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The ship's builder has commented about its unsinkability and how no threatening incidents happened before Lynch owned it.
Some crew are under investigation.
Why?
Because there is an access door on the side that was "never" used but could foment fast ingress of water.
This is not an IT mag, but has more current coverage...
https://www.maritime-executive.com/search?key=Bayesian
I find it interesting that The Reg is covering the civil damages case but not the current criminal cases.
"Without comment, the NTSB posted a 41-page document summarizing the findings of the Engineering Group formed to inspect the systems aboard the containership Dali which blacked out in March and destroyed Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key bridge. The report lists a few minor issues while also showing a loose cable found in the breaker system when tested in a simulation caused a brief blackout.
The NTSB notes that initial troubleshooting led to the Engineering Group narrowing its focus on the vessel’s electrical switchgear. The tests detailed in the report took place during April in four separate examination sessions.
The check of the wiring on the transformer and a relay found a “cable was loosely connected,” a condition which representatives from Hyundai informed could create an open circuit and interrupt the 110VDC power on the HV side of the board. According to the report, the engineers said it would trigger an under voltage release trip which would result in a 440V blackout.
After explaining the situation to the NTSB and the other participants, Hyundai conducted a simulation. When the engineers disconnected the cable, all the equipment powered by the Low Voltage (440V) Switchboard blacked out. These included lights throughout the vessel. The report says the system recovered making an automatic transfer and regained power after approximately 10 seconds.
The inspection and testing were conducted by a team of experts including representatives from the vessel’s owners Grace Ocean and operators Synergy Marine. HD Hyundai which built the vessel in 2015 participated in the four examinations in April along with ClassNK as the vessel’s class society and the Maritime & Port Authority of Singapore as the flag state.
No further analysis was provided on the results of the tests and the NTSB declined comment. Its teams are continuing their analysis. They are not expected to release a report until up to a year after the incident."
<https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/loose-cable-found-during-ntsb-dali-investigation-could-cause-blackouts>
BOFH and PFY need a field trip aftet their office fire. Let's get them out thete to see if a Hyundai-made vessel can be stolen with a USB key.
2009 MacBook Pro that the latest MacOS won't run on without serious wrangling so once in a while I face some obsolescence.
Downloaded the latest Mintamon iso a few weeks ago, made Live USB with Balena because that iso won't work off Ventoy, sadly (great tool though). Then booted to the Live USB and installed on another USB after partitioning it.
Live USB saw my Wifi SSID, and so does the installed Mintamon stick, but will not connect.
Have to use wired connection to do the updates to get that driver. Which I do not have available, but am assured that if I did I could "update" to get the wireless Broadcom drivers I need. Using cellphone for Wifi, no wires.
Booted back to OS X, found that there might be drivers included in the distro, got the names of files, booted back to Mint USB, found those files and forced an install of them, getting several dire warned each time abotu how it would be better to just update.
Still doesn't connect. Sees the SSID, tries, but no.
I greatly appreciate the distro reviews, I read them all and have tried several. This same issue occurs every time with every distro I've tried,
My point being that recommending Mint for older Macs is not without the need for caveats.
I get that there are moral codes and so forth, but this felt like I was dealing with evangelicals rather than a technical issue.
are they still clients if you're offering them a discount on your blackmail demands?
Ask Oracle or IBM that question.
In the US, Marriott has been known to heavily spam-call, pretending to have an existing business relationship. I dislike the company so do not and have not used their lodging. Are their calls a type of blackmail?
Last century I went to the large railroad company HQ to take my annual railroad rules class.
At one point we were going to be shown a safety film, this year's was called "Into Dark Territory!", which was likely about operating on trackage that isn't signaled The intro was in faux-50's TV B&W with dramatic noir music and lightning bolt title lettering down the screen.
Just after that title screen flashed on the monitor with accompanying orchestral flourish, the building went completely dark and quiet, until the emergency lighting came on years/hour/minutes later.
I ended up taking the test sitting on the floor in the hallway under an emergency light. And being let out by security.
This time it was a state trooper who lost control during a pursuit and knocked down a power pole.
Twenty years or so later in my railroad career I was flagging for crews laying fiber by the right-of-way. That's where cable belongs, IMO.
"Security company Volexity, which reported the flaw to Atlassian, has published an analysis of the situation that suggests attackers are able to insert a Java Server Page (JSP) webshell into a publicly accessible web directory on Confluence servers."
Couldn't the write permissions have been removed from that directory as a temporary patch?
I've worked in the US railroad industry in various ways, and have come close to being extinguished. In 2003, FRA (Federal Railroad Admin) began to work on a reporting system that separated blame and reporting, so that more safety incidents would be reported. They based it on a system that NASA had been using (guessing since the Morton-Thiokol incident), and NASA handles the data from their center in Sunnyvale.
Here's the background reasoning of the process.
The current page for the program.
The idea is that when an employee witnesses or participates in something that would be punishable and so they would not report it, they can submit a report online or by mail. The data is then anonymised and a summary is given tot he employer. NASA holds and protects all of the data to prevent obvious employer reactive behaviors. When I first read about this I was very interested and tried to apply myself. Likely my Aspie-rations got in the way.
"C3RS provides a safe environment for employees to report unsafe events and conditions and employees receive protection from discipline and FRA enforcement. In addition, railroads receive protection from FRA enforcement for events reported within C3RS."
It seems to me that the kinds of reporting where bounties are given which could remain much as they are.
The above system could be used for potential security threats where there is potential for legal retribution by the connected.
The perfect chance to become wealthy yourself, you have access to a random fish and the tech skills to follow the instructions here.
There are updates for that model from here...http://dosdude1.com/software.html
They will help you download the OS, see menu bar, and then make an install stick with it. Boot from it, install the OS, then it has a patcher with the checkboxes already checked for your model, which you can alter if you like.
I have used his High Sierra 10.13 patcher on my mid-2009 and it worked fine, but I didn't like being forced to AFS or the early AFS performance and it seemed to use a bit more battery, which I'm often on, so I went back to 10.9.
Honestly the Jony Ive years of MacOS were characterised by poor visual design decisions. I get that these people are all in their elite club, but they do have to answer to customers at least a little bit, thus more ports returning to MBP's.
If they could get away with it, they'd sell a touch screen that grabbed the contents of your mind and uploded that to their cloud, while charging 10k fro the privilege.
I've noticed that only AH companies do this helpful conversion. Instead of anything Adobe or MS and having extra work to do fending them off from molesting my files, I use alternatives.
Affinity Photo has not changed anything, it does use its own suffix if I save developed files as such, nor have the other graphics programs I have used in my workflow, including other commercial ones like Capture One or DxO.
LibreOffice doesn't molest either.
Funny how it's all the companies I'd ban from any government branch if so empowered. I did have to disembowel iTunes on this older version of OSX to open music files with something else (BTW, right-click on iTunes>>Show Contents>> put contents in Trash, icon remains but is an empty shell, sorta like a Tory PM)
I've commented about this before, was fueling a diesel truck in a fuel depot near Phoenix, USA, not a place where cars typically go. A Waymo van festooned with all the whirling gadgets pulled in from the nearby street, a bit too fast, and started circling the pump area I was using. Which is surrounded by cinder block walls, so should have been obviously an obstacle.
The whirly-van drove a narrowing circle around the tanks and pumps and was headed right for my parked cab with the fuel hose active in the tank when the human driver intervened and grabbed the wheel and turned it away.
It then tried to circle again and the driver directed it out to the street and away with two hands on the wheel and some leaning. I was relieved when it sped out of sight.
It seemed to me that those vans are programmed to explore and intrude without concepts of private property or propriety, much like all the other products Google is associated with. They get away with it with Chrome and ReCaptcha but those are not potential catastrophic events.
Larry Page intended to not emulate Edison taking advantage of Tesla, yet his company takes advantage of a huge swath of the human population with far more damage and profit than Edison could have dreamed of.
Those BMW's would temporarily have more color if the drivers used the turn signals, unless those are meant to fashionably blend in. Might as well.
Another great year in the offing, excellent and competent world leadership all in harmony, brilliant new variants likely to pop up from just about anywhere (given the coherent prevention guidelines being carefully followed) and they'll be easily transported and shared with the rest of the world via our extensive travel network. First class!
It's almost like the powers-that-be read last year's article, nodded sagely, and left the autopilot in charge for another trip around the sun.
Is Sealand accepting citizenship applications?
If you think this is the extent of corporate capture in the transportation world, allow me to introduce you to the Federal Railroad Administration, which has been steadily hiring inspectors from the ranks of failed railroad managers since at least the Bush2 years.
Now we have Positive Train Control and increasing decision power is being taken away from operating crews while trains are still hauling thousands of tons of stuff like chlorine and propane and assorted chemicals that aren't allowed to be transported on highways, often traveling through and being stored in highly populated areas.
Not only do those products present a hazard, but the question of whether trains could run in the future if the GPS system in knocked out is arising. Purely coincidentally, not long ago a certain adversarial nation decided to demonstrate quite casually that they could destroy a satellite with their current tech.
Has there ever been a merger where the good guys ended up in charge? They all seem to end up with the very worst at the top. Almost like someone planned it that way.
Posting from a 2009 MBP that has had 4 batteries, 5-6 hard drives, and now has a second hard drive where the DVD used to be.
Two things about MBP's of that era, which was a golden time for Apple laptop repairability and OS functionality, unlikely to be repeated given the current short-sighted company admin.
-The battery screws can be removed and installed with a flat-bladed screwdriver that spans two of the lobes, I actually do that over the special tri-lobe tool which came with one of my battery kits because I can reach for it and use it without remembering where I hid the special one from myself.
-The screws holding the bottom plate on have a bit of threadlock on for a good reason, the short ones will fall out and disappear quickly after that it disturbed. Locktite Blue (US name) works well for keeping them in place, shake the little tube, apply a drop, then put it in wet.
iFixit will make you a printable disassembly sheet with spots for all the screws to be placed. That is, if your printer is working.
Would have been a good time to replace the thermal paste as well. Apple tends to use too much and it'll be desiccated crumbles by now. You can test how the current stuff is working by downloading Macs Fan Control, which will display temp readings at all the internal sensors.
The California plant had quality and labor issues when it was run by GM and staffed by UAW members. Then the partnership with Toyota resulted in higher quality and comparatively happy labor.
Source: Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg
Now Tesla is reportedly barely as good as GM was in in the 70's at either metric.
Musk is not even the Roger Smith of electric auto CEO's.
When Toyota and Honda make this kind of vehicle I'll be interested.
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