It appears they had developed a system whose job it was is to inform the pilot if the flight control system was receiving erroneous sensor data. The two recent crashes did not have this safety feature installed. Now as to WHY a system to ensure maximum safety isn't required by regulation rather than being a billable option is beyond me.
Yes, it asks them to press 7, audibly. If there is no response, or a wrong response, the call is dropped. If the response is correct, the call is let through and the number whitelisted. If a scammer gets through, I can STILL add them to the blacklist manually with *31 after I hang up on the call. 99% of the scam bots aren't intelligent enough to respond to a voice prompt for input. So the odds of them guessing correctly are irrelevant if the odds of them guessing at all are against. I will say that I never get those calls at all anymore.
That fuel is already going into our cars. If we can avoid pulling more out of the ground where it belongs and converting it to plastic in a landfill or in the ocean, that's still a win for the environment. This doesn't prevent us from moving off of fossil fuels, but it would lessen, or more realistically stave off having to drill for more quite as fast. Plus the added benefit of finally having a real use for all that waste.
My neighborhood only has one entrance and exit. There USED to be a road that ran behind a few businesses and cut through to the mall. Hundreds of cars a day streamed through back of the otherwise quiet neighborhood to use the secret shortcut to the mall that only they knew about.
The City placed a gate on the road, blocking it off. 18 years ago.
It is effectively rusted shut at this point. I reported this to both Google Maps and Waze through the app numerous times. After several years, I and all the delivery guys in my neighborhood still have to ignore the directions on the GPS until we are on city streets again. It's irritating as fuck but so is repeatedly submitting an edit request that is completely ignored.
I'd wager has has far north of $200k plus the PhD. Plus he got the chance to sit down with the president for a 1 on 1 about science education. Pretty solid cred if you ask me.
Did you watch the video? It digs into the very science we are discussing.
I pretty much lost my first year of college to Muddog, run out of the University of Florida. In fact, I still use my original avatar name as one of my logins all over the net. Then I moved on to Three Kingdoms once Muddog died out. Man, I loved it when they got the Portal client for windows with 3k. It was soooo much better than tinyfugue that we had been using.
Stuff You Should Know, perhaps? They just covered this last week. The fact that the Glomar Response came from this is just awesome. "I can neither confirm nor deny..."
I would wager that a lot of long haul trucking has already been displaced by the standardization of shipping containers. Great gobs of containers go from ship to rail across the country to distribution points far and wide. It's short runs that most truckers do nowadays. Trains are way way cheaper per ton/mile, but not nearly as convenient. The shipping companies are still going to need people on board to load / unload the freight and handle paperwork and damage.
I'm just not sure this is going to make truck drivers less relevant, they just won't need as much skill since they won't actually be driving.
I'm with you bro. When I first installed 7 the only thing I didn't like was the start menu and the control panel setup.
I've grown to love the start menu, and the control panel can be easily reverted.
If they had kept perfecting and perhaps even evolving Windows 7, maybe I'd have bought in by now. I'm not interested in trying to turn my desktop into a tablet.
That's just Ctrl-Shift-T in Chrome. It reopens up to the last 10 tabs that were closed. VERY handy feature for when you hit the wrong X. Many people freak out when they see me pull up those tabs they thought were closed though.
Hehe, I bought about $4.00 worth of capacitors from Mouser.com once and they mailed me at least 8 different 1.5" thick catalogs in the post for the next several years trying to get me to buy more. My TV only broke once. I don't NEED more. At least in the case of the emails all that was wasted are a few electrons.;)
The truth of the matter is that for a small business like that, curating the list takes time. Just letting the script run automatically once a week does not.
Ignore the AC who replied to you. Every iphone I've owned has had to have the charging port replaced before the phone was retired due to charging issues and I never tripped over the cord. Teeny tiny mechanical ports just suck. Add in the pocket lint, peppermint fragments, dirt, and all the other random shit that is in your pocket getting pushed into the port and it's a wonder they last as long as they do!
Those who have never used wireless charging just won't get it until they try it for a while. I just need to find a good, inexpensive Qi car charging mount and I'm all set.
It doesn't have to be wireless only. My wife's Galaxy S6 supports Qi wireless or micro usb. Plug in or set it down. User's choice.
There will still be a lightning connector or equivalent on the new iPhone just like there is now. You will still need usb connectivity. On a side note, I added Qi charging to my iPhone 6 with a $15 case that has a lightning port plug on the bottom and a coil and magnet embedded in the back.
I LOVE being able to plop my phone down on my desk charger, bringing up my podcast player and hitting play. The BT speakers have already connected and charging is a done deal. When I leave I just grab it and go. Awesome. The downside to the route I went is exactly your point. It's a pain to unplug my case to plug in a battery pack. Having wireless charging built in would solve this particular first world problem.
Well, I quit listening to radio ages ago, and have moved on to the following podcasts for my daily commute and listening throughout the day:
Stuff You Should Know
99% invisible
Aks Me Another
Common Sense with Dan Carlin
Hardcore History also with Dan Carlin
Judge John Hodgman
Stuff They Don't Want You to Kow
You Are Not So Smart
Criminal
Good Job, Brain
Hidden Brain
Invisibilia
Radiolab
Surprisingly Awesome
The Sporkful
Stuff You Missed in History Class
Podcasts to me are like a DVR for my radio. I can listen when and where I want and pause when I need to divert my attention elsewhere without missing anything.
I still HAVE my 300 baud C-64 modem. Still have he C-128, with dual 1571's, the light pen, koala pad, and exactly 2 working games. Lode Runner and Choplifter. Those were the two I had on cartridge. ALL the floppies were wiped by a lightning strike near the house.
Computers were so much more fun back then....
That's cool with me. I have already added Forbes.com to my personal block list for exactly this reason. There are PLENTY of places to read the same exact story that don't force me to watch their shitty ads.
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It appears they had developed a system whose job it was is to inform the pilot if the flight control system was receiving erroneous sensor data. The two recent crashes did not have this safety feature installed. Now as to WHY a system to ensure maximum safety isn't required by regulation rather than being a billable option is beyond me.
https://arstechnica.com/inform...
Yes, it asks them to press 7, audibly. If there is no response, or a wrong response, the call is dropped. If the response is correct, the call is let through and the number whitelisted. If a scammer gets through, I can STILL add them to the blacklist manually with *31 after I hang up on the call. 99% of the scam bots aren't intelligent enough to respond to a voice prompt for input. So the odds of them guessing correctly are irrelevant if the odds of them guessing at all are against. I will say that I never get those calls at all anymore.
That fuel is already going into our cars. If we can avoid pulling more out of the ground where it belongs and converting it to plastic in a landfill or in the ocean, that's still a win for the environment. This doesn't prevent us from moving off of fossil fuels, but it would lessen, or more realistically stave off having to drill for more quite as fast. Plus the added benefit of finally having a real use for all that waste.
https://xkcd.com/463//
My neighborhood only has one entrance and exit. There USED to be a road that ran behind a few businesses and cut through to the mall. Hundreds of cars a day streamed through back of the otherwise quiet neighborhood to use the secret shortcut to the mall that only they knew about.
The City placed a gate on the road, blocking it off. 18 years ago.
It is effectively rusted shut at this point. I reported this to both Google Maps and Waze through the app numerous times. After several years, I and all the delivery guys in my neighborhood still have to ignore the directions on the GPS until we are on city streets again. It's irritating as fuck but so is repeatedly submitting an edit request that is completely ignored.
I'd wager has has far north of $200k plus the PhD. Plus he got the chance to sit down with the president for a 1 on 1 about science education. Pretty solid cred if you ask me. Did you watch the video? It digs into the very science we are discussing.
I pretty much lost my first year of college to Muddog, run out of the University of Florida. In fact, I still use my original avatar name as one of my logins all over the net. Then I moved on to Three Kingdoms once Muddog died out. Man, I loved it when they got the Portal client for windows with 3k. It was soooo much better than tinyfugue that we had been using.
That reminds me of when the Onion did a great article the Taco Bell morning after burrito, the Contraceptimelt.
https://www.theonion.com/taco-bell-launches-new-morning-after-burrito-1819564251
Stuff You Should Know, perhaps? They just covered this last week. The fact that the Glomar Response came from this is just awesome. "I can neither confirm nor deny ..."
Hey, that's from a Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie skit!
Total protonic reversal.
Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.
God I miss being 12.
True Dat. ;8^)
I would wager that a lot of long haul trucking has already been displaced by the standardization of shipping containers. Great gobs of containers go from ship to rail across the country to distribution points far and wide. It's short runs that most truckers do nowadays. Trains are way way cheaper per ton/mile, but not nearly as convenient. The shipping companies are still going to need people on board to load / unload the freight and handle paperwork and damage.
I'm just not sure this is going to make truck drivers less relevant, they just won't need as much skill since they won't actually be driving.
I'm with you bro. When I first installed 7 the only thing I didn't like was the start menu and the control panel setup.
I've grown to love the start menu, and the control panel can be easily reverted.
If they had kept perfecting and perhaps even evolving Windows 7, maybe I'd have bought in by now. I'm not interested in trying to turn my desktop into a tablet.
That's just Ctrl-Shift-T in Chrome. It reopens up to the last 10 tabs that were closed. VERY handy feature for when you hit the wrong X. Many people freak out when they see me pull up those tabs they thought were closed though.
Fun stuff!
Hehe, I bought about $4.00 worth of capacitors from Mouser.com once and they mailed me at least 8 different 1.5" thick catalogs in the post for the next several years trying to get me to buy more. My TV only broke once. I don't NEED more. At least in the case of the emails all that was wasted are a few electrons. ;)
The truth of the matter is that for a small business like that, curating the list takes time. Just letting the script run automatically once a week does not.
Ignore the AC who replied to you. Every iphone I've owned has had to have the charging port replaced before the phone was retired due to charging issues and I never tripped over the cord. Teeny tiny mechanical ports just suck. Add in the pocket lint, peppermint fragments, dirt, and all the other random shit that is in your pocket getting pushed into the port and it's a wonder they last as long as they do!
Those who have never used wireless charging just won't get it until they try it for a while. I just need to find a good, inexpensive Qi car charging mount and I'm all set.
It doesn't have to be wireless only. My wife's Galaxy S6 supports Qi wireless or micro usb. Plug in or set it down. User's choice.
There will still be a lightning connector or equivalent on the new iPhone just like there is now. You will still need usb connectivity. On a side note, I added Qi charging to my iPhone 6 with a $15 case that has a lightning port plug on the bottom and a coil and magnet embedded in the back.
I LOVE being able to plop my phone down on my desk charger, bringing up my podcast player and hitting play. The BT speakers have already connected and charging is a done deal. When I leave I just grab it and go. Awesome. The downside to the route I went is exactly your point. It's a pain to unplug my case to plug in a battery pack. Having wireless charging built in would solve this particular first world problem.
And now those two have been added to my list as well.
Thanks!
Well, I quit listening to radio ages ago, and have moved on to the following podcasts for my daily commute and listening throughout the day:
Stuff You Should Know
99% invisible
Aks Me Another
Common Sense with Dan Carlin
Hardcore History also with Dan Carlin
Judge John Hodgman
Stuff They Don't Want You to Kow
You Are Not So Smart
Criminal
Good Job, Brain
Hidden Brain
Invisibilia
Radiolab
Surprisingly Awesome
The Sporkful
Stuff You Missed in History Class
Podcasts to me are like a DVR for my radio. I can listen when and where I want and pause when I need to divert my attention elsewhere without missing anything.
That's referred to as Snarge.
U.S. law, Israeli company. I would assume they wouldn't have to follow U.S. law.
Naw man. Back then the porn was 512x512 and 32 colors. Downloads were still pretty quick. ;)
I still HAVE my 300 baud C-64 modem. Still have he C-128, with dual 1571's, the light pen, koala pad, and exactly 2 working games. Lode Runner and Choplifter. Those were the two I had on cartridge. ALL the floppies were wiped by a lightning strike near the house. Computers were so much more fun back then....
That's cool with me. I have already added Forbes.com to my personal block list for exactly this reason. There are PLENTY of places to read the same exact story that don't force me to watch their shitty ads.