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  1. email is for people with jobs and a life on E-mail Is For Old People · · Score: 1

    The article doesn't get that people who have jobs and/or a life are not able to IM all the time like a teenie can. Just another example of a meaningless survey because of a lack of asking the right questions.

  2. HiLift jack! on Mars Rover Opportunity Working Free · · Score: 1

    They forgot the HiLift jack!

  3. Re:Nothing new on Software Glitches Stall Toyota Prius · · Score: 1

    He has a incompetent dealer if sw updates take days. Plus there have only been a couple of updates for the S500 in the last couple of years, mostly for the audip and nav systems.

    No, MB doesn't have downloadable sw updates, any more than Chevy or Cadallac can update remotely via OnStar. MB does have OnStar like abilities.

  4. Re:BMW?? on Software Glitches Stall Toyota Prius · · Score: 1

    The MB fly-by-wire brakes have a traditional master cylinder attached to the brake pedal as a backup.

    I have had the MB electronic brakes for 2 years, and used to drive pro-rally. I am very impressed with the brakes, especially with how well they and the stability control DONT interfer with "spirited" driving.

  5. Re:DigSafe on Fl. County Halts FTTP Until Installation Is Safer · · Score: 1

    DigSafe is only as good as the maps it depends on. And the water department in this article did admit "some" of its maps may be inaccurate.

  6. Re:This has to be bogus... on A Car With A Mind Of Its Own · · Score: 1

    What about the cars that have fly-by-wire brakes? The emergency circuit has far less stopping power than the normal brakes.

  7. Is slashdot still relevant? on White House Lied About Iraq Nuclear Programs · · Score: 1

    A few years ago, slashdot reported on news items that were unusal, intersting, and not on the major news services. You could tell when CNN picked up stories FROM slashdot. Now more and more news items I have already seen on cnn.com or nytimes.com show up hours or even days later on slashdot. And there are more and more non-tech news items.

    Is slashdot still relevent?? Is it still worth reading? If this continues, I will have no reason to read it.

    Slashdot, if you are listening, get back to your roots and stop just repeating cnn and nytimes articles.

  8. Re:Alternative Roots on ICANN to Incorporate TLDs Already In-use? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Please get your terminology correct.

    Verisgn does NOT control the "root servers". They do operate 2 of the 13 "root servers" under contract. See http://www.root-servers.org/. Verisgn has no direct control over the content of the root servers.

    Verisign does operate the .com and .net registries (again under a different contract), which are NOT a root servers. .com is generally referred to as a "global top level domain" (gTLD).

    The root servers control where to find the servers for the top level domains (gTLD and ccTLDs).

  9. Use a Circuit Breaker Tester on Testing Electrical Capacity of New Offices? · · Score: 1

    Hire an electrician who has a Circuit Breaker Tester for a few hours. Plug the tester in an outlet, and it trips the breaker and measures how much current it took to trip the breaker. Then see how many other outlets lost power. Repeat until you either are sure you have enough power or all the outlets have been accounted for.

  10. What about fires starting INSIDE the walls? on Installing Halon Fire Supression System at Home? · · Score: 1

    Halon/FM-200 work great when the gas can get to the fire source. If the fire starts inside the wall, they may not be able to help. Most commercial and military uses of FM-200 are in spaces with solid walls. If the trigger is smoke, there may not be a way for the FM-200 to get inside the walls, unless you put discharge heads inside the walls.

    Sprinklers won't go off for a fire that starts inside the walls until it breaches the wall and heats up a protected space suffictly to set off a sprinkler head. This may or may not be near the original source of the fire. But the sprinkler will keep the wall cooler and reduce spread of the fire. But it may not put it out - a fire company response is still needed.

  11. Re:Nawww.... on Critical Kerberos Flaw Revealed · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's called Burroughs/Unisys MCP Stack Architecture. :-) Been around since the mid 60s. Bounds checking down to the array level, hardware enforced, with hardware enforced data/code seperation.

    http://public.support.unisys.com/aseries/docs/ha rd ware/70205547-001.pdf is the current architecture document.

  12. Re:16,000 RPM motor!! on Pocket-Sized RC Cars Hit U.S. Soil · · Score: 2, Informative

    Now about 17,000 RPM???

    http://www.hondaf1.com/english/info/engine.htm

    There is even a link to find out what it sounds like on a dyno.

  13. Who is building these DDOS networks? on CERT Finds Routers Increasingly Being Cracked · · Score: 1

    Every so often when DDOS is discussed, there is mention that "someone" is acquiring DDOS resources and then "hiding" them and/or just not using them (yet). With the recent hijackings and now Anthrax, both surprises, is a massive DDOS attack in the works?? None of the DDOS network building discussions have talked about "who". Is there reason to have big worries about the internet right now?