You can’t polish a turd..
There’s an old saying: “You can’t polish a turd.”
But you CAN roll it in glitter
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ads more intrusive (off-key singing, jangly music, irritating voices)
Yes, and the use of the "Waif-o-Matic" on classic songs that are not improved by this treatment. In the UK, even "Born to be Wild" has received the waify female vocal treatment for (I think) Volvo.
I doubt it can be licensing issues since they wouldn't be able to use the song at all, so I figure that the only reason must be to make you interact with the ad - albeit negatively....
Which brand?
I went through a load of 2002 to 2007 vintage CD/DVDs a few months back as an exercise and for many of them the indexes/ thumbnails were fine but several of the actual files were irretrievable. I had other backups of the important files anyway, but that was a little disconcerting.
These were all kept in cases in a dark cupboard, so dye/data rot is not simply about light exposure.
If you are a left-Pondian (or were born after the 1980’s) then you may not be aware that the original was a Sun newspaper headline referring to a Scottish footballing defeat (itself inspired by an earlier 1960s original one)
El Reg has since refined this headline to an art-form, emerging Brigadoon-like at infrequent intervals.
Careful with BD-RE...
If they are anything like Optical DVD-R/DVD+R/CD-R etc. then after a few years they are unreadable.
You might be able to read the index, but the files may be inaccesible.
The moral of the story is have multiple backup media (physical and Cloud) spread over on and off-site....
I think that the sentiment is that batteries should be avoided due to the possibility of leakage or the fact that when exhausted, the device would have to be extracted/replaced.
I don't think that the implication here is that the reluctance is due to 5G fruitloopery.
As others have already said:
The AWS Default setting is Publicly Inaccessible (at least in recent times), so a deliberate effort has to be made - with lots of warnings - in order to make a bucket public.....
It's possible that an incorrect Global policy might be in place of which a Developer might not be aware, but I'd still say that you have to try quite hard to make an AWS bucket public, since AWS are fully aware of the issues arising from this kind of misconfiguration and so defaults to fail-safe.
I like that idea!
You could call it "More Coffee And Sugar" or MCAS for short. You could have it switch sides on every flight so that the right and left seats get the drinks feed so that one is always hydrated!
If the pilots disagree on this then it empties the drink on the console anyway.
Fair point on hydration, definitely but coffee is not necessarily the right choice there (awaiting a study on the comparative electrical damage characteristics of tap water vs. Mineral water vs. Coffee - with/without sugar!).
However, given the degree of risk analysis and mitigation in civil aviation, (e.g. crews timing out due to flying duty hours restrictions, systems redundancy, pilots sober) i am surprised that a more robust solution has not been attempted, as it’s a fairly easy one to mitigate (although maybe introducing the hydration risk you mention).
Pilots will of course never do this on purpose, as I imagine even an incident that does not zap the controls will (ironically) lead to a meeting with the Chief Pilot with neither tea/coffee nor biccies.
I can't help but think that there has to be a simpler solution.
With other expensive pieces of machinery, there are usually big signs warning against eating/drinking in areas where spillage would be inadvisable.
Yet here you have a $100m+ piece of equipment (potentially with hundreds of passengers also on board) that they accept that the 2 key personnel could well slosh liquid all over the critical electrical controls....
I know that pilots have to eat/drink, but they also (generally) have to leave their seat to visit the toilet, leaving one pilot flying (and presumably during a quiet part of the flight).
From a flight operational perspective, what would be the downside of banning pilots from eating/drinking while seated at the controls?
Interesting as well, since without the slip-up you mention, presumably the Germans would have noticed that Allied detections went down for a period of time just as the 4-rotor machines were introduced.
They would then have deduced that the Allies HAD actually cracked the 3-rotor Enigma and the door would have been closed quite rapidly after that......
I wonder whether we are seeing the equivalent (at least in the UK) of what happened in the late 1980s when there was a postal strike and consequently the demand for and usage of fax machines went through the roof.
Obviously some use cases (e.g. parcels) could not be replaced by faxes, but a lot of volume in smaller letters was taken out of the postal market by the time this strike was over. Then around 10 years after that, it was the turn of faxes to be superseded (not entirely) by email.
Similarly I wonder whether remote working means that less business air travel will be needed post-COVID19. ( realise that this will be nowhere near a 100% reduction).
With this project, surely they will encounter the same issues that Concorde faced with sonic booms if their flight path is over land (whether real or whether concocted to protect incumbent aviation manufacturing interests)?
I find your telecoms/IT cavity wall hatches sales pitch brighten up my morning every day, but I already bought the hatches I need and I'm not sure the ones you advertise are waterproof..)
They may not be waterproof, but the El Reg ones do have a sign "Beware of the leopard" on them....
In the article it states that it is under review:
Earlier this year, White launched a "strategic review" – expected to be completed in autumn – into the business, stating in a March earnings call it planned to close three Waitrose stores and look into the suitability of the "Never knowingly undersold" price-matching pledge.