... carbon copy paper has been outlawed in Russia.

For those who care - there has been new findings from the NTSB about the last part of the flight prior to impact.

"In an interview with Korean Authorities the pilot flying reported that a flash of light occurred at 500 feet which temporarily blinded him, the NTSB confirmed that this was mentioned in their interview as a temporary event, too."

Details: http://www.aeroinside.com/item/2761/asiana-b772-at-san-francisco-on-jul-6th-2013-touched-down-short-of-the-runway-broke-up-and-burst-into-flames

The NTSB press video gives a first glampse on what had happened - the last part of the flight is referenced at apx. 22:00 video time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9MTLlzf8Co

might be partially true - but the TAWS or GPWS is not giving you too low warnings if the plane is configured for landing (flaps, gear), otherwise you would have aural warnings on every landing.

Or it would have done a splash down as did a B738 from Lions Air just recently in Indonesia...

My sense (IANAP) is an automatic landing would not have been possible given that the Instrument Landing System for runway 28L has been out os service since 1 June.

Correct.
Auto landing uses the full ILS/MLS bundled with a radar altimeter for even more precise altitude information above ground prior to touchdown. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland

Normally you would intercept the localizer (lateral guidance), then the glide slope signal (altitude guidance) via auto pilot and then disconnect the auto pilot shortly before landing and flare manually.

On this day, the glide slope signal was not available due to maintenance work and therefore, the pilot flying (PF) needed to fly the approach and landing manually - which he fucked up.

More details on this article from AeroInside.com Coming back to your question - auto land needs to demonstrated per plane on a continous base, e.g. monthly - no matter what weather is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl5OQz0Ko8c&t=24m15s

Seriously? I guess not!

Secret laws and secret judgements run by the military have no place in a democracy.

This.

Both the best and worst-case scenario put you in jail for a good long time.

Seriously? And those who put in place those systems shall not be prosecuted?

A known Chrome bug that's now in Opera Next.
A known Chrome bug that's now in Opera. Next.

Fixed the punctuation for you...

It's 2013 guys - if people around the world (and even spread it and compare it in studies) think, that landfills are a good idea and better than dumping in to the sea, it's time to get real....

I keep hitting the "off the record" option on Google Talk chats. However, I log in from e.g. an Android device and voila - the chat is back there with the chat log.

So much about off the record.

These companies lie to us.

For some uf us, morality means to not even think about piloting or remote-piloting an armed aircraft, doesn't matter whether it would be for training or in actual combat.

GP is not posting nonsense.

There are, howewer quite a few legit reasons to pilot an unarmed and unmanned drone, be it for fun or for profit. This excludes the military, for reasons outlined above.