RS-232 devices may be classified as Data Terminal Equipment (DTE) or Data Circuit-terminating Equipment (DCE); this defines at each device which wires will be sending and receiving each signal. According to the standard, male connectors have DTE pin functions, and female connectors have DCE pin functions.
Macaulay Culkin is NOT dead: Rumors about the former child star revealed to be false. A story that child star Macaulay Culkin had been found dead has proven to be false. Just seven months after a similar rumor found its way on the Internet, some outlets reported that the body of the Home Alone star was discovered in his New York City Apartment on Friday.
After years out of the public eye, Culkin has been blogosphere and tabloid fodder since the National Enquirer reported Friday the actor had only six months to live because of his drug habit. The unsubstantiated story quickly went viral and had fans worried that Culkin really was spending as much as $6,000 a month on heroin and highly addictive painkillers such as oxycodone.