Posts by Aitor 1 1313 posts • joined 25 Jun 2009
I pretty much doubt that the drone could have damaged the main rotor enough for it to go down.. they are reinforced. The tail one.. difficult to hit but way weaker.
Anyway the idiot is either that, a idiot or crashed on purpose. As he had an sdcard on it, I assume he is just incredibly stupid.
Idiots like him have ruined a hobby for the rest of us.
More like it was an "extra" you could buy for a non small fee, even if it was standard on NG.
The MCAS in my humble opinion as implemented was criminal.. not only it had too much authority but they decided to hide it from the Pilots, and purposefully did not tell them about the system for monetary gain.
Now it will be fine and safe, almost for sure.
I suspect they do.. now they have to run on admin privileges.. so because of previous attacks, the change of context is way more expensive, so yes, it does have a cost.. probably relatively small, but it does have a cost.
Also, the more processes you have running as root-admin, the bigger the attacks surface.
The sl8ght issue is that in Boston 120.000 is a senior role, mostly, so rather than get a brilliant junior you would get a senior.
And you wont hire seniors from other countries... well, you wont hire them in the us.. you will hire them where they live and wont pay taxes in the US.
Unless the US gvnt also taxes IT services they are shooting themselves in tbe foot.
Note: yes, the current system was/is a travesty in some sectors, but it is also very harsh on the inmigrants. If you get someone from abroad, just dont kick him/her after a few years if productive to society.
The main reason is to prevent it being fixed by independent repair shops, and charge more than the cost of replacement to he poor sods that need repair, so an easy repair is converted into more stuff in the landfill and new sales for Apple. The side effect, is your data is reasonably secure.
If this was not the case, you should be able to install a new OS on the system, even if you had to validate it online, etc etc.
Then they outsource the system "to the cloud" that promises 99.999% but delivers only 99.999% "on average" but not specifically you and has no SLA indemnity.
Oh, and your job goes too.
Of course they are going with a worse service for too much money, but that sill not bring your job back.
Of course C# is Java only nicer.. they could not get Microsoft Java, so instead they did C#.
The problem is the use case.. Java has its own inertia and just runs almost anywhere.. so it keeps being used.
Oracle ownership is quite bad for Java, so maybe, maybe C# might get some prominence.. by pyton, javascript etc also have their own inertia and use cases.
As for me.. well, I like it, but "uups, thaty is not implemented in mono" etc, just kills it.
The peopñe of hong kong lived under our rule with our governor, and only shortly before leaving did we give them democracy.
To complain now that the chinese government is making decisions in china is a bit rich, and frankly, insulting, we no longwr are an empire that can carce concessons in other countries by force of arms.
That being said, I am sorry for the people of hong kong and happy that we are giving them uk passports at last, even if it is just part of our cold war against china.
The problem is, it would be a federal crime.. the same as if you get asked by federal agents "hey, do you have a usb stick on you?" If you happen to say 2, and had a third with say porn, there you have it, federal crime (and this happened already.. google it)
Wakipedia link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_fraud
So this is essentially supression of free speech.
So he essentially wrote something they wanted to have, and got an interview.
The recruiting process determined he was a terribly bad engineer, that is why he had trouble being paid transport costs. Yet the product was good, and done by him alone.
Obviously their recruiting system is shite.
Most patents these days, sadly, are quite suspicious.. and are there more to raise the cost of entry to the market you just created.. even if the patent itself is obvious.
There is one such patent that I appear as co-author.. and while it was/is a good idea, I don´t think a patent should have been granted.. but if was filed and was granted.
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