Posts by SU

Has Amazon found the ultimate lock-in? Cheap cellphone service for Prime

Re: Connectivity and reach

....or restricted by the network owners security! Just think of all the lovely data they could hover up from Echo and Ring devices if they alone controlled the network with no oversight.

How not to test a new system: push a button and wait to see what happens

Re: IBM

Idiots Become Managers

I've Been Married

I've Been Moved

I Bring Many (to meetings)

There are lists of them in IBM

WEB@30: The Register pokes around historical hardware of the WWW

Wish I could make it up there…

This is one of the few things that makes me want to come back and visit post brexit Britain (oh and a good pint) after giving up and leaving 16 years ago.

San Francisco trial of Russian bloke extradited and accused of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, Formspring stalls again amid pandemic lockdown

Won't this just be immediate release?

Save for the mental health concerns, if the maximum penalty is ten years and he has been behind bars for 3 now, surely he is getting close to the average parole period for these charges?

Stop us if you've heard this before: Boeing's working on 737 Max software fixes for autopilot, stabilization bugs

Bin It

Surely with the massive downturn that aviation is suffering and the abysmal publicity that Boeing have received for this rushed bodge job of an aircraft; commissioned in haste to compete with the Airbus NEO family just binning it would be the best option?

Due to recent events there are tens of thousands of aircraft mothballed at airfields around the world many belonging to airlines that will not emerge from this crisis. This will cause a glut of cheap aircraft to enter the market at a time when fuel costs are lower than they have been for years and with depressed global economies unlikely to recover soon will most likely stay low.

The biggest selling point of these new aircraft is the better operational efficiency - but with low global fuel prices this is far less of an issue for airlines with tight balance sheets and little capital available for expensive new aircraft.

That is before you consider the PR damage these aircraft will do to airlines. Traditionally a new fleet is a marketing coup for airlines. I can't think of many who would try and market this typhoid Mary of aviation.

Boeing should take the short term pain, kill the project and actually design a new, safer modern aircraft that doesn't rely on electronic tricks to overcome design restrictions inherent in legacy designs such as this 1960's era aircraft.