It seems like the only chance to help him was to take a risk and douse him with water before he got to his car. Maybe he is fine and that makes him mad as hell, but if a person appears to be stumbling and making no sense there aren’t many medical conditions that are made worse by being wet and a clear one that is…

I think the real beating happens in the top percent of charge where one is trying to drive the last of the chemical reaction with most of the reactants already removed. Check to see how warm a battery is when on the charger to see how far along the process is. I think this is why lithium cells go from constant current…

Yup. Plants grown in one desert to feed cattle grown in another desert.

Unless a wall and a blindfold are involved there are any number of others ready to step into the vacancy. Considering the conviction wasn’t towing related the rest of the tow companies remain at the ready.

Little Bobby Tables would like a talk with the “just paste and don’t look” guy. It isn’t just text contained in the icon, it’s Reuters supplying alternative text during the copy request and that text could be anything.

There was a time anyone could go to a gate without a ticket to meet arrivals.

Are you out of NVDA yet or do you think they will recover?

They honk like that because their ability to avoid running people down is not perfect, so they are making it everyone else’s problem to avoid them. This makes some sense on vehicles where the driver has significant areas that are blocked from view, which is where the back-up beeper comes in. There is no excuse for…

This is the sort of careless error that can get people killed. What if, instead of a random person being falsely identified for having drunk sex, it was a person banned for making a bomb threat - and now that person is becoming very agitated at not being allowed near an airplane? What are the police told to fill them…

Jail time often means loss of job, loss of family, loss of housing, and the chance of never getting any of that back for those without wealth - jail time could be a lifetime sentence for what is cured by spending money on a tow truck and maybe some oil sopping.

The big fine makes sense; a prison sentence does not. Kudos for the warning letter though. It makes an appropriate point.

There’s a reason for the chinstrap on a helmet. 

They are at anchor, which means they are likely in a spot where they are out of the way of moving traffic. Near harbors there isn’t nearly as much room as one would think because the sea floor needs to be suitable to keep the anchor from moving. Tides, crap on the bottom, natural gas pipelines or electrical cables or…

Lack of warranty is the cause for the excitement.

Boeing did not respond to a media query about why this capability was removed for the crew flight test.

Gold (the metal) is a good IR reflective material, hence the use on astronaut visors. Sufficiently thin films are also transmissive of the light in the blue part of the spectrum.

I think everyone would agree that getting crushed in a gigapress would result in cardiac arrest, but be much harder to confirm. Quicker than being locked into a tuna can processing machine and being pressure cooked to death, if one is concerned about horrors on a factory floor. 

If a fire originates inside a door, far more has gone wrong than opening the door will deal with. This sounds like an underhood fire taking out the ECU which then takes down the comms buss and therefore communication with the door control computer and there should not even be such a thing, but it should act through an…

That’s not a quality problem - that is a fundamental design failure. The door latch should always have a mechanical linkage directly to the door release handle. If there is some need to retract the window to clear a seal, that’s what sensors on the handle are for. There’s no need to have a computer program between the…

It was a chance encounter in a production facility for which no article exists. The developer showed me the processor data sheet (really more of a book) that had a section that discussed wait states and that the unit would operate with 0 by default. Perhaps there was some application that no external memory was used…