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Comment Re:Truth (Score 1) 1103

Oh, the other "problem" is that it is manual transmission. Slushboxes suck up fuel economy like most people don't even believe.

Technology has moved on you know, Semi-Auto boxes, its basically a manual box with a computer controlled clutch and shift mechanism, the manufacturers claim that in full-auto mode these get BETTER fuel economy than the equivalent manual in average driving conditions, as the computer wont run the engine at higher revs/gear combos than is actually needed.

Having driven a manual all my life i find myself now just leaving this in full auto mode, its right most of the time, and when i know something it cant anticipate, like a hill coming, i just flap the appropriate paddle and it changes gear at my request and carries on. If it ticks you off (i thought it would but it never has) you can just switch to manual mode and change gear up/down yourself.

Censorship

Submission + - UK Crown Prosecution Service say 'Cult' Acceptable 1

An anonymous reader writes: Slashdot readers may recall the story this week about the 15 year old who was under threat of prosecution for calling Scientology a cult in the recent demonstration. The CPS have decided ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7416425.stm ) that there is no case to answer and issued new guidance to the City of London police clarifying when they can use their public order powers.

From the article:
A Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) spokesman said: "In consultation with the City of London Police, we were asked whether the sign was abusive or insulting.
"Our advice is that it is not abusive or insulting and there is no offensiveness (as opposed to criticism), neither in the idea expressed nor in the mode of expression."
A spokeswoman for the City of London Police said: "The CPS review of the case includes advice on what action or behaviour at a demonstration might be considered to be 'threatening, abusive or insulting.
"The force's policing of future demonstrations will reflect this advice."
Software

Submission + - Linux archive file format with redundancy record? 2

xtracto writes: Is there an Open Source program or file available under Linux which can duplicate the feature available in the RAR file of adding a "redundancy record" to the file in order to allow recovery of the file if corrupted? I need to backup a vast amount of text data (log information for a scientific experiment) and currently I am doing it by compressing the data using tar and bzip2 format and then archive it to DVDs, but I would like to add some redundancy to the files (maybe a standalone program on top of the tar-bziped files). Is there anything like that on Linux?. Note that RAR is not a choice because of the closed file format (as this is scientific data which might be available for everyone in the future).
Linux Business

Submission + - XenSource-now-Citrix Console Goes Windows-Only

Dispirited writes: Not very long after being bought off by Citrix and incidentally announcing their "commitment to the Windows platform", XenSource releases a new version of their administration console that drops support for Linux. The formerly multi-platform, Java-based administration tool is now Windows-only. The rioting in their forums has already begun. Why drop support for Linux when the previous version worked wonderfully there?
Amiga

Submission + - Amiga in an FPGA released under GPL (hetnet.nl) 2

exolon42 writes: This is a mandatory read for every (former or current) Amiga hacker. You have to give it to the Dutch: tulips, cheese, and now a guy named Dennis has recreated the original Amiga chipset in a Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGA, and recently released all sources under the GPL to boot! This includes the design of a PCB containing the FPGA, the required MC68000 and normal PC-style hardware connectors so you can build your own. A thought-provoking fact is that the Verilog-sources for the recreated chips (Denise, Paula, Agnus etc.) are only around 500-1000 lines each... chips in the eighties didn't contain 1 billion transistors!
Biotech

OHSU Turns Mouse into Factory for Human Liver Cells 93

Oregon Health & Science University researchers have figured out how to turn a mouse into a factory for human liver cells that can be used to test how pharmaceuticals are metabolized. The technique, published in the journal Nature Biotechnology, could soon become the gold standard not only for examining drug metabolism in the liver, which helps scientists determine a drug's toxicity, but also can be used as a platform for testing new therapies against infectious diseases that attack the liver, such as hepatitis C and malaria.

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