But this isn't exactly ATI's first time around the bases... how did they forget how PWM control works?

That doesn't matter if you are competent, because they have a tachometer lead. you don't just send a PWM signal and then trust that the fan is going at the speed you want.

You're bad at understanding reality. This only shows that at least two percent of internet users are bad at understanding security. There's lots of ways your password can be bad which don't involve it being the same as someone else's.

Tell Paul Walker.

In fact, brake lines fail without notable warning all the time, as do other components like masters and boosters. So you're wrong there.

Actually, this isn't that easy. For example, one of the UPS drivers let me know that his Mercedes Turbo-Diesel powered delivery van was detecting low oil and shutting off when he needed power the most, going up bumpy hills. Almost killed him one time. The fleet mechanic defeated it for him so that he wouldn't die. So you're wrong again. Even Mercedes who has been making cars since time was time can get this one wrong.

Look, it's not when a light goes dark, which is not easy for most people to notice. It's when a light comes on. When there's something wrong, a light is lit. If your brake fluid is low, your BRAKE light is on. If your vehicle is producing excessive emissions, your MIL is lit. If your manufacturer bothered to also create a CEL, then if there is also likely engine damage occurring, the CEL will be illuminated. When you disable traction control in cars which permit it, something lights up to tell you it's off, nothing goes off to tell you it's no longer on. So you're wrong again.

I think the moment you notice that some important sensor is covered in mud will be the same moment that the car tells you that there's a sensor problem, and that you're going to have to do your own driving.

You are wrong about literally everything and your conclusion is laughable.

Me too, but who cares what we're doing?

Yes, it is assembled only by the most-talented slaves.

Freeway driving is trivial: you don't hit what's in front of you, you don't hit what's beside you. Basic sensors can pull off both of these feats. You get bonus points if you can stay in a lane, but plenty of shitty human drivers manage to pull it off following those two basic rules.

Getting off the freeway is where it starts getting difficult. Even google maps sometimes misses the exit and tells me to turn right while I'm doing 60 over an overpass.

We weren't discussing sci-fi when you called it technobabble, we were discussing a study that you called technobabble.

Now go away.

I published the first draft at slashdot as I wrote it. Hadron Destroyers was published on slashdot on Dec 2, 2009. And as I don't have a huge marketing budget it will take some time for people to discover it, if they ever do. Click my home page link to read the finished version.

And four from seven is three. I released the book November this year, Dec 2 is four years.

every customer to call Comcast tech support

Who will lie to them and tell them it's not Comcast's fault. See also: Sandvine.

You seem to think that amateurs are all talentless. Many of the guys playing in the pubs have been playing and singing since they were children, and taking lessons, and many majored (or at least minored) in music in college. I have some friends who are very talented, talented enough for the RIAA to want them to sign contracts. They laughed in the labels' faces. They're not making product, they're making art.

Art and commerce are usually at odds. Van Gogh sold only one painting in his life, to his brother, for a pittance, to pay a debt. Meanwhile, none of the paintings in the galleries then are in the museums today.

Look at the old Ska band Reel Big Fish. Their first several CDs kicked ass. They were signed by Britney Spears' label, and my daughter bought that CD. It really sucked donkey balls.

Look at Stephen King's remarks about James Patterson. "He's a terrible writer, but very successful." I've been reading Patterson's When the Wind Blows and... well, not terrible, not even too bad, but he's no Stephen King. The book I'm reading he keeps changing perspectives from first person to third person, which was bad enough when describing things the 1st person character didn't experience, but later in the book uses the third person when the 1st person narrator, who isn't narrating, is there. That was a big WTF? But almost every time I see a women with a book, it's one of his pulp fiction murder mysteries (which is why I'm reading it, I wanted to find the secret of his success. Too bad the secret is murder mysteries, I hate them usually).

Remember Milli Vanilli? Caught lip-syncing on stage and it turned out they didn't sing on the album. How about the Talking Heads? Terrible singing, uninspired musicianship, but they were new and different. The music industry isn't after quality, it's after "new and different" because that will garner them what they're in business for -- money.

What you hear in a good pub will very often be far superior to what you hear on the radio. The professionals are in it for the money, the "amateurs" (like the Jungle Dogs, who held masters degrees and taught music at SIU in Carbondale) are in it for the art.

We THOUGHT we were voting for a new FDR in 2008. What we GOT was a new Calvin Coolidge.

A little weak on your history, aren't you? We thought we were getting an FDR but we got... well, not Coolidge, that would be Bush (and if McCain had won, he would have been Hoover). I'd say we wanted FDR and got Jimmy Carter.

I mean, really, do you believe for a second Coolidge would have signed the ACA?

Wow, guys, way to misunderstand. Take the lyrics to the Dead Kennedies' Kill the poor and change the words to "Kill the Jews" and that's more like what we're talking about.

OTOH, I wonder how the Germans authorities would react if you changed the words to "kill the fags"? Would that be illegal, too?