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  1. Re:Waste on Ryanair's CEO Suggests Eliminating Co-Pilots · · Score: 1

    Before 9-11 the door didn't even have to be closed, let alone be made like a bank vault.

    I don't know if it's US specific.

    Those small planes, you would be suprised. The little 12-24 seat planes do indeed have both. Small (none to 8 at most I'd imagine) don't, but they don't move too fast either. They can veer off-course or off-level for a moment without nearly as an effect as with one of the larger planes. They also tend to be kept in certain altitudes which are far less rigidly directed.

  2. Re:Waste on Ryanair's CEO Suggests Eliminating Co-Pilots · · Score: 1

    Most planes don't have them. I mean that they exist.

  3. Re:Waste on Ryanair's CEO Suggests Eliminating Co-Pilots · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have a story.

    Once upon a time, the Captain had to tinkle. As he shut the cockpit door (which is required to be locked, btw) somehow the door slipped into Uber-Lockdown-Mode (aka guys with forks want in). There is a special trick to opening it like this, and it's only doable from inside. The FO didn't know it.

    The moral? He had to chill out with the rest of the passengers and flight crew for the duration while the FO took care of everything.

    Had there been only one crew, then it would have been interesting. They have autolanding and autobraking systems. Would you bet your life on them? (nothing being said of how they would be enabled remotely, not currently possible).

    Random acts of god/nature/whatever could also seek to relieve your flight of your captain as well. Having the second man not only distributes the workload, but provides some redundancy here. The workload division is a good thing too. Imagine the flight director malfunctioned. There goes your autopilot. Imagine trying to keep the plane pointed forward and on-speed while checking your map chart, dealing with ATC and the radios, and any number of other little things that come up.

  4. Re:Um. German autobahns are like any motorway on Gubernatorial Candidate Wants to Sell Speeding Passes for $25 · · Score: 1

    10 miles @ 80mph: 7.5 minutes
    10 miles @ 150mph: 4 minutes

    It's not much there, but start multiplying them and you'll quickly see the difference.

  5. Re:Not really just fundraising on Gubernatorial Candidate Wants to Sell Speeding Passes for $25 · · Score: 1

    ... not to mention the people intent on going 70 can do so without weaving around everyone else going 60.

  6. Re:Cue increase in accidents on Gubernatorial Candidate Wants to Sell Speeding Passes for $25 · · Score: 1

    ... and you'd note that your Nissan is not a domestic car. It's a Japanese import. This makes a big damn difference.

    Go do that test driving with a Ford or Chevy and I'd put money down that your numbers would be different...

  7. Re:(Musical) Electonic Keyboard on Software (and Appropriate Input Device) For a Toddler? · · Score: 1

    I've not made anything worthwhile. I've got something getting there, but not yet.

  8. Re:(Musical) Electonic Keyboard on Software (and Appropriate Input Device) For a Toddler? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My grandmother had an old Hammond C3 - later on, my great grandfather passed and one of the things that was left was a pair of old Yamaha synths. Similar to the DX7 but not those... I can't find them by image, so meh.

    I've turned into a hobbyist composer and musician. I especially love playing around trying to create my own patches.

  9. Re:IT Bubble Syndrome on Northrop Grumman Says 'I'm Sorry' For Virginia IT Outage · · Score: 1

    I was wondering what business an aerospace company has doing providing IT services for others.

    I can understand diversity... but this is completely out of the aerospace "tree" !!

  10. Re:I like stickers on AMD Hates Laptop Stickers As Much As You Do · · Score: 1

    I've seen a heavy-duty paper/media shredder designed for Windows Vista!

    (well, ok, that was my fault. I pulled the sticker off a display laptop and stuck it on front of the shredder display model. it stayed that way for week at least :D)

  11. Re:no it's just people cutting corners to save cas on Another Gulf Oil Rig Explodes · · Score: 1

    no it's just people cutting corners to save cash sometimes it's cheaper to pay out on the death of a worker then to pay the cash to make it safer. It's time for some big time fines for doing that?

  12. Re:5 page paper? on Facebook Post Juror Gets Fined, Removed, Assigned Homework · · Score: 1

    My (least) favorite are the ones who drive in formation several notches below the posted speed limit, and manage to look innocent while doing so.

  13. Re:Price: RTFA on IBM Unveils Fastest Microprocessor Ever · · Score: 1

    Wait... they monitor your use and charge you... on equipment you own?

  14. Re:Smells funny... on Whisky Made From Diabetics' Urine · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wait a minute...

    You mean we can make whiskey made of people now?

  15. Re:Japan's primary export on Resort Attracts Men With Virtual Girlfriends · · Score: 1

    Yea. For one, I actually look at the ingredients. While Mechanically Separated Pork & Chicken isn't terribly specific, it does at least exclude fish. ... humour aside, trace amounts, no. But generally the way sausage is both made and kept, any significant amount of fish would taste, er, rather fishy. Think sardines.

  16. Re:Japan's primary export on Resort Attracts Men With Virtual Girlfriends · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I have ever head of a fish sausage before, but the very idea of it makes me feel ill...

  17. Re:It's absolutely ridiculous on Flight Data Recorders, Decades Out of Date · · Score: 1

    There is, but when it fails, it allows the action. It's also not obvious when it's failed (no indicator or anything)

  18. Re:Buzzwords on Flight Data Recorders, Decades Out of Date · · Score: 1

    Airliners send your boss a text message if you exceed various limits. Why not a Twit as well? :P

  19. Re:It's absolutely ridiculous on Flight Data Recorders, Decades Out of Date · · Score: 1

    Well, to be fair modern aircraft have some silly things.

    Take the ERJ-140 (regional jet) - turn on bleed air from either or both turbines without shutting off and disconnecting the APU bleed, and the APU will explode, shooting the compressor component of it straight out the tail of the Jet.

    It (alone, anyways) won't crash the plane, but this is a simple as pushing a button before turning a knob... and the knob is surrounded by the buttons. Watch your fingers, eh?

  20. Re:Fucking backwards on FCC Fights To Maintain Indecency Policy · · Score: 1

    The problem with that argument is that this "unofficial" reason is the -true- intent, thus clearly defining it. It would be far rarer for it to be truly innocent. In which case, it simply isn't porn... just like a wardrobe malfunction isn't porn, unless it was planned... which then puts it easily into my definition!

  21. Re:Fucking backwards on FCC Fights To Maintain Indecency Policy · · Score: 1

    I think you go about defining porn the hard way.

    Here's a simple test:

    Is it intended to be sexually exciting or pleasurable?

    It has nothing to do with the bystander. If someone gets off watching mothers feed children, then too bad. They have to deal with that issue. Assuming the mother isn't doing it for some exhibitionist reasoning, then it isn't porn.

  22. Re:What was the original license? What's the new o on Glibc Is Finally Free Software · · Score: 1

    Well, the google.co.jp thing is done by google doing (basically) a GeoIP lookup on you as you connect, and sending you a 302 Moved.

    The other stuff tends to be added either by the in-browser search bar, or perhaps from reading stuff out of the browser when you search? I've only ever noticed it when I use the browser search bar. ... which is why I didn't understand what you meant. It makes more sense now though :)

  23. Re:LILO is immune to this. on Some Windows Apps Make GRUB 2 Unbootable · · Score: 1

    I do that in GRUB... but in that case it involves copying off the kernel and initrd. Still, it's far from impossible.

    It can also chainload to USB without issue.

  24. Re:meh on Some Windows Apps Make GRUB 2 Unbootable · · Score: 1

    If your only reason for Windows is to game, then you don't need to worry about FLEXNet or any of these other "products"

  25. Re:LILO is immune to this. on Some Windows Apps Make GRUB 2 Unbootable · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... which is better than adding 3 lines to /boot/menu.list or /boot/grub.conf how?

    I still see to fail why GRUB2 is a big deal (right now at least).