Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: Won't happen

In the USA with a history of "duty to shareholders" it would be certainly negligent and possibly illegal for a CEO to NOT do this

Re: Spoiler Warning?

>Why wouldn't they feel just fine about breaking up those companies, at least?

"Together, the FAANGs make up one percent of the S&P 500.... they were responsible for 38 percent of the index's gain"

Attack these stocks, they move out of the USA and re-register themselves in some more friendly jurisdiction - your stock market falls by more than the 2008 crash.

Everyone blames you

Re: Crew Training

Because if the people flying them are pilots why would the army have them ?

The reasoning is that drones are just guided missiles and therefore artillery.

Re: ... as the US exports toxic nationalism

Except the USA can reasonably do it. There is nothing much they absolutely NEED to import and apart from investment banking and social media not much they rely on export markets for.

Japan is a little trickier - if it can no longer export cars or electronics and so can't afford to import oil its domestic economy is going to get very bad very quickly.

(Not unlike another little island nation that just decided it doesn't need friendly trading relations with its neighbours)

Re: Brexit bollocks

>its because know nothing, paid nothing, never worked and clueless doesnt make an informed voter

But it does seem to make you to prime minister

Re: Children?

It's ridiculous that employers are paying 16 year olds a pittance to perform menial tasks under the excuse of training.

Haven't they heard of YTS? - the government should be paying them for this

Re: How many networks?

IIRC it's a common physical network for avionics and non-critical data with virtual switches.

There was some eyebrow raising on el'reg of the "wtf" variety at the time.

Of course even if somebody did hack the system it couldn't get through to the secure network says team A. While team B says that even if you could get across the networks nobody could hack the system.

Re: Depends on your clearance level

> not everyone applying or who might potentially apply is a traditional conformist 50s crew-cut type.

But that is the point of the vetting.

They aren't allowed to ask, do you believe in total obedience to the glorious leader and the superiority of our pure race?

So instead they ask, have you ever visited the wrong foreign country had a tattoo, smoked weed etc?

You don't want to hire the sort of person that might object to your spying on the wrong sort of American citizens

Re: Depends on your clearance level

So the people that are now at the top, when they were hired 40years ago they were presumably asked if they listened to any of that sinful rock and roll music

Re: Depends on your clearance level

Because drugs are only used by commie hippies, so if you use drugs you are a commie hippie and probably a member of ISIS.

The 'official' reason is that you might be blackmailed to keep the information that you had used legal weed secret, but that is only an issue if you get fired for using legal weed.

It's like not hiring gays because they are a blackmail risk if anyone threatened to reveal that they were gay.

They claim he admitted it

Was this before he had access to a lawyer?

Was this while someone had a gun in his mouth?

Re: Well....

I mean it's not like a contractor would have free access to all their secret information...

>the USA is becoming a fascist state and that is that.

Ridiculous, have you seen the punctuality record of American railways?

Re: Economics, mate.

>No, there is no experience of legally produced narcotics

not at all a narcotics maker

The NTSB was created because the FAA was originally in charge of both investigating accidents and promoting air travel.

As a result every accident was a one-in-a-million freak occurence, unless the pilots died in which case it was the fault of the pilots

Re: So...

> then have 2-out-of-3 voting on the outputs.Whatever happened to that principle for safety-critical systems

The new system has 3 computers voting, but the result from the most expensive computer is selected by the electoral college

> and ALL FAA decisions get to be second guessed for the forseeable future

Going to make international flights tricky for a while.

Everyone else bans Boeing aircraft until their own agencies have checked them out - in response the US bans airbus from its airspace.

Looks like the only people left flying are Aeroflot

Re: So...

>pilots ... know to ignore that input modality

The computers make the plane feel and fly like a regular 737 so there is no need for any re-training

(Unless the computer fails, in which case it flys and feels like no other aircraft you have ever seen)

- just put that in the small print and we are ok.

Re: The only thing the tariffs accomplish

>The only thing the tariffs accomplish

Is a VAT on cheap crap at Walmart to pay for $1Tn in tax cuts for billionaire hedge fund managers

Re: A Brexit opportunity? Disaster, surely..

Your free port doesn't have to be a port, or even near the water.

A big chunk of Luxembourg isn't in Europe - it's officially a tax free port where Russian billionaires can keep their art and cars without paying any duty or risk having it seized