We cannot have laws against sleeping, as it is a natural need. However we could improve safety by giving customers more information.
For instance, a law could force airlines company to tell customers how many hours a week the pilot worked, and how many flight he did in a row. That would help us avoiding pilots made dangerous by insane airline work policy.
We don't need to have laws against sleeping on the job.
Because generally when you do it, you tend to get terminated.:P
Why not have the pilots take their naps in a separate bunk near the crew compartment. It gives them better rest, and the act of climbing out of the bunk and walking to the cockpit gives them time to help shake off the grogginess.
Or is it better to have them sleep in their seats so they are immediately ready to step in if needed?
Additionally why not have a third pilot for flights that are so long that two professionally trained pilot have problems staying awake or maintaining alertness during the flight?
The reduction in insurance premiums should almost offset the salaries of the additional pilot.
There was also apparently a fuel dump. So, either the student pilot hit a wrong button, or when they say "catastrophic mechanical failure", catastrophic is probably not an exaggeration.
Just a guess, but maybe they dumped fuel in order to incinerate as little as possible of the crash site? It might even make sense for the flight computer to do this automatically if it predicts an imminent crash.
They primarily dump fuel to reduce weight, and increase manoeuvrability, the flaming inferno factor usually comes in last.
Well, if you're so paranoid, get some tape and cover over the camera and microphone, or take it apart and disconnect it.
But, maybe even light bulbs have cameras and microphones in them now, using the powerlines to transmit the data back..
Actually they use Wifi/3G powered by perpetual motion engines or for Japanese models by miniature fusion reactors. This enables them to send data, even when the TV isn't plugged into anything so they can still spy on you.
The only sure way to protect yourself is to wrap the entire set in tinfoil.
I am relatively proficient when it comes to many things web/html related, yet I have never heard of being able to create a link that doesn't pass referrer information. After googling this topic for a little bit, all I see is that most modern browsers now pass the referrer info, even with target="_blank" or when the link is handled via javascript.
That said, I am well aware that "The more I learn, the less I know."... So... Can you enlighten us on this HTML magic to which you refer?
If you want the situation to change, hire the guy in charge of security at El-Al. Get rid of the entire TSA, and just do whatever the Israelis do. Air travel can be safe.
I would love to have El Al's security here in the states, but I am not sure how well it would scale up. Hell, they only have 42 planes including cargo planes currently flying...
I've flown Royal Jordanian airlines into Queen Alia International Airport to connect to Israel. They've been doing TSA style patdowns since the late 1980s.First you get sweeped by handheld wands. Then there was an incident during one of these patdowns, when I had a 25ml bottle of eyedrops in my pocket (contact lenses and longhaul flights don't mix so well) I had to empty my pockets and the agent opened and sniffed the bottle. The groping and prodding was quite invasive and they were squeezing the stuff that was in my pocket through my pants, to figure out what it was.
Seeing a product first hand is of limited value. Holding a Netgear gigabit switch in my hand isn't going to tell me that it's made with shitty capacitors that fail within a year, but a dozen different reviewers complaining of the same problem on Newegg will tell me that, and help me avoid a bad purchase, and let me instead purchase an HP gigabit switch that has consistently excellent reviews, and furthermore isn't available at my local retailer since it only carries crappy consumer-grade junk and not business-class networking equipment.
I'd have to agree, even the Linksys "Cisco" business grade Gigabit switches use shitty capacitors which seem to have been meticulously provisioned to last for 12 - 13 months and then fail just outside of warranty. I changed the capacitors instead of buying a new switch, and it's been working fine for the 2 years plus since I replaced them.
Yeah, somebody talked about wanting something *now*. Otherwise, order online and ship overnight is close enough to *now* for electronics. If you really need computer parts on an hour's notice, you should keep them in stock yourself - there's no guarantee a store would have what you need on hand anyway.
The reality is actually closer to: go see the physical product in store then go online and order it from the cheapest source or from somewhere you know has a decent return policy, like Newegg.
It's ok, because they will just suddenly pull the plug and cease all development for the Xbox 360 when the 720 is announced. Microsoft did this with the first get Xbox and I have the utmost confidence that they will do it again once their next gen is ready to be launched.
The red ring of death issue was majorly overestimated, and you know why? Because Xbox360 actually does show error messages on failure while PS3 and Wii do not. It became it's image, just like the blue screen of death. Image wise it would had been better for MS to just show nothing in both cases. I do, however, appreciate Microsoft's honesty and not trying to hide the issues from users.
Because the PS3s and Wiis kept failing, and their owners cluelessly continued using them and enjoying their games until this day for many of the consoles?
As opposed to the Xbox 360 developing the RROD which you otherwise could have mistaken for normal operation in some cases as early as 3 to 6 months after purchase, and often repeatedly after getting it back from RMA, and being such a fiasco that the warranty was retroactively increased to 3 years?
From TFA:“But what if you were doing it for athletic purposes?” Doctorow responds. Herr says if the need is there, then why not? He has some controversial opinions. A future devoid of disability? Many would agree that’s an amazing prospect. But a future where people can upgrade themselves as if they were DIY machines themselves? Is that something people want?"
Interesting, this guys seems pretty extreme but I'm of the opinion that if technology is starting to play such major roles in almost all sports why shouldn't cyborgs be allowed to compete in track and field?
Sports is all about "cheating" or if you prefer gaining the upper hand with technology anyway these days (Golf, Swimming, Archery, Sports Medicine etc.)
In my experience the distribution of incompetence is more or less equal between the sexes.
But if I was forced to choose between having a incompetent or overbearing boss of either gender, I would go with the male boss.
At the risk of seeming misogynistic, I'll add that I've not had many good experiences with incompetent female bosses in the IT sector, whereas the male ones tended to give me substantially more free rein with my decisions and policies.
(I grew up with a coder mother, and handled my first punched card at age 5...)
American cops have these weird things that I'm not even going to try to describe. Come to think, I would be far less inclined to cross a cop who was armed with a sword than I would a cop with the aforementioned weird stick thingy.
ding ding ding - we have a winner. The rich are even more scared of the police than non-rich people.. P.S. I speak for many ultra high net worth individuals who feel this way. Posting AC for obvious reasons.
I call bullshit. "Ultra high net worth" individuals fear no one.
This was my point. It would have been prohibitively difficult to repair and then routinely service the HST using any other launch system.
Considering the cost per launch for the entire duration of the shuttle program, it's likely that it was one of the most prohibitively expensive delivery systems they could have possibly employed.
WD are turning into shit at the moment. Weve had so many WD blues die on regular workstations its rediculous at work.
Luckily the black and RE drives seem good still.
I have had terrible experiences with the Caviar Blacks, and the Caviar Greens are easily the worst. You can't just swap a PCB now, part of the ROM resides on the PCB, and the Greens park the drive heads every 8 or so seconds to reduce power consumption, I have seen an inordinate number of mechanical failures that were WD Blacks and Greens, though recently they have been almost exclusively greens.
I have switched all my drives to 2TB Samsung F3s and 7200rpm Hitachi 2TBs.
WD 1TB Caviar Black AAKS drives were the worst I've owned in recent years.
I experienced a 50% failure rate within 24 months for 8 units I was running personally. One of my clients who does server virtualization experienced approximately 30% failure rates with his 40 drives.
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We cannot have laws against sleeping, as it is a natural need. However we could improve safety by giving customers more information.
For instance, a law could force airlines company to tell customers how many hours a week the pilot worked, and how many flight he did in a row. That would help us avoiding pilots made dangerous by insane airline work policy.
We don't need to have laws against sleeping on the job.
Because generally when you do it, you tend to get terminated. :P
Why not have the pilots take their naps in a separate bunk near the crew compartment. It gives them better rest, and the act of climbing out of the bunk and walking to the cockpit gives them time to help shake off the grogginess.
Or is it better to have them sleep in their seats so they are immediately ready to step in if needed?
Additionally why not have a third pilot for flights that are so long that two professionally trained pilot have problems staying awake or maintaining alertness during the flight?
The reduction in insurance premiums should almost offset the salaries of the additional pilot.
There was also apparently a fuel dump. So, either the student pilot hit a wrong button, or when they say "catastrophic mechanical failure", catastrophic is probably not an exaggeration.
Just a guess, but maybe they dumped fuel in order to incinerate as little as possible of the crash site? It might even make sense for the flight computer to do this automatically if it predicts an imminent crash.
They primarily dump fuel to reduce weight, and increase manoeuvrability, the flaming inferno factor usually comes in last.
Well, if you're so paranoid, get some tape and cover over the camera and microphone, or take it apart and disconnect it.
But, maybe even light bulbs have cameras and microphones in them now, using the powerlines to transmit the data back..
Actually they use Wifi/3G powered by perpetual motion engines or for Japanese models by miniature fusion reactors. This enables them to send data, even when the TV isn't plugged into anything so they can still spy on you.
The only sure way to protect yourself is to wrap the entire set in tinfoil.
I am relatively proficient when it comes to many things web/html related, yet I have never heard of being able to create a link that doesn't pass referrer information. After googling this topic for a little bit, all I see is that most modern browsers now pass the referrer info, even with target="_blank" or when the link is handled via javascript.
That said, I am well aware that "The more I learn, the less I know."... So... Can you enlighten us on this HTML magic to which you refer?
http://anonym.to/
If you want the situation to change, hire the guy in charge of security at El-Al. Get rid of the entire TSA, and just do whatever the Israelis do. Air travel can be safe.
I would love to have El Al's security here in the states, but I am not sure how well it would scale up. Hell, they only have 42 planes including cargo planes currently flying...
I've flown Royal Jordanian airlines into Queen Alia International Airport to connect to Israel. They've been doing TSA style patdowns since the late 1980s.First you get sweeped by handheld wands. Then there was an incident during one of these patdowns, when I had a 25ml bottle of eyedrops in my pocket (contact lenses and longhaul flights don't mix so well) I had to empty my pockets and the agent opened and sniffed the bottle. The groping and prodding was quite invasive and they were squeezing the stuff that was in my pocket through my pants, to figure out what it was.
Seeing a product first hand is of limited value. Holding a Netgear gigabit switch in my hand isn't going to tell me that it's made with shitty capacitors that fail within a year, but a dozen different reviewers complaining of the same problem on Newegg will tell me that, and help me avoid a bad purchase, and let me instead purchase an HP gigabit switch that has consistently excellent reviews, and furthermore isn't available at my local retailer since it only carries crappy consumer-grade junk and not business-class networking equipment.
I'd have to agree, even the Linksys "Cisco" business grade Gigabit switches use shitty capacitors which seem to have been meticulously provisioned to last for 12 - 13 months and then fail just outside of warranty. I changed the capacitors instead of buying a new switch, and it's been working fine for the 2 years plus since I replaced them.
Yeah, somebody talked about wanting something *now*. Otherwise, order online and ship overnight is close enough to *now* for electronics. If you really need computer parts on an hour's notice, you should keep them in stock yourself - there's no guarantee a store would have what you need on hand anyway.
The reality is actually closer to: go see the physical product in store then go online and order it from the cheapest source or from somewhere you know has a decent return policy, like Newegg.
The current Xbox 360 is still generating massive amounts of revenue, http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2012/01/12/xbox-360-extends-win-streak-to-12-straight-months-with-banner-holiday-sales.aspx, if they introduce a new platform, it will kill off the current version and forego the millions in additional revenue by extending the life of the 360. only when sales start to slump will the 720 be announced.
It's ok, because they will just suddenly pull the plug and cease all development for the Xbox 360 when the 720 is announced. Microsoft did this with the first get Xbox and I have the utmost confidence that they will do it again once their next gen is ready to be launched.
The red ring of death issue was majorly overestimated, and you know why? Because Xbox360 actually does show error messages on failure while PS3 and Wii do not. It became it's image, just like the blue screen of death. Image wise it would had been better for MS to just show nothing in both cases. I do, however, appreciate Microsoft's honesty and not trying to hide the issues from users.
Because the PS3s and Wiis kept failing, and their owners cluelessly continued using them and enjoying their games until this day for many of the consoles?
As opposed to the Xbox 360 developing the RROD which you otherwise could have mistaken for normal operation in some cases as early as 3 to 6 months after purchase, and often repeatedly after getting it back from RMA, and being such a fiasco that the warranty was retroactively increased to 3 years?
Hmm you have a point I guess, or not.
What kind of DARPA target challenge doesn't place targets in Asia and the Middle-East?
Eastern Europe? Boooooring!
From TFA:“But what if you were doing it for athletic purposes?” Doctorow responds. Herr says if the need is there, then why not? He has some controversial opinions. A future devoid of disability? Many would agree that’s an amazing prospect. But a future where people can upgrade themselves as if they were DIY machines themselves? Is that something people want?"
Interesting, this guys seems pretty extreme but I'm of the opinion that if technology is starting to play such major roles in almost all sports why shouldn't cyborgs be allowed to compete in track and field?
Sports is all about "cheating" or if you prefer gaining the upper hand with technology anyway these days (Golf, Swimming, Archery, Sports Medicine etc.)
In my experience the distribution of incompetence is more or less equal between the sexes.
But if I was forced to choose between having a incompetent or overbearing boss of either gender, I would go with the male boss.
At the risk of seeming misogynistic, I'll add that I've not had many good experiences with incompetent female bosses in the IT sector, whereas the male ones tended to give me substantially more free rein with my decisions and policies.
(I grew up with a coder mother, and handled my first punched card at age 5...)
between living in a cave and your parents basement?
Cave has more efficient climate control.
Posting to remove misclicked mod, oops.
We have to stop science!!
The Hitachis are a tad noisy. The Samsungs are quite quiet, I'm running all Spinpoint F3s.
grats, you've managed to slashdot ars technica and kotaku :P
BTW, what's a "Windows" key? I don't see one of those on my IBM Model M keyboard
Ctrl+Esc
American cops have these weird things that I'm not even going to try to describe. Come to think, I would be far less inclined to cross a cop who was armed with a sword than I would a cop with the aforementioned weird stick thingy.
Tonfa?
Anyone who has played Sierra's Police Quest could tell you that is a PR-24 Nightstick ;)
ding ding ding - we have a winner. The rich are even more scared of the police than non-rich people..
P.S. I speak for many ultra high net worth individuals who feel this way. Posting AC for obvious reasons.
I call bullshit. "Ultra high net worth" individuals fear no one.
This was my point. It would have been prohibitively difficult to repair and then routinely service the HST using any other launch system.
Considering the cost per launch for the entire duration of the shuttle program, it's likely that it was one of the most prohibitively expensive delivery systems they could have possibly employed.
Never talk to the Pigs. There is never, and has never been any interaction with the police that will ever benefit you in any way.
You forgot to add: "...unless you're filthy rich."
WD are turning into shit at the moment. Weve had so many WD blues die on regular workstations its rediculous at work.
Luckily the black and RE drives seem good still.
I have had terrible experiences with the Caviar Blacks, and the Caviar Greens are easily the worst. You can't just swap a PCB now, part of the ROM resides on the PCB, and the Greens park the drive heads every 8 or so seconds to reduce power consumption, I have seen an inordinate number of mechanical failures that were WD Blacks and Greens, though recently they have been almost exclusively greens.
I have switched all my drives to 2TB Samsung F3s and 7200rpm Hitachi 2TBs.
Worst drives I've ever owned.
WD 1TB Caviar Black AAKS drives were the worst I've owned in recent years.
I experienced a 50% failure rate within 24 months for 8 units I was running personally. One of my clients who does server virtualization experienced approximately 30% failure rates with his 40 drives.