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Comment: Re:We can thank corporate America (Score 1) 281

by brainboyz (#47391965) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Often Should You Change Jobs?

Just a word of warning: My current coworkers have been on the job for 8, 12, 15, and 17 years respectively. Three of the four are idiots, resistant to change, and like doing things backward because it's comfortable (we're still using Classic ASP and VBScript for our webpages, exposed SQL server, build 70% of queries in code, filter data in code loops instead of bulk where clauses). Sometimes, they have no choice but stay because they're too incompetent to move on and the manager is too dumb or spineless to fire them.

Comment: Re:Ethanol IS a scam (Score 2) 432

by brainboyz (#47088551) Attached to: Has the Ethanol Threat Manifested In the US?

As someone with one of those trucks destroyed by ultra-low sulfur diesel, it's true. If I don't include additive with every tank, I'm risking a costly injection pump replacement. Older injection pumps relied on the fuel as a lubricant internally and the ultra-low sulfur diesel doesn't provide that. Older trucks are either using additive, or have had a $1500+ repair to upgrade/replace the injection pump. That's more than some of those trucks are worth.

Comment: Re:Yes! No more mandates! (Score 1) 584

You mean space shuttles and naval ships that have an army of support engineers constantly maintaining them at very high cost? Or vehicles where electronics failure generally isn't life threatening and failure modes are taken into account which lead to the electronics doing nothing?

And jamming the signal doesn't require a lot of time. There would be a limited number of chips driving the technology with a known frequency list. Easy enough to create a jammer.

Comment: Re:Let it die (Score 5, Interesting) 510

by brainboyz (#46709929) Attached to: How Cochlear Implants Are Being Blamed For Killing Deaf Culture

