The fact is, that any car with power brakes will still have enough stored vacuum for one or two complete applications, even after the engine is cut. In a panic situation, most drivers would just jump on the brake, and skid to a halt.. and there would be plenty of power left for that. Power brake systems are designed for this, for jebus sake.
As for the steering, at driving speeds (and above..) a loss of power steering would not be all that dangerous. Sure, the steering gets heavy, but a panicked driver tends to oversteer anyway, and would hardly notice the increased effort - they'll turn the wheel as hard as they have to.
Are you surprised to know that handlebar mounted killswitches have been mandatory on motorcycles in the USA (and elsewhere) since the 1970's, and many models had one long before that? I could kill my 1939 BSA M20 by thumbing a button on the left handlebar. We haven't seen them in cars, but if these are the kind of designs that the car makers are going to be selling, they'd have to be beyond idiots to not have a panic system. If this kind of failure becomes more commonplace, they would do well to consider their future liabilities.
Even so, it would be simple to design a panic system for a modern car. The kill switch would need to be hardwired to the ignition and lockup-style torque converter. Hit the switch, and the ignition loses primary current, and the torque converter is locked up. This has two benefits: the power brakes, steering, etc. do not lose power, and the vehicle gets additional braking performance from the stalling engine.
standardizing legislation around the world to make it easier to prosecute spammers
Must have been asleep, but I didn't realize that it was within the power of the UN to 'standardize legislation' in any given juristiction upon the planet.
Bitter sarcasm: This should come as a great relief to the countless vitims of murder, genocide, torture, displacement, starvation, disease, opression and the myriad other insults, which more than half of humanity fears on a regular basis.
What was the mission of the UN? Ladies and gentlemen, get a real job..
Spam coming from Comcast subscribers who were formerly on AT&T networks also seems to have decreased.
Seems as as we are *still on* an ATTBI network. I was originally an ATTBI subscriber, and the Comcast transition occured many months ago. Interestingly enough, my rDNS still resolves to:
[ip].[state].client2.attbi.com
Seems awfully odd that this remais.. one would think, at least for the sake of the brandname, that this would be reporting comcast.net
Although their guy got it wrong (the player does not play the redbook audio it plays WMA files) it does sound to me like this is simply a multi-session CD.
This scenario had crossed my mind, but it seemed almost too bizarre. So instead of having 80 minutes of program material on a CD, the capacity is limited to around 72 or so, the remaining 8 minutes devoted to the WMA files, player, and whatever else they have on board.
8 minutes is enough time for two average-length cuts, or one long cut. I can tell you for certain that they will not be cutting out the hits.. And for the music buying public, I suppose that means less filler material.
So I guess the consumer wins or something, maybe. Damn, this new DRM is going to totally rock!
Am I the only one who sees a strange contradiction between the following lines in the press release?
The copy protection system used for all EMI/Capitol releases including "To the 5 Boroughs" is Macrovision's CDS-200, which sets up an audio player into the users RAM (not hard drive) to playback the RED book audio on the disk.
Vs.
The technology does activate a proprietary Macrovision player in order to play the CD on a PC, and that player converts WMA compressed files to audio on the fly.
So, which is it then? A Redbook audio cd, or a data CD with WMA compressed files? Am I reading this right?
There're many good software that are not 'official' by ur definition (e.g. Apache 2 and Squid). Do they also deserve this big 'USE AT YOUR OWN RISK' sign that scares off potential users?
Last time I checked, neither Apache nor Squid were entrusted with automagically updating, upgrading or maintaining the entire system. There is more than a fine line of difference between a system service (or application) and a global adminstration tool.
The old axiom applies: Never gamble more than you are willing to lose. By that token, I am not willing to lose a stable system on the bet that swaret will save me an hour or two. It just doesn't make good sense in production. In an experimental situation, then (just as big) BY ALL MEANS!
The best way to learn the truth about the quality and reliability of any software is to test it yourself.
Heh.. "learn".. as in, "That'll learn ya good!"
Seriously, Pat has not failed me yet, and until some utility of this ilk bears his blessing, I'll be happy with vanilla pkgtool. It just works. Checkinstall is also quite handy.
Just to clarify things a bit, neither swaret nor slapt-get are officially supported as part of the Slackware Linux distribution. These are 3rd-party addons, and are definitely used AT YOUR OWN RISK. As noted, swaret has been removed entirely from -current (and hence this RC). The author's behaviour and bizarre political views aside, swaret has been shown to mercilessly bork the odd boxen, on more than one occasion (yes, anecdotal). I cannot comment on the qualities of slapt-get, other than to say that I have not personally heard of any disasters involving it.
Worth noting that #slackware@irc.freenode.net does not suggest that users perform updates with either of these tools, nor is any help whatsoever provided for same.. either in use, or in cleaning up the rubble.
Be wise.. until you hear Patrick swear by it, chances are you will be swearing *at* it.;-)
You make such a fine point, I could hardly agree more. Slackware has contributed more to my general knowledge of *nix-like systems than any other single entity. Slackware *does* force you to learn, but allows one to do it at their own speed. After almost six years using Slackware, I can sit down at virtually any Linux distro (or for that matter, *BSD) and soon have the task at hand complete.
I don't want to perpetuate the old myth that 'if you know Slack, you know BSD', but Slack does more to stomp out the learned helplessness that cripples most user's *nix experiences, especially those unfortunate enough to have grown up in Walt Microsoft World.
I never thought that computing could ever again be as fun and rewarding as the days when I pounded out terrible BASIC on my C-64. Slackware has brought all of this joy back, in droves. I am forever grateful to Patrick for all his years of hard work. As an aside: visualize a distro maintainer that actually listens to user comments and wishes, and seems, by all accounts, to be a nice, regular person.
Slashdot Mirror
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..from user's queries.
Clippy..? Is that you?
The fact is, that any car with power brakes will still have enough stored vacuum for one or two complete applications, even after the engine is cut. In a panic situation, most drivers would just jump on the brake, and skid to a halt.. and there would be plenty of power left for that. Power brake systems are designed for this, for jebus sake.
As for the steering, at driving speeds (and above..) a loss of power steering would not be all that dangerous. Sure, the steering gets heavy, but a panicked driver tends to oversteer anyway, and would hardly notice the increased effort - they'll turn the wheel as hard as they have to.
Are you surprised to know that handlebar mounted killswitches have been mandatory on motorcycles in the USA (and elsewhere) since the 1970's, and many models had one long before that? I could kill my 1939 BSA M20 by thumbing a button on the left handlebar. We haven't seen them in cars, but if these are the kind of designs that the car makers are going to be selling, they'd have to be beyond idiots to not have a panic system. If this kind of failure becomes more commonplace, they would do well to consider their future liabilities.
Even so, it would be simple to design a panic system for a modern car. The kill switch would need to be hardwired to the ignition and lockup-style torque converter. Hit the switch, and the ignition loses primary current, and the torque converter is locked up. This has two benefits: the power brakes, steering, etc. do not lose power, and the vehicle gets additional braking performance from the stalling engine.
Yeah, I know. Too simple. It would never work.
A story in The Economist talks about an apparent gravitation anomaly
My submission of a story from The Gravatationist discussing the current US economy, was rejected this morning.
...there is going to be one wicked-ass scratch & dent sale on astronomical probes, at Crazy Vaklav's on Saturn.
standardizing legislation around the world to make it easier to prosecute spammers
Must have been asleep, but I didn't realize that it was within the power of the UN to 'standardize legislation' in any given juristiction upon the planet.
Bitter sarcasm: This should come as a great relief to the countless vitims of murder, genocide, torture, displacement, starvation, disease, opression and the myriad other insults, which more than half of humanity fears on a regular basis.
What was the mission of the UN? Ladies and gentlemen, get a real job..
Spam coming from Comcast subscribers who were formerly on AT&T networks also seems to have decreased.
Seems as as we are *still on* an ATTBI network. I was originally an ATTBI subscriber, and the Comcast transition occured many months ago. Interestingly enough, my rDNS still resolves to:
[ip].[state].client2.attbi.com
Seems awfully odd that this remais.. one would think, at least for the sake of the brandname, that this would be reporting comcast.net
"You're Myron? But I'm Myron!!
"So, is this what it sounds like.. when doves cry?" (hugs)
Although their guy got it wrong (the player does not play the redbook audio it plays WMA files) it does sound to me like this is simply a multi-session CD.
This scenario had crossed my mind, but it seemed almost too bizarre. So instead of having 80 minutes of program material on a CD, the capacity is limited to around 72 or so, the remaining 8 minutes devoted to the WMA files, player, and whatever else they have on board.
8 minutes is enough time for two average-length cuts, or one long cut. I can tell you for certain that they will not be cutting out the hits.. And for the music buying public, I suppose that means less filler material.
So I guess the consumer wins or something, maybe. Damn, this new DRM is going to totally rock!
Am I the only one who sees a strange contradiction between the following lines in the press release?
The copy protection system used for all EMI/Capitol releases including "To the 5 Boroughs" is Macrovision's CDS-200, which sets up an audio player into the users RAM (not hard drive) to playback the RED book audio on the disk.
Vs.The technology does activate a proprietary Macrovision player in order to play the CD on a PC, and that player converts WMA compressed files to audio on the fly.
So, which is it then? A Redbook audio cd, or a data CD with WMA compressed files? Am I reading this right?
..Two thumbs up!
There're many good software that are not 'official' by ur definition (e.g. Apache 2 and Squid). Do they also deserve this big 'USE AT YOUR OWN RISK' sign that scares off potential users?
Last time I checked, neither Apache nor Squid were entrusted with automagically updating, upgrading or maintaining the entire system. There is more than a fine line of difference between a system service (or application) and a global adminstration tool.
The old axiom applies: Never gamble more than you are willing to lose. By that token, I am not willing to lose a stable system on the bet that swaret will save me an hour or two. It just doesn't make good sense in production. In an experimental situation, then (just as big) BY ALL MEANS!
The best way to learn the truth about the quality and reliability of any software is to test it yourself.
Heh.. "learn".. as in, "That'll learn ya good!"
Seriously, Pat has not failed me yet, and until some utility of this ilk bears his blessing, I'll be happy with vanilla pkgtool. It just works. Checkinstall is also quite handy.
Just to clarify things a bit, neither swaret nor slapt-get are officially supported as part of the Slackware Linux distribution. These are 3rd-party addons, and are definitely used AT YOUR OWN RISK. As noted, swaret has been removed entirely from -current (and hence this RC). The author's behaviour and bizarre political views aside, swaret has been shown to mercilessly bork the odd boxen, on more than one occasion (yes, anecdotal). I cannot comment on the qualities of slapt-get, other than to say that I have not personally heard of any disasters involving it.
Worth noting that #slackware@irc.freenode.net does not suggest that users perform updates with either of these tools, nor is any help whatsoever provided for same.. either in use, or in cleaning up the rubble.
Be wise.. until you hear Patrick swear by it, chances are you will be swearing *at* it. ;-)
You make such a fine point, I could hardly agree more. Slackware has contributed more to my general knowledge of *nix-like systems than any other single entity. Slackware *does* force you to learn, but allows one to do it at their own speed. After almost six years using Slackware, I can sit down at virtually any Linux distro (or for that matter, *BSD) and soon have the task at hand complete.
I don't want to perpetuate the old myth that 'if you know Slack, you know BSD', but Slack does more to stomp out the learned helplessness that cripples most user's *nix experiences, especially those unfortunate enough to have grown up in Walt Microsoft World.
I never thought that computing could ever again be as fun and rewarding as the days when I pounded out terrible BASIC on my C-64. Slackware has brought all of this joy back, in droves. I am forever grateful to Patrick for all his years of hard work. As an aside: visualize a distro maintainer that actually listens to user comments and wishes, and seems, by all accounts, to be a nice, regular person.
Slackware is not so much a cousin to Gentoo, as it is Gentoo's *mentor*. That said, any further comparison strains credulity.
Such silly, half-thought, cookie-cutter comparisons of the two distros only serve to further obscure the true nature and intent of Slackware.
Trolly, trolly, troll-troll
Are you really sure that "I'm Torn" is an appropriate subject line for a comment disparaging the quality of your Sex Education?
That's more than just a little disturbing..
wink
Increase your penis Your mate deserves more from you Viagra for less!