While on vacation, my sister in law got an urgent call from her daughter, the local paper described my brother in law (her husband) as being arrested in a major...

Robert Hermsen (10/1/2008)

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Diesels...

The US has some funky rules when it comes to emissions. Automakers have to meet certain quotas. Given GMC, Dodge, Ford and Chevy's huge...

I suspect it will be much more of an issue with the plug-and-drive vehicles hybrids where the engine is much more active, if the engine cycles on enough to keep...

Steve Jones - Editor (9/30/2008)

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The lights definitely pull a load, but we can't do without them. LED bulbs would help here and I agree, the rest of the electronics can't...

The 8 year battery guarantee sounds like a long time, but it will easily land on the second owner... the potential of such a big repair bill so early into...

Wayne West (9/29/2008)

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.... I'm not sure if it's Fed standards or California standards causing the kerfuffle, regardless, we can't get high-efficiency turbo-diesels. The problem is compounded by the...

this essentially demonstrates that the ancient Greeks had bad bosses too.

Nothing new under the sun

It's human nature, our brains can only handle so many threads at a time, so we default to assume certain things are unchanged unless we notice something different. Rather than...

This is such a silly turf war.

I spent a number of years doing C++ (and loved it). TSQL and C# are very different tools and they solve very different types...

We are an overly litigous society, seeking to place blame everywhere rather than on the criminal. Great for lawyers and bureaucrats who thrive on placing blame. But by making every...

holycow

This data came from old AS400 tables with 8 character field names. They did some really bizarre things with naming conventions. Yes it looks like neither myself or the other...

I just came back from a 3 week road trip.

To tell you the truth, I did stay somewhat connected (i.e check email in the AM). My boss and co-workers are...

An additional thought.

Detection of cheaters appears to be an evolutionarily selected behavior (it also exists to some degree in other primates). Humans are actually fairly good at it, so that...

Cheating, or the temptation to cheat is as old as human nature. Anthropologists recognize that one of the primary functions of societies, from hunter-gatherer tribes to nation-states, is the social...

Donald Bustell (8/21/2008)

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... I used the same technique to write an "email" program where the physical transfer was Computer -> Punched Paper Tape -> Teletype -> Punched Paper Tape ->...