many/.'s like to rip their DVDs onto their Linux computers and copy their mp3 purchases willy-nilly, etc, but most Americans don't do any of that. The majority are happy to watch their DVDs on their DVD players, watch their Tivo'd shows off their Tivo, and listen to their iTunes purchases on their iPods. Why the hell would they care if some nerd can't copy the episode of Firefly that he Tivo'd onto his Ubuntu machine for viewing?
As I understand it, AT&T didn't vow never to do it but conceded not to for 30 months in order to get their merger with BellSouth approved. They also conceded to offer "naked DSL" for those 30 months, but I doubt either of these concessions will last long beyond the required 30 months.
Where does the number 179 come from? Is that the number of arrests made? If so, then that's 179 out of however many million Canadians went to see those 1400 movies. Or maybe that's 179 releases made from camcorders in Canadian theatres, in which case all 179 might have come from one person or a small group of people. Maybe 179 incidents only accounts for ten movies with multiple recording attemps done for those movies. Rather than speculating, you can just read the cited document(I know wild speculation is more fun):
"MPAA analysis of counterfeit copies of recently released
movies on DVD seized throughout the world reveals that more than 90 percent can be sourced
back to theatrical camcording. As of August 2006, MPAA had documented 179 member
company titles that had been stolen in this manner since 2004, providing the source copies for
pirate DVDs discovered in the markets of 46 other countries on every inhabited continent."
Yes they are. Right below my SiteKey is the following instruction:
If you don't recognize your personalized SiteKey,don't enter your Passcode.
Do you think that a phishing website would have that on there? If they instead had SiteKey has been discontinued due to security concerns. Please enter your passcode. most people would probably go ahead and enter it.
they'll tell you what you want to hear just to make you go away.
Which is why you _always_ insist on written confirmation.
Never take their word for it.
How is their written word any more reliable then their spoken one? Is the paper dipped in truth serum?
Sure companies are more reluctant to lie in writing, but short of a data thief documenting the act of stealing your data from them, there is little chance of getting caught.
What do you care, if a nanobattery explodes you won't even notice it.
I care because the device it was powering is now broken and needs to be replaced. If you prefer gadgets, devices, etc, that randomly break and need replacement, more power to ya!
It's the second. If you have ever taken a look at the MKS system (Meters, Killograms, Seconds), it makes physics so much easyer. All units can be expressed in MKS units.
1 Joule is the amount of energy required to raise 1kg to a height of 1m.
Oops! Looks like you need to review the difference between mass and weight. A joule is the energy required to apply 1 Newton over a distance of 1 meter or to raise 1 kilogram 0.102 meters at a nominal gravitational acceleration of 9.8 m/s.
does it really mean anything for us humans? I mean, if women actually attracted more men when they look attractive, then we wouldn't have had a surge of babies 9 months after the northeast power blackout, quite the contrary.
Sure we would. Everyone looks better in the dark.
A coal burning power plant pumps out a huge amount of pollution. Someone designs a smoke stack that is cleaner. The power company wants to tear down the old smoke stack, but, regulations, impact studies (not only for pollution, but habitat, and others) make building a new smoke stack almost impossible. The result is: The company keeps the older dirty smoke stack. This is an actual scenario faced by a lot of power companies right now. Thus, the vocal nuts and their not-too-bright legislators (both sides of the aisle) have made the situation worse.
Do you a site for this claim? Especially the many part? Those clean smokestacks are not cheap to install or operate and many companies (Duke power is doing this right now with some plants its upgrading) will fight tooth and nail not to install them.
A specific search would be "We have sound suspicions that a bloke called Wolfgang has been accessing this list of kiddie porn websites. Could you provide us with a list of transactions Wolfgang has made to them please."
That's not a search at all though. That is just asking for Wolfgang's credit card statement, which could presumably just be done with a regular warrant given the sound suspicions. I don't understand how searching for records of people paying the subscription amount to a known kiddie porn purveyor during the time he was known to be in business could be construed as overly broad.
Slashdot Mirror
Because finding porn on the internet is currently soooo difficult.
Looking at the spreadsheet from the "Dust to Dust" link, I see the H1, H2, and H3 listed at 4.01, 3.59, and 2.07 $/mile respectively. The article appears to use the 2005 value for the H3 and I don't see why it claims the 2006 values weren't available. Assumptions about expected lifetime aside, this seems to put the Prius in better, but not great, standing.
It's even worse than that because you are bad at math.
100k miles / 50 mpg = 2000 gallons * $2.50/gallon = $5000
Plus, an extra $20 a month for the lifetime headlight fluid replacement service doesn't look as bad as paying $1000 for it up front.
If anything dealers want you to finance with them because it is another chance to screw you over.
There will likely be warning signs years it advance, but we won't recognize them as such until afterwards.
Trees aren't a big deal for TV signals though. I know several people that live in remote wooded areas that can get decent TV reception with reasonable antennas that don't extend above the trees.
This is how I have heard you should adjust your mirrors. While sitting in your usual position lean your head to the left until it is almost against the window. Adjust your mirror until you can just see the back corner of your car. As a car passes you while driving, it should become visible in your sideview mirror just as it leaves your rearview and be visible out of the corner of your eye as it leaves your sideview. Seated comfortably with the seat all the way back I have to crank my mirrors all the way out to the maximum but it works.
If you want to see where your car is when backing up, just turn around and look. The back corner of your car isn't going anywhere.
That's sort of like complaining that Tinker Toys or Lego don't come with detailed descriptions of strength of material and molecular dynamics.
But even the dullest kid with minimal physical intuition could be creative with those and figure out how to build something other than what was pictured on the box. Try being creative with electronic components you have no understanding of and you will likely either end up with nothing or worse let out the magic smoke.
Even Joe Sixpack drone should know not to expect Starbucks coffee to be the same as McDonalds coffee. The ubiquity of WinDOS on the PC platform is still no excuse to put ZERO THOUGHT WHATSOEVER into your purchasing decisions. You're a consumer, not a Holstein.
Yeah, apparently they should expect McD's to be better.
No argument about political "science," though. Not sure what to call it, since it's the study of politics. Political Theory? Politicology?
"BS" works for me.
As an AC points out further up, this vulnerability is not limited to open wireless routers. The exploit is accomplished when the victim visits a website containing some malicious code. The code causes the browser to make a HTTP request to a common default router IP using the default username and password to change the DNS server entries. I would guess that there are a number of people out there that are a lot less security conscious about their non-wireless routers.
Um you forgot "In Soviet Russia, broadband penetrates you!"
And look, they got what they wanted! Wow, how stupid they must be!
Excluding the recent and future pain that Vista may cause them but hey have yet to experience, DRM has simply been a non-issue to most people. I know that many /.'s like to rip their DVDs onto their Linux computers and copy their mp3 purchases willy-nilly, etc, but most Americans don't do any of that. The majority are happy to watch their DVDs on their DVD players, watch their Tivo'd shows off their Tivo, and listen to their iTunes purchases on their iPods. Why the hell would they care if some nerd can't copy the episode of Firefly that he Tivo'd onto his Ubuntu machine for viewing?
As I understand it, AT&T didn't vow never to do it but conceded not to for 30 months in order to get their merger with BellSouth approved. They also conceded to offer "naked DSL" for those 30 months, but I doubt either of these concessions will last long beyond the required 30 months.
Where does the number 179 come from? Is that the number of arrests made? If so, then that's 179 out of however many million Canadians went to see those 1400 movies. Or maybe that's 179 releases made from camcorders in Canadian theatres, in which case all 179 might have come from one person or a small group of people. Maybe 179 incidents only accounts for ten movies with multiple recording attemps done for those movies.
Rather than speculating, you can just read the cited document(I know wild speculation is more fun):
"MPAA analysis of counterfeit copies of recently released movies on DVD seized throughout the world reveals that more than 90 percent can be sourced back to theatrical camcording. As of August 2006, MPAA had documented 179 member company titles that had been stolen in this manner since 2004, providing the source copies for pirate DVDs discovered in the markets of 46 other countries on every inhabited continent."
If you don't recognize your personalized SiteKey,don't enter your Passcode.
Do you think that a phishing website would have that on there? If they instead had SiteKey has been discontinued due to security concerns. Please enter your passcode. most people would probably go ahead and enter it.Never take their word for it.
How is their written word any more reliable then their spoken one? Is the paper dipped in truth serum?
Sure companies are more reluctant to lie in writing, but short of a data thief documenting the act of stealing your data from them, there is little chance of getting caught.
I care because the device it was powering is now broken and needs to be replaced. If you prefer gadgets, devices, etc, that randomly break and need replacement, more power to ya!
Maybe not to the user, but even if you aren't harmed, having your shiny, new gadget destroyed by an exploding battery is a bummer.
I take it you mean lengh and mass.
>>Tell me, what's the metric unit for time?
It's the second. If you have ever taken a look at the MKS system (Meters, Killograms, Seconds), it makes physics so much easyer. All units can be expressed in MKS units.
1 Joule is the amount of energy required to raise 1kg to a height of 1m.
Oops! Looks like you need to review the difference between mass and weight. A joule is the energy required to apply 1 Newton over a distance of 1 meter or to raise 1 kilogram 0.102 meters at a nominal gravitational acceleration of 9.8 m/s.
Sure we would. Everyone looks better in the dark.
s/site/cite/
Do you a site for this claim? Especially the many part? Those clean smokestacks are not cheap to install or operate and many companies (Duke power is doing this right now with some plants its upgrading) will fight tooth and nail not to install them.
That's not a search at all though. That is just asking for Wolfgang's credit card statement, which could presumably just be done with a regular warrant given the sound suspicions. I don't understand how searching for records of people paying the subscription amount to a known kiddie porn purveyor during the time he was known to be in business could be construed as overly broad.