Posts by A.P. Veening 3903 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Aug 2018
I don't know about C64 5.25" drive head position recalibration, but you just described the operation of an Apple ][ disk drive. Upon start, the head would be moved for 40 tracks to reach track zero (of 36) as there was no indicator where it was. After that initial move, the position was kept in memory until the next restart.
Nah, just incompetence (to a criminal degree). The things can improve rapidly at Microsoft when the bean counters are kicked out and competent technicians can do their jobs again like they should (after hiring a set of those competent technicians, all gone thanks to those bean counters).
"I think that it's a tragedy that so many people have died due to a potential software fault."
Hardly a software fault, the software functioned flawlessly. Shame it got garbage as input, but given the garbage input, the garbage output was to be expected.
This was a major hardware design fault.
"What Africa & China would then do is an open question"
Africa is an open question, but taking the fledgling aviation industry in China into account, CAAC will insist on a very thorough re-certification, strictly and totally independent from FAA. If Boeing is luckier than it deserves, CAAC and EASA will do the re-certification together, but I am not going to bet on it.
Garuda already cancelled four days ago, see: Indonesia's Garuda is canceling its $4.9 billion order for the Boeing 737 Max.
"Boeing execs and their families should exclusively fly 737 Maxs with the least options before anyone else is put on that thing...."
Please add Boeing bean counters and all FAA staff to that list. And while we are at it, including congress (both houses) and the executive branch wouldn't be a bad idea either.
I somehow fail to be concerned about possible backdoors in Huawei equipment while I still have to worry about and deal with proven backdoors in Cisco equipment.
As far as I am concerned, Chinese companies get one strike because of that legislation, American companies get three strikes for proven misconduct and so are OUT!
"I arranged to loan the project team the majority of my "sick" techs when they got back to catch up with the bunch of incredibly shit jobs that had been put off forever by the project team a long way away from the rest of the department, purely of course to ensure that any lingering sickness bug that they might have brought back with them didn't spread throughout the department."
Something tells me you received your Bastard Manager From Hell papers with a good reason ;)
As for unions, shoot to kill.
"Pai will not do anything that might restrict cell carriers from making every dime of profit they can, no matter the cost to people or society at large."
So put a bounty on Pai's head and let the bounty hunters do their job. I think he will see the light pretty soon (though it might be the fiery red light of hell's fires).
I'd say they guessed wrong and it will cost them even more money. A full re-certification will be required now and EASA and CAAC (to name just two) aren't going to rubber stamp the FAA certificate this time, but will require re-certification independent from FAA. If Boeing is luckier than it deserves, EASA and CAAC will agree to a combined certification, but will still have to be without FAA.
"In the end, unless you speak fluent C++ (with a security specialisation to boot), you're still trusting "someone else" to deliver secure and reliable code. Or you're still trusting "someone else" to review the code for you in a timely manner."
Even if that is the case, you still have to trust the compiler (and the compiler's compiler).
I can understand your need and I don't mind people studying things like this. However, I do mind people stumbling upon it without being prepared for it. I also do mind people applauding this kind of atrocity. And I strongly object to life-streaming atrocities, at least to the general public. If it helps law enforcement services, they can watch it life (and real time) while on duty.
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"People" (note I use that term very loosely in this case) that stoop to this level should be covered exactly twice:
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Make that thrice:
Finally (after dying in prison) the body should be covered with earth in an unmarked grave at an undisclosed location.
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