Re: WTF ....... Is the service demented and infiltrated?
Stuff like WMD in Iraq, you mean?
Posts by RPF
138 posts • joined 11 Mar 2009
GCHQ's cyber arm report on Huawei said to be burning hole through UK.gov desks
Beijing's tightening grip on Hong Kong could put region's future as an up-and-coming tech hub in jeopardy
Wednesday 1st July 2020 15:55 GMT
Re: "we need clarity on what the laws will involve before we can decide anything"
Good explanation here of the original bill:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-extradition-explainer-idUSKCN1TD0NB
"Hong Kong’s leader would start and finally approve an extradition following a request from a foreign jurisdiction but only after court hearings, including any possible appeals. However, the bill removes Legislative Council oversight of extradition arrangements." and there was the problem: all HKG Chief Executives are appointed by Beijing.
What they have now is far, far worse and I do think Hong Kong is in for a seriously rough time.
India bans 59 apps it says have privacy, national security problems. In a massive coincidence, they’re all Chinese
Watch an oblivious Tesla Model 3 smash into an overturned truck on a highway 'while under Autopilot'
Royal Navy nuclear submarine captain rapped for letting crew throw shoreside BBQ party
UK data watchdog slaps a £500,000 fine on Cathay Pacific for 2018 9.4m customer data leak
Whirlybird-driving infosec boss fined after ranty Blackpool Airport air traffic control antics
Yay! The ozone layer hole the smallest it's ever been seen. That's not necessarily good...
Tuesday 22nd October 2019 09:26 GMT
Re: Yet the weather is still getting worse, not better
Milk has a carcinogen in it, casein.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4166373/
Also the calcium "benefits" of milk are bogus: the body stops producing calcium when milk is consumed and then later in life, if you stop drinking it, your bones become brittle. Hip-fracture rates in old people in the West are actually higher than same age group in China.
Perhaps giving milk to kids wasn't such a great idea after all?
US govt watchdog barks at FAA over 737 Max inspectors' lack of qualifications
Brit MPs: Our policies are crap and the political process is in tatters, but it's Twitter's fault, OK?
Auditors bemoan time it takes for privatised RAF pilot training to produce combat-ready aviators
Friday 6th September 2019 08:32 GMT
Non-winged non-master race
Are the "Non-winged non-master race" bitter much, then? They used to be called "blunts", because that's the end of the wedge they inhabited on contemporary recruitment posters; they loved that so much!
Prior to out-sourcing, guys had their fast-jet wings within 2.5 years of joining, with around 200 more hours of jet time than now, all in the company of RAF pilots. The examples set made indelible and indispensable impressions on the yoof students. Front-line could be as little as 9 months after that.
7 years is utterly crackers. Even the youngest joiners would be 26 by the time they get to the squadrons, missing out on years of talent/fearless of extreme youth.
Stuffing your MacBook Pro in a ziplock bag before a flight ain't gonna cut it, say Feds
Off somewhere nice on holibobs? Not if you're flying British Airways: IT 'systems issue' smacks UK airports once again
US border cops' secret racist Facebook group a total disgrace, says patrol chief. She should know, she was a member
Take my bits awaaaay: DARPA wants to develop AI fighter program to augment human pilots
Friday 10th May 2019 11:05 GMT
Re: Only reason they are keeping pilots in the mix
Humans aren't stupid; they'll learn from your (unlikely, frankly) scenario and adapt and win. That's why humans are still in the mix.
Yes suicide drones would be a PITA, but they're not unbeatable. Using decoys and sacrificial drones would be an easy and effective counter.
Oddly enough, when a Tesla accelerates at a barrier, someone dies: Autopilot report lands
Apple's dark-horse macOS Mojave is out (and it's already pwned)
First Boeing 777 (aged 24) makes its last flight – to a museum
No, no, you're all wrong. That's not a Kremlin agent. It's someone with 'inauthentic behavior'
Stop us if you've heard this one: Adobe Flash gets emergency patch for zero-day exploit
Airbus windscreen fell out at 32,000 feet
Tuesday 15th May 2018 15:55 GMT
Re: made an emergency landing, .....
Actually FCU failure/departure is a major problem on an Airbus, actually; an incredible number of systems need to know what you're doing to the aircraft, in order to work properly (e.g. pressurisation, autothrottles, autopilot, fuel-management, lift-dump, auto-brakes, etc, etc.)
"Rather uncomfortable" is one hell of a euphemism for what would have been a frankly hideous nightmare of a day at the office.
I'm not exactly a huge fan-boy of Asian pilots generally, but this was bloody a case of bloody good piloting skills and airmanship. Chapeau to the Captain.
Openreach consults on shift of 16 MEEELLION phone lines to VoIP by 2025
Microsoft programming chief to devs: Tell us where Windows hurt you
MacBook Pro petition begs Apple for total recall of krap keyboards
Apple's magical quality engineering strikes again: You may want to hold off that macOS High Sierra update...
Saturday 21st April 2018 10:34 GMT
Re: There is an issue with obsolete, unsigned .kexts
Interesting. My 2011 iMac became un-bootable (re-install needed via System Recovery) after I changed the Firewall PF settings using Murus (and re-booted to make effective).
Never seen this before in almost 20 years of using Apple desktops/laptops daily.
Airbus warns it could quit A380 production
Hackers' delight: Mobile bank app security flaw could have smacked millions
Once again, UK doesn't rule out buying F-35A fighter jets
Logicalis lands mega air traffic computer deal. Yes, that Logicalis
F-35s grounded by spares shortage
Auto-makers told their autopilots need better safeguards
Wednesday 13th September 2017 18:10 GMT
Re: Still say
Yes I really do have 20,000 hours and was merely replying to your comment: "So many people with no idea of what an autopilot does ready to criticise."
But go ahead and carry on arguing with yourself, because nowhere did I say that autopilots don't need monitoring.
With a genuine 20,000 hours I can tell you that "relying on experience..." is absolutely NOT dangerous
at all; it's the exact opposite.
Five ways Apple can fix the iPhone, but won't
DJI strips out code badness, reveals some GPL odds 'n sods
BAE Systems' autonomous research aircraft flies itself to Scotland
Airbus issues patch to prevent A350 airliner fuel tanks exploding
Elon Musk among 116 AI types calling on UN to nobble robo-weapons before they go all Skynet
Monday 21st August 2017 06:48 GMT
Re: Geneva Convention?
Pretty sure HARM is not automated. However, Patriot, THAAD and S-300 definitely are.
Patriot has already killed at least 2 British Tornado pilots (on approach to Dhahran, their IFF failed and they were shot down......about 10 years after the Iraq war; no-one thought to turn the Patriots off).
Boeing preps pilotless passenger flights – once it has solved the Sully problem, of course
Thursday 17th August 2017 14:51 GMT
Re: The industry is also facing a severe shortage of pilots
Pilots are blamed when they cannot recover from a (most-likely) systemic failure. That could be bad weather, lack of experience/training/currency, fatigue (through tiring rosters and a company that doesn't care/piss-poor regulator like EASA), ATC issues, engineering, all sorts. As the last line of defence, they usually get the blame ("they should have saved the aircraft"), but almost always it is a huge line-up of "holes" in the system that lead up to an accident.
On the surface, AF447 was "pilot error", but the Pitot probes were known to be faulty (and replacements were in the hangar for years) and the second officer had almost no real stick-time (all done in the simulator, so no-one knew he would freeze in panic in a real aircraft), etc., etc..
Pilots make probably thousands of saves per day world-wide; usually by anticipating systemic failures early and heading them off before anyone even notices. Mistakes are obviously made, but error-detection and error-recovery methods are probably the most rigorous in any industry.
I don't think that an automated system is going to get anywhere near as capable as a human for a long, long time. I certainly won't fly in one, ever.
Browser trust test: Would you let Chrome block ads? Or Firefox share and encrypt files?
Autonomous driving in a city? We're '95% of the way there'
HMS Windows XP: Britain's newest warship running Swiss Cheese OS
Thursday 29th June 2017 13:00 GMT
Re: All this has happened before
It was a standard tape and it was used to load mission (navigation) data. In flight, it could be used to play music through the intercom. However, given the musical tastes of Navigators, it rarely was for long!
Blue Circle radar was applicable only to the F2/F3 Air-Defence version; the ground-attack/strike version radar was much simpler and worked well from day one.
