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Comment Re:The faster data moves (Score 1) 75

Shhh, don't tell anyone, but a T1 is just two (or one, depending on span type) DSL circuits and has all the same impairments and limitations as the first two-wire residential DSL standard; which based itself off of two-wire T1 spans. The difference of course is repeaters for T1s are common place every 3000-5000ft. They exist for xDSL as well but are far more expensive and only ever seen in rural areas.

Comment Re:Just what I needed ... (Score 1) 336

How long until the first support call because some tool tries a regular network (or hell, even phone...) cable?

It's supposed to work with normal Cat-5e/6 network cable. However the likelihood of Joe Sixpack plugging their HDBaseT into the ethernet port of their computer/switch/modem and frying it with the 100W power going over it is pretty high.

Comment Re:-1 False Assumption (Score 1) 976

If you are in the intersection when the light is red the you have run the light. It's really very simple!

There's two rules, and they vary depending on where you live. There's Permissive Yellow, where you're legal if you entered the intersection before the light changed to red, and then there's Restrictive Yellow where you're considered to have run the red light if it changes to red while you're still in the intersection. In the US most, but not all, states are Permissive Yellow.

Medicine

In Israel, Potential Organ Donors Could Jump the Queue 582

laron writes "In Israel, a new law is in the making: Holders of donor cards and their families would get preference if they should need an organ for themselves. Apparently this initiative faces resistance from Orthodox rabbis, who hold that organ donation is against religious law. Jacob Lavee, director of the heart transplant unit at Israel's Sheba Medical Center, and one of the draftees of this new law, hopes that a broader pool of organs will ultimately benefit everyone, but acknowledges that one of his primary motivations is 'to prevent free riders.' (Apparently receiving an organ is OK under religious law.)"
Government

Bill To Ban All Salt In Restaurant Cooking 794

lord_rotorooter writes "Felix Ortiz, D-Brooklyn, introduced a bill that would ruin restaurant food and baked goods as we know them. The measure (if passed) would ban the use of all forms of salt in the preparation and cooking of food for all restaurants or bakeries. While the use of too much salt can contribute to health problems, the complete banning of salt would have negative impacts on food chemistry. Not only does salt enhance flavor, it controls bacteria, slows yeast activity and strengthens dough by tightening gluten. Salt also inhibits the growth of microbes that spoil cheese."
Networking

Jobs Says No Tethering iPad To iPhone 423

tugfoigel writes "Anyone who currently owns an iPhone and was hoping they would be able to use it as a mobile Web access point for a Wi-Fi iPad just got some bad news. Reportedly, Steve Jobs has said this will not happen. Swedish blog Slashat.se claims they e-mailed Jobs directly to ask him whether or not you'd be able to tether your iPad and iPhone and received a terse 'No' in reply. According to the report, the email headers made it plausible that the reply had come from Jobs's iPhone."
Advertising

Window Pain 223

Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton contributes the following piece on trying to get some measure of satisfaction in the struggle against pop-up ads, writing "The most annoying thing about some pop-up ads, is that you have no way of knowing which ad-serving network served them or who the responsible parties are. Could we reduce the incidence of illegal or deceptive pop-up ads, by giving users an easier way to trace their origin and figure out where to send complaints? Here's one way to do it with a simple right-click." Read on for the rest.

Comment Re:Brakes! (Score 1) 690

they are talking about brakes strong enough to hold the car in place if you have your feet planted on both the accelerator AND the brake at the same time.

Yes. And I'm saying that any car that can't do this is not roadworthy and needs to see a mechanic immediately. Brake systems of basically any modern car are strong enough to do that if properly maintained. Sure, it'll possibly kill the engine and the transmission, but the car won't move.

Only because the traction control system of a car with enough power to break traction on acceleration is preventing it from doing so. '70's muscle cars could overcome their rear brakes just fine, and yet when you stomped on the brakes they'd lock up those same rears just fine too. The modern equivalents can do it too if you turn off/disable the traction control.

Comment Re:Brakes! (Score 2, Informative) 690

Uhhhh... I believe you fail at basic physics. If you can plonk both feet on the pedals and not accelerate, then the breaks can excerpt more force than the engine can (otherwise you'd be accelerating). Given that force equals mass times acceleration, breaks that can excerpt more force than your accelerator will obviously decelerate you faster than your accelerator will accelerate you.

Physics fail yourself. You're forgetting that acceleration is traction and drag limited, while deceleration is traction limited with drag helping you slow down. There's plenty of cars that in the absence of traction control will quite happily spin the drive wheels and produce lots of smoke when you press the gas. There's also plenty of cars (pretty much all) that in the absence of ABS will quite happily lock up the wheels while moving and produce lots of smoke when you press the brakes. The force required to lock up the wheels isn't necessarily more than the engine can produce, it is however all the force required to stop the car if the engine wasn't outputting maximum power.

Comment Re:"The" cause (Score 1) 690

The brake booster for power brakes has a check valve to keep existing vacuum within the booster even if the engine's wide open or off. There should be enough vacuum to apply the brakes two or three times before the vacuum runs out. Try getting in your car and (without starting the engine) apply the brakes a few times. You should feel them get "hard" after a few times when the vacuum assist is depleted.

And even after that they will still work, you're just now hydraulically linked from pedal to brake pistons.

Comment Re:Right answer (Score 1) 690

Turning off the engine I can understand - you lose your power steering and brakes, but neutral is an important safety feature. Are there really cars out there you can't put into neutral???

Except that steering and brakes don't stop working when the engine is off, however you do not have hydraulic boosts to either and no ABS. So yeah, you have to press harder on the pedal and it takes more force to steer, but both still work and shouldn't be a reason for not allowing you to turn off the engine.

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