That does make a difference. Typically, auto mechanics don't have more than a continuity checker, so they can't say if the control wire is solid or hanging by a thread. assuming any maintenance is even happening.
Try this experiment: connect an electric motor to an electric generator. Turn the generator. What happens to the motor shaft?
Now, YOU try this. Dead short the positive and negative together. Try spinning that motor enough to generate a measurable voltage in the electrical system.
Brake-by-wire systems in use on road cars today actually have a hydraulic system. When the system is working, it modulates braking pressure. When it isn't, you have normal hydraulic brakes. Odds are the brake proportion is wrong in that case, but you can still stop the vehicle.
My complaint is that too many cars have no backup if the electrical system goes out. You lose steering, shifting, and regular and parking brake all in one shot.
On older cars, steering, main brake, shifting, and parking brake are independent systems. Yopu are MUCH MUCH less likely to have 4 failures at the same time than one.
But note well, the total electrical failure is a single point of failure for brakes and steering when you have drive by wire. Otherwise, there are three independent systems that can keep you from crashing (4 or 5 if you count downshifting and slamming the transmission in park).
How likely would you consider the simultaneous failure of 3 independent systems vs. one?
Well, let's see, I have had a car suffer complete electrical failure while driving it before. Because it had a mechanical linkage between the steering wheel and the front end, I just pulled over. Because the brakes were a simple hydraulic link, I was able to stop.
I also had a brake failure once. Because the emergency brake was a simple cable link between pedal and the brakes, I was able to stop safely.
Drive by wire would have been a problem in either event.
Are you sure there was ZERO doubt? No chance it was someone who looked enough like a likely suspect? Further, no chance they were somehow mentally impaired at the time?
Really, I'm not, it's just that that argument is one of the harder ones to refute since mistakes are documented fact and executing an innocent is unquestionably wrong. Given the lengths our "justice" system goes to to not find it's mistakes, I suspect the cases we know of are just the tip of the iceberg.
If you're going with the LCD, perhaps it should be zero. I see people with zero alcohol in their systems who are less coordinated than most people with 0.08 or higher and they're still allowed to drive.
Prison may not be the right choice, community service probably fits better.
As to why, THEY decided to spend more on marketing and less on security. They knew they had a problem and THEY decided to keep it covered up as long as possible (and so increased the damage). They choose to continue pretending that adverse credit reports are accurate even knowing that their own sloppy security introduced a great deal of doubt into that.
And finally, THEY have done their damnedest ever since to make sure anyone and everyone but them bears the burden of cleaning up their mess.
Incompetently leaking all that data was just the first in a chain of wrongs. Their actions afterward were fully under their control and the result of conscious decisions.
Perhaps a few years of picking up trash on the weekend would re-adjust their attitude.
It does rub salt in the woulds a bit that Equifax has done nothing but make matters worse for people whose ID is used fraudulently, and now they have actually facilitated that same ID fraud on a massive scale.
Their primary business is making sure adverse credit information follows people around, while making the assumption that the adverse reports are actually about the named person. Even while they know damned well that their own negligence has enabled ID fraud on a massive scale.
Yes, they could have. There are many places where someone could have said STOP! But everyone was afraid to push back and simply call for reasonability. That's part of the problem with the attitude that surrounds the sorts of efforts that lead to a formal code of conduct. Like many moral panics, the point is quickly reached where you're either with the lynch mob or you're guilty and need lynching.The employer needed to signal that they were against sexual harassment and the questionability of the complaint was lost behind "HE VIOLATED THE CODE OF CONDUCT".
The various codes of conduct themselves seem harmless enough, but they tend to act like a nucleus or the "harmless" pebble rolling down the snow bank.
The Vic-20 came out before there was a C64. So some people did expand their existing Vic. I also saw one with the ROMs swapped out for a FORTH system.
I said early '80s exactly because Borland did make having a C compiler more affordable. Of course, at that time it was seen as more of a beginner's compiler than pro grade (even if it was in many ways superior to MSC).
It has been decades, but IIRC, MSC and Borland in their earlier versions (and so, also Lattice C).
Keep in mind, this was when you could significantly speed up a program by choosing well what variables to declare as register since the compiler didn't know.
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To be fair, without Windows, there would be zero Linux machines running Samba at all. Samba only exists because of Windows.
And the legacy reason? Supporting Windows machines.
That does make a difference. Typically, auto mechanics don't have more than a continuity checker, so they can't say if the control wire is solid or hanging by a thread. assuming any maintenance is even happening.
Try this experiment: connect an electric motor to an electric generator. Turn the generator. What happens to the motor shaft?
Now, YOU try this. Dead short the positive and negative together. Try spinning that motor enough to generate a measurable voltage in the electrical system.
Brake-by-wire systems in use on road cars today actually have a hydraulic system. When the system is working, it modulates braking pressure. When it isn't, you have normal hydraulic brakes. Odds are the brake proportion is wrong in that case, but you can still stop the vehicle.
That is anti-lock brakes, not drive by wire.
My complaint is that too many cars have no backup if the electrical system goes out. You lose steering, shifting, and regular and parking brake all in one shot.
On older cars, steering, main brake, shifting, and parking brake are independent systems. Yopu are MUCH MUCH less likely to have 4 failures at the same time than one.
Sure, there is no reason an EV has to be drive by wire. My complaint isn't about EV, it's about any vehicle dependent on drive by wire
But note well, the total electrical failure is a single point of failure for brakes and steering when you have drive by wire. Otherwise, there are three independent systems that can keep you from crashing (4 or 5 if you count downshifting and slamming the transmission in park).
How likely would you consider the simultaneous failure of 3 independent systems vs. one?
Well, let's see, I have had a car suffer complete electrical failure while driving it before. Because it had a mechanical linkage between the steering wheel and the front end, I just pulled over. Because the brakes were a simple hydraulic link, I was able to stop.
I also had a brake failure once. Because the emergency brake was a simple cable link between pedal and the brakes, I was able to stop safely.
Drive by wire would have been a problem in either event.
Are you sure there was ZERO doubt? No chance it was someone who looked enough like a likely suspect? Further, no chance they were somehow mentally impaired at the time?
Really, I'm not, it's just that that argument is one of the harder ones to refute since mistakes are documented fact and executing an innocent is unquestionably wrong. Given the lengths our "justice" system goes to to not find it's mistakes, I suspect the cases we know of are just the tip of the iceberg.
If you're going with the LCD, perhaps it should be zero. I see people with zero alcohol in their systems who are less coordinated than most people with 0.08 or higher and they're still allowed to drive.
Or if you are overdue for your insulin.
Based on what we know about drug testing in Massachusetts, not necessarily.
It's worth noting that while simply accepted today, when introduced the need for a license to drive was considered somewhat controversial.
In some places they do. In others, the breathalyzer is treated as iron-clad proof with no need for further testing.
I say the jury and the prosecutor should have to draw straws to see who hacks the defendant's head off with a machete on national television.
Unfortunately, it turns out our courts get the determination wrong more often than they should.
Once they're dead, it's a bit late to apologize.
Prison may not be the right choice, community service probably fits better.
As to why, THEY decided to spend more on marketing and less on security. They knew they had a problem and THEY decided to keep it covered up as long as possible (and so increased the damage). They choose to continue pretending that adverse credit reports are accurate even knowing that their own sloppy security introduced a great deal of doubt into that.
And finally, THEY have done their damnedest ever since to make sure anyone and everyone but them bears the burden of cleaning up their mess.
Incompetently leaking all that data was just the first in a chain of wrongs. Their actions afterward were fully under their control and the result of conscious decisions.
Perhaps a few years of picking up trash on the weekend would re-adjust their attitude.
It does rub salt in the woulds a bit that Equifax has done nothing but make matters worse for people whose ID is used fraudulently, and now they have actually facilitated that same ID fraud on a massive scale.
Like it or not, that's what passes for conservative these days.
Their primary business is making sure adverse credit information follows people around, while making the assumption that the adverse reports are actually about the named person. Even while they know damned well that their own negligence has enabled ID fraud on a massive scale.
The guy down the street didn't give consent to the epilepsy either. Uber knew they were testing something new.
Because sometimes it doesn't. More often than new flash fails. But the used parts are not disclosed to the consumer.
Yes, they could have. There are many places where someone could have said STOP! But everyone was afraid to push back and simply call for reasonability. That's part of the problem with the attitude that surrounds the sorts of efforts that lead to a formal code of conduct. Like many moral panics, the point is quickly reached where you're either with the lynch mob or you're guilty and need lynching.The employer needed to signal that they were against sexual harassment and the questionability of the complaint was lost behind "HE VIOLATED THE CODE OF CONDUCT".
The various codes of conduct themselves seem harmless enough, but they tend to act like a nucleus or the "harmless" pebble rolling down the snow bank.
The Vic-20 came out before there was a C64. So some people did expand their existing Vic. I also saw one with the ROMs swapped out for a FORTH system.
I said early '80s exactly because Borland did make having a C compiler more affordable. Of course, at that time it was seen as more of a beginner's compiler than pro grade (even if it was in many ways superior to MSC).
It has been decades, but IIRC, MSC and Borland in their earlier versions (and so, also Lattice C).
Keep in mind, this was when you could significantly speed up a program by choosing well what variables to declare as register since the compiler didn't know.