Simulation flights were run to determine whether the accident flight could have landed successfully at LGA or TEB following the bird strike. The simulations demonstrated that, to accomplish a successful flight to either airport, the airplane would have to have been turned toward the airport immediately after the bird strike. The immediate turn did not reflect or account for real-world considerations, such as the time delay required to recognize the extent of the engine thrust loss and decide on a course of action. The one simulator flight that took into account real-world considerations (a return to LGA runway 13 was attempted after a 35-second delay) was not successful. Therefore, the NTSB concludes that the captain’s decision to ditch on the Hudson River rather than attempting to land at an airport provided the highest probability that the accident would be survivable.
Actually, AF447 did not pitch down. You might want to look at QF72, in which the incident was not caused by icing, but by a quite strange signalling condition from air data inertial reference units that the flight computer software interpreted incorrectly. LH1829 did pitch down because of two frozen angle of attack sensors. I do not know about other incidents.
I do not really get what is the real problem for wikipedia with this directive, when you take into account the WP:COPYVIO policy which about any wikipedia editor knows about.
The solution is not to find criteria to filter out "dumb" or "uneducated" people from voting. If their number are not insignificant, they will find another way to express themselves - and not necessarily in a good way.
The solution is to educate people and teach them to think rationally and not out of fear or of anger. It is not easy to do, otherwise we would not have been failing at this for the past decades.
Even if it had stayed opt-in, what makes you think they would not have abandoned to honour it as soon as the number of users enabling it became significant ?
It's not related to the recording medium, especially if you are able to hear the difference on youtube.
But of course, as you say, it is not impossible to get better mastering on a vinyl than on a CD. Given their target market (people interested in audio quality, with significantly high-end audio equipment), it would not surprise me than most re-printed vinyls are better mastered than a lot of CDs.
By using one of its numerous synonyms that have a stricter definition and general use. There is not a lack of words for that. For instance, "precisely".
You know well that statistics can be misleading. Use of homeopathy is high in Europe... for things such as treating a flu. Which might not be such a bad thing after all, since over medication and over use of antibiotics is a current concern. I do not think the use of homeopathy is so high for more serious illness cases - especially since public health insurance systems will provide access to modern medecine treatments.
Of course, you have a point in saying that collecting data allows for service improvement. However, the example you chose is pellicular. Do you really think that Google search results have improved so much in the last 20 years ? Personally, I do not. Granted, the web is a much bigger place now than it was 20 years ago, and with the way social networks are linked today, the old pagerank algorithm would not be as effective now as it was. Nevertheless, the collection of a aweful lot of data seems to be required just to return wikipedia as the first result of a query.
The El in Chicago is rusty, and is still a recognized landmark of the city. However, there is almost nothing rusty about the Eiffel tower when you get up close. It is painted over every 7 years...
Yes, but the situation is a little more shady than that. It's not really 438 people, it's 438 third-party applications and therefore 438 organisations. How many people behind those organisations ?
Furthermore, it appears that Google only keeps the log of the third-party API access for two weeks. Given the time window of this vulnerability, it seems quite misleading to go out and say that there is no evidence that this was used.
I agree with you that the information leaked seems pretty benign. Therefore, they should have had no problems in disclosing the vulnerability... And furthermore, the phone book example you gave is interesting, because it seems that combining the information available within it with the information potentially leaked would give a good basis for identity theft. So, I do not know if this should be considered so benign.
But crucially, there's no evidence that it actually was used to see private data, and given the thin user base, it's not clear how much non-public data there really was to see. The API was theoretically accessible to anyone who asked, but only 432 people actually applied for access (again, it's Google+), so it's plausible that none of them ever thought of using it this way.
As far as the lawyers were concerned, it wasn't a breach, and quietly fixing the problem was good enough.
In this particular case, it seems they would need to provide evidence that no data was accessed, rather than saying that they see no evidence that data was accessed.
Using COTS processors for short lived missions in space is not a new approach and has been done numerous times in the past. The radiation environment on Mars is actually not very stringent, for electronics. The main advantage of using a qualified RAD750 mission could be the extended temperature range for which it has been demonstrated to operate. The rover can experience quite extreme temperatures at Mars surface...
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There has been recently an interesting article about what blast processing actually was: a technique to extend the megadrive color palette.
Yes, please read the NTSB investigation report.
Simulation flights were run to determine whether the accident flight could have landed successfully at LGA or TEB following the bird strike. The simulations demonstrated that, to accomplish a successful flight to either airport, the airplane would have to have been turned toward the airport immediately after the bird strike. The immediate turn did not reflect or account for real-world considerations, such as the time delay required to recognize the extent of the engine thrust loss and decide on a course of action. The one simulator flight that took into account real-world considerations (a return to LGA runway 13 was attempted after a 35-second delay) was not successful. Therefore, the NTSB concludes that the captain’s decision to ditch on the Hudson River rather than attempting to land at an airport provided the highest probability that the accident would be survivable.
Actually, AF447 did not pitch down. You might want to look at QF72, in which the incident was not caused by icing, but by a quite strange signalling condition from air data inertial reference units that the flight computer software interpreted incorrectly. LH1829 did pitch down because of two frozen angle of attack sensors. I do not know about other incidents.
I do not really get what is the real problem for wikipedia with this directive, when you take into account the WP:COPYVIO policy which about any wikipedia editor knows about.
Of course we do. Do you think this kind of blackout has the approval of all the people who contributed to wikipedia ?
Because of power consumption.
There are other ways than driving to get out.
Now let's do exp(1).
Alien: engineers could have been good. Unfortunately, we got Prometheus.
What is the relationship between action and high definition ?
The solution is not to find criteria to filter out "dumb" or "uneducated" people from voting. If their number are not insignificant, they will find another way to express themselves - and not necessarily in a good way.
The solution is to educate people and teach them to think rationally and not out of fear or of anger. It is not easy to do, otherwise we would not have been failing at this for the past decades.
Even if it had stayed opt-in, what makes you think they would not have abandoned to honour it as soon as the number of users enabling it became significant ?
Actually since the "1 TB" upgrade, there had been no limit to the number of uploads per month.
It's not related to the recording medium, especially if you are able to hear the difference on youtube.
But of course, as you say, it is not impossible to get better mastering on a vinyl than on a CD. Given their target market (people interested in audio quality, with significantly high-end audio equipment), it would not surprise me than most re-printed vinyls are better mastered than a lot of CDs.
By using one of its numerous synonyms that have a stricter definition and general use. There is not a lack of words for that. For instance, "precisely".
You know well that statistics can be misleading. Use of homeopathy is high in Europe... for things such as treating a flu. Which might not be such a bad thing after all, since over medication and over use of antibiotics is a current concern. I do not think the use of homeopathy is so high for more serious illness cases - especially since public health insurance systems will provide access to modern medecine treatments.
Of course, you have a point in saying that collecting data allows for service improvement. However, the example you chose is pellicular. Do you really think that Google search results have improved so much in the last 20 years ? Personally, I do not. Granted, the web is a much bigger place now than it was 20 years ago, and with the way social networks are linked today, the old pagerank algorithm would not be as effective now as it was. Nevertheless, the collection of a aweful lot of data seems to be required just to return wikipedia as the first result of a query.
Ads are always annoying, whether you allowed tracking or not.
Because large trucks and automobiles can stop at the side of the road in case of problems. Airplanes crash to the ground.
The El in Chicago is rusty, and is still a recognized landmark of the city. However, there is almost nothing rusty about the Eiffel tower when you get up close. It is painted over every 7 years...
Probably by using the same bioburden reduction technique that most of the instruments on this mission go through: dry heat microbial reduction.
It seems they are going overboard with originality when it comes to naming. Are the next electric car companies going to get named Coulomb or Ampère ?
Yes, but the situation is a little more shady than that. It's not really 438 people, it's 438 third-party applications and therefore 438 organisations. How many people behind those organisations ?
Furthermore, it appears that Google only keeps the log of the third-party API access for two weeks. Given the time window of this vulnerability, it seems quite misleading to go out and say that there is no evidence that this was used.
I agree with you that the information leaked seems pretty benign. Therefore, they should have had no problems in disclosing the vulnerability... And furthermore, the phone book example you gave is interesting, because it seems that combining the information available within it with the information potentially leaked would give a good basis for identity theft. So, I do not know if this should be considered so benign.
But crucially, there's no evidence that it actually was used to see private data, and given the thin user base, it's not clear how much non-public data there really was to see. The API was theoretically accessible to anyone who asked, but only 432 people actually applied for access (again, it's Google+), so it's plausible that none of them ever thought of using it this way.
As far as the lawyers were concerned, it wasn't a breach, and quietly fixing the problem was good enough.
In this particular case, it seems they would need to provide evidence that no data was accessed, rather than saying that they see no evidence that data was accessed.
Using COTS processors for short lived missions in space is not a new approach and has been done numerous times in the past. The radiation environment on Mars is actually not very stringent, for electronics. The main advantage of using a qualified RAD750 mission could be the extended temperature range for which it has been demonstrated to operate. The rover can experience quite extreme temperatures at Mars surface...