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Re: There are lies, damn lies, and statistics!

Not convinced about the deaths per passenger hour - how about deaths per passenger mile?

https://usafacts.org/articles/is-flying-safer-than-driving/

Re: Counter productive

Isn't that just a primitive abacus?

I had this . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo5ARinUHbU&ab_channel=SoundEffectsTras

All well and good if there are charging points to plug into, but if there's no charging coming out of them because the real back end infrastructure isn't there - power stations - then it's a moot point?

Some slight clarifications...

Yes it's very likely hotter on the ground than in the air, but there is almost always some wind. A prudent turbine helicopter pilot will leave the helicopter parked into the wind, or where they think the wind will be coming from when they next go to start up. That way, there's a flow of air already into the compressor and thence the combustion chamber reducing the amount of work the engine has to do to get going and reducing the chances of a hot start. And the helicopter manual details time restrictions and temperature limits between last shut down, and what the max temperature is at the time you next go to start it up.

"Full power is normally applied at start up". Not in my experience, but this may be semantics. In a Jet Ranger the throttle is kept closed until the electric starter motor has wound the thing up to a certain speed (12-15% IIRC) then fuel is introduced by moving the throttle to the idle stop, with the starter button kept depressed until the whole thing is self sustaining. Full power - or at least the power required to get into a hover then transition to forward flight - is only used when you actually want to leave the ground, and just before this stage the throttle has been gently opened to get the rotor blades to flight RPM, then the collective is raised - adds fuel to counteract increased drag and temperatures then go up accordingly.

Re: What is the scope of FSD?

"Surely (assuming more or less constant speed) the only way of increasing the gap in front of you is by slowing down gently, making the distinction between the two purely semantic?"

Yes, temporarily, and it doesn't need to be by a huge amount - so the gap between you and the car in front gets bigger. Then you can add the 2mph or whatever it takes to match the vehicle in front.

Re: The hell that

"On the plus side though it gives the janitor something different to mop up....."

Indeed...

Many years ago (early 80s) the gentleman at a bed manufacturer who, having presented flowers to the lady who jilted him a few days before proceeded to the factory floor, defeated the interlocks on the machine which turned coconut husks into matting for mattresses and put himself in.

The largest piece of him which was found was about 3/4 of a hand...and ruined a large length of mattress component.

Most likely accidental.

"Who left this luminescent salmon too long in the lab kitchen microwave?"

Re: Trust but verify...

A slight aside...

Colleague at a job a long time ago received a mistakenly addressed email from one brother to another, expressing in colourful terms the older brother's dismay at finding out his sibling had come out as gay.

When he replied, to let the sender know the missive hadn't reached its intended recipient, their firm's email filter rejected it due to the level of profanity contained, none of which my colleague had added to...

Re: In before someone says Rust would have enforced memory safety

Nice thought. Except Rust appeared in 2010, this story is set in the 1990s.

Re: log4j

Here's a three liner:

1. Identify systems in your environment - and prioritise Internet-facing ones - which are using Log4j.

2. Check traffic to and from those systems, and allow only communication to and from trusted IPs

3. Block outbound connectivity to LDAP and RMI-IIOP services (port if you have to, application-based of you have a new-fangled application-aware firewall).

4. (Spanish inquisition time...) Change Log4j config to mitigate the threat, or upgrade...

Re: Tesla

Close...

Re: The engineer's careers

They may not, but it's happened at least twice ( US, 2018, from the report ) so two sets of engineers...

Others may make the same mistake in the future if the little plastic insert isn't fitted by the date required by the AD.

Re: Automation

"many incidents weren’t the result of lack of braking capacity in the vehicle, but lack of brake pressure applied."

The overwhelming majority of car crashes are the results of decisions or the lack of well before the brake pedal is applied, however firmly.

The only way the human driver will be given an incentive to improve their own skills is if it saves them money - which in essence is insurance companies giving discounts for decent ongoing driver training a la RoSPA ROADAR or IAM schemes (these are int he UK, I'm not aware of anything else similar elsewhere in the world).

I can see the logic - sort of - from the car manufacturers' points of view. "Let's eliminate the things which cause cars to come together, like not braking in time, crossing lanes, not looking properly into blind spots". The problem is that those speccing the systems to do this are probably in the same boat as other drivers in that the passed their tests many years ago and haven't had any standards checks since then.

I say this as someone who's a tutor for the local RoADAR group and sees a ex-police advanced driving instructor at least yearly to make sure I'm still up to scratch. And before anyone passes me a pork pie hat and some string back gloves you'd need to drive with me first to see if that particular stereotype fits.

Re: Pretty stupid port number

You wouldn't. The C2C server is listening on port 443, but *not* using SSL/TLS to encrypt services.

The backdoored machine may be running a web server but it's talking *outbound*. Destination port = 443, source port on the victim something completely different.

Re: Did....

OTA ? Through a vacuum?

</pedant>

Re: Clumsy while sleeping

From the AAIB report - "One of the cabin crew asked the passenger if she could stow the bedding whilst the passenger was away from her seat", as the aircraft was in the last 40 minutes of the flight, starting to secure the aircraft for the descent and landing.

Not quite. They're prosecuted for burglary, which has no monetary value attached to it.

And the monetary losses are, from my dim and distant memories as a probationer constable in the late 80s, subsidiary to the emotional distress caused by knowing a complete stranger has had free rein in your castle.

https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/theft-act-offences#:~:text=Section%209%20of%20the%201968,to%20inflict%20grievous%20bodily%20harm refers.

Re: Bore Da, Maidin Mhaith

I'll plump for Navajo..

Re: Not necessarily.

"I'm curious why a bush pilot in Aus would use pounds?"

As the previous poster said, aviation - especially if flying an American designed light aircraft, uses a whole load of different units. Pounds for weight, inches for centre of gravity datums, potentially US gallons for fuel quantities. And the units used are specified in the aircraft manual which is a legal document so everything needs to be converted back to those units to make sure you're not over the max weight and the CG is within limits.

So you have to convert your USG fuel required into UK G or litres - and the potential for weight-affecting errors just here is massive if you're not on the ball as it's not volume you need, it's the actual weight...

Re: Americans and Religion

Heretic atheists. Who'd have thought!

Re: Proxying

Well yes they're MITM. But unless they stick a cert on my device they're not going to see anything useful beyond the first few packets of metadata as it's all pretty much encrypted.

And even if I was dumb enough to allow Apple to decrypt my data, cert pinning, client certs and the like knock a whole lot of other stuff out for the potential decryptor.

Obligatory Dilbert . . .

https://dilbert.com/strip/1996-05-02

Re: Over sensitive company intranet

If you'd like a double entendre, I could give you one? As the bishop said to the actress...

Re: Computerized billing ...

On my honeymoon in 1991, driving through the French countryside near Darois (I think). Saw a sign pointing to the CAP aircraft factory. Knocked on the door and got a tour, seeing the raw materials (piles of wood) being turned into aircraft in stages. It appealed because at the time I'd just completed a PPL(A).

Got told to go to the nearby airfield the day after and look at the actual finished product. No trip in one, but seeing the transformation of the raw material to a finished aerobatic aircraft ticked my geek boxes...

Re: Is that Barbara Streisand I hear in the background?

Actually that search only lists 137 vulns. The full list is at https://security.paloaltonetworks.com

Re: Once upon and Lands End...

"Winged pirates" ? Indeed, they arrrrrr....

Re: Front panels and security keys...

Key-related topic drift...

I worked in the Newbury offices of Cabletron, and we had a lab with all sorts of kit in it to simulate a network for the Spectrum software my team and I was supporting. We kept the lab locked because kit would be raided for urgent customer requirements ( i.e. rapid replacement of broken kit on site). But the key sometimes took a while to come back or we'd havr to go and find it.

Until the day the 8 x 4 metal door sign with "Lab" on it no longer stuck properly. So I used a split ring to attach the key to the sign, and funnily enough the key was always promptly returned from then on.

Re: At Chris G, re: Lycranthropist.

Cellophane? Surely wouldn't his thighs have stuck together?

Re: Lookie likey

I thought we had to use the terms "thinking challenged" or "thinking deficient"...