As a former semi driver and still current CDL-A holder, I would like to say the parent was exactly right and your attitude is not helpful. Truck drivers do absolutely have a duty to drive responsibly and not put others in harms way. Too many drivers out there take what happens on the road personally. Take the emotion out of it. I know that can be hard to do, but it is necessary for your safety and sanity if you are going to be driving 8+ hours a day. I have seen plenty of shitty driving at every level from bicycles to motorcycles, to cars, to light trucks, and up to double and triple trailer semis. EVERYONE, you included, has a duty to drive in such a way as to minimize risk to those around them. You can't stop as fast as a passenger car? Leave more room. Someone cuts in front of you, back off and recover your margin. There will be times when that means you are driving slower than surrounding traffic because people keep cutting in while you try to maintain your margin. You will still be moving forward. You, as a (supposedly) professional driver are (and should be) held to a higher standard.

Technically, you can't hire someone to directly replace a laid off worker for some period of time. What you have to do is shuffle the org so that your existing employees don't have the right "skill mix" for the way the company will operate in the future. Then you hire the H1B's whose resumes exactly match the posting (miraculously). Whether the new org sticks or not isn't important.

Yes, but SJ is gone now. Which is why we have bigger iPhones, crappy Apple TV, iPad physical specs getting worse, corporate charitable contributions,

Yes, that's the problem. Once it starts it tends to build on itself. That is why it is better to spread it out more. Not 200+ units in one development.

All true, but to really do that right you need to spread it out more. You don't put all the housing in one development with 200+ families.

You don't do "affordable housing" at cost. It is almost always below cost. He will lose money on this unless he makes it section 8, in which case he will get government vouchers. Not that making money is his goal.

Not sure where you are going with this. The reference was to Air Traffic Control (ATC) systems, not aircraft. The centrifuges don't run Windows, Windows was just a vector in the attack. ATC systems are not typically running Windows either; modern systems are running on Java and Linux, which are also vulnerable.

If you can't make the mental leap from that analogy, then I'm not sure a different one would help unless it was specific to ATC. It doesn't take the NSA to pay off a janitor to plug a thumb drive into a PC. And yes, I know the target systems aren't Windows, but Linux isn't invulnerable either. This doesn't even have to be at an FAA location. This could be at Raytheon or Lockheed Martin, or whoever is responsible for development of that particular system.

I'm trying to figure out if you are thinking of the potential attackers as a bunch of goat herders sitting in mud huts

You are saying that nobody but the NSA is capable of exploiting human weakness to breach air gapped systems. Really?

There are specific procedures the pilots are supposed to follow when sensors give bad data. The case you cite, the pilots were aware that something was wrong and did not follow the correct procedure.

The problem is that we are living in a sort of no man's land in between manual and automated. Automated enough that the humans don't pay attention, but not automated enough that the systems can handle a multiple fail scenario.

One of the problems with the current situation is that aircraft require BOTH Humans AND Computers to do their jobs. Neither one by themselves can cover for the other one.

And neither were the centrifuges in Iran

Airlines are already complaining about a shortage of pilots today. This will take years and people growing up will have the opportunity to pursue something else, like, I don't know, the technology for automating aircraft. And those military drone pilots will have an almost direct path into civilian employment, assuming that they can get over Macho Grande.

Really? Tim Cook disagrees with you... " “If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock,” "

We could do that. We could take all children away from the parents as soon as they are born and make them wards of the state. That way they would all get the same amount of attention and stimulation at an early age, the same nutrition, the same access to the same government schools, etc...

Well, it is feasible. It is just easier to do it the other way, that is to set a minimum baseline and reduce the larger brains down to the baseline. That would be much easier than grafting on to smaller brains.