It's not Penske vs. U-HAUL, it's anyone vs U-HAUL. The last few U-HAUL trucks I've been in have had between 300,000 and 400,000 miles on them, and they were just cut-down pickup trucks with a box crudely welded on (they even still had the rear-view mirror on the windshield, pointing at nothing). The AC didn't work in any of them, and the shocks were long, long gone. However, when I've rented from Penske or Budget, I've gotten purpose-built trucks with under 30,000 miles that were clean, in great condition, had working AC and radio, and drove as well as the average van would. The guy at Penske told me that like most rental car companies they sell their rental trucks once they reach 36,000 miles, so their stuff is always in good condition.

I was just going to post that. Assuming power consumption/light output is linear, a 1.75 increase in luminosity is equivalent to a 42.9% reduction in power since (1.75-1)/1.75 = .429

On further study, it NSS DOES use process IDs and many, many other factors to generate the seeds. Searching the additional file locations ("C:\Documents and Settings\*user*\Local Settings\History", "C:\Documents and Settings\*user*\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files", "C:\Documents and Settings\*user*\My Recent Documents", "C:\Documents and Settings\*user*\Temp\", "Recycle Bin", and "Network Neighborhood") were added because some older OSs (Win2k and WinCE) didn't have strong enough build-in pseudo-random number generators.

This patch changed NSS to use the built-in PRNG in Windows XP and up which uses "process ID and thread ID, the system clock, the system time, the system counter, memory status, free disk clusters, andthe hashed user environment block".

NSS (Network Security Services) 3.12.3 is using IE temporary internet files to generate seeds. Sounds thoroughly stupid to me, as it means that if you never use Internet Explorer, your cryptographic seeds won't change. How about using the process list or something not Hard Drive dependent to generate the seeds instead?

Because of the way that JPEG compresses images, file size is directly proportionate to quality. Therefore, bigger file size = better quality.

The word you are looking for is an "initialism", which is like an acronym that you pronounce as individual letters.

However, I'm not sure about ones like JPEG or MSDOS that are part initialism and part acronym.

You also have ones like SQL which some people treat as an initialism (S-Q-L) and others as an acronym (sequal).

Finally, you have ones like AAA, IEEE, or NAACP which are neither pronounced as a word or as the individual letters (triple-A, I-triple-E, N-double-A-C-P, etc.).

How about we just call them all acronyms and get over it. Do we really need single words to describe each case?

The last few moving trucks I rented (Penske -- I wouldn't touch U-HAUL with a 10 foot poll) had the basic box frame made of metal, but the walls and roof were fiberglass reinforced with wooden studs.

If you like news, yes. If you think the $19 bucks is high, just visit 4 of the Smithsonian museums (some of the best museums in the world) first, and since they're free your average admission is just $4.

I used the Trackman Wheel in CAD/CAM at my last job, and by the time I left I found that I had lost most of the strength in my right thumb from using it with the trackball. Even 6 months after I stopped using it, my left thumb is still slightly stronger than my right (I'm right handed). I'm using the Logitech Marble now, which, while it's missing the crucial scroll wheel and middle button, has really helped my thumb.

OpenDNS is just as bad -- they do the same thing. The real solution is to change your DNS servers to use the L3 DNS servers at 4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.3, 4.2.2.4, 4.2.2.5, or 4.2.2.6, which are often faster than Comcast's anyway.

The article says that the electricity will cost $0.129/kWh and that the system will provide 200 MW for 15 years. Some quick google math shows that:

(12.9 (U.S. cents / kWh)) * (15 years) * (200 megawatts) = 3.392 billion U.S. dollars

That's the total mass for all satellites launched in a year, not a single payload.

It's not intuitive, but you can get access to ANY folder. You just need to give yourself ownership first.

Open a Windows Explorer window, navigate to the directory, right click on the it, select Properties, go to the resulting Security tab, and click the Advanced button contained there.
Click Edit, select "Administrators" from the list of potential owners, click the Replace owner on subcontainer and objects checkbox, then click the OK button.
After a couple minutes you'll be presented with a Window informing you that you need to close all property dialogs for the ownership changes to be visible. Follow this advice by clicking the OK button in the File Properties window and you should now be back at the Windows Explorer window you originally opened.
Right Click on the directory again and select Properties one additional time. Go to the Security tab, and click the Advanced button again also.
Click the Add.. button in the Permissions tab, type in Administrators as the name (ensure your Local Computer domain is selected), and select Full control from the list of available permissions. Click OK out of the Permission Entry dialog, select Replace all existing inheritable permissions on all descendants... then click OK from the Advanced dialog.
After a couple minutes you should once again be back at the File Properties dialog. Feel free to click OK and close Windows Explorer.

I never really liked the "Netbook" name all that much (especially since I use mine more for note taking and word processing, not surfing), and I think "Laptot" fits a whole lot better. Plus, since "Laptots" were African colonial troops in the service of France between 1750 and the early 1900s, it is unlikely to be trademarked.