Comment Re:Should be elevation (Score 1) 172
So what you're saying is that your altitude is zero most of the time. Well, there's two options that fit.
Well, it is for sorting purposes. (They've got massive machines running Linux doing OCR which replaced manual sorting, and that requires... taking pictures of the mail.)
Right, but then the USPS was claiming that they simply threw away all of the resulting data when they were done with it. That's a ridiculous claim in every way.
Whether all the pictures are also retained is a completely different story. 10 years ago, I'd have said, "No; too expensive." But storage costs have plummeted, so nowadays, maybe so.
So what? They don't have to OCR anything that has a properly printed label; they just can it for bar codes. Those pieces of mail, which are the bulk of what passes through the postal system, never has to be photographed at all because they already know where it's coming from, where it's going, what it weighs and whether the package weight was reported accurately. The scans of the remaining minority of mail could quite reasonably be saved ten years ago, especially if you were not picky about resolution. Today, it's trivial.
But the real "so what" is that they are OCRing the mail, so even if they were throwing away all of those scans, they would still reasonably be storing the metadata. Why would you ever throw that away, unless forced? It's small, and it's valuable. But moreover, one of the Snowden revelations was that they are in fact storing all of that OCR data, it all gets handed straight to the feds. Before Snowden, it was generally believed (heh heh) that this data was simply flushed, and only the fringe believed that it was handed to the feds as a matter of course. Now we know that to be the case.
I thought you framed the picture and hung it above your bed
Yes, that was my fear, I didn't want slashdotters picturing me fapping to such a poster. I love freedom, but not in precisely that way
Yeah. Must be the buyers who are braindead, not people like yourself (and CmdrTaco) who can't see what Apple actually does bring to the table.
No, people like himself (and CmdrTaco) can see that what Apple actually does bring to the table is mostly marketing.
That comment would have been a lot cooler if I'd written it correctly. I bought a T-Shirt with his face on. I'd look a right moron walking around with a printed, loose picture of Snowden saying LOOK AT THIS
Yes, slashdot, I know it's only been a minute since I posted a comment, but could you just let me post this and move on with my life?
I bought a picture of his face with the words AMERICAN HERO right under it as soon as I read this headline. Guess it's time to get out and do some proselytization.
Yes, but how often does that happen?
my 1992 F250 7.3 needs a new block (cavitation) and my 1997 A8 quattro is on its second transmission and has had a shitload of leaks addressed and is still leaking and our 2000 Astro has had both engine and transmission rebuilt, so actually, very frequently AFAICT.
The powertrain warranty on modern vehicles is quite long, my GMC has a 5 year, 100,000 mile powertrain warranty. Since I'm not likely to keep it beyond 5 years, it is not material to me.
People like you are why GM makes shit.
Increased natgas production is tied to fracking at this time, and it's not an inexhaustible resource either even if that weren't horrible.
This could be because hybrid system was "strapped" into regular car, and unlike say Prius, that was designed around being hybrid.
Most hybrid versions of cars which are normally non-hybrid are designed for performance, not efficiency; the hybrid either provides the same mileage as a larger engine with slightly more performance, or just provides the performance model of the car. Whereas, as you have guessed, cars which are designed to be hybrids are more efficient overall. It's mostly just due to the different body design.
Hybrids are dumb because small diesels cost about the same amount, are pretty clean these days, and get the same mileage. EVs are cool, if they fit your needs, because they get rid of a whole lot of moving parts — hundreds to thousands of them.
We have a few reasonably-efficient cars like that here, by the way, such as the VW Golf 1.9L TDI. They're not popular because they have less-than-stellar reputations for reliability,
Because they made a bunch of cars in Mexico and those were crap. And then they brought them back home to Wolfsberg and they were great again. And now they're being made in Mexico again. Oh well.
and the reliable Japanese brands don't sell Diesels here.
I long for a diesel Impreza.
It's not really the cost of oil changes, although those are annoying. It's the high chance that an engine or gearbox will go tits up, or just require major maintenance for a re-seal. I'm looking forward to when EVs become cheap in the way that gas cars are cheap... to acquire.
Texas is a big place. If you want to go practically anywhere out of your town and back again in the same day, it will take you a lot longer than four hours.
Where I live, it takes me an hour and change just to drive to some decent shopping, let alone to drive around and get some stuff done.
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