There is very little in the FCC tests about cordiality. I wouldn't say we are "vetted in polite behavior". We are vetted in our knowledge of electromagnetic physics and in our knowledge of the rules (FCC part 97).
The hobby attracts an eclectic group of people, admittedly mostly men. My local club has PhD's in mathematics, infosec professionals, landscapers, veterans, people from all walks of life. It's a fantastic way to get out of your everyday social bubble.
Regarding training real adults, I am heavily involved in the BSA and my wife is heavily involved in GSUSA. Our ham club offers joint licensure prep classes to both girls and boys. I believe amateur radio to be a fantastic, perhaps the ultimate, STEM activity for Scouts. There is a lot of hype about STEM out there, but way too much fluff when it comes to actual activities. These kids get to take an 8 hour crash course in physics, earn a license, get a free radio, and then use their radio knowledge to communicate with people near and far.
It remains useful in real life scenarios, too. As I type this, ARES operators are providing communication to Red Cross shelters across eastern NC where the power (and traditional communications) could be out for weeks. Hundreds of hams were deployed to PR after Maria. Take down the cell towers, kill the power grid, and I'll show you that I can still relay messages to people thousands of miles away. It's a powerful tool.
Now, if I can just get one of my teenagers to quit griping about the aesthetic impact of three antennae on my Jeep...
I have a friendly, very ordered conversation with about 30 people every Thursday night on WW4L repeater (147.360 MHz FM +). We seem to be able to do that just fine. Everyone waits their turn to speak.
That's nothing compared to the Saturday night "6600" net on N2GE up on Mount Mitchell. They might have 150 check in on a Saturday.
Hams overcome our conversational quantity limits by having clear customs for who should speak when.
We know how AT&T handles this sort of thing with TV networks.
Next week, you'll go to Netflix.com and they'll start showing modal popups saying AT&T has decided to deny access to Netflix in a few weeks, and to call AT&T and let them know how you feel.
Three weeks later, you'll go to Netflix.com and get a certificate error: bad CNAME. Users who are idiots enough to click through the errors will see a marketing-crafted propaganda video about how Netflix has chosen not to share their content anymore with AT&T subscribers, and to call Netflix and let them know how you feel.
Invariably, this will occur right when some major season finale is supposed to air.
The Internet should be a utility. It should just be metered and paid for by the consumers, who should be able to freely change their caps. Who cares how they use the bandwidth they pay for?
Many state universities not in tornado alley installed warning sirens after the VA Tech shooting. I absolutely think RF was the right way to do this, because it allows for a much more resilient system.
You can query the FCC ULS for a lot of these places and just look at the license that was issued around the time the system was installed to determine the frequency. The mode is almost always analog FM voice, and the activation codes are probably DTMF.
I think this is a case where the simplicity of the system and the need for it always to work trumps keeping the script kiddies out. If you are caught transmitting on a licensed band without a license, the civil fine just for that is $16K.
I think the real danger is an terrorist jamming the frequency during his attack.
The pedestrian didn't seem to notice the car. The car appears to be a Ford Fusion (probably hybrid). If it was in charge-sustaining mode, the car might have been very difficult to hear.
The pedestrian was wearing a yellow hat and pushing a pink bicycle. Her shirt was dark though. She was visible to the camera for only about.77 seconds prior to impact. A human being would take 0.5-2 seconds to react to the object in the road once it became visible. Depending on the human, the pedestrian might have been visible for a couple of seconds longer than we see her in the footage, but the safety driver appeared to be distracted.
The reaction time of the autonomous car should be milliseconds. Assuming that the dashed lane markers are fairly evenly spaced, the car doesn't appear to have decelerated at all from my perspective. According to the police, the car was traveling 38 MPH, or roughly 61 km/h. On dry pavement with decent tires, the stopping distance in meters without accounting for any reaction time should be about (s^2)/(250*.8) with s = speed in km/hr... so, about 18 meters, or to be generous, 60 feet.
Judging from the aerial layer on Google maps, the distance between the beginning of a lane marker and the beginning of a subsequent lane marker is 30 feet or so. From this, I think the first time you see the victim in the video she's about 43 feet away (.77 seconds at 38 MPH).
Here's the thing though... the LIDAR should have seen this in time to at least swerve to avoid. The LIDAR should also have seen the victim before the victim was visible in the headlights. In my state, the driver has the responsibility to swerve to avoid even if there isn't enough time to stop. It's obvious that there was nobody in the left lane (even in the blind spot, which isn't blind with LIDAR).
This really seems like an example of where an autonomous car could have saved a life that would have been lost due to a human driver's natural limitations, but it failed to do so. The car should have been able to see hundreds of feet, and the car should have had practically zero reaction time. Just as you would be lenient in judging and older driver for longer reaction times, I think we should hold the autonomous car to a higher standard.
This thing was a test vehicle. The debug-level logging of the incident should be made public so that if there was a bug that killed this woman, the truth will be known.
I don't think it's a bad thing that someone is talking about morals and video games.
It's apparently completely acceptable to a sizable chunk of society for kids to play video games where they kill people. What if someone made a video game that allowed you to simulate raping people? Imagine if you could buy an artificial vagina or human head that integrates with your gaming console so that you could rape it. Perhaps this will happen in a few years. This sort of thing is fundamentally bad.
Society is advancing in morals in some respects but declining in morals in others. For example, women have decided that it is time for men to rediscover respect for women - that can't be anything but good. I'm pretty sure Trump is not the right person to champion a moral issue. Whether allegations against him are true or false, he doesn't have any moral street cred with most of the country.
I think firearms will always be necessary and dangerous. If we don't cull the deer population, they will cull us on the roads. Some people legitimately need firearms for self-defense. Therefore, people should be allowed to have the freedom to possess firearms, and the second amendment is a good thing. The NRA, insomuch as it is an organization that teaches people how to use firearms safely and accurately, is a good thing. I challenge anyone who thinks otherwise to go see a Rifle Shooting merit badge class at a Boy Scout camp. Teaching these kids respect for firearms saves lives. Do people need magazines that allow them to shoot 15 rounds without reloading? Nope. Does any serious marksman use bump stocks? Nope. Bump stocks are an attempt to turn a rifle into a toy. To its credit, the NRA isn't defending bump stocks. I don't think semi-autos should be banned, but high capacity magazines turn these things into indiscriminate tools for butchering crowds of people. I hope we end up with a reasonable compromise that saves lives and allows sportsmen to continue to be sportsmen.
Windows Embedded 8.1 Handheld is also impacted. I know because I happen to work for a company with a deployment of over 1000 units. Unlike the consumer version, the end of mainstream support of these things is not until 7/2019. Examples include Panasonic FZ-E1 and Honeywell Dolphin CT-50.
To compromise something like, for example, account credentials, you still have to execute *code* on the computer that takes advantage of the vulnerabilities.
Many (most?) older "enterprise" non-phone devices (think WinCE, Windows Embedded Handheld 8, and yes, Android whatever version) are locked down to a single application anyway, with the users not allowed to install other applications (thus preventing the devices from running the malicious code).
Serious enterprises do MDM and lock down phones. Even without MDM, if you use something like Google for your IdP, you can disallow devices from accessing company accounts if they've been rooted or bootloader-unlocked from the Google Admin console.
It's not fair to allow consumers to sue merchants for payment card data breaches who, due to market forces, are forced to accept payments via the deeply flawed, archaic payment card processing paradigm we have today. Merchants should never have to possess cardholder data, but in most cases, they are required to. Even merchants who use tokenization are required to pass cardholder data to a payment gateway to get back a token. P2PE is not an end-all solution, either. You can't hide from the future with math.
The oligopoly that controls that payment card processing paradigm essentially doesn't have any incentive to make it more secure, so they won't.
I take that back. I had to pay $15 to the VE to cover the cost of the exam session... there doesn't seem to be a recurring cost.
I've only been licensed for two weeks. KN4DVB. I will take general and extra next month.
I would think you would have to consider how much money the grads of the more expensive programs contribute to the endowments, spend on football tickets, and pay in taxes later. I bet an engineer will pay a lot more back to the state in taxes than an art teacher.
Nah... it's not a semi tractor-trailer rig. The "semi" qualifier belongs to the "trailer" part. It's a tractor-semitrailer rig. The trailer is a "semitrailer" because it is only self-supported on the rear end ("semi" meaning "half"). The front end of the trailer is actually over the tractor (pivoting on the "fifth wheel", so to speak), so the trailer only partially trails the tractor (the part with the cab, engine, etc).
If you get fancy, get it right.
Geting users to patch quickly to the latest version of your software can be really hard, but if you link to libraries that they are getting automatic security updates to anyway, you're probably in a much better place.
Take, for example, TLS. If I code against Schannel, and Schannel has a bug that causes a serious vulnerability, Microsoft is almost certainly going to update Schannel without changing the interface in a way that will break my code. Same goes for OpenSSL. If I link against OpenSSL and choose to package my app with a dependency on the distros' OpenSSL pacakage instead of bundling it myself, yum-cron or apt-whatever is going to take care of the problem for me.
You are on the money about hiring trends with teachers.
Just look at this: http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/doc...
The raises are barely enough to keep up with inflation, at least during normal economic times, and you can't raise a family of four and pay the mortgage on that.
I have a B.S. in pure math, and would be eligible to teach lateral entry (initially without certification). Who would actually want to teach for that kind of money, though? They will not consider relevant experience outside of the teaching profession, either. After 25 years of experience, you'd still make less than the starting salary of any job worthy of a math degree in industry.
I have access to UTC whenever I need it, of course, but local time is an invaluable tool. It tells you something about the temporal state of your surroundings, which UTC just doesn't do.
I'd much rather set my phone alarm for 7:00 AM local time, and when I fly to the west coast, not have to remember to adjust it back 3 hours...
It's easy to remember that Western Europe is about 5 hours ahead and California is 3 hours behind. The cost of adjustment is simply not worth whatever benefits it affords.
Agreed. I did the Apple development stuff for my company for a while and had a ton of devices. My favorite is the iPad mini. You cannot beat it for indoor reading - it's just the right size.
That said, it did not make the leap to iOS 10, so it will probably end up being in pwn3d soon. Security updates won't be there much longer - which is a shame. I hope someone finds a way to put a third party OS on it (maybe they have already - I just haven't looked yet).
that these drones are armed with a zip-tied Samsung Galaxy Note 7. They have a side loaded app which photo-identifies the target and then fork-bombs.../me ducks...
They didn't cheat on taxes, you unbelievable nitwit. Ireland is a sovereign country and they decided what Apple paid. As Ireland itself has said, if Apple owes tax, it is not owed to Ireland.
A better analogy would be the US retroactively eliminating deductions (standard or itemized) retroactively and asking you for back taxes and interest. Even more accurately, it's like the US ruling your state's deduction was illegal and claiming you owed your state back taxes and interest, even though your state agrees with you. But I guess that seems totally fair and happens all the time, right?
Nincompoop.
They made this deal with Ireland to book the revenue there at a preferential rate. However, part of why the EU determined that they had to pay up is because they didn't really have the office they claimed to have in Ireland. It was a corporation-on-paper-that-didn't-really-exist. I don't really have much patience with that.
You shouldn't be able to have your cake and eat it, too. Some people seriously believe that there should be no corporate tax at all, but if you want corporations to have the rights of persons, then they must also have the responsibilities of persons (e.g. paying taxes).
Apple's CEO is stuck in a regrettable place, though. His responsibility is to lead the company to be as valuable to the shareholders as is legally possible, which in part means minimizing liabilities, including taxes. I have little doubt that they thought this structure was legal.
I doubt that IT costs are a burdensome percentage of fares. I bet it's mostly fuel, equipment and labor.
A 737 costs about $50 million, and I'm guessing another million a year to maintain over a 20-yearish lifespan. Assuming 1000-ish flights a year with 150 paying seats on the flight, you're talking about $25 per ticket to pay for the plane. Fuel is about $5/gal, with average per seat mpg of 80-ish. So we're talking $50 per seat for fuel... up to $75. Add in labor, airport costs, taxes, etc... I'm just willing to bet that IT costs are less than 2% of a plane ticket. I bet adding proper redundancy would just be a drop in the bucket.
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There is very little in the FCC tests about cordiality. I wouldn't say we are "vetted in polite behavior". We are vetted in our knowledge of electromagnetic physics and in our knowledge of the rules (FCC part 97).
The hobby attracts an eclectic group of people, admittedly mostly men. My local club has PhD's in mathematics, infosec professionals, landscapers, veterans, people from all walks of life. It's a fantastic way to get out of your everyday social bubble.
Regarding training real adults, I am heavily involved in the BSA and my wife is heavily involved in GSUSA. Our ham club offers joint licensure prep classes to both girls and boys. I believe amateur radio to be a fantastic, perhaps the ultimate, STEM activity for Scouts. There is a lot of hype about STEM out there, but way too much fluff when it comes to actual activities. These kids get to take an 8 hour crash course in physics, earn a license, get a free radio, and then use their radio knowledge to communicate with people near and far.
It remains useful in real life scenarios, too. As I type this, ARES operators are providing communication to Red Cross shelters across eastern NC where the power (and traditional communications) could be out for weeks. Hundreds of hams were deployed to PR after Maria. Take down the cell towers, kill the power grid, and I'll show you that I can still relay messages to people thousands of miles away. It's a powerful tool.
Now, if I can just get one of my teenagers to quit griping about the aesthetic impact of three antennae on my Jeep...
I have a friendly, very ordered conversation with about 30 people every Thursday night on WW4L repeater (147.360 MHz FM +). We seem to be able to do that just fine. Everyone waits their turn to speak.
That's nothing compared to the Saturday night "6600" net on N2GE up on Mount Mitchell. They might have 150 check in on a Saturday.
Hams overcome our conversational quantity limits by having clear customs for who should speak when.
Real nerds get FCC licenses.
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We know how AT&T handles this sort of thing with TV networks.
Next week, you'll go to Netflix.com and they'll start showing modal popups saying AT&T has decided to deny access to Netflix in a few weeks, and to call AT&T and let them know how you feel.
Three weeks later, you'll go to Netflix.com and get a certificate error: bad CNAME. Users who are idiots enough to click through the errors will see a marketing-crafted propaganda video about how Netflix has chosen not to share their content anymore with AT&T subscribers, and to call Netflix and let them know how you feel.
Invariably, this will occur right when some major season finale is supposed to air.
The Internet should be a utility. It should just be metered and paid for by the consumers, who should be able to freely change their caps. Who cares how they use the bandwidth they pay for?
Many state universities not in tornado alley installed warning sirens after the VA Tech shooting. I absolutely think RF was the right way to do this, because it allows for a much more resilient system.
You can query the FCC ULS for a lot of these places and just look at the license that was issued around the time the system was installed to determine the frequency. The mode is almost always analog FM voice, and the activation codes are probably DTMF.
I think this is a case where the simplicity of the system and the need for it always to work trumps keeping the script kiddies out. If you are caught transmitting on a licensed band without a license, the civil fine just for that is $16K.
I think the real danger is an terrorist jamming the frequency during his attack.
No, it was a guess. I saw a press article photo of an Uber Ford Fusion in conjunction with this story. This source says it was indeed a Volvo:
https://jalopnik.com/lidar-mak...
The pedestrian didn't seem to notice the car. The car appears to be a Ford Fusion (probably hybrid). If it was in charge-sustaining mode, the car might have been very difficult to hear.
The pedestrian was wearing a yellow hat and pushing a pink bicycle. Her shirt was dark though. She was visible to the camera for only about .77 seconds prior to impact. A human being would take 0.5-2 seconds to react to the object in the road once it became visible. Depending on the human, the pedestrian might have been visible for a couple of seconds longer than we see her in the footage, but the safety driver appeared to be distracted.
The reaction time of the autonomous car should be milliseconds. Assuming that the dashed lane markers are fairly evenly spaced, the car doesn't appear to have decelerated at all from my perspective. According to the police, the car was traveling 38 MPH, or roughly 61 km/h. On dry pavement with decent tires, the stopping distance in meters without accounting for any reaction time should be about (s^2)/(250*.8) with s = speed in km/hr... so, about 18 meters, or to be generous, 60 feet.
See https://korkortonline.se/en/th... .
Judging from the aerial layer on Google maps, the distance between the beginning of a lane marker and the beginning of a subsequent lane marker is 30 feet or so. From this, I think the first time you see the victim in the video she's about 43 feet away (.77 seconds at 38 MPH).
Here's the thing though... the LIDAR should have seen this in time to at least swerve to avoid. The LIDAR should also have seen the victim before the victim was visible in the headlights. In my state, the driver has the responsibility to swerve to avoid even if there isn't enough time to stop. It's obvious that there was nobody in the left lane (even in the blind spot, which isn't blind with LIDAR).
This really seems like an example of where an autonomous car could have saved a life that would have been lost due to a human driver's natural limitations, but it failed to do so. The car should have been able to see hundreds of feet, and the car should have had practically zero reaction time. Just as you would be lenient in judging and older driver for longer reaction times, I think we should hold the autonomous car to a higher standard.
This thing was a test vehicle. The debug-level logging of the incident should be made public so that if there was a bug that killed this woman, the truth will be known.
If it kills something we eat, like a cow, I think a cookout would be good.
I don't think it's a bad thing that someone is talking about morals and video games.
It's apparently completely acceptable to a sizable chunk of society for kids to play video games where they kill people. What if someone made a video game that allowed you to simulate raping people? Imagine if you could buy an artificial vagina or human head that integrates with your gaming console so that you could rape it. Perhaps this will happen in a few years. This sort of thing is fundamentally bad.
Society is advancing in morals in some respects but declining in morals in others. For example, women have decided that it is time for men to rediscover respect for women - that can't be anything but good. I'm pretty sure Trump is not the right person to champion a moral issue. Whether allegations against him are true or false, he doesn't have any moral street cred with most of the country.
I think firearms will always be necessary and dangerous. If we don't cull the deer population, they will cull us on the roads. Some people legitimately need firearms for self-defense. Therefore, people should be allowed to have the freedom to possess firearms, and the second amendment is a good thing. The NRA, insomuch as it is an organization that teaches people how to use firearms safely and accurately, is a good thing. I challenge anyone who thinks otherwise to go see a Rifle Shooting merit badge class at a Boy Scout camp. Teaching these kids respect for firearms saves lives. Do people need magazines that allow them to shoot 15 rounds without reloading? Nope. Does any serious marksman use bump stocks? Nope. Bump stocks are an attempt to turn a rifle into a toy. To its credit, the NRA isn't defending bump stocks. I don't think semi-autos should be banned, but high capacity magazines turn these things into indiscriminate tools for butchering crowds of people. I hope we end up with a reasonable compromise that saves lives and allows sportsmen to continue to be sportsmen.
Windows Embedded 8.1 Handheld is also impacted. I know because I happen to work for a company with a deployment of over 1000 units. Unlike the consumer version, the end of mainstream support of these things is not until 7/2019. Examples include Panasonic FZ-E1 and Honeywell Dolphin CT-50.
To compromise something like, for example, account credentials, you still have to execute *code* on the computer that takes advantage of the vulnerabilities.
Many (most?) older "enterprise" non-phone devices (think WinCE, Windows Embedded Handheld 8, and yes, Android whatever version) are locked down to a single application anyway, with the users not allowed to install other applications (thus preventing the devices from running the malicious code).
Serious enterprises do MDM and lock down phones. Even without MDM, if you use something like Google for your IdP, you can disallow devices from accessing company accounts if they've been rooted or bootloader-unlocked from the Google Admin console.
I hate BYOD, by the way.
It's not fair to allow consumers to sue merchants for payment card data breaches who, due to market forces, are forced to accept payments via the deeply flawed, archaic payment card processing paradigm we have today. Merchants should never have to possess cardholder data, but in most cases, they are required to. Even merchants who use tokenization are required to pass cardholder data to a payment gateway to get back a token. P2PE is not an end-all solution, either. You can't hide from the future with math. The oligopoly that controls that payment card processing paradigm essentially doesn't have any incentive to make it more secure, so they won't.
I take that back. I had to pay $15 to the VE to cover the cost of the exam session... there doesn't seem to be a recurring cost. I've only been licensed for two weeks. KN4DVB. I will take general and extra next month.
It's something like $15 every 10 years, and the license is a barrier to entry that keeps the airwaves a little more civilized.
I would think you would have to consider how much money the grads of the more expensive programs contribute to the endowments, spend on football tickets, and pay in taxes later. I bet an engineer will pay a lot more back to the state in taxes than an art teacher.
Nah... it's not a semi tractor-trailer rig. The "semi" qualifier belongs to the "trailer" part. It's a tractor-semitrailer rig. The trailer is a "semitrailer" because it is only self-supported on the rear end ("semi" meaning "half"). The front end of the trailer is actually over the tractor (pivoting on the "fifth wheel", so to speak), so the trailer only partially trails the tractor (the part with the cab, engine, etc). If you get fancy, get it right.
He went to making more money than God down to more money than God, just a little less. Good grief. Who really needs to make 7 figures? /me ducks
Geting users to patch quickly to the latest version of your software can be really hard, but if you link to libraries that they are getting automatic security updates to anyway, you're probably in a much better place. Take, for example, TLS. If I code against Schannel, and Schannel has a bug that causes a serious vulnerability, Microsoft is almost certainly going to update Schannel without changing the interface in a way that will break my code. Same goes for OpenSSL. If I link against OpenSSL and choose to package my app with a dependency on the distros' OpenSSL pacakage instead of bundling it myself, yum-cron or apt-whatever is going to take care of the problem for me.
You are on the money about hiring trends with teachers. Just look at this: http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/doc... The raises are barely enough to keep up with inflation, at least during normal economic times, and you can't raise a family of four and pay the mortgage on that. I have a B.S. in pure math, and would be eligible to teach lateral entry (initially without certification). Who would actually want to teach for that kind of money, though? They will not consider relevant experience outside of the teaching profession, either. After 25 years of experience, you'd still make less than the starting salary of any job worthy of a math degree in industry.
There is no library class WebView. Is this bug in UIWebView, WKWebView, or both? It'd be nice if TFA would say.
I have access to UTC whenever I need it, of course, but local time is an invaluable tool. It tells you something about the temporal state of your surroundings, which UTC just doesn't do. I'd much rather set my phone alarm for 7:00 AM local time, and when I fly to the west coast, not have to remember to adjust it back 3 hours... It's easy to remember that Western Europe is about 5 hours ahead and California is 3 hours behind. The cost of adjustment is simply not worth whatever benefits it affords.
Agreed. I did the Apple development stuff for my company for a while and had a ton of devices. My favorite is the iPad mini. You cannot beat it for indoor reading - it's just the right size. That said, it did not make the leap to iOS 10, so it will probably end up being in pwn3d soon. Security updates won't be there much longer - which is a shame. I hope someone finds a way to put a third party OS on it (maybe they have already - I just haven't looked yet).
that these drones are armed with a zip-tied Samsung Galaxy Note 7. They have a side loaded app which photo-identifies the target and then fork-bombs... /me ducks...
can they explode like Samsung washing machines and phones? /me ducks
They didn't cheat on taxes, you unbelievable nitwit. Ireland is a sovereign country and they decided what Apple paid. As Ireland itself has said, if Apple owes tax, it is not owed to Ireland.
A better analogy would be the US retroactively eliminating deductions (standard or itemized) retroactively and asking you for back taxes and interest. Even more accurately, it's like the US ruling your state's deduction was illegal and claiming you owed your state back taxes and interest, even though your state agrees with you. But I guess that seems totally fair and happens all the time, right?
Nincompoop.
They made this deal with Ireland to book the revenue there at a preferential rate. However, part of why the EU determined that they had to pay up is because they didn't really have the office they claimed to have in Ireland. It was a corporation-on-paper-that-didn't-really-exist. I don't really have much patience with that.
You shouldn't be able to have your cake and eat it, too. Some people seriously believe that there should be no corporate tax at all, but if you want corporations to have the rights of persons, then they must also have the responsibilities of persons (e.g. paying taxes).
Apple's CEO is stuck in a regrettable place, though. His responsibility is to lead the company to be as valuable to the shareholders as is legally possible, which in part means minimizing liabilities, including taxes. I have little doubt that they thought this structure was legal.
I doubt that IT costs are a burdensome percentage of fares. I bet it's mostly fuel, equipment and labor. A 737 costs about $50 million, and I'm guessing another million a year to maintain over a 20-yearish lifespan. Assuming 1000-ish flights a year with 150 paying seats on the flight, you're talking about $25 per ticket to pay for the plane. Fuel is about $5/gal, with average per seat mpg of 80-ish. So we're talking $50 per seat for fuel... up to $75. Add in labor, airport costs, taxes, etc... I'm just willing to bet that IT costs are less than 2% of a plane ticket. I bet adding proper redundancy would just be a drop in the bucket.