Pulling the breakers on everything non-vital is a fairly standard procedure when dealing with electric fires on planes.

We cannot yet be certain that the pilots are to blame for this horrible outcome.

Except that when you do this, you make a beeline for the nearest runway and enter the holding pattern.

My bet is no government wants to out their level of sophistication in the surveillance world... It's a massive tactical advantage.

This is likely the reason that it took Thailand so long to share it's radar data. And why no other SE Asian nations have stepped forward with their input, it's a potential breach of OpSec.

There are no manual overrides for a fly by wire system, and you cant reboot it mid flight.

That is what multiple redundancies are for. Unless this "glitch" not only shut down the radio and transponder, but took the aircraft on a new flightpath by itself, what you're suggesting is not at all likely.

Anything beyond, any assumption on the plane having been taken over completely in its navigational and communication abilities by some yet unknown force or forces, is too much of a conspiratorial theory to me. Into which I refuse to engage at this moment in time.
And then, sorry to say, almost everything except of a clear motive, point to some deliberate action of the crew or parts thereof.

I wholeheartedly agree, judging by the series of events leading up to radio silence and switching transponders off and the path and flight time time beyond those events, this was very likely an intentional crash by some party with flight experience and access to the cockpit.

We can only guess at the motive until we have more data, but all the current evidence strongly suggests that this was not an accident.

You are making a PRESUMPTION that the transponders were turned off by hand. There is still the possibility of a fire or some other case. This is why recovery of the FDR's is so important. The pilots may not have been on the radio, but the FDR's record everything they say. The conversations between flight crew is crucial, along with all the airplane data.

It is a reasonable assumption that the transponders were intentionally switched off, given the chain of events following the transponders being turned off and the cessation of radio communication, especially the flight path after those events occurred.

This is a good graphical summary of the events leading up to the crash.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

It failed for many more serious reasons than engine performance.

There were no quests in version 1.0, it was pure grind. Most of the players were so bored out of their minds they took to crafting.

Glad you like, I'm one of the cofounders, if you have any suggestions for us, would love to hear them, you can message me at george@codecombat.com

Cute game, when's will be be seeing the Kickstarter? ;D

Except that the flaw was with Human Nature, and not so much the code.

If your kids do not know the consequences of their actions, you do _NOT_ hand them any devices capable of generating credit card charges, it's not rocket science.

The problem is unregulated exchanges, and the regulation of exchanges as well. That seems like it will be a key weakness in the Cryptocurrency system until there are more avenues of directly spending them for physical goods and essential services than currently exists.

I do not see any reason why the BTC protocol itself could not be adapted and adopted with some kind of backing. It really does open up some really good options when it comes to moving tokens around and the push oriented payments could do wonder for combating CC fraud.

Because anyone with that level of resources and authority would not be amenable to spreading of the wealth and letting the dirty unwashed masses mine it at the ground level.

Because no black market is a bad thing, of course. If the market has demand for hired killers, for example, obviously they should exist.

(The is/should fallacy of free marketism is legitimately scary to me)

Governments and the elites have long had access to and will always have access to professional killers, the only difference is the volume of transactions that will be conducted and their targets.

This would never fly. The last 10% of the coal mines would just be laughing their way to the bank with this unexpected windfall.

We pay same price for digital downloads as we do physical copies. Its a lot of BS cause digital ones are cheaper since they don't need to give you a box and dvd.

They don't need to pay any distributors, middlemen or retailers a cut either.