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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 01/07/2018 11:26 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Bill Gunshannon  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 01/06/2018 08:07 PM, nospam wrote:
>>>
>>> an autonomous vehicle will see what the cars ahead are doing, as well
>>> as communicating with them via v2v (which doesn't require autonomy).
>>
>> Wow, it's gonna communicate with my MGB!  Cool.
>>
>> Oh wait, your going to try to ban everything else including
>> the hundreds of thousands of classic and antique cars.  Glad
>> I don't have to live in your world.  I still kinda like this
>> strange concept called freedom.
> 
> My ex is flying a 1930s Stearman aircraft.  Works just fine in the
> automated air traffic system.  The plane has no electrical system, but
> she has a handheld radio and a transponder in a little box with a battery
> that she straps under the back seat before taking off.  Without the
> transponder she is almost completely invisible; there is a little primary
> radar return from the engine but because the aircraft is all wood and
> fabric the radar cross section is smaller than a flock of geese.
> 
> If we have an automated traffic system for automobiles, you'll see the
> same sort of thing.  Portable transponders that identify the vehicle
> position and squit that they are not under automated control so that
> other vehicles can leave extra room around them.  They'll work fine on
> your MGB.  Which is more than I can say for the rest of the electrics
> in those cars.
> --scott
> 

The electrics are not as bad as legend has it but, again,
with todays technology all of it can be fixed.  I have a
modern distributor with the whole electronic ignition
built-in.  I am going to put a headlight relay in this
spring to brighten up the headlights and take the strain
of the complicated (and expensive) light switch.  I am
going to change all the other lights to LEDs making them
brighter and drawing considerably less power from the
system thus taking the strain of the alternator and
battery.  I already changed the carburetor to one that
is considerably more efficient than the tractor carb
they came from the factory with.  Trust me, they were
never as bad as the legends.  Before it went into storage
(for 10 year!) I regularly drove it thousands of miles.
I made regular trips to Canada (where I was a member of a
British Car Club) and I drove it numerous times to GA
for my Army trips to Ft. Gordon.  A very reliable and
fun ride.  But the more I think of it, the more I
think it  might be even more fun as an all electric.
I wonder, does Lucas make an electric drive?  :-)

bill