Comment Re:Obligatory XKCD (Score 1) 267
Could the xkcd guy renew his cartoons from time to time? (we've seen this one about 123456 times)
'This "think of X" makes me sick'
At first I read 'This "think os X" makes me sick'
Fast forward a few years. Cabin attendant takes the crash axe from behind the copilot's seat and kills him with it.
Yes but what is the likeness of that? Two people including the cabin attendant having no clue about the commands - vs - one person secured alone in the cockpit. I'd say the latter is more likely to act erratically.
Why are you lying about such a thing?
The lying part is your interpretation of the pics. I've never said that was the same city, and the pics were just some illustration for the post.
one of the pilots wanted to crash the plane, and used the cockpit security system to prevent the other crew from interfering. This was not part of the threat model, and that made the current security system work in favor of the attacker instead of the rest of the crew. Not good. It cost 150 lives.
It's not perfect, but can you estimate the number of planes and lives saved from terrorism thanks to the current system?
Thus spake the master programmer: "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
