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  1. Would one of these stickers on the bumper of my car defeat the automated license plate readers?

  2. Re: My personal challenge on Mark Zuckerberg's 2018 Personal Challenge Is To Do His Job As CEO (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I deleted my Facebook account years ago, don't miss it a bit. My real friends have my phone number.

  3. Re: Wait a minute... on Google and Facebook Failed Us (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not a bug, unless it's referring to a shooter other than the Vegas one. Google's job is to give you search results that match your query. THAT'S IT. It's not their job to determine what's true and what isn't, that's YOUR job.

  4. Re: So...Slashdot expects me... on The FCC Website Lets You Upload Malware Using Its Own Public API Key (hackernoon.com) · · Score: 2

    The first one is probably legit. It's an accurate description of Ajit Paid, and they want to apologise for how much of a tool he is.

  5. Re: Just an idiot making noise on Mayweather-McGregor Streaming Glitches Prompt Lawsuit Against Showtime (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Showtime isn't going to sue him. Even if they won and were awarded everything the guy has it wouldn't pay for their lawyer time.

  6. Re: I thought they had closed the case? on FBI Accepts New Evidence in 46-Year-Old D.B. Cooper Case (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Actually, modern aircraft don't have rear air stairs at all anymore.

  7. You don't know what you're talking about, I do it for a living. Every time the autopilot disconnects, every time it doesn't follow the course, every time that any minor failure happens, humans correct it. We don't report it because it HAPPENS EVERY DAY. The pilot doesn't tell you when something breaks or is inoperative, because we work around it and go so you can get where you're going.

    You have no idea, not the single slightest clue, what goes into it, so shut it.

  8. That quora is full of bad information. Auto land is only a requirement for some CATIII approaches. You can certify CATIII hand flown as well, using a HUD.

    If an airplane is not certified for CATIII autoland, then its autopilot doesn't have to be capable of landing. Even if it is, the autopilot can be downgraded, it just can't do a CATIII autoland approach until the autopilot is fixed.

  9. Uncountable numbers of crashes have been AVERTED by the pilots overriding automation. Uncountable because most are never reported to anyone, ever.

    Did you know that we can, and do, fly airliners with the autopilot(s) inoperative? The passengers, and often even the flight attendants, never know.

  10. Re: Airlines don't even bother with a safety conce on A New Way to Tell Your Airline You Hate It (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They usually follow their own policies, so they're, by definition, right. Most things that passengers complain about are, in fact, safety related. People don't get what it is they're actually doing. They're getting into a pressurized aluminum tube and shooting through the sky ~6 miles above the ground at ~500 miles an hour. Things that would be a minor annoyance on foot, or in a car, could kill you in that situation.

    Consider an airplane that didn't have any epinephrine on board (this was the case a few years ago when there was a shortage). A passenger with a peanut allergy doesn't have their own epi pen, and is removed from the flight by the captain. What do you think their reaction will be? Probably something like, "OMGWTFBBQPWNSAUCE they discriminated against me and denied me boarding because I have a condition OMGOMGOMGSUESUESUE I HATE THIS AIRLINE THEY'RE THE WORST EVER!!!" What's going to happen to them if their seat neighbor busts open some peanuts and they go into anaphylactic shock? They're probably going to die. There is literally nothing that can be done. You can't pull over, you can't call an ambulance, you can't separate them from the problem. They were removed from the flight because their life would be in danger.

    How about the canceled flights due to fog? Invariably there are passengers that complain, "my wife says it's clear there," and things to that effect. Well, it's not clear at the airport, and if we try to land in that fog, YOU COULD DIE.

    Or cancelled for thunderstorms, "OMG, YOU'VE RUINED MY LIFE, I HATE THIS AIRLINE, WHY CAN YOU JUST GO." Because that thunderstorm could kill you.

    "OMGWTFBBQ they canceled my flight because of snow, I can drive in snow, why can't they fly in it?" Have you tried landing a 150 ton pressurized aluminum tube on a snow or ice covered runway at 150 miles a hour? You could die. They don't make chains for that, and they wouldn't help anyway.

    The reason airlines are so safe is because they don't take stupid risks. Most passengers don't even realize what those risks are and don't consider the consequences.

  11. Re: Airlines don't even bother with a safety conce on A New Way to Tell Your Airline You Hate It (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Aviation is one of the industries where the customer is almost never right. You don't know what happened, and you don't know what you're talking about.

    "That door is open," it does that.
    "That engine is turning," wind.
    "The engine is clanking," wind.
    "There's a hole in the wing," there's supposed to be.
    "There's a fuel leak," it's water.
    "That other plane was REALLY close," no it wasn't.
    "That turbulence was REALLY bad, is the plane ok?" It was light turbulence, you'll break before the plane does.
    "You didn't do a run up, you're supposed to do one," no we're not.
    "Nice landing," actually it was terrible.
    "Wow, that was a bad landing," actually it was perfect.
    "The flaps aren't set for takeoff," yes they are.
    "You took off too close behind that plane," no we didn't.

    I could go all day.

  12. You really think that was trained for? No way. We don't train for it now after it's happened. We don't train for ditching in the river after Sully did it. All of that is accomplished by combining human experience with the human ability to improvise and adapt.

  13. Re: Remove the permission on Ask Slashdot: Are My Drone Apps Phoning Home? · · Score: 1

    Not for me. If I have Wi-Fi turned off, that means I want it off, no ifs, ands, or buts. If I want something to run a backup, or update itself, I'll leave Wi-Fi on.

  14. Re: in the dark old days... on Millennials Only Have a 5 To 6 Second Attention Span For Ads (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    WTF is a oven and what are the mitts for?

  15. Re: Meanwhile, somewhere in Europe.. on You Can't Change the Default Browser or Switch To Google Search In Windows 10 S (betanews.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Edge is actually very secure, primarily because it doesn't work with most websites.

  16. Re: Email tie-in on Verizon.net 'Gets Out Of The Email Business' (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You just found one.

  17. Are you aware that you simply unplug the old hard drive and plug in the new one? Soldering is unnecessary and not advisable.

  18. Re: Trolling in the summary on New Data Shows 85% of Humans Live Under a Corrupt Government (newatlas.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How many of those people in socialized healthcare systems have you interacted with? I've talked with a number of Australians, in Australia, and they were all pretty satisfied with their healthcare. They also all paid less for it (via tax) than I pay for my healthcare here in the US, and they actually get something for it.

    I pay out the ass for healthcare, even after my employer pays 2/3s of the cost, and it pays for jack shit. It's cheaper for me to tell the doctor that I don't have insurance and just pay the cash rate.

    Healthcare for the common citizen is shit in the US, and anybody who thinks otherwise is either ignorant, or delusional. The vast majority of us would pay LESS under socialized medicine, but that wouldn't make the establishment rich.

  19. Re: And the next food craze starts on New Study Finds 'Mediterranean' Diet Significantly Reduces Brain Shrinkage (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Creatures the world over eat meat, almost exclusively that of other species. Not one that I know of, with the exception of humans, drinks the milk of another species, and none, with the exception again of humans, drink milk after they "grow up." Milk is designed to develop an infant, that's it. It's actually pretty disgusting if you give it some rational thought.

  20. Re:And the next food craze starts on New Study Finds 'Mediterranean' Diet Significantly Reduces Brain Shrinkage (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Milk was never important for you. It started because somebody, somewhere was starving, decided that they liked it, and kept drinking it. Once it became a growth industry, that industry started marketing it as, "good for you," because they wanted more money. Would you drink human milk? No? Then why would you drink milk from a different species? Milk that's designed to develop a tiny baby into a two-thousand pound being. There's nothing good about it, people just like it, and grasp at straws to make themselves think it's not bad for them.

  21. Re:What's the point? on Huawei Snubs Google, Ships An Android Phone With Alexa (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    How did you interface it with the Insteon system?

  22. I don't have an Echo, and know nothing at all about them, so I wonder how easy it actually is to verify this? I assume it uses an encrypted connection to transmit the command, how do you know that's all it transmits?

  23. The difference is that freight legislation is not rooted in money, it's rooted in blood. The federal department of transportation won't let Uber ignore anything. They operate in a similar way to the FAA, neither is in it for money, and both could rightly be called overzealous, illogical, or misguided in many cases, but they don't look the other way when something makes a splash.

  24. Re:Has anyone bothered to ask why they want the li on Energy Department Refuses To Give Trump Team Names of People Who Worked On Climate Change (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nothing Trump has said makes anybody think they would want this list for anything good. Trump is an ignorant, egotistical fool. I'm not even sure he means well, I think he's doing the whole president thing solely for his ego. While the backlash that would occur should the electoral college not install Trump would be massive, I think they would be fully justified in not voting for him. This is exactly why the electoral college exists, but it's unfortunate that there are no good alternatives to Trump right now. At least the alternatives wouldn't be doing it for their ego, and wouldn't be completely ignorant about pretty much everything.

  25. Actually, I think automated cars would solve some traffic issues. Around here, most freeway jams are caused by people not knowing how to merge and fucking the whole freeway over when they try to enter at 35 mph. Automated cars would be much better at merging.

    They would also take interchange ramps at speed instead of slowing down too, which is the primary cause of fucking up a particular five mile stretch of freeway around here. So yes, traffic would get better with automated cars.