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Here's a writeup on it from the Florida Attorney General's office.
http://myfloridalegal.com/ago.nsf/0/2be69982597761f385256eb7005f8fdf?OpenDocument.
Basically, anywhere that is a road, or there is expressed or implied consent to drive, traffic laws can be enforced.
You could argue that you don't have to obey them. You would lose in court. And as I mentioned in the previous post, this is Florida law, so your state may be different.
The first number was the factory spec. The second set was measured on a dyno.
I did change a few things. There were intake restrictions that I removed. The factory Y-pipe was designed for ground clearance, but had a nasty restriction too, so I swapped it for an aftermarket Y-pipe.
It probably was a little bit higher at some point between about 20k miles and 130k miles, since it still had the factory spark plugs for the 130k, mile dyno test.
MNG is complex, it can encode the video/animated image in many, many ways, several of then useless for browsers/web, being so complex is hard to use and had no real usage (like all new formats)... and no fallback mechanism... but the MNG people agree to release a subset of MNG for browsers, simpler and with about 5 main encodings/compressions combinations and build plugins for other browsers. Yet then firefox devs reject it again, saying the lib uses too much space (about 200KB IIRC)... basically they simply didn't like the main guy behind the MNG format, nor the technology (NIH "Syndrome"), still saying it was too complex format (video is complex always) and as lame excuse broke the PNG to add the same stupid hack they had done in gif: append new images in the end of a static picture to fake a animation.
PNG group didn't like the idea, PNG it's a STILL image format, pointing that the animated image format equivalent to PNG is the MNG. So Mozilla team still uses APNG for animated images internally in firefox, and the APNG is ignored and unsupported almost elsewhere . Mozilla team still ignores MNG and now prefers to bet on the HTML5 for the future animated image support
MNG is complex, as it allows one to use several compressions methods, it can add alpha to any channel, it can use multiple codecs. It tried to cover all future possible usages and upgrades. But the web subset was "simple" enough to cover both simple image animations (to replace gifs) to small video clips. Compared with APNG, where it only loops by the existent images at different speeds and supported transparency, this format is very simple, but also bigger, not as smooth and not very good at video. Due the lack of a decent web video format, flash slowly took that market and only now, ~10 years later we have finally video support build in in the browser.
Fuck yes I would!
And next year I will be uploading some car parts. Stay tuned for my 4AGE 16v ITB adapter and crank ladder bars.
As such I wouldn't hold much faith that just because Cyanogenmod is open that suddenly it's more secure than a proprietary product. It might be and open source is good for a raft of reasons, but I suspect anyone who wanted to throw an exploit could still bury it in plain sight if they wished.
No, indeed. Being opensource doesn't make CyanogenMod automagically secure. GPL and BSD license, aren't magic pixie dust, per se.
BUT being opensource at least make it 100% possible to audit CyanogenMod (unlike say, iOS. Even if you wanted you couldn't audit that one, because its source code is a well guarded secret by Apple).
If you're not content with approach of "let's wait. if there's something evil inside, someone is bound to discover it eventually, some day", YOU CAN DO something about it.
1. Either have a look at the code (if you have the necessary skills yourself).
2. Or you could pay someone to do it. Truecrypt is a nice example that this is possible to do. In fact you could have a good chance of success for crowd funding project for code review of CyanogenMod. This mode is quite popular among people who are more sensitive to control/security/privacy issue. If they are ready to jump through hoops to be sure that their phone runs the OS of their choosing, an OS that they can control and that they could trust, I'm sure some would be ready to set a few bucks aside and pay for crowd-funded project to check and guarantee the source code of CyanogenMod. Specially these days when people are specially made aware of privacy/security problem by the whole Snowden debacle.
Given that CyanogenMod is a critical piece of software (its an OS which lots of people use to run on their phones, and its a derivative of Android, which is the dominant Phone OS. And lots of people want to trust their phone), starting such a crowd-funded audit DOES terribly make sense.
I'm not interested enough to help start the project it self (I don't use Android/CyanogenMod, and I don't trust my phone anyway).
But I would probably give money to such a project.
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As a side note: LOL @ our handles being only a few letters appart ( DrYak vs. DrXym, in a HAL / IBM style of letter shift)
On the other hand, to outsider like me, Microsoft's R&D center has over the last several years looked more to center who's role is to find occupation for big brains so they are kept in microsoft's clutch instead of going to innovate elsewhere.
Microsoft has had tons of fun tech demos. (Photosynth, for exemple, for a visually appealing one. I was under the impression that Microsoft was among the first to show software doing something to gather visual data from tons of references pictures. Microsoft Singularity introduced tons of cool idea: a concurrent managed language whose characteristics make it possible to be formally and provably analysed for security, subsequently software process separation and lightweight microthreads, and thus a microkernel based OS almost entirely inmanageable code, with provable process isolation, and with little of the microkernel task-switching associated costs).
But almost nothing came out of these research (Photosynth end-up eventually being released to the public, after a while. Meanwhile, the visual processing world has gone crazy, both in the fundamental research [automatic on the-fly removal of objects from video; or horizontal compression *without* actually stretching object, instead just removing un-needed details; and all the other cool tech demo that are featured on slashdot every other week]. Singularity has gone no where, the current crop of Microsoft OSes [windows 8.1, X-Box] are juste the last generation+1. Meanwhile, Scala has become one of the hot functional language to actually see widespread business usage. LLVM is the compiler getting improved to the point that some provability can be asserted even on imperative language like C [and thus can be used to do more advanced/provable security checks than memcheck, etc] while GCC has also its crop of security-test instrumentation [some taken from LLVM], Stackless Python is the hot topic for microthreads without hardware penalty [and actual massive applications like EVE-Online], etc. )
The only success that Microsoft can pat itself on the back about, is that during this time these brain have been wasted inside Microsoft's R&D departement and thus haven't gone working for a competitor and made their discoveries there subsequently turning them into actual products competing with Microsoft's stagnating shit).
Sad part? The absence of strong business successes following that research will probably used by the MBAs as additionnal proof that R&D should be sacked in favour of Sales/Marketing.
Well on Earth, it took 3 million years for life to go from very simple single cell organisms to primitive animals.
Their hypothesis says that rather than the occasional rock like Earth, the environment may have been favorable on quite a few planets. Well, "quite a few" being "just about infinite" in our concept of numbers.
Meteorites bombard planets. We know that. We believe planetary collisions happen. I don't think we've observed that yet. So pieces of planets are ejected on a fairly regular basis. Earth seems to do a pretty good job of keeping our chunks attached
If the idea was not that life evolved relatively close to our planet's life timeline, and with a virtually infinite of source planets in relatively close proximity to each other, it would be more feasible to consider that panspermia could be real.
It will be quite a while before we can even begin to test for something like that. Well, unless someone drops by with a starship and 2 billion years of intergalactic research. Or more likely, someone does build an Einstein-Rosen bridge. I'm sure if we are the first to do it, it will be militarized, to be the way to win any war, anywhere. Who needs nukes, when we can just open a bridge from an enemy stronghold to the photosphere of any convenient star for a few seconds. Hmmm, considering that, maybe someone has made it, and realized the potential for harm.
Same for CyanogenMod itself. Who says this addition hasn't been implemented by an NSA employee, backdoor and all?
Except that CyanogenMod itself is opensource.
You check the source yourself, and the source is seen by lots of other people. If there's a backdoor in there, someone is bound to see it.
Even if some NSA employee managed to use social engineering to sneak in an exploitable-bug while submitting a patch to improve otherwise the code, someone will end up noticing it. (e.g.: Both Debian and Android have had, at some point of time, a broken DSA generation which produced predictable key. Nonetheless, in both case the defect was noticed and corrected).
That's the whole point of RMS' rant about free and opensource being a necessity for security. If the source is open, you don't have to specifically trust the author of the source (who might either be a mole or clumsy and end up making bugs). You can instead trust the community (Debian, Android), or you could check it yourself (I'm able to do *some* light code reviewing for a few of my coding needs), or pay someone to do the checks for you (TrueCrypt is exactly getting this treatment, crowd funding style).
And even if you don't compile your binaries yourself and doubt about the binaries offer as downloads by the CyanogenMod team (perhaps the binary you download contain a backdoor that isn't in the source), several tools are here to help too:
- GPG-signing of binaries (so you know the binary you got was actually from CyanogenMod and not one of the relay of NSA which ended up serving you a booby-traped binary, exactly like their slashdot clone)
- Deterministic build (a way for several independant people to check that the binary you have are produced from the official source and not by some NSA mole inside CyanogenMod who is injecting a backdoor before publishing them. It's used by Tor, Bitcoin, etc. It's being implemented for TrueCrypt too)
- Differential build (each time there's a discussion about trusting the source, there's always someone coming up with this old paper of C's author about booby trapped self-replicating compiler. And completely forgot that the author himself proposed a way to detect such booby-trapped shit. Not that this was ever seen in the wild. But in theory it's evitable, with these technique).
I don't think so, but I've never heard of a move "pump the gas pedal".
Ya, most states have laws against it. Except on private property.
Florida defines any surface made for vehicle travel, attached to a road, as being "public" for the purpose of motor vehicle citations. So a burnout in your driveway is illegal. Rolling a stop sign in a store parking lot is illegal too. If you do a burnout in a store parking lot after hours, and you exceed the posted speed limit (usually like 15mph or less), you can get cited with speeding, unlawful exhibition of speed, careless driving. If you go past the line at the end of a row without stopping, you can get a ticket for failing to obey a traffic control device. So 5 easy tickets, and they don't even have to contact the property management to try to cite you for trespassing and/or vandalism.
Usually, they'll just tell you to stop it and go home.
Racetracks usually have multiple gates between the public roads and the track, which makes it legal.
Which one?
It seems they ranged from 265 to 350 hp, and 140 to 290 ft-lbs torque. The tires and road conditions make a big difference too.
When I bought my '00 WS/6 (stock 320hp and 345 ft-lbs torque), it game with some awful tires. The test drive was in the rain. The tires spun anywhere under 3rd gear. It was a "fun" test ride, and the salesman loved it, but I would have preferred to drive it. It had a new set of tires the next week, and that got rid of the unintentional tire spins.
12 years and 130,000 miles later...
The last dyno run measured it at 330hp and 345 ft-lbs torque. That's with the original engine, and even spark plugs. It just has some bolt-on stuff, but nothing internal done.
Disclaimer: I am not the author of the following pdf
http://iphome.hhi.de/marpe/download/Performance_HEVC_VP9_X264_PCS_2013_preprint.pdf
According to the above pdf
"x264 encoder achieves an average gain of 6.2% in terms of BD-BR savings compared to VP9
With so many spooks from different intelligent agencies infiltrating WoW they had to set up a “deconfliction” group to ensure they weren’t spying on, or interfering with, each other
One problem the paper's unnamed author and others in the agency faced in making their case—and avoiding suspicion that their goal was merely to play computer games at work without getting fired—was the difficulty of proving terrorists were even thinking about using games to communicate
More information can be had on:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2520799/American-British-spies-posed-orcs-elves-World-Warcraft-infiltrate-terror-cells-according-new-NSA-revelations.html
http://news.sky.com/story/1180006/spies-infiltrated-world-of-warcraft-game
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/12/09/nsa_spied_on_world_of_warcraft_xbox_live_second_life_because_terrorism.html
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