If you want an appliance, Exinda monitoring/shaping/accelerating appliances have fail-open NICs. I use and like them.

So high, so low, so many things to know.

How do you get consent for necrophilia???
Anyway, it's dead boring.

Stoning seems appropriate.

Wow, that gave me a nosebleed! All kidding aside, I just wanted to say thanks. Your first post made the rest of this thread make a lot more sense - kudos!

How does a helmet lessen the force applied to a brain? Sure, it'll stop your skull getting crushed, but it's not going to have much effect on soft tissue trauma from sudden velocity changes is it?

Care to surmise just how? I'm curious to see how you arrived at this conclusion.

I wonder if their children have hunches? Maybe webbed feet? Probably all they got is a statistically higher chance of cancer.

I always though it was just an acronym for One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison.

Damn it, a great Vinge quote and here's me with no mod points :-(