As I spotted philosoraptor saying on G+ this morning, Snowden is being accused of Treason (aiding The Enemy) for sharing information with the American People. Does that mean the American People are The Enemy?

The only other car I know how to read is Nissans with CONSULT, which you can read with BlueFRom and a dongle from DX. The only interesting vehicles to which that applies are early twin-cam 240SXs and early Z32 300ZXs. In theory I can read my current injection pulse with a magnetic pickup and a piezo one but I have neither and do my injection timing with an optical sensor...

So let's assume he's being truthful and he actually has "source code for older titles plus development kits for the PS4 and Xbox One consoles". Um... So what? How is that damaging to the companies involved? Source code for older titles? Who cares? Dev kits? They hand those things out like candy to development studios. Sure, under NDA, but it's not like their business plan is toast if the dev kit gets leaked.

It sounds like a small price to pay to pick off and make an example of some pissant little self-proclaimed l33t h4x0r. With blackmail that weak I'd nail him to the wall just because he sounds like a prick.

Hardcore gamers already had plenty of system on which to run Windows XP. I know, because I was one then.

No need for a replacement head. You mill out a space and insert a new seat. Valves can be turned from scratch if need be. I met a dude (friend of a friend) who used to work for NASA who made titanium internals for his harley engine. I know, why, right? But anyway.

Lead wasn't added for the purpose of cushioning valves, it just did that.

They oughta just be able to get different turbine wheels, then. Still more money, but whatever.

You know, when people who are too afraid to put their name on their complaints tell me I'm wrong, it only convinces me more strongly that I've hit the mark.

Reading comprehension? You fail it.

Thank you, please drive through.

Who cares? Dual-core is now standard and quad-core is becoming so. My point is well-supported.

What? x86 is shit. They are profoundly crufted because of the instruction set and the complete and total lack of general purpose registers, so you need more hardware to make up for these pathetic deficiencies. This is why a chip that does the same amount of shit will always use more power if it's x86 as opposed to ARM. amd64 is much better but there are no designs yet which are competitive with ARM in the low end. And the simple truth is that the low end is covering more and more people's needs today. A few of us need more horsepower on a regular basis, but most don't.

I don't really care if you can fly or not. I care whether there is lead being emitted from planes. However, the problem lies with the FAA, because your engine could have upgraded valves and seats installed if they would permit it. And of course, you could always fly yourself to another country and set up shop where you're allowed to fly...

Insensitive? Sure. Kind of like burning leaded gas.

Well, it's different from vehicle to vehicle...

Probably does. Some vehicles will make use of higher-octane fuel and some won't. The differences lie in both the compression ratio and in the PCM. If they will keep ratcheting up the timing until they detect knock, then they'll benefit, but they won't necessarily raise the advance past some point.

If your car has OBD-II, and you have a bluetooth phone, then you can probably show the advance with a ten dollar widget.

now we have variable valve timing and low pressure turbocharging, which does the same job, albeit with more parts. as a side benefit, though, you also get to reduce weight.

Except we've now entered the era of the Aluminum block, and so now you'd need hardened valve seats anyway. This is an ex-issue.

Lampson Field, which I drive past regularly, has such a fence keeping people off of the field. It's no taller than my nutsack. I know service is done there because you can see it as you drive by, because the whole airport is not much bigger than my nutsack either. People regularly hold garage sales out of their hangars, it's a nifty airport. Not regularly enough, though. I really want to score a cheap 12V attitude gauge for my pickup truck.

We're not talking about an engine, we're talking about hardened valves and seats and, if some octane booster is not used, a timing change. Then the aircraft which can't take the performance hit from running on the lower-octane fuel get decertified, and fuck 'em because leaded fuel has got to go. If they can't afford to fly without lead, then they can't afford to fly.

I don't know about you, but I ridiculed it because of the cost at the time of a USB floppy drive, which was amazing. You could literally buy a used PC with a floppy drive in it for what people were charging for them, especially Apple. I have a Sony unit right here that I got at a yard sale, just I case I need to read a floppy. I haven't in years (two or three of them anyway) but what the hell, I installed an IDE LS120 drive in my PC anyway. Its merry whir at boot or wake reminds me that I have a PC. And, read errors aside, if I have to read a floppy in the future, I can do it at double speed without digging the USB drive out of a drawer.