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   Tim R to bruce bowser   
   Re: kill switch   
   04 May 23 07:06:15   
   
   From: timothy42bach@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, April 30, 2023 at 3:41:39 PM UTC-4, bruce bowser wrote:   
   > > >> the successor of the big red "emergency stop" button that can be    
   > > >> found anywhere there is large moving machinery. It cuts the power to   
   the    
   > > >> whole area.    
   > > >    
   > > >Not just moving machinery, lots of electrical equipment have them.    
   > > And data centers.    
   >    
   > Why not for "mainframes, servers, routers, desktops, laptops and phones?    
   >    
   > > >(On one machine I worked on, I think I counted at least 8 different    
   > > >emergency stop buttons.)   
      
   Where I worked the shunt trip took care of that.     
      
   Sometimes inadvertently.   
      
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