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by bdonlan 15y ago
Median suffers from the very real (ie, seen in a test flight ) problem where one side of the plane can give bad data to two ADIRUs, so that's out. Supposedly there's a new system being deployed via a software update (see 7.1.1) that does m
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by bdonlan 15y ago
If your CRC generator gets damaged, then it will produce values that are inconsistent with the CRC checker, which is in another piece of equipment. At which point your component gets kicked out of the system entirely, and all is well. Note
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by bdonlan 15y ago
The article summarizes the report a bit badly. With most ADIRU inputs, each flight computer independently samples all three ADIRUs, and takes the median value. It also looks for outliers - if an ADIRU input falls far out of line with the ot
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by bdonlan 15y ago
First, the black box doesn't actually do anything safety-critical. It's a pure data recorder, and only comes into play _after_ an accident. You're thinking more of the flight control computers, as well as the air data inertial reference uni
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by bdonlan 15y ago
What, exactly, is the 'service' that needs to be paid for? Is it the creation of the work in the first place? I have no problem with artists having the right to stop producing works if they're not paid. Or is it the replication of the work?
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Those 'five days' and 'another day or two' could easily include time spent waiting on a queue, of course. In which case, it could be only a few tens of minutes of actual time would be spent on the report.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Presumably power and/or network connectivity are more expensive, and they have to pass on the prices. Also, given the high cost of disks these days, it's not surprising EBS prices would be high in a newly opened region...
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by bdonlan 15y ago
A loan is a transfer of risk, and a way to engage in growth faster than otherwise possible. Without loans (or investments, which are similar but involve a greater transfer of risk), any new venture would need to first save enough money to a
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by bdonlan 15y ago
This actually doesn't work for processes using stderr on eglibc 2.13 - fprintf internally outputs via a different path that can't be hooked in this manner. On x86, you could try overwriting the system call gate pointer to a hook function, b
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by bdonlan 15y ago
If you split stdout and stderr, you can end up with the order of output changing - your output process might not get around to reading its input ends until it has data at both, and then it can't tell which is which.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Or use writev for that matter. Note that using ordinary write multiple times has atomicity implications - if you have multiple processes writing to STDERR, you might find their output interleaved in unfortunate ways. Using a single write wi
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by bdonlan 15y ago
I'm not saying open it up to just anything, but if this is for ChromeOS, they could certainly grant access to manually-installed extensions (not extension gallery extensions) and/or to OS components.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Sure, but they can also add a new API for raw socket operations.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Surely there's still gravity left to explain away at the quantum level?
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by bdonlan 15y ago
They don't expect it to show up in every energy band - the whole point is that they expect to see a lot of Higgs boson formation at a specific energy level, and anything higher or lower drops to a background level. The sigma value is basica
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by bdonlan 15y ago
To be honest, I don't think it really matters. The point is, Universal is blocking access to content they (allegedly - I don't know if the artists involved have copyright assignment agreements or something) don't own. Whether or not this wa
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Do/did you have versioning enabled on your bucket?
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by bdonlan 15y ago
According to the article's timeline, dual pitot failure occurred at about 02:10:06. Recovery of one pitot occurred at 02:10:36, and the other at around 02:11:03. That's about 30 seconds to recover one pitot, and 57 seconds to the recovery o
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by bdonlan 15y ago
According to the article, the pitots did, in fact, de-ice and return to normal functioning. However, apparently the alternate law needs to be manually reset, since the plane remained in direct input mode, and thus the pilots managed to stal
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Surely he's been in exciting situations in simulators, at least? (And if not, he probably should arrange for some simulated excitement :)
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Most open source licenses don't forbid 'mere bundling' with some other software, even if said other software is Evil. Most likely download.com just doesn't want to have to deal with source distribution requirements from GPL/LGPL software.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
I think the real problem here is there's no visibility in what CIQ is actually sending, and so no way to verify their claims. Additionally, even if they don't intentionally send all that excess data up to their servers, it's still getting l
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Information recorded in the logs are transmitted to google when you submit a crash report. So although they may not intend to send this information out, they're making it really easy for all this information to be inadvertently leaked to a
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by bdonlan 15y ago
But if your carrier offers an android app to do payments by credit card...
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Apps are reviewed; apparently not in too much detail, though.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
It's not in the CM9 alpha builds at least.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Cell phone transmissions are much less frequent when the phone is idle than when it is in active use. Even if people just stop talking on the phones, it's better than nothing.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
There are other options than "allow free cell phone use" and "frisk all passengers to ensure they're not smuggling in an active cell phone". Asking passengers not to use them is a decent compromise between safety and inconvenience. Naturall
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by bdonlan 15y ago
There's a big difference in power levels between wifi (that only has to go a few hundred feet to the on-plane transceiver) and cell phone radio (that has to go possibly several miles to a ground tower). Additionally, GSM has a transmission
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Moving the electrical generation to a central point allows you to build more sustainable power plants that only really work at scale - just try building a windmill on a single car, or a nuclear plant that can fir in your trunk.

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