It would indeed be pointlessly small if the intention was to charge up the reservoir and use it to drive around with.
However that isn't the intention. I will confess that I glanced at the summary. Perhaps you - and the assclowns with mod points - should try it?
Yes, I read the article and noticed that it wasn't intended to allow the engine to shutdown. I also noticed that it is not a regenerative braking setup. Did you?
As such, it's only marginal benefit is to smooth out the peak power demands from start-stops. If the auto makers would wise up, they'd stick a decent diesel in there and get even better mileage. It makes more sense than a setup that adds unnecessary complexity and adds a significant safety hazard.
Perhaps not pointless. In the city, it's the start-stop aspect which is the mileage killer. Regenerative systems capture some of the energy used to decelerate, and use it to re-accelerate later.
But what was described was a regen setup. It says it's charging up the accumulator when the engine is at idle or coasting. Actually they phrased it oddly as "engine overun torque". It really won't save that much energy. They can't turn off the engine as the typical hybird can. In theory though, by absorbing some of the peak power demand they can install a slightly smaller engine.
The amount of energy you can store in a 14 gallon hydraulic accumulator is pretty small. Even if they're cranking the pressure up to 6-7,000 psi the energy density is around 50kw-sec/gallon or somewhere around the equivalent of a car battery.
Call the Attorney General for sure. But also call the credit card company and tell them the charge has been fraudulent the whole time. At least they will credit back the last month but possibly more.
The credit card companies are just as sleazy. For many cards if you pay the bill and don't challenge the charges right away, you lose the right to contest the charge. So yeah, at best you should be able to contest the current monthly charge.
Wasn't "leaking" part of the problem with said Assange girls ?
Wish I had to points to mod this funny. It's still ludicrous that consensual sex without a condom is considered rape in some countries. The rest of the world considers rape to be non-consensual sex (statutory rape is due to the believe that some people are incapable of consenting)
The CO2 released by burning this fuel would be CO2 that was taken from the atmosphere not from a hydrocarbon source that was naturally sequestered in the earth. Basically, it's neutral. If the bacteria eats some sort of plant then the CO2 released would be the CO2 the plant took out of the atmosphere. Example, a plant eats 5 CO2 units (sort of like a girth unit to you Brian Regan fans) to grow, the bacteria eats it and turns it into fuel, when burnt it will release 5 CO2 units. Unless you think CO2 magically appears from somewhere else.
In which case the only energy input to the whole equation is that from the solar radiation that drives the bacteria. Standard solar output is certainly not enough to produce the 10,000 gallons/year/acre of ethanol that the article suggests.
By the statistics linked in the article, only 5 of the top 18 reported browser crashes are attributable to add-ins. Yes, 6% were caused by the Skype add-in, but apparently 15% are being attributed to libraries associated with the browser itself. How about they fix those?
Not millions. So an enormous company like Moto can do without them no problem.
Agreed. It's really a very small minority of smartphone consumers that do anything hackworthy with their phones. Most apparently are content with running mind-numbin apps like Angry Birds. I'm willing to bet that the added cost of support due to people loading a "customized operating system" is higher than the profit Motorola will lose by folks deciding to shop elsewhere. The Telcos are probably asking for the phones to get locked down as well, since errant OSs and apps can misbehave and cause network issues.
This article does a very good job of explaining why such a simple game is so intriguing.
I thinks it's more like it appeals to dim-witted people. Seriously. It's only the people who are a little bit slow that seem to like this retard game. Most of the more intelligent friends I have go for games that take a little bit of brain power. I can't understand for the life of me why it's a #1 app in the Apple store. On the iPhone or the iPod, you can't even see the whole field of play on the screen and you spend the whole time panning back-n-forth!
states are only likely to use cyberattacks against other states when already involved in military action against them
Well Stuxnet has already blown that theory. Network intrusions and system compromises are only part of the equation. Cyber espionage is alive and well and extremely prevalent. The only difference between a cyber-attack and cyber-espionage is whether you're just stealing valuable info or actively damaging things. China is only interested in acquiring technical knowledge at this point. Also by quietly exfiltrating data as they are, it makes it much harder to find out just how deep they are. If they start breaking things, their methods and access gets discovered. Better to be quiet and maintain access in case they want to turn malicious and actively disrupt things..
That's because a CS degree has become synonymous with computer-programmer. I know I haven't seen anyone with a CS degree who could do much more than program (crappy at that).
Ubuntu does not now, and never has had, the same goals as the rest of the community.
Which also explains it's popularity. The community Linux is and always has been elitist and feels dumbing down of the user interface to be a bad thing. The vast majority of computer users (including the Windows users the Linux community is targeting) actually want a standardized, simplified, easy to use interface. They don't give a rip about or ever want the ability to hit a command line and edit xorg.conf. They just want it to work, and this level of guided handholding is a primary feature of Ubuntu.
Why do people always assume that just because it's in the EULA, it's legally binding. It's a factor, certainly, but generally courts take a dim view of companies trying to weasel out of their legal obligations with this sort of thing. There's still an expectation that the software is fit for purpose.
Putting the expected use of the product in the EULA is one way manufacturers defined expected use, even if it's a bit obfuscated. They are saying this product should not be used where failure would result in catastrophic results. This is no different than a rope manufacturer saying their rope should not be used to suspend overhead loads where a rope failure could kill someone. If you need a rope for that, you get one pre-tested and certified for overhead lifting.
Folks looking at the new Sidereal calendar and thinking their sign changed are probably wrong. In theory (since its BS anyway), what matters is what the sign was when you were born. Not the chart that applies if you were born today (or every minute like most suckers).
More than likely the contract just called for the standard alloy number, AlLi-2090 I'd guess. The alloy mixture is probably correct but the heat treatment was likely not performed correctly. Add to that the contract probably didn't call for testing the materials.
End result is certainly that the govt will pay for the rework. I've worked with Lockheed Martin before. They do contracting very well and always get paid since they have high level politicians in their pocket. We had one experience where they developed a large system for use and then held us hostage as the contract didn't specifically state that the source code or PLL programming was part of the deliverable. They wanted us to pay them 100x the going rate for any software changes. They refused to provide the hardware schematics or accept a new contract to produce spares, and instead wanted a new contract to develop an entirely new replacement system.
"thousands to access to the Apple Dock Connector."
why? is there some kind of testing hardware you have to get to use the dock connector API's?
Scroll back up where several folks already point out the reason. Apple has a patent on the connector and you can't produce and sell that connector without a license from Apple.
Being a network admin, I can see both sides of this argument. I've had the secretary who absolutely had to have a Mac because she didn't like Windows. Getting her a Mac increased my workload because I couldn't easily manage it as part of the general network. It also created more work for everyone else who had to deal with incompatible file formats. Lots of minor network changes required walking over to her computer to make sure it still worked (like change the GPO for proxy setting). The best option here in the big picture was to teach her that MS Office on an XP box was just as simple to use, but she was related to a high-level manager so she got her way. Having a homogeneous, centrally managed network is far easier and cheaper from an IT perspective.
I've also had the tech-saavy engineer who like the bsd/linux flavor of the week and wasted way too much of his time with Gentoo when his technical requirements were met just fine with the RHEL we used everywhere else. I guess the primadonna title would fit that guy. He's also the asshole that setup an unauthorized dialup modem so he could get into the network from home. Forcing him to stay with RHEL would have made him more productive and made my life easier.
A non-homogeneous environment simply costs more to maintain. Your IT guys need more experience and they get sidetracked on problems affecting only the outliers. When it's just a few oddball workstations you generally don't develop the tools to centrally manage them and have to manage them individually.
I should also point out that I run a mixed network of mostly Windows and RHEL with a smattering of small embedded linux, bsd,etc. I freely admin that I spend more of my time taking care of Windows issues than Linux issues. A wholesale move to Linux would reduce our productivity enough, even if it's just a little while, so don't even suggest that.
A bit of advice though. Don't make enemies of the IT guys. Keep them good terms with them. Treating them worse than the janitor is a surefire way to get treated like an asshole. If the IT guys know what you're doing and like you, they generally will try not to break things for you. Samba is a good example. Last year when we needed to enforce NTLMv2 only on the Windows domain, I made sure the Linux admins knew because it would break samba unless they had updated. The asshole who told me to fuck off when I asked why he needed a Gentoo box to author webpages got zero help when he couldn't figure out how to update samba.
I don't think he was ever planning to claim that it wasn't him to released the codes. His defense is probably going to be that what he did was tinker around with hardware he owned and published the result to the internet. Basically that he didn't break any laws.
Exactly. No different than publishing a guide for breaking into your car.
cracking an encryption key is not a crime. Using a cracked encryption key to seal data is a crime, and that hasn't changed.
You might want to re-read the DCMA again. They can charge you for the act of bypassing or facilitating the bypassing of protections. Just as John whats-his-face who broke the DVD CSS "encryption"
There's a spy still in prison since the mid 80s for spying on the US for Israel.
Pollard and a few spies got jail sentences as part of a cooperation deal. They also had valuable information about the agencies that recruited him and knowledge of what exactly was leaked. Keeping them in jail allows prolonged interrogations to happen. In this instance, all of that is already known and Manning has very little value other than to be used as an example. Executing him would have a very chilling effect on anyone else who considered betraying their sworn oath to protect classified information. I'm sure the govt is heavily debating whether the political fallout of an execution would outweight the improved security it would result in.
the policy is marked top and bottom with "Unclassified." It's not classified
I'm not sure about the US system, but in the UK unclassified and not classified are not the same thing at all. I believe this is the same on both sides of the pond.
You would be wrong. Unclassified and not classified mean the same thing in both countries. The US , UK and most of the EU aligned their classification categories quite some time back to facilitate information sharing. Although the UK uses slightly different terms for some things, the categories are the same. Also note that the terms "Restricted" or "For-Official-Use-Only" are not classification levels, they are caveats (ie an additional handling restriction).
the Android update software, Windows only, fails to recognise my phone when running in VirtualBox. Windows itself detects it just fine though.
VirtualBox has flaky USB support in my opinion. Try something stable like VMWare. Try booting from a copy of the Ultimate Boot Disk for Windows and see if the updater will run from there. Was your VirtualBox Windows install done with nlite? That might be your problem as well.
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It would indeed be pointlessly small if the intention was to charge up the reservoir and use it to drive around with.
However that isn't the intention. I will confess that I glanced at the summary. Perhaps you - and the assclowns with mod points - should try it?
Yes, I read the article and noticed that it wasn't intended to allow the engine to shutdown. I also noticed that it is not a regenerative braking setup. Did you?
As such, it's only marginal benefit is to smooth out the peak power demands from start-stops. If the auto makers would wise up, they'd stick a decent diesel in there and get even better mileage. It makes more sense than a setup that adds unnecessary complexity and adds a significant safety hazard.
Crap. When will /. catch up with the rest of the world and let you edit posts?
What was described was NOT an regen setup.
Perhaps not pointless. In the city, it's the start-stop aspect which is the mileage killer. Regenerative systems capture some of the energy used to decelerate, and use it to re-accelerate later.
But what was described was a regen setup. It says it's charging up the accumulator when the engine is at idle or coasting. Actually they phrased it oddly as "engine overun torque". It really won't save that much energy. They can't turn off the engine as the typical hybird can. In theory though, by absorbing some of the peak power demand they can install a slightly smaller engine.
The amount of energy you can store in a 14 gallon hydraulic accumulator is pretty small. Even if they're cranking the pressure up to 6-7,000 psi the energy density is around 50kw-sec/gallon or somewhere around the equivalent of a car battery.
Call the Attorney General for sure. But also call the credit card company and tell them the charge has been fraudulent the whole time. At least they will credit back the last month but possibly more.
The credit card companies are just as sleazy. For many cards if you pay the bill and don't challenge the charges right away, you lose the right to contest the charge. So yeah, at best you should be able to contest the current monthly charge.
Wasn't "leaking" part of the problem with said Assange girls ?
Wish I had to points to mod this funny. It's still ludicrous that consensual sex without a condom is considered rape in some countries. The rest of the world considers rape to be non-consensual sex (statutory rape is due to the believe that some people are incapable of consenting)
The CO2 released by burning this fuel would be CO2 that was taken from the atmosphere not from a hydrocarbon source that was naturally sequestered in the earth. Basically, it's neutral. If the bacteria eats some sort of plant then the CO2 released would be the CO2 the plant took out of the atmosphere. Example, a plant eats 5 CO2 units (sort of like a girth unit to you Brian Regan fans) to grow, the bacteria eats it and turns it into fuel, when burnt it will release 5 CO2 units. Unless you think CO2 magically appears from somewhere else.
In which case the only energy input to the whole equation is that from the solar radiation that drives the bacteria. Standard solar output is certainly not enough to produce the 10,000 gallons/year/acre of ethanol that the article suggests.
By the statistics linked in the article, only 5 of the top 18 reported browser crashes are attributable to add-ins. Yes, 6% were caused by the Skype add-in, but apparently 15% are being attributed to libraries associated with the browser itself. How about they fix those?
Right. Hundreds of thousands.
Not millions. So an enormous company like Moto can do without them no problem.
Agreed. It's really a very small minority of smartphone consumers that do anything hackworthy with their phones. Most apparently are content with running mind-numbin apps like Angry Birds. I'm willing to bet that the added cost of support due to people loading a "customized operating system" is higher than the profit Motorola will lose by folks deciding to shop elsewhere. The Telcos are probably asking for the phones to get locked down as well, since errant OSs and apps can misbehave and cause network issues.
This article does a very good job of explaining why such a simple game is so intriguing.
I thinks it's more like it appeals to dim-witted people. Seriously. It's only the people who are a little bit slow that seem to like this retard game. Most of the more intelligent friends I have go for games that take a little bit of brain power. I can't understand for the life of me why it's a #1 app in the Apple store. On the iPhone or the iPod, you can't even see the whole field of play on the screen and you spend the whole time panning back-n-forth!
states are only likely to use cyberattacks against other states when already involved in military action against them
Well Stuxnet has already blown that theory. Network intrusions and system compromises are only part of the equation. Cyber espionage is alive and well and extremely prevalent. The only difference between a cyber-attack and cyber-espionage is whether you're just stealing valuable info or actively damaging things. China is only interested in acquiring technical knowledge at this point. Also by quietly exfiltrating data as they are, it makes it much harder to find out just how deep they are. If they start breaking things, their methods and access gets discovered. Better to be quiet and maintain access in case they want to turn malicious and actively disrupt things..
That's because a CS degree has become synonymous with computer-programmer. I know I haven't seen anyone with a CS degree who could do much more than program (crappy at that).
Ubuntu does not now, and never has had, the same goals as the rest of the community.
Which also explains it's popularity. The community Linux is and always has been elitist and feels dumbing down of the user interface to be a bad thing. The vast majority of computer users (including the Windows users the Linux community is targeting) actually want a standardized, simplified, easy to use interface. They don't give a rip about or ever want the ability to hit a command line and edit xorg.conf. They just want it to work, and this level of guided handholding is a primary feature of Ubuntu.
Why do people always assume that just because it's in the EULA, it's legally binding. It's a factor, certainly, but generally courts take a dim view of companies trying to weasel out of their legal obligations with this sort of thing. There's still an expectation that the software is fit for purpose.
Putting the expected use of the product in the EULA is one way manufacturers defined expected use, even if it's a bit obfuscated. They are saying this product should not be used where failure would result in catastrophic results. This is no different than a rope manufacturer saying their rope should not be used to suspend overhead loads where a rope failure could kill someone. If you need a rope for that, you get one pre-tested and certified for overhead lifting.
This is the difference between http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_astrology and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_astrology. It's nothing new.
Folks looking at the new Sidereal calendar and thinking their sign changed are probably wrong. In theory (since its BS anyway), what matters is what the sign was when you were born. Not the chart that applies if you were born today (or every minute like most suckers).
More than likely the contract just called for the standard alloy number, AlLi-2090 I'd guess. The alloy mixture is probably correct but the heat treatment was likely not performed correctly. Add to that the contract probably didn't call for testing the materials.
End result is certainly that the govt will pay for the rework. I've worked with Lockheed Martin before. They do contracting very well and always get paid since they have high level politicians in their pocket. We had one experience where they developed a large system for use and then held us hostage as the contract didn't specifically state that the source code or PLL programming was part of the deliverable. They wanted us to pay them 100x the going rate for any software changes. They refused to provide the hardware schematics or accept a new contract to produce spares, and instead wanted a new contract to develop an entirely new replacement system.
"thousands to access to the Apple Dock Connector."
why? is there some kind of testing hardware you have to get to use the dock connector API's?
Scroll back up where several folks already point out the reason. Apple has a patent on the connector and you can't produce and sell that connector without a license from Apple.
Being a network admin, I can see both sides of this argument. I've had the secretary who absolutely had to have a Mac because she didn't like Windows. Getting her a Mac increased my workload because I couldn't easily manage it as part of the general network. It also created more work for everyone else who had to deal with incompatible file formats. Lots of minor network changes required walking over to her computer to make sure it still worked (like change the GPO for proxy setting). The best option here in the big picture was to teach her that MS Office on an XP box was just as simple to use, but she was related to a high-level manager so she got her way. Having a homogeneous, centrally managed network is far easier and cheaper from an IT perspective.
I've also had the tech-saavy engineer who like the bsd/linux flavor of the week and wasted way too much of his time with Gentoo when his technical requirements were met just fine with the RHEL we used everywhere else. I guess the primadonna title would fit that guy. He's also the asshole that setup an unauthorized dialup modem so he could get into the network from home. Forcing him to stay with RHEL would have made him more productive and made my life easier.
A non-homogeneous environment simply costs more to maintain. Your IT guys need more experience and they get sidetracked on problems affecting only the outliers. When it's just a few oddball workstations you generally don't develop the tools to centrally manage them and have to manage them individually.
I should also point out that I run a mixed network of mostly Windows and RHEL with a smattering of small embedded linux, bsd,etc. I freely admin that I spend more of my time taking care of Windows issues than Linux issues. A wholesale move to Linux would reduce our productivity enough, even if it's just a little while, so don't even suggest that.
A bit of advice though. Don't make enemies of the IT guys. Keep them good terms with them. Treating them worse than the janitor is a surefire way to get treated like an asshole. If the IT guys know what you're doing and like you, they generally will try not to break things for you. Samba is a good example. Last year when we needed to enforce NTLMv2 only on the Windows domain, I made sure the Linux admins knew because it would break samba unless they had updated. The asshole who told me to fuck off when I asked why he needed a Gentoo box to author webpages got zero help when he couldn't figure out how to update samba.
Okay, so a better analog might be publishing a guide on how to remove the rev limiter from the engine computer.
I don't think he was ever planning to claim that it wasn't him to released the codes. His defense is probably going to be that what he did was tinker around with hardware he owned and published the result to the internet. Basically that he didn't break any laws.
Exactly. No different than publishing a guide for breaking into your car.
Your comment is based on false information. There are more than 88 characters on a US keyboard.
It's hard to use the break key, arrow keys, or the function keys for password or passphrase characters though.
cracking an encryption key is not a crime.
Using a cracked encryption key to seal data is a crime, and that hasn't changed.
You might want to re-read the DCMA again. They can charge you for the act of bypassing or facilitating the bypassing of protections. Just as John whats-his-face who broke the DVD CSS "encryption"
There's a spy still in prison since the mid 80s for spying on the US for Israel.
Pollard and a few spies got jail sentences as part of a cooperation deal. They also had valuable information about the agencies that recruited him and knowledge of what exactly was leaked. Keeping them in jail allows prolonged interrogations to happen. In this instance, all of that is already known and Manning has very little value other than to be used as an example. Executing him would have a very chilling effect on anyone else who considered betraying their sworn oath to protect classified information. I'm sure the govt is heavily debating whether the political fallout of an execution would outweight the improved security it would result in.
the policy is marked top and bottom with "Unclassified." It's not classified
I'm not sure about the US system, but in the UK unclassified and not classified are not the same thing at all. I believe this is the same on both sides of the pond.
You would be wrong. Unclassified and not classified mean the same thing in both countries. The US , UK and most of the EU aligned their classification categories quite some time back to facilitate information sharing. Although the UK uses slightly different terms for some things, the categories are the same. Also note that the terms "Restricted" or "For-Official-Use-Only" are not classification levels, they are caveats (ie an additional handling restriction).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information
the Android update software, Windows only, fails to recognise my phone when running in VirtualBox. Windows itself detects it just fine though.
VirtualBox has flaky USB support in my opinion. Try something stable like VMWare. Try booting from a copy of the Ultimate Boot Disk for Windows and see if the updater will run from there. Was your VirtualBox Windows install done with nlite? That might be your problem as well.