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by kw71 11y ago
You (probably) and I are part of a small minority in the entire universe qualified to do such examination. A lot of bosch source codes got leaked, but if you have or want to write analysis tools for the TriCore ISA to inspect your VW'
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by kw71 11y ago
> One more reason for publishing the source code to drive-line software in cars. There is no reason for anyone to publish their trade-secrets. Compliance can be assured through better testing, which is how this came to light. All the ar
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by kw71 11y ago
Rigging cars to pass emissions tests has been a game for a long time. For a long time all you had to do was pass a tailpipe sniff test on a dyno and the car would be held at two slow speeds for the duration of the test, so you'd get r
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by kw71 11y ago
Yeah, a cellphone being held with the lens facing a person looks just like a gun from the eyes of the person being video-recorded. This is flatly ridiculous, but probably accepted by the police supervisors and district attorney when the cl
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by kw71 11y ago
No
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by kw71 11y ago
7zip does most of them, but doesn't depend on the original tools.
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by kw71 11y ago
A lot of those cars have a changer option on the factory stereo which means an emulator can provide an aux input. There are some adapters on the commercial market for this and lots of arduino-style projects published on the web. So far th
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by kw71 11y ago
I think you are smart to not have hacked one of those aftermarket stereos that kids buy into such an awesome car. You aren't stuck with cassettes - you can upgrade without looking like a retard. The radios that came in e32 and e34 ma
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by kw71 11y ago
I also count in binary with my fingers. I'm teaching my son to do it too.
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by kw71 11y ago
Like the electric buses in Soviet countries!
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by kw71 11y ago
10-15 years ago BMW was promoting bivalent Hydrogen/petrol as the future and one of their spokespeople even mocked Toyota at a car show over the prius (according to a contemporary article in the Roundel). Glad they ate those words bec
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by kw71 11y ago
I know the 5 series has stop/start idle elimination now. Does the petrol 3 series?
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by kw71 11y ago
Oh man, this reminds me of the time I met an elevator with an operator. It was in one of the Smithsonian museums - perhaps appropriately the museum of american history? It was only 22 years ago, and I rode the elevator several times just
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by kw71 11y ago
Manufacturers like HP and Lenovo don't only have the FCC to worry about upsetting. They have to worry about regulators in every other country, too. So they want to make sure their type approvals can't be breached.
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by kw71 11y ago
Isn't the current German national song "Deutschland Ueber Alles" modified in some way like omitting the first verse?
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by kw71 11y ago
> The most telling was a statement calling men “scumbags” (for those readers that don’t speak American/Canadian English, this is a word that only a woman would ever use to describe men) I am a man, and I use this word to describe
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by kw71 11y ago
What I don't understand is Intel's rationale for developing this feature in the first place, especially back in the dark ages when the current ideas about trusted software had not been developed (for instance, in the Windows envir
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by kw71 11y ago
Because the victims don't have the resources to arrange legal help, is one possible reason. If you know of an area in the USA where the police have the capability to admit a fault, or punish bad apples in the force, please let me know
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by kw71 11y ago
Nope, logs are all manual entries on sheets of paper.
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by kw71 11y ago
I think it's unenforceable with the current infrastructure. In Europe, trucks are required to have chart recorders called tachographs. You put one chart in the machine per day and that's your log. I think this makes it a lot mor
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by kw71 11y ago
1930s = radio, there were also electrical instruments available at that time (for instance AVO voltmeter)
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by kw71 11y ago
One of my hobbies is to repair and restore antique metrology, test equipment, and vacuum tube radios. I would not have been able to do any of it if it were not for those who have scanned and shared a large volume of old technical documents
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by kw71 11y ago
I personally trust General Motors (car shuts off), Ford (car erupts in flames) and Toyota (car won't stop) more than I trust Apple. I will never buy another Toyota product but I still operate one. Apple is even lower than that for me
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by kw71 11y ago
Is there a 4 mph "forgiveness" in the law somewhere? I thought that technically it was an infraction to travel 56 in a 55, which is equally ridiculous as being ticketed for going 59 in the same spot. I own a car that encourages t
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by kw71 11y ago
I've seen this. You don't want some log truck lumbering along at 53 mph in the center or left lane. Also it would be very surprising to be hassled for going 60 mph here. They can, and do, issue citations for not obeying road sig
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by kw71 11y ago
I live in Virginia and I find it difficult to believe that a driver was pulled over for traveling 75 mph in a 70 mph zone. You usually have a 10% or 10 mph buffer between the speed limit and the cop being grassed enough to think that you a
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by kw71 11y ago
Here is the detailed area containing the third order enclave on google maps: https://www.google.com/maps/@26.1474499,88.7641825,16z
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by kw71 11y ago
Of course this is serious. Why do you think there were 240 pence in a Pound Sterling? Divisible by 1,2,3,4,5,6...
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by kw71 11y ago
I'm wondering who the victims are. If the list were released it might depress their stock prices temporarily.
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by kw71 11y ago
I have a pretty new loo that uses 1.0 gallons per use. I haven't had any problems that I've heard about, thankfully, even on the "worst days." I think that some of them are designed better than others. As an experiment

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