Modern Vespa

adri - you're making me feel old! I was out of diapers (no Pampers back then!).

Ok, ive read the posts a few times, where exactly is your personal attack?

It was before all of our times, in the 1940s. My dad had only just been born. That said, Louis Slotin was still a notable figure in the early experiments with nuclear weapons.

He's famous for one of the two Demon Core incidents involving uncontrolled nuclear reactions. This experiment was referred to euphemistically as "tickling the tail of the dragon".

Louis Slotin managed to give himself a fatal dose of radiation when his screwdriver slipped. He died nine days later, refusing to be sedated so that he could give one last gift to science: a verbal description of what he was feeling as his body was shutting down.

The two Demon Core incidents were mashed together into one in a (relatively) recent movie called "Fat Man and Little Boy", with John Cusack playing the Louis-Slotin-like character, a scientist that accidentally triggers the nuclear reaction.

The post that was reported was this one. You can draw your own conclusions as to whether that violated the posting guidelines or not.

Wow

Good mini doc ^

Somehow over the last few days. I have not been able to use Tor to log on. Not dependent on the exit node, all attempts appear to be currently blocked. It used to work without fail.

you should probably report that to the state and federal authorities. messing with somebody's internet connection is a crime and MV is surely behind it!

It appears to be a problem with the latest version of Tor Browser and Windoze. It seems that the executable is being flagged by Windows Defender as containing a trojan. Apparently, it started just a few days ago with the latest automatic update of Tor Browser. One cannot connect with Tor Browser at all, let alone visit any sites with it. It will just sit there trying to connect, then report that it is possibly blocked.

Not quite what I meant.

Ah, and here I was thinking you had misspelled the website or something like that.

It's Windows.
Oh, and Terra Firma.

Haha. Ever hear of vision problems and a sticky keyboard. "Windoze" was misspelled intentionally. Can't stand that OS at all. The other is a typo. Thanks for catching it.

good thing I brought receipts:

Are you trying to provoke me? Or is it your sense of humor I don't get?

😂 I sense a conspiracy. But then, what if MV sends the black helicopters after me?!

I merely was questioning if Jesse or someone filed a complaint with my ISP or something. Sorry if I didn't spell that out. It's been worked out. Everything is fine between us.

As it seems, it was indeed a coincidence. Tor Browser auto-updated and Windows Defender broke that version. If you search online, you can see that it is a widespread problem with that browser.

I'm not repeating anything you didn't say.

you should learn to take a joke and not be such a sensitive sally when exactly what you say and did are turned right back around on you.

anyway, I have a feeling there a lot you don't get.

good day!

Must be a cultural difference between us. Where I come from, we don't generally take the piss out of complete strangers. Because the phrase "anyway, I have a feeling there a lot you don't get" is a bit insulting no matter where one comes from. Nice attempt at trying to bait me.


Have a nice night Sergeant.

I mean, we are a wold wide enterprise. who says we don't have the budget for at least one black helicopter and an army of hackers to shut down ISP's?

oh, like you did? or, do I need to quote that back to you, blue wasp?

in your culture do you hold people accountable for their behavior? because over here in the sovereign air space of greasy industries LLC, we certainly do.

you came off like a little shit bird, chirping it up. and now, when it's turned back on you, with your words no less, you take umbrage?

now, that is what we call rich.

even better, is that you have a problem with your interwebz and immediately suspect US of messing with you? like we have the time, resources or inclination to do so? that's the definition of conspiracy theorist.

so respectfully, pound sand.

And pray tell, how is this not a personal attack and a violation of your own policies?

We all got off on the wrong foot, true. But you keep egging me on and insulting me. How is this acceptable? It appears that there are two standards here.

Settle down, everyone. Everyone can just take a chill pill.

As for Tor, I don't know much about the latest outage, but I do know that a bunch of Tor exit nodes got temporarily auto-blocked by the automated spam defenses. We generally just ignore the spambots, but occasionally they actually do hostile things (like SQL injection attacks) and then their IP gets automatically banned for a while. And since they use Tor a lot, that means that statistically the IP addresses getting temp-banned skew towards Tor exit nodes.

I've cleaned up a bunch of them, not sure if that will help or if the Windows problem is the root cause. But again, we aren't doing any blanket-block of Tor.

There was an article, which of course I cannot find right now, that said there was a problem with the latest update of the Tor Browser itself and Windows Defender flagging it as a trojan, a false positive apparently. Somewhere in the article, or comments, someone suggested it was because the Tor Project doesn't sign the application with Microsoft. Makes sense to my admittedly limited understanding of application development. With your experience in mind, does this sound right?

Anyway, it manifests itself as such: launch the program and try to connect, and it will never do it, no matter which bridge you use. The program will report that it is possibly blocked. Might have to look for another alternative to Tor Browser altogether.

oh, so now you finally admit it. while we're here an apology would be nice too.

if you feel that me repeating what you said and recounting your actions is egging you on and insulting you, then perhaps you should take some time of self reflection and carefully choose your words in the future. remember, you are the one that used incredibly nasty language and berating words before, and before you knew any of us or anything about this forum, really. don't forget that, because I certainly won't.

my standard is calling a spade a spade, and that you don't like that does not change it.

you acted the fool, you got called on it and that planted you squarely in the FO portion of the FAFO graph.

have a think on that and like, go touch some grass or something.

Pot calling the kettle black much?

Jess said to 'settle down'.

more like glass house, stone garden attached.

good day.

Clever.

What, all this fun, and no one is asking about the sticky keyboard?

some questions you already know the answers to, even though you don't want to.

I suppose that doesn't sound good does it?

Just meant a low quality keyboard that sometimes doesn't want to register a keystroke at all, then other times, registers several keystrokes. Thinking of swapping it out for a nice keyboard with mechanical switches.

Cool. I will check on that.
I agree, it's likely something on the tor side of things, especially since everything worked fine just recently. Definitely nothing to do with Windows on my side.😊

I might be missing something, but it seems that this thread has taken on a weird direction.

Anyway, people are saying here that the speedometers are usually "optimistic" as in report higher than real speed?

With my 1980 Bajaj (Vespa Sprint 150), I have not been able to go faster than 48-49 mph. Judging by the speed of other vehicles on a given speed limit zone, I'd say mine is pessimistic. At the end of the day I guess it doesn't matter. Just drive safely!

Yes, because that is a legal requirement in many parts of the world.

In before the lock.

I think the legal requirement is that the speedo not under-report the speed. And since there are a bunch of variables at play (like tire inflation) the safest way to ensure that a speedo doesn't under-report the speed is to always over-report the speed.

Jess,

I also thought (I can not confirm my original source - maybe discussions with my Vespa Dealers service department) That the speedo is off to account for the different wheel/tire sizes that can be installed. Your input that it is linked to not under reporting speed sounds more plausible.

As previously posted, GPS on the bike clearly shows the inaccurate reporting that increases with speed.

Only the "Shadow" knows.

Bob Copeland

Late to this thread (thankfully ) but here's a video I recently made on my 2023 GTS with GPS and speedo side by side. It's off by a good 10 mph at top speed. I will say though, kudos to vespa for using the whole speedometer!

My Honda XX would read 155mph when I was only going 147. Very disappointing!

Delorean speedos are accurate.

Only in the movies.