Sounds like they're damned near ready to release Windows 10.

My Surface Pro 3 (so not random OEM PoS) often needs a reboot because its sensors crapped out when the thing woke up from sleep. Wi-Fi is a semi-stable solution that could use some serious polishing. The keyboard frequently gets a key logically stuck, which isn't fixable without a reboot and precludes any productivity (try doing *anything* with CTRL held down and you'll see what I mean).

In all seriousness, I hope they decide to polish first, release later for a change

If you're so sure, why don't you rent a Tesla and try out the nice little "fake" battery swap station?

Oh, right, because that would go against your theory.

FOSS doesn't really apply in Android's case, given the significant barriers imposed by Google's proprietary extras...

We must distribute PowerPoint licenses and 4th-grade PowerPoint tutorials to ISIS, so that they bore themselves into irrelevance.

A more appropriate title would be: "Idiot hits pedestrians after purposely setting up his vehicle to do so, hoping it wouldn't."

Fact: they have no preexisting projects.

Therefore, any know-how they acquire has to either be developed or "purchased" (traded for, if you will)elsewhere.
Since the timeframe excludes the first option, the second one is the obvious one.

The fact that they have zero know-how, essentially.

In fact, they have essentially zero know-how in all fields. They're comfortable living off oil and slavery-backed glamour.

You have a funny definition of "open".

Nitpick: it's not proprietary, it's just not used outside of aerospace environments.

Otherwise, you're exactly right.

The fucking "summary" is wrong.

If you read the warrant application, the feds state the following:
- He did try to access the IFE box, as evidenced by physical damage.
- It is possible that he interfaced with the IFE systems and *possibly* other aircraft systems

Nowhere did they say: "This guy accessed flight control systems."

It's an abstract "you", not you, necessarily.

Frankly, Health of the General Population > Freedom of religion.

If your "religion" demanded that you fire a machine gun into the air for 5 minutes a day, you'd find very little tolerance for it.

Either scenario has a probability of harming someone around the same order of magnitude, I guesstimate. So why should the first be any different?

And somehow convinced people it was a valid business model an not a bullshit crowdsourcing effort that effectively crowdsources all the difficult parts.

None that I know of.

I do have a few devices with GPS receivers, though.

You haven't made a point, either, since all you did was spread vague FUD.