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« Last post by tomos on August 14, 2013, 02:09 PM »thanks, interesting site 
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The new speeds I'm paying for are 20Mb down and 1Mb up. But testmy.net frequently tells me I'm getting between 8-13Mb down and about 0.65Mb up. Or in other words, about 50-65% of what I'm paying for.. Yet SpeedTest.net says 19Mb down and 0.8Mb up.-Deozaan (August 10, 2013, 01:41 AM)
Here's hoping that FARR indexing will make into FARR at some point! :-/+1-Josh (August 10, 2013, 12:39 PM)
nice to hear some good news ;-) 
Bagus: The Tragedy of the Euro
Pdf version is free: http://mises.org/document/6045/-panzer (August 06, 2013, 05:02 AM)
(Anyone remember the Volkswagen example? European versions of the exact same model have far higher fuel efficiency, etc.)-Renegade (August 03, 2013, 09:50 PM)
yes - I remember posting info that repudiates that ;-)
(this for the third time I believe)
-tomos (August 04, 2013, 09:15 AM)
I just checked again for the current Passat. US version at vw.com gets 22 mpg vs the Passat at the German site getting 57.4 mpg.-Renegade (August 04, 2013, 09:41 AM)
(Anyone remember the Volkswagen example? European versions of the exact same model have far higher fuel efficiency, etc.)-Renegade (August 03, 2013, 09:50 PM)
)This autocar.co.uk review gives it 800miles to a 70 litre fill which works out at 43 m.p.g. if my maths is correct.
I actually came across this last week somewhere, and just found it again:
Couple gets 84 mpg in Passat diesel on real roads
I think this article is mainly about the fact that if you drive about 55 mph you can save up to 23% fuel. Also here. They do use a different model (6 gears) - but the second link says that the previous record was by the model the guy in the video was talking about...-tomos (May 25, 2012, 03:15 PM)
Yes, the Catalano's Long Island home was searched, but by the Suffolk and Nassau County Police Departments, not the Feds. Yes, the police asked Catalano's husband what he knew about making a pressure cooker bomb, not because the NSA had seen his Google history, but because his ex-employer had.http://reason.com/bl...-on-couple-who-searc
A Google engineer with integrity?Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be Abolished
Posted by timothy on Sunday July 28, 2013 @08:29AM
from the well-if-you'd-like-my-opinion-gentleman dept.
First time accepted submitter MetalliQaZ writes "Last week, Dr. Joseph Bonneau learned that he had won the NSA's first annual "Science of Security (SoS) Competition." The competition, which aims to honor the best 'scientific papers about national security' as a way to strengthen NSA collaboration with researchers in academia, honored Bonneau for his paper on the nature of passwords. And how did Bonneau respond to being honored by the NSA? By expressing, in an honest and bittersweet blog post, his revulsion at what the NSA has become: 'Simply put, I don't think a free society is compatible with an organisation like the NSA in its current form.'"-IainB (July 28, 2013, 10:52 AM)
The scientist was Linus Pauling, and you can read something about him here: The Vitamin Myth: Why We Think We Need Supplements--IainB (August 01, 2013, 01:02 AM)
But still the medical research results continue to trickle in that seem to consistently indicate a relatively strong correlation between premature death from various causes (including heart disease and cancer) and the high-level consumption of vitamins. The mounting pile of evidence pointing to the conclusion that the high-level consumption of vitamins is not only ineffective in promoting health, but also potentially harmful seems irrefutable.--IainB (August 01, 2013, 01:02 AM)
In 2007, researchers from the National Cancer Institute examined 11,000 men who did or didn't take multivitamins. Those who took multivitamins were twice as likely to die from advanced prostate cancer.-