Agree, what a screw up it is, just today I read about the latest accident, that MCAS was engaged several times just before the crash even after it had been deactivated.
Always fond of Boeing, fully aware that nobody's perfect (Airbus also had their issues with overriding pilots decisions - yet not on such a scale), honestly have to say that this crack in their reputation cannot be easily repaired.
Finally about the way it was handled: FAA let Boeing engineers verify their own work, reports about MCAS problems were coming long before accidents, but it took 2 crashes and hundreds lost lives to do something about it - disgusting - and the whole reason for MCAS was to make the new plane feel like the old one, because they didn't bother to properly design it.
I think they mean, edge of the observable universe.
It's not so simple, as the light has limited speed anything we see is from the past, so there's a limit we can see even though the Universe might be infinite in size, because it's not infinite in time - the ultimate observable edge is the CMB (Cosmic Mircrowave Background radiation), we cannot see anything beyond because the Universe was opaque before.
So there's a point in saying "at the edge of the Universe", it means at the very early beginning, which in this case (this survey results) is very significant for cosmological theories about formation of galaxies.
The best way is to try, most cloud providers have trial accounts.
Run your test for a while to check functionality and reliability to have an informed personal experience.
I think this is pretty much it. What we are seeing here is the 1% trying to scam their way in because they can't drop $10M+ like the 0.01% can. Unfortunately for them, nobody is amused, not the Universities, not the Elites, and certainly not the middle-class (or lower) who were counting on these spots being up for fair competition. As others have pointed out, one dumb rich kid's endowment can fund the education of dozens of talented students, but these bribes help nobody but the people they went to.
Sums it up well.
Agree, and because it's such a spot on summary to the topic I'll let myself to repeat it one more time (in italic).
Such a breach and handling of it should constitute penalty of bringing the company down magnitude - it has to be felt not only by C[ET.]Os but by shareholders as well, who have to start putting attention on how the company is managed not only how much dividend they get - otherwise all will remain business as usual.
Class action lawsuit is justified, as the genie is out and there's no way to put him back, unless 150mln people changed their SSNs they will remain susceptible to identity theft for the rest of their lives.
That's what cryptocurrencies are - tokens for a ledger, in details: a protocol and set of rules to exchange and approve a ledger, however you might be right, they might not bother with all this tokens creation to reward transactions processing, tokens limits etc.
Personal detail information including SSN seems like very good data to impersonate legitimate citizens. I am not security specialist, but with existing voting percentages (60% presidential, 40% midterm) seem to me like a very serious problem for the US, which should not be taken lightly.
Considering just the sheer volume of data - all or almost all citizens - seems impossible to control.
... Robots don't need life support, they don't need expensive ultra-reliable gear, and they don't need to come back home...
... and most importantly they're not aware where they are, for what reason and what to make of it, in general they do not care about exploration, progress and dreams - they're tools.
My point is that "we do this and the other things not because they're easy, but because they're hard".
There is no practical reason to send humans beyond earth orbit...
Why to send humans anywhere then, what's the practicality of sending to orbit, why to cross an ocean or a mountain, why to do anything besides one's basic needs like e.g. reading a novel?
... then they should be applied fairly and evenly to all who live and do business there...
Agree, otherwise small businesses are at a disadvantage, which practically puts them out of business if by chance they are competitors.
Incentives like city infrastructure or tax brakes proportional to created new jobs for any business - I am okay with, otherwise the same rules for all the players.
Penguins are named after the Great Auk's latin name (Pinguinus impennis), but are not closely related. Auks are closer relatives of razorbills, murres and guillemots.
Yes, you have a point - indeed the discussion was about penguins birds, not genus Pinguinus.
... It's not just China which requires companies to comply...
<sarcasm>
Sure, not difference here whatsoever, we also have a giant firewall, limited and sorted news, removed Internet content from blogs and posts, prison time for using VPN, public shaming on giant billboards, denied transport tickets for low credit score - definitely it's all the same.
</sarcasm>
Like this old joke: you know, here in Russia we have all the same freedoms, you can criticize your president as much as you want, we also can criticize your president as much as we want.
With one swipe you threw into trash many hard working and devoted professionals and years of research, studies and trials.
There are doctors and there are doctors - like in any other profession involving humans, despite of drawbacks, problems and botched surgeries there are much more cases of saved lives and utter devotion to helping people, and since you heard about the bad cases it means that check and balances work (not perfectly, but still).
Progress in medicine is outstanding, true, not all conditions are well understood, but more and more are, there are plenty of truly saving lives discoveries - let's be honest here - how many scientific articles have you read last week devoted to medicine? My guess is none, I guess you have not even read about the last year Nobel, where a revolutionary treatment for deadly skin cancer was awarded "for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation".
There are plenty of just recently discovered life savings treatments, HIV is not a death sentence anymore, cancer on many occasions is treatable (e.g. CAR T-Cell Immunotherapy), transplant surgeries save lives, artificial parts (including heart) save lives, universal vaccines for whole groups of viruses are on the horizon.
Lastly, it's the XXI century, we have Internet and Google, all what's needed is a willingness to read to have an informed opinion vs just an opinion.
Because technology is not proven to be safe yet and now there are two girls, who might die early due to e.g. cancer. CRISPS Cas9 does it's jobs, but sometimes does more than indented cutting off more then programmed.
Another issue is that this was done without proper procedure and completely not needed for the girls (they father has HIV, but there are medications now to keep the virus from reaching infection level not to mention that HIV is not easy to be transmitted anyway) - other diseases like e.g. Huntington's disease would be a different story.
And final argument is that the edited gene plays also important function in brain development, though, to be fair there are people living without this gene.
If I found myself in a parallel universe, the first thing to check would be the Internet and WP, if none then moving on would be the right choice - unless, of course, it's raining donuts;-)
... JWST has an impossibly complicated origami shield for no reason.
There's a reason, a very good reason: JWST is designed to be an infrared telescope, hence it has to be kept at very low temperature, and if you looked around the Inet about JWST, you would find why the shield is this way - it's optimal considering weight needed isolation and price.
Then there is WFIRST... They were handed a ready made spaceframe that they are familiar with.
WFIRST was designed to be smaller, however about 2011 NRO disclosed having a project of Hubble class spy telescopes (since 1976) and in 2012 donated 2 not needed mirrors, not spaceframes - just optics, which has to be adjusted to look deep out not close down. Since the donated mirrors are bigger than WFIRST design, the telescope had to be redesigned, and considering bigger, heavier and needing bigger launcher ended up more expensive (to be fair: estimations differ, some say otherwise).
Don't get me wrong, I am very happy for the donation, WFIRST will be more capable, however, considering NRO program starting date of 1976 and donation in 2012, it's more likely out of needed storage space for better mirrors than a good heart.
I'm told that Mutually Assured Destruction is good for peace. In that case, shouldn't the US have simply given the Chinese their space tech? Just to keep everyone even, and dissuade anyone from launching.
US collected moon rocks were sent all over the world for research and as gifts - so far no country complained, including USSR (former Russia), which was at the time in cold war with US, which was able to monitor all the communication - yes, EM waves from the Moon can be received by anybody, and in 1970s there was no digital communication - all analog.
Not to mention that there are photos of the landings.
There is no discrepancies between USSR and US moon rocks - you're lying (in case you want to prove otherwise, please keep in mind that here everybody knows how much efforts it take to create any website with any lie, so any reference would had to be legitimate).
Some technical knowledge would let someone check, that Saturn V was capable of sending payload to the Moon, considering it's size and burning times.
There are instruments left on the Moon, and the laser reflector is used till this day to measure the distance, with proper equipment might be done by an amateur.
- Moon is lifeless, there is no need to worry about contamination (it's not Mars) - really
- the seeds are in a sealed container, even if breached it will be sterilized by the solar radiation
- germinating seeds is an important experiment for potential human settlements on the Moon - shoulv'e been done long time ago
... I can't wait to see the industry that pops up having to protect us from THE SHIT WE OWN!
What if you cannot buy a car anymore, the fine print will say that you lease it indefinitely, thus you will not be allowed to modify it?
What if insurance premiums will be double for not spying cars?
What if there will be a massive public campaign about superior safety of such cars and if one has nothing to hide one should not oppose such "safety improvements"?
How about driver sleep alert system?
How about a device with microphone, camera, GPS, fingerprint, retina detection you have no actual control of what it's doing or over the data it collects?
Do you think people will choose wisely - considering historical evidence, I doubt.
I still would choose democracy any time you asked, even if bad things happen at least I can do something about it with guaranteed freedom of speech, assembly, petition and most importantly my vote.
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Agree, what a screw up it is, just today I read about the latest accident, that MCAS was engaged several times just before the crash even after it had been deactivated.
Always fond of Boeing, fully aware that nobody's perfect (Airbus also had their issues with overriding pilots decisions - yet not on such a scale), honestly have to say that this crack in their reputation cannot be easily repaired.
Finally about the way it was handled: FAA let Boeing engineers verify their own work, reports about MCAS problems were coming long before accidents, but it took 2 crashes and hundreds lost lives to do something about it - disgusting - and the whole reason for MCAS was to make the new plane feel like the old one, because they didn't bother to properly design it.
I think they mean, edge of the observable universe.
It's not so simple, as the light has limited speed anything we see is from the past, so there's a limit we can see even though the Universe might be infinite in size, because it's not infinite in time - the ultimate observable edge is the CMB (Cosmic Mircrowave Background radiation), we cannot see anything beyond because the Universe was opaque before.
So there's a point in saying "at the edge of the Universe", it means at the very early beginning, which in this case (this survey results) is very significant for cosmological theories about formation of galaxies.
The best way is to try, most cloud providers have trial accounts.
Run your test for a while to check functionality and reliability to have an informed personal experience.
I think this is pretty much it. What we are seeing here is the 1% trying to scam their way in because they can't drop $10M+ like the 0.01% can. Unfortunately for them, nobody is amused, not the Universities, not the Elites, and certainly not the middle-class (or lower) who were counting on these spots being up for fair competition. As others have pointed out, one dumb rich kid's endowment can fund the education of dozens of talented students, but these bribes help nobody but the people they went to.
Sums it up well.
Agree, and because it's such a spot on summary to the topic I'll let myself to repeat it one more time (in italic).
Such a breach and handling of it should constitute penalty of bringing the company down magnitude - it has to be felt not only by C[ET.]Os but by shareholders as well, who have to start putting attention on how the company is managed not only how much dividend they get - otherwise all will remain business as usual.
Class action lawsuit is justified, as the genie is out and there's no way to put him back, unless 150mln people changed their SSNs they will remain susceptible to identity theft for the rest of their lives.
What needs to happen is that merchants start offering anywhere 1-3% discounts for cash or debit card purchases...
Aren't they forbidden to do so by the agreement with credit cards operators?
That's what cryptocurrencies are - tokens for a ledger, in details: a protocol and set of rules to exchange and approve a ledger, however you might be right, they might not bother with all this tokens creation to reward transactions processing, tokens limits etc.
... drop tanks on the wings, and room for perhaps 50 passengers ...
Do you mean this room for extra 50 passengers would be on the wings? Well, would not be surprised.
Personal detail information including SSN seems like very good data to impersonate legitimate citizens. I am not security specialist, but with existing voting percentages (60% presidential, 40% midterm) seem to me like a very serious problem for the US, which should not be taken lightly.
Considering just the sheer volume of data - all or almost all citizens - seems impossible to control.
... and most importantly they're not aware where they are, for what reason and what to make of it, in general they do not care about exploration, progress and dreams - they're tools.
My point is that "we do this and the other things not because they're easy, but because they're hard".
There is no practical reason to send humans beyond earth orbit ...
Why to send humans anywhere then, what's the practicality of sending to orbit, why to cross an ocean or a mountain, why to do anything besides one's basic needs like e.g. reading a novel?
... then they should be applied fairly and evenly to all who live and do business there ...
Agree, otherwise small businesses are at a disadvantage, which practically puts them out of business if by chance they are competitors.
Incentives like city infrastructure or tax brakes proportional to created new jobs for any business - I am okay with, otherwise the same rules for all the players.
Penguins are named after the Great Auk's latin name (Pinguinus impennis), but are not closely related. Auks are closer relatives of razorbills, murres and guillemots.
Yes, you have a point - indeed the discussion was about penguins birds, not genus Pinguinus.
However not related, yet connected, thus mentioned: from wikipedia: The great auk (Pinguinus impennis) ... It was the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus. ... It is not closely related to the birds now known as penguins ...
... It's not just China which requires companies to comply ...
<sarcasm>
Sure, not difference here whatsoever, we also have a giant firewall, limited and sorted news, removed Internet content from blogs and posts, prison time for using VPN, public shaming on giant billboards, denied transport tickets for low credit score - definitely it's all the same.
</sarcasm>
Like this old joke: you know, here in Russia we have all the same freedoms, you can criticize your president as much as you want, we also can criticize your president as much as we want.
A year ago, I was hired for a customer tech support role for a bank ... We trained on the actual live production system
Ok, which bank was it? Feel free to use AC as an unrelated post.
There are no penguins anywhere near the North Pole...
True
... Penguins are only in the Southern Hemisphere, ...
Not true: "...the Galapagos penguin, found north of the equator., from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
... if they lived in the Arctic they would be quickly wiped out by polar bears ...
I think only partially true, as there were penguins in the north and indeed were wiped out but not by polar bears but by humans: Great Auk.
spin axis of earth drifts too, about 10 cm a year, caused by events that redistribute the earth's mass.
Interesting - never heard of it.
Do you mean Polar motion as one of the Earth's rotation axis distortions (others being precession and nutation)?
With one swipe you threw into trash many hard working and devoted professionals and years of research, studies and trials.
There are doctors and there are doctors - like in any other profession involving humans, despite of drawbacks, problems and botched surgeries there are much more cases of saved lives and utter devotion to helping people, and since you heard about the bad cases it means that check and balances work (not perfectly, but still).
Progress in medicine is outstanding, true, not all conditions are well understood, but more and more are, there are plenty of truly saving lives discoveries - let's be honest here - how many scientific articles have you read last week devoted to medicine? My guess is none, I guess you have not even read about the last year Nobel, where a revolutionary treatment for deadly skin cancer was awarded "for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation".
There are plenty of just recently discovered life savings treatments, HIV is not a death sentence anymore, cancer on many occasions is treatable (e.g. CAR T-Cell Immunotherapy), transplant surgeries save lives, artificial parts (including heart) save lives, universal vaccines for whole groups of viruses are on the horizon.
Lastly, it's the XXI century, we have Internet and Google, all what's needed is a willingness to read to have an informed opinion vs just an opinion.
Unethical? ...
Because technology is not proven to be safe yet and now there are two girls, who might die early due to e.g. cancer. CRISPS Cas9 does it's jobs, but sometimes does more than indented cutting off more then programmed.
Another issue is that this was done without proper procedure and completely not needed for the girls (they father has HIV, but there are medications now to keep the virus from reaching infection level not to mention that HIV is not easy to be transmitted anyway) - other diseases like e.g. Huntington's disease would be a different story.
And final argument is that the edited gene plays also important function in brain development, though, to be fair there are people living without this gene.
Congratulations.
If I found myself in a parallel universe, the first thing to check would be the Internet and WP, if none then moving on would be the right choice - unless, of course, it's raining donuts ;-)
... JWST has an impossibly complicated origami shield for no reason.
There's a reason, a very good reason: JWST is designed to be an infrared telescope, hence it has to be kept at very low temperature, and if you looked around the Inet about JWST, you would find why the shield is this way - it's optimal considering weight needed isolation and price.
Then there is WFIRST ... They were handed a ready made spaceframe that they are familiar with.
WFIRST was designed to be smaller, however about 2011 NRO disclosed having a project of Hubble class spy telescopes (since 1976) and in 2012 donated 2 not needed mirrors, not spaceframes - just optics, which has to be adjusted to look deep out not close down. Since the donated mirrors are bigger than WFIRST design, the telescope had to be redesigned, and considering bigger, heavier and needing bigger launcher ended up more expensive (to be fair: estimations differ, some say otherwise).
Don't get me wrong, I am very happy for the donation, WFIRST will be more capable, however, considering NRO program starting date of 1976 and donation in 2012, it's more likely out of needed storage space for better mirrors than a good heart.
I'm told that Mutually Assured Destruction is good for peace. In that case, shouldn't the US have simply given the Chinese their space tech? Just to keep everyone even, and dissuade anyone from launching.
There's a saying "speech is silver, but silence is gold", in other words, it's better to know what to say, than say what you know:
- list of nuclear close calls
- Stanislav Petrov, a man, who saved the world from WWIII
And this information is from ... ?
US collected moon rocks were sent all over the world for research and as gifts - so far no country complained, including USSR (former Russia), which was at the time in cold war with US, which was able to monitor all the communication - yes, EM waves from the Moon can be received by anybody, and in 1970s there was no digital communication - all analog.
Not to mention that there are photos of the landings.
There is no discrepancies between USSR and US moon rocks - you're lying (in case you want to prove otherwise, please keep in mind that here everybody knows how much efforts it take to create any website with any lie, so any reference would had to be legitimate).
Some technical knowledge would let someone check, that Saturn V was capable of sending payload to the Moon, considering it's size and burning times.
There are instruments left on the Moon, and the laser reflector is used till this day to measure the distance, with proper equipment might be done by an amateur.
conspiracy theories debunked
Thanks, China, for destroying lunar science by ...
- Moon is lifeless, there is no need to worry about contamination (it's not Mars) - really
- the seeds are in a sealed container, even if breached it will be sterilized by the solar radiation
- germinating seeds is an important experiment for potential human settlements on the Moon - shoulv'e been done long time ago
What if you cannot buy a car anymore, the fine print will say that you lease it indefinitely, thus you will not be allowed to modify it?
What if insurance premiums will be double for not spying cars?
What if there will be a massive public campaign about superior safety of such cars and if one has nothing to hide one should not oppose such "safety improvements"?
How about driver sleep alert system?
How about a device with microphone, camera, GPS, fingerprint, retina detection you have no actual control of what it's doing or over the data it collects?
Do you think people will choose wisely - considering historical evidence, I doubt.
I still would choose democracy any time you asked, even if bad things happen at least I can do something about it with guaranteed freedom of speech, assembly, petition and most importantly my vote.