The CVR records the cockpit audio (which is way more than just the flight crew conversation), the FDR records all sorts of interesting stuff.
"The FDR onboard the aircraft records many different operating conditions of the flight. By regulation, newly manufactured aircraft must monitor at least eighty-eight important parameters such as time, altitude, airspeed, heading, and aircraft attitude. In addition, some FDRs can record the status of more than 1,000 other in-flight characteristics that can aid in the investigation. The items monitored can be anything from flap position to auto-pilot mode or even smoke alarms.
With the data retrieved from the FDR, the Safety Board can generate a computer animated video reconstruction of the flight. The investigator can then visualize the airplane's attitude, instrument readings, power settings and other characteristics of the flight."
Except the blackbox on a jet won't (unless I'm woefully uninformed more than usual) tell what you were doing in your own seat when the plane went down.
It does, however, record exactly what the users (the flight crew) was doing at the time of the crash.
Would you blame a phone company for people using their network for phone fraud? No.
No, but I would expect the phone company's help in tracking down a serious offender, instead of just an automated "Thank you. We take these reports very seriously blah blah blah." (Never to be heard from again)
OK, let me rephrase that. I dislike him less than disliked Kerry.
But damn, George. Stop dicking around like this. You're pissing all of us off. If you're not careful, Hilary is going to gain a lot of support in 2008, simply by your screwups.
If you want to pay for it, go right ahead. I don't experience any significant negative effects from zombie machines, so I am not willing to pay for such a system.
How do you know? Are you connected through some different internet than the rest of us. Some magical place where a goodly percentage of the traffic isn't malicious?
What if everything were all of a sudden faster, because there wasn't that stuff sucking up bandwidth?
Those dorks riding scooters and bikes to work might actually be environmentalists.
Or you could be a middle aged, Bush-voting, ex-military, pickup truck owning redstater, basically your uber anti-hippie, and still ride a bicycle to work.
How, you ask? Because I like to ride my bike to work.
Common sense? Once it is known what is going on (about 3 days), all the Coast Guard has to do is station an intercept ship between the floating horticultural enterprise and the shore. Any vessel seen leaving it would be searched.
Possibly it is different on other platforms - the OS X port is certainly messy in a lot of other ways - and possibly there is a way to create a set of executables that open different portions of OO.o, which is good.
The Windows port does exactly that.
Start/Programs/OOo/various clickies to different OOo apps.
The only reason this part of the bill has a chance of passing is because it is attached to an entirely different concept
FTA:
"The bill's supporters in Congress won passage of the prison terms by gluing them to an unrelated proposal to legalize technologies that delete offensive content from a film. That proposal was designed to address a lawsuit that Hollywood studios and the Directors Guild of America filed against ClearPlay over a DVD player that filtered violent and nude scenes."
If you want to be able to 'integrate per-vehicle information' and 'get realtime data on the best route to work', you're going to have to be able to track me.
And that's just not happening.
But google maps partially does this now, in selected cities.
A quick stroll through the ASRS database, searching on "RF Interference" or "EMI"
Report # 541518
DEPARTING SFO WE WERE ADVISED THAT ATC WAS NOT RECEIVING OUR TRANSPONDER. THE ATC FAIL LIGHT WAS ON AS WELL AS NUMEROUS TCASII FAULT MESSAGES. WE SWITCHED TO TRANSPONDER NO 2 AS PER THE OPERATING MANUAL AND ATC WAS ABLE TO RECEIVE IT. THE AIRPLANE HAD ONLY ONE MODE S TRANSPONDER SO WE HAD NO TCASII AT THIS POINT. THE FLT CONTINUED NORMALLY FOR ANOTHER HR OR SO WITH NO CHANGE IN THE STATUS OF THE NUMBER 1 TRANSPONDER AND TCASII. IT WAS AT THIS POINT THAT I DISCOVERED THAT I HAD INADVERTENTLY LEFT MY PCS PHONE ON. AND THAT IT WAS IN SEARCH MODE. I TURNED IT OFF. IMMEDIATELY, ATC NO 1 AND TCAS WERE RESTORED TO FULL FUNCTIONALITY. NO FURTHER ANOMALIES WERE OBSERVED DURING THE FLT.
Report # 536654 NAV INTERFERENCE. OVER CHT, CLRED '10 DEGS R INTERCEPT LOC RWY 31L PLAN CIRCLE RWY 22L.' UPON TUNING LOC FREQ AND SETTING COURSE, IT APPEARED WE WERE ON THE LOC, ALTHOUGH VISUALLY WE APPEARED S OF COURSE. ATC ASKED IF WE HAD INTERCEPTED AND SAID WE WERE S OF COURSE. THE CDI THEN SWUNG FULL SCALE TO THE OTHER SIDE INDICATING WE WERE N OF COURSE. I TURNED TO CTR THE CDI AND WE SWITCHED TO TWR. MY CDI SWUNG R INDICATING WE WERE S OF COURSE. I NOTICED THE FO'S CDI WAS SWINGING THE SAME DIRECTION AS MINE, BUT MOVING ABOUT HALF AS FAR. WHEN WE SAW THE RWY, WE WERE N OF COURSE WITH CDI'S INDICATING WE WERE S OF COURSE. WE WERE HIGH AND WELL N OF COURSE WHEN TWR ASKED IF WE COULD GET DOWN FROM THERE. WE ASKED TO BE TURNED OUT TO RE-ENTER THE PATTERN. UPON TURNING OUTBOUND WE MADE A PA ASKING PEOPLE TO PLEASE MAKE SURE THEIR CELL PHONES AND OTHER EQUIP WERE TURNED OFF. THE CDI'S IMMEDIATELY BECAME STEADY AND WE COMPLETED A NORMAL ILS RWY 31C CIRCLE RWY 22L WITH NORMAL INDICATIONS AND THE FLT ATTENDANTS RPTED THAT A WOMAN IN THE FORWARD LOUNGE WAS TALKING ON HER CELL PHONE. AS SOON AS SHE TURNED HER PHONE OFF, OUR CDI INDICATED NORMALLY.
Report # 283948 CLBING THROUGH 13000 FT MSL, RADIO ALTIMETER INDICATED 900 FT. GPWS SOUNDED 'TOO LOW TERRAIN.' THIS WARNING CONTINUED FOR SEVERAL MINS. HAD FLT ATTENDANT CHK CABIN FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES. PAX WAS FOUND WITH CELLULAR PHONE 'ON' BUT NOT IN USE. PAX SHUT OFF CELLULAR PHONE AND PROB STOPPED. NO FURTHER PROBS DURING REST OF FLT OR RETURN LEG (ORD-LGA-ORD).
"America Online spokesman Nicholas Graham said the company fired the monitor and contacted authorities after learning of the situation in April 2003. The man, who was 23 when he met the girl online, has not been charged with a crime."
The difference here is it's not 'just some older guy'. It is an AOL employee specifically hired to prevent exactly what went on. To prevent adults from coming on to kids in a kid only chat room. Whether they had sex or not is irrelevant.
This is a case of AOL failing to provide an advertised service.
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Because they want you to buy their busine$$ cla$$ service if you do all that stuff.
"The FDR onboard the aircraft records many different operating conditions of the flight. By regulation, newly manufactured aircraft must monitor at least eighty-eight important parameters such as time, altitude, airspeed, heading, and aircraft attitude. In addition, some FDRs can record the status of more than 1,000 other in-flight characteristics that can aid in the investigation. The items monitored can be anything from flap position to auto-pilot mode or even smoke alarms.
With the data retrieved from the FDR, the Safety Board can generate a computer animated video reconstruction of the flight. The investigator can then visualize the airplane's attitude, instrument readings, power settings and other characteristics of the flight."
It does, however, record exactly what the users (the flight crew) was doing at the time of the crash.
No, but I would expect the phone company's help in tracking down a serious offender, instead of just an automated "Thank you. We take these reports very seriously blah blah blah." (Never to be heard from again)
ewwwwww [shudder]
But damn, George. Stop dicking around like this. You're pissing all of us off. If you're not careful, Hilary is going to gain a lot of support in 2008, simply by your screwups.
And if she wins, we WILL be screwed.
How do you know? Are you connected through some different internet than the rest of us. Some magical place where a goodly percentage of the traffic isn't malicious?
What if everything were all of a sudden faster, because there wasn't that stuff sucking up bandwidth?
Or you could be a middle aged, Bush-voting, ex-military, pickup truck owning redstater, basically your uber anti-hippie, and still ride a bicycle to work.
How, you ask? Because I like to ride my bike to work.
As in "You daft git!"
If you live and work abroad for the entire tax year, you may (probably) qualify to exclude the first $80,000 of your foreign earned income.
Like this one?
Common sense? Once it is known what is going on (about 3 days), all the Coast Guard has to do is station an intercept ship between the floating horticultural enterprise and the shore. Any vessel seen leaving it would be searched.
And get busted as they attempt to return to shore.
Until that 70' wave hits you broadside.
The Windows port does exactly that.
Start/Programs/OOo/various clickies to different OOo apps.
Well..guess what.
FTA:
"The bill's supporters in Congress won passage of the prison terms by gluing them to an unrelated proposal to legalize technologies that delete offensive content from a film. That proposal was designed to address a lawsuit that Hollywood studios and the Directors Guild of America filed against ClearPlay over a DVD player that filtered violent and nude scenes."
I hate riders like this.
And that's just not happening.
But google maps partially does this now, in selected cities.
In all seriousness, look up how old some commercial aircraft are.
A quick stroll through the ASRS database, searching on "RF Interference" or "EMI"
Report # 541518
DEPARTING SFO WE WERE ADVISED THAT ATC WAS NOT RECEIVING OUR TRANSPONDER. THE ATC FAIL LIGHT WAS ON AS WELL AS NUMEROUS TCASII FAULT MESSAGES. WE SWITCHED TO TRANSPONDER NO 2 AS PER THE OPERATING MANUAL AND ATC WAS ABLE TO RECEIVE IT. THE AIRPLANE HAD ONLY ONE MODE S TRANSPONDER SO WE HAD NO TCASII AT THIS POINT. THE FLT CONTINUED NORMALLY FOR ANOTHER HR OR SO WITH NO CHANGE IN THE STATUS OF THE NUMBER 1 TRANSPONDER AND TCASII. IT WAS AT THIS POINT THAT I DISCOVERED THAT I HAD INADVERTENTLY LEFT MY PCS PHONE ON. AND THAT IT WAS IN SEARCH MODE. I TURNED IT OFF. IMMEDIATELY, ATC NO 1 AND TCAS WERE RESTORED TO FULL FUNCTIONALITY. NO FURTHER ANOMALIES WERE OBSERVED DURING THE FLT.
Report # 536654
NAV INTERFERENCE. OVER CHT, CLRED '10 DEGS R INTERCEPT LOC RWY 31L PLAN CIRCLE RWY 22L.' UPON TUNING LOC FREQ AND SETTING COURSE, IT APPEARED WE WERE ON THE LOC, ALTHOUGH VISUALLY WE APPEARED S OF COURSE. ATC ASKED IF WE HAD INTERCEPTED AND SAID WE WERE S OF COURSE. THE CDI THEN SWUNG FULL SCALE TO THE OTHER SIDE INDICATING WE WERE N OF COURSE. I TURNED TO CTR THE CDI AND WE SWITCHED TO TWR. MY CDI SWUNG R INDICATING WE WERE S OF COURSE. I NOTICED THE FO'S CDI WAS SWINGING THE SAME DIRECTION AS MINE, BUT MOVING ABOUT HALF AS FAR. WHEN WE SAW THE RWY, WE WERE N OF COURSE WITH CDI'S INDICATING WE WERE S OF COURSE. WE WERE HIGH AND WELL N OF COURSE WHEN TWR ASKED IF WE COULD GET DOWN FROM THERE. WE ASKED TO BE TURNED OUT TO RE-ENTER THE PATTERN. UPON TURNING OUTBOUND WE MADE A PA ASKING PEOPLE TO PLEASE MAKE SURE THEIR CELL PHONES AND OTHER EQUIP WERE TURNED OFF. THE CDI'S IMMEDIATELY BECAME STEADY AND WE COMPLETED A NORMAL ILS RWY 31C CIRCLE RWY 22L WITH NORMAL INDICATIONS AND THE FLT ATTENDANTS RPTED THAT A WOMAN IN THE FORWARD LOUNGE WAS TALKING ON HER CELL PHONE. AS SOON AS SHE TURNED HER PHONE OFF, OUR CDI INDICATED NORMALLY.
Report # 283948
CLBING THROUGH 13000 FT MSL, RADIO ALTIMETER INDICATED 900 FT. GPWS SOUNDED 'TOO LOW TERRAIN.' THIS WARNING CONTINUED FOR SEVERAL MINS. HAD FLT ATTENDANT CHK CABIN FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES. PAX WAS FOUND WITH CELLULAR PHONE 'ON' BUT NOT IN USE. PAX SHUT OFF CELLULAR PHONE AND PROB STOPPED. NO FURTHER PROBS DURING REST OF FLT OR RETURN LEG (ORD-LGA-ORD).
Maybe they should call it:
Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, "A New Pope"
Some of those curves and trends lead to dead ends. Valid dead ends.
Don't get discouraged when they do, know when to kill it, and move on in a different direction. But do move on.
"America Online spokesman Nicholas Graham said the company fired the monitor and contacted authorities after learning of the situation in April 2003. The man, who was 23 when he met the girl online, has not been charged with a crime."
This is not a criminal case, it's a lawsuit.
Does muni WiFi still sound like a good idea?
This is a case of AOL failing to provide an advertised service.