Defcon hasn't been about Defcon for a long time now. Since, what, Defcon 5 or 6? Ever since they moved out to that dumb Alexis hotel.
The REAL conference is Blackhat Briefings, which goes on during the week and is attended by serious people. Then, on the weekend, we bring the freaks out for your amusement and cap off Blackhat with Defcon. It's all about $$$$$ for Darktangent.
The initial impact shattered the empennage aft of the rear pressure bulkhead. All modern passenger have a rear bulkhead and pressure vessel built to near the same standards. This bulkhead did fracture, but it did not shear off - while the cabin was likely breached - the bulkhead retained most of its position.
Very likely the main gear was gone and at least one engine detached before the nose gear made contact with the ground. One main gear is on the piano keys, the other has been reported in the water. With all that energy expended and weight lost and the nose gear extended - those kept the plane in a nose up position as it started to skid down the runway. Dissipating a lot of energy in aerodynamic braking by the wings.
After 1,000 or less feet, the nose gear goes off the side of the runway and digs in. The aircraft starts to pivot around. One wing tip dragging. The aircraft does a near 400 degree turn landing flat after about 270 degrees and skids to a stop. During the spin, we can see that neither wing still has an engine attached.
There was never any major force on the wings to break them away from the fuselage.
It would take only one minor change in an impact point, a wing or engine or gear digging in - and the fuselage could have gone end over end and broken into many pieces, killing hundreds of passengers.
You can mock the author all you want. But if he acted as you suggest, and took the makerbot's time seriously, he would be dismissed as either a try-hard or a conservative.
Cash is dirty, having been in hands of lowest castes of the society, and it may carry diseases.
What the fuck? Did you just actually say that? What sort of bullshit is this? Are you a time traveler from India circa 1840, or are you just a ignorant, bigoted prick?
Ah, yes, the luxury of looking at things in the modern perspective without any context. Luxury, isn't it?
The "terrorist threat" law has been on the books in Texas for decades. It has zero to do with 9/11 or Muslims. But go ahead and keep your "thought crime" cozy to the chest...it makes you feel warm at night, doesn't it? Because a spam blog that helps you find lawyers is right where to go when you need information. Let me guess...you clicked on it because it was the first link on Google, wasn't it? Sad, sad, sad.
Spoken like a true ignorant European. In fact, American toilet paper is top-class. Quilted, triple-ply, thick...it's like wiping your ass with a cloud. Go to other countries and you find out real fast just how low quality T.P. gets. That's not even counting the places that put a roll on the dinner table for use as napkins.
Go ahead and try to start a factory in America today. Go ahead, I dare you. You'll be shut down by lawsuits before you ever break ground. There's a reason all of our production moved to China, and it's not just labor cost.
Are we still on the "ooh AmeriKKKa beer is shite, mate!" thing? Because that's total bullshit. AmeriKKKa has some of the best beers on the planet. Put that against that Belgian monk (Christian BAD BAD BAD) beer any day of the week in a blind test and come out a winner.
Read up, bro. "Inalienable" rights are dumb because people use them wrong, or make wrong decisions. The future is coercive paternalism, making the correct decisions for people who are too dumb to know right from wrong. The Enlightenment is on the way out. John Stuart Mill is yesterday's news. "We turn to a better approach, which is simply to save people from themselves by making certain courses of action illegal."
Sailing ships have been tried. They were in regular cargo service right up until the 50s. Sail was replaced by the motor vessel for a reason. If you think you can make it work, there is a shit-ton of money to be made right there.
Ah, yes, credentialism. Because only people with Ph.Ds should be allowed to have opinions. That's such a great idea for a functioning representative government.
A stint working at a university cleared me from ever thinking that people with doctorates are any more qualified than anyone else. Shit, these people sent me viruses, email hoaxes, and malware worms all the time.
What, you mean things would somehow have been better than "first flight to moon landing in 70 years"? Because that's already pretty damned good.
Those cursed Wright brothers! Trying to profit from their invention! Screw them for creating a working machine and then expecting to control the design!
No matter how many times I hear the "but he's making a statement!" argument, it never stops seeming retarded. You mean he's winning a symbolic victory? You can win all the symbolic victories you want - I'll take the real victories.
I see this attitude ALL THE TIME and it never fails to baffle me. Because someone thinks that China is the new boogeyman, that means that China must not be hacking at all. It's all about the all-powerful US government boogeyman instead! (newsflash, Obama is the good guy, the media is on his side these days)
"No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?"
-- George Orwell, "Animal Farm"
Going to buy a taxi license? You'll have to keep your car on the road 24/7 to pay for one of those. You can pull some crap with "ride sharing" applications but look for the power of government to shut this sort of thing down soon.
What's with this strange attitude? Since when does anyone have sympathy with blue-collar joes, much less out-and-out rednecks like truck drivers? These are the jocks who used to get laid with the cheerleaders and beat up nerds in high school. And here is Slashdot shedding a tear for them?
This strange form of denial is seen everywhere Chinese espionage is discussed. The person is utterly convinced that China is, in fact, not doing what is in its own best interest. No, that takes a back seat to boogeyman fear-mongering. Because I think it could possibly be so, then it must be. China couldn't possibly be behaving this way, because if it were so then I'd have to re-question some of my core beliefs.
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Defcon hasn't been about Defcon for a long time now. Since, what, Defcon 5 or 6? Ever since they moved out to that dumb Alexis hotel.
The REAL conference is Blackhat Briefings, which goes on during the week and is attended by serious people. Then, on the weekend, we bring the freaks out for your amusement and cap off Blackhat with Defcon. It's all about $$$$$ for Darktangent.
Then your developers quit because they didn't get the latest quad core goodness. Developers HATE working on anything but blazing-fast hardware.
The initial impact shattered the empennage aft of the rear pressure bulkhead. All modern passenger have a rear bulkhead and pressure vessel built to near the same standards. This bulkhead did fracture, but it did not shear off - while the cabin was likely breached - the bulkhead retained most of its position.
Very likely the main gear was gone and at least one engine detached before the nose gear made contact with the ground. One main gear is on the piano keys, the other has been reported in the water. With all that energy expended and weight lost and the nose gear extended - those kept the plane in a nose up position as it started to skid down the runway. Dissipating a lot of energy in aerodynamic braking by the wings.
After 1,000 or less feet, the nose gear goes off the side of the runway and digs in. The aircraft starts to pivot around. One wing tip dragging. The aircraft does a near 400 degree turn landing flat after about 270 degrees and skids to a stop. During the spin, we can see that neither wing still has an engine attached.
There was never any major force on the wings to break them away from the fuselage.
It would take only one minor change in an impact point, a wing or engine or gear digging in - and the fuselage could have gone end over end and broken into many pieces, killing hundreds of passengers.
Look, it's our old friend Tyranny, dressed in "I am better able to judge than you" clothes this time.
This has to be the most mentally confused post I've seen in quite some time.
First, because a long time ago something happened with farm workers means that today another event has some sort of relevance? I'm not seeing it here.
Second, cowpox is a virus, antibiotics cure bacterial infections. They weren't developed until the 1930s.
And this mental vomit is modded up to +4 Informative?!? WTF it has nothing to do with anything.
You can mock the author all you want. But if he acted as you suggest, and took the makerbot's time seriously, he would be dismissed as either a try-hard or a conservative.
There are too many people out there who cloak their racism in criticism of the Obama administration. Sorry, but you sure sound like one of them.
Cash is dirty, having been in hands of lowest castes of the society, and it may carry diseases.
What the fuck? Did you just actually say that? What sort of bullshit is this? Are you a time traveler from India circa 1840, or are you just a ignorant, bigoted prick?
Ah, yes, the luxury of looking at things in the modern perspective without any context. Luxury, isn't it?
The "terrorist threat" law has been on the books in Texas for decades. It has zero to do with 9/11 or Muslims. But go ahead and keep your "thought crime" cozy to the chest...it makes you feel warm at night, doesn't it? Because a spam blog that helps you find lawyers is right where to go when you need information. Let me guess...you clicked on it because it was the first link on Google, wasn't it? Sad, sad, sad.
Spoken like a true ignorant European. In fact, American toilet paper is top-class. Quilted, triple-ply, thick...it's like wiping your ass with a cloud. Go to other countries and you find out real fast just how low quality T.P. gets. That's not even counting the places that put a roll on the dinner table for use as napkins.
Go ahead and try to start a factory in America today. Go ahead, I dare you. You'll be shut down by lawsuits before you ever break ground. There's a reason all of our production moved to China, and it's not just labor cost.
Are we still on the "ooh AmeriKKKa beer is shite, mate!" thing? Because that's total bullshit. AmeriKKKa has some of the best beers on the planet. Put that against that Belgian monk (Christian BAD BAD BAD) beer any day of the week in a blind test and come out a winner.
Read up, bro. "Inalienable" rights are dumb because people use them wrong, or make wrong decisions. The future is coercive paternalism, making the correct decisions for people who are too dumb to know right from wrong. The Enlightenment is on the way out. John Stuart Mill is yesterday's news. "We turn to a better approach, which is simply to save people from themselves by making certain courses of action illegal."
Sailing ships have been tried. They were in regular cargo service right up until the 50s. Sail was replaced by the motor vessel for a reason. If you think you can make it work, there is a shit-ton of money to be made right there.
Ah, yes, credentialism. Because only people with Ph.Ds should be allowed to have opinions. That's such a great idea for a functioning representative government.
A stint working at a university cleared me from ever thinking that people with doctorates are any more qualified than anyone else. Shit, these people sent me viruses, email hoaxes, and malware worms all the time.
What, you mean things would somehow have been better than "first flight to moon landing in 70 years"? Because that's already pretty damned good.
Those cursed Wright brothers! Trying to profit from their invention! Screw them for creating a working machine and then expecting to control the design!
Is this just a knee-jerk, canned argument that gets posted by a bot when this topic comes up? I noticed the "authentic" spelling error.
What IP was violated? Trademark, copyright, or patent? In which jurisdiction did this white male backpacker register?
Nah, let's trot out the old tired meme again. Heck, it always works!
No matter how many times I hear the "but he's making a statement!" argument, it never stops seeming retarded. You mean he's winning a symbolic victory? You can win all the symbolic victories you want - I'll take the real victories.
I see this attitude ALL THE TIME and it never fails to baffle me. Because someone thinks that China is the new boogeyman, that means that China must not be hacking at all. It's all about the all-powerful US government boogeyman instead! (newsflash, Obama is the good guy, the media is on his side these days)
Because Google itself doesn't have to use Google Docs. That's why. It's for *users*.
the car is still yours for all intents and purposes.
All intensive purposes. You can thank me later for correcting you.
"No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?"
-- George Orwell, "Animal Farm"
Going to buy a taxi license? You'll have to keep your car on the road 24/7 to pay for one of those. You can pull some crap with "ride sharing" applications but look for the power of government to shut this sort of thing down soon.
What's with this strange attitude? Since when does anyone have sympathy with blue-collar joes, much less out-and-out rednecks like truck drivers? These are the jocks who used to get laid with the cheerleaders and beat up nerds in high school. And here is Slashdot shedding a tear for them?
This strange form of denial is seen everywhere Chinese espionage is discussed. The person is utterly convinced that China is, in fact, not doing what is in its own best interest. No, that takes a back seat to boogeyman fear-mongering. Because I think it could possibly be so, then it must be. China couldn't possibly be behaving this way, because if it were so then I'd have to re-question some of my core beliefs.