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frevd
12y ago
Yeah, iris scan isn't safe either if attackers can get the authorized person in their control. Maybe using two random people from the crew would be best, hard to find out for an attacker and still safe against "forgetting" t
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12y ago
In an emergency event you are most likely to forget secret codes. Some kind of biometric sensor would be better, although then attackers could take the authorized person hostage, so it is best to have it shared among two random crew people,
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12y ago
You can, using some biometric safeties on the controls.
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12y ago
True, neither does he descend the plane.
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12y ago
While the breathing could also come from a heart-attack like situation where the pilot is effectively disabled, in this case he apparently activated the descending of the plane, after the pilot went out, which he can only do if he is consci
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12y ago
What about the much less hypothetical case that one of the pilots becomes unconscious while the other is out of the cabin. How is he supposed to get back in, ever?
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12y ago
Nope, the refresh rate is clearly too high. Compare with amazon's newest Kindle e-ink, quick animations are not possible with ink yet, and there is ghosting. Also, deducing from the battery life of 7 days ONLY, this doesn't look
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12y ago
Well, at that time the worlds media attention was on the Ukraine conflict, involving Russia. What better way to get media attention away from your plans than to create a mystery about which most of the western world happily cares much more
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12y ago
Funny way to generate a lot of jobs for the future, no? I mean in future times when everything is so automated that you don't longer work in a supermarket or restaurant, because people don't leave the house any more (sad future,
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12y ago
Well, but you forgot that you posted a link to your old page version, which still shows the phone number :], or did it change? How could you create a solution like this in less than 2 days? Training operators (who where how many, paying a c
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12y ago
The whole commercial industry is relying on open-source components, arbitraging what should cost money in the first place to build a business, then assuming that people do it for the fun primarily (which is not completely untrue), maintenan
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12y ago
Ctrl+A seems to work fine (IE11)
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12y ago
Okay, didn't read or look (currentFloor is already defined) and this won't work in this context. Here is another approach that brought me through till challenge #7: { init: function(elevators, floors) //
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12y ago
// works well enough: { currentFloor: 0, init: function(elevators, floors) { var elevator = elevators[0]; // Let's use the first elevator elevator.on("idle", function() {
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12y ago
Tactile feedback is crucial here.
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12y ago
Virtual, not wireless ;) Think this - size-adjustable holo keyboard, ergonomic natural of course.
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12y ago
Times have changed in the web (nowadays you can embed fonts and CSS-style menu items), but not on this site.
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12y ago
Besides the finding something that you enjoy part (and given that that makes you good at it) there was this second part - something that is work for somebody else. He probably should have mentioned that there is an implicit third part - fin
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12y ago
My personal aversion: being forced to do unit testing. Compared to that, debugging is very enjoyable.
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12y ago
Drawing with multiple box-shadow's, nice (performant??)
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12y ago
Cities should do that to prevent Graffiti (better than surveillance cams).
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12y ago
An indirect proof of who hacked Sony is easy: depending on whether the 'Hackers' publish the movie or not (given they got access to it and given Sony does not publish it as they say) will show who's behind it.
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12y ago
For sure, but there are a lot of other people on this earth who's interest it is to get those bucks ;].
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12y ago
Building lists for reading later is the same as having all the world's information at hand, which the internet makes very easy. And it is literally unfiltered, too. It's of no real value to collect for later, and sadly, consuming
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12y ago
..or simply publish an encrypted version of a bitcoin wallet file - while the coins remain in your account your cipher is supposedly safe.
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12y ago
SEEKING WORK regularly - REMOTE (originally from Germany). More than 15 years (yikes) of active development both freelancing and employed (C# (since 2001), SharePoint (2007/2010/2013), Javascript (the bare metal), HTML/CSS (a
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12y ago
Epic fail like Encarta, monolithic, proprietary and ugly.
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12y ago
for copy&pasting around this is very practical, also with arrays: <pre><code> $moo = [ a , b , d ]; // insert c </pre></code> better than having the delimiter at the end, where
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13y ago
Couldn't figure out how to play it at first - because in IE11 it doesn't work as intended - check your code.
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13y ago
He must be seriously depressed by his daily routine to miss the point of programming by that much - it's a creative discipline that allows you to bring something to life - no cheers needed. If you want cheers though, present your sala
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