>The final part would encourage the adoption of accelerator pedals that users slip their feet into rather than just on top of. This would provide the same ability to positively influence the pedal return rather than expect the spring to do so.

A gas pedal that you slip your foot into? That's insane. How would you account for all the different size footware that the hollow gas pedal (imagine a slipper made out of steel) would accommodate? Could you build something that would fit my steel toe work boots as well as the little tiny sneakers on a 16 year-old-girl? Back in the real world, if you want to have "positive throttle closure" via cable, why not place a pivot point in the middle of the gas pedal? Pressing down with the the ball of your foot would make the pedal rock forward (from the driver's POV) to accelerate and pressing down with the heel would rock the pedal backward (from the driver's POV), closing the throttle. No "steel slippers" in my car, thanks.

You often need lots of land for the leech field, half a mile of various pipes, and the concrete tank, all underground. And you need the plumbing in the house. If you were to build a new septic system today, you probably need $50-100K to do that (not counting permits.)

Exaggerate much?

>So they use more antibiotics and cleaning agents than even the most overprotective mother ever could (which, btw, is about the worst thing you can do to your kids

Ci-fucking-tation please, you "your kid has asthma because you didn't let him play in the mud" nutter.

Amen.

MOD PARENT UP.

>As a nerdy bonus, Saul Rubinek played the writer; he was on an episode of ST:NG.

One episode of ST:NG? How about his role as one of the main characters in the series "Warehouse 13"? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1132290/

I watched each episode of Warehouse 13 closely to see if there was a "Duck of Death" stored in the warehouse...how's that for nerdy?

Dude! Cut it out! Only apk is allowed to use that much bold. As I was scrolling down and saw the ocean of bold in your post, I thought "Oh boy, another rant on HOSTS files and raw sockets in Windows." :^)

>(EG. It had questions about which IRQ and I/O address was the default for COM1 and COM2.

COM1: 3F8, IRQ4
COM2: 2F8, IRQ3

No, I did not Google that info - I still remember this stuff when I worked on PCs 20 years ago.

>If it's from a State agency it's entirely possible that are running a root DNS server on-site (I work st a State agency and we are)

No, you aren't.

>I would wager that if he was to look at outbound traffic at the same time as the inbound "stripes" he would indeed find a correlation.

For firewall logs related to procotols that the firewall treats as stateful, the log entries usually have a source ip and destination ip. A single log entry covers both the packets generated by the local system as well as the responses received from the remote system. For a single stateful session, there are not separate log entries for the "outbound" requests and the "inbound" replies. In your example with ping (ICMP), some firewalls treat a ping as a stateful connection and will log just one entry that covers the outbound echo request and the inbound echo reply.

>The guy you quoted is British, that would explain the "British style"... idiot. That does indeed make you a Troll.

Where in that person's post do you see that the person is British? Is it in his username, "Lemming Mark"? Is it his UID? What part of his post tells me his country of origin? I think you are the idiot.

I stand by my original comment posted above: Leave the "British-isms" like "torch", "bonnet", "boot" and "petrol" (and the annoying use of plural verbs with singular nouns) on your own side of the ocean. It's not cool, cute or hip. It's just annoying.

>But the nice thing about power plants, as opposed to internal combustion engines in your cars, is that they're centralized. One big chimney, instead of hundreds or thousands of them. A single chimney to inspect, regulate, filter, clean, whatever.

Chimney? What kind of nuclear plant did you live next to? Nuclear plants don't have chimneys. Are you thinking of the cooling towers? That isn't smoke coming out of the top of a cooling tower, that's water vapor.

>Financial pressure would inevitably produce a nice robust algae that produced biofuel that needed minimal or no refinement. In other words, you'd have an organic self-replicating oil producing machine.

Take this, accidentally let samples escape into ocean. See ocean die. Die. Die. Die.

I have a simple solution that involves algae-eating lizards, Chinese needle snakes and gorillas.

>I wonder if this happens to work on the 64-bit DEC Alpha version of NT4?

Only if you run the compiled exploit code through FX!32.... ;^)

http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/270/migrating-to-alpha-with-fx32.html

>I'm putting my money on high except for the last one. Wikipediate "Central Vacuum System".

I agree. I've seen houses with "Central Vacuum." But the OP wanted a tube system that could carry both "packets of water" as well as dust bunnies. Somehow I don't think the two would mix well.

> I've occasionally thought it would be interesting to use this kind of technology for home plumbing. For example, when you turn on your sink and ask for hot water, instead of having a continuous flow in a pipe from the hot water heater to the sink (which wastes a lot of energy), why not use a pneumatic tube system to deliver a packet of hot water to the sink?

Are you fucking high?

>Note that the same tubes could be used for delivering hot water an cold water, and taking away waste water? (You'd have separate containers, of course, for fresh water and waste water).

Are you fucking high?

>You could do cool things with a pneumatic packet-switched water network. For instance, it would be easy to add a storage tank and route shower waster water to the tank, and then from there to the toilets for flushing.

Are you fucking high?

>And I bet with some clever design, you could make it so the pneumatic tube system could double as a centralized vacuum system for house cleaning.

Seriously, are you fucking high?