QED no such thing. You don't know what you are talking about. Maybe the work had already been done on that plane, maybe Boeing had already changed the design when it was built.
Malaysia Airlines has not revealed if it has learned anything from ACARS data, or if it has any. Its eleventh media statement since the plane disappeared said: "All Malaysia Airlines aircraft are equipped with ACARS which transmits data automatically. Nevertheless, there were no distress calls and no information was relayed."
The aircraft was delivered to Malaysia Airlines in 2002 and have since recorded 53,465.21 hours with a total of 7525 cycles. All Malaysia Airlines aircraft are equipped with continuous data monitoring system called the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) which transmits data automatically. Nevertheless, there were no distress calls and no information was relayed.
I mean, just look at the devastation non-native species are causing in various nations. They certify they can contain these creatures forever and ever?
There's no shortage of big bore rifles on the market today. Containment isn't an issue.
Note, it occurred to me later that the one country that has had airplanes flown into buildings might very well develop means of tracking planes that intentionally go off the grid, either by additional transmitters hidden in diagnostic gear, or other means.
Since the SAR beacons haven't gone off or haven't been heard, they too might have been disabled.
Actually, I'd like to know where you got the information on the exact equipment on board this plane?
What is being denied is that Malaysian Airlines subscribed to this monitoring program, not that it was not so equipped (*). The latest reports is that the radios are there and ping the satellites even when they are not going to transmit data.
U.S. officials said earlier that they have an "indication" the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner may have crashed in the Indian Ocean and is moving the USS Kidd to the area to begin searching. It's not clear what the indication was, but senior administration officials told ABC News the missing Malaysian flight continued to "ping" a satellite on an hourly basis after it lost contact with radar. The Boeing 777 jetliners are equipped with what is called the Airplane Health Management system in which they ping a satellite every hour. The number of pings would indicate how long the plane stayed aloft.
(Sort of like a cell phone with an expired sim still talks to the towers).
This is coming from the white house. You will remember YEARS AGO when the Russians shot down a commercial airliner, that the NSA pulled recorded conversations between the Russian pilots and their base, WEEKS after the incident, embarrassing the Russians. The US probably has more data on this indecent than they are willing to reveal at this time.
*This makes sense, because the airlines can turn the feature on by simple writing a check. Boeing builds it into the fleet on the hopes of selling the service.
Yeah, see that's where you have to take those green colored glasses off and realize that its not working in Germany and its not going to work in the US either.
There simply isn't enough windy places to power all of the United States 24/7. The sun doesn't shine at night, and we can't build a grid to someplace where it does.
Grid is a substitute for storage and local generation. But grids simply aren't world wide, and aren't likely to be.
The other problems of creating a grid sufficient to meet country wide needs are also underrated.
Indeed, these problems are virtually hand-waived away by most, with the blithe assertion that the sun is shining and the wind is blowing somewhere. These folks never look at maps, and fail to notice that the earth is 3/4 covered with oceans.
Hydro works because of storage. Coal works because of storage. Nuclear works because of storage. You can spool these up when needed, and throttle them back when not needed, storing the fuel for later.
Wind and solar have a big problem, not because of grid technology, but simply because of lack of storage.
Your own example proves the fallacy of your second sentence.
Where the funds come from doesn't matter. Its not the issue here. Research is not done without funding. There was and still is tons of money being spent on battery research at this very instant. Some from government, but a whole hell of a lot of it from private sector product development, in the hopes of making a profit some day.
Putting NO money into research guarantees zero success and zero results.
I have no idea why you brought that up. With advances in battery technology and solar technology being made (and posted here on/.) almost WEEKLY, all of it funded by someone's research dollars, why would you suggest research only leads to failure.
But I think $50B towards wind/solar would help replace coal more than trying to block it out.
Exactly.
Put a quarter of that money (money that none of these groups have, they were planning to use YOURS), into research on wind and solar, and storage, and you will be doing the world far more good.
Besides, the net ripple effect would require far more than 50 Billion.
In addition you have to replace a whole bunch of brand new highly efficient and scrubbed power stations, and totally shut down steel production. Metallurgic coal (coke) is essential for steel production. That pushes steel production to other countries, causing a world wide shortage, and we end up paying more and they end up polluting more.
Coal gasification projects, current and planned, would all be wiped out exactly when they are needed.
You can't simply look at the market cap of coal industry companies on Yahoo and sum them all up. Like most plans, this is a simplistic and simple minded approach. It would never work
The military is now denying those reports, and there's no confirmation of any changes in course. Further, all electronic signals were lost simultaneously. There's no evidence the pilot turned off anything.
Wait, the sat service is already in place. You are simply talking about another data channel interleaved on the existing data channels these planes already stream back to the airlines and to Boeing/Airbus.
If airlines are going to start feeding passengers internet access they surely have time to insert a few OOB packets for event recording. I believe some of this is part of ACAS data streams.
The flight in question had GPS tracking for flight arrival information. It went dead the same time as everything else. (EMP pulse?)
Why would he have to move/hire protection? I guess I can see that he might be paranoid enough to think it's necessary, but why would it be actually necessary?
. What bothers me is I don't recall signing any sort of release on this, when someone wants to look where I've been driving my car.
Wait? You actually believe this story? You've seen one of these so called scanner-cars driving the parking lots?
There simply aren't enough repo men in business to warrant this, and those defaulting on car loans are well known to the banks, they could just go to the house the deadbeat lives in, where they work, or report the vehicle as stolen and let the police handle it.
I'm calling bs on the the entire thing, probably a ploy to drum up scanner sales. Pictures or it doesn't happen.
Exactly, however the build time, often takes days, for any given especially where non-perishable goods are being shipped.
You might have feeder lines coming in from regional hubs, ports, mining, manufacturing centers to a train yard, for assembly into a trans continental train, and each of these loads has different destinations. So the train is built for ease of disassemble, so that entire segments can be dropped along the way. Putting the closest destinations last on the line of rail cars, so they can just be disconnected when you reach your first stop, and maybe others tacked on.
But that is not the only consideration. You have to consider weight distribution along the train, You can't necessarily put a long slug of very light empty flat cars between longer much heaver materials cars. The light cars can be pulled off the track in certain cornering situations.
Train building is all done according to computer generated assembly lists. And if yard engineers are very lucky every segment is found on a specified track, in the proper order, but they often need to move other cars just to get to the segment they want. In large yards like The Bailey Yard that segment could be many miles away by rail, but only 500 yards away as the crow flys. Each trim up and down the yard can take half an hour. Google maps view: you will have to zoom both In and Out to comprehend the scale of this yard. These yards are everywhere.
Railroads have to pay to maintain their tracks based on the wear their cargo trains do to them. Trucks, on the other hand, have the costs of maintaining the road spread onto passenger cars
Nevertheless, shipping something long distance via rail is way cheaper than by truck. In spite of the subsidy advantages truckers get, they still don't compete on price.
The truckers compete on convenience, and time, and door to door service. By the time you handle all the inter-modal swaps, and delays trucks get it done faster. Rail means you go 1)From the shipping dock onto a truck, 2)across town, 3) off the truck, 4)onto the train, 5)wait for a train to be built, 6)wait for train to run, 7)off the train onto the trucks, 8) finally to the delivery dock.
Mr Fuckup can visit in any one of those places, and your 6 box cars of cabbage rots on some siding in Omaha.
And train building can literally take DAYS before your container moves. And it might take days at several points in the journey for unusual destinations.
Still, we are beating the hell out of all our roads with mile long trains of trucks. After every city there is the 20 mile truck sort where each driver wanting to go 1/4 of a mile per hour faster than the next, will consume all available lanes passing.
You will get modded to hell suggesting we get trucks off the road and onto the railroad, because you are attacking someone's life style. But its a sad truth that we rely more on long haul trucks than any other place on earth.
What's the difference between an invention and a discovery? Is the distinction precise enough for practical cases?
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
Somehow, a specific method of controlling motors via a just invented micro computer seems a far stretch from meeting the "good of the people" designation.
The "good of the people" is ALREADY serviced by the limited duration of patents. Hyatt licensed his Microprocessor patent far and wide, at reasonable rates, and the "good of the people" was served.
That's the way it is supposed to work. Its not supposed to be
"Oh, nice invention, we're officially stealing it, and fuck you very much."
Yes, the trouble is that independent invention is no defence. And yes, it is the "natural" way of doing the task, used my many if not most in the field.
It may have been in that era, since, as the story points out, secrecy about an application was required, until granted or denied. No one could have even known there was an application covering this. If the techniques used had come into wide use and even into publication, while the government sat on a secret patent, I doubt any court would impose a requirement that back royalties would be do, or that new licenses must be taken.
The inventor's claims would b against the government, not innocent users of common practices.
Hyatt refers to it as his square wave machine control patent. But that's about all that is known.
I'd speculate It would flow out of his digital processors patents, and probably has something to do with controlling motors with a microprocessor via pulse width modulation or some such other common technique.
His problem is that the world plus dog independently discovered a variety of means to do the same thing in the interval since his first filing, if for no other reason than once you have a microprocessor (which he also invented), it is the obvious and natural way to control external devices.
Still, patents should be granted or denied. No reasonable excuse to sit on this forever. No way should the PTO get a "pocket veto" authority.
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QED no such thing. You don't know what you are talking about.
Maybe the work had already been done on that plane, maybe Boeing had already changed the design when it was built.
http://www.newscientist.com/ar...
Malaysia Airlines has not revealed if it has learned anything from ACARS data, or if it has any. Its eleventh media statement since the plane disappeared said: "All Malaysia Airlines aircraft are equipped with ACARS which transmits data automatically. Nevertheless, there were no distress calls and no information was relayed."
Also here: http://www.malaysiaairlines.co... Page 8
The aircraft was delivered to Malaysia Airlines in 2002 and have since recorded 53,465.21 hours with a total of 7525 cycles. All Malaysia Airlines aircraft are equipped with continuous data monitoring system called the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) which transmits data automatically. Nevertheless, there were no distress calls and no information was relayed.
Charging at a rate of 2amps or more has been available in Android phones for years.
If the source can support it, the cable will handle it just fine.
Faster charging than that decreases battery life.
I mean, just look at the devastation non-native species are causing in various nations. They certify they can contain these creatures forever and ever?
There's no shortage of big bore rifles on the market today. Containment isn't an issue.
Wait, isn't this the SECOND time this standard was imposed, and didn't apple get a pass last time?
Why will it be different this time?
I'm betting Apple will issue another "E-waste" adapter to their ridiculous 30pin, and thumb their nose at this rule just like the last time.
Damn you auto-correct!
Note, it occurred to me later that the one country that has had airplanes flown into buildings might very well develop means of tracking planes that intentionally go off the grid, either by additional transmitters hidden in diagnostic gear, or other means.
Since the SAR beacons haven't gone off or haven't been heard, they too might have been disabled.
Actually, I'd like to know where you got the information on the exact equipment on board this plane?
What is being denied is that Malaysian Airlines subscribed to this monitoring program, not that it was not so equipped (*).
The latest reports is that the radios are there and ping the satellites even when they are not going to transmit data.
U.S. officials said earlier that they have an "indication" the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner may have crashed in the Indian Ocean and is moving the USS Kidd to the area to begin searching.
It's not clear what the indication was, but senior administration officials told ABC News the missing Malaysian flight continued to "ping" a satellite on an hourly basis after it lost contact with radar. The Boeing 777 jetliners are equipped with what is called the Airplane Health Management system in which they ping a satellite every hour. The number of pings would indicate how long the plane stayed aloft.
(Sort of like a cell phone with an expired sim still talks to the towers).
This is coming from the white house.
You will remember YEARS AGO when the Russians shot down a commercial airliner, that the NSA pulled recorded conversations between the Russian pilots and their base, WEEKS after the incident, embarrassing the Russians.
The US probably has more data on this indecent than they are willing to reveal at this time.
*This makes sense, because the airlines can turn the feature on by simple writing a check.
Boeing builds it into the fleet on the hopes of selling the service.
Yeah, see that's where you have to take those green colored glasses off and realize that its not working in Germany and its not going to work in the US either.
Germany's green energy is
Generally
Considered
A failure.
It's not getting better
Any time soon
There simply isn't enough windy places to power all of the United States 24/7. The sun doesn't shine at night, and we can't build a grid to someplace where it does.
Grid is a substitute for storage and local generation. But grids simply aren't world wide, and aren't likely to be.
Storage is actually under-rated.
The other problems of creating a grid sufficient to meet country wide needs are also underrated.
Indeed, these problems are virtually hand-waived away by most, with the blithe assertion that the sun is shining and the wind is blowing somewhere. These folks never look at maps, and fail to notice that the earth is 3/4 covered with oceans.
Hydro works because of storage. Coal works because of storage. Nuclear works because of storage. You can spool these up when needed, and throttle them back when not needed, storing the fuel for later.
Wind and solar have a big problem, not because of grid technology, but simply because of lack of storage.
Your own example proves the fallacy of your second sentence.
Where the funds come from doesn't matter. Its not the issue here. Research is not done without funding.
There was and still is tons of money being spent on battery research at this very instant. Some from government, but a whole hell of a lot of it from private sector product development, in the hopes of making a profit some day.
Putting NO money into research guarantees zero success and zero results.
I have no idea why you brought that up. With advances in battery technology and solar technology being made (and posted here on /.) almost WEEKLY, all of it funded by someone's research dollars, why would you suggest research only leads to failure.
But I think $50B towards wind/solar would help replace coal more than trying to block it out.
Exactly.
Put a quarter of that money (money that none of these groups have, they were planning to use YOURS), into research on wind and solar, and storage, and you will be doing the world far more good.
Besides, the net ripple effect would require far more than 50 Billion.
In addition you have to replace a whole bunch of brand new highly efficient and scrubbed power stations, and totally shut down steel production.
Metallurgic coal (coke) is essential for steel production. That pushes steel production to other countries, causing a world wide shortage, and we end up paying more and they end up polluting more.
Coal gasification projects, current and planned, would all be wiped out exactly when they are needed.
You can't simply look at the market cap of coal industry companies on Yahoo and sum them all up.
Like most plans, this is a simplistic and simple minded approach. It would never work
The military is now denying those reports, and there's no confirmation of any changes in course. Further, all electronic signals were lost simultaneously.
There's no evidence the pilot turned off anything.
Pays to keep up with the news.
Wait, the sat service is already in place. You are simply talking about another data channel interleaved on the existing data channels these planes already stream back to the airlines and to Boeing/Airbus.
If airlines are going to start feeding passengers internet access they surely have time to insert a few OOB packets for event recording. I believe some of this is part of ACAS data streams.
The flight in question had GPS tracking for flight arrival information.
It went dead the same time as everything else. (EMP pulse?)
Why would he have to move/hire protection? I guess I can see that he might be paranoid enough to think it's necessary, but why would it be actually necessary?
Read it and weep:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/0...
Ah, no. Go back and Reread TFA (for the first time)
Few notice the “spotter car” from Manny Sousa’s repo company as it scours Massachusetts parking lots,
Private companies do not put scanners in road right-of-ways.
. What bothers me is I don't recall signing any sort of release on this, when someone wants to look where I've been driving my car.
Wait? You actually believe this story?
You've seen one of these so called scanner-cars driving the parking lots?
There simply aren't enough repo men in business to warrant this, and those defaulting on car loans are well known to the banks, they could just go to the house the deadbeat lives in, where they work, or report the vehicle as stolen and let the police handle it.
I'm calling bs on the the entire thing, probably a ploy to drum up scanner sales. Pictures or it doesn't happen.
Exactly, however the build time, often takes days, for any given especially where non-perishable goods are being shipped.
You might have feeder lines coming in from regional hubs, ports, mining, manufacturing centers to a train yard, for assembly into a trans continental train, and each of these loads has different destinations. So the train is built for ease of disassemble, so that entire segments can be dropped along the way. Putting the closest destinations last on the line of rail cars, so they can just be disconnected when you reach your first stop, and maybe others tacked on.
But that is not the only consideration. You have to consider weight distribution along the train, You can't necessarily put a long slug of very light empty flat cars between longer much heaver materials cars. The light cars can be pulled off the track in certain cornering situations.
Train building is all done according to computer generated assembly lists. And if yard engineers are very lucky every segment is found on a specified track, in the proper order, but they often need to move other cars just to get to the segment they want. In large yards like The Bailey Yard that segment could be many miles away by rail, but only 500 yards away as the crow flys. Each trim up and down the yard can take half an hour. Google maps view: you will have to zoom both In and Out to comprehend the scale of this yard. These yards are everywhere.
Railroads have to pay to maintain their tracks based on the wear their cargo trains do to them. Trucks, on the other hand, have the costs of maintaining the road spread onto passenger cars
Nevertheless, shipping something long distance via rail is way cheaper than by truck. In spite of the subsidy advantages truckers get, they still don't compete on price.
The truckers compete on convenience, and time, and door to door service. By the time you handle all the inter-modal swaps, and delays trucks get it done faster. Rail means you go 1)From the shipping dock onto a truck, 2)across town, 3) off the truck, 4)onto the train, 5)wait for a train to be built, 6)wait for train to run, 7)off the train onto the trucks, 8) finally to the delivery dock.
Mr Fuckup can visit in any one of those places, and your 6 box cars of cabbage rots on some siding in Omaha.
And train building can literally take DAYS before your container moves. And it might take days at several points in the journey for unusual destinations.
Still, we are beating the hell out of all our roads with mile long trains of trucks. After every city there is the 20 mile truck sort where each driver wanting to go 1/4 of a mile per hour faster than the next, will consume all available lanes passing.
You will get modded to hell suggesting we get trucks off the road and onto the railroad, because you are attacking someone's life style.
But its a sad truth that we rely more on long haul trucks than any other place on earth.
What's the difference between an invention and a discovery? Is the distinction precise enough for practical cases?
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
Not much, it would seem.
Somehow, a specific method of controlling motors via a just invented micro computer seems a far stretch from meeting the "good of the people" designation.
The "good of the people" is ALREADY serviced by the limited duration of patents.
Hyatt licensed his Microprocessor patent far and wide, at reasonable rates, and the "good of the people" was served.
That's the way it is supposed to work. Its not supposed to be
"Oh, nice invention, we're officially stealing it, and fuck you very much."
Yes, the trouble is that independent invention is no defence. And yes, it is the "natural" way of doing the task, used my many if not most in the field.
It may have been in that era, since, as the story points out, secrecy about an application was required, until granted or denied.
No one could have even known there was an application covering this.
If the techniques used had come into wide use and even into publication, while the government sat on a secret patent, I doubt any court
would impose a requirement that back royalties would be do, or that new licenses must be taken.
The inventor's claims would b against the government, not innocent users of common practices.
Hyatt refers to it as his square wave machine control patent.
But that's about all that is known.
I'd speculate It would flow out of his digital processors patents, and probably has something to do with controlling motors with a microprocessor via pulse width modulation or some such other common technique.
His problem is that the world plus dog independently discovered a variety of means to do the same thing in the interval since his first filing, if for no other reason than once you have a microprocessor (which he also invented), it is the obvious and natural way to control external devices.
Still, patents should be granted or denied. No reasonable excuse to sit on this forever. No way should the PTO get a "pocket veto" authority.
And surprisingly on that same page they offer a $40 per year service. Hmmmmm.
Its true that Google announced then end of XMPP interoperability, but XMPP was not what Google Voice used for calling.
The OBI simulates the Gmail Google Voice interface and the Google Talk (windows app).
This announcement from OBI may be a self serving red herring.
Even if Google starts charging its going to be cheaper than Vonage.
Google's international rates are pretty low as well.