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Comment Re:Just a few points... (Score 1) 265

Yes Baby steps.. Currently they are coping with the personnel hazards of flywheels, large banks of batteries, different chemical makeups of batteries and how to handle things when they blow up, catch on fire and go flying up into the stadium crowd. Fire suppression, using water in some cases is trouble with shorting big banks of batteries brimming with energy.. Yes.. Baby Steps.

Comment another question to answer (Score 1) 981

If you really want to ask, is putting plastic covers over outlets for safety of our children morally wrong? Is all the safety training and safety equipment morally wrong? Without the advances of safety we would have millions of people dying and darwinism would actually be working in the human race. Humanity would actually be able to evolve to our next level except because of our intelectual abilities, we have staved off our next level of evolution.

Change the question, is curing cancer morally wrong? Curing color blindness wont change much. Those who are color blind know not to go into bomb diffusion jobs or other color coded problem jobs. Evolutionary wise those who are color blind are not getting themseleves killed or dying out of the human gene pool and instead are passing on the 'damaged' gene set.

Question now is, do we now chose our evolutionary paths now?

Yes.

Comment Re:What about security patches? (Score 1) 462

Yes, lets just mail Joe user a cd every quarter. Then John the hacker can just mail out his own version to Joe user and own him anyway. Best way to distribute such a cd would be bank teller pick up or drive thru pickup at the bank. Not a pile of cds on a table/desk or in the vestibule or some random public shelf.

Comment Re:It's also stupid (Score 1) 462

The credit card number generator has been compromised by man in the middle attacks. Man in the middle intercepts your ssl connection, makes another connect himself to your bank, presents you the screen he gets. You see what looks like the bank, you enter your user/pass and generated number. Man in the middle thief does the same and starts moving money.. gets a prompt for another code from the generator and spits that out at you to get another code. You supply it, he enters it for his transaction.. Bye bye money.

Feel secure holding that number generator card now?

Comment Re:Reply (Score 1) 462

Sure, clean VM may mean nothing snooping on the vm.. but what about the host? Infect the host, snoop the VM's network traffic.. You get exploited even with a clean VM.

Banks need to just put out closed hardware, like an automated teller machine.. Oh I know an ATM!

Really what should be done is the bank host a secured remote desktop session and give users a client disc. So long as the client software doesnt have a major hole, the bank can handle the software on the bank's remote desktop side.

Comment Re:Mechanical linkages != automatically safer (Score 1) 345

I've had borrowed my brother's '02 ford ranger that I experienced a throttle stuck open problem that was caused by a frayed cable linkage. I couldn't pull the pedal up. I had to shift to neutral and stop while then engine roared to 6000 rpm then dropped to 3000 rpm when the computer noticed no load. I shut the engine off after I stopped, popped the hood, spotted the fray in the throttle cable and pulled the throttle shut and drove it another 60 miles to get parts and home to fix it.

Comment Re:Nagging Nora (Score 1) 951

In some cases at least in fords, just click the seatbelt unlock button will silence the bell for the driver side chime. I tend to drive through a series of locked gates at the farm which require closing after pulling through. Putting on a seatbelt to drive through a gate at 1/2 mph isnt high priority for me. I just click the unlock button on the seatbelt latch and it silences till the next time I start the engine.

Comment Re:Make it turn the volume up (Score 1) 951

It would also help if windows would bluescreen and not immediately reboot the machine. I keep my cellphone or my dslr (it's faster) around when dealing with blue screen errors because so often a machine will blue screen and throw up a stop code. You read stop and it goes away faster than you can read the rest of the screen.

Comment Re:Report from the field: "Drivers very confused" (Score 1) 483

Downtown Houston is like that. Every time I go to downtown Houston I have to remember to watch for lights on the side. I've almost ran lights because I didnt notice them as I am used to my home town, 6 intersections 2 way stop signs... 1 intersection 4 way stop sign. 6 2 way... then a t-bone 1 stop sign. (small town)

Comment Re:Put the damn thing in neutral! (Score 1) 1146

This all reminds me of the day I borrowed my brother's ford ranger (automatic) and he forgot to tell me not to floor it, the cable had a spot where it was unbraided slightly and would get stuck in the ferrel before the cable jacket. I found this out the moment after I raced ahead of some vehicles after coming off the red light and got in the left hand lane to make a u-turn... I suddenly discovered the stuck throttle and shifted into neutral. The engine blared and the computer knocked the rpm's down to 3k after running at 6k for a few seconds unloaded. Good on ford for that programming.

I typically drive manual transmission and it was of course my first thought was throw into neutral. Once I stopped, all I had to do was shut off the engine, pop the hood, tap the throttle cable and all was good. All I had to contend with is complaining to my brother his ford is crap again. Funny thing is now, he gave up the truck a few months later and had me take over the payments/owership of it. He got pissed off at ford when working at an automotive shop and decided he will never own a ford again.

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