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Comment Re:Plane must *NOT* over-ride pilot (Score 1) 173

by mattOzan (#58276840) Attached to: A Worry For Some Pilots: Their Hands-On Flying Skills Are Lacking

MCAS should sound an alarm, it should *NOT* over-ride the pilot, and drive the plane nose-down into the ground. If the 737 MAX can't be easily flown by a competent pilot without the MCAS band-aid, the 737 MAX should have its airworthiness certificate revoked.

Of course the 737 Max 8 can be easily flown by a competent pilot without the aid of MCAS. A competent pilot will be able to keep the craft inside the flight envelope in all but the rarest circumstances, and will never experience the action of MCAS.

MCAS is designed to save the plane if 1) circumstances get rare, or 2) the pilot is less than competent.

Even in situation #1, the MCAS commands can be overridden quickly by any competent pilot through a pair of disconnect switches if, in the pilot's competent judgment, it is hurting and not helping. In situation #2, MCAS is probably the last hope of saving the plane, since the pilot is too incompetent to do so unassisted.

Submission + - Data Center Operators Double as Energy Brokers (nytimes.com)

Submitted by mattOzan
mattOzan writes: When data centers first opened in the 1990s, the tenants paid for space to plug in their servers with a proviso that electricity would be available. As computing power has soared, so has the need for electricity, turning that relationship on its head: electrical capacity is often the central element of lease agreements, and space is secondary. While lease arrangements are often written in the language of real estate, they are essentially power deals.

Comment Re:Firefox *16*!? (Score 2) 165

by mattOzan (#41620181) Attached to: Firefox 16 Pulled To Address Security Vulnerability

Firefox Extended Service Release (ESR) is available for those who require consistency in the UI for a longer term.

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/.

Major version releases are only every 12 months. There is a minor patch release every six weeks which coincides with "normal" Firefox version updates. All security patches are deployed to both release channels, but feature enhancements are not deployed to the ESR channel between major version releases..

Comment Re:WTF is wrong with you people? (Score 5, Funny) 606

by mattOzan (#33830340) Attached to: How Long Until We Commonly Use Flying Cars?

Those are essentially the only barrier to success. Developing those might take a while. Maybe even another century. But saying it's never going to happen??? What are you guys expecting? MAD? Rapture? The sun going supernova? Teleportation devices? Fuck, you disappoint me.

Maybe we just know something you don't know. So long, and thanks for all the fish!
First Person Shooters (Games)

Halo 2 Online Preservation Effort Ends 201

Posted by Soulskill from the good-show dept.
A couple weeks ago, we discussed news that some dedicated Halo 2 fans were keeping the game's multiplayer alive after support for online play was dropped. Now, a few days shy of a month after support ended, the last users have been knocked off the server. "[A user named] Apache N4SIR outlasted everyone. 'May 11th @ 0158hrs I was FORCEFULLY REMOVED!!' he wrote on the forums at Bungie.net. 'I thought I'd be the one turning off the lights but that was done for me. Good night everyone, my Elite needs a rest.' His last comrade in arms, Agent Windex, was still signed on, as spotted by Kotaku at 4 p.m. US Pacific Time on May 10, but their adventure, which began on April 15, ended after Windex announced 21 minutes later that he had been removed from play and Apache N4SIR suffered a similar fate hours later, as he described in his post."

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