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  1. Re:Cam shafts work without the battery on Camless Internal Combustion and the Digital Age (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    The ones in TDIs are.

    The fuel pump is the weakness in VW TDIs. And so expensive, it's generally time to junk it.

  2. Re:Cam shafts work without the battery on Camless Internal Combustion and the Digital Age (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    24,000 rpm. It takes 2 strokes to complete a full rotation.

    Still kind of revvy. Good for a 2 stroke model airplane race engine.

  3. Re:Cam shafts work without the battery on Camless Internal Combustion and the Digital Age (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you saw the very best possible case for a broken timing belt on an interference motor. Had to be at near idle.

  4. Re:Too bad on Magnitude of glibc Vulnerability Coming To Light (threatpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Nobody is arguing about glibc. That's well understood to be a giant 'ball of mud', so nobody can know all it's problems.

    We are arguing about the C language. To some extent the C++ language. AC in particular thinks knowing that unchecked buffer overflows exist as a class of exploits is too much to ask of C programmers.

  5. Re: Too bad on Magnitude of glibc Vulnerability Coming To Light (threatpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Automate catching a simple bug like buffer overflows and you leave developers too retarded to find the more serious memory map related exploits.

    See also: Every Java only programmer you ever met.

  6. Re:Wait... on Paris Attacks Would Not Have Happened Without Crypto (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    IIIRC there is a web site that will walk you through the process of turning tweak into Pseudoephedrine. Tweak is cheap and easy to get, so problem solved.

  7. Re:Too bad on Magnitude of glibc Vulnerability Coming To Light (threatpost.com) · · Score: 2

    In the real world, getting work done means knowing the well understood problems with your tools. It's not like buffer overflows where not mentioned in everybody's introduction to C (course/competent self study). Explain to your boss that sanitizing inputs took to long, so all the tables in production got dropped...I hope you're 12 or at least don't code for living...seriously.

    Thanks for volunteering to speak up for all the other shitty, incompetent programmers out there BTW. Way to jump on that grenade.

    I'll grant you there are edge cases where tools are so shitty, you can't possibly know a tiny fraction of the serious problems. I'd argue those tools don't belong in production.

  8. Re:Too bad on Magnitude of glibc Vulnerability Coming To Light (threatpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Those programmers are 'shitty, incompetent programmers' if they can't be bothered to learn about the problems their tools have. All tools have problems. It's their job to understand their tools.

  9. Re:Cam shafts work without the battery on Camless Internal Combustion and the Digital Age (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    A few bent valves?

    I've seen a 928 with 32 bent valves. Where can I get 32 valves for a Porsche for $20?

  10. Re:Cam shafts work without the battery on Camless Internal Combustion and the Digital Age (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    What does Koenigsegg have to do with mass production?

    If you are saying it's too expensive to go into a Koenigsegg, I'm going to have to call BS. If it's not in a Koenigsegg, it's because it's unreliable. More expensive == better at that end of the market.

  11. Your parents were cruel. Naming you CaptainLard...

  12. I was homeless when I bought my house. The close was delayed by a week and I had to get out of my apartment.

    So went on vacation. But I'm counted among the homeless for that year.

  13. How do you think Madoff's clients felt when they first realized it was a Ponzi scheme. That's you right about now.

  14. Arguments are easy when you can use your own private definition of words.

  15. Re:It's good to be an elite on At X, Failure Is Not an Option: It's a Feature (Astro Teller's 2016 TED Talk) (backchannel.com) · · Score: 2

    And like most things, the sane answer is somewhere in the grey area.

  16. Re:Just geoblock France already, Facebook!!! on French Court Rules That Facebook Can Now Be Sued in France (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    It was an example of a crazy frog strike. Business owners can't generally strike.

  17. Re:What should happen but won't on US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Has Died (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The last paragraph is so wrong, it needs to be pointed and laughed at.

  18. Why can we buy a 150,000 watt car?

    Because most people prefer lame weak little engines. I'd set the minimum at 300,000 watts.

  19. So Australian panties are definitely bunched as well. Like the GP said, birds of a feather.

  20. Re:What should happen but won't on US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Has Died (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I count myself lucky they're still with us.

    Trying to convince them to winter in California, but Mom still tutors. She'd be climbing the walls in a week. Besides she has terrible two (her favorite age) great grand kids in Missouri. Nothing I can offer even competes.

    She does exactly what she wants, when she wants to. On any week you could find her fossil hunting in the black hills or travelling to some desolate end of the earth she's just always wanted to see (e.g. Lapland, tierra del fuego). Now she's talking about going to see he sister (Penguin, Little Sisters of the Poor) in the poorest slum in Zimbabwe. That's the first trip that worries me.

  21. Re:unfair standard on US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Has Died (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Not possible. I've been told in the last month the DINO is not a thing. As Ds are accepting good people, unlike Rs.

    I guess whoever it was that said that, was full of shit.

  22. Re:What happens next... on US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Has Died (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah republicans. Deadlock is our only hope.

  23. Re:The game plan on US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Has Died (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The Democrats are between a proverbial rock and a hard place.

    They've got an open red running, who can't possibly win the general. Their alternative is a soon to be indicted harpy, who could win if her baggage doesn't spill into public view before the election.

    Neither has any hope of turning the house and only a crackheads hope of turning the senate.

  24. Re:What should happen but won't on US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Has Died (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Two informed wolves and an uninformed sheep voting on what is for dinner?

    Democracy sucks without strict constitutional limits on the power of government.

  25. Re: What should happen but won't on US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Has Died (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    He's a lame duck who can't get anything passed. Not even judicial appointments.