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  1. Re:Power Steering failure? on Toyota Experimenting With Joystick Control For Cars · · Score: 1

    Driving forklifts with cold weather trouble results in engine kills and lose of power steering. Though we could manage to steer a little, just was heavy so long as it rolled. The steering in most forklifts is hydrolic assisted. When power is lost steering still works, just gets VERY HARD. Perhaps a hydrolic steering system could be backed by a hydrolic accumuliator and an electric hydrolic pump for redundancy.

  2. Re:Power Steering failure? on Toyota Experimenting With Joystick Control For Cars · · Score: 1

    Power steering is belt driven. Hydrolic brakes are vac. Air brakes are belt driven.

  3. Re:Power Steering failure? on Toyota Experimenting With Joystick Control For Cars · · Score: 1

    Yep.. lost a serpentine belt after hitting some water over the road I didnt expect. Had to drive another mile without water pump, a/c, alternator, and power steering before I could get off. I'd hazard a guess in a joystick use, the loss of power would require auto apply of brakes and restricted throttle access. Just enough to pull over and strand you somewhere less than secure.

  4. Oi.. lobbiests, cant we lob them somewhere else? on Car Glass Rules Could Impair Cell, GPS and Radio Signals In CA · · Score: 1

    Sounds like someone with a new expensive glass technique has their hands in the pockets and perhaps down the pants of someone at CARB

  5. Re:Wow on First Black Hole For Light Created On Earth · · Score: 1

    Absorb? Reflect? Refract? Transform?

  6. Re:Great! Now I can be fingerprinted passively! on 3D Fingerprinting — Touchless, More Accurate, and Faster · · Score: 1

    Finger prints are in the cloud. Bank requires a thumb print, the Department of motor vehicles takes prints for driver's silence replacements.

  7. Re:Not for desktop pc's, but on 10/GUI — an Interface For Multi-Touch Input · · Score: 1

    Need more precision on choosing a single pixel... ZOOM in.. That's what we do now with mice, tablets and even keyboard edits to graphics.

    You are citing a problem that already was solved in early versions of ms paint.

  8. Replace os or replace computation device on Washington Post Says Use Linux To Avoid Bank Fraud · · Score: 1

    Well if a linux live cd works, why not have each bank build their own live cd and certified application? Add in a required token as well while you are at it. Drop the web browser completely. Only give the discs out through the bank teller visit, never by mail and iterate that fact.

    Even better, completely eliminate the disc (to keep random thieves from mailing random cds to random people for phishing) and make a secure boot from usb iron key type system with it's own processor that can verify upgrades and a separate authentication dongle. Since the iron-key can be securely writable, have it written at the bank teller a user id that has no use but for authentication internet banking already entered.

    Much better, develop a bank pad.. Like a crunch pad but does nothing but banking. Require a usb dongle to plug in to authenticate. Export data by email if needed but otherwise offer no other way to access.

    We mostly dont want to trust the operating system that can be compromised.

  9. Re:On posting on Misadventures In Online Journalism · · Score: 1

    But you've got no arms left.

    Look..

  10. Re:Useless. on Computer-Aided ESP Transmits Binary Numbers, Slowly · · Score: 1

    We carry on conversations inside my head silently and at a much faster data rate than any cell phone.

  11. Re:What is very sad on Massachusetts Police Can't Place GPS On Autos Without Warrant · · Score: 1

    Judges don't exactly make law, they just interpret. Case law is historical presentations of past interpretations.

    Judges are like pastors leading their church, interpreting the bible written by someone else entirely. Judges/pastors didn't write it, but they have to figure out what it means.

  12. Re:Hands-free is allowed on For New Zealanders, No More Phones As Sat-Nav Devices · · Score: 1

    Come to Texas, your a/c unit can barely pull down the temp to 75. I stay awake by holding my hand up in the air and chewing gum or sunflower seeds. I dont start out drives tired, but get tired driving in stop and go traffic for 15 miles. By the time I get out of the stop and go traffic, I have 15 more miles to go driving the same speed with the same engine tone for another 20 minutes which quickly makes me sleepy.

  13. Re:"Windows CE or even Windows Mobile" on ARM Attacks Intel's Netbook Stranglehold · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it is time for microsoft to lose the 'windows' moniker and start something new on ARM.

    All anyone needs now a days is a terminal applications to get into whatever else they need to do work on. Half of the company I work for use remote desktop to process reports and dont need hefty processors.

  14. Re:What does it support? on ARM Attacks Intel's Netbook Stranglehold · · Score: 1

    Funny, my siblings did not even notice they were using linux the last time they borrowed my computer. My brother said he preferred my computer over my father's winxp laptop since the linux never crashes.

    The simple problem with everything is familiarity. They expect internet to be under the blue e icon or the red and blue fox. Another problem is word of mouth new 'hot game' is not produced on anything except windows.

  15. Re:Goody on ARM Attacks Intel's Netbook Stranglehold · · Score: 1

    Got a windows mobile cell phone? Half of them are ARM based. My current cell carries two Arm chips. Works well enough. Linux is already into ARM processors, though I have barely tinkered with that.

    My old HP jornada had an ARM processor and there was a linux distro based off debian arm that could be installed in it. I almost got it running before I got bored of it. The kernel would boot but would halt when trying to load the file system from the memory card. The kernel didnt have the right file system type that I wrote to the card in order to mount and move on so it just halted. I never got back around to figuring out the why.

    Personally, I'd love to have an ARM based linux laptop that potentially could last hours on batteries. I don't need the fastest processor out there, just enough to run web browser, flash and local video/audio. I used to use my jornada for a month before putting it on charge.

  16. Re:Shouldn't it be magnetic North? on On-Body Circuits Create New Sense Organ · · Score: 1

    Rotating the anklet would be useless, it always buzzes magnetic North. You could put the anklet on and sit with your shin facing North, spin the anklet and it will continue to vibrate your shin as it senses the magnetic North turning. Haven't you ever played with a compass?

    If adjustment is really that necessary it must be compensated in software/the anklet's wiring.

  17. Re:Computers First Please. on PS3-Compatible Phone Coming In October · · Score: 1

    Likely answer, the media player api on your windows machine lacks the ability be GIVEN files so Sony did not mis-inform you by placing a link that says transfer so you wouldnt think, oh I'm gonna put this back now and find that media player doesnt work that way.

  18. Re:Oh no... on How To Build a 100,000-Port Ethernet Switch · · Score: 1

    The recoil eventually gets to you.

  19. Re:Worst ask slashdot ever on Suitable Naming Conventions For Workstations? · · Score: 1

    You have angered the gazebo.. Roll for save.

  20. Re:and yet NYC still has traffic jams on Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    So you drive in Houston too?

    They pass in the on/off ramps a lot here.

    What gets me are the people who ride leave one car space between them and car ahead, and come up to a merge point then ride the bumper of the car ahead of them causing everyone to come to a stop. If you are behind someone enough to see their turn signal on at a merge point, DONT FREAKING PASS. If someone does try block me from merging or run up and sit in my blind spod, I will take a hard left into their lane a la NY cabbie style. Honk if they like, Ill just shift out of gear and floor it so they cant hear their cell call anymore. I'll immediately establish a 2 car space ahead of me as well just because that person will be riding my tail.

    Merge points are not supposed to be like that, it's supposed to work like a zipper.

  21. Re:Since we're taking requests on Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    You are mixed up. The higher the center of gravity, the higher risk of rollover.

  22. Re:Left turns on Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    Wow, really? People get over 2 miles ahaed? In Houston, Tx they wait for the last 300 ft and cut across all 3 lanes and almost hit the safety pylons.

  23. Fail? on Twitter Faces Patent Infringement Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    This is bound to fail. You can't consider every user on twitter to be an administrator. Users on twitter are not adminstrators and do not have the ability to direct their messages to specific set groups. They can only broadcast a message which is subscribed/followed by others. I hope this fails.

  24. Re:Not for Archival Purposes! on Researchers Debut Barcode Replacement · · Score: 1

    Create QR codes: http://www.i-nigma.com/Create.asp
    QR code reader: http://www.i-nigma.com/GetReader.asp

    Works good with a blackjack II windows mobile phone.

  25. Re:How long will peak rates be around for? on Consumers May Find Smart Appliances a Dumb Idea · · Score: 1

    Come visit Houston, TX, 113 F outdoor temp, 98 F indoor temp with a/c's off. That's with a house in the shade of trees. You cant lose waste body heat easily at 98 F.