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We ban accounts like this one that are created just to violate the guidelines. Please don't do this.
Surely you mean, rather than come back with a logically worked-out refutation, you ban accounts that don't conform with the editors mindset.
Yes I have read the article, but I'm still confused as to the who and the how of his $50 million fortune vanishing. Could someone please put the salient details into a single paragraph.
The problem is - some people never come back from their ayahuasca trip.
"Within 10s of the forward stick input, the A330 had reached a 17˚ nose-down attitude. Its automatic high-speed protection system was triggered 3s later"
What exactly did this 'automatic high-speed protection system ' do?
"As the aircraft pitched down, the aircraft’s captain – who was alone in the cockpit – attempted to disengage the autopilot and pull back on his sidestick"
Surly the autopilot would have disengaged when the pilot moved his seat forward and pushed the sidestick forward at the same time?
"With dual inputs being delivered, the A330’s flight protection system was automatically engaged"
I thought the 'flight protection system' was already engaged. Why would dual imputs trigger the ' flight protection system'
“The initial recovery from the dive was the result of the aircraft’s own protection measures, and not the product of pilot inputs.”
What exactly did the computer do to initiate 'initial recovery'?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_T._Martin_III
"Prosecutors have stated that the stolen classified information includes the names of covert intelligence officers"
Just who in their right minds keep the names of 'intelligence officers' on a computer. As for the 'classified computer code' most probably hacked together GPL code.
Not sure what your comment has to do with mine.
Someone doesn't agree with your comment, but rather than come back with a refutation they voted you down instead :)
And someone else don't agree with my comment .. modded down -4
I do appreciate long form writing, but not when it's done badly, as in all the salient details are scattered about the page. That article would be good as part of a biography. Having never heard of Jane Jacob, I too had to consult wikipedia. They should do what Time Magazine does and have a separate info-box with a brief synopsis of the salient details.
According to my limited understanding, some time back Poettering called for udev to be subsumed into systemd. When systemd.udev breaks something his response is. It shouldn't be in udev in the first place, it isn't my problem, we lack the skills to make it work. Going on Poetterings past utterances in response to criticisms of systemd, I have to say I am not impressed. It demonstrates an arrogance, immaturity and lack of people skills. Perhaps someone else should take over the helm.
"Goldman Sachs automated trading replaces 600 traders with 200 engineers"
You mean 600 traders replaced with a High Frequency Trading (HFT) computer.
In this article, the opening paragraph actually tells us why Jane Jacobs is culturally relevant. without all the irrelevant digressions. I mean what the heck does her boss being unable to attend a conference got to do with urban architectural planning.
'What Killed the Linux Desktop' by Miguel de Icaza
"Ric Weiland, Bill Gates and Monte Davidoff at Microsoft wrote MOS 6502 BASIC" as copied from the source code for BASIC for a PDP-8 ..
http://www.voteview.com/gates.htm
http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.co.uk/2007/07/hasta-la-vista-p...
Microsoft Research: 'Each year Microsoft Research hosts hundreds of influential speakers from around the world including leading scientists, renowned experts in technology, book authors, and leading academics and makes videos of these lectures freely available.'
It's a pity Microsoft doesn't expend energy in figuring out how to make opening an email attachment or clicking on a URL safe.
Identity politics are garbage.
I agree, stand-by to be down-voted into oblivion. Besides journalists should report the news instead of being the news or creating non-issues as in a lot of cases. I call it the oprahfication of the commons.
"Was Snowden a Russian Agent?" .. no, he was an outside contractor with a conscience, illustrating the perils of outsourcing your spying. Why an IT functionary would need access to the raw files to do his job just beggers disbelief. After all if you wanted to compromise a security service, what better way than infiltrating some IT services company or even simpler, start one yourself.
Pardon my confusion, but I thought that some time back Microsoft abandoned the effort to write all their stuff in managed code under .NET ..
First product that comes to mind is facebook and their gender selection.
Personally I could care less as to what gender identifier you would want to be designated as. But I'm sure that the Facebook management would issue much apologies for causing you such mental distress. Besides, I understand that once you register, Facebook allows for a custom gender designation:
'Agender, Androgyne, Androgynous, Bigender, Cis, Cisgender, Cis Female, Cis Male, Cis Man, Cis Woman, Cisgender Female, Cisgender Male, Cisgender Man, Cisgender Woman, Female to Male, FTM, Gender Fluid, Gender Nonconforming, Gender Questioning, Gender Variant, Genderqueer, Intersex, Male to Female, MTF, Neither, Neutrois, Non-binary, Other, Pangender, Trans, Trans, Trans Female, Trans Female, Trans Male, Trans* Male, Trans Man, Trans* Man, Trans Person, Trans* Person, Trans Woman, Trans* Woman, Transfeminine, Transgender, Transgender Female, Transgender Male, Transgender Man, Transgender Person, Transgender Woman, Transmasculine, Transsexual, Transsexual Female, Transsexual Male, Transsexual Man, Transsexual Person, Transsexual Woman, Two-Spirit'
"there is a challenge and responsibility to build products in a way that serves and supports customers who are the most vulnerable."
No product is going to cure people of anything and certainly no commercial company has that kind of capability.
"And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches."
For 'digital watch' replace with iPhone, iPad, Playstation etc