Re: What I Wanna Know ...
Most SSD failures are due to the controller dying which you can't predict. As the actual NAND chips wear out you will see the reallocated sector count rise and eventually the drive will switch to read only mode.
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The government bailed out the banks by forcing them to issue new shares which it bought, so the shareholders did lose out as their shares were diluted by a large amount (since the share price had dropped so low the banks had to issue a large amount of new shares). This is why the government ended up owning a large amount of shares in several banks.
They said that they would be able to fix it very quickly and if won't cause disruption if it happens again. So I suspect it might simply have been that nobody working there even knew they had to manually clear invalid flight plans and it took 4 hours to get in touch with the guy who retired 30 years ago.
"invest the £300 million into sorting their sewage overspill problems instead"
They are not allowed to do that, Ofwat only allows new sewage plants to be built when the existing ones are routinely going over their red line, but Ofwat tends to set the red line above the plants maximum capacity so the red line can never be reached.
"...and the difference between "been guilty" and "done the thing" is ?"
In the UK being found guilty requires that both your body is guilty (so you did the thing you are accused of) and that your mind is guilty.
"Nope. Sorry. It showed that they wanted the money and that's all."
Yeah it was all about the money, they are still refusing to hand over their crypo wallets. They should be detained indefinitely until they have over the money they have squirreled away.
"Do apps on MacOS get installed in user space or something"
Apps are just uncompressed zips that to install you just drag and drop into your Apps folder.
From what I can tell Apple's security stops apps from directly changing other apps without user input, but it doesn't stop the file picker from selecting other apps files, so you can open TextEdit and open the settings file for another app, make changes and then save them.
"Add a little bit of "AI" to the mix and you have the risk that copyright in a movie or tv production could be challenged on the same basis: that humans didn't do the whole thing, only a part."
No as the studio would be claiming that the operator of the computer was the creator.
This case was about a guy trying to claim that the AI itself should be credited as the creator and should hold the copyright, the court told him that that wasn't how the law worked and that he was the creator and should register the copyright in his name.
"The problem is that the pemsion fund's rules didn't include cost-of-living increases"
If it was a fund then the pension would increase in line with the performance of the fund's investments.
I can't find anything that shows that it is an invested fund, from what I can see it looks more like a defined benefit pension like the NHS pension where you give up part of your salary in return for the promise that they will find money from somewhere to pay you when you retire.
"cost-of-living increase"
Where is the money for this meant to come from?
They have an internal printer in them that prints out a log, that spool will be changed when they refill the cash machine and be sent of to be scanned so they can verify all the transactions. So if the ATM doesn't give you your money then your account should eventually be refunded.
They connect these units to the canbus so that they can read engine data and use that for their fancy mpg indicator and stuff like that. The canbus was never designed to be secure and I doubt you can properly firewall parts off.
So much of cars is digital now, there hasn't been a mechanical linkage between the accelerator and the fuel injectors in a long time, breaks are still mechanical but have ABS which is controlled by the computer and some modern cars use full electric power steering with no mechanical linkage.
There is no internationally recognised line between the atmosphere and space.
The Kármán line is ~84km which Kármán calculated as the altitude at which in order to generate enough lift for level flight you would need to be traveling at orbital speeds, most space organisations round to it 80km, the FAI who are an aviation sports body are the ones who round to 100km.
The cost for both reactors is $28b.
They will make around $876m a year per reactor so $1.75b a year (gross profit) and electricity prices are only going to go up over the reactors life.
The plant has a total running cost of $0.023 per kwh, so each reactor will cost $225m a year, so $450m for both.
So that means the plant will have a net profit of $1.3b a year (at current prices)
So assuming electricity prices don't rise it will take 22 years to break even and then have another 40 years of profit, in reality they will break even much sooner.
The UK has has a Net Fixed Capital Growth of 0% for 30 years, so whilst we are producing more wealth the cost of our imports has also gone up and they cancel each other out.
Having money help you make more money, and when the pie stays the same size this means that wealth begins to accumulate amongst the already wealthy.
For comparison Germany has been at 1% for the last 30 years.
"Have you SEEN the shit that people babble about on antisocial media these days?"
And who would believe them? I'm not saying the claims about aliens are true but we have seen multiple times in the past where self declared critical thinkers and sceptics have 'debunked' a leak about some government program which has later turned out to be true.
"The generally accepted definition of space is 100km. "
The generally accepted definition is 80km, the only people who use 100km are the FAI who are an aviation sports organisation, an they are considering switching to 80km.
Karman calculated ~84km (52 miles) as the altitude at which in order to generate enough lift to sustain level flight you would have to be traveling at orbital speeds. Most countries round this to 80km and the US rounds to 50 miles.
Yeah you can silence the media with lawyers, same reason that in all the articles about the infected blood products scandal none of the media companies dare name the company that extracted blood from US prisoners (reusing needles), mixed it all in big vats and then when the FDA told them to stop selling it because it was infected with HIV and Hep C they decided to ship it to Europe and sell it. It was Bayer btw.
"or they weren't in which case why were they employing them in the first place and wouldn't it make sense to start with the most highly paid of them?"
Microsoft and Google have been hiring people and assigning them to pointless projects just to dry up the pool of engineers so that start ups have nobody to hire. Now that interest rates have shot up and startups can't get investment they no longer need to do this.