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by t0mas88 3y ago
Agree. My comment was responding to someone saying "Why stop at 25? Record all of every flight and archive it." There is also more nuance to the debate around the 25 hours change. Like you say it should only be used under specific
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Unfortunately consumers don't have much choice, the airline can change which type operates a flight at any time. However longer term if Boeing's reputation keeps getting worse that can motivate buying decisions by the airlines. Th
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Police unions indeed have similar objections. That's why police officers can turn their cameras on and off themselves, so they are not recorded when talking to a colleague or going to the bathroom: https://www.engadget.com&#
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by t0mas88 3y ago
You're right, and indeed that's another big reason to be against any more countries getting nuclear weapons.
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Indeed. This is how it works in Europe, with a 25 hour recording requirement for aircraft manufactured after 2021.
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Indeed, the FAA has just proposed to start doing that for new aircraft. Same as Europe where this has been put in place for aircraft manufactured from 2021 onwards. The problem in the US is that there has also been more disciplinary use of
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by t0mas88 3y ago
The crew makes a lot of decisions on safety matters, that's basically the most important part of the job :-) But joking aside, in most places there are checks and balances between privacy impact and benefit. We all accept that some gov
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Police body cams are not "always on", the officer turns the camera on when they're interacting with the public and turn it off when they're in their car talking to a colleague: https://www.engadget.com/po
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Why do you think it's needed to record all conversations to "keep proper tabs"? That's purely a gut feeling based on no data at all. Aviation is by far the safest form of transportation. In the last 10 years of data (201
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by t0mas88 3y ago
The problem with your viewpoint is that all major air carriers are unionised. So the opinion of the unions on privacy is a lot more important than what "anyone but the pilots" thinks about it.
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Easy to armchair quarterback. But it's quite reasonable for the overall workforce to have some objections against 24x7 recording of everything they say. I'm surprised the Hacker News crowd, often quite pro-privacy and anti trackin
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Voice recording is a big privacy concern for the crew. This is our workplace, so you would be recording every conversation, also any idle chat of which there is quite a lot in cruise flight. The current voice recording is only accepted by t
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by t0mas88 3y ago
There is a difference between Russian and American deterrent use of nuclear weapons and a North Korean and Iranian wish to have nuclear weapons as a tactical option. Using nuclear weapons as a threat in international interactions is far cra
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by t0mas88 3y ago
There is a podcast about how this works inside AIVD (civil intelligence) and MIVD (military intelligence) unfortunately it's in Dutch, but if you speak Dutch and are interested: https://open.spotify.com/show/6wZZ2o
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by t0mas88 3y ago
I can't edit this comment anymore, but there has just been an update that the stop bar lights I describe above were out of service at the airport in this incident.
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Farnborough is ridiculously expensive for small aircraft. Not just expensive like for example Amsterdam Schiphol which is about 10x more than a small airport, but 10x more expensive than even Amsterdam. It's really a private jet only k
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Two types of systems already exists on the ATC side of things. There are red stop-bar lights at each runway entry point. Pilots are trained never to cross a red stop-bar even if told by ATC. The controller has to press a button to turn the
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by t0mas88 3y ago
That's the mostly overly American thing I've read this year... Make consumers file a class action against car manufacturers (good luck with a Tesla and mandatory arbitration), all to avoid doing the sensible thing: Make some rules
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by t0mas88 3y ago
You can take a rental car there, the track itself has no rules against it. Several companies in the area have specific cars for rent to use on the ring. But for a normal Hertz/Sixt etc rental car you can run into insurance issues if yo
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by t0mas88 3y ago
It's probably more a financial exception. If some other celebrity shows up with enough money and no driving experience they would also rent it. Sixt would just not cover it under their insurance.
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Ignoring wind resistance is what he wrote, but I think it's the opposite of what he meant. A highway test that accelerates once to a high speed and maintains that speed is mostly about aerodynamic drag.
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Indeed, they seem all misaligned. Often one light is used for aircraft defence and the other to shine directly into potholes. Quality assurance after assembly is apparently not a thing for Tesla.
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Sure, but why wouldn't Tesla write some software for those items like other car brands do? Let the driver know it's time to replace the brake fluid, tell the driver the estimated wear (+ sensor warning) on the brake pads?
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Doesn't it show you when to do some maintenance based on sensors? BMW has a display that has miles on it, but those miles are only rough estimates. It may say 50k miles after replacing brake pads, but 40k miles later that could have ch
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Tesla's roll out of the factory with things out of limits all the time. Headlights being a big thing, not adjusted within the rules for the TUV (or Dutch APK) even when the car is brand new.
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Around 2011 or 2012 the official F1 PlayStation game had a mode where you could drive the classic F1 cars. The game wasn't very good (and nothing like serious sim racing), but that classic car mode with the accompanying sound was great
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Or "they" refers to the customer?
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If that was the only innovation, why would Apple go and have several meetings with them and then try to hire their engineers? Sounds like they had something that Apple wanted, and Apple decided not to pay for it. This case is the result, wh
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by t0mas88 3y ago
If they are that obvious, why did Apple feel the need to hire several former Masimo employees?
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Not really a fair representation of what happened to call that "blocking journalists". They basically blocked the IP that was brute-forcing them, which every normal security team would do. That real point of critique is that it to

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