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by maxden 7y ago
There has been at least two cases recently of the main rotor blades as a whole detaching in flight. Gearbox failure caused the second crash [1] On the older 'teetering head' designs like the Huey, you can bump the mast (rotor shaf
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by maxden 7y ago
A heavier Boston Dynamics Spot.. dog walking a dog.
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by maxden 7y ago
In one of the articles it said one hotel wasn't letting guests leave without paying more money, as the hotel believed they weren't going to get paid. So in some extreme cases it's not just about getting flights back to the UK
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by maxden 7y ago
Maybe a little bit similar is the case of Paddy Moriarty missing from a small (10 ppl) Australian town. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-03/a-dog-act-homicide-on...
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by maxden 7y ago
I agree, it is normalizing surveillance such that the kids grow up expecting there to be camera everywhere and accepting it.
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by maxden 7y ago
Looking at the FDR for Ethiopia [1], it looks like the AOA sensors disagreed 2 seconds before they left the runway. The sensor disagreement happens after 05:38.43, they started climbing at 05:38:45 and were at 1000ft at 05:39:06 ish if I am
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by maxden 7y ago
Re:2. The article says the alert will only come once the aircraft is above 400ft. Originally Boeing told pilots it would activate on the ground.
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by maxden 8y ago
Do you mean knock out by kinetic weapons? So would some sort of EMP get them all instead, get past any shielding?
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by maxden 8y ago
Thanks, reading the paper now. I liked how, when describing possible alien visitation to earth he wrote: "sophisticated interaction with the human and animal lifeforms present on the planet."
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by maxden 8y ago
just tried and its working now
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by maxden 8y ago
This seems different than the extra chip attack according to the article. "subsequent physical inspection revealed an implant built into the server’s Ethernet connector"
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by maxden 8y ago
I think an effective way of doing it would be to make numbers very close to an expected result but they have a simple mathematical relationship to each other, so they get widely published and aren't picked up straight away and hidden,
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by maxden 8y ago
So reading that ghacks article, it goes live to all EN-US users on the 25th Sept (my browser already has it), but we can't switch it off yet via: about:config?filter=extensions.fxmonitor.enabled Pretty poor to roll it out without the o
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by maxden 8y ago
This is the report the article is based on https://guardianapp.com/ios-app-location-report-sep2018.html
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by maxden 11y ago
This is really nicely done. Can you give a brief explanation of how you made it? One thing I was looking for, and might have missed, but is there a planetary/trajectory view where we can see the craft go through space in time with the
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by maxden 11y ago
Thanks for submitting this. I find the technology developed during WW2 to be quite advanced for the time, as I guess most secret/military technology is. When the Allies discovered the Germans attacking based on beams, they would either
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by maxden 12y ago
Basically he says that files that were open but not explicitly saved by the user, were temporarily saved locally in ~/Library/Saved Application State/ but since updating to Yosemite, these are now all saved/uploaded to
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by maxden 12y ago
There is a sms exchange here [0] where he does in fact say he does require electricity, and if they cut it off, he will press charges for blackmail and damages. Unfortunately it seems it will only be resolved with a lengthy eviction process
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by maxden 13y ago
Yep.. linkbait title. They had this though: "Heating and cooling providers can now monitor and adjust office temperatures remotely, and vending machine suppliers can see when their clients are out of Diet Cokes and Cheetos. Those vendo
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by maxden 13y ago
Ironically, that's what the thief does when she goes to toilet.
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by maxden 13y ago
and the headline has changed again... it was "18 months ago Oculus did one of history's smartest rounds $2.4M for a 0.0% stake (wsj.com)
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by maxden 13y ago
edit: To clarify, it was from reading this, which I originally read as 1 month, until I read the tweet. "Heh, from Carmack's twitter 1m ago: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/448629403740692481&quo
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by maxden 13y ago
How much of this is a symptom of VC funding? They stand to make lots of money getting in early and selling to Facebook. Bit of a poisoned chalice from our perspective, but is this something the VC would have been working towards since day 1
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by maxden 13y ago
Good point on seeing what Carmack will do. Although they announced Carmack joining Oculus in August last year. Any idea how long the negotiations for this acquisition would likely take? I too am disappointed the tech has gone into Facebook,
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by maxden 13y ago
I think it's blank now because PG switched off pending status. I saw it before and could see comments in the queue, although my score was/is too low to do anything about them.
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by maxden 13y ago
I can see how any system can be abused, but why not treat the user as positive contributor initially, and then if they accrue negative/downvotes; similar to what happens now. It seems the new pending way involves more effort from the 1
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by maxden 13y ago
I remember when the first passenger list came out, one was obscured (passenger 84). I thought it may have been because they were unable to contact the family before releasing the name. Looking into it again, this page [0] seems to suggest i
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by maxden 13y ago
An unusual use of the 24x7; 6 hours for 4 days?
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by maxden 13y ago
For sure, there would have been attempted radio contact etc that would have been heard by other flights. But I still believe if a sensitive area or large population area were threatened that they and many other countries would choose to bri
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by maxden 13y ago
I expect it would have been intercepted and destroyed if it threatened a military area or high population centre. In 1954 the Chinese shot down a Cathay Pacific flight killing some of those on board. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F

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