The prosecutor has made an utterly baseless interpretation of an audio recording that has never been released and has no corroborating evidence.
There is corroborating evidence. There's testimony from his ex, there's the torn up doctor's notes, there's data from ground control that indicate that the flight control system was set for a descent to 96 feet while flying over the Alps, attempts from the Marseille ground control to contact the pilot, and there's radar data tracking the plane until just before the crash.
Combine that with the data on the voice recorder, and try to come up with an alternative narrative that fits all of this.
There are plenty of air crash investigations where they reached a probable conclusion, but only after long and painstaking analysis of audio tapes. Some of these crashes could have reached a much earlier and more definitive conclusion if video was available.
Also, in this case, it would help remove some remaining doubt if you actually see the co-pilot push the door lock switch intentionally, or if he blocks the camera lenses.
Somebody putting duct tape on the lens, just before the crash, would have confirmed it was not an accident. So, the camera would not have been defeated.
You mean the guy who has no background at all in air crash investigation who has interpreted what he think he heard on a recording no one else has ever heard
Why do you believe the prosecutor was the first and only person to have listened to the recordings ?
The purpose of the black boxes is not to convince people who don't want to believe. The purpose is mainly to increase future safety. That can be done whether you believe or not.
A compromise could be the use of still photographs. Even with one photo per 10 seconds, it would give you a lot of extra information. As far as privacy, I would feel that the audio capture is a bigger invasion of privacy than a bunch of photographs.
We have plenty of 1x1 km areas on Earth that you can go mine for a lot less effort, but there's very little interest for most of them. On the moon, where everything will cost magnitudes more, mining is even less interesting.
If the US wants to go to Mars for more than a single short mission
They don't. The only (poor) reason to go to Mars is to plant a flag. Mars is a barren wasteland, with high radiation, low temperatures, almost no atmosphere, and no easily accessible materials or water. Apart from the coolness factor, there's nothing to be gained from having a few people walk on the surface.
Government economic advisers have been harping about the "dangers" of deflation for a long time
They aren't talking about a product, or a group of products getting cheaper due to improvements in efficiency. That's not a problem. On the contrary, that's very good.
The problem is when everything is dropping in price, including paychecks, and when interest rates are at 0% and still too high.
It also helps if at some point they decide to go after individual downloaders in court. If you can show the court that less heavy-handed tactics have been tried, and they didn't work, it is easier to get a conviction.
A 200W power supply may be 80% or 90% efficient when running at its design load of 150W, but when you want 5W in standby mode, you can easily get into the 50% or lower efficiency range.
For a few bucks more, they can add a separate standby power circuit, optimized for low power and high efficiency.
And 5W is probably perfectly reasonable for keeping SDRAM alive and refreshed
My phone, with 12Wh battery can easily stay alive for 48 hours, so that's 0.25W. Admittedly, it has less RAM, but on the other hand it's still connected to wireless networks, and running various apps in the background.
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Having your suspect pool reduced to 1 doesn't necessarily mean you have solved the case.
The prosecutor has made an utterly baseless interpretation of an audio recording that has never been released and has no corroborating evidence.
There is corroborating evidence. There's testimony from his ex, there's the torn up doctor's notes, there's data from ground control that indicate that the flight control system was set for a descent to 96 feet while flying over the Alps, attempts from the Marseille ground control to contact the pilot, and there's radar data tracking the plane until just before the crash.
Combine that with the data on the voice recorder, and try to come up with an alternative narrative that fits all of this.
For example if Malaysia airlines had cockpit video, it would not tell us who fired the missile and why
But it could still rule out some other possible explanations, making the missile scenario more likely.
There are plenty of air crash investigations where they reached a probable conclusion, but only after long and painstaking analysis of audio tapes. Some of these crashes could have reached a much earlier and more definitive conclusion if video was available.
Also, in this case, it would help remove some remaining doubt if you actually see the co-pilot push the door lock switch intentionally, or if he blocks the camera lenses.
They can go on strikes. Many airlines are already in financial dire straits, so they can't really afford too much trouble.
It's not exactly brain surgery, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You cannot leave earth or mars surface using an ion engine.
Somebody putting duct tape on the lens, just before the crash, would have confirmed it was not an accident. So, the camera would not have been defeated.
You mean the guy who has no background at all in air crash investigation who has interpreted what he think he heard on a recording no one else has ever heard
Why do you believe the prosecutor was the first and only person to have listened to the recordings ?
A French prosecutor who isn't an air crash investigator has given us a version of events that he believes happened on a recording we have never heard
So you don't believe the prosecutor ?
My neither, but if the pilots have strong feelings otherwise, a compromise is better than nothing.
We are finding out what happened. And it's the pilot that has assassinated his own character, as well as his passengers.
....and belief has absolutely nothing to do with it.
Sure it has. Plenty of evidence has been shown. You choose not to believe it.
The purpose of the black boxes is not to convince people who don't want to believe. The purpose is mainly to increase future safety. That can be done whether you believe or not.
That would tell you quite a bit about the cause.
A compromise could be the use of still photographs. Even with one photo per 10 seconds, it would give you a lot of extra information. As far as privacy, I would feel that the audio capture is a bigger invasion of privacy than a bunch of photographs.
I bet you could kill someone with an injection of this stuff.
Same is true for many things.
We have plenty of 1x1 km areas on Earth that you can go mine for a lot less effort, but there's very little interest for most of them. On the moon, where everything will cost magnitudes more, mining is even less interesting.
If the US wants to go to Mars for more than a single short mission
They don't. The only (poor) reason to go to Mars is to plant a flag. Mars is a barren wasteland, with high radiation, low temperatures, almost no atmosphere, and no easily accessible materials or water. Apart from the coolness factor, there's nothing to be gained from having a few people walk on the surface.
Government economic advisers have been harping about the "dangers" of deflation for a long time
They aren't talking about a product, or a group of products getting cheaper due to improvements in efficiency. That's not a problem. On the contrary, that's very good.
The problem is when everything is dropping in price, including paychecks, and when interest rates are at 0% and still too high.
But that's not what they are talking about here. Those "filament" lamps are nothing but a row of LEDs on a strip.
They're probably talking about this, which has nothing to do with filaments: http://optics.org/news/6/2/6
It also helps if at some point they decide to go after individual downloaders in court. If you can show the court that less heavy-handed tactics have been tried, and they didn't work, it is easier to get a conviction.
Not a whole $12.
Wait.
"ANNUALLY" YOU SAY?
Per device.
A 200W power supply may be 80% or 90% efficient when running at its design load of 150W, but when you want 5W in standby mode, you can easily get into the 50% or lower efficiency range.
For a few bucks more, they can add a separate standby power circuit, optimized for low power and high efficiency.
And 5W is probably perfectly reasonable for keeping SDRAM alive and refreshed
My phone, with 12Wh battery can easily stay alive for 48 hours, so that's 0.25W. Admittedly, it has less RAM, but on the other hand it's still connected to wireless networks, and running various apps in the background.
A DVR works better with a mechanical disk anyway with a fixed bit rate in a continuous motion access
Not really. My DVR can record 2 different channels, while playing back a 3rd one. This would be much better suited to SSD.
Forcing people to retrain to another field will certainly broaden their knowledge of the world
Another field like selling drugs, prostitution or armed robbery ?