Yes, being the professionals that they are, they recognized a potential issue, analyzed the possible solutions, and implemented several mitigating factors (only one of which you seem to be aware).

You know what they say about assuming...

Thanks for the links. It's especially interesting reading Tim Kosse's argumentative responses to people experiencing problems.

Modern hospital surgery has relied on power for decades, and they usually get by without an electrician in the room.

I'm guessing he hasn't seen the big standby generators with big fuel tanks that hospitals have. Lots of grocery stores too, for that matter.

Ever try and get AT&T or any other big carrier to listen to you while you explain in detail how their "bullet-proof service" is down and needs to be fixed?

I have. Even telling them where the packets are being dropped often doesn't help. My favorite was when my service went out, and after four days of going back and forth with them, it turned out that they'd somehow accidentally dropped the DSL router's MAC address from the authentication list.

I made a living installing NetWare 2.15 servers in banks using token-ring with Windows 3.x or DOS and WordPerfect.

That brings back memories, although we served the medical and legal community back when Maxtor 100MB drives were cutting edge. NLSNIPES was tons of fun.

Go read the glossary on the above link and stop spewing your bullshit.

Go read up on a little military aircraft history and learn how many *decades* remotely piloted target aircraft have been referred to as "drones".

I lean more toward the Pentel Hi-Polymer myself, but any vinyl eraser is going to be miles better than the traditional rubber ones.

That's hysterical. Along those same lines, a co-worker met Bryan Cranston this past weekend.

Or is Slashdot just in love with Ethan?

Well, they had to fill the site with something once they got over their Bennett Haselton love-fest.

I've seen boards where all the decoupling caps are bunched together in a corner of the board, far away from the action.

Yeah, kinda defeats the purpose. I've seen something dumber though - many years back, a friend of a friend tried to get rid of the ignition noise coming over the radio in his car by installing a filter cap across the battery terminals and then wondered why it didn't make any difference. Guy was an electronics tech in the Navy, for crying out loud.

Not every power supply is the same, add a capacitor and/or line regulator to the input.

And don't be stingy with decoupling caps.

I've never experienced that, ever, in my 35 years of computing on various platforms and various text/document editors.

It happens to me occasionally on my Win7 box at work, and sometimes requires firing up Process Explorer to find out who still has a lock on the file if the file had been closed a while back. Getting out of the editor is the only thing that releases the lock in those cases. It's happened in Word, Notepad++, and UltraEdit.

Yes, I see those every day, and often have to wait for the same train twice on my way to work. FEC has five terminals over about 650 miles, which means there's still a lot of the coast that has to be served by truck.

I think more of the problem is so much stuff gets sent by truck when rail would be cheaper and faster. Unfortunately the U.S. doesn't have anywhere near the rail infrastructure that Europe does. I live about a mile from the Florida East Coast railway tracks. The next closest set of tracks belongs to CSX, and is about 100 miles away.

And they will get robot guards, what could possibly go wrong?

"Okay, turn left at the light and pull into the staging yard's second driveway on the left. Don't worry about the "deadly force authorized" signs - the ED-209 shouldn't bother you."