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  1. Re:All I have to say is... on Australia, UK To Test Vehicle Speed-Limiting Devices · · Score: 1

    where it becomes the most issue is when a stupid driver is tailgating while you are either passing or being past by a simi..

    and most boat's have their lower unit's sticking out the back.. way past the back of the trialer (my sail boat doesn't as it doesn't have a moter) but still.. if you have a trailer that is fishtailing.. taking a bumb from the tailgater not only will cause lots of $ damage but also could very easly cause a nasty wreak.. expecialy with that simi next to you. I know someone who was in a car that got pushed under a simi by mergeing traffic.. they where in ICU for nearly a year and can now several years later barly walk..

    too many drivers have zero idea what is involved when towing any size or type of load... and honestly i don't think your normal Class C licence should alow towing at all.

  2. Re:Wow Slack is still around? on 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive · · Score: 1

    I remember my first time using Slack.. also first time using Linux..

    it was many years ago.. and they had just added the wizard for selecting what you wanted to compile kernel wise for install.. i remember just "going with the defaults" and saying next/ok.. damn did it compile fast.. and zero bytes too.. second time i decided to actually read the screens and realized that their default is nothing..

    that is something i love about slack.. you only get exactly what you want.. there is no default that has this and that and things you don't realize are bing installed..

  3. Re:All I have to say is... on Australia, UK To Test Vehicle Speed-Limiting Devices · · Score: 1

    exactly.. i have 2 cars.. one is nice large and i pull things with it.. the other is small (4 1/2 ft wide) and ~1400lbs.. going down the interstate at 60-70mph.. i have been sucked into another lane (nothing i could do to stop it) when a simi passed me.. i even got sucked into one's back draft and pulled up to ~80mph..

    so many people don't have a clue about this because they are used to driving things that are 3-4000 lbs.. that don't get pulled around like that..

  4. Re:All I have to say is... on Australia, UK To Test Vehicle Speed-Limiting Devices · · Score: 1

    but if you have some jack ass tailgating you - you don't have much option for that..

  5. Re:All I have to say is... on Australia, UK To Test Vehicle Speed-Limiting Devices · · Score: 1

    yes i would.. because every load is "potentially unstable"

    one thing i can easly discribe is pulling a small 15ft boat that is about 700lbs with trailer at 70mph.. i'm passing a simi and some jack ass runs up and tail gates me.. as i'm passing the simi the air preasure build up infront causes the small boat to fish tail as i pass..

    my options.. slow down to try to control it.. or speed up to get out of that preasure zone where the boat will stop..

    if i where to suddnly lose power or to slow down at a rate that would solve the problem i would either

    A) be rear ended buy the jack ass behind me
    B) run the risk of cliping the simi (which is bad for all)

    needless to say it would be a bad move to jsut remove all power

  6. Re:All I have to say is... on Australia, UK To Test Vehicle Speed-Limiting Devices · · Score: 1

    i'm not.. what i'm saying is that if the govener was at 70mph yes i would have had problems in the past when towing my boat to where it would have caused an accident

  7. Re:All I have to say is... on Australia, UK To Test Vehicle Speed-Limiting Devices · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the govener on my car is at 155.. i have zero planns on taking it there.

    on a side note the traction control on it reacts by not limiting but rather removing all power to the tires..

    several times this is caused me to almost get hit when pulling out into traffic.

    if these goveners are so blind as to jsut remove all power i can see accidents being caused by them.

    i can tell you of many times pulling a boat down the highway and it would start to fishtail.. depending on whats around you and your options.. some times speeding up to stop it is your only option.

  8. Re:WebDAV used much? on Microsoft Downplays IIS Bug Threat · · Score: 1

    But it isn't required.. for that to work you have to allow webdav which isn't default.

    you can still use webdav style searchs using exlodb.

    OWA works fine with webdav blocked on iis6

  9. Re:WebDAV used much? on Microsoft Downplays IIS Bug Threat · · Score: 1

    OWA doesn't use WebDav

    i don't know anyone that uses WebDav..

    the problem isn't in using NTLM (still not the best thing to do) but it is with WebDav

  10. Re:How good would it have to be? on 3D Realms Sued Over Failed Duke Nukem Forever Plans · · Score: 2, Insightful

    honestly if it is like the video's they released acouple days ago.. i think it will be a good hit

  11. Re:Take your pick on How To Store Internal Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    i use it to move large backup files between servers and archive.. works wonders

  12. Re:Buyout? on Microsoft Raises $3.8B in Bond Sale · · Score: 1

    i don't think that would be an issue right now

  13. Re:Take your pick on How To Store Internal Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    thank you for that link.. i have been looking for something exactly like that for a couple days now.. with zero luck.

    i was about to place and order from newegg anyways..

  14. Re:Take your pick on How To Store Internal Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    i spent a bit looking for a good solution to a similar problem and while testing and revwing different sata docking stations

    http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Products.aspx?C=1346

    came out to be over all the most reliable dock i've found

    the one from think geek was annoyingly flaky

  15. Re:Greed is Good on College Threatens Students Over Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    your skipping over the other part..

    where i mentioned that the cause/result is your own doing and something that is easy to prevent.

  16. Re:Greed is Good on College Threatens Students Over Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    that arguement only works if truely you are sticking your mouth under the drip. there yes it is near boiling.

    as it falls it loses heat and goes into a pot/vat where there the actual tempature is maintaned by a burner.. if it is set to a lower temp then heat will be disapated - and it does this quite quickly

  17. Re:Greed is Good on College Threatens Students Over Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    if you sold a product and have over 700 reported injuries with the same cause/result. and it was obvious that it was being caused by something you intentional where doing..

    yea..

  18. Re:Greed is Good on College Threatens Students Over Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    the reason they do that is because,

    Starbucks - you want a refill? buy another

    McD's - you want a refill? its free, to you, but to them if you get 1 refill it 2x their cost to offer coffee.

    in the law suite that was brought up.. that even though they knew of people who where being burned the company made a decision to keep the temp high to prevent people from getting refills before they left to save money - while knowing it was a saftey hazard.

    that is why she won so much.. everyone likes to use that case as an example of how stupid lawsuits get.. i feel obligated to stop people and infrome them of what it really was.. and then point out SCO and the RIAA as the stupid lawsuites.. man they have some dumb ones

  19. Re:First MD5 and now this on Preparing To Migrate Off of SHA-1 In OpenPGP · · Score: 3, Informative

    by definishion a hash function can't be safe you are taking something that is of unknown size and giving a specific lenght result which will always be the same for a given input.

    due to the limited length of the result using inputs larger than the result you can assure at some point there will be a collision (2 diffrent inputs with the same output)

    MD5 failed after enough people looked at it and someone figured out how to salt it to get collisions quite quickly.

    as proccessing power increases brute force is getting easier - but when you find a way of cutting down the brute force required.. that is when something can become very weak very quickly.

  20. Re:Scary that they sold the disk at all on Unclean Military Hard Drives Sold On eBay · · Score: 1

    http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.co.uk/columbia-drive-recovery/

    that one allways gets me..

    http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Sky-News-Archive/Article/20080641316604

    love to qoute this

    "
    He said it was the most challenging project every undertaken by Kroll, especially when you considered "it had been through re-entry, hit the earth and then sat in the outdoors".
    He added that even though a modern disk could not have been recovered in the same way, he said: "Disks that may have been unrecoverable five years ago may be recoverable today - never assume that your data may not be recoverable."
    "

  21. Re:this just in on Wolfram Alpha vs. Google — Results Vary · · Score: 1

    i'll take a no as a yes

    this does not imply that yes is no.

  22. Re:this just in on Wolfram Alpha vs. Google — Results Vary · · Score: 3, Insightful

    i would have loved to try it out today

    Google is just getting filled with spam - so many people trying to get their stuff listed that the obscure things which have value when you need them bet buried.

    the example for today - trying to find the registry key/value to force a volume in windows to be use write cache (aka Optimize for performance not quick removal)

    i would love to see the correct search query to find the answer (that doesn't contain the answer) where the relevant page is within the first 10 results

    - like how Google use to be before it was filled with spam

  23. Re:Lack of features on Samsung Papyrus E-Book Reader, Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    i'm waiting for a device that does progressive screen updates vs's full wipe re right..

    then it will be far cleaner and faster for alot of things

  24. Re:Good idea on Windows 7 Will Be Free For a Year · · Score: 1

    i've been far more impressed with the DVR abilitys of Windows Media center than i have with any other DVR software or appliance.

    the ease of use the simple learning curve or lack of of the nice intergaration with a veriaty of remotes - and the very good preformace all lead me to using it.

  25. Re:I'll be truly impressed on Microsoft Releases Super-Secure XP to US Air Force · · Score: 2, Informative

    it wasn't a Whooooosh.. it was truth.. and if you read it you would understand