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Comment Pilots must remain in control (Score 4, Insightful) 385

Unfortunately, if one of the pilots wants to take the aircraft somewhere (be it into the side of a mountain, or to Cuba, or wherever) there's little the engineers, airlines or ATC can do about it. Any security measure will have a gap.

And also, the pilots must have control of the aircraft. It's far more likely that an exception to protocol or security will be required to save lives than to endanger them.

Comment Re:Humans are sexually dimorphic (Score 1) 737

Well just for you, then, and only for you, the answer is she should remove her clothes and give him a world class beej while distracting him from the switch she's flipping to unlock the door. And then the pilot comes in and makes it a three-way. Because in your world all flight attendants are hot, slutty females.

Ignorant ass.

Comment Re:Risk Management (Score 1) 737

Not to mention that a person intent on committing suicide by pushing buttons and manipulating flight controls may still not have the motivation to physically harm another person directly.

It may not sound obvious to some, reading words on a screen. But put yourself in the copilot's seat. It takes a different kind of person to kill a flight attendant than it does to drive a plane into a mountainside.

Comment Re:Anecdotal of course (Score 1) 307

My numbers are similar. My home desktop computers especially seemed to go thru power supplies every couple of years. After having to replace a motor in my refrigerator for the second time (under warranty) the repair tech said it was a symptom of the crappy quality of the AC power mains: brownouts, voltage spikes, etc.

Once I put every computer on a UPS I stopped having to replace power supplies so often. When I upgraded my home AV system, I put everything there on a UPS also.

I highly recommend that you use a UPS between the wall socket and any high value equipment you operate.

(I still had a power supply fail on a UPS, but it was inside a RAID array, and the power supply inside was a cheap 3rd party Chinese wonder. When I replaced it, I bought an additional spare.)

The only hard drives I've had fail have been very old external drives (>8 years) and one inside a laptop that was dropped while operating.

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