I'm not sure if anything has changed over the years but my last experience of an industrial plant in Germany was not like this at all. In Australia Lock-Out-Tag-Out is mandated by law for electrical workers and by the safety standards for all other workers. You do not touch something unless you prove it was isolated and the method for de-isolation is in your control, and even then you test it.

I went to a refinery in Germany on an electrical peer review and I asked them about their LOTO practices. They said they put a sticker over the switch saying "warning do not switch on". I thought this was madness and I asked them what happens when someone switches it and they just looked confused and retorted "Why would someone switch it, there's a note on it saying not to!"

I'm extrapolating that this is a wider practice in Germany but in general the LOTO system can be thought of one built on dis-trust for following the rules. The Germans on the other hand are psycho strict rule followers (I had a German friend who was incredibly uncomfortable living in Australia because he wasn't able to cope with people j-walking.). If you strictly follow rules and trust everyone to do so as well then a system of LOTO may seem quite strange.

This. I've worked with industrial palletizing robots before and I've seen some amazing failures. A simple sensor not detecting that the pallet had jammed on the rack and the robot then proceeded to pick up the next box and place it at the bottom of the next pallet cutting the entire previous stacked pallet in half.

So imagine my surprise when I heard that someone at my work got fired when he defeated the safety locks to step inside the safety cage because every 6th movement the robot misaligned a box. We have security footage of him ducking under the robot's arm as it swung over it's head to fix the box every 6th movement.

There's a simple place to lay blame in most of these cases, and it's typically Darwinism or suicide.

Soon to be the official SI unit describing the minimum distance between two blunders.

Why not type in a destination? Once it routes to a destination then Maps will block the screen from turning off.

Western has been used to describe Europe for hundreds of years before anyone who knew that the world was round knew the Americas existed.

And this is how copyright caused thousands of deaths because the life saving checks could not be implemented.

I feel like a story coming to me...

Nope. Cutting corners it was.
The reactor was designed by cutting corners - enlarging a military reactor the scientists developed 20 years earlier and without a containment (too expensive and nuclear power were considered safe anyway). It was built by cutting corners - utilizing unqualified and uncaring workers, who were faking weld seams. It was operated by cutting corners - qualified people weren't employed - using former conventional power plant operators instead. The experiment ran by cutting corners - instead of waiting for a day due to reactor poisoning, the night shift manager decided to continue nevertheless.

Oh, and due to a quite similar accident on the Leningrad power plant, which happened in 1975, the reactors of RBMK type were to be modified, but not immediately, only when reactors went offline for maintenance - cutting corners again. Guess on which day the Chernobyl reactor #4 was to be shut down for maintenance?

The experiment itself was just the last straw. The actual reason for all this was a very very long string of cutting corners.

Why is this moderated troll? Depression is not the same as just being depressed. It very often doesn't have a rational trigger.

The access point that my cableco gave me can do this. Of course, the router crashes after about 10 minutes of use if you actually enable it...

A better solution would be a standard form of QR code for WiFi configuration info, so you just point your camera at something and now you have WiFi credentials.

38MB sounds only a bit larger than just ICU (31MB on my machine), so Qt isn't adding much there. ICU is used by most GUI frameworks (Microsoft has their own version, but OS X ships it as part of the standard install) and includes things like fast unicode collation (locale-aware sorting is hard!) and fast unicode regular expressions. Most apps that need to work in places that aren't just the English(ish)-speaking parts of North America need most of that functionality.

Oh, but I do. Learn the actual history, not the conservapedia variation.
http://www.davidchilds.co.uk/T...

"The Shah was deposed and exiled in 1941, and his son, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, was crowned in his place."

Or here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

"The British wanted to restore the Qajar Dynasty to power, because they had served British interests well prior to Reza Shah's reign. But the heir to the throne, Hamid Hassan Mirza, was a British citizen who spoke no Persian. Instead (with the help of Foroughi), Crown Prince Mohammad Reza Pahlavi took the oath to become the Shah of Iran.[21] Reza Shah was arrested before he was able to leave Tehran, and placed into British custody. He was sent to exile as a British prisoner in South Africa, where he died in 1944."

See? Like I said, you are a bloody liar as you have always been.

This is true, but it's also completely irrelevant. Safari uses WebKit, including WebCore and JavaScriptCore. All of the Safari features that are not part of WebCore and JavaScriptCore are entirely user-facing and irrelevant to web developers. If you look at what's actually included in the WebKit nightly builds, you'll see that it's a build of Safari.

Here in Germany there was a minor scandal because Vattenfall - a private company - kept quiet about a hydrogen explosion and the ensuing cooling water loss in one of their nuclear power plants (INES 1, but still), and continuing to operate the power plant after quickly patching some pipes. This is against every law for operation of nuclear power plants. It were government officials, who found out about the problem and the company tried to talk themselves out of it.

You mean an oil spill which was the result of engineering, judgement and training errors of the operators and had absolutely nothing to do with time pressures, occurring at a time when most of the plant were actually off duty celebrating their safety record?

Or the nuclear power plant which survived the tsunami just fine, which had been engineered for a 1 in 100 year event just like every major skyscraper in America, and only went under due to the engineering error of putting emergency power in the basement?

Are those the kind of disasters you are talking about?

Please if you're going cite major disasters to support your case for management attempting to maximise profit at the expense of safety then at least cite some correct ones. Though in your defence there are plenty to choose from. It's a shame you don't seem to know that though.

Check out the CSB website before your next rebuttal.