8tracks has some great mixes. This one is pretty cool:
Why can’t modern tuner/amplifiers take objects as input?
Here’s another one:
And another:
Reggae, jazz…all the good stuff is on the Internet.
Category Archives: Security
Cadillac CTS Diesel SuperWagon
Oooooh, be still my beating heart. I’ve never been a Cadillac fan, since they seem to prefer excess and flash to function and efficiency, but I have to give them props for trying to step up and follow the European lead in diesel performance vehicles. Have a look at the Cadillac CTS Wagon:
GM says the 4.5L Duramax, which features aluminum cylinder heads with integrated manifolding and a variable-vane turbocharger mounted in the vee, is capable of delivering more than 310 hp and in excess of 520 lb-ft of torque. It also claims the engine meets the tough 2010 emissions standards, making it legal in all 50 states.
This diesel engine is said to get 20-25% better mileage than the Ultra V-8 engine and you know it will totally kill the numbers on the absurd supercharged V-8 CTS-v. In fact, I think they should just deploy the V-6 diesel in both America and Europe.
Why do it? While the CTS is due to get a 2.9L V-6 diesel in Europe, the 4.5L diesel V-8 would most likely be seen as a way of filling the obvious gap between the 304-hp direct-injection V-6 of the regular CTS and the 556-hp supercharged V-8 of the CTS-v here in the U.S.
What they should really do is can the gasoline V-6 version and offer the same diesel option as in Europe. It will have more power and better mileage. I would be more than happy with a 2.9L V-6 diesel. Who needs anything bigger? Oh, right, it’s Cadillac. Well, I guess better to have a massive V-8 diesel option than none at all. Either way, this would be a fantastic regatta/tow vehicle.
Disclaimer: I already own a VW version of this car, manufactured four years ago
…but I am sure I could be talked into updating to an American made V-6 diesel Cadillac SuperWagon.
Edith Wharton
I just ran across a few quotes by Edith Wharton, all of which are quite good. This one seemed most appropriate to security:
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
Oh, how we always used to talk about hardening boxes.
PK Death Penalty for Electronic Crimes
Pakistan has promulgated the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance, 2008 (Ordinance No. IX of 2008). Note the death penalty is specifically mentioned for certain electronic crimes, such as terroristic acts, as explained here:
Explanation 2.- For the purposes of this section the expression “terroristic act” includes, but is not limited to,-
(a) altering by addition, deletion, or change or attempting to alter information that may result in the imminent injury, sickness, or death to any segment of the population;
(b) transmission or attempted transmission of a harmful program with the purpose of substantially disrupting or disabling any computer network operated by the Government or any public entity;
(c) aiding the commission of or attempting to aid the commission of an act of violence against the sovereignty of Pakistan, whether or not the commission of such act of violence is actually completed; or
(d) stealing or copying, or attempting to steal or copy, or secure classified information or data necessary to manufacture any form of chemical, biological or nuclear weapon, or any other weapon of mass destruction.
(2) Whoever commits the offence of cyber terrorism and causes death of anyperson shall be punishable with death or imprisonment for life, and with fine and in any other case he shall be punishable with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, or with fine not less than ten-million rupees, or with both.
This is the first time I have seen death as a penalty for committing electronic crime. One might think that the existing laws would cover maximum penalties for causing death, but apparently Pakistan wanted to write it into the text itself.