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A comment on Reboot Your Dreamliner Every 248 Days to Avoid Integer Overflow (2015). Parent comment

Re:Reboot Your Dreamliner Every 248 Days to Avoid Integer Ov... by breatheoften on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @01:05PM (#17910664)
This seems like just a mind boggingly bad architecture — is there any real reason that a system should be designed this way or is this organization simply the result of poor thinking applied incrementally to inconvenient realities?
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Re:Reboot Your Dreamliner Every 248 Days to Avoid Integer Ov... by LoSboccacc on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @01:10PM (#17910709)
well it's real convenient to have all faults available from the obd port, plus it's mandatory in some countries.
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Re:Reboot Your Dreamliner Every 248 Days to Avoid Integer Ov... by analbeads01 on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @01:22PM (#17910853)
The obd port does not preclude multiple can buses and some cars have at least two accessible from the port
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