A button is an imperfect replacement for a four position switch.

off/lock

accessories

run

start

A button is either on or off and depends on additional signalling and context to guess what you actually want it to be doing.

Why cant they just make a four position keyless switch?

Why am I now required to shift into park and press the brakes to be allowed to engage the starter?

And if I mistime the brake pressing and get accessory mode, I then have to press it again to get run mode and then I have to press it again to get off mode and then I get to try it again. A bit of a pain.

Sure hope I never have to restart the engine while at high speeds if it stalls out for any reason.

Why do I have to shift into neutral, kill the engine, then put it into park if I want the radio to stay on uninterrupted?

An engine in gear should reignite in the run position if the wheels are moving the it fast enough. Havent tried this one yet.

I doubt modern transmission shift into any drive gear while the engine is off, which would be convenient to park in similar fashion to manuals, if say your parking pin was broken.

Since the most significant bits wont be changing all that frequently, this does not help much.

NYC has effectively banned gun ownership. That is model Bloomberg would like exported to the rest of the country|world.

If you find that hard to believe, go research the process from the perspective of just owning one in your home. It involves hundreds of dollars on a regular basis, notarized summarization of outcomes of every single time a pair of handcuffs were slapped on you, even in your youth, and after all said and done, they are free to say no for any reason they want.

Suppose you do have one. The restrictions on owning, transporting etc and penalties for infractions, accidental or otherwise can be ruinous.

I recall seeing in a court filing that there are about 50k licensed gun owners in NYC.

Want to guess how many unlicensed gun owners there are?

And this is the "reasonable" access to guns for hunting and self-protecting?

Not too mention that it is clear to anyone with functioning brain cells why the 2nd amendment was written. Hint, the writers had just won a revolutionary and CIVIL war, which would not have happened without personal gun ownership.

The concept of self protection is that it is your natural|god given right to do so by any effective means necessary from any entity attempting to deprive you unlawfully|immorally of any of your natural|god given rights.

Joe

Sustainable forestry means young trees sucking carbon out of the atmosphere. More paper, less recycling (bury it all), more trees, less carbon.

So if you are a proponent of carbon reduction because you are an AGW believer, you should be opposed to paper and wood conservation and recycling and you should be supportive of renewable forestry.

Thats crap. Prices dont go up because of "abuse" or even outright theft. Policies that can be abused are sometimes, and at that time, the correct course of action is to consider amending the policy

But price has nothing to do with it.

The real reason returns are accepted even when non-defective, is because if you dont take non-defective returns, all the returns you get WILL be defective.

And contract laws generally require defective returns be accepted and refunded.

By and large a liberal return policy is the right way to conduct business, if you are interested in staying in business.

Keeps me from getting too lonely. And you dont actually need to be nice to the telemarketing humans. Excellent tension relief.

Whats your real name? is a favorite game of mine.

And I know the phone service still works and one of the rugrats hasnt left the phone off the hook for the past six hours.

The robo calls are easy to deal with. You pick up the phone and say nothing for a few seconds.

Machines hang up. Humans say things like "hello".

Its not very windows like lately that to accomplish typical normal useful system administration on a windows machine requires copy and pasting arcane powershell gibberish from KB articles.

Because I want them. And they are sure happy to be here. As I am. A shout out to my parents for not being a pair of idiotic post modern fuckwads like seemingly so many of you out there. Fuck you. I dont give a flying fuck for all those people walking around thinking about how the world would be so much nicer if they were the only people in it. I could give two shits. Fuck them all. I'll have the kids they wont. Its called Children Credits (Patented)(TM). I'll raise the kids the lazy selfish fuckers rationalize and put themselves on pedestals for not having. They deserve their fate, let them all die old alone unloved and helpless. By their own philosophy their should all bury themselves alive six feet under and spare us all. Saving the planet? Fuck you, the planet gives less shit about you than I do.

Anyone who actually needs to devote 100 percent of their attention to their driving under normal conditions is most definitely a seriously bad driver and dangerous to everyone else.

The brain hunts for efficiency. This means it does not devote more effort to routine tasks than is required.

This also means the brain tends to try to put idle cycles into work on something, anything, else.

This should be plain as day. Common sense isnt common.

One cannot appeal to scientific authority and utilize the label of denier for their opponents simultaneously. To label as a denier your opponent casts yourself as a believer. Belief is religion and it is not science.

As all the shrill AGW voices have managed to use that term in one way or another, I categorically cast them as believers, and their claimed science is tainted beyond recovery by their religion and its biases.

What is left is the logic of the rational mind which considers the great ball of fire in the sky and wonders what all the fuss about a degree or two global change in a enormously huge and complex system that nobody comes even close to understanding. The logical conclusion lies in the old saw. "Follow the money".

The science is not science and the claimed scientist are all frauds and scamsters along with the global voices championing life style changes for the masses while living high on the hog. Let them move into a cave first.

Richard Stallman is my model for the modern prophet in the wilderness. He talked the talk AND he walked the walk. Which of the AGW prophets is doing that?

Microsoft fielded this stuff in windows 2000. It will work just fine the same way, controlled by gpo's configuring ipsec settings, the same way it would have with ipv4, except that since almost all ipv4 internal networks are behind a nat firewall it doesnt work for vpn remote access. Instead it was touted as a way to harden your internal network.

To work across the internet this requires that the entire internal network be publicly ipv6 addressed and accessible, at least for the ipsec protocols and no ipv6 nat, which currently isnt expected to be in any real use, but who knows?

This is not true. I have personally recovered data from raid arrays without any controller. Proprietary on-disk storage wasnt an issue at all. I have my doubts as to whether it ever is.

raidextract

I used this software to recover a raid0 and contributed the --noparity option.

Basically, the brute force procedure is to dd out an image of each disk, run the software with correct values, dd out the constructed image to a disk. Or you can mount the partitions directly from the image.

To sum:

a)FAT32 is bad news for data integrity, usability and performance.
b)NTFS only journals metadata, unix/linux filesystems will allow you to journal data as well.
c)Any modern computer/os can read NTFS if not also write it.
d)RAID is not a substitute for backups, preferably offline.
e)RAID1, RAID0 and RAID5 arrays are recoverable without a controller
f)Software raid has plenty of problems and gotchas, if RAID is important to you, then use quality hardware
g)Cheap RAID's can be so bad that only windows detects that you have an array, other OS's just see all drives

Web login forms support copy and pasting. So type your password in notepad and paste it into the form if its too damn hard to get it right directly with the masking.

It is any surprise that usability conflicts with security? Moronic.