You do realize that these systems are connected to the Internet? The same Internet that everyone else is connected to. The fact that the server is in the middle of the ocean is irrelevant. As is the fact (true enough) that a significant fraction of commercial shipping is run by Greek firms.

I suppose it being in Greek might be an example of security by obscurity, but it's just TCP/IP and the same Microsoft code that everyone else uses.

Indeed. Look at the picture! It is just a line of metallic contacts. Easy peasy to make waterproof. The pointy parts are going to be on the band.

This is a pretty rough crowd.

Best to always wear your helmet.

Hey, it's not raining at my house. Moreover, we're going to have dinner in a little while.

Is Slashdot trying to out-twitter Twitter?

Your pharmacist has sold your prescription data to some shady third party for advertising purposes. Somehow they managed to loophole that out of HIPAA - it's a 'service' for your own good - or something along those hallucinatory lines.

Supposedly you can opt out but you first have to know if you got opted in.

I'm actually surprised that this hasn't generated much flack, but there are so many things to get angsted at I think that most people are just overwhelmed. Personally, I ran out of extra angst a long time ago.

While I don't hold myself out as an expert in rack mounted UPS systems, I can safely say that APC is pretty bad after tossing a bunch of them out shortly after they're purchased.

I have found the folks at Don Rowe helpful for power inverter stuff. In my case for marine applications. I really like the KISAE inverters / UPS - have three of them that have been running for over a year in some fairly tough conditions.

But there has to be a better professional vendor than APC. Even their mid range stuff is put together like typical Chinese consumer electronics. The KISAE units are much better finished and have beefier PCB boards, mountings and hardware.

That's nice. I pay $80 USD to get 5 mbs and have to pay long distance charges. And I live in the US, a third world country.

And your opinion is worth .... ?

No, with Elon it's more of a religious thing.

Sort of like saying Mass.

You're using APC still? Are you mad? Or is '50 Shades of Grey' your favorite TV show?

There are so many decent UPS / inverter-charger systems out there. Ones that use real batteries. APC is just expensive junk.

I rather thought that energy companies had a few extra dollars running around. Exxon's 2014 revenue was over 400 billion. Surely they could fund a few studies all by themselves.

Looks like you lost your mind AND your Return key. You might want to turn around and retrace your life to see if you can find them.

This isn't just landing approaches. It's following planes as they fly all over the country.

What are you suggesting? Thousands of spotters with binoculars and CB radios? So commercial flights are to be restricted to a time slot between 10 AM and 3 PM in the summer only?

Goodluckwiththat.

It was supposed to be a funny, guys. Jurassic Park. Dinosaurs.

Randall would have figured it out.

How about this concept: Maybe that is all that they set it up for. The rate limiting step of the Airway Traffic Control system just might be somewhere else so there would be no need to do anything else.

I do find it concerning that the system comprises of 'two million lines of code'. Last time I heard that metric was "Jurassic Park". And we know how well that turned out.