Pilots already know how convert between magnetic and geographical headings
An operator of any critical equipment that could cause damage or injury can likely do a lot of things, but humans are fallible. The ultimate goal is to take as little attention away from the immediate situation at hand as possible.
It doesn't matter if you're flying a plane or changing setpoints on gas compressor, for safety you don't rely on anyone thinking.
In aviation things are constantly changing anyway. That's one of the reasons airlines adopted electronic charts on iPads. When you're dealing with something as descriptive as angles the only confusion you could possibly create is by not updating the description to reflect the actual situation.
Renaming runway Bob to runway Joe creates confusion. Renaming runway 29 to runway 30 when your instruments will say on them 300 degrees when you're on approach does not.
They don't need to move 10degrees, they just need to move 1degree when your policy is to round to nearest. That's the problem with rounding. The difference may be represented as 13 and 14, but the actual difference could be 13.4999 and 13.5000. As soon as you round something you lose the information underneath.
Yes but the interesting part here is just how many devices are affected. The Slashdot story recently talked about TP-Link's Archer router. I'm experiencing it on a top of the line D-Link. A quick search of Reddit and some other forums find similar reports across the board, including ASUS, Apple's Airports, and... for a proper piece of irony Google's own WiFi router.
What is happening here is that home routers aren't resistant to denial of service due to scenarios that the programmers didn't expect (DoS from inside your own network using a protocol and transmission method that is normally run at an incredibly low rate).
What is warranty other than the vendor will provide you something working. Yes it is a warranty claim. The fix to the claim is not to send your stuff in, but rather to update the firmware.
The main reason that I haven't enabled 2-factor on my account is that U.S. cellular carriers charge not only for sent messages but also for received messages.
if I take the plane, I have to pay more than that difference to get to the airport in London
I know, this gives me the shits the cost of trains to and from the airport are a significant portion of the ticket cost. Fortunately my head office is about 3miles from Heathrow.:-)
It comes down what matters to you. Last time I went to Paris I also took the Thalys because I wanted to work and sit comfortably rather than stand in a security checkin queue. But when I go to our head office in London it takes me longer to get from the city centre than it does to get to the office. Last time I flew with a colleague we both booked separately, he booked the "cheapest" option and ended up in London city, we both left at the same time. By the time he got out to us he had spent more on his trip in total flying a budget airline vs my full fare, AND I had lunch waiting for him. People often forget to look at the cost of getting too and from airports. Which leads me to...
If going to amsterdam by air the train from Schipol is free
Other than programming the ECU all the mechanical parts are serviceable
The only thing a person is capable of doing without detailed knowhow is to keep *some* of their fluids topped up. The remainder requires knowledge and tools. Accepting that you can change your head gasket despite the many steps, care, torque wrench requirement, etc but then claiming that the battery in a modern phone can't be serviced because you don't have a guitar pick, a hot water bottle and a $1 ebay pentalobe screwdriver is just you being dense. The iPhone battery even has a pull tab on the connector for easy swapping.
Unless you're Michael J Fox, you can do this yourself.
Car batteries have a core charge, they pay YOU for the old one.
Not even remotely. They may pay YOU in YOUR area for them. For me it would be a 25min drive to the refuse station where they have a collection box.
Minecraft has several modules in the code.org website targeting elementary age kids
Exactly. Thowing something out, slapping an educational label on it, and calling it a day does not make something a success, much less promotion worthy. Just because a few kids have fun playing it doesn't mean their attempts have been incredibly lame.
Adding to my previous reply, you mentioned based on your unqualified opinion they may have made it back to shore. Unfortunately that's the same opinion of most people who get pulled out of the water. Very few people are able to recognize signs that they are in trouble until it's waaaaay too late.
There's been cases of lifeguards rushing into water to save drowning children while their parents were right next to them not realising they were in distress. It's a hard thing to differentiate too. Something as simple as a head bobbing in and out of water: is the person doing breaststroke or fatigued enough that they can't consistently kick?
Better safe than sorry. The stories I saw on this said that the swimmers who were rescued were fine showing only signs of fatigue.
A lot of rescues are done for reasons not needing a rescue. Question: 2 swimmers are 700m from the shore in 3m swells and someone worried has reported them. What do you as a lifesaver do?
Frankly dropping a pod from a drone sounds like a better alternative than getting a team of 2 people to swim / boat out. This has happened to me frequently. I grew up on the beach but now live in Europe where people's ability to swim leaves a bit to be desired. I was happily swimming down the coast in the north sea when I got picked up by lifesavers just because someone was worried about me.
When interviewed the boys said they were not drowning but distressed because the drone is used to spot sharks and it scared them.
Completely irrelevant. They were reported to life savers by others which prompted a response. Whether or not they were drowning doesn't change that 2 people were in 3 meter swells some 700m off the coast. One way or the other they would have been fetched by lifesavers, the difference is the response time of the drone was much faster than traditionally launching the boat or worse, swimming out on a board.
It's also worth noting that it has been a nasty few weeks for drownings in Australia. Whether or not they were in trouble or practicing Olympic swimmers they would have been rescued or "rescued" one way or the other.
Phones don't just shutdown because of overcurrent from old batteries. Phones shutdown due to poor battery system design.
Protip: If you can put enough power into your phone to fully charge it in an hour, you can pull that current out at the same rate if not much higher.
Stop excusing Apple's fuckups.
Posted while sitting next to a 3 year old Galaxy S5 which works just fine except that the battery only lasts about 20min if I use it for navigation because it's just that quite fucked. But hey it doesn't reboot, and there's no reason for it to.
Except they didn't do that. Even before the newer discounts the cost of a complete battery replacement including labour was $79 from an apple store, or about $40 from your local phone shop. The new battery complete with install costs 8%-15% of the cost of a new phone. If that pushes you towards new then you are either biased towards a new phone anyway and wouldn't buy a replacement battery in the first place, or you're incredibly stupid.
You can fix the iPhone battery yourself. It's actually incredibly easy and few people screw it up on apple devices even first go. If you buy an aftermarket battery you'll likely also get a complete kit with tools and instructions.
I didn't know Minecraft had a boss. I mean buying something for a fortune, then doing nothing with it other than failing to get it into schools as some form of education didn't seem like something worthy of needing a boss to oversee, much less praise that boss enough to promote their failure.
You're describing a non-issue while ignoring the real issue.
Let's Encrypt works by scripting. If you're doing it manually you're doing it wrong. The problem should be scripted around. However.... the real issue is that you can't issue a certificate to an IP address or to local domains. The problem isn't Lets Encrypt, the problem is there's literally no one who would give you the certificate you need.
What is needed is either some protocol change to allow this to be done in a different way, or some simple and and universal easy method to run your own CA for these purposes along with the ability to upload the cert. Or maybe devices should come with a universal certificate that never expires and on first access needs to be manually imported. Think of it like SSH.
Slashdot Mirror
Pilots already know how convert between magnetic and geographical headings
An operator of any critical equipment that could cause damage or injury can likely do a lot of things, but humans are fallible. The ultimate goal is to take as little attention away from the immediate situation at hand as possible.
It doesn't matter if you're flying a plane or changing setpoints on gas compressor, for safety you don't rely on anyone thinking.
it seems more confusing to change everything
In aviation things are constantly changing anyway. That's one of the reasons airlines adopted electronic charts on iPads. When you're dealing with something as descriptive as angles the only confusion you could possibly create is by not updating the description to reflect the actual situation.
Renaming runway Bob to runway Joe creates confusion. Renaming runway 29 to runway 30 when your instruments will say on them 300 degrees when you're on approach does not.
The magnetic poles haven't shifted by 10 degrees
They don't need to move 10degrees, they just need to move 1degree when your policy is to round to nearest. That's the problem with rounding. The difference may be represented as 13 and 14, but the actual difference could be 13.4999 and 13.5000. As soon as you round something you lose the information underneath.
Yes but the interesting part here is just how many devices are affected. The Slashdot story recently talked about TP-Link's Archer router. I'm experiencing it on a top of the line D-Link. A quick search of Reddit and some other forums find similar reports across the board, including ASUS, Apple's Airports, and ... for a proper piece of irony Google's own WiFi router.
What is happening here is that home routers aren't resistant to denial of service due to scenarios that the programmers didn't expect (DoS from inside your own network using a protocol and transmission method that is normally run at an incredibly low rate).
anyone applying these fixes deserve what they get
Security?
What is warranty other than the vendor will provide you something working. Yes it is a warranty claim. The fix to the claim is not to send your stuff in, but rather to update the firmware.
The main reason that I haven't enabled 2-factor on my account is that U.S. cellular carriers charge not only for sent messages but also for received messages.
Wow I feel like I just timetravelled to the 90s!
You'll get the last laugh in a few months when it's completely worthless :)
Not everyone wants to give Google more personal info -- working phone #, alternate email, etc and so forth.
It's cute that you don't think Google knows this already.
There's nothing theoretical about it. All three bugs had working proof of concepts published on the day of release.
I'd like to see Einstein explain bitcoin to his grandma.
It's a tulip made of numbers! And my grandma loves tulips so she would be an early bitcoin adopter.
The ability to understand something when explained is far easier than the ability to discover something unprompted.
I hope you realise the significance of the fact I had to explain this to you. You should feel a special type of stupid right now.
Any idiot can publish a paper, but I have yet to see one of these on the road: https://www.theinquirer.net/w-...
if I take the plane, I have to pay more than that difference to get to the airport in London
I know, this gives me the shits the cost of trains to and from the airport are a significant portion of the ticket cost. Fortunately my head office is about 3miles from Heathrow. :-)
It comes down what matters to you. Last time I went to Paris I also took the Thalys because I wanted to work and sit comfortably rather than stand in a security checkin queue. But when I go to our head office in London it takes me longer to get from the city centre than it does to get to the office. Last time I flew with a colleague we both booked separately, he booked the "cheapest" option and ended up in London city, we both left at the same time. By the time he got out to us he had spent more on his trip in total flying a budget airline vs my full fare, AND I had lunch waiting for him. People often forget to look at the cost of getting too and from airports. Which leads me to ...
If going to amsterdam by air the train from Schipol is free
WHAT! Where do you see this?
Many places (in the US) do a free install if you buy a car battery from them.
Same with most places where you buy a phone battery. Also you forgot the "" around "free".
Also, there is a core charge on car batteries (they give you money when you return the old one)
Not everywhere.
Ratchet extensions are super cheap
A pentalobe screwdriver is $1 off ebay, the rest of the equipment you have in your home already.
Other than programming the ECU all the mechanical parts are serviceable
The only thing a person is capable of doing without detailed knowhow is to keep *some* of their fluids topped up. The remainder requires knowledge and tools. Accepting that you can change your head gasket despite the many steps, care, torque wrench requirement, etc but then claiming that the battery in a modern phone can't be serviced because you don't have a guitar pick, a hot water bottle and a $1 ebay pentalobe screwdriver is just you being dense. The iPhone battery even has a pull tab on the connector for easy swapping.
Unless you're Michael J Fox, you can do this yourself.
Car batteries have a core charge, they pay YOU for the old one.
Not even remotely. They may pay YOU in YOUR area for them. For me it would be a 25min drive to the refuse station where they have a collection box.
Minecraft has several modules in the code.org website targeting elementary age kids
Exactly. Thowing something out, slapping an educational label on it, and calling it a day does not make something a success, much less promotion worthy. Just because a few kids have fun playing it doesn't mean their attempts have been incredibly lame.
Adding to my previous reply, you mentioned based on your unqualified opinion they may have made it back to shore. Unfortunately that's the same opinion of most people who get pulled out of the water. Very few people are able to recognize signs that they are in trouble until it's waaaaay too late.
There's been cases of lifeguards rushing into water to save drowning children while their parents were right next to them not realising they were in distress. It's a hard thing to differentiate too. Something as simple as a head bobbing in and out of water: is the person doing breaststroke or fatigued enough that they can't consistently kick?
Better safe than sorry. The stories I saw on this said that the swimmers who were rescued were fine showing only signs of fatigue.
A lot of rescues are done for reasons not needing a rescue. Question: 2 swimmers are 700m from the shore in 3m swells and someone worried has reported them. What do you as a lifesaver do?
Frankly dropping a pod from a drone sounds like a better alternative than getting a team of 2 people to swim / boat out. This has happened to me frequently. I grew up on the beach but now live in Europe where people's ability to swim leaves a bit to be desired. I was happily swimming down the coast in the north sea when I got picked up by lifesavers just because someone was worried about me.
When interviewed the boys said they were not drowning but distressed because the drone is used to spot sharks and it scared them.
Completely irrelevant. They were reported to life savers by others which prompted a response. Whether or not they were drowning doesn't change that 2 people were in 3 meter swells some 700m off the coast. One way or the other they would have been fetched by lifesavers, the difference is the response time of the drone was much faster than traditionally launching the boat or worse, swimming out on a board.
It's also worth noting that it has been a nasty few weeks for drownings in Australia. Whether or not they were in trouble or practicing Olympic swimmers they would have been rescued or "rescued" one way or the other.
Phones don't just shutdown because of overcurrent from old batteries. Phones shutdown due to poor battery system design.
Protip: If you can put enough power into your phone to fully charge it in an hour, you can pull that current out at the same rate if not much higher.
Stop excusing Apple's fuckups.
Posted while sitting next to a 3 year old Galaxy S5 which works just fine except that the battery only lasts about 20min if I use it for navigation because it's just that quite fucked. But hey it doesn't reboot, and there's no reason for it to.
Except they didn't do that. Even before the newer discounts the cost of a complete battery replacement including labour was $79 from an apple store, or about $40 from your local phone shop. The new battery complete with install costs 8%-15% of the cost of a new phone. If that pushes you towards new then you are either biased towards a new phone anyway and wouldn't buy a replacement battery in the first place, or you're incredibly stupid.
You can fix the iPhone battery yourself. It's actually incredibly easy and few people screw it up on apple devices even first go. If you buy an aftermarket battery you'll likely also get a complete kit with tools and instructions.
Like the "low power mode" that is toggleable on Android handsets?
I didn't know Minecraft had a boss. I mean buying something for a fortune, then doing nothing with it other than failing to get it into schools as some form of education didn't seem like something worthy of needing a boss to oversee, much less praise that boss enough to promote their failure.
You're describing a non-issue while ignoring the real issue.
Let's Encrypt works by scripting. If you're doing it manually you're doing it wrong. The problem should be scripted around. However .... the real issue is that you can't issue a certificate to an IP address or to local domains. The problem isn't Lets Encrypt, the problem is there's literally no one who would give you the certificate you need.
What is needed is either some protocol change to allow this to be done in a different way, or some simple and and universal easy method to run your own CA for these purposes along with the ability to upload the cert. Or maybe devices should come with a universal certificate that never expires and on first access needs to be manually imported. Think of it like SSH.