I did RTFA and between your figures and the 40 Mio Letter is a huge gap... who cleans up if the company goes bankrupt and the funds run out?

People? Under what rock have you been hiding for the last 10 years or so? It's called a cellphone, nowadays it's even worse with a smartphone, always on, any app can query the wifis nearby or even the GPS...

Thanks for the figures - do you know who will fund the deficit? The taxpayer like in many european countries?

It's a start. And then, watch how long the dismantling goes and how high the costs will be end the end - and watch very closely who foots the bill...

I wonder how they could cancel their mistrades that fast while crunching out those huge numbers of HFT orders every second...

No, Switzerland is not "much more secure" when it comes to online security and privacy. There are lawful interception laws which requires most if not all of the bigger service providers to register and to implement a lawful interception interface into their email infrastructure. Much tougher laws are in the works, such as keeping meta data, email content and much more for 12 months. Again - Switzerland isn't the best place to feel safe online.

Who are you kidding?

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'nuff said.

... 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.