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  1. As the proverb says ... on Apple Dealt Legal Blow as Jury Awards Qualcomm $31 Million (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What goes around corners comes around corners.

  2. inferior article on Toyota Is Losing the Electric Car Race, So It Pretends Hybrids Are Better · · Score: 1

    Better *than*. Superior *to*.

    Is it really that hard?

  3. Re:Turn off auto-leveling on Boeing 737 Max Jets Grounded By FAA Emergency Order (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    No. A bodge may retroactively qualify as a design decision by dint of actually fucking working.

  4. Re:How Were The Real Victims on Man Arrested For Selling One Million Netflix, Spotify, Hulu Passwords (bitdefender.com) · · Score: 1

    So the people who bought those usernames and passwords, well they were naughty people and knew full well what they were doing and yet in reality, once the actual holder of the username password finds out, they alter the account and the person who bought it has nothing, they can not lock the real user out because they will simply stop paying, so they knowing buyer is defrauded because they buy nothing, over the medium term.

    If the Energizer bunny was a sentence it would be this one.

  5. The number one instrument the pilot has is the big clear one in front of him that shows the world.

    You mean the one that doesn't work very well at night and breaks down completely in bad weather?

  6. Re:When are we gonna find out what crashed them? on Boeing 737 Max Jets Grounded By FAA Emergency Order (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's still cold at high altitude. If you ever get there...

  7. Re:Turn off auto-leveling on Boeing 737 Max Jets Grounded By FAA Emergency Order (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Without it, on full throttle, the aircraft doesn't have enough authority to bring the nose down once it goes up too high.

    Unless it has access to an extra set of control surfaces that aren't accessible to the pilots, how does MCAS get this authority?

  8. Re:Turn off auto-leveling on Boeing 737 Max Jets Grounded By FAA Emergency Order (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 0

    While you can compensate for a poor design in software, the best way is to not make the poor design in the first place.

    Since we all love car analogies...

    https://fsinfo.noone.org/dev/n...

  9. Re: c6gummer knows nothing about this, liar caught on Boeing 737 Max Jets Grounded By FAA Emergency Order (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Power supplies are different. If one works, that's enough. For sensors, dual isn't good enough. You need a third one as a tie-breaker if the others disagree.

    But it was pilot error, right?

  10. Re:I guess the incredibly obvious question is... on Boeing To Make Key Change in 737 MAX Cockpit Software (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    He doesn't understand what the "co" part of "copilot" means, that's for sure.

  11. Re:seems like the logic here is flawed. on Boeing To Make Key Change in 737 MAX Cockpit Software (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    You keep babbling on about how complex the implementation is. Nobody's disputing that.

    The point people are making is that it's a design problem. Not doing the thing wrong, but doing the wrong thing.

  12. Re:Anti-Vax/Flat Earth Now 5G on Portland City Council May Ask FCC To Investigate Health Risks of 5G Networks (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    Or get into the business of selling filters/protective clothing/amulets.

    In the days when CRT monitors were common some people had them on their screens. I found them to be very effective - for indicating who the nutters in the office were without even talking to them.

  13. Re:I guess the incredibly obvious question is... on Boeing To Make Key Change in 737 MAX Cockpit Software (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I am baffled as to why, if the problem had been identified, the planes weren't grounded until the software fix was implemented.

    On my keyboard, you press shift and 4 together.

  14. Re: I guess the incredibly obvious question is.. on Boeing To Make Key Change in 737 MAX Cockpit Software (wsj.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    There is an option to disable the system.

    It's a button in the aft toilet under a locked flap with "beware of the leopard" written on it.

  15. Re:I guess the incredibly obvious question is... on Boeing To Make Key Change in 737 MAX Cockpit Software (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    I think that pulling the stick back disables it - but only temporarily. It waits till the pilots think the problem has gone away, then starts shoving the nose down again.

    Why anyone could think this is better is beyond me.

  16. Re:editors lol on Fast-Growth Chickens Produce New Industry Woe: 'Spaghetti Meat' (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't gnocchit if you haven't tried it.

  17. Zuck Shekels = Zuckels.

  18. 1-The main benefit of Bitcoin is the decentralized and not controlled by 1 company thing.

    I think it was one government. We're all OK with one company doing it because yay for free markets111oneeleven1!!!!

  19. Re: Southwest still uses 'em on FAA Says Boeing 737 MAX Planes Are Still Airworthy (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The fact that on one occasion they did it manually doesn't disprove what I said.

    How much Boeing stock do you own?

  20. Re: Right. A more accurate statement on FAA Says Boeing 737 MAX Planes Are Still Airworthy (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    1965 is quite some time ago. It's closer to WW2 than it is to now.

    Heck, it's closer to WW1 than it is to now. I'd hope the state-of-the art might have progressed somewhat since then.

  21. Re:I wouldn't worry much on Will A No-Deal Brexit Void 340,000 British-Owned .EU Domains? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Well that rather depends on what type of Brexit happens. If it's a soft Brexit, i.e. staying in the customs union, then things probably won't change economy-wise that much.

    A quarter of the globe, pink it was. And you could still buy potatoes by the pound. None of these so-called "kilograms".

  22. Re: Southwest still uses 'em on FAA Says Boeing 737 MAX Planes Are Still Airworthy (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    The pilots on the plane which crashed DID pull the nose up numerous times, but they - for whatever reason - never turned off automatic trim.

    Because they expected that to happen automatically when they pulled the nose up, as it had done on previous versions of the aircraft.

    It's right there in the article that crgrace ( 220738 ) posted.

    So they pull the nose up, go "phew, that was close!" but the Mad Crazy Ass Suicide mechanism is still active and pitches forward again...

  23. Re: Southwest still uses 'em on FAA Says Boeing 737 MAX Planes Are Still Airworthy (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Now we know where Gnome usability specialists go to when they fancy a change.

  24. Re:Cringley is a moron on Cringley's Next 2019 Predictions: Only 3.5 Cloud Players Will Survive (cringely.com) · · Score: 1

    Conclusion: IBM don't know what CentOS is.

  25. Yo dawg - i herd u like internets on Cringley's Next 2019 Predictions: Only 3.5 Cloud Players Will Survive (cringely.com) · · Score: 1

    XaaS - Xzibit as a service?