[Info-vax] Intel junk...Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

[Scott Dorsey]

nospam  <nospam at nospam.invalid> wrote:
>In article <ovKdnTJM6J68z8zHnZ2dnUU7-aHNnZ2d at giganews.com>, Ron C
><r.capik at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> My neighbor is a mechanic for a dealership. They send him to classes
>> for the latest updates and such. He's told some stories about the warnings
>> related to servicing electric cars. Most of the stories start with something
>> to the effect of "..if you touch THIS you're dead.."
>> Seems there's the potential for a lot of dead shade-tree mechanics, to say
>> nothing of the risks to EMTs responding to crashes.
>
>if you touch the wrong thing in a gas vehicle you could be dead too.

That's the basic thing.  People have had a century now to get used to gasoline
and learn how to prevent gasoline from exploding so easily.  It still happens
now and then, even with a century of technology and training.

It's going to take some time for people to learn the safety measures and
procedures for electric stuff.  It's scary, but no more scary than gasoline
was in 1910.

The really cool thing about electricity, and the thing that fascinated me
about it as a child, was that it follows rules and it follows them precisely.
If you know the rules and you pay attention to them, it's perfectly safe.  If
you do not, it's very dangerous.  
--scott


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