Some TDMA and CDMA Nokia phones could be configured to answer a call automatically, mute the speaker, not ring, and just sit there, listening. Other makers too. One common complaint was that a parent could set a phone like this, call it while they were out having dinner, and listen in on the kids and babysitter.
OKI phones could do this in the 90s. Kevin Mitnick was pretty good at this. But NAMP phones couldn't be configured OTA, so this required physical access to the phone.
I bet lots of current phones could be configured to open the mic and send. I bet even *I* could figure out how. With the help of the carrier, sure the FBI could send some code to open things up, maybe even use the GSM data channel to send mic audio as something like SMS.\
Fairly easy. Bet they've done it before.
-rick
- The T.R.E.A.D. act focuses on tire safety, identifying problems as soon as possible, and making manufacturers specifically responsible for safety and manufacture. It also specifies some research and standards for child safety seats. Go figure.
- The T.R.E.A.D. act doesn't specify RFID tags. It does allow for rulemaking that might.
- RFID tags in tires were probably first implemented by Michelin, to simplify inventory. They may have devised the embedded antenna to solve the problem of embedded tags failing to activate at distances greater than 3 inches. The antenna increases the range to about 24 inches.
- Wal-mart may require RDIF tags on all merchandise, but I'm not sure the program is fully implemented yet.
- The most important reason a tire shop wants your vehicle VIN number is for warranty info and to curb warranty abuse. It's that -duh- simple.
I can't find any definitive info that AIAG B.11 is fully implemented. I can, however, find that B.11 is NOT fully implemented as late as 2004, where AIAG states that it is not fully adopted.
Sorry, but the conspiracy isn't there yet. Nice try.
ps- the post is pretty much verbatim from a 2000 blog. Sounds like more BS to me.
Works in Maine just fine. Recounts are manageable, The ballots are fairly indisputable, and I there have been two ties I'm aware of for state offices. Those were settled by coin toss. Really. I would have preferred a Jell-O wrestling match, but that's not what the law says.
Our governor a few years back when a close election was being recounted asked the Secretary of State what he could do to help with the process. The answer, correctly, was 'Nothing, Sir'. Not in the law.
It's not so much about electronic voting or paper, as it is about rational and good election laws. And common sense. Watching the HBO special, you saw election officials with their pants down, either committing felonies or just plain lying. Picking the receipts out of the trash was priceless. The stack of sorted 'random' ballots nearly so.
I suspect Ohio has election problems for the same reasons Florida does, and so many other states are about to - very poor judgement.
Blame either party. In a contentious election, we can get up about fraud and electronic failures when the winning margin is 10%, or even >30%. Software can switch THOUSANDS of votes. I'd bet that in that scenario, the pre-election polls would be dismissed as just plain wrong. And we'd never really know.
Receipts at the minimum. Paper ballots preferred. Just do it.
... I have about 15 years' worth of e-mail (ok, so I'm wierd), including all that spam until about a year ago (and I'm a packrat, so sue me). Saved in text files, exported from everything from pine to Outlook and many in between. This is all readable for a while.
I had documents in WordPerfect that I took the time to batch convert to Word for Windows 2, then to Office whatever. I may convert them to ODF pretty soon. Yes, some formatting is lost, but the content is there.
And I currently have my archives on a USB/Firewire hard drive, CD-ROMs, and 4MM DAT. I'll be going from CD to DVD, and the 4MM will probably go to a DV via camera. And I need some other hard drive soon, this one is 3 years old and due to go 'click'.
The solutions include:
- Multiple physical media, and some file management. - Converting to new file formats every few years. - Occasionally jettisoning the true crap.
But, perhaps a spam library from the early days is not 'crap'? I got spam from my AOL account, my first FIDO account, and my first 'Internet e-mail' account. I've had my own SMTP server for 10 years, and my account is at least 12 years old. I get a lot of spam.
There is no single solution. Cover all the bases. Hard drive interfaces will become obsolete, CDs will give way to Blu-Ray, and even 4mm DAT will some day become unknown.
And I'm glad my wife doesn't know how to add up all this storage. She'd call it a waste and make me delete it all. pfft.
-rick
-ps, I already deleted 11 years' worth of old Pr0n. Sorry. I got married.
It's about routing all that traffic off the content providers' networks and onto *your* service provider's network and on to you.
If some 5% of us start using movie download services, what does that do to provisioning? Available bandwidth? Other users' performance in peak demand?
This is not only a problem of back-end systems, but net neutrality. If I start using some download service and schedule those 10-20GB downloads all hours of the day and night, sooner or later Cox is gonna say 'no', to preserve bandwidth and their peer routing.
And Cox will probably sell me the PVR (well, subscribe me to it) that will dump HD content night and day for me to watch when I will. And charge me for it as well. And ship it to me on their own network, no routing from Akamai, thank you very much.
Overall, the idea of downloading relatively huge content is ahead of most ISPs capabilities, or at least what they are willing to pay for, I think.
And buying a drive with your stuff on it sounds attractive until you consider dumping or playing those Sopranos episodes over USB2.0... Gack. Adding Firewire or SATA interfaces might jump the cost more than it's worth. Might.
One big advantage of DVDs must be the incredibly low cost of producing the media. I bet a DVD in quantity costs less than $2, probably a lot less, to produce. Add the shipping costs of heavier drives, and the inevitable damage from acceleration (handling to you in Rio Linda), and can drives work at all in the near future?
I'm looking forward to having to subscribe to everything. NFL, World Cup, Firefly, Sopranos, Discovery Channel, Food Network... Arrgghhh!
I'm not the one proclaiming that most of world uses English, or at least ASCII, but in fact I *have* lived outside the U.S., have managed to learn enough technical German and Italian to decipher many manuals such as typewriter, dictation systems, and yes IT-related documents, and have a profound understanding of how damned hard it is for a Japanese web user to use English to find web sites.
I also have a fair understanding of why the world's air traffic control system uses English as the default language. Better to land safely than to keep trying languages until you find one that pilots and controllers can use together in time to avoid a crash.
Same problem on the Web. We do need DNS to do Unicode. Then we can blow up the tables bigtime.
...for a 7 week gig at a semiconductor maker. IBM (yeah, now Lenovo) Thinkpad, and I had to enter a password at boot. No sweat, they asked me to give the password to the tech who received the equipment when I turned it in, but it could have been reformatted since I kept nothing on the local drive worth saving.
For what it's worth, this gig was all wireless on campus too, with VPN inside and outside the firewalls. I'm doing a long-term gig with a major financial firm now, and they don't use FDE. And they have NO, repeat NO NO NO wireless. The security team trolls constantly for unauthorized wireless and anything that transmits is confiscated as soon as they find it - cut out and trashed.
Both these firms suffer the same risks for their data. Either would suffer financially and risk complete failure if a critical breach ocurred. Just different ways of doing things.
Direct quotes from Dr. Curry's article:... Women: "... pert breasts" (and presumably larger/fuller too)"
Hah. Sadly, breast augmentation is not genetic. Nice try, doc.
Men: "... bigger penises"
Ditto.
Only when we get serious about genetic manipulation does this come true, save for the 'sub-species'... Which will just look a lot like us toda... wait a minute...
Lots of PowerPC chips (embedded no doubt) are being made down the street from my church for automotive applications, some of which will use Embedded Linux kernels I bet.
the local fab is at 100% output, and can't supply all the need.
Not to mention the two PowerPC chips running on Mars... Not a big upgrade or growth market, I know, but the PowerPC is not as defunct as the Alpha, which still handles your p0rn rental at Blockbuster...:-)
One of my largest clients once realized they were paying a LOT for outbound phone calls. Even local ones got their attention, because they needed to pay for the outbound lines to support the traffic. And while they were a 24x7 operation, the telecomm manager thought their call volume late night and early morning was excessive.
He ran simple report, listing the top 10 numbers dialed. Surprise! The #1 number called?
xxx-xxx-0000. The local Gay and Lesbian HotLine. Interesting.
He circulated the report, with just phone numbers, at the next management meeting, and asked them to consider it and come back next month with ideas for managing phone costs.
Now, I suspect it took all of 15 minutes for those managers to figure out what the phone number was. And knowing that the report could list the most popular numbers, some managers figured the next report would list who was calling those numbers. And no manager wanted anyone on their staff calling that number all hours of the day and night.
Next month, the telecom manager was happy to report that not only had usage gone down, but they had been able to avoid buying $100,000 worth of line cards to expand the switch, and would be considering the trend and perhaps turning off some $3,000 a month worth of dial lines.
That phone number didn't make the top 100 report. Ever again.
Just posting the logs without names or IP addresses might go some ways towards changing behavior. A little peer pressure works sometimes.
The second month's posting would probably have to include specific site names, and userIDs. I'm assuming government employees are largely without shame.
If nothing else, it would drive them all to surf on their cell phones, wasting several times more work hours waiting for the screen to refresh.
"It's still a mecanical conversion of a compounds to energy, with all the inefficiencies that go with it, including disposal of waste heat. Where's these fuel cells I keep hearing about?"
.Would it be too simplistic to consider a fuel cell the same 'mechanical conversion', though on an infinitely smaller scale?
Perhaps just more efficient?
Enough so that it's cooler to wait for fuel cells rather than some clever microengine?
Sadly, "scrap it and start fresh" is NOT an option.
What do you do with students that are not prepared at the same level as their peers? Scrapping it sounds attractive, but the rebuild might mean you will have students re-graded, moved up or down a grade (or more), and trying to fit students with nearly equivalent abilities and grade level together. Not easy, considering that no parent is likely to accept that their slacker kid is going down a grade 'cause they let them blow off homework and real work for the past 4 years. Ask my wife, a middle school music teacher for 20 years. Some kids come to her 5th grade class incapable of participating. They should have been held back in 4th grade, and NEVER should have been promoted from 5th. But schoold have to move them along, just to avoid the social stigma of failure.
And to say that "both students and teachers are at equal fault for this effect" misses the most important, MOST IMPORTANT part of the system... PARENTS! Parents need to require their schools to teach and really teach their children. And they need to demand that their children actually show up and do their work, even the boring stuff.
I went through public schools in the 60s and early 70s. WHen parents sue schools because they discipline their children, the problem is obvious to me - In my day, getting into trouble at school was not acceptable. I was not there to induldge myself, nor was I there to be anything but a student. My freedoms were subject to the discipline of the school, and subservient to the requirement that I learn, participate, and succeed.
I did ok. I might have ADHD, but back then the cure was to focus. Yeah, not medically sound, but I got through it and did adequately.
My wife's only complaint? Kids not only don't care, but their parents con't care. And she teaches music. The english teacher just cries. How do you teach kids that don't believe they should do any work?
Crap, my bluetooth phone headset at work will take 4 MORE sets for conferencing. Put bluetooth in it, use the Verizon profile (no file xfers) and let it pair up a second set, or third, or fourth... No splitters needed. Now imagine bluedriving to snoop on somebody's BluePod...
Heck, put radials on the Bonny... It handled like crap anyways.
I'd love to swap my Explorer for a Miata, but then I'd want to pick up more than a 5lb bag of ice some day... For now I'm driving myh wife's '98 900SETurbo. It fun enough, and gets 29mpg if I give it a break.
I was in front of a Testarossa this afternoon. What a wanker. He so wanted to be in front of me. Ha! He couldn't afford to squeeze by the old ladies. And he couldn't afford a set of mufflers either.
Way back I drove a friend's Mondial cause he ran out of points and license. I founc out why racers wear gloves.
Well, My car back then was a '72 Riviera, the boattail and what fun it was. I sold it to a kid who took the engine and tranny out to drag on weekends. You can mod the THM400 to lock the convertor, shift without slip, and of course when you want to. And it's gentler on the engine than your foot slipping and dropping it into 1st again.. but I digress.
Car and Driver got a Bonneville from Pontiac back then that was modded a little for the 0-60 test. If I remember right, it might do 105 top end, being re-geared and completely for show. Nobody expected it to run fast, even in stock, on any track except maybe Talledega.
But tell me. Can you get some in the back seat of your 911 Turbo? I didn't think so. I could take on the Dallas Cheerleaders in that Bonneville.
It's still interesting to me that you find this a privacy issue in such a PUBLIC medium.
Facebook is all about publicity. Privacy in Facebook is like modesty in a porn flick. Unexpectedly out of place. Something you should not expect.
Bringing attention to changes is an expansion of that, yes, but is it an expansion out of character with the nature of Facebook? I think not.
I really do think that you react to the context of certain facets of this new 'feature' of Facebook. Not because it's out of character, or an egregious expansion of acces to intimate information, but because it's, how do I say this, 'personal'.
Some invisible line has been crossed. If I have a premise, it is that that line was to be crossed sooner or later. It's inevitable.
That doesn't make it right, but it doesn't make it unthinkable either.
And now you know why I don't have a profile on Facebook. It's bad enough I'm a charter member of Match.com...
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Some TDMA and CDMA Nokia phones could be configured to answer a call automatically, mute the speaker, not ring, and just sit there, listening. Other makers too. One common complaint was that a parent could set a phone like this, call it while they were out having dinner, and listen in on the kids and babysitter. OKI phones could do this in the 90s. Kevin Mitnick was pretty good at this. But NAMP phones couldn't be configured OTA, so this required physical access to the phone. I bet lots of current phones could be configured to open the mic and send. I bet even *I* could figure out how. With the help of the carrier, sure the FBI could send some code to open things up, maybe even use the GSM data channel to send mic audio as something like SMS.\ Fairly easy. Bet they've done it before. -rick
Sorry, AC, but your post is mostly BS.
- The T.R.E.A.D. act focuses on tire safety, identifying problems as soon as possible, and making manufacturers specifically responsible for safety and manufacture. It also specifies some research and standards for child safety seats. Go figure.
- The T.R.E.A.D. act doesn't specify RFID tags. It does allow for rulemaking that might.
- RFID tags in tires were probably first implemented by Michelin, to simplify inventory. They may have devised the embedded antenna to solve the problem of embedded tags failing to activate at distances greater than 3 inches. The antenna increases the range to about 24 inches.
- Wal-mart may require RDIF tags on all merchandise, but I'm not sure the program is fully implemented yet.
- The most important reason a tire shop wants your vehicle VIN number is for warranty info and to curb warranty abuse. It's that -duh- simple.
I can't find any definitive info that AIAG B.11 is fully implemented. I can, however, find that B.11 is NOT fully implemented as late as 2004, where AIAG states that it is not fully adopted.
Sorry, but the conspiracy isn't there yet. Nice try.
ps- the post is pretty much verbatim from a 2000 blog. Sounds like more BS to me.
Works in Maine just fine. Recounts are manageable, The ballots are fairly indisputable, and I there have been two ties I'm aware of for state offices. Those were settled by coin toss. Really. I would have preferred a Jell-O wrestling match, but that's not what the law says.
Our governor a few years back when a close election was being recounted asked the Secretary of State what he could do to help with the process. The answer, correctly, was 'Nothing, Sir'. Not in the law.
It's not so much about electronic voting or paper, as it is about rational and good election laws. And common sense. Watching the HBO special, you saw election officials with their pants down, either committing felonies or just plain lying. Picking the receipts out of the trash was priceless. The stack of sorted 'random' ballots nearly so.
I suspect Ohio has election problems for the same reasons Florida does, and so many other states are about to - very poor judgement.
Blame either party. In a contentious election, we can get up about fraud and electronic failures when the winning margin is 10%, or even >30%. Software can switch THOUSANDS of votes. I'd bet that in that scenario, the pre-election polls would be dismissed as just plain wrong. And we'd never really know.
Receipts at the minimum. Paper ballots preferred. Just do it.
-rick
... I have about 15 years' worth of e-mail (ok, so I'm wierd), including all that spam until about a year ago (and I'm a packrat, so sue me). Saved in text files, exported from everything from pine to Outlook and many in between. This is all readable for a while.
I had documents in WordPerfect that I took the time to batch convert to Word for Windows 2, then to Office whatever. I may convert them to ODF pretty soon. Yes, some formatting is lost, but the content is there.
And I currently have my archives on a USB/Firewire hard drive, CD-ROMs, and 4MM DAT. I'll be going from CD to DVD, and the 4MM will probably go to a DV via camera. And I need some other hard drive soon, this one is 3 years old and due to go 'click'.
The solutions include:
- Multiple physical media, and some file management.
- Converting to new file formats every few years.
- Occasionally jettisoning the true crap.
But, perhaps a spam library from the early days is not 'crap'? I got spam from my AOL account, my first FIDO account, and my first 'Internet e-mail' account. I've had my own SMTP server for 10 years, and my account is at least 12 years old. I get a lot of spam.
There is no single solution. Cover all the bases. Hard drive interfaces will become obsolete, CDs will give way to Blu-Ray, and even 4mm DAT will some day become unknown.
And I'm glad my wife doesn't know how to add up all this storage. She'd call it a waste and make me delete it all. pfft.
-rick
-ps, I already deleted 11 years' worth of old Pr0n. Sorry. I got married.
It's about routing all that traffic off the content providers' networks and onto *your* service provider's network and on to you.
If some 5% of us start using movie download services, what does that do to provisioning? Available bandwidth? Other users' performance in peak demand?
This is not only a problem of back-end systems, but net neutrality. If I start using some download service and schedule those 10-20GB downloads all hours of the day and night, sooner or later Cox is gonna say 'no', to preserve bandwidth and their peer routing.
And Cox will probably sell me the PVR (well, subscribe me to it) that will dump HD content night and day for me to watch when I will. And charge me for it as well. And ship it to me on their own network, no routing from Akamai, thank you very much.
Overall, the idea of downloading relatively huge content is ahead of most ISPs capabilities, or at least what they are willing to pay for, I think.
And buying a drive with your stuff on it sounds attractive until you consider dumping or playing those Sopranos episodes over USB2.0... Gack. Adding Firewire or SATA interfaces might jump the cost more than it's worth. Might.
One big advantage of DVDs must be the incredibly low cost of producing the media. I bet a DVD in quantity costs less than $2, probably a lot less, to produce. Add the shipping costs of heavier drives, and the inevitable damage from acceleration (handling to you in Rio Linda), and can drives work at all in the near future?
I'm looking forward to having to subscribe to everything. NFL, World Cup, Firefly, Sopranos, Discovery Channel, Food Network... Arrgghhh!
rick
I want to, but I can'...
nevermind...
sorry...
whatev..
stop it! stop it! STOP IT NOW!
sheesh.
Sport over the bandwidth, and it's all good.
Of course, the bandwidth will cost more than the 360's. Each and every month.
Maybe a couple of Xserves would be better... Bandwidth still needed.
-rick
I'm not the one proclaiming that most of world uses English, or at least ASCII, but in fact I *have* lived outside the U.S., have managed to learn enough technical German and Italian to decipher many manuals such as typewriter, dictation systems, and yes IT-related documents, and have a profound understanding of how damned hard it is for a Japanese web user to use English to find web sites.
I also have a fair understanding of why the world's air traffic control system uses English as the default language. Better to land safely than to keep trying languages until you find one that pilots and controllers can use together in time to avoid a crash.
Same problem on the Web. We do need DNS to do Unicode. Then we can blow up the tables bigtime.
ps- bigger isn't always better. or right.
-rick
"access for non-English users "
Um, access you got. Want content? You got Unicode.
Want everything translated into some languages other than English? Sure. Start the movement.
Want *ME* to translate my pages into something other than English? Not Happening. I Don't Care.
Blame Canada.
-rick
...for a 7 week gig at a semiconductor maker. IBM (yeah, now Lenovo) Thinkpad, and I had to enter a password at boot. No sweat, they asked me to give the password to the tech who received the equipment when I turned it in, but it could have been reformatted since I kept nothing on the local drive worth saving.
For what it's worth, this gig was all wireless on campus too, with VPN inside and outside the firewalls. I'm doing a long-term gig with a major financial firm now, and they don't use FDE. And they have NO, repeat NO NO NO wireless. The security team trolls constantly for unauthorized wireless and anything that transmits is confiscated as soon as they find it - cut out and trashed.
Both these firms suffer the same risks for their data. Either would suffer financially and risk complete failure if a critical breach ocurred. Just different ways of doing things.
Direct quotes from Dr. Curry's article: ...
Women: "... pert breasts" (and presumably larger/fuller too)"
Hah. Sadly, breast augmentation is not genetic. Nice try, doc.
Men: "... bigger penises"
Ditto.
Only when we get serious about genetic manipulation does this come true, save for the 'sub-species'... Which will just look a lot like us toda... wait a minute...
-rick
Lemme think... Strippers, midgets, l0sers, all doing stupid things. Sex, crass language, etc. Um, isn't Howard just YouTube without the videos? -rick
Lots of PowerPC chips (embedded no doubt) are being made down the street from my church for automotive applications, some of which will use Embedded Linux kernels I bet.
:-)
the local fab is at 100% output, and can't supply all the need.
Not to mention the two PowerPC chips running on Mars... Not a big upgrade or growth market, I know, but the PowerPC is not as defunct as the Alpha, which still handles your p0rn rental at Blockbuster...
rick
IT professionals are special.
Just like everybody else.
-rick
One of my largest clients once realized they were paying a LOT for outbound phone calls. Even local ones got their attention, because they needed to pay for the outbound lines to support the traffic. And while they were a 24x7 operation, the telecomm manager thought their call volume late night and early morning was excessive.
He ran simple report, listing the top 10 numbers dialed. Surprise! The #1 number called?
xxx-xxx-0000. The local Gay and Lesbian HotLine. Interesting.
He circulated the report, with just phone numbers, at the next management meeting, and asked them to consider it and come back next month with ideas for managing phone costs.
Now, I suspect it took all of 15 minutes for those managers to figure out what the phone number was. And knowing that the report could list the most popular numbers, some managers figured the next report would list who was calling those numbers. And no manager wanted anyone on their staff calling that number all hours of the day and night.
Next month, the telecom manager was happy to report that not only had usage gone down, but they had been able to avoid buying $100,000 worth of line cards to expand the switch, and would be considering the trend and perhaps turning off some $3,000 a month worth of dial lines.
That phone number didn't make the top 100 report. Ever again.
Just posting the logs without names or IP addresses might go some ways towards changing behavior. A little peer pressure works sometimes.
The second month's posting would probably have to include specific site names, and userIDs. I'm assuming government employees are largely without shame.
If nothing else, it would drive them all to surf on their cell phones, wasting several times more work hours waiting for the screen to refresh.
Just a thought, or two.
-rick
"It's still a mecanical conversion of a compounds to energy, with all the inefficiencies that go with it, including disposal of waste heat. Where's these fuel cells I keep hearing about?"
.Would it be too simplistic to consider a fuel cell the same 'mechanical conversion', though on an infinitely smaller scale?
Perhaps just more efficient?
Enough so that it's cooler to wait for fuel cells rather than some clever microengine?
Obviously, I'm not an engineer.
Just a skeptical consumer.
-rick
Then judges are important after all.
And we need to educate parents in the need for their children to be much better students.
We might be able to fix judges. But fixing parents is much harder.
We may have to put off going to Mars for a but, so we can solve this problem - #1 on the list.
Rick
Sadly, "scrap it and start fresh" is NOT an option.
What do you do with students that are not prepared at the same level as their peers? Scrapping it sounds attractive, but the rebuild might mean you will have students re-graded, moved up or down a grade (or more), and trying to fit students with nearly equivalent abilities and grade level together. Not easy, considering that no parent is likely to accept that their slacker kid is going down a grade 'cause they let them blow off homework and real work for the past 4 years. Ask my wife, a middle school music teacher for 20 years. Some kids come to her 5th grade class incapable of participating. They should have been held back in 4th grade, and NEVER should have been promoted from 5th. But schoold have to move them along, just to avoid the social stigma of failure.
And to say that "both students and teachers are at equal fault for this effect" misses the most important, MOST IMPORTANT part of the system... PARENTS! Parents need to require their schools to teach and really teach their children. And they need to demand that their children actually show up and do their work, even the boring stuff.
I went through public schools in the 60s and early 70s. WHen parents sue schools because they discipline their children, the problem is obvious to me - In my day, getting into trouble at school was not acceptable. I was not there to induldge myself, nor was I there to be anything but a student. My freedoms were subject to the discipline of the school, and subservient to the requirement that I learn, participate, and succeed.
I did ok. I might have ADHD, but back then the cure was to focus. Yeah, not medically sound, but I got through it and did adequately.
My wife's only complaint? Kids not only don't care, but their parents con't care. And she teaches music. The english teacher just cries. How do you teach kids that don't believe they should do any work?
-rick
I think this is third envelope time, already.
Stay anonymous. You'll do better that way.
rick
Crap, my bluetooth phone headset at work will take 4 MORE sets for conferencing. Put bluetooth in it, use the Verizon profile (no file xfers) and let it pair up a second set, or third, or fourth... No splitters needed. Now imagine bluedriving to snoop on somebody's BluePod...
And no more battery drain than one set.
Brilliant!
rick
Heck, put radials on the Bonny... It handled like crap anyways.
I'd love to swap my Explorer for a Miata, but then I'd want to pick up more than a 5lb bag of ice some day... For now I'm driving myh wife's '98 900SETurbo. It fun enough, and gets 29mpg if I give it a break.
I was in front of a Testarossa this afternoon. What a wanker. He so wanted to be in front of me. Ha! He couldn't afford to squeeze by the old ladies. And he couldn't afford a set of mufflers either.
Way back I drove a friend's Mondial cause he ran out of points and license. I founc out why racers wear gloves.
rick
Well, My car back then was a '72 Riviera, the boattail and what fun it was. I sold it to a kid who took the engine and tranny out to drag on weekends. You can mod the THM400 to lock the convertor, shift without slip, and of course when you want to. And it's gentler on the engine than your foot slipping and dropping it into 1st again.. but I digress.
Car and Driver got a Bonneville from Pontiac back then that was modded a little for the 0-60 test. If I remember right, it might do 105 top end, being re-geared and completely for show. Nobody expected it to run fast, even in stock, on any track except maybe Talledega.
But tell me. Can you get some in the back seat of your 911 Turbo? I didn't think so. I could take on the Dallas Cheerleaders in that Bonneville.
All else being equal.
rick
What? Why didn't you say that in the first place? That can't be allowed!
That's got to be a bug or something, showing changes of data you don't want people to are at all!
Rick
It's still interesting to me that you find this a privacy issue in such a PUBLIC medium.
Facebook is all about publicity. Privacy in Facebook is like modesty in a porn flick. Unexpectedly out of place. Something you should not expect.
Bringing attention to changes is an expansion of that, yes, but is it an expansion out of character with the nature of Facebook? I think not.
I really do think that you react to the context of certain facets of this new 'feature' of Facebook. Not because it's out of character, or an egregious expansion of acces to intimate information, but because it's, how do I say this, 'personal'.
Some invisible line has been crossed. If I have a premise, it is that that line was to be crossed sooner or later. It's inevitable.
That doesn't make it right, but it doesn't make it unthinkable either.
And now you know why I don't have a profile on Facebook. It's bad enough I'm a charter member of Match.com...
rick