I call it CrapuWeather. We used to have TWC, but Verizon decided to save a few $$ and replace it with this useless thing instead.
So I refuse to have anything to do with them - not the app, not the channel. I use the Weather Underground app instead. It has useful data, not fluff.
Speculation, yes, but I guess it is still worth checking out. But they probably ought not have said anything about it unless they came up with some evidence.
Any time you have a resource where usage is unchecked, people will consume more and more of it until it is unusable for everyone. If there were no limits, then what's the downside to people streaming more and more? Nothing. Expanding bandwidth costs real money, and in some cases there are spectrum limits which prevent them from expanding much more.
Ever used the free WiFi in an airport - the dopey kids sitting across from you are streaming some mind-rot and killing the bandwidth for everyone else. So the kids get the lolz, and you can barely get your work emails.
There are usually 2 adaptations. One is to the ECU so you can start the car. The other is to the door locking mechanism, and that adaptation is a separate step.
The sequence of steps described above sound like adapting the door locks, not the ECU.
The specifics vary from one manufacturer to the next. With VW, there was a 4-digit PIN number in the ECU that you needed to adapt keys, and generally VW wouldn't give you that number. The people that can chip your engine generally have the know-how to retrieve that number - whether they will or not is another matter, but I had the PINs for both of our cars at one point.
At one point, my wife had lost one of her keys. We had another made and paid thee dealer $$ to adapt it. Then we found the missing key. By then I had the PIN number, so I re-adapt the keys myself with a laptop and special software that I already had on-hand.
I suspect a lot of the pain here is that since the vehicle was out of market that the local dealers couldn't help.
I won't say they are unhackable, but they are a lot harder to steal than they used to be. In the old days the thief would use a screwdriver and force the lock to start the car. I remember all of the goofy alarm systems and other anti-theft systems that people came up with - they were all a pain, but getting your car stolen was even more of a pain.
These days they basically need to use a tow truck.
Usually the problem is address space exhaustion. So by going to a 64-bit executable, the memory leaks are probably still there, but instead of crashing Firefox, it will just thrash the machine. That doesn't sound like progress to me.
I still keep needing to kill Firefox because it has leaked too much memory and is gets too slow. In addition, I sometimes see persistent CPU usage in an otherwise idle browser.
They may think they hvae solved these problems, but they persist.
Well, there are password managers, of course, but most people can't be bothered.
Speaking of which, there are websites which will not allow you to paste a password when you are creating the account, which of course makes it harder to use a password manager.
Each episode looks at a crash, and then spends a considerable amount of time with NTSB or their foreign equivalent as they go through and figure out what went wrong and what we can do better.
One thing in favor of automation is that some number of the crashes are the result of human error on the part of the flight crew. But the flip side of it is that there are really oddball mechanical failures that happen from time to time - survival depends on assessing what went wrong, and what actions on the part of the flight crew are will help bring the aircraft back under control.
For automation to succeed, you would need fairly sophisticated AI that can resolve problems in the same manner, and assess whether a problem is a sensor failure or whether the problem is more serious.
There is one other area - on a flight when you have an unruly passenger or a medical issue, it is the pilot who decides when to divert and land. If there is nobody in the cockpit, then who makes this go/no-go decision on the plane? Once that decision is made, then who is it that has the authority to reprogram the aircraft for a new destination?
Your estimate of pilot's salaries is way high, I think. Many of the smaller regional jets have pilots that earn 20-40K$/year, but those planes have something like 50 passengers. The ones earning the big bucks are a dying breed.
You als need to account for the various benefits of course.
Basic metallurgy.
Metals have a crystalline structure - things like turbofan blades are oftentimes carefully cast so they are one single crystal, and they do this to maximize strength. The grain boundaries are places where the metal is weaker, and where it is more likely to fail.
I don't know the metallic properties of the supposed 3d-printed metals - if they are just sputtering tiny metal blobs, you are probably going to end up with a metallic glass, which won't be very strong at all.
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I call it CrapuWeather. We used to have TWC, but Verizon decided to save a few $$ and replace it with this useless thing instead. So I refuse to have anything to do with them - not the app, not the channel. I use the Weather Underground app instead. It has useful data, not fluff.
And how much of your time do you have to spend doing all of this?
they store it all offsite somewhere or another. Getting data restored is turning out to be a problem however.
Speculation, yes, but I guess it is still worth checking out. But they probably ought not have said anything about it unless they came up with some evidence.
Any time you have a resource where usage is unchecked, people will consume more and more of it until it is unusable for everyone. If there were no limits, then what's the downside to people streaming more and more? Nothing. Expanding bandwidth costs real money, and in some cases there are spectrum limits which prevent them from expanding much more. Ever used the free WiFi in an airport - the dopey kids sitting across from you are streaming some mind-rot and killing the bandwidth for everyone else. So the kids get the lolz, and you can barely get your work emails.
A more fun question - what piece of software would you pay to be totally shitcanned? Yeah, I know - a ton of people will reply "systemd".
This seems like overkill to me.
There are usually 2 adaptations. One is to the ECU so you can start the car. The other is to the door locking mechanism, and that adaptation is a separate step. The sequence of steps described above sound like adapting the door locks, not the ECU.
The specifics vary from one manufacturer to the next. With VW, there was a 4-digit PIN number in the ECU that you needed to adapt keys, and generally VW wouldn't give you that number. The people that can chip your engine generally have the know-how to retrieve that number - whether they will or not is another matter, but I had the PINs for both of our cars at one point. At one point, my wife had lost one of her keys. We had another made and paid thee dealer $$ to adapt it. Then we found the missing key. By then I had the PIN number, so I re-adapt the keys myself with a laptop and special software that I already had on-hand. I suspect a lot of the pain here is that since the vehicle was out of market that the local dealers couldn't help.
I won't say they are unhackable, but they are a lot harder to steal than they used to be. In the old days the thief would use a screwdriver and force the lock to start the car. I remember all of the goofy alarm systems and other anti-theft systems that people came up with - they were all a pain, but getting your car stolen was even more of a pain. These days they basically need to use a tow truck.
Usually the problem is address space exhaustion. So by going to a 64-bit executable, the memory leaks are probably still there, but instead of crashing Firefox, it will just thrash the machine. That doesn't sound like progress to me.
I still keep needing to kill Firefox because it has leaked too much memory and is gets too slow. In addition, I sometimes see persistent CPU usage in an otherwise idle browser. They may think they hvae solved these problems, but they persist.
Well, there are password managers, of course, but most people can't be bothered. Speaking of which, there are websites which will not allow you to paste a password when you are creating the account, which of course makes it harder to use a password manager.
Each episode looks at a crash, and then spends a considerable amount of time with NTSB or their foreign equivalent as they go through and figure out what went wrong and what we can do better. One thing in favor of automation is that some number of the crashes are the result of human error on the part of the flight crew. But the flip side of it is that there are really oddball mechanical failures that happen from time to time - survival depends on assessing what went wrong, and what actions on the part of the flight crew are will help bring the aircraft back under control. For automation to succeed, you would need fairly sophisticated AI that can resolve problems in the same manner, and assess whether a problem is a sensor failure or whether the problem is more serious. There is one other area - on a flight when you have an unruly passenger or a medical issue, it is the pilot who decides when to divert and land. If there is nobody in the cockpit, then who makes this go/no-go decision on the plane? Once that decision is made, then who is it that has the authority to reprogram the aircraft for a new destination?
Your estimate of pilot's salaries is way high, I think. Many of the smaller regional jets have pilots that earn 20-40K$/year, but those planes have something like 50 passengers. The ones earning the big bucks are a dying breed. You als need to account for the various benefits of course.
is that with too many automation systems in the cockpit, the pilots get rusty.
Just a thought. Performance would improve, that's for sure.
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That word does not mean what they seem to think that it means.
It is an alpha emitter, so yeah, I would worry about the radiation. Those things can do a number on you if you ingest them.
But this Windows version goes up to 11!
Basic metallurgy. Metals have a crystalline structure - things like turbofan blades are oftentimes carefully cast so they are one single crystal, and they do this to maximize strength. The grain boundaries are places where the metal is weaker, and where it is more likely to fail. I don't know the metallic properties of the supposed 3d-printed metals - if they are just sputtering tiny metal blobs, you are probably going to end up with a metallic glass, which won't be very strong at all.
I remember "Nixon in China". They even made Frankenstein into an opera, which seems like a better story to me than the life and times of Steve Jobs.
The problem for these guys is that they have no margin for error.
I still have an S5. Why would I want an S8?